Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Alex Haro says that when they only had a few weeks of runway left and weren’t sure if their next round of financing was going to close, they tried every crazy idea they could think of. But chronic stress is something that can become debilitating.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2020

USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 12, 2020 Help Promote Earth Day Live Hannah Murdoch — Apr 8, 2020 What We’re Learning About How We Learn Hanel Baveja — Apr 8, 2020 What We’re Learning About How We Learn Nick Grossman — Apr 3, 2020 Quarantine Creativity. It makes a lot of sense.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. The second iteration has been more around like decentralized finance and non-custodial trading of financing activities,” said Bademosi. million pre-seed to that end.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. He is also an angel investor, and via CcHub’s accelerator programme and a partner fund called Growth Capital Fund , Tijani has invested in more than 40 startups. million across 19 African companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Finally raises $95M for its SMB finance suite : Everything is fintech, so it won’t surprise that you that Finally, which offers bookkeeping and other software products to SMBs, is working to roll out a lending product. accelerator Subak’s latest cohort – six companies in its 2022 group that we describe as “data-for-climate not-for-profits.”

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. and Canada.

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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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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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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. million in the fintech accelerator. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020. In a region where more than half of the population is either unbanked or underbanked , these open finance players are trying to improve financial inclusion on the continent.

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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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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

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The numbers will set us up to understand what else can be learned about Duolingo’s business beyond our original deep dive into the company’s finances — specifically underscoring the pressure cooker it finds itself in when looking for new revenue sources. million monthly active users (MAUs); it wrapped 2020 with 36.7 million MAUs.

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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 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.” .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company is financing tens of thousands of loans per month, according to chief executive officer and co-founder Travis Holoway, and loan volumes are growing at about 40% monthly, he said. That service, rolled out in April of last year, helped account for some of the explosive 2,000% growth that the company saw over the course of 2020.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. The company is able to show what kind of financing can be obtained based on the amount of data customers provide.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Existing backers DST Global, 01 Advisors, Dragoneer Investment Group and Franklin Templeton also participated in the financing, in addition to new investor Mubadala Investment Company. . How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. Put simply, SpotOn is taking on the likes of Square in the payments space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . million since its inception in 2020. . This is the second strategic investment KT has made with AI chipmakers in South Korea in its effort to accelerate the AI semiconductor business.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

A total of nearly $63,000 in grants were made during 2020. Grants of $5,000 and $10,000 are being given to businesses that anticipate pursuing financing for growth for their “scalable, high-impact solution or idea.” The application deadline is the third Friday of each month. SoGal Black Founder Startup Grant. Do You Fellowship Program.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. We’re also excited to roll out our financing solution to developers and buyers.”. and often at far worse terms. .

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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

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Thanks not to Public, really, but M1 Finance, a Midwest-based consumer fintech that has a stock-buying function amongst its other services (more on it here ).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That fall, the startup (short for Tomorrow’s Credit) was accepted into the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Angel and individual investors also put money in the round, including: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton, ex-Venmo COO Michael Vaughan and James Kim, former head of finance at Tinder. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today’s financing puts Pave’s valuation at $400 million, up from $75 million one year ago. Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. ” On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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