AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

In a statement, Manafa said it will use the fresh funds to accelerate its growth in Saudi Arabia and expand its offering with the launch of several products and financing solutions in addition to double the number of investors on its platform. Established in 2014, Wa’ed Ventures manages a portfolio of more than 40 start-ups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. “Appzone is building a disruptive fintech ecosystem that will be the backbone of Africa’s finance industry with products across payments, infrastructure and software as a service. Four years later, it raised $2.5

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups. But that was a long time ago. In recent years, Bay Area startups have accounted for a smaller percentage of U.S.

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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. Many venture investors are now increasingly chasing opportunities to back banks instead. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The company views the new capital as two separate extension rounds of its March raise, a $1 billion Series G financing event. The G2 financing was led by DST Global, with participation from CITICPE, GIC, Temasek, TBP, DCP, Ocean Link, Greenwoods and Danhe Capital. To bring insights from that institute directly into the app.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Kenya’s Victoria Commercial Bank offered $3 million debt financing, $1 million of which is mezzanine financing – a debt that can be turned into equity. We entered this market because we saw a real opportunity to guarantee and deliver quality furniture. IKEA rolls out an AI-powered interactive design experience for shoppers. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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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). He explained, “I want to share the same opportunities I had.” This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. “We want to be like the Apple of business finance.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

most of which are used only a handful of days, they saw an opportunity. In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. When they realized there are more than 20 million recreational vehicles all across the U.S., Why not open it up to RVs?

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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. “We use artificial intelligence to deliver financial products that small business owners use to better run and grow their businesses,” CEO Prashant Fuloria told TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. At the very least, they can see a few examples of other opportunities out there. Ultimately, I’ve learned that the more you talk about proper finance today, the more prepared your children will be tomorrow. By Clint Greenleaf. I’m a lucky guy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. Gibson co-founded NerdWallet, where he also served as COO from 2010 to 2014. The personal finance company went public last year. We take a very broad view on fintech and think we are in the early innings here,” Mohnot said. .

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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. Image Credit: Knock.

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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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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

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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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

AUGUST 5, 2021

As Latin America attracts record-breaking venture capital totals, education technology startups in the region are given new opportunities to grow. In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

New investors in the company include True Global Ventures, Digital Finance Group and VaynerFund. Ledger has sold 6 million devices since its inception in 2014. The company offers staking opportunities and integration with third-party products. Once again, the company has managed to line up a long list of investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

In the United States and beyond, such extraordinary wastefulness is an opportunity of epic proportions. By 2014, mobile banking offered a full range of services and processed over $16.3 By some estimates, it takes 1 million pounds of raw material to support the lifestyle of an average American in a year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Of this lot, five were African startups: payments unicorn Flutterwave , credit-led neobank FairMoney , open finance startup Mono , card-issuing API Union54 and SMB credit provider Float ; Float’s round was announced in January but closed in late 2021. However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. ABS Capital: building emerging growth businesses into industry leaders.

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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. The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

The company has closed on $676 million in financing, a Series D that co-founder and CEO Rodrigo Liang has confirmed values the company at $5.1 Another set of applications involves building systems around custom language models, for example in specific industries like finance, to process data quicker.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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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

MARCH 15, 2021

The startup is giving up 6% of ownership as part of the financing event, and the investors will only receive equity stakes once the SAFE note turns into a round. 2014: income <$10,000 2016: raised first $1.2M But the founder sees this as an opportunity to make crowdfunding mainstream and an attractive asset class.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. These liquidation preferences give the investor a debt-like downside protection.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. Subsequently, it provides an opportunity for sustainable growth of minority small businesses that are underfunded. The grant opportunities on their websites are posted by twelve different federal agencies.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on. hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).

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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. If you’re considering new opportunities, create a profile with YC and reach out to Ryan directly.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. TIME Ventures, Marc Benioff’s investment fund, also participated in the latest financing, which brings Chainalysis’ total raised to $265 million.

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