TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. In addition to backing VC funds in the region, the organization aims to make more direct equity investments in startups, adding to the four African companies it invested in last year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Not only is Xend Finance trying to protect credit unions from fluctuation, but it is also changing how they operate. Image Credits: Xend Finance. Image Credits: Xend Finance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Its third-largest vertical are bookkeeping and accounting apps used by businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

As venture capital investments slowed down in 2022 , some startups turned to private credit, including debt capital, as a way to supplement their operations in the meantime. CRV led the round, and as part of the investment, James Green, general partner at CRV, will join Finley’s board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On On that trip, we had our breakthrough, and we realized that together, we can start to pool our capital,” Smith said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. New investors such as AfricInvest, MUFG Innovation Partners, Latitude and Kreos Capital participated. that same year. Image Credits: Moove.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 Existing investors Mustard Seed Maze and Seedcamp, along with Sabadell Venture Capital, also participated. million (€4.5 It’s now raised $6.6 million total, to date. planned this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Some business angels are also investing, such as Alexandre Prot, Steve Anavi, Raphaël Vullierme, Louis Chatriot and Pierre Dutaret. Started in 2020, Silvr has already financed 100 companies, such as Cuure, French Bandit, Almé Paris and Emma&Chloé. Unlike VC funds, Silvr offers capital but doesn’t take any equity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

They refer to distributing “Juice Funds,” their investments in creators, as underwriting creator businesses or as revenue-based financing. Any industry needs capital to grow, and it’s actually really remarkable that creators have grown as quickly as they have without access to capital,” Gandhi told TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 20, 2023

Register Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm Go-Ventures has successfully concluded the final close of its second flagship fund, raising a total of $240 million. As part of the announcement, the company has rebranded itself as Argor Capital Management.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The company’s new valuation is $800 million — more than triple what Petal was valued at when it announced a $55 million Series C round in September of 2020, according to a source familiar with the transaction. To date, Petal has raised more than $240 million in equity capital and more than $450 million in debt financing.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 30, 2021

Patient” capital is critical to success of Oklahoma startups. One of the most challenging aspects of entrepreneurship and venture investing is that it can take a long time to know for certain that something works. Those of us who invest in very early stage advanced technology businesses talk about “patient” capital.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the Business Beat, Jeff talks about an influx of venture capital funding into businesses run by women. We’re talking about the venture capital community, the critical source of funding that fuels America’s and the world’s startups with that much needed funding. for the WJR Business Beat. Why the positive change?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. As I wrote yesterday , I think the trends that were accelerated in 2020 will not reverse in 2021, although the slope of the adoption curves will likely flatten a fair bit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. The daughter of divorced parents herself, Jacklyn Rome founded Onward in 2020 with the aim of helping divorced and separated parents more easily manage their shared expenses. Today, Onward — formerly called Ensemble — raised $9.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. The new capital was obtained as an extension to the company’s Series B, the first tranche of which closed in January.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most important elements of a business plan is a financing request, or the amount of funding your business is requesting of potential investors. This leaves the business in a sticky situation, as many investors require a form of equity (such as shares) in the business in exchange for capital. Financing request, summarized.

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EntreWorks Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We are going to need more resources for business technical assistance, more sources of business finance, and a greater focus on local business retention and expansion efforts. There has been an outpouring of new programs to finance small businesses affected by COVID-19 (you can access a useful resource list here ). EntreWorks Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya.

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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. Dexter Capital was the advisor for this funding round.).

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FundersClub

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We invested at Seed, Series A, Series D, and Series E. Instacart announced $200M in new financing led by D1 and Valiant. We invested at Seed and Series D. We invested at Seed, Series A, and Series B. We invested at Seed. We invested at Seed and Series A. We invested at Seed and Series A.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J. The $5 million program encourages investors to provide additional funding to businesses by providing an NJEDA guarantee on loans advanced for working capital purposes.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Investment in fintech is surging back following a brief but notable drop during the COVID pandemic. As a result, countries worldwide are seeing a large influx of capital for fintech ventures, and both investment totals and deal counts in the fintech space are increasing rapidly. Singapore’s fintech investment surges forward.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 28, 2023

Had the US Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank not intervened quickly, many companies would have lost their hard-won deposits and the market collapse would have made it extremely difficult for them to access new financing. That has generated enormous wealth and taxes through capital gains. million jobs across the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Months after raising a Series C worth $45 million , Chicago-based M1 Finance announced a new round of capital today. A Series D, the new $75 million investment was led by Coatue, with two prior investors — Left Lane Capital and Clocktower Technology Ventures — also taking part. M1 Finance’s growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Ribbit has invested in 15 companies in the region and continues to look for more to back. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. Existing investors that took part in the round include Reflect Ventures, Greenhouse Capital, Century Oak Capital and Remapped Ventures.

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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

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. billion in trading capital that varies based on BTC and ETH prices. Altogether, Amble manages around $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. Moreover, only 11% of finance executives say their organization has modernized systems to the point where they can easily incorporate new digital technologies, according to Deloitte.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. Existing backers Weatherford Capital and Accel also participated in the funding event. Previous backers also include Silverton Partners, Ballast Point Ventures, Daher Capital, Floodgate Fund, The Zebra CEO Keith Melnick, KDT and others. .

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