TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. This is the second fund for the nine-year-old Mauritius-headquartered investment firm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. The stage definitions in venture, from seed to late-stage Series D, E or F rounds, have always been open to interpretation, and general patterns are challenged by outliers at each stage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. Over time, B12’s model has evolved as the pandemic accelerated digital everything, including payments. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4 .” Image Credits: B12. million funding round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Founded in 2016, New York-based Petal offers two Visa credit card products aimed at underserved consumers with little to no credit history. Specifically, Petal offers “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. The financing will be used to dial up OfficeRnD’s marketing with the aim of expanding market share, including by growing its partnerships. 15% in the EU; 15% in APAC and 10% elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The San Francisco-based operations execution company raised $27 million in Series C financing, led by Golub Capital, to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When it comes to financing a startup, the most important — and hardest — check to land is the very first one. ” We’ll walk through her theses, which range from future work and edtech, and double-click into what she needs to see in terms of metrics and product upon first pitch.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I have been impressed by how these venture capitalists are accomplishing a major social impact goal…without even trying to. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

Founded in 2016, New York–based Petal offers two Visa credit card products aimed at underserved consumers with little to no credit history. Founded by South Korean immigrant Kristy Kim, the startup also secured $100 million in debt financing. Arrenda emerges with Adelanta, a financing offering for landlords in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Love to see it! ” Funding across the globe.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. Berkley and Menlo Ventures. The round brings the Santa Monica-based startup’s total raised to $123.1 million since its 2015 inception.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Bigfoot Capital. Decathlon Capital. Key elements: . “We

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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. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). A lot of top firms show up, including from NEA, Lux Capital and Sequoia Capital. A few things have remained true since that time.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. iMCI currently manages $88 million across five venture funds. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., The company also announced a $2.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. And if you’re planning to scale with venture capital, you’d better be ready to set aside the next three to seven years of your life to be head-down in the business. Hoping to get acquired?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Founded in: 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Leading the Series A round is venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC and existing investor HTGF. Meanwhile, the addressable market is growing fast, in part helped by accelerated digitisation during the pandemic and the growth of e-commerce. Taxdoo is based out of Hamburg, Germany.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? 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. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated during the pandemic — apps now need to store and process data in more places, from the edge to the public cloud. This is the first time that has happened since the end of 2016.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? 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. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

VCs fell in love with Europe last year : While the global venture capital market was hectic last year , few regions can boast similar gains as Europe managed during 2021. And VCs are stepping up to finance it. The company started life as a Japanese snack subscription service way back in 2016, and has since expanded greatly.

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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. Revenue acceleration is, too. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

CEO Kelly Ahuja tells TechCrunch that the proceeds, which bring Versa’s total capital raised to $316 million, will be put toward go-to-market efforts and scaling the company. He demurred when asked what percentage of the financing was equity versus debt. Kelly Ahuja, a Cisco alum, was tapped as Versa’s CEO in 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Interestingly, the financing also included “strong participation” from e-commerce giant Amazon and Silicon Valley-based venture firm Accel along with Falabella Ventures, PruVen and existing backers Redpoint eventures and Headline. São Paulo-based Pismo is one of those infrastructure providers. Image Credits: Pismo.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. billion of total venture capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The UAE took in 46% of the total venture capital received in the Middle East and Africa in 2021, according to the country’s Ministry of Economy. Al Olama recently spoke with me about the burgeoning Emerati startup and venture capital ecosystem, and the country’s approaches to attracting U.S. VC investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Miami has everything in place to accelerate its rise to be cemented as a significant tech/startup ecosystem. Mark Volcheck, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fin VC led the financing, which values New York-based Ocrolus at “north of $500 million” and brings its total funding raised since its 2014 inception to over $100 million. It’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a digital acceleration in many industries, with financial services being among the most affected.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Now imagine you’re going 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, then rebuild the car kind of while still moving, and then try to accelerate into an IPO, all on Zoom.” Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.”

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x 2022 was a correction, not a collapse.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Autochek said it will tap CoinAfrique’s regional customer base in Francophone Africa to accelerate its car financing services. CoinAfrique, whose team will join Autochek and help them run operations in the region, was founded in 2016 by Matthias Papet and Eric Genetre. “We over 2022-2027. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The funding was led by Insignia Ventures Partners, with participation from returning investors Beenext and Integra Partners. Founded in 2016, Brankas goal is to “democratize access to financial and identity data.” Other open finance API startups in Southeast Asia include Finantier and Finverse.

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