TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It’s not dissimilar to venture capital investments — you give a promising company (or person) the money that they need to grow, assuming that eventually, you’ll recoup your investment and turn a sizable profit. “Six months later, they [do another deal] because they see the success of reinvesting in themselves.”

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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. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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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.” . ” Image Credits: FreshBooks.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 billion. The financing is notable for a few reasons. For all its controversy, when SoftBank invests, people pay attention. We’ll do it when it’s right,” he said.

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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

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. The vast majority of Indian investors were too late to make investments in the web3 space. Image credits: Accel). Take crypto, for instance.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The new investment values Tala north of $800 million, according to a source close to the company. 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. For us, it really kind of matches both things.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

investing for growth in Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma and Kansas angel investors. 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. 405) 813-2403.

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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

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 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. Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk.

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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. With a surge of VC investing, many startups are urgently hiring. Dismantling the myths around raising your first check. Maverick in Milpitas.

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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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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 Indeed, our tour is a key part of our investment strategy, as it provides us with the opportunity to really understand the dynamics of a particular startup ecosystem. A: Tell us more!).”

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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. billion to $3 billion investment in Stripe , at a $55 billion to $60 billion valuation.

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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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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. “Outside the Big Four, investments ballooned to $1.4 Thirsty travelers who know where to look can still find water, however, according to Jenny Q.

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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. In 2020, investment in AI companies pursuing drug development increased to $13.9 It’s also yet another indicator that AI and drug discovery continues to be especially attractive for investors. .

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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. The most impactful solution, among many, will be enacting public policies at the federal level that encourage diversity in the startup landscape and minimize regulations while incentivizing investment in startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The round saw a mix of other existing and new investors chipping in, including in the latter camp Northzone, HV Capital, Vintage Investment Partners and Commonfund Capital, and with (in the former) Prime Ventures, EQT Ventures, coparion, Senovo, Lios Ventures and Possible Ventures.

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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. But we like you two.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

I’m not sure when I first knew the startup I invested in last year was doomed. Needless to say, this was not one of my more successful investments. For the last decade, I’ve invested and advised in everything from tech to sports , earning accolades as Canada’s Angel Investor of the Year in the process.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The Oakland Black Business Fund is an investment platform that provides services to Black-owned businesses found in the Oakland, California area. Acceleration Grants. Acceleration Grants. To date, this venture capital firm has invested over $7 million in more than 130 businesses led by these underrepresented founders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016. The count of investments fell in January by 44% to roughly 130 and remained there in February.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? and Europe — launched EmPawa Africa , an outfit to accelerate the music careers of young artists.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, SoftBank, Menlo Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. That mission has not only remained, but has become even more important with the accelerated digital shifts happening across all industries today.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. Interestingly, Amit Jhawar is heading this investment for Accel. Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then. French fintech startup Lydia has extended its Series B round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Existing backers Madrona Venture Group, Lead Edge Capital, Second Avenue Partners and Seven Peaks Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total capital raised to $47 million. hire across product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, finance and human resources divisions. ”

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