Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? This may be a breakout category in 2016 for Series A investments. Given the amount of seed investor interest, I expect many of these marketplaces to raise series A dollars in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. “This second financing round is only because we have these results — and now it’s institutional investors in the lead,” Hsu said.

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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.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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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 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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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.emergeedu.com. www.teamology.team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. The main driver behind it is that if you look globally, there’s a huge demand for sustainability. Einride’s business is threefold.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While countless companies are developing alternative and more sustainable ways for humans to get their protein fixes such as through lab-grown meat , others are tackling the underlying problem from a different angle by exploring new ways of fostering the traditional meat and fish populace through insect protein. Growth industry.

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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 in 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While Flutterwave has been rumoured to acquire some startups in the past, this is its first public announcement of any acquisition since launching in 2016 to tackle Africa’s payments problems. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 The publication, launched in 2016, creates and curates content around African youth culture for Gen Zs and millennials within and outside Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Einride is seeking $75 million in new financing, while at the same time exploring the potential for a public listing through a special purpose acquisition company, according to people with knowledge of the company’s plans. Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and we work hard to lower our emissions across the board.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Egyptian proptech startup Nawy , which began life in 2016 as an AI-driven property, listing has grown to offer brokerage services, supporting the closing of property deals. This leaves a financing gap for pre-owned mortgages that Nawy now aims to bridge.

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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. The fund invests in venture-worthy women entrepreneurs seeking Series A and B financings at revenue-generating, capital-efficient companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When it comes to financing a startup, the most important — and hardest — check to land is the very first one. She also was the co-founder of two companies: Zady, which helps with sustainable fashion manufacturing, and Foodspotting, a visual guide that helps locals find dishes near them that was acquired by OpenTable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

MotoRefi has raised $60 million since its inception in 2016. Bennett believes the company is now in self-sustaining position. “I think we have a great sustainable business and so we, in some sense runway is infinite, and we are building a great profitable business.

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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. According to him, a valuable company, sustained by growth and impact, naturally becomes an attractive acquisition or public offering candidate.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

During his two years at the firm, Salisbury went on to back the likes of now-decacorn Deel and Tally , two companies he had gotten to know through the Cambrian community he’s built up since 2016. Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Affirm , a consumer finance business founded by PayPal mafia member Max Levchin, filed to go public this afternoon. Affirm’s fiscal year starts on July 1, a pattern that allows the consumer finance company to fully capture the U.S. Fast forward one year and Affirm managed top line of $509.5 million on a fully-loaded basis (GAAP).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

. “With this initial deployment, we’re looking forward to better understanding the potential role electric trucks can play in our transport operations,” Archana Jagannathan, PepsiCo UK’s head of sustainability, said in a statement. Einride’s planned transport network grid. Einride in action.

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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. Pylon grew its revenues by 3.5x

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2016

EOlooks forward to the new calendar year, with posts, pictures and videos citing upcoming technologies and inspiration for entrepreneurs in 2016. “Set it up once – profit forever.”. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and LinkedIn for daily posts! The post Automated Marketing Systems That Last All Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. By contrast, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% Gender diversity as a driver of sustainable profitability.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

A rich content ecosystem will support the site, including GIFT’s internationally recognized curriculum, publications, and firsthand insights from field initiatives in major development areas like agribusiness, healthcare, finance, and water.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations. Higher Ground Labs.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Floyd is a furniture company based in Detroit that is concerned with longevity, sustainability, and modern design. Credibly is a Detroit fintech startup helping small businesses receive loans and financing by leveraging data and technology. StockX was founded in 2016 and already boasts more than 1,000 employees.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

This appointment comes a month after Ayeni left the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he led venture capital investments across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over 5 years. and was a principal advisor for early-stage Pan-African fund EchoVC from 2013 to 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2016

For anyone looking to increase their productivity in 2016, these are my best hacks for clearing obstacles and getting down to business. With hundreds of franchise partners operating around the world, I’ve found that having crystal-clear systems is essential to smooth operations and sustainable growth. The art of delegation.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Built on the results of the 2011 Social Business Initiative and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up Initiative , and preceded by extensive dialogue with stakeholders and civil society, the Action Plan proposes 38 concrete measures to be implemented in a nine-years horizon, between 2021-2030.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

So I jumped ship and worked on our third $125 million seed fund back in 2016. TC: How do you think about its valuation and whether it’s sustainable? It was in super great shape. And it’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. TC: A lot of numbers have been published about who owns much and how much it’s worth.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When they were ready to scale their commercial operations in 2016, Udesh Jadanansing and his team decided to raise a seed round. Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth? Udesh’s initial reservations about the financing option aren’t uncommon.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

FIGURE 17: NUMBER OF COMPANIES ANNOUNCING NEW FINANCING ROUNDS Source: Crunchbase In 2022 the demand for capital outstripped the supply and this gap worsened as the year progressed. In many markets, valuations declined by 50% or more, returning to pre-bubble (2016 - 2019) levels. Valuations have returned to “normal” (2016-2019) ranges.

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