TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

But the company later broadened its scope to other aspects of corporate finance, like credit and fraud monitoring and compliance. The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

” The program initially launched in Europe in November of 2020, and now is available in the U.S., So much of fintech focus and coverage is about disrupting existing banks. Everyone is trying to disrupt everyone, including fintechs like PayPal,” Angelos told TechCrunch. Twenty-four are located in the U.S. “So

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear. We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. in 2021 from 2.3% Image Credits: Atlantico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income — like motorcycles, cars and trucks — and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Canals said Migrante offers new vehicles. They can provide financing at the point of sale,” Silva Lombardi added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The company claims that by eliminating centralized gatekeepers and decentralizing governance, it can allow for instant settlement, remove conflict of interest from markets, reduce fees, and enable the throughput necessary for high-volume derivatives trading. For now, Vega is still under development. For now, Vega is still under development.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 billion, which compares to a valuation of $810 million at the time of Honor’s $140 million Series D round of funding in October of 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

With its approach, the company’s goal is to enable its acquired companies to sell on multiple channels. In 2020, that accounted for $300 billion in sales, according to Marketplace Pulse estimates based on Amazon disclosures. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, the large B2B supply chain enabling the burgeoning retail market was plagued by bottlenecks and inefficiencies because it involved a plethora of intermediaries and streamlining became a big problem. India’s B2B e-commerce space has developed rapidly since 2020. Image Credits: Redseer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020. Then in 2020, the company issued Futecoin, the world’s first digital asset based on FIFA’s solidarity mechanism. . “We Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. trillion by 2028.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Brex co-CEO and Henrique Dubugras admitted as much onstage at Disrupt.) Since its founding in 2020, Gilgamesh has raised over $10 million and invested in nearly 30 early-stage fintech companies across the Americas, including Xepelin, Klar, Pomelo, Glean and Modern Life. Carputty wins investor millions to dull auto financing pain point.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

. “Company disrupted an existing industry with a new business model, has been doing well for a while, and is now raising more money to do more of the same, except more” is hard to tell a compelling story around. And in 2020, when the company raised a $250 million Series D.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. are using services enabled by open banking (these include payments, getting lines of credit, authenticating services, and more). million in 2018.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

OurCrowd’s Pandemic Innovation Fund will provide the financing to empower a broad range of companies working to develop treatments, vaccinations and cures for COVID-19 and future pandemics as well as those providing solutions to the fundamental changes that have been wrought in the economy and society by this crisis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Unique about the program, according to Better.com, is that employees will have the ability to finance their homes without actually selling their shares, only needing to pledge vested equity. While 2021 ended more than a year ago, this report includes some significant figures as the company nearly tripled its revenue between 2020 and 2021.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. As of 2020, it has partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Apply now to DocNetwork. DynamoMetrics. FreightVerify.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan is hoping to build on the momentum it saw in 2020, during which it grew revenue, customers and assets under management by 600%, “with effectively no marketing budget, according to co-founder Joe Percoco. Eventually, we can enable them to build their own investment products on Titan.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. By any measure, it is poised for success — sales increased 800% between December 2019 and 2020, and by the end of this year, the company will have 60 retail locations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.” In 2020, Americans lost $415 billion to poor money management and thinking about finances causes anxiety for 60% of us. This is because only 17% of us are required to learn any personal finance in school. ” Bonfire.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

While I think BNPL is disruptive, here to stay and might be helpful to many consumers and merchants alike – there’s no denying that it is still a form of debt and those who lack self-discipline could easily find themselves spending beyond their means and in over their heads. Nigerian fintech Grey Finance got backing from Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

In 2020, digital bank Varo became the first-ever all-digital nationally chartered U.S. will have the ability to use Square in English or Spanish, “including key products like Square Banking to unlock access to financial services and Square for Restaurants to enable seamless, bilingual communication between front- and back-of-house staff.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its technology enables professionals and companies to create profiles and be matched to opportunities, monitor projects and pay through the platform. Ultimately, it is a new internet-native work model that we are starting with legal because it is a $100 billion market that has not been disrupted much in the last 100 years,” Ahmed said. “Due

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If we've learned anything from 2020, it's important to future proof your business. It closely examined the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses and identified key themes that enabled them to pivot. Take your finances digital. Xero, recently released a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting. As the U.S.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

That was in early 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “At A few weeks later, the duo shut down their core business and by April 2020, they pivoted to building out Lula as it exists today. We can integrate on to a platform and handle all things insurance for companies and their customers via our API.”. Image Credits: Lula.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Founded in 2020 by Samuel Okwuada , a trained pharmacist and self-taught software developer, together with his co-founder Victor Benjamin , Remedial Health started off as a private label business, focused on contract manufactured products from markets like India, which they would then sell to pharmacies in Nigeria.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. V2 structure. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Wiz’s success in securing financing is impressive considering that startups are increasingly failing to command the high valuations that were common in past years. A 2021 survey from O’Reilly shows that cloud adoption is steadily rising across industries, with 90% of organizations now using cloud computing — up from 88% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. listed exchange, beating Jumia’s debut of $1.1

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