TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2022

Register Brand e-commerce service provider Jet Commerce announced that it raised over $60 million in Series B funding round jointly led by Jinqiu Capital, Hidden Hill Capital, and Zhejiang SilkRoad Fund. “The entire market will rapidly move online and focus on branding, as we can see.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. There is no level playing field in capitalism, but it is easier than ever for a scrappy startup to go head-to-head with industry leaders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

The company was founded by Mohamed Abdulaziz and Ahmed Sheikha in 2017. Brimore, in a statement, said it uses “its unique infrastructure–which is an ecosystem of supply, demand, logistics and finance– and proprietary technology to avail market penetration opportunities to emerging brands owners.”. “We

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. In 2017, just 2.2% of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women. Bank financing. Find the Right Investors - don’t throw your pitch to just anybody.

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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 5, 2023

has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. share of blockchain developers has fallen 2% per year in the last five years, dropping to 29% last year from 40% in 2017. and web3 worlds Archie Finance, told TechCrunch+. The number of blockchain developers in the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2018

In December 2017, the amount raised in ICOs nearly equaled the amount raised by Series A investments globally. But the ability to access huge amounts of capital at a similarly nascent stage is identical. Without that capital backing, the rollout would have taken much longer. Today, the protocol must be detailed in a white paper.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says.

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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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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. These courses are built to enhance innovation by supporting idea generation, business scalability, capital raising, and consumer validation. The applicant is required to possess a minimum of 30% shares in the company.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and Singapore, led the funding. Established in 2017 by twin brothers Phan Thanh Long and Phan Thanh Vinh, MFast has rapidly expanded its footprint to cover all 63 cities in Vietnam. MFast operates under the umbrella of Vietnam-based startup DigiPay.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2017

In 2017, there will be a lot of comparison between the prices public bound companies fetch at IPO compared to the last round private valuations as the public window opens. Given all that change, which early round will be the hardest to raise for founders in 2017? So, which is the hardest round to raise in 2017?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. This data shows that they are broadly accepted as a common way to finance an early stage startup. The anomaly in 2017 is due to an outlier. Only one company has raised two seed rounds so far in 2017, qualifying it into this dataset.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2023

Whether their expertise ranges from gaming and finance, or art and tokenomics, it’s critical to select the right people carefully. The most successful business campaigns were launched by those who gathered a team of brilliant minds across multiple disciplines, including developers, engineers, capital raisers, marketers, and more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Capitolis , which makes technology for capital markets players such as investment and merchant banks, has closed on a $90 million Series C funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The financing included participation from existing backers Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Spark Capital, SVB Capital, Citi, J.P.

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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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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

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

MARCH 11, 2021

The latest financing brings its total equity raised since inception to about $450 million, with the company raising $100 million across its seed and Series C rounds. Zac Prince — who comes from a background in consumer lending — founded BlockFi with Flori Marquez in 2017. Bain Capital Ventures Partner Stefan Cohen agrees.

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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

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. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 23, 2022

The latest investment brings total funds raised by ADDX to around US$120 million, since the company’s inception in 2017. ADDX is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a digital securities exchange.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

million in Series D extension financing. The latest financing values the company at approximately $776 million (1.1 In 2017, KCD launched its bookkeeping app for SMEs, called Cash Note, which helps small and mid-sized enterprise owners track a comprehensive overview of cash flow, including revenues, credit card sales and expenditure.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round. AfricInvest, through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and French-based development finance institution Proparco, co-led the early-growth round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Faire, which has built a marketplace connecting retailers to indie brands globally, has raised a $416 million extension to its Series G financing , more than doubling the size of the round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. With the additional capital, Faire is now valued at $12.59 billion since its 2017 inception.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Investors involved in the merger have committed $415 million in PIPE financing. The company also recently raised $440 million in capital. In other words, Circle will have plenty of capital on its hands if the merger goes through. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. Matt Cohen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

Although finance teams ultimately control budgets within their companies, investment in technology under the chief financial officer’s purview had been limited — at least until recently. Tesorio was originally focused on supply chain financing, helping businesses save by paying their small- and medium-sized business vendors early.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis. Lim teamed up with Benny Yiu and Max Zschoch in 2017 to build HoneyBee with that goal in mind. “We million in equity in a round led by FFVC.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Turtlemint, an Indian startup that is helping consumers identify and purchase the most appropriate insurance policies for them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to reach more users in small cities and towns in the world’s second largest internet market. Only a fraction of India’s 1.3

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