TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dr. Abrar Chaudhury is a climate finance research fellow at Oxford Said Business School researching on topics of global environmental change, climate finance, policy implementation, sustainable development, and corporate purpose. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Contributor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. The IPO market remains closed through the first 6 months of the year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This adds up to a total of $205 million in equity and debt financing, which the New York-based fintech plans to primarily use to invest in technology and build “more expansive products to continue to cover the entirety of corporate spend and cash management,” its CEO Everett Cook told TechCrunch. was close to $1.4

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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. It also will continue to invest in developing its quantum control for quantum computing and quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity and magnetic fields, Biercuk added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company. As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020.

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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. Banks don’t like risk, which means businesses spend most of their time trying to get financing rather than increasing sales,” Spradling told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Brick was founded in 2020 by chief executive officer Gavin Tan, an early employee at Aspire, a neobank for small- to mid-sized businesses, and chief technology Deepak Malhotra, previously co-founder of Indian neobank Slice and a former PayPal engineer. For example, Bank Indonesia published open banking API standards in 2020.

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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.” . ” Image Credits: FreshBooks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020. It will also enable the company to accelerate acquisitions of Fulfillment By Amazon brands, invest in technology development and further build out its team.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had raised a $12 million financing round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said. “This deal allows us to deepen our partnership with Joby, the clear leader in this field, to accelerate the path to market for these technologies.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. Meanwhile, $1.1 It’s certainly not slowed down.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. “Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. million in equity, $11.75

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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. But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

” The financing event comes five months after PeopleFund received its regulatory approval from South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) to register with the government. The number of marketplace lenders in Korea has fallen from 237 to 102, between August 2020 and May 2021, as per its annual report in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 With this investment, we will accelerate overseas expansion plans.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are a few notable things about this financing. Buk CEO Jaime Arrieta said the company has been growing organically, and has historically been financing its growth with revenues from its sales. For one, it represents one of the largest (if not the) largest Series A rounds raised by a Latin American startup to date.

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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. The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. Checkout.com raises $1B round at $40B valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

It’s also notable that Jeeves only publicly launched in March of 2021, and officially emerged from stealth last June with $31 million in equity financing and $100 million in debt. In the summer of 2020, Jeeves was a participant in Y Combinator’s summer cohort. This means it has quadrupled in value in just over six months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

But the company later broadened its scope to other aspects of corporate finance, like credit and fraud monitoring and compliance. Originally, New York-based Accern focused on monitoring the web for — and curating — a narrow set of financial information, particularly that pertaining to stocks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. It has secured a first close led by International Finance Corporation (IFC) with participation from the Women’s Finance Initiative (WeFi). Startups who got accepted participated in cohorts for three months and received up to $30,000 in funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In exchange for 14 weeks of help with everything from product-market fit to the go-to-market strategy a team should employ, the startups in Pear’s accelerator program give Pear the right to invest from $500,000 to $750,000 in each team at a valuation that it caps at $10 million. Founded in: 2020. HQ: Barcelona, Spain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Moreover, only 11% of finance executives say their organization has modernized systems to the point where they can easily incorporate new digital technologies, according to Deloitte. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” “Today’s consumers prefer digital-only banking.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

and Nigerian-based company is announcing a financing round of $3.15 So far, RxAll has stayed alive by winning grants and prize monies at competitions, with some equity financing from the likes of Africa-focused accelerator Founders Factory Africa. Today, the U.S. RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge , Amy Kao and Wei Lui.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. The company raised $170 million in 2020 in a round led by Viking Capital after landing an undisclosed amount from Visa Ventures in 2018. -based Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman, bringing its valuation to over $1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To that end, Valon Mortgage , a tech-enabled mortgage servicer, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in a Series A round of funding — which is large for its stage even by today’s standards. Millions of Americans stopped paying their mortgages in 2020 due to the economic strain of the coronavirus pandemic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

That’s up from 2 million parents and kids having saved $50 million at the time of its September 2020 raise. Greenlight has quickly emerged as a leader in the family finance category,” said Andreessen Horowitz general partner David George, who will join Greenlight’s board of directors, in a written statement. “Our

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Improved infrastructure enables new applications, which attract more users. Absolutely this happened.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A new study reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating small business digital transformation. These insights are from the 2020 Small Business Digital Maturity Study , commissioned by Cisco. It is forcing companies to accelerate their digitalization,” he says. Invest in talent and skills focused on digital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Well, a report released today by data research organization Briter Bridges and global inclusive tech accelerator Catalyst Fund is punching above its weight to offer a holistic representation to the darling sector of these three markets: fintech. billion in 2020. Such a task is Herculean. million while India did approximately $4.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” In 2020, Deloitte reported that “in the world of startups, the global fintech founder community was still dominated by men, with women making up just 7% of the total pool.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The financing brings Snapcommerce’s total raised since its 2016 inception to over $100 million. In fact, over 40% of its sales in 2020 came from repeat customers. The third quarter of 2020 ended up being our greatest quarter ever.”. Its last raise — a $7.2 Many people end up coming back to us when they travel again.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The fintech then launched its product in October 2020 and today offers a checking account combined with a software layer that aims to help SMBs manage their financials. Existing services are expensive and inefficient, creating opportunities for technology enabled service providers to offer better and cheaper services,” he said. “We

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