American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. A Platform for All Industries Islands product is already being used across a wide array of industries, including finance, government, higher education, manufacturing, hospitality, and retail. This latest raise propels the companys valuation to an impressive $4.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. This brings GetVantage’s total raised so far to $40 million, along with a seed round in 2020, the same year it was launched by Bhavik Vasa and Amit Srivastava. Vasa said companies typically repay financing in about six to nine months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. Open finance grew out of open banking, the same framework that Plaid and Tink are built on.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2020, the company reported $361 million in revenue (£261 million) — that’s a 57% increase compared to 2019 revenue of $229 million (£166 million). In particular, Q1 2020 was a particularly bad quarter with $76 million (£55 million) in adjusted operating loss. In 2020, total non-adjusted operating loss reached $277 million (£200.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. The Zebra doubled its net revenue in 2020 to $79 million compared to $37 million in 2019, according to Melnick , who is former president of travel metasearch engine Kayak. And The Zebra has increased its headcount to over 325, compared to about 200 in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Lee Fixel’s Addition — which has also backed the likes of Flipkart, Stripe and Coinbase — led the equity financing while the credit facility was secured in the form of purchased assets from funds managed by Neuberger Berman. It started off with earned wage access and then began accelerating payments for workers.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The investment, led by Radical Ventures , Raptor Group , Lateral Capital and EchoVC was closed in Q3 2020 and came after the fintech startup raised $500,000 in pre-seed two years ago. led Cate and me to found the company specifically focusing on providing access to finance to Africans,” he said to TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tonik’s acquisition of TendoPay is a testament of our passion for accelerating financial and credit inclusion in the Philippines. Kacper Marcinkowski, Tendo’s Chief Executive Officer, said that they share Tonik’s commitment in driving financial inclusion since their trailblazing start in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Skit announced today it has closed $23 million Series B round to accelerate its growth in domestic and global markets including the US and South East Asia and enhance its voice automation platform. The company said it has quadrupled its amount of revenue and numbers of customers in 2020-2021 since its previous fundraising, $5.1

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

China’s venture capital market, meanwhile, is easing as others accelerate. Chicago is an outlying benefactor from accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing. The pace at which Chicago-area startups have raised capital reached a new, high plateau starting in the second half of 2020.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The financing comes just just over two months after the startup raised $27 million in an equity funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Brenton Howland, Ruben Amar and Alex Kopco founded New York-based Forum Brands in the summer of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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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

JANUARY 22, 2021

The company has benefitted from the convergence of two trends sparked by COVID-19 that has turbocharged its business: an accelerated adoption of fintech across the economy and growing attention toward personal finance. . MotoRefi said it refinanced more than $250 million of auto loans in 2020.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

million in new debt financing. BofA Securities served as lead arranger and bookrunner for the new financing, with participation from Barclays, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding. Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, is announcing an additional $222.5 billion customer identifiers.

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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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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 9, 2021

The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. Specifically, the company plans to continue investing in nationwide infrastructure, technology and logistics and toward accelerating digitalization of Turkish SMEs. billion valuation.

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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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