American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. 2015 turned to 2016. Fall turned to winter.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The round was lead by Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund and was also participated by existing investors like Iron Pillar; Investcorp or the Investment Corporation of Dubai, which is the principal investment arm of the Government of Dubai; and Ascent Capital, among others. Government’s development finance institution – DFC.

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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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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

IgniteXL Ventures, a fund founded by general partner Claire Chang, closed on its first fund of $10 million aimed at backing diverse early-stage founders in the beauty and wellness industry. from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . The firm led the $9.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. I do 2-3 deals per year and our firm does maybe 10-15 maximum. The result?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And, according to a 2015 report , just 50.2% Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. Lerer Hippeau, Citi Ventures, Correlation Ventures and Gingerbread Capital also participated in the financing. Today, Onward — formerly called Ensemble — raised $9.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Greenoaks led the financing, which also included “strong participation” from Elad Gil, Base partners and “all key existing financial investors.” Previous backers in the company include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Zeev Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Group 11. The latest financing is notable for a few reasons.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Christine and Haje. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often have an operations background. Venture capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As the bull market raged on from 2015 to 2022, it became quite trendy for venture capitalists to wave the requirement for an annual audit which is embedded in almost every standard Series A term sheet. The post Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist appeared first on Above the Crowd. Aversion to Audits.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5

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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

JUNE 29, 2021

Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group. The financing comes barely three months after Orum announced a $21 million Series A, and brings its total raised to over $82 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The American e-commerce giant has backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase in a $40 million Series C financing round. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, Beenext, DSP Group, Arkam Ventures, WEH Ventures and HDFC Bank also participated in the new round, which brings its total to-date raise to over $65 million.

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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 plan is to reduce venture flight which has become prevalent in the ecosystem in recent times. The nitty-gritty details.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based based Truist was the 10th largest bank, with $509 billion in assets.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. In addition, investors will seek under-explored areas to finance, looking for great returns.

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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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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. HPA Member Joe Beatty has been a board member and investor at FourKites since April of 2015 and worked inside the company for a brief period early in its evolution.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

CoinShares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the round. They are joined by Mercy Corps Ventures, Lateral Capital, LoftyInc Capital and NetX Fund. ” In 2015, she got acquainted with blockchain and thought it was the perfect technology to solve the problems she faced while growing up. So it stayed on my mind.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Yieldstreet — which provides a platform for making alternative investments in areas like real estate, marine/shipping, legal finance, commercial loans and other opportunities that were previously only open to institutional investors — announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round. Some context.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4% of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2021

A venture dollar’s velocity has never been faster. There are 3-5 financings and M&A every working day. I wrote a post in 2015 called The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising that examined the disparity between the number of growth rounds and unicorns versus the number of IPOs. VC fundraising will achieve a record.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Absolutely not.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Established in 2015, Carro has expanded its operations across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan. Simultaneously, Carro is navigating financing options from banks, aiming to secure “triple-digit million dollar” financing at an attractive 5% annual rate, deemed by Mr. Chew as “near risk-free.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Olist , a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, has raised $23 million in a Series D round extension led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management that brings its total Series D financing to $80 million. Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round.

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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 Founded by dentist-turned-entrepreneur Seung-gun Lee, CEO of Viva Republica, the company started as a money-transfer app, Toss, in 2015. trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5

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