TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This latest Series B has been the subject of rumors since this summer (and most recently a report last night that the round had finally closed), PrimaryBid’s growth comes at a time when a number of startups have been building investment services targeting niche opportunities, and services for those who are underserved.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. After raising $10.3 FreightVerify. Bedestrian.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Of course we can’t.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. trillion in 2018 alone — with spending rising every year since 1970 — but obesity is worse than ever, and four million more people got cancer in 2018 than in 2012. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. We are focused on offering the opportunity to invest and grow their money to everyone in LATAM.”. Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. “That is a global scale opportunity, and this is what motivates us,” he added. million in 2018. million to help it grow.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Since 2018, we’ve supported Wave because we were convinced mobile money is still an unsolved problem in Africa,” he said in a statement. ” Going up against incumbents.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. from the previous quarter” to $24.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2018, and until January 2021 had been bootstrapped from inception, reinvesting its cash generation into growth and portfolio expansion, according to CEO and 2TM Group Executive Chairman Roberto Dagnoni. It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Return backers Greycroft, SVB Capital, SiriusPoint, Elefund and Moxley Holdings also participated in the Series C financing. Pie began selling its insurance policies in March 2018. We see some great collaboration opportunities with Allianz companies too,” he added. Its headcount too has risen — to 260 from 140 last year.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Eventually, this will extend into wealth generation tools to help customers grow their finances. This did not happen by magic. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2018

We have come to the last month of 2018! Finally, after many “could have beens,” they end up at her apartment, but the whole romance fell through because she’s constantly disrupted by phone calls from her mentally ill brother, Michael. Written by Violet Lim, CEO and co-founder of Lunch Actually and EO Singapore.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech. That was crazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Gozem , a super app that provides a host of services — including transport, e-commerce and financial services in Francophone Africa — has raised $5 million in Series A financing, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The startup kicked off operations in Togo in 2018 as a motorcycle ride-hailing service.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

QED Investors, Wellington Management, Susa Ventures, Founders Fund, First American Financial, Prudence Holdings, Crossover VC, Intersect Capital, Gaingels and Oberndorf Ventures also participated in the financing. The San Francisco-based company declined to reveal at what valuation its Series C was raised.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. The two men launched a business around Vasilyev’s project in January and have raised $4 million in financing to support the commercialization of the project. WTF is GDPR? Pinto is undeterred. “We

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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. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

8VC, Tishman Speyer, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, DST, LeFrak and Kevin Hartz also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised since its 2018 inception to about $45 million. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

In 2018, Ignacio Canals, Diego Fleischmann and Benjamin Izikson got the idea for the e-commerce and lending company to provide durable goods, like cars, motorbikes and mobile phones, for gig workers in the Andes region. We saw a huge opportunity to support immigrants,” Canals told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Viva Republica, which hit unicorn status in 2018 , has now raised more than $940 million in equity funding. Merchants can use Toss Payments to send and receive online payments and manage their business finances. I think Toss Bank is really well-positioned to disrupt the whole loan market.”. As an Asian company, reaching a $7.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In an attempt to remedy that problem, São Paulo -based Kovi was founded in 2018 to give those people access to those opportunities. . Also, financing is often difficult and expensive to obtain, as credit is difficult to access in most Latin American countries. The first of those tailwinds is ride-hailing. Less than 0.5%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0% This sophistication, however, masks a backward state of affairs plagued by appalling customer service, exorbitant fees and lack of banking access for many.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

For one, Mara was founded by Danilo Mansano and Ariel Lambrecht, the latter of whom was one of the co-founders of 99, a mobility startup that became the first unicorn in Brazil after being sold to Didi for $1 billion in 2018. . We had the opportunity to fail and learn a lot at 99,” Lambrecht told TechCrunch. Fixing the chain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. The other, called Opportunities, focuses on smaller, under-the-radar companies. “But we realized they did not have the same access to investing that the wealthier did.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

Instead, three nuclear superpowers (USA, Russia, and China) are sparring against each other on the physical battlefield through proxies (Ukraine), in cyberspace , in finance via sanctions , in semiconductors via virtual embargos, in space via satellites , and in mental health (largely via social media). million b/d. In that year, 2.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

By September 2018, they formally launched the app beyond the campus of Babson College, which they were attending on scholarships. At that moment, we began to realize, ‘Hey maybe the big opportunity here is not a car-sharing app for college students, but maybe the big opportunity here is something with insurance,’” Michael said.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel was created when its co-founders, just out of college, experienced how heavily where you live impacts the opportunities you get. Deel Founded: 2018 YC Batch: Winter 2019 Founding city: San Francisco, CA Company size: 2,700+ across 100+ countries What is Deel? All interviews have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

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