TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tile , the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic , announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. Tile’s last round of funding was $45 million in growth equity in 2019. Among other things, this includes Tile’s subscriptions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To that end, Breadfast , an online grocery delivery company that wants to become a regional leader in the sector has raised $26 million in Series A financing from an impressive group of investors. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The luxury goods market in Africa and the Middle East was worth over $35 billion in 2019, with designer apparel and footwear generating more than $7 billion in retail alone. So these customers don’t just want Orange Culture, they want to mix the Orange Culture with Versace. to shop for and ship luxury items to them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Discord is a well-financed unicorn that has raised oodles of capital and reportedly sports rapidly expanding revenues. Adding Discord to the mix might give Microsoft even more tooling to augment its existing communities, or perhaps tie them more closely together. There are three things to discuss.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Now, a promising travel startup that saw its growth arrested by the arrival and persistence of the pandemic is announcing a $97 million financing facility to help it stay the course until it can finally resume normal business. In October, GetYourGuide closed a convertible note of $133 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. And, it plans to invest in more innovation around its rental services. It’s not disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

New York-based Acorns had last raised more than three years ago — a $105 million Series E round in January of 2019 at an $860 million valuation. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. in favor of an eventual traditional IPO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Google acquired homework helper app Socratic in 2019 and Microsoft built Microsoft Solver in the same year. The programming, a mix of videos, prompts and projects, cover a range of questions such as, “Where do rivers flow?” Using data management and analytics to improve student outcomes. for young students.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. The funding it’s announcing today will be used in part to enhance how those monthly plans work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Canada-based company got its start in 2008 as the payment processing company Zomaron, and rebranded itself as Paystone in 2019. million in a mix of debt and equity. Paystone , a payments and integrated software company, secured another strategic investment this year, this time $23.8 It raised $54.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Vecmocon, an abbreviation for vector motor control, is trying to solve all this using its core EV components and software that it sells to OEMs. The funding from the all-equity round will be used to build a business around the offerings created by Vecmocon, Asati said. Some have even caught fire in the recent past.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The company has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding, money that it will be using to continue building out the range of BNPL-type services that it provides to organizations buying goods to run their businesses, both in Europe and further afield after passing 100,000 customers earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

He’d seen mopeds used as major, if not dominant, forms of transportation as he traveled around Europe, Asia and Latin America, and he wondered why this logical (and fun) mode of transport was largely absent from American cities in general, and in his hometown, New York City, in particular. So in 2018, Reig quit his job, raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million. Does YC care at all?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Months after acquiring gamified finance mobile app startup Long Game, Truist Financial Corporation has introduced the Truist Foundry, an innovation division that it says “will function as a startup within the bank.” BNPL player Affirm last week reported mixed financial results. Image Credits: Kuzma / Getty Images. Weekly News.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

48 start-ups were carefully selected from the total number of applicants to present their commercial or investment pitch at the final event on the 27 th & 28 th of February 2019. Technology is the focus of this November 2019 edition. In its first year, R2P received 100 national applications. 400 people came to see the event.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Suzanne Fletcher, venture partner, Prime Movers Lab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

You write that leaders should regularly tell employees about the state of the company’s finances—especially when it’s bad news. It’s about mixing patience with your determination to succeed. When we make mistakes and use the 3 A’s—acknowledge, apologize, and act—with humility and honesty, 95% of people can find a way to forgive us.

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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. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

US fresh berry market leader Driscoll’s is partnering with OurCrowd portfolio company Consumer Physics to use its SCiO technology to innovate quality measurement of its produce. See some opportunities below: Finance Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis for DailyPay (NY). Driscoll’s calls in SCiO to rate berries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

These articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. Is there anything lurking in its recent financings that public investors won’t like?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s a decent decision-making tool, provided the fund’s partners are disciplined and intellectually honest in its use. The hero’s journey by Joseph Campbell is a plot structure used to analyze myths and movies. It’s been used in the Hobbit and Dune. It’s used by Pixar. Speaking about stories at TechChill 2019.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Juganu: Using light to chase away Covid-19. Hot-button issues in the US election. Investors around the world are focused on the US Presidential election. The Governor saw the treatment when he led a trade mission to Israel in 2019. SALT Talks: Next-Generation Mobility in a Post-Pandemic World. Healthcare.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Part of the round was venture debt financing from DBS. TechCrunch last covered the company in 2019 when it raised its Series C. The new capital will be used to expand theAsianparent and Mama’s Choice into three new markets before the end of 2022, including Vietnam and a U.S. launch by the end of this year.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. In 2019, we will award up to ten Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years, plus $25,000 for project expenses, for a total award of $175,000.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Saltbox opened its first facility — a 27,000-square-foot location — in its home base of Atlanta in late 2019, filling it within two months. The company plans to use its new capital primarily to expand into new markets. Now, Saltbox has completed a $10.6 Image Credits: Saltbox. Image Credits: Saltbox.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. In 2019, we will award up to ten Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years, plus $25,000 for project expenses, for a total award of $175,000.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel Founded: 2018 YC Batch: Winter 2019 Founding city: San Francisco, CA Company size: 2,700+ across 100+ countries What is Deel? That was the first one where I was like… whoa, okay, cool, there are companies using [Deel] that I love. "You We both had this perfect mix of logistics plus technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Kard manages the relationships with each business looking to offer rewards to promote their brand, making it easy for a new issuer to mix-and-match from Kard’s offerings and integrate those rewards into the issuer’s own user interface, CEO and founder Ben Mackinnon told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2019, William Hockey, the cofounder of fintech business Plaid, announced that he would step down from his position as Plaid’s chief technology officer and president. billion, builds out its global finance network. billion, builds out its global finance network. While some $18.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

At least, that sales pitch from Hippocratic AI , which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in seed financing behind it and a valuation in the “triple digit millions.” ” AI in healthcare, historically, has been met with mixed success. Babylon Health , an AI startup backed by the U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

I asked 10 investors who actively and frequently back fintech startups a few questions such as what criteria they use when evaluating potential investments and what is the best way to pitch them. South Africa’s Stitch raised $21 million for its API infrastructure and embedded finance platform. Tage gave us all the deets here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The latest financing brings Fireblocks’ total raised since its 2018 inception to $489 million. Last year, ARR rose by 450% compared to 2019. “We Fireblocks launched out of stealth mode in June of 2019 and has since opened offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and the DACH region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. Sharma co-founded an EV startup called Revolt Motors in 2019 ( sold to New Delhi-based RattanIndia Enterprises in January).

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