TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. military and VCs determined to finance pioneering space startups.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 The startup, which launched at the beginning of 2020, provides the tech back end for institutions to offer flexible payment plans in the form of ISAs (income-share agreements).

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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

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. The startup, launched in 2020, is now present in six African cities: Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi and Ibadan. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. 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. The Tribevest dashboard Image Credits: Tribevest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Today, at the helm of the Black Founders Matter venture fund, Michel has kept that mentality. The fund announced today the formation of the 25 by 25 Pledge , which encourages venture capitalists to commit to investing a quarter of their funds into BIPOC women founders by the year 2025. I just see it as the start.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Doola actually started its life in 2020 as StartPack as a pivot from another startup called Standups. We wanted to focus on building product, talking to users and growing our new business, and we thought, ‘ what if we could click a button and initialize a company?’ ,” said co-founder and CEO Arjun Mahadevan. Image Credits: doola.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath.

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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

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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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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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. ” Peanut argues there’s inherent bias in assuming that every startup founder has access to what are, essentially, wealthy friends or family who can spare a little startup capital.

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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

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. We started a pilot and it is going well,” MarketForce CEO and co-founder Mbaabu told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The latest round includes $8 million in equity and $50 million in debt, Boopos founder and CEO Juan Ignacio Garcia Braschi told TechCrunch. Garcia Braschi started the company in 2020 to cater to business owners, mainly company aggregators, leveraging acquisitions as a way to grow their companies. Boopos charges interest on the loans.

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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. and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool).

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FundersClub

JULY 15, 2020

Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Instacart closed a round of financing led by DST Global, General Catalyst, and T. We invested in the Seed and Series D. We invested in the Seed, Series A, and Series B. We invested in the Seed, Series A, and Series B. We invested in the Seed and Series A.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

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. Atlantico participated in the financing as a new investor in addition to all existing backers including Monashees, Kaszek and OneVC. In January 2020, it had two corporate clients.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020. innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. But I could change my perspective and my goals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane Investments , investing in cloud infrastructure and security startups. When he is not investing, he is busy writing blogs and books. His third book “The Resilient Founder” will be released in 2022. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

No one likes dilution, and that’s why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. i80 itself has built an investment firm based around credit underwriting just these sorts of projects for startups. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

He has founded multiple startups and his own law practice and works with emerging companies, founders and investors. And as the markets turn, founders should remember the fundamentals they learned during times of plenty. You can also ask funds for a reference to a portfolio company where their investment didn’t work out.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

When Finmark founder Rami Essaid built a previous startup, he saw firsthand how hard it is to build accurate financial models. Finmark, which launched in July 2020, helps companies build sophisticated financial models without having to use Excel. It previously raised $5 million in the first part of the seed investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The US presidential election of 2020 has been the most technologically sophisticated ever, but I’m gonna skip because there are relatively few startup angles for us here. Barriers to venture investing have been falling in recent years, as money has flowed into the asset class and as the opportunities for tech continue to grow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. 4-year founder vesting is dead. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Dana Stalder. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Addie Lerner , founder and managing partner, Avid Ventures. Jay Ganatra , co-founder and managing partner, Infinity Ventures. As a firm that has been investing in the space for a while, what differences in the landscape have you seen since this time last year? Michael Gilroy , general partner and co-head of fintech, Coatue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Artisanal Ventures , a Bay Area venture capital firm investing in B2B cloud startups, closed on its first fund, the oversubscribed $62 million Artisanal Ventures I. The firm is led by Andy Price, general partner, and also founder of cloud-focused executive search firm Artisanal Talent. He has brought in Andrew Van Nest as a partner.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kicking off 2022 may feel like we’re stuck the third round of 2020, but things have actually changed quite a lot in Technology Land, even if the pandemic is still with us. That lowers investing risk. In turn, the climate for investing in software startups — which is most of them, mind — warms as risk decreases.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. Image Credits: Crunchbase/Endeavor.

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