A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. Then we will have the opportunity to see two identical assets trade in the traditional and emerging markets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2017

When Hana Laurenzo launched her translation business in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2007, she did what every smart small business owner does—joined local professional organizations, like the chamber of commerce, and generally sought opportunities to mingle with like-minded professionals. So, Hana waited.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. Consider starting as an LP in funds for diversified exposure, access to deal flow, and networking opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and existing backer early-stage Argentina-based venture firm Kaszek also participated in the financing. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. Global players have succeeded for many years in our region.

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the hottest, fastest-growing areas within crypto. The DeFi market is evolving rapidly, with companies spinning up increasingly complex financial products akin to those that have long taken hold in the traditional finance world. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The fintech, which claims to be the region’s largest SME digital financing platform, uses alternative forms of credit-scoring and has disbursed more than $2 billion in financing to MSMEs since it launched in 2015. TechCrunch first covered Funding Societies when it raised its Series A in 2016. million loan transactions.

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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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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. They saw Silicon Valley as a “tight-knit circle of insiders that continually got access to the best opportunities,” and wanted to build a firm that could essentially get in the trenches with its portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. He said the startup still has to spend about half of the $100 million that it raised in its previous financing round last year. Vedantu co-founders.

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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. The pandemic inadvertently helped us,” he added.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

MSMEs are the engine of economies in Africa, and powering existing small businesses and encouraging the formation of new MSMEs helps create the type of economic growth and social benefit that carries over to households by creating more opportunity and more jobs,” the company’s CEO and co-founder Manoj Sinha, told TechCrunch.

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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. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

“[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview. Ojansuu and Hanhirova launched Happeo ’s first incarnation, “Universe,” in early 2016.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 That company sold to Germany’s WireCard in 2016 (with a 3 million customer base) and after three years the founders were able to strike out again. million since its 2019 inception.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

Listed below are brief descriptions of the companies and the innovations they are developing: AccountAbility Tech, located in Franklin County , offers a platform for people who are responsible for the management of finances and medical care for the elderly or the impaired. www.accountabilitytech.com. www.horizontechnology.biz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

billion since its 2016 inception. Tiger Global, Spruce House, D1, SEA, Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital, SoftBank and others also participated in the latest financing. Put simply, Kavak is an online marketplace that aims to bring transparency, security and access to financing to the used car market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. And that presented an opportunity for companies like Skit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

“Our investors recognize the significant opportunity in front of us due to companies’ accelerated spending on SaaS subscriptions, costly renewals and lack of visibility across the enterprise,” Christopher said. full disclosure: TechCrunch’s parent company).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. Professionals can find interesting opportunities to mentor startups and get paid gig opportunities. The company has made significant strides since launching in 2016. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This is a major round for the startup: Taxfix has raised around $330 million since being founded in 2016. — so Ott wasn’t keen to talk about how much money it calculated people owed to the state, but there is an opportunity there too to provide financing and longer-term managing of that financing as a different kind of product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II. The plan was to give startups access to networks , money and expansion opportunities. “We and Europe. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Already, 4G Capital is conducting trials of its latest retail finance product dubbed Kuza, which allows clients to access goods from FMCG producers and distributors on credit. International Development Finance Corporation, the Ford Foundation, Kenya’s Co-operative bank and high net-worth individuals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Matias Lonardi, co-founder and CEO of Treggo, started the company with Nicolas Torchio and Joaquin Wagner in 2016. In addition, it is also providing an embedded finance feature for its independent driver network to give them cash in advance. 99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Related to that, the company is also announcing hefty debt refinancing of $200 million per month (money to run the BNPL financing), coming from a consortium of German banks led by VVRB (Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG), with Raisin Bank and Varengold Bank also participating. He said the latter range from €60 to €100.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

based Endure Capital, which is backed by British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), the development finance institution of the U.K. In 2016, he found a gap in the market for solutions tailored to the needs of water and electricity distributors in Egypt and other emerging markets. government. Here’s how it works.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2017

Sharon Oberlander, a wealth management advisor with Merrill Lynch and long-time mentor to women entrepreneurs and executives, shares her thoughts on what women in business should know about investing, retirement and personal finance. Q: The Dow has been rallying since November 2016. million projected new jobs by 2018.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But the company, which was founded in 2016, has raised $2.4 Recently, BetaStore began offering financing to retailers and plans to launch a buy now, pay later product in the coming months. It is a key vantage…but now it’s helped unlock other opportunities for us as a firm that we’re exploring with a lot of enthusiasm.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The financing will be used to dial up OfficeRnD’s marketing with the aim of expanding market share, including by growing its partnerships. A lot of companies we know have grown yet kept the same lease on their office and now realize they want to use it differently and provide more opportunities to their employees”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Existing investor Contour Venture Partners led the financing, which brings the company’s total funding since its 2010 inception to $35 million. From 2016 to 2019, LeagueApps saw 275% revenue growth. But it’s since rebounded, and then some. Today, over 3,000 sports organizations use LeagueApps as their operating system. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Mina Shahid , Catherine Denis and Ben Best founded Numida in 2017 and capitalized on the opportunity to build one of East Africa’s first digital fintechs targeting semi-formal micro and small businesses. “That’s an opportunity we see in the future. And today, the company is announcing the close of its $2.3

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