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Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. million to bring its total funding since 2017 to $20 million.

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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Access to capital through overdrafts and Monzo credit products. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Social features to pay your friends (e.g., Splitwise).

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Tovala, the smart oven and meal kit service, heats up with $30M more in funding

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

” The funding is being led by Left Lane Capital, with Finistere Ventures, Comcast Ventures, OurCrowd, Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Joe Mansueto — all previous backers — also participating. And back in 2017, Electrolux acquired sous vide startup Anova for $250 million. “The

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Trade promotion management startup Cresicor raises $5.6M to keep tabs on customer spend

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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Trends in Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Notably, sales startups raised the least amount of capital. If we compare these trends to the total aggregate market capitalization of public SaaS companies by buyer, we observe a few interesting patterns. In addition, there were quite a few analytics companies raising capital this year. Series B medians were $19.0M

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. ” Shamia cofounded Replicant in 2017 alongside Andrew Abraham, Benjamin Gleitzman, and Jack Abraham. “Automation is now part of the.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. ” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S. Website : [link].

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Extend raises $40M for its virtual card offering to help banks better compete with fintechs

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. Other investors include B Capital, Point72 Ventures, Fintech Collective, Reciprocal Ventures, Wells Fargo and Pacific Western Bank. We help the incumbents close the gap relative to those players.”.

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Catching a Second Wind

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

JC Penney closed 139 stores in 2017, despite aggressive efforts to woo Sephora customers and Sears refugees. While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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Juggle secures $2.1M to expand its ‘flexible work’ SaaS marketplace for senior execs

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

’s leading angels, and also includes Oxford Capital , Social Capital , and 7percent Ventures. Since launching in 2017, Thomas said 62 percent of all placements made by Juggle have been female. It’s now disclosed its funding of $2.1 million from investors in the U.K. and the U.S. Investors include a number of the U.K.’s

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ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the US

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners.

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Startup Catalyst Brief

Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Tovala, the smart oven and meal kit service, heats up with $30M more in funding

Trade promotion management startup Cresicor raises $5.6M to keep tabs on customer spend

Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Trends in Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016

Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

Extend raises $40M for its virtual card offering to help banks better compete with fintechs

Catching a Second Wind

Juggle secures $2.1M to expand its ‘flexible work’ SaaS marketplace for senior execs

ClearBank, a UK banking rails provider, raises $230M from Apax to expand into Europe and the US

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