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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. and Canada. This has historically hindered small business growth.

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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. and Canada. This has historically hindered small business growth.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

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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Maev secures $9M; will have your dog howling for more of its raw pet food

TechCrunch

Driven by the global pandemic and everyone being at home with their pets, sales topped $100 billion in 2020 in this sector. Though they officially started the company in 2019, Busaba and Spies didn’t launch their first product, the raw dog food, until 2020. Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Image Credits: Maev .

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Opportunity Amid Volatility

Haystack

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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ManageXR grabs $4 million seed round to scale XR business 

TechCrunch

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Data-driven AppsFlyer, spearheaded by Oren Kaniel, is an exciting mobile-attribution company that is rapidly growing ($200 million+ ARR in 2020) yet maintains a unique DNA. What’s your latest, most exciting investment?