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

AUGUST 4, 2021

Kunal Lunawat is the co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on proptech, travel, hospitality and the future of the built world. billion in venture financing across the globe, of which $138.9 Here are a few pointers for founders in that direction: 1. So far this year, we’ve seen $292.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. It was to return to Positano by 2020, spend six weeks there and then be able to freely choose to spend another six weeks there.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

. “This funding marks a significant milestone, enabling Fuel Me to accelerate the development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver unparalleled service to our customers. and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. million Series A, in May 2020. It currently has 150 employees.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. Before starting Nestcoin, founders Yele Bademosi and Taiwo Orilogbon led the charge at Bundle Africa, one of the continent’s well-known crypto trading platforms. million pre-seed to that end.

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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

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

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 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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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020. city for tech investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 São Paulo-based Divibank was founded in March 2020, right as the COVID-pandemic was starting. Divibank will use its new capital to accelerate its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market strategy and ramp up hiring.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Both outfits look to back early-stage founders with money and advice in exchange for equity. YC has backed over 3,500 founders, while 500 Global has backed more than 2,800 founders, according to each institution’s websites.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

The city also topped the InterNations Expat City Ranking 2020 as one of the best cities for expats to settle in. So to find out what the startup scene in Valencia looks like, we spoke with eight local investors, executives and founders. We have some of the top incubators and accelerator programs in Spain. Will others move in?

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Tiger, the mega-crossover fund, has evolved from a market-dominating change agent in technology financing to a bag holder. And some are pointing the finger not just at late-stage capital pools that poured too much liquidity into the startup market — some startup players are irked at accelerators, Y Combinator in particular.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Brad says: “Talk to people you trust, whether they’re investors, board members, co-founders, mentors, whatever; make sure you’re open about the stress and the struggle you’re going through both financially in the business and personally.” A startup is not a lone adventure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, that new $6 billion valuation, is up 50% from the $4 billion it was valued at last November when it raised $200 million in Series D financing. But as of October 2020, it was funding over $2.5 For some context, Better.com funded $25 billion in loan volume in all of 2020.

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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. Trendyol founder Demet Suzan Mutlu said the new capital will go toward expansion within Turkey and globally. A 2020 report by JPMorgan found that e-commerce represented only 5.3% billion valuation.

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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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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. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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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

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

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. Ulrich Kratz, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch via email that the funding “gives us more firepower to execute and overachieve on our business goals.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. 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

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

APRIL 15, 2021

This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO, and co-founder of Chili Piper said: “When we started we sold the house and decided to grow the company ourselves. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators.

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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. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D. Marco wants to take that worldwide,” Silva Lombardi said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Despite the challenging fundraising environment of 2022, we saw more big corporations launching their corporate venture arms in Brazil last year than during the boom years of 2020 and 2021.

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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). We’re proud to partner with WeFi to further expand and encourage female founders on the continent.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Gerry Giacomán Colyer, Clara’s co-founder and CEO, told me the company is working with over 10,000 customers across Latin America and that its annual run rate of 5 million credit card transactions is equivalent to $1 billion. One of those is Clara, a spend management company based in Mexico that announced $60 million in new funding last week.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

billion, a huge jump from its being just near unicorn territory in January 2020, when it raised a $175 million Series C. In 2020, Loft saw the number of listings on its site increase “10 to 15 times,” according to co-founder and co-CEO Mate Pencz. The round values Loft at $2.2

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