Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It María, who was born and raised in El Salvador, is the founder of Masshii. Growing up in El Salvador, I was able to go to Bentley College in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduate with a degree in corporate finance and accounting. By Jewelle Saunders. I always knew I was born to be an entrepreneur.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. “It is important to try to understand your customers and their needs and supply what they need with honesty,” says Gastón Fontaine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

All of this impresses upon us that every indicator in startup funding points up and to the right: Venture firms have more dry powder, deal sizes are growing rapidly, valuations are soaring and investment terms are more founder-friendly than ever. And all that is indeed happening. The biggest impact appears to be in the late stage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, he co-founded Aspire, a solar installation company based on the knowledge he acquired in college on renewable energy and working in several roles relating to energy, gas and power projects across Nigeria and other African countries, including a five-year stint at Siemens as head of market development. Think about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B But Quibi has raised $1.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks. So in 2018, Ko left Opendoor to set about solving the problem she was tired of dealing with by creating file storage for modern design workflows and processes. On top of that, she said, designers weren’t the only ones who needed to access the assets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Then in 2018, Walter went live with a new company — Blast. ATM specifically is an app designed so users earn micro-income to save money or invest in the stock market through the company’s SEC-licensed “advisors,” or embedded finance tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. Seriously, this happens.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD. Financing: It is customary in B2B transactions to pay “with terms,” such as net 30 or net 60, effectively giving a line of credit to the business buyer that enables them to send payment after delivery of the good or service.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

finance

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. A Dallas-based founder looks to tackle the student loan crisis with his startup, College Cash.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. “So monthly to finance rent payments.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings. USA News ).Labor

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ted Xenohristos grew up together. For CAVA’s co-founders, taste and hospitality unite. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The founders in our portfolio have greatly benefited from connecting with top-tier investors who, in addition to providing capital, also offer valuable insights and guidance,” said Krishnan. Krishnan said the firm makes high-quality introductions of founders to bigger funds, in what is a “win-win for founders/VCs.”

finance

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before joining Paystack in 2018, Hassan co-founded OyaPay, a payments startup the year before. How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020. However, for Hassan, Mono’s play overlaps open finance and open banking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A lot of African founders (and future founders) I’ve spoken to were encouraged by seeing Paystack do so well and get acquired. Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). At least, that’s the view shared by Kat Mañalac, the head of Outreach at YC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. So, why should startup founders care about attracting and retaining a diverse workforce? Myth 1: Startup founders are young . Fastest growing 0.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

– APRIL 22, 2018: A statue of Albert Gallatin, a former U.S. Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. Dear Sophie: How did immigration change for startup founders in 2020? But who will it enrich with its final pricing decision?”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Developers use the company’s tools to power a range of features, including digital receipts, omnichannel attribution, loyalty and rewards, expense management and personal finance management. . Since launching its offering in 2018, Fidel API says it has entered markets across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Venture capital firms, which provide equity financing for early- and growth-stage startups, play a critical gatekeeper role, deciding which new technologies and technology companies will receive funding. This lack of diversity is mirrored in the gender and racial composition of founders who receive VC funding. of all U.S.-based

venture capital

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Before Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) co-founded Marcy Ventures in 2018, he was involved with other businesses such as the legacy entertainment company Roc Nation and champagne brand Armand de Brignac. Mr. Eazi (founder of Empawa Africa and investor in PawaPay). What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. .

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Finfra Investment Fueled Indonesian Embedded Finance Expansion Indonesian startup Finfra secured $1 million in new funding in late June. The company invests the infused capital into product development and enhancing Finfra’s engineering, data, and finance teams.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.” This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

venture capital

TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This round of financing is the first substantial outside investment made in the company since it was picked up by private equity firm Fortissimo in 2018. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

He launched his latest venture, Strangeworks in 2018 and raised $4 million in seed stage capital. TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. He didn’t raise any capital for Chaotic Moon. Register here. It’s free.

transportation

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

So in 2018, Ko left Opendoor to set about solving the problem she was tired of dealing with by creating file storage for modern design workflows and processes. The company emerged from stealth last August when it announced it had raised $4 million in a seed round l ed by Founders Fund that valued it at $20 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Keri Findley, founder of Tacora. We are focused on anyone who has intended — those they knew they were going to originate — or unintended assets, like if you have a company that builds a robot, and you suddenly need to have inventory, it needs to be financed with a different type of capital other than venture equity and debt.”.

ventures

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The way it works is that Point first evaluates the finances of applicants and makes a provisional offer. Image Credits: Co-founders Eddie Lim and Eoin Matthews / Point. Laurence Tosi , founder and managing partner of WestCap , was actually an angel investor in the company before leading this round via the growth equity firm.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

PE becomes an important buyer of companies growing 10-25%, as it did in 2018, driven by lower debt costs. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing.

SaaS

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Gerry Giacomán Colyer, Clara’s co-founder and CEO, told me the company is working with over 10,000 customers across Latin America and that its annual run rate of 5 million credit card transactions is equivalent to $1 billion. One of those is Clara, a spend management company based in Mexico that announced $60 million in new funding last week.

finance

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Insilico Medicine, an AI-based platform for drug development and discovery, announced $255 million in Series C financing on Tuesday. This project condensed into just 18 months the process of preclinical drug development that typically takes multiple years and hundreds of millions of dollars, for a total cost of about $2.6

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. More than half of the portfolio companies have women founders or women in the C-suite. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. She told TechCrunch she met the company’s co-founders through the Portland ecosystem. Investors, founders report hot market for API startups.

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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. The founders are from Ann Arbor, but this company now hires remotely and has a major job on its hand working with infrastructure cleanup across the U.S. After raising $10.3 Spellbound AR. Bedestrian.

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