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.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

These annual gatherings not only exhibit the region’s FinTech prowess but also foster knowledge exchange, networking, and collaborative innovation. Hosted by Shanghai, the event has etched its reputation for encompassing a diverse spectrum of themes, ranging from AI, blockchain, digital payments to sustainable finance and beyond.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DeFi network Stellar Enterprise Foundation participated, alongside new investors Kindred Ventures and the J. 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. Safra Group.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. I was blown away by the ubiquity and convenience of mobile money in 2014 when I visited Kenya for the first time.

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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. ShipBob , the leading cloud-based ecommerce logistics platform, announced $200 million in funding at over $1B valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Maven announced that it has raised $110 million in a Series D financing co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital. The financing event valued Maven at $1 billion, a rare landmark moment for women’s health, and women-led startups more broadly. The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We were invited to participate by the Global Leaders Initiative, which aims to bring key networks together to find solutions that address the challenges of sustainable development. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I I am now an alumnus).

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014. Meralli told TechCrunch it is easiest to think of SwipeRx as a LinkedIn meets Amazon for pharmacies. Certainly, SwipeRx — which raised $6.3

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

eFishery’s comprehensive ecosystem encompasses the entire aquaculture value chain, from seeds to financing. Aqua-Spark, one of eFishery’s early supporters, identified the need for innovation in the industry back in 2014 when small-scale farmers could not access advanced technologies, hindering their productivity and growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

When Moran began angel investing, he found the whole process of startup fundraising to be confusing, so he started a venture podcast back in May 2014 called “ The Full Ratchet ,” to interview other VCs and provide funding transparency. NM: The capital and talent networks are now robust, especially with remote work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. SiCepat focuses in particular on e-commerce and social commerce, or people who sell goods through their social media networks.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable. It can save time.

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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 This allows our network to share best practices and it also helps us as we look to further deploy capital in rising cities. and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in

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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. “In 2014, three months after we found out that there was no investor to put them in front of. The plan was to run LeadPath like Y Combinator but it didn’t take off as planned.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Second, it has packaged up that infrastructure into a set of APIs that a variety of other companies use to provide financial services directly to their customers without needing to build those services themselves — the so-called “embedded finance” approach. “We want to be like the Apple of business finance.”

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

With this latest financing, Workrise has now raised more than $750 million. Workrise was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. Workrise’s online platform matches workers with over 500 companies in its network, manages payroll and benefits and provides access to training.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then. Lydia has the largest P2P network in Europe outside of PayPal and has the potential to grow all across Europe with a mobile-first, customer-focused solution. It seems like Jhawar agrees with that take.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

(March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Sila will use the new funding to increase headcount, target additional partners and expand product features, including its Ethereum MainNet stablecoin issuance and interoperability between FedWire and the Nacha Automated Clearing House network.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

So fascinating in fact that Hollywood made a feature film about it called The Social Network. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). Zuckerberg is still CEO, and at 35 years old, has an estimated net worth of $65 billion—making him the eighth richest person in the world. It’s a fascinating story.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” It was 2014, and he was living in San Francisco and seeing a lot of interesting business models such as Uber’s emerging that gave him an idea to, in his words, “combine tech and a labor model to solve the problem.” There was no visibility into what is where, whether data is lost in the process.” ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

“After 10 years of being a CFO, I got fed up with my constant lack of visibility into vendor spend,” he told TechCrunch, “and recurring challenges my finance teams had in identifying where we were overspending.”. We’d print out several months of invoices, and go vendor by vendor, and invoice by invoice to identify line items.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. ” The Dakar-based platform is akin to PayPal (with mobile money accounts, not bank accounts) runs an agent network that uses their cash on hand to service Wave users.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad was co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience, an ad network funded by Y Combinator in 2011, acquired by Marin Software in 2014 and used by companies like Eventbrite, Atlassian, and New Relic to market to more than a billion people. After three batches as a Visiting Group Partner, Brad Flora is joining YC as a Group Partner.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014). Don’t do an exit off the side of your desk. Find him on Twitter at @mannypadda.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2014, London-based Dropit counts retail brands including L’Occitane, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Estee Lauder as customers, in addition to shopping malls. where it already has an office in Austin, Texas.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Revenue has tripled year over year since the company’s 2014 founding. PlainSight is a new networking app. It’s a unique take on the networking problem we all face finding the right partners at events and in business. In 2020, TIME listed Guardhat’s smart hat as one of the best inventions of the year. Apply now to Guardhat. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

With the multimillion-dollar seed financing in its pocket, Surreal plans to find more use cases like online education so it can collect large volumes of data to improve its algorithm. The technology powering Surreal, called generative adversarial networks, is relatively new. Uncharted territory.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent. PayPal, Visa expand Instant Transfers for fast payouts globally on all PayPal’s networks. This is a pain point for these businesses, particularly in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Toptal was co-founded by CEO Taso Du Val in 2010, and since then it has grown to become one of the world’s most popular on-demand talent networks. The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Wasoko allows retailers from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ivory Coast and Senegal to order products from suppliers via SMS or its mobile app for same-day delivery to their stores and shops via a network of logistics drivers. But Wasoko chose not to go down that route; instead, it is financing its BNPL option from its balance sheet. “We

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Impact Hub

JUNE 11, 2019

In 2014, some friends came together with a vision for a community workspace. With a huge network of members and our dedicated Impact Partners we see a really bright future for Impact Hubs across Hawaii. . History of Impact Hub Honolulu. We secured a great location, but quickly outgrew the space. and so much more!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Nowhere is this truer than in the IT security industry, especially in the aftermath of 2014’s endless string of high-profile network security breaches at the tech security company, Blue Coat, for example. Besides these cases, eventual acquisition is a motivating factor for most entrepreneurs in the thick of a start-up process.

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