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Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021

TechCrunch

We believed then, as we do now, that fintech represents one of the most exciting major innovation cycles of this decade. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020.

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Trends in Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

Notably, sales startups raised the least amount of capital. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. In addition, there were quite a few analytics companies raising capital this year. Series B medians were $19.0M

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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Indonesian fintech startup Ayoconnect raises $13m more in Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

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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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Asia is smaller but growing as wealth increases in large, urban environments. Market Structure.