TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. Image Credits: Tugende.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Developer APIs includes a litany of different developer tools and services. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J. Qualified investors under the program must be independent from the company, and the proposed investment must not mature for at least one year, cannot require payment for at least a year, and must be unsecured.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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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. Creators might use these funds to hire an assistant, rent out a studio that makes filming more efficient, invest in merchandise to sell or buy new equipment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Sources say the company raised at a slightly higher valuation than its last $110 million valuation in 2020. . This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I have been investing in developer tools since the earliest days of my VC career. The first investment I led in the late 80s was a financing that provided the funds to acquire a programming editor called Brief. That investment worked out but we didn’t make a lot of money on it.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

million Americans filed a business application in 2020, 500,000 more than in 2019. While it may sound obvious, your finances are one of the most critical elements of any business. In this article, you’ll learn five tips for getting your new business finances set up for success this year. Are you a member of this group?

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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. The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. We call this “adapting to the climate crisis” at USV, and this will be a huge investable trend for many years to come.

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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. 1 Comparing the top 100 companies on the 1960 Fortune 500 list to the list in 2020, only 17 made both lists.

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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. The firm launched its mobile app in the third quarter of 2020, widening its scope from institutional clients to retail consumers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 Founder Tommy Dang started the company at the end of 2020 after working together to build internal low-code tools at Airbnb. million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures.

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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. It also uses the traders’ transaction history to develop the credit profiles needed to secure loans.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

by Catherine Mitchell, VP of Product Development & Management at Cox Business. Many small businesses’ efforts to adopt cutting-edge technology were on a slow trickle until the pandemic hit in first quarter 2020. In fact, overall digital transformation (DX) investments are expected to reach $7.8 Defend Against Cyber-attacks.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

NJ FAST is the fourth Strategic Innovation Center in the state and will support research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Fintech and Insuretech Sectors HOBOKEN, N.J. The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. Financial services for investing and cash management in the U.S. Image Credits: Vest.

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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. He serves as Ant Money’s CEO. “In

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

100 million, diversified : MassMutual launches $100 million fund to invest in diverse founders , Dominic-Madori reports. million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as Protect AI emerges from stealth. Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But an increasing number of startups are looking to tap opportunities in developing nations, where existing centralized financial systems have struggled to meet the needs of their users. Founders Mike Sall and Blake West previously worked together at Coinbase before starting Goldfinch in July of 2020.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. . When my business plans took a significant turn in March 2020, owing to lockdowns implemented to prevent the spread of Covid 19, my initial feeling was remorse.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. from 2010 to 2019. “By trillion in consumer expenditure from over 1.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It says it works with seven of the top 10 nationally recognized apartment management companies in the country, in addition to “a majority of the largest owners and developers.” million packages in 2020, and hit the 2.5 The money will also go toward investing in its tech stack and operational infrastructure, Patton said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. The value proposition, therefore, is more about complementary skills that could develop or upskill a workforce.”. “The

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Cloud is the big buzzword these days, with people talking about why it’s a smart move for companies , and lots of venture-backed startups developing easy ways for companies to make the shift. “Our lens into the flow of great talent allows us to monitor and invest in spaces that are truly at the cutting edge.

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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. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

$20M program matches investors’ direct investment in product-based companies TRENTON, N.J. April 24, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has closed its first four approvals under the Angel Match Program , awarding a total of $2 million to support early-stage technology companies. TLA Innovation, Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

million in SAFE notes, or simple agreement for future equity, the company, founded by Nieves Martinez Marshall and Michelle Lu in 2020, is making cultivated meat — grown from cells instead of in an animal; they met as postdoctoral scientists in the molecular and cell biology department at the University of California at Berkeley.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

Join OurCrowd as we invest in Sfara , a US-based company that leads this market, replacing specialized in-vehicle hardware previously required, with software-only technology based on smartphones. The funding includes $10 million previously announced alongside the company’s rebrand in 2020 from CreditStacks. With $3.4M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jamil Wyne is an advisor, investor and author focusing on entrepreneurship, technology and economic development in emerging markets. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. However, depending on whom you talk to, the climate finance gap currently sits at $2.5 Abrar Chaudhury.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., investing for growth in Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma and Kansas angel investors. May 7, 2020, 09:00 US Central Time.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2021

Investing in a commercial break. Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed increases investment in BlueNalu. Stellar 2020’ for OurCrowd – Crowdfund Insider. Since OurCrowd made the seed investment in Freightos, the company has raised $94.4 No surprise that digital investment platforms are booming. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. In a nutshell, Wayflyer uses analytics and sends merchants cash to make inventory purchases or investments in their business. And so he did. “We the United Kingdom and Australia.

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