TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Silicon Valley-based A16z provided an initial investment for Yuno as part of the firm’s program for fintech startup founders. Monashees and Kaszek followed as co-leads in the investment. Despite its only recent inception, the concept behind Yuno came to Ortega as early as 2015 when he helped start Rappi.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures, says his firm doubled down on its investment in Upsie after witnessing its solid growth over the years. million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015. People deciding whether to invest in accessibility often ask themselves how many people are going to use the feature. The World Health Organization says people aged 60 and older outnumber children under 5.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Fortunately, DocSend’s new report on seed-level fundraising provides some helpful insights and guidance for startups on what constitutes a successful fundraising process. seed startup founders caught between the pressure of more discerning and decisive investors and increasingly demanding market expectations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

A spokesperson from the alternative investment startup told me that the financing is the largest of its kind to date for Yieldstreet. In announcing its latest financing, the company said it has had more than 400,000 users since its 2015 inception and more than $3 billion in funding across an ever-evolving suite of investment products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

All this leads Eric to ask: “ With JP Morgan suing a startup founder, will 2023 be the year of accountability? When we started out in 2015, we were primarily providing back office payment infrastructure for banks and needed an apt team, hence the name TeamApt. It became QED’s first African investment last July when the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. We are excited to share the news that we have raised $650 million across three vehicles to allow us to continue making investments for many years ahead.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. It lists Headmade Materials , LightForce Orthodontics and Conflux Technology among some of its marquee investments. AM Ventures’ co-founders and managing partners, Arno Held (left) and Johann Oberhofer (right) Image Credits: AM Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. “People just fundamentally aren’t walking around caring about this new startup,” she said. on Sunday, Dec.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

All of our classmates were interviewing for jobs at investment banks, etc, and that just sounded terrible to us. David on stage announcing Google Photos at Google I/O 2015 So you’re at Google, you build what becomes Google Photos — an absolute monster success of a product, even today. Should I start another company?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Yoday, Meesho is probably one of the hottest startups in India, if not the hottest startup. Back in 2015, doing O to O, hyper local, was very popular in India. All right, here we go.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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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. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 million across 19 African companies.

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