Impact Hub

APRIL 26, 2021

To support employment generation among youth and marginalized communities, promote social cohesion as well as to support the Government of Jordan in developing a vibrant social entrepreneurship ecosystem, UNDP launched “Heart of Amman (HoA)” in July 2019 funded by the People of Japan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” F rom 2019 to 2022 the number of lives covered with Wellthy benefits grew from about 100,000 to 2 million. million in funding.

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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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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

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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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The 2019 Global Impact Report is the culmination of gathering relevant data from a number of their 16,500 members of 100+ locations in over 55 countries around the globe.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The funding injection will support CompAsia’s ambition to expand its presence in Asia. 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. The exact amount of funding remains undisclosed.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

Initially, Canals and Fleischmann started Migrante MVP to address this issue and give them support as they joined the workforce. This is the second company for Canals, who previously founded Lemontech, which was sold to KKR in 2019. Fleischmann is a serial entrepreneur who founded AVLA insurance and sold it to DEG, also in 2019. “We

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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. The API revolution seems well underway.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Founded out of Spain in 2019, StudentFinance partners with educational institutions such as Ironhack and Le Wagon to help finance those looking to upskill into disciplines like software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, serving as an alternative to traditional bank or student loans. .

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

“We are humbled by the overwhelming support from our investors, rural bank partners, and loyal users. It was very fulfilling to see how digitalization has helped our rural bank partners to thrive during the pandemic recovery period and enabled our loyal users to access attractive deposit and loan products digitally.

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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. The company claims to onboard new clients in 24 hours or less while supporting them through the use cases specific to their product. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

It brings the total funding raised by the startup to $7 million, having previously received support from a number of investors, including the Founders Factory Africa, Mercy Corps and the Mastercard Foundation. The startup also extends up to 50% advance financing to traders, helping them to quickly process customer orders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Enter Deposits , a Dallas-based finance startup offering a cloud-based, plug-and-play feature to simplify the implementation of digital banking tools for companies like credit unions, community banks, insurers, retailers and brands. They want to make sure that it supports their community. They want to feel ownership.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Since being co-founded in 2019 by Nicolás de Camino and Sebastian Kreis, Xepelin also grew its employee headcount to over 400. Support for all of this comes from a new $111 million Series B round of funding — all equity this time — led by Avenir and Kaszek.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Existing backers Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Sapphire Ventures also participated in the new financing. The round is notable in that the amount raised is significantly higher than the $35 million Side raised in a Series C round in November 2019. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ampla Technologies , a startup which provides financing to small-to-medium sized consumer-facing businesses, announced today it has raised $40 million in a Series A round of funding co-led by VMG Partners and Forerunner Ventures. When it comes to financing, however, the choices aren’t at all clear-cut.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

The latest financing comes just three months after the San Francisco-based startup raised $150 million in a Series D funding round led by Coatue Management at a $1 billion valuation. In 2019, Side represented over $5 billion in annual home sales across all of its partners. This is a good time to start a proptech company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The latest funding will support hiring staff and enable new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Michael Biercuk said. Q-CTRL’s vision has always been to enable all applications of quantum technology. million by 2024 from $161 million in 2019, based on a report by BCC Research.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

million since its 2019 inception. Seattle-based Copper offers features such as personalized debit cards, access to 50,000 ATMs and support for digital wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay. . The fintech also offers tips on what it describes as “finance fundamentals” such as dividends, budgeting and compound interest. .

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Register Virtual events platform Airmeet has secured US$35 million in funding in its Series B financing round led by Prosus Ventures , Sequoia Capital India , and Sistema Asia Fund. Its scalable platform supports a wide range of event formats including webinars, fairs, workshops, conferences, summits, townhalls, and more, all done virtually.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Chipotle says that Cultivate Next, which will be financed solely by Chipotle to start, will offer a tranche of $50 million and focus on tech companies in the “seed to Series B” stages. “It could be anything from innovations in farming and supply chain, to advanced robotics, and beyond.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education. He also lauds the platform’s daily academic support and affordability, adding that conventional universities in the U.S. that have invested in Pathstream, Udemy and Coursera. CEO Fadl Al Tarzi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

million in financing led by Target Global with participation from Global Founders Capital, Finch Capital, Partech, Market One Capital, and Inovo. The proceeds will support Symmetrical ’s expansion into new European markets and enterprise clients, CEO Piotr Smole? told TechCrunch via email. ” Smole?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance. Why VCs are dumping money into insurance marketplaces.

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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. enabling people to buy Bitcoin. out of its 33.6

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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 19, 2021

The pandemic has hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process. We are globalizing to support the needs of customers who want to nationalize, so we have an opportunity to focus on payments, to be a strategic outsource partner.”

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Dream It

JUNE 15, 2020

EnsoData (Healthtech - Spring 2019) has a platform that transforms billions of waveform data points collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report, so clinicians can make faster, more accurate diagnoses. Market Context Waveforms are used in healthcare to diagnose, monitor, and treat patients.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. We are incredibly excited to support this ambitious team building a next-generation network.”. African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

In her expanded role, which still includes serving as the company’s COO, Dufétel oversees all operational and go-to-market teams, including finance and marketing. Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. Rowe Price for three years. Dufétel was also named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

million in debt and grant financing from BPI France , the French government’s public investment bank. Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. The equity raise saw participation mainly from angel investors, as the company also raised $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Today, London-based Legl — a 2019-founded SaaS startup that sells tools to law firms wanting to digitize processes and automate workflows in areas like client onboarding, payments and compliance to support a more modern customer experience — is announcing the close of an $18 million Series B round, just over a year after it raised a $7M Series A.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. Still, the majority of biotechs raising capital are not “AI-enabled.” We heard that U.S. sanctions on China could extend to biotech.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 8, 2022

AI Rudder, founded in 2019, develops advanced voice AI technology to help businesses solve B2C communication challenges across a range of different industries, including banking and finance, fintech, insurance and e-commerce.

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