TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5 million Series A last October.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. From Sendwave to Wave.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valour, a Zug, Switzerland-based issuer of investment products, brought in Biggs, the former Private Banking Global Head of Innovation for HSBC, as CEO after recently launching Bitcoin Zero , a fee-free, digital asset ETP product that trades on the NGM stock exchange. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He I’m the exact opposite and couldn’t invest myself until after Goldman Sachs, where I went to work after Penn.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

As Synder ’s two co-founders Michael Astreiko and Ilya Kisel wrap up their time at Y Combinator, they also announced their seed round of $2 million from TMT Investments. It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Other investors include the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and the Qatar Investment Authority, according to Crunchbase. That financing valued Compass at $6.4 Prior to the IPO, SoftBank’s Vision Fund holds slightly more than a one-third stake in the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. billion into Uber.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish. After bringing in $8 million in a few rounds over the years, Zubale is back with a new cash infusion of $40 million in Series A financing led by QED Investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” has closed on $58 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The financing comes just over five months after Titan raised $12.5 Kevin Durant, Jared Leto and Will Smith. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk.

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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. The company had previously raised $75 million from Spectrum Equity in October 2018.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Rampell is on the company’s board, but is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. The company’s flagship product, Home Equity Investment, is designed to allow homeowners to get cash in exchange for a certain percentage of future appreciation of their home. Its average investment is around $100,000.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” Besides Riverwood, edtech-focused Owl Ventures (which led its $5 million Series A round last June), Endeavor Catalyst and Roble Ventures also participated in the financing.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y/C helped enable this by introducing the Post-Money SAFE in 2018, fixing some of the more egregious problems with SAFEs, principally the lack of transparency about valuations when multiple SAFEs convert to equity. So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? Such is the common perception. But what about angels?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

Igloo will continue to invest in reinforcing its full-stack capabilities, along with innovating its dynamic risk assessment and AI-powered claims assessment tools. said Rajive Keshup, Director for Cathay Innovation in Southeast Asia and board member. This brings Igloo’s total fundraising to over $36 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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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

APRIL 22, 2021

Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Union Square Ventures and Stripes. While the company would not reveal hard revenue figures, President and CEO Marc Olesen said that business has tripled since he joined the company in June 2018.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Specifically, Petal offers what it describes as “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. A majority of consumers approved for Petal credit cards since its 2018 launch had either thin or no credit history when they were first approved, according to Rosen.

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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.). Seriously, this happens.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Crisp , an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date. The typical customer is a young family.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Previously backed by the Bill Gates-financed Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, the new company has just raised roughly $50 million of an approximately $60 million financing round to expand its operations, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. Groundfloor has scaled its platform by adding new debt investment products, including a saving and investing app called Stairs that it launched last fall, which now has $22 million in assets invested.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The funding is being led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the rebranded venture fund the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (a prolific investor for years in tech), with previous backers Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participating. Index led its Series C in 2020 ; Valar led a round in 2018 ).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

They founded All Day Kitchens in 2018 to partner with restaurants to share their food across a city through use of a network of satellite kitchens, without having to put up any upfront costs. The new investment brings All Day Kitchens’ total funding to date to $102.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets. It also helped that both founders came from families of small business owners, so they had a firsthand view of these problems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Returning backer Telescope Partners led the financing, which also included participation from new investor Blackstone. For the first two years, Hotel Engine was more of a side project for Wallen with admittedly “limited investment or attention.” billion valuation. Image Credits: CEO and Founder Elia Wallen / Hotel Engine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Vine Pharmacy had 20 branches across Uganda when Abraaj took over and embarked on an aggressive growth plan that involved doubling its branches by 2018 – a feat it accomplished until the PE collapsed leading to the shutdown of several outlets. s development finance institution, last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

In 2010, Bastian Gotter invested up to $200,000 into IROKOtv, an African video-on-demand company Jason Njoku, his friend and co-founder, launched in Lagos, Nigeria. 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. and South Africa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We work with some really, really big companies, and we’ve become an extended part of their quality organization,” says Steve Semelsberger, who joined Testlio as its CEO back in 2018. ” The company today announced that it has closed $12 million in Series B financing. Testlio’s CEO Steve Semelsberger. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. Other examples are the design of advanced therapeutics with silicon and routing components on a printed circuit board.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. We believe in creating a welcoming, supportive environment for all, especially underrepresented groups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. “We This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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