TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Our four primary conclusions: Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% of venture capital deals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Money certainly doesn’t solve all woes — the top reason startups fail today is still due to failure to raise new capital. Here’s what to know: The syndicate started a few years ago when business school professors realized that young talent within their classes was looking for activation capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. The most recent deal was a $17 million Series B in July led by Macquarie Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent , the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. In 2016, Interswitch disclosed its intention to go public for the first time.

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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. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million Seed round in 2016 and a $1.54 Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. Plains is committed to deploying capital across the central United States in teams that are capable, efficient and poised for growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Thomas was hired specifically to do the operational work of bringing a solo GP fund, with less than $5 million in committed capital, to a more organized place — and that’s exactly what Thomas has done. Apprentice, an Oakland-based nonprofit that creates alternative pathways to legal careers.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. In contrast, entrepreneurs in most other fields risk a more significant portion of their own capital in their new venture , better aligning incentives.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A startup with a freight shipping platform for small- and mid-sized shippers, MyCarrier raised $22 million in a venture round led by NewRoads Capital with participation from Greycroft and Lerer Hippeau. And it’s absolutely needed given global supply chain disruptions and chaos.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

since being founded back in 2016. Investors in the Series B are Eight Roads, which led the round — plus existing investors Union Square Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp and Taavet Hinrikus (Wise/TransferWise co-founder). In total the startup has raised $31.5M Eight Roads’ partner, Alston Zecha, joins Juro ‘s board.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. This funding capitalizes Bokksu at a level far beyond our bootstrapped early days, and it will facilitate a rapid increase of our product offerings and improvement of our delivery times, as well as allow us to grow our team,” Taing said. .

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. Danielle Vaz (2016) is with Deloitte Digital as a Technical Business Analyst. Kaitlyn Sapier (2016) co-founded OrbMaps and is also with Accenture as a Digital Business Integration Analyst. It’s not all startups! What walls do we need to move?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. CEO Damilola Olokesusi founded Shuttlers in 2016 to address the issue of inefficient transportation costs in Nigeria’s most renowned urban city, Lagos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. . Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. FinanZero is based in Brazil’s financial capital, Sao Paulo, and has 52 employees. It has raised a total of $22.85 million to date.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Bain Capital acquired the formerly publicly-traded, security-hardware enterprise from the private equity firm, Thoma Bravo, last March with the intention of eventually bringing them back to public markets. Under Bain Capital, Blue Coat has continued to expand by recently acquiring the security startup, Elastica, for US$280 million.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The funding comes on the heels of the startup working alongside larger investment banks to get retail investors in on 41 capital raising efforts for UK publicly-listed companies and trusts since April 2020. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity. PrimaryBid has become an important part of the U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

British venture capital firm Draper Esprit recently moved its listing from the AIM to the main board in London, the LSE. The investing group also moved its secondary listing from Dublin’s Euronext Growth Market to its larger sister exchange, Euronext Dublin, which makes sense given its long connection to Irish capital. The future?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Flourish, founded in 2016 by Duncan Clark and Robin Houston, provides data visualization tools so that companies, like BBC, Sky, Deloitte and Moody’s, can turn data points into easily digestible charts, graphs and visuals. The Flourish acquisition follows two other acquisitions made in 2021, including Kaleido and Smartmockups.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Tavel is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization focused on women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5 billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. Recently, some startups such as Lami , Ctrl and Naked have sought to take on each regional market by storm, armed with the necessary capital to scale. million seed round to provide insurance services for Egyptians.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

With early venture capital in its pocket, Duolingo could afford to focus on product over profits. Duolingo had taken early inspiration from Angry Birds as well as Clash Royale later, following that game’s launch in 2016. he remembers asking. Half the people at Duolingo were playing Clash Royale, at some point,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

To be a startup aiming to disrupt a category that still has a tone of gray in it comes with its own challenges. Here’s what to know via Jet co-founder Nate Faust : He sold his business to Walmart for $3 billion in 2016, and now he’s back to compete with Amazon with a sustainable e-commerce play. Get your tickets here for $5.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Today, You closed a $25 million funding round led by Radical Ventures with participation from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, Breyer Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Day One Ventures. Socher previously founded MetaMind , an AI startup that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. ” Image Credits: You.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Companies like Lori solve such problems and reduce costs with their on-demand logistics and trucking marketplaces, which connect shippers to transportation, help them move cargo, extend working capital facilities and provide them with software to manage their operations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

When you are a coffee lover, taste matters, and Spinn is brewing up some fresh funding in the way of a $20 million funding round, led by Spark Capital, to bring connected coffee to new customers through its hardware-enabled coffee marketplace. Spinn debuted its centrifugal brewing method at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Now, in a rising interest rate environment, investors across stages are valuing companies based on fundamentals and prioritizing capital-efficient growth, while looking more closely at public market comps for valuation guidance.”. For more details, head here. P.S. Hope to see you there! PSA : Startup Battlefield 200 Applications close soon.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. Einride’s business is threefold. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo. It’s not my thing.

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