TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A year after the FTC blocked Harry’s from getting acquired by Edgewell Personal Care, the direct-to-consumer razor startup raised $155 million in Series E financing to give it a $1.7 million in a new financing event. billion valuation. SEC filings show that Harry’s has raised $139.9 From acquisition target to brand incubator.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cryptocurrency pioneer and early Bitcoin thought-leader Diana Biggs has joined Swiss-based startup Valour , which lets investors easily buy digital assets through their bank or broker. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, thus massively boosting the mainstream markets for crypto assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing. Will once-bootstrapped startups turn to venture during a watershed moment?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. By September 26th we had submitted a term sheet which was signed on October 4th and financing was closed in less than 30 days.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. In a report on startup investing and “How the Rich Invest” Forbes notes that the Angel Capital Association counted more than 330 active angel groups in North America as of 2013. Let’s not forget fun.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Outdoor cooking industry leader and famed kettle-grill-maker Weber has acquired June, the smart cooking startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal. Weber had already teamed up with June, with the startup providing the technology and expertise behind its Weber Connect smart grilling platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? It was 1991.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investment giant Fidelity announced today that it has acquired Shoobx, a venture-backed fintech startup, for an undisclosed amount. Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. Atlas Ventures is also a backer, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. Bikayi is one such startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Last year was record-breaking for African startups. In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports. billion to $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

There’s no simple test to determine which aspiring founder can turn their idea into a billion-dollar business, but VCs who know which questions to ask can uncover the right mindset, says Sanjay Reddy, a co-founding partner at Unlock Venture Partners. Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

This makes eFishery the first startup in the global aquaculture industry to attain a valuation of over $1 billion. Founded in 2013, the startup introduced an affordable and efficient technology solution for fish and shrimp farmers in the Indonesian aquaculture industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) led Fundbox’s Series D financing, which brings the company’s total equity raised to $410 million since its 2013 inception. The startup, which saw a pandemic-related boost in business, crossed $100 million in annual revenue run rate earlier this year.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

By Tomasz Tunguz , Partner at Redpoint Ventures. According to analysis by my partner Jamie Davidson on typical periods between financings peaks around 9 months so the follow on rates for Series Bs should be accurate up until the 2011 class, which gives these startups more than 2 years to raise their B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Now, the blockchain aficionado who got his start in trading Bitcoin in 2013 is joining the ranks of a growing group of solo GPs raising venture funds built on their own name and reputation. Canonical has already made 16 investments in seed and pre-seed startups spanning the developer infrastructure landscape, Iyer said.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! The competition between corporate spend management startups is heating up. sign up here. Here in the U.S., billion in October. rather than “Can I PayPal you?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In prior roles, he was an associate at a LatAm-focused venture capital firm and worked in corporate venture with regional banks and the Brazilian stock exchange. In the past decade, there were 56 IPOs in Brazil and only two were in the software space, both in 2013.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma is building a network of community pharmacies across Africa as it plans to be the go-to primary healthcare service provider for millions of people residing in the region. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. Photo Credits: mPharma.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing backers Norwest Venture Partners and Citi Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New York-based company’s valuation to over $1 billion. So that’s just a few of the things we plan to invest in.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

That startup promised to revolutionize the nascent electric vehicle market and make range anxiety a thing of the past. Agassi’s company would go on to raise nearly $1 billion (back when that was considered a large sum of money) from some of the world’s top venture capital and growth equity firms. The company’s pitch?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. It raised $50 million in Series B earlier this month, in a round that marked PayPal Ventures’ first MENA investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. The company had raised $43 million in funding from investors such as Foundation Capital, QED Investors and Maverick Ventures, according to Silicon Hills. Other backers include Greyhound Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund and Point72 Ventures. And not just once but twice in two years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

People may not consider the IFC in the same breath as more typical VCs like SoftBank, Sequoia, Index Ventures or Andreessen Horowitz, but it’s a significant player when it comes to backing startups around the world. Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 valuation. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The B2B payments space has been on fire for a while, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only fueled mass adoption of digitizing finances. One Mexico City-based startup, Higo.io , is out to transform B2B payments for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) in Latin America, starting with its home country. And now the startup has raised $3.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Veteran investor Eric Satz realized this in 2013 when he first tried to deploy money from his IRA into private companies and was met with pushback from his financial advisor, who was concerned about the potential risks, Satz told TechCrunch in an interview. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai , Farmerline works through agro-dealers, who are usually the first point of knowledge for farmers, in ensuring access to high-quality supplies, including fertilizer and seeds. It also uses that data to determine the amount of business expansion credit to give to agro-dealers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Enter MANTL , a startup that has developed technology to make it easier for people to open accounts digitally at community banks and credit unions so that those institutions can increase deposits and ultimately, profits. The financing brings Mantl’s total funding raised since inception to $60.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Today , the acute asthma attack of a primary school-aged girl in February 2013 was ruled by a U.K. Today, Yodit Stanton has secured $4 million in seed funding for her air-monitoring startup OpenSensors , in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners and other unnamed investors. court to be due to air pollution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

which leaves little room for startups hoping to join the fray. Frances Schwiep, partner, Two Sigma Ventures. Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner, Arbor Ventures. “At $100 million ARR, the startup is an undeniable success. Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna own 75% of the sector in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. The goal is to help NerdWallet expand into the small- and medium-business market with both content and actual financing. Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). So we went for it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear , which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups. These were the exact pitches that the teams delivered straight to investors in attendance, so you’ll naturally spot a bit of hyperbole (because, startups).

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