TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

While it’s clear that this year will be far more muted for fintech investment globally and in the United States, it’s still on track to crush 2020’s results. Last week, I talked with Airbase founder and CEO Thejo Kote about the fact that the company just secured $150 million in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Another thing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception. Sony’s VC fund invested an undisclosed amount in MagicCube in late May 2020).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

It said that the new financing is being made at a valuation of over $1 billion. Feedzai says its data indicates that the last quarter of 2020 shows consumers saw a 650% increase in account takeover scams, a 600% in impersonation scams and a 250% increase in online banking fraud attacks versus the first quarter of 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. This has been costly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

So in August 2020, she teamed up with Yomi Ogunleye to found Lagos, Nigeria-based Hervest , a startup that describes itself as “an inclusive fintech company” serving underserved and excluded women in Africa through a gender lens. The p roblem we’re solving is an African finance gender gap, not just Nigerian,” Akinpelu said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. We’re pleased to support Ryan and the ambitious Bolt team and see tremendous opportunity in the space that Bolt is disrupting.”. Checkout.com raises $1B round at $40B valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. Jobandtalent says the latest funds will be used to accelerate its expansion in key markets, including the US — its most recent focus. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Ramon Ray and Megan O’Brien co-hosted the Future of Business event, which is a part of NetSuite’s new event series – A New Age of Growth , helping entrepreneurs shed a light on the superpowers needed to accelerate growth. Megan O’Brien , business and finance editor NetSuite. Eileen Tobias , CFO Komodo Health.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. It’s still early days for the company, which has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding since its founding in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

The latest financing cements 16-year-old Klarna’s position as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe. In all of 2020, it processed $53 billion in volume. Meanwhile, in 2020, Klara hit over a billion in revenue. This is an opportunity to genuinely disrupt the retail banking space.”. The new valuation represents a 47.3%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. So, just how does it work? “QED

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Unit Economics Accelerating One topic I heard a lot in investor circles last year and in the press a lot was that there weren’t good unit economics and therefore the scooter market was never going to perform well. In the meantime we think we can build a globally complex, economically viable business that will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

According to FIS’s global payment report 2020, A2A payments will take up 20% of all e-commerce payments, surpassing credit and debit cards by 2023. . “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6 While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. In some cases, it cost them dearly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

And we already knew Anthony and Satellite Vu from having put them through our space accelerator in 2019.” Satellite Vu, he added, is a “poster child” for their approach, which is to shuttle early stage companies through their accelerator and then support them to an exit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Then with the global pandemic, the pace at which business-to-business payment was moving online was accelerating,” Murata told TechCrunch. “We The global B2B payments market was valued at $870 billion in 2020, with projections of reaching $1.9 Businesses can get approved in seconds and begin offering the installments. trillion by 2028.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The funding comes on the heels of the startup working alongside larger investment banks to get retail investors in on 41 capital raising efforts for UK publicly-listed companies and trusts since April 2020. For us, both our companies are anticipating the direction of travel of the future of finance.”.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. As of 2020, it has partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Apply now to DocNetwork. DynamoMetrics. FreightVerify.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption across many domains. “We Continuity & Disruption Mitigation – Remote working, Distance learning, Robotic Process Automation, Home exercise, Cybersecurity, etc. This worldwide crisis presents the greatest challenge yet faced by digital technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. By any measure, it is poised for success — sales increased 800% between December 2019 and 2020, and by the end of this year, the company will have 60 retail locations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

” TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is underway! Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. That’s much more than the sub-$50 billion valuation the company secured earlier this year,” Alex writes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. While we’re on the topic of payments, Goldman Sachs and Modern Treasury announced they are partnering “to accelerate the shift to embedded payments, helping joint customers embed and scale payments into products.” See you next week!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

“This investment will allow us to double-down in our core markets, accelerate our leadership position in places where we are already very strong and continue to expand our excellent Q-Commerce division, as well as bring new innovations to our unique multi-category offering to extend more choice to our customers.”. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Parthean teaches personal finance to young professionals.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020.

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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. Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Many may underestimate just how much the pandemic really pushed this acceleration in the financial services world and people are now kind of commenting, “Oh, there’s this slowdown and, like, look at how much decreased investment is in fintech.” Expensify), and banking services (ex. billion valuation in June.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

One way to consider how far public valuations rose for tech startups, especially those with a software core in 2020, is to ask yourself how often you heard about a down IPO this year. You can catch up on 2020 IPO performance here , if you need to.). Maybe a single time? The SPAC boom, for example, may wane.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5 billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Fifth Wall led the financing, which notably also included participation from returning backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and new investors DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and StockX CEO Scott Cutler. A16z led Neighbor’s $10 million Series A in January of 2020. Its algorithms provide suggested rental fees for hosts.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. Details here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Founded in 2020 by Samuel Okwuada , a trained pharmacist and self-taught software developer, together with his co-founder Victor Benjamin , Remedial Health started off as a private label business, focused on contract manufactured products from markets like India, which they would then sell to pharmacies in Nigeria.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Heroes itself is pretty young: it launched less than a year ago, in November 2020 , with $65 million in funding, a round comprised of both equity and debt. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Other investors in the startup include 360 Capital, Fuel Ventures and Upper 90.

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