TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. Splice is also pleased to announce that Kakul Srivastava has joined the company’s board.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. Image Credits: Altro.

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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. This is more flexible than fixed payment periods.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Series B funding is coming almost eighteen months after raising $10 million co-led by Partech Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). As part of the round, Wale Ayeni, the head of Africa Venture Capital Investment for the IFC and Brian Odhiambo, the West Africa director of Novastar Ventures, will join TradeDepot’s board.

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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

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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To give some context around its growth, in late September, the company had told me that since its 2020 launch, it had helped “tens of thousands” of members lose over 200,000 pounds, and that it was currently available in 31 states at an average cost of $100 per month, with a variety of plans. Image Credits: Found.

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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. 2021 was when African tech reached an inflection point and took center stage as companies raised over $4 billion (more than they got in 2019 and 2020 combined).

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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. Ali Rowghani, the managing director of the fund and former COO of Twitter, is joining Pave’s board. Half of Pave’s executives, and half of Pave’s board members, identify as women.

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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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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

Since its launch in September 2020, Fuel Me has demonstrated rapid growth , showcasing a fivefold increase in performance metrics year-over-year. Fuel Me will expand its enterprise customer base and enhance its platform through this financing. “We and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

May 22, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board made several key program and policy approvals during its May meeting, including its first awards of residential projects under the Aspire Program, additional funding for the Authority’s child care programming, and record-breaking investments in venture capital. (May

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Like other financial infrastructure companies, Stitch services allows companies and developers to innovate around other services like personal finance, lending, insurance, payments and wealth management. However , for some products like budgeting or personal finance management apps, it also charges a fixed fee.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 BCM said revenue last year was 4x what the company recorded in 2020 while maintaining a CAGR of 225% over the previous four years. . “We TC Events is also a significant revenue driver for the company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap was first a collective before a fund, Hayden Simmons , the general partner who launched the firm in 2020, told TechCrunch in an interview. “By the end of 2020, we recognized that was too passive of a strategy,” Simmons remarked. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. Hartman ended up building his own house, and essentially serving as the general contractor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Varjo describes the latter two as strategic: It’s not clear how the Swiss finance and banking giant is working with Varjo, but Foxconn is a potential manufacturing partner for its devices, CEO Timo Toikkanen said in an interview. “Today the focus is on building it into our own products and services.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Leaders across the board openly advocate for female-founded businesses receiving more venture capital and entrepreneurship support, but few are taking decisive actions to close this glaring gender gap. Women founders face obstacles across the board. Women are consistently losing out when it comes to accelerator backing and VC support.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The funding comes on the heels of the startup working alongside larger investment banks to get retail investors in on 41 capital raising efforts for UK publicly-listed companies and trusts since April 2020. For us, both our companies are anticipating the direction of travel of the future of finance.”.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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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.

startup

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

billion in all of 2020. Regions like Denver and Chicago “are crushing their 2020 venture capital tallies, results that were at times already at or near record highs,” report Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm in today’s edition of The Exchange. This year, VCs have flowed $14.7 billion to health tech startups, compared to $14.6

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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

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.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But the pandemic proved a blessing, as revenue rocketed from roughly $400,000 in 2019 to more than $4 million in 2020. His teaching side hustle has clued him into young artists to star in his productions, taught him about marketing for emerging media and “provided interns that we’ve brought on board for editing and marketing.”.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. In Levine’s extrapolated model he found that in a “hypothetical $100M fund with 20 investments, the total number of financings producing a return above 5x was 0.8 – producing almost $100M of proceeds.

VC

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since the company launched its platform, business was building steadily, and took off in the second half of 2020. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. The company raised a $7.7 million seed round earlier in the year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

TechCrunch noted last year that in the decade leading up to 2020, just two of the 56 IPOs in Brazil were technology companies. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board. Most startups could use an advisory board, but in health tech, it’s a core requirement. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

He solely represented himself as the CEO of Learn In, while Degreed’s board of directors represented the other side. I was closer and more involved in operations than the rest of the directors but it was in a board member capacity,” he added. Learn In, meanwhile, launched in April 2020 with a little over $3 million in seed financing.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In early October 2020, the Financial Venture Studio put together a brief survey of the Series A market in fintech and shared it with more than 100 investors with whom we work closely. The simple existence of a board member with invested capital at stake means that some of the more existential risks of the earliest stage have been mitigated.

venture capital

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s an honour to bring on board Tencent, Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund. TechCrunch reported in this piece that African venture capital raised during the first half of 2021 was about twice the funds raised in H2 2020. Pays is particularly excited about the company’s new investors that made this happen.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Last week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed experts who had some strategic advice for finding the right time to bring a product manager on board. Global-e’s business exploded amid the pandemic in 2020, and the company expects that the COVID-fueled shift to e-commerce will only lead to future growth.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For 25 years, Salyer led Accel Financial Staffing, until the sale of the company to key employees in the 3 rd quarter of 2020. Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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