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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so.

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EO24 Goes Live On 19 November!

Entrepreneurs' Organization

based and internationally recognized entrepreneurs — Alexandria, Virginia, USA (17 November 2015) – The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week ( GEW ) by presenting EO24 , a virtual and interactive learning event to debut on Wednesday, 18 November, at 8 p.m. EDT (1 a.m.

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Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG

TechCrunch

The fintech works with partner companies such as Twiga and MarketForce, which integrate its credit scoring APIs in their platforms to enable their customers to get real-time loan offers. 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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Korea’s P2P lending startup PeopleFund gets $63.4M Series C led by Bain Capital

TechCrunch

South Korea-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund announced today it has closed a $63.4 million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. million (75.9 billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs.

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EO Accelerator Grads on Growing In Business and In Marriage

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. In EO Accelerator, we learned basic principles about the critical aspects of running a business and put strategies into place that enabled us to grow at a rapid but sustainable pace?which How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. In 2015, Monzo founders Tom Blomfield, Jonas Templestein, Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, and Paul Rippon launched a digital finance platform with the slogan “Make Money Work For Everyone.” This did not happen by magic. trillion in deposits. Splitwise).

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

An emergency room doctor initially told him that there was no chance of survival, but then another doctor called one of his peers in the United States, and they came up with an alternative treatment plan that worked. Docquity was founded in 2015 so doctors and other healthcare professionals have an easier way of working with one another.