TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Bringing Expeto’s total raised to over $25 million (inclusive of $5 million in debt financing), the proceeds will be put toward product R&D as well as customer and partner acquisition, according to CEO Michael Anderson. “We plan to raise our next round of capital in the second half of 2024.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. the amount of the financing (this multiple is called the “cap”).

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Fearless Fund : invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing, bridging the gap between venture capital funding for women of color founders to build scalable, growth-aggressive companies. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color. Secretary of Commerce.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The financing will be used to dial up OfficeRnD’s marketing with the aim of expanding market share, including by growing its partnerships. employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications. which accounts for 45% of its customers, followed by circa 15% in the U.K.;

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . We did our first investment in January 2015. It means filters that are supporting climate tech, or enable decarbonisation, or to fight global warming. The firm led the $9.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Average check size for previous funds was around $1 million, and the new fund will enable that to grow to $1.5 It has made 22 investments to date, and its thesis revolves around commerce enablement software and marketplaces. billion since its founding in 2015. Fintech startup Jeeves raises $180M, quadruples valuation to $2.1B

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. Its platform aims to enable businesses to host meetings and events in some of the world’s most unique venues. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). A few things have remained true since that time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. That’s a lot of lettuce, but the pricing shows how much tech-enabled DTC firms can flex, writes Alex Wilhelm, who compared Sweetgreen’s range to IPO pricing for Allbirds and Rent the Runway. and a valuation between between $2.5

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., In 2015, PhotoniCare was the winner of a grant from the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI), an FDA-funded consortium led by Children’s National Hospital. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., The company also announced a $2.1

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer from an extensive unstructured data. Internally, we launched the ANSWERING AI platform.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? —– Indie.vc

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? —– Indie.vc

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. They bring in experts in legal, finance, marketing, business development, design, engineering, advertising, growth hacking, and other areas. Seeing little opportunity here, Drew and Arash moved the company to Silicon Valley later that year.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2015, I spearheaded the development of ‘Vantage Fit,’ a platform designed to promote holistic employee wellness on a global scale. We provide opportunities for upskilling and finance these courses to help our team advance in their careers. This event challenged me to complete 1.9

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. Between 2006 and 2015, I joined one of the leading Islamic banks in the world, Kuwait Finance House, as the pioneering team to set up its Private Equity Division in Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft , has replenished its own coffers with £70 million in funding. Providing the financing are previous backers British Business Investments, Paragon Bank and BCI Europe, along with new partner Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years. The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. The voracious fight for your salad bowl.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. Pepea’s long-term plan is to improve the quality and affordability of these necessities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Access to finance remains a key growth constraint for small businesses, with data showing a $330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses. Pezesha said it is currently working with more than 20 partner companies that have enabled it to extend loans to over 100,000 businesses to date.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. Breega’s aim is to finance at least 20 companies in total with the new fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 Profitability would also go a long in enabling the company — which is eyeing a potential initial public offering in the near term — to do so successfully.) . billion (8.5

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

FourKites , the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced a new $100 million Series D financing round. The growth financing is led by Thomas H. We look forward to partnering with our investors to enable true end-to-end visibility and unlocking tremendous value for the entire ecosystem.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S. The region, Architect maintains, does not have a plethora of institutional financing available against assets. and Latin America, but with an emphasis on the latter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Founded in 2015, Kneron’s latest product is a neural processing unit that can enable sophisticated AI applications without relying on the cloud. Kneron has also been on a less aggressive funding pace than these companies, which fuel their rapid expansion through outsize financing rounds. billion.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Government’s development finance institution – DFC. Since its launch in 2015, FreshToHome currently operates in 160+ cities in India and the UAE as it offers more than 2,000 certified fresh and chemical-free products. This time, the company earned $104M from Series D, the company said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. B12 plans to use the new financing to accelerate growth, do some hiring and continue building out its product suite. ” Image Credits: B12.

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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. We look forward to the continued growth ahead.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. This did not happen by magic. trillion in deposits. expectations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 million since its inception in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

In addition to the equity raise, the San Francisco-based fintech said it has also closed on a new $100 million debt facility for lending to its loan customers, bringing its total raised to $375 million in equity and debt financing since its 2015 inception. All play a role in this mission.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. George Rzepecki, its founder, in a statement, likened Thepeer’s move to unify Africa’s wallet ecosystem to how Flutterwave entered the fragmented card and mobile money payments space in 2015. African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. Started in 2015, FreshToHome is one of the largest players battling for a slice of the $100 billion Indian fish and meat market.

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