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

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

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. From 2020 to 2021, it grew 2x faster than global startup funding, it said.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 19, 2020

That is because we are already into a pretty meaningful transition from an industrial/physical economy to a knowledge/digital economy and the very nature of this macro event is accelerating that transition in many ways. The entire decentralized finance stack (fintech 2.0) We just won’t go back to doing some things the same way.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. The Fed cuts rates, which helps.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. It’s demo day season. The moonshots.

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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). This is the second fund for the nine-year-old Mauritius-headquartered investment firm.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped.

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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.” . 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally. The cash injection constitutes an equity-based $200 million Series C portion from backers including Northzone, EQT Ventures, Temasek, Swedish pension fund AMF, Polar Structure, and Norrsken VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. The fund’s first close was in February 2020, but she had to stop when the global pandemic hit, and start deploying the capital into the portfolio. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S. The fact is that an opportunity lies in this overlooked market.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B Expert Networks.

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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

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Bangalore-based Zetwerk said on Monday it has raised $150 million in a Series E financing round led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. The startup, which in recent years has expanded to Southeast Asia and North America, said its revenue grew approximately three times in 2020-21, to $128 million. “In

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

My company raised a Series A in November 2020, just as investments in cloud computing and digital transformation initiatives were accelerating. It was unclear how much this would impact VC investments, as many of the top firms were, and are still, holding significant dry powder on their books.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even in my industry of environmentally and socially conscious brands, women leaders are worse off than their male counterparts: This 2020 Vegan Women Summit founder survey found that 45% of respondents have faced bias while fundraising and 75% say they have dealt with gender bias specifically. Women founders face obstacles across the board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Perhaps founder and CEO Andrew Hoag inadvertently forecasted the layoffs when he told Kyle, “Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. Today, we’re exploring the data behind 2021’s CVC investing boom with commentary from Serge Tanjga , SVP Finance at MongoDB. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating? Sounds good? Let’s get into the data.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It is also coming a year after raising $55 million in a similar unnamed financing round. South African fintech startup Jumo raises second $50M+ VC round. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The company intends to use the cash to accelerate global expansion and product development, and to expand StockX’s categories. Rumors are swirling that this financing will allow the company to offer an initial public offering in 2021. International growth is quickly growing, too, with Q3 2020 non-U.S.

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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 12, 2022

The company, launched by CEO Nolan Church in August 2020, started as a play to connect startups to part-time executive help. He’s talking from experience: The founder was the chief people officer at Carta when the company laid off 13% of the company in April 2020. Battle of the bridge: Startups struggle to secure runway financing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. Per the same data set, in the first three quarters of 2021, VC-backed tech M&A worked out to $54.9 That’s a hair more than the full-year 2020 number of $54.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Fast-forward to the beginning of the pandemic in 2020; Requarth teamed up with DuoLingo’s former VP of growth Gina Gotthilf and Yuri Danilchenko, former CTO of Brazilian startup Escale, to found what they describe as a “tech entrepreneurship program” in Latin America. But I realized there was a huge gap in understanding basic stuff.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led its Series D, which also included participation from return backers TTV Capital, Canapi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BOND, Fin VC, Goodwater Capital, as well as new investors Wellington Management, Owl Ventures and LionTree Partners. With the latest round, Greenlight has now raised over $550 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. 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. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Notably, in all of 2020, 8,715 employees in fintech were laid off. In 2020, fintech trailed behind the transportation and travel categories when it came to layoffs as percentage of the total, Lee told TechCrunch via email. That compares to 8,375 in the first half of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. of the total.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

A number of other investors also participated in the financing including Clocktower Ventures, Mantis – the VC firm owned by The Chainsmokers, Goodwater, Gaingels, Soma Capital and Rebel Fund. Z1 participated in Y Combinator’s Winter ‘21 batch earlier this year, and at the time got $125,000 in funding from the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). million Series A raise back in 2020. Collective raised its latest round , a Series A, in May 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. Of course, some VCs still get an early look, in part by mentoring the startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. VC funding into private fintech companies crossed $134 billion in 2021, rising by 177% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase. A record year with 151 new unicorns.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Other weekly news Marqeta shared with me exclusively that it has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly traded company’s 13-year history. More details here. Nirupam Sinha will take on an expanded role as CFO.

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