TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years. The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The post-Covid surge in venture capital pushed valuations & activity to record breaking heights. The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

In a statement, Manafa said it will use the fresh funds to accelerate its growth in Saudi Arabia and expand its offering with the launch of several products and financing solutions in addition to double the number of investors on its platform. Manafa was founded in 2018 by Abdulaziz Al-Adwan and Arm Murad.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 20, 2023

Register Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm Go-Ventures has successfully concluded the final close of its second flagship fund, raising a total of $240 million. As part of the announcement, the company has rebranded itself as Argor Capital Management.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million Series A, led by original design manufacturer Wistron Corporation, with participation from Hive Ventures, Top Taiwan Venture Capital Group and Silicon Valley Taiwan Investments. InfuseAI , a MLOps startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised a $4.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. Growth equity firm Prysm Capital led the financing, which brings the round total to $435 million. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. We are here to help early-stage companies finance their assets,” she said. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Finance people live and breathe spreadsheets, Mayfield’s Rajeev Batra was telling me. Christina Ross co-founded the company in 2018 in a bid to provide a solution to CFOs who rely on spreadsheets but could benefit from modern data analysis, reporting, and collaboration. PST/2:30 p.m.

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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. billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At The fund’s mission is to “revolutionize the status quo for diagnosing treating and living with autism through a venture-capital model.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The stage definitions in venture, from seed to late-stage Series D, E or F rounds, have always been open to interpretation, and general patterns are challenged by outliers at each stage. Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Last month, DEA also raised a minority investment from Rakuten Capital, the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese e-commerce and internet services giant Rakuten Group. Its partner, LDA Capital, is a global alternative investment group with expertise in complex cross-border transactions. million users.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup. The investment brings Nowports’ total raised since its 2018 inception to over $24 million. Nowports raises $5.3

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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. As a venture capital investor in B2B e-commerce companies, I’m carefully watching the industry and have seen several forward-thinking business models emerge for B2B marketplaces.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after starting the firm in 2018 and have now closed on $100 million in capital commitments for MAYA’s second fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This funding round was led by the Singapore-based venture capital firm 1982 Ventures, the sole investor. Finfra Investment Fueled Indonesian Embedded Finance Expansion Indonesian startup Finfra secured $1 million in new funding in late June.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. There were 141 companies from 24 countries in the winter 2018 batch , compared with 377 companies across 47 countries in the summer 2021 group. have joined this desirable list.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

’s venture capital fund CapitalG. Its valuation was reportedly on course to reach $10 billion in 2018. The latest financing again attracted high-profile backers, including returning investors SoftBank Vision Fund and Sequoia Capital China, Permira and Fidelity, a consortium that co-led the round.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The pre-Series B funding round also saw the participation of US-based venture capital firm Capria Ventures, marking the firm’s first direct investment in the Asia-Pacific region. Founded by 2018 by Dima Djani, Harza Sandityo, and Bembi Juniar, Alama is a Shariah-based financial technology peer-to-peer lending company.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Spanish proptech Clikalia has secured $518 million in debt and equity in what is among the largest venture capital rounds raised in Spain to date. Repeat entrepreneurs Alister Moreno and Pablo Fernandez founded the company in 2018 with the intent of providing Spaniards with digital options when buying and selling their homes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And since its launch in 2018, MaxAB has connected suppliers with over 150,000 unique traditional retailers in this food and grocery supply chain across Egypt and Casablanca, Morocco, delivering over 2.5 They participated in this round alongside other existing investors, Beco Capital and Africa Platform Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million.

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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. . Other backers include Citi Ventures, RBC Capital and Commerce Ventures. The company did not disclose its valuation. “And

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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 27, 2022

To date, Dragonfly has invested in almost 60 companies through its previous funds launched in 2018 and 2021 for $100 million and $225 million, respectively. But Dragonfly will continue to invest in those areas, as well as decentralized finance, smart contracts, NFTs, the metaverse, and other sectors in the crypto ecosystem, he said. “If

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Working closely with these investors early-on is good preparation for future rounds of financing and usually a good point of entry into the VC financing world. Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

To that effect, CredPal , one of the earliest pioneers of buy now, pay later in Nigeria, has closed a bridge round of $15 million in equity and debt — the latter constituting a very large chunk of the financing — to expand its consumer credit offerings across Africa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou. But the mission remains: Transforming consumers’ financial relationship with their cars.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They are found across all industries and are useful for entrepreneurs who are beyond the seed stages of financing but are not yet ready to seek out venture capital. Individuals wishing to understand the complexities of modern company financing can earn an online business degree from Point Park University. Updated Nov.

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