TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

The startup raised $50 million in its seed financing round, but there’s no word on the size of its Series A round. Sikka, 54, resigned from the top role at Infosys in 2017 after months of acrimony between the board and a cohort of founders. Details about what exactly the Palo Alto-headquartered startup does is unclear.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors. She is also a board member of Lemonade and Kiva. Between its formation in 2008 and 2017, Deputy didn’t have a CEO, until Ahmed stepped into the position after the startup’s first funding round. Deputy says it has surpassed $100 million AUD (about $69.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

MotoRefi, which was born out of QED Investors in 2017, developed an auto refinancing platform that handles the entire process, including finding the best rates, paying off the old lender and re-titling the vehicle. Liza Benson, a partner at Moderne Venture, will join the board.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

. “This stickiness is manifesting itself in terms of app usage and frequency, and across the board improvements in sign up rates, user-generated content contribution rates, freemium conversion rates, and subscriber retention rates,” he adds. Image Credits: All Trails.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Today, he claims, SwipeRx has transformed and digitized the pharmacy industry and become a one-stop platform for pharmacists to perform all their daily tasks, from education to purchasing to inventory financing in Southeast Asia. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 , and spun out into Foursquare in 2019. As part of the investment, Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, is joining Read’s board of directors. The trio previously worked together at location analytics startup Placed, where Shim was also CEO. Read Dashboard.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

Delaware Prosperity Partnership supported CMS’s request to the Council on Development Finance for a Graduated Lab Space Grant of up to $760,480 and a Jobs Performance Grant of up to $115,000 from the Delaware Strategic Fund.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Smart Hustle covered Alice here , in 2017. Terms of the financing have not been disclosed. Founded in 2017 by Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, Alice uses AI to connect small business owners to resources from enterprise companies, governments and organizations, providing an online platform that acts as a free business adviser.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The financing comes just over five months after Titan raised $12.5 million in a Series A round led by General Catalyst, and brings the startup’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $75 million. It values the company at $450 million. Kevin Durant, Jared Leto and Will Smith. . “If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Since it launched its debit cards for kids in 2017, the company has managed to set up accounts for more than 3 million parents and children, who have saved more than $120 million through the app. That’s up from 2 million parents and kids having saved $50 million at the time of its September 2020 raise. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Their average size, especially for seed rounds, has grown from $750,000 in 2017 to $1 million in 2020. He added that what makes India a better market at this stage is because it isn’t a continent like the other markets and operations are uniform across board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Bow Capital, Kamerra, Highland Capital Partners and Park West Asset Management also participated in the financing, which brings Jerry’s total raised to $132 million since its 2017 inception. “The market opportunity for our first auto financing service is $260 billion. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Financing Illegal Activities (drugs, terrorism, etc) On a related note, governments are concerned about crypto being used to finance illegal activities. Similar to the money laundering problem, governments are also worried about people using crypto to finance illegal activities like drugs, weapons, gambling, trafficking, etc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The numbers will set us up to understand what else can be learned about Duolingo’s business beyond our original deep dive into the company’s finances — specifically underscoring the pressure cooker it finds itself in when looking for new revenue sources. The number is still strong, we think. In percentage terms, 3.3% A gain of 0.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Coatue Management led the round, which brings San Francisco-based Side’s valuation to $1 billion and total funding raised to over $200 million since its 2017 inception. Existing backers Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Sapphire Ventures also participated in the new financing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

based-Updata Partners led the financing, which also included participation from existing backers previous investors Silverton Partners, Active Capital, Rain Capital and SaaS Venture Partners. And the company has just closed on a $14 million Series B to continue its expansion beyond cybersecurity awareness training into human risk management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. All of the costs of the event were covered by our sponsors, the main ones being TAMKEEN (The Bahrain Labour Fund) and the Bahrain Economic Development Board. Promoting Disruption.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Logistics operators in Africa suffer from various problems, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply-and-demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. The banks wanted us to ensure we charge the financing costs before they could touch them. They don’t want to touch drivers,” he said.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts. Petruta Stoica, Finance Director. Gabriela will continue to support the network as she transitions into a director role focused on partnerships and policy on the Impact Hub Association Board.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Like other financial infrastructure companies, Stitch services allows companies and developers to innovate around other services like personal finance, lending, insurance, payments and wealth management. In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by The year 2017 was filled with promises?

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Gotter left the media company in 2017, an exit that afforded him the chance to take up angel investing full-time and pursue new projects. Gotter is an investor and board member in PawaPay, roles that can be active and passive depending on who’s involved. pre-seed for its small business finance management app.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

So in 2017, we launched the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , a $150M fund backed by an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, investors, and executives that are publicly standing behind the idea that great companies can start and scale anywhere. Startups need talented individuals to fill roles in areas like marketing, legal, finance, and sales.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

That includes over $50 million from Goldman Sachs to help back the company’s green building financing, as well a $30 million investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. First of all, once it got some building owners involved, there was a big word of mouth effect, and that helped get more owners on board.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Revenue Based Financing Network Group. International Climate Finance Accelerator – based in Luxembourg. Coursera, e.g., Innovative Finance. Corporate Finance Institute. BOARD TRAINING. 2017 ACA Summit by Angel Capital Association. VCNetwork – for GPs in the Bay Area. Nextgenpartners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. Great companies get financed.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. Some of these companies include Retool , Novo , Payfazz , and Mono. ” MAGIC Fund 1 was $1.5

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry? How can a decade have flown by!

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. No board seats or personal guarantees. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Alternative Capital. “ For RBI, return caps of 1.2x-1.8x

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StartupNation

JANUARY 13, 2021

They can also connect with an expert SCORE mentor (for free) who can support their efforts to secure financing and help them decide how best to move forward. As of 2017, 5.6% (322,076) of all U.S. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Census Bureau. Despite the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Realizing the opportunity for a “try before you buy” type of service, Ouyang first built BlackCart in 2017 as a business-to-consumer (B2C) platform that worked by way of a Chrome extension with some 50 different online merchants, largely in apparel. That company, which has now closed on $8.8

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