TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Existing backer Accomplice led the equity financing, which the company described as “an inside round” that propelled FreshBooks to unicorn status with a valuation of “over $1 billion.” .

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Founded in 2014, Zeals currently serves more than 400 enterprises, including Toyota dealerships, Shiseido and NTT Docomo. The latest round will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, that new $6 billion valuation, is up 50% from the $4 billion it was valued at last November when it raised $200 million in Series D financing. The investment brings Better.com’s total funding raised to over $900 million since its 2014 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. Skydio’s debut drone, the R1, received a lot of accolades and praise for its autonomous capabilities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Accel and Quona recently backed Shivalik Small Finance Bank. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million since its inception in 2014. Webb founded AgriWebb with John Fargher (chief revenue officer) and Kevin Baum (chief executive officer) in 2014. The company raised its first Series B from investors, including Telus Ventures, Grosvenor Food & AgTech and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in January 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

However , unlike the last financing round where Tala raised $100 million debt financing in addition to its $110 million Series D, the microlender only raised equity this time. Integral to this new direction is the use of crypto and decentralized finance to enable the company’s roadmap.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

.” Kumesh Aroomoogan, a former research analyst for Wall Street firms including Citigroup, cofounded Accern with Anshul Vikram Pandey in 2014. But the company later broadened its scope to other aspects of corporate finance, like credit and fraud monitoring and compliance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today. This is only the beginning for us.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Kaiyo founder and CEO Alpay Koralturk said in an interview with TechCrunch that he was familiar with the hassle of buying and selling furniture after moving five times in five years in NYC.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

iMCI) and Ten-Nine Technologies ([link] are pleased to announce the closure of $5 million in Series A financing for new research and development facilities as well as a manufacturing plant capable of tonnage battery material production. Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. In June, Outdoorsy raised $90 million in a Series D led by ADAR1 Partners, as well as an additional $30 million in debt financing from Pacific Western Bank. Why not open it up to RVs?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The skyrocketing global human population — expected to hit 10 billion sometime this century — coupled with the accelerating effects of the climate crisis are leading to a decisive crossroads: How can the world continually increase food production while also mitigating its overall environmental impact? Unfortunately, that’s no longer enough.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Other weekly news Marqeta shared with me exclusively that it has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly traded company’s 13-year history. More details here. Multiple news outlets reported that Thrive Capital is said to be leading a $2.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. By now this is old news, but we haven’t had a clear picture of the economics of consumer fintech startups accelerated by the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. Despite all of these positive efforts and the economic recovery following the Great Recession, entrepreneurship is still stagnant. Learn more and apply for the program.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and Startups need talented individuals to fill roles in areas like marketing, legal, finance, and sales. and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in But our team didn’t stop there.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day. It’s funny how things have changed since then.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

In a TechCrunch+ guest post, she offers suggestions for approaching angels, accelerators and traditional VCs, along with some thoughts that may help web3 entrepreneurs level-set. Since founding Serena Ventures in 2014, tennis champion Serena Williams has invested in companies like Impossible Foods, Daily Harvest, Billie and MasterClass.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Insilico Medicine, an AI-based platform for drug development and discovery, announced $255 million in Series C financing on Tuesday. It’s also yet another indicator that AI and drug discovery continues to be especially attractive for investors. . Currently we have 16 therapeutic assets, not just IPF,” he says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This financing round is a great vote of confidence in the current environment. While the startup reported reaching profitability with its search business back in 2020 he says it remains focused on scaling — saying its too early to consider an IPO at this stage (NB: Holidu was founded back in 2014).

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007. So back to reality.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

Ohanian returned in November 2014 as chairman, and Huffman eight months later as CEO. When Ohanian and Huffman first pitched Paul Graham of startup accelerator Y Combinator in Boston in June 2005, their idea–for a site called “Mmm”–was rejected. –before coming back to lead Reddit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

” According to Spotter, MrBeast used his upfront cash to finance a Spanish-language channel , where his viral videos are dubbed to reach a Spanish-speaking audience. Before founding Spotter, DeBevoise was an executive at Machinima, where he worked between 2006 and 2014, per LinkedIn.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. Image Credits: Bill Gates Foundation Gallup report (2014)/Endeavor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The fertile fund-raising environment and the accelerating rates of new technology adoption have been enticing a substantial number of potential founders to take the leap of faith required to start a business. Mattermark’s employment statistics proxy the startup formation rate. 2015 will be an exciting year for Startupland.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). Twenty-one of our members offered prize packages valued at almost US$172,000, and as a chapter, we donated a year-long Accelerator membership.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

hundreds of incubators and accelerators, giving the impact start-up ecosystem the much-needed. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe. Founded in 2014 in Lagos, Andela’s original business model was based on building physical hubs to source, vet, train and house talent across the continent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

When the time came, he recognized that Canada was a missing geography for Eventbrite, and positioned the company to capture that market and accelerate an acquisition. Founder Jayesh Parmar always looked at his options for exiting while building his business. Don’t do an exit off the side of your desk.

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