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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

TechCrunch

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Banks don’t like risk, which means businesses spend most of their time trying to get financing rather than increasing sales,” Spradling told TechCrunch.

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Are SAFE’s Truly Everywhere? The Role of SAFEs in Angel-Stage Deals

Angel Capital Association

Y/C helped enable this by introducing the Post-Money SAFE in 2018, fixing some of the more egregious problems with SAFEs, principally the lack of transparency about valuations when multiple SAFEs convert to equity. in 2019 to 8% in 2020, and remained at that level in 2021.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

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. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Funder Category. Equity Ownership.

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Marc Lore-backed ‘conversational commerce’ startup Wizard raises $50M Series A from NEA

TechCrunch

Bridgeford, who once left a finance career in New York, founded and ran Austin-based Stylust , a text-based shopping platform that aimed to offer a shopping assistant for consumers. Instead, it describes the B2B service as one that will enable brands and retailers to transact with consumers over text.

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Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructure upstart

TechCrunch

Existing backers such as Nextview Ventures and Florida Funders also put money in the round, in addition to a number of insurance and logistics groups such as Flexport. That was in early 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “At Image Credits: Lula.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

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. V2 structure. .

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

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. V2 structure. .