TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. Image Credits: Honor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

He joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014. He also served as the CEO of Adianta, a Brazilian B2B invoice financing company. Previously, Camahji was a founder and partner at Yellow Ventures, making seed investments in technology startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The investment was AfricInvest’s first involvement in an AI startup, a decision based on InstaDeep’s founders selling a global vision to the Pan-African private equity firm. Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim founded the startup in Tunis in 2014 with “two laptops, $2,000, and a lot of enthusiasm,” CEO Beguir told TechCrunch last year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

And while you may not need to be an insider, second-time founders — largely male and white — still have a competitive advantage. The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Surreal received nearly 10 investment offers in this round, founder and CEO Xu Zhuo told TechCrunch, as investors jostled to bet on a future shaped by AI-generated content. “Fundamentally, I think [synthetic media] provides a disruptive infrastructure. Uncharted territory.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. “I’ve known these founders for a long time, and I think they’re like off the charts good.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 , then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. He didn’t pull any punches: “Acquisitions always suck, and suck worse than you think that they are going to suck.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. Looking at 9 of the IPOs in 2014 , investors in nearly every stage of every company will generate a positive return. The financing markets are a train and the IPO market and M&A markets are the locomotive, setting pricing multiples and valuations.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. The doubters will question you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. All of this was being played out amid the ambitions of Micromax’s founders and management.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I was assigned an interview with founder Max Levchin at Disrupt 2014, giving me a reason to pay extra attention to the company over the last six years. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Affirm is a company that TechCrunch has long tracked. This S-1 has been a long time coming.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2016

By David Adams, founder of HomeSuite. Disruption sends ripples through social, financial, and bureaucratic fabrics, so expect red tape waiting for you around every corner. Uber learned this lesson when it launched in Las Vegas in October 2014. Research the red tape.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6 The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6 This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.)

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd portfolio company Sight Diagnostics raised $71M for Its OLO Blood Analyzer with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures and OurCrowd. OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. $71M Round for Sight Diagnostics. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd portfolio company Sight Diagnostics raised $71M for Its OLO Blood Analyzer with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures and OurCrowd. OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. $71M Round for Sight Diagnostics. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Chat to local founders and there’s a litany of administrative, tax-based and fundraising pain-points they’ll quickly point to as frustrations. This would really drive innovation,” co-founder Sacha Michaud tells us. So it will be something of a milestone. Clearly it’s going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. More than half of the portfolio companies have women founders or women in the C-suite. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

“ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone. Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. The more we train our engineers, the faster they grow in terms of expertise, and they will be able to deliver at the same level of world-class quality we expect. Image Credits: Appzone.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Revenue has tripled year over year since the company’s 2014 founding. Pocketnest was founded by a woman, Jessica Willis, who is a fantastic mentor to local founders. The down moments are beautiful,” said founder Ziarekenya Smith, who wanted to create a social media platform that did more for people than focus on the highs we share.

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