American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

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. Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Following his treatment, Choi and his doctor Tyler Rim, a vitreoretinal surgeon, founded Mediwhale in 2016. SBI Investment led the latest financing with new investor Woori Venture Partners and previous backers BNK Venture Capital, Innopolis Partners and IPS Ventures participating.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options. The company aims to address customer concerns related to transparency when engaging in such transactions. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

InnovaFeed , a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250 million in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Investors included the International Finance Corporation, KKR, Wavemaker Partners and the Temasek Group’s Pavilion Capital. KKR invests $45M into GrowSari, a B2B platform for Filipino MSMEs. It also enables retailers to offer telco top-ups and bill payments. million to its Series C round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Hisham Elhaddad, Onsi Sawiris and Fady Yacoub co-founded the venture capital firm in 2016 after emigrating to the U.S. We’re a young entrepreneurial team where almost every investment team member has a STEM background, so we speak the same language as the founders we partner with,” Elhaddad told TechCrunch. “We from Egypt 11 years ago.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. Two of those investments became unicorns — food tech company NotCo and e-commerce aggregator Merama. Most of our capital came from re-ups from our current investors,” Saggioro added.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Register Indonesian open finance platform Ayoconnect has raised an additional $13 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount it raised to date to $43 million. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Open Finance API platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

million in Series D extension financing. In total, KCD has raised about $70 million in its Series D round and about $112 million since its 2016 inception, said CEO of KCD Kelvin Dongho Kim. The latest financing values the company at approximately $776 million (1.1 trillion KRW).

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Bigfoot Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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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) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“It’s a trend I’ve seen more broadly and we think professional services is the next category that needs an SMB enabler, and that’s really what we’re trying to do.” Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Private equity firm Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz co-led the financing, which also included participation from funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Whale Rock and Hanaco Ventures and several other firms. (If At the time of that 2016 raise, Cross River told us that it originated more than $2.4

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If economists tried to measure the cost of the malaise that the election of 2016 left, we'd undoubtedly see billions, if not more, lost in worker productivity. Pre-sales would enable companies to exist off the financing of the fans most passionate about their vision for products. These two realities are linked.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance. market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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.” Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country. Love to see it!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. We finished with a diverse base of investors that included 90% from institutional investors and over 40% of investment from new investors.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The funding round was also backed by existing investors including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Skip Capital, Uniseed, SpringCapital, Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull, and others. Since launch in 2016, Morse Micro has focused on long-range, low-power wireless connectivity.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Ribbit has invested in 15 companies in the region and continues to look for more to back. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Specifically, Petal offers what it describes as “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. ” And today, the company is announcing it has raised an additional $35 million in what Rosen is describing as “strategic financing.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. We are enabling any company of any size and at any stage to deliver financial services for their clients,” Soares told TechCrunch. “We -based Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman, bringing its valuation to over $1.5

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

and Nigerian-based company is announcing a financing round of $3.15 RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge , Amy Kao and Wei Lui. So far, RxAll has stayed alive by winning grants and prize monies at competitions, with some equity financing from the likes of Africa-focused accelerator Founders Factory Africa. Today, the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

Register IMC Pan Asia Alliance has invested $1 million in GIFT.ed , a new Singapore-incorporated edtech firm from the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT). CEO Janet Teo oversees operations from GIFT’s regional office in Kuala Lumpur, which opened in 2016.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. enabling people to buy Bitcoin. out of its 33.6

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

The CEO and founder of 4G Capital Wayne Hennessy-Barrett told TechCrunch that, additionally, they’ll launch an app later this year that will enable their clients to sell on digital marketplaces and to be connected to other digital providers like delivery services. “We 6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. It can scale NVMe data transfer queues to many parallel connections, Kirzner claims, enabling them to achieve access latency of 100 to 120 microseconds or around 200 microseconds on commodity servers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Varjo describes the latter two as strategic: It’s not clear how the Swiss finance and banking giant is working with Varjo, but Foxconn is a potential manufacturing partner for its devices, CEO Timo Toikkanen said in an interview. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

An initial pilot in 2016 was centered around a bookkeeping tool that enabled traditional microfinance institutions (MFIs) to provide unsecured credit to semi-formal businesses. However, the pandemic helped in accelerating this model, and with this new investment, Numida is poised to grow further.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To retain market share, these institutions will need to continue investing in fintech so they can level up with convenience and personalization provided by new competitors while preserving trust and transparency. Traditional banks miss the digital mark.

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