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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based It’s challenging across the board.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Shota Horii , his twin brother Yuta Horii and Jun Taketani co-founded SmartBank in 2019 after selling their previous startup Fablic, a Japanese online secondhand marketplace, to Rakuten in 2016. While operating Fablic, the trio found that many users still used cash to pay and manage their day-to-day finance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund’s 2019 startup cohort.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Existing backer Accomplice led the equity financing, which the company described as “an inside round” that propelled FreshBooks to unicorn status with a valuation of “over $1 billion.” . 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. It used the financing to fund its growth which included adding Leja to its portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion. Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Founded in 2019, STACS has now raised a total of more than $6 million and is preparing to raise Series A funding later this year. It allows clients to integrate payment platforms (including Ubin), trading platforms and external software like user management systems, while enabling smart contracts and digital ledgers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds. As of April 2019, there are 434,000 vacant construction jobs ( Forbes ).From As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside founded the company in June 2019. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. guaranteed uptime. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. But in its other two newer markets, customers are only eligible for smartphone financing at the moment, the company’s executives told TechCrunch.

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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.

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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. Since the end of 2019, BlockFi has seen its client base grow from 10,000 to more than 225,000. It’s a model that seems to be working in a big way.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The five-year-old startup said the new tranche of its Series B financing round was led by VII Ventures, with participation from Nutresa, Veronorte, Jumbofund, Klinkert Investment Trust, Peter Crosby Trust, Nexus Venture Partners and Discovery Ventures. Indian B2B e-commerce startup Udaan raises $280 million.

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HPA

MARCH 23, 2021

Leaf Trade , the leading wholesale cannabis ecommerce platform, announced their Series A financing. Leaf Trade connects licensed wholesale cannabis retailers and suppliers and standardizes operational practices that enable them to scale in a rapidly-expanding industry. Hyde Park Angels participated in the $5.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 Profitability would also go a long in enabling the company — which is eyeing a potential initial public offering in the near term — to do so successfully.) . billion (8.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The advantages of having open communication between different products and services are nearly infinite for credit scoring, moving money between bank accounts, and spanning verticals like the neobanks, credit providers, and personal finance products Latin Americans use every day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Simon Ward founded FloatPays in 2019 as an on-demand wage access platform to help employees access, spend, save and manage their money. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag. In December 2019, Awak Technologies secured $40 million in an oversubscribed financing round, allocating these funds for advancing late-stage clinical studies and expediting the commercialization of the device.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. However, for Hassan, Mono’s play overlaps open finance and open banking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

The financing round was led by XBTO Ventures , a crypto finance company with a VC arm that invests in digital assets, among other types of startups. We were building an app that merchants can use to run their online businesses, from selling to delivery to financing, said the CEO, who put €200,000 of his money into the startup in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Fairplay co-founder and CEO Manolo Atala started the company with Andrew Devlyn in 2019. We see massive opportunity to enable businesses to run more smoothly, and Fairplay is in the middle of that.”. In total, the company has raised $40 million. Debt-as-a-service provider Sivo wants to power the next generation of lending startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

With low utilization rates across private hospital infrastructure, this ‘Airbnb for Surgeries’ solution enables HD to help both healthcare providers as well as patients. HD was founded in 2019 by a team of passionate and dedicated individuals with a shared healthcare vision for the future.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The new fund builds upon SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was first announced in March 2019 and was formerly called the Innovation Fund with an initial $2 billion in committed capital. Recently, it co-led a $350 million Series D round in Argentine personal finance management app Ualá. billion as of June 30.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options. Over the period from 2019 to 2022, CompAsia has facilitated the sourcing and transaction of over 2.1 million second-hand mobile devices.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

Co-living rents can produce operating margins that are 30 to 50 percent higher than conventional multifamily properties, but the sector is facing challenges in markets like NYC, including "a lack of supply constrained by high land costs, strict zoning laws and a relatively shallow, though growing, pool of financing options.".

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

So it’s not difficult to see why in 2019, the continent witnessed five mega deals in Branch, Tala, World Remit, Interswitch, and OPay that amounted to a total of over $775 million. Latin America is home to a growing base of digital users, enabling regulation and reforms, and vibrant small businesses. billion, per the report.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Cashflow management startup Settle announced its second round of funding in five months, this time $60 million in Series B financing as it aims to carve out a niche in the $25 trillion business-to-business payments market. It combines payments, financing and accounting integrations into one tool so that brands can scale faster.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

The new capital is not part of a new financing round but is an extension of its Series D. Octahedron Capital and Moonstone Capital are financing the fresh capital, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, partners of DST Global, GGV Capital, Altimeter Capital and Tencent.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

The investment from FEBE Ventures will enable HD to strengthen its marketplace further. Founded in 2019 by a team of passionate individuals sharing a unified vision for the future of healthcare, HD has emerged as a prominent healthcare and surgery marketplace in the rapidly expanding Southeast Asian region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Despite the elaborate smoke and mirrors that Google has put up, one fact remains: Google is an advertising company with ads representing 71% of its revenue sources in 2019. Consumers looking to digitize their finances must heed caution before they break up with traditional banks and run into the arms of Big Tech. But there’s a catch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million since its 2019 inception.

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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. FIGURE 3 examines the different types of securities used at each stage at which ACA angel groups invested from 2019 through 2021.

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