TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The second iteration has been more around like decentralized finance and non-custodial trading of financing activities,” said Bademosi. The Connecticut-based venture capital and holding company has over 60 crypto and blockchain subsidiaries and investments across 30 countries, including LUNO, CoinDesk and Bitso.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. involved in developing state-of-the-art AI systems.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees. Galileo did it first in 1609, and we’re doing it again now.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The round was led by Balderton Capital, alongside existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor. The company was founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Ebbing, but both had previously worked together at McKinsey and started working in blockchain in 2017.

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HPA

MAY 5, 2023

of equity financing and $1.5 In addition to the capital raise, Bloomfilter announced the general availability of its platform. The financing will allow the company to accelerate product development, customer success, and go-to-market activities. The funding included $5.5M of venture debt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Finances, production, and thus investor confidence bounced back, allowing Musk to shift into hyper-scale mode. Subsequently, it aggressively hyper-scaled its proven formula for optimizing people and culture across the entire global organization, IPO-ing in 2017. . This hyper-turnaround quickly bore fruit. Operating and Financial Data.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Capital infusion supports strategic acquisition of competitor GigaMonster’s assets, more than doubling the platform’s footprint TYSONS CORNER, VA. UDR”); capital from this raise will help Gigstreem more rapidly scale its growth and deploy internet services to markets across the country. Crestline Investors, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cobo , a Singapore-based crypto asset management platform, raised a $40 million Series B to accelerate the development of decentralized finance as a service (DFaaS). The round was co-led by DST Global , A&T Capital and IMO Ventures. ConsenSys raises $65M from JP Morgan, Mastercard, UBS to build infrastructure for DeFi.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing, or similar businesses. Great North has doubled down on the value of hands-on experience and relationships to accelerate startup growth in the Upper Midwest. Founded in 2017, Great North Labs’ $23.7 Farming, mining, or natural resources extraction.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Image Credits: Zeals.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 3) Accelerators. Right here. million in cash and prizes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi — newly armed with nearly $9 million in venture capital — was preparing to bring its refinancing platform to the masses. CEO Kevin Bennett, and the investors behind the company, saw the opportunity to service Americans who collectively hold $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. million raise in 2017. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Alviere , an embedded finance startup that aims to help any brand deliver financial products and services to its customers and employees, announced today it has closed $70 million of new funding. Alviere has now raised a total of $90 million since its 2017 inception. TOA was a Cleveland, Ohio, cloud-based enterprise software company.).

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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. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources. Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

iMCI) and Ten-Nine Technologies ([link] are pleased to announce the closure of $5 million in Series A financing for new research and development facilities as well as a manufacturing plant capable of tonnage battery material production. Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

HomeX , a home services platform for homeowners and service providers , has raised $90 million in a funding round led by New Mountain Capital. The company was bootstrapped until a 2019 $50 million-plus debt financing. Another area of HomeX’s business that is growing rapidly is its B2B offering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The investors backing MNT-Halan include private equity firms Apis Growth Fund II, Development Partners International (DPI), and Lorax Capital Partners; VCs like Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, and DisruptTech. Then in mobility, MNT-Halan provides courier, delivery, and ride-hailing services. . billion worth of loans to 1.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The latest financing officially makes the Salt Lake City, Utah-based provider of crypto tax and accounting software a unicor n, with a valuation of $1.33 It also brings the startup’s total raised to $230 million since brothers Austin and Justin Woodward founded the company with their cousin Brandon Woodward in 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Notably, two of the main investors are not venture capital firms but instead are two large tech companies: Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre and San Francisco-based software developer Globant. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. National Venture Capital Association. New York Venture Capital Association. VCPlatform – for portfolio acceleration professionals. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

million in funding from government investment firms and traditional accelerators like SOSV, with a tech that the company claims can give vertical farms a better way to monitor and manage nutrients and water quality. In late 2018 the company moved back to Denmark and raised a small amount of additional capital from SOSV and Rockstart.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To that end, Breadfast , an online grocery delivery company that wants to become a regional leader in the sector has raised $26 million in Series A financing from an impressive group of investors. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Investors include CCB Trust, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, GGV Capital and real-time communication solution provider Agora, a long-time partner of Cocos. These revenue streams have been able to sustain Cocos, but the company is ready to accelerate growth, which is why it sought outside financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led its Series D, which also included participation from return backers TTV Capital, Canapi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BOND, Fin VC, Goodwater Capital, as well as new investors Wellington Management, Owl Ventures and LionTree Partners. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Redpoint Ventures, Thrive Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Coatue Management, Iconiq, Altimeter, Stripe, Lux Capital, A* Partners, Definition Capital and other existing backers participated in the financing. Hiring is going to be the biggest use of our capital,” Glyman told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Acrew, Cherry Creek Holdings and existing backers Greycroft, HSCM Bermuda, American Family Ventures, SignalFire, SCOR P&C Ventures, Foundation Capital and Tower IV also participated in the round. With this latest financing, Columbus, Ohio-based Branch has raised $82.5 million in total funding since its 2017 inception.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Chipotle says that Cultivate Next, which will be financed solely by Chipotle to start, will offer a tranche of $50 million and focus on tech companies in the “seed to Series B” stages. But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Existing backers DST Global, 01 Advisors, Dragoneer Investment Group and Franklin Templeton also participated in the financing, in addition to new investor Mubadala Investment Company. . How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. Put simply, SpotOn is taking on the likes of Square in the payments space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are a few notable things about this financing. Founded in 2017 by Chileans Jaime Arrieta, Santiago Lira, Teresita Morán, Felipe Sateler and Ricardo Sateler, Buk is building a cloud-based platform that it says allows companies to manage their human resources “ end to end” — from the payment of salaries to professional development.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

IDC Ventures, Digital Bridge and IDB Invest co-led the round, which also included participation from MGM Innova Group, Celtic House Venture Partners, Palm Drive Capital and previous shareholders. The financing brings the Bogota, Colombia-based startup’s total raised to $85 million since its 2017 inception.

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