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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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

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

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

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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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

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 trillion between 2020 and 2024. Business Finances in 2021. Defend Against Cyber-attacks. Resources.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Over the next few weeks, the venture capital industry will compile and release data concerning its Q4 2020 performance, capping a year that saw the world of private capital freeze , thaw and burn. But we can get a peek at a critical part of the VC universe early, thanks to a preview of global fintech investment results from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Garcia Braschi started the company in 2020 to cater to business owners, mainly company aggregators, leveraging acquisitions as a way to grow their companies. Most small business acquisitions don’t often qualify for bank financing, and help from Small Business Administration loans can be slow and require personal guarantees, he said.

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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

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. “The assumption that founders should have networks able to invest in their businesses creates an unfair starting line for most groups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. Image Credits: Crunchbase/Endeavor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs.

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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

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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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. “Our lens into the flow of great talent allows us to monitor and invest in spaces that are truly at the cutting edge. million in later-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

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. When Finmark founder Rami Essaid built a previous startup, he saw firsthand how hard it is to build accurate financial models.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

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? How has your investment thesis changed in the last several months, and are you still closing deals at the same velocity? Globally, fintech startups raised $131.5 billion in venture funding in 2021.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In a 2020 Microsoft survey of businesses using AI, the majority said that they don’t have the right tools in place to secure their machine learning models. investment to harden AI projects from attack by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. . It might be premature to sound the alarm bells. ” Protect AI lands a $13.5M

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Founded in in 2020 by Tan and CTO Deepak Malhotra, Brick now has more than 50 paying clients and supports more than 13 million API calls and almost one million consumers a month. Southeast Asian open finance startup Brankas gets $20M Series B led by Insignia Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Ethical investing remains something of a confusing maze, with a great deal of “greenwashing” going on. Consumers will be able to invest in companies and supply chains that are focused on tackling climate change. Users can choose between either stocks and shares ISAs (up to £20,000) or a taxable general investment account.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys for the first time in their lives has attracted the attention of Tiger Global. The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has raised $32 million in its Series A financing round, just months after securing its seed funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Although it was mainly used in M&A due diligence processes, recently, VDR has been used for a wider variety of applications as a collaboration solution for sharing confidential information such as technical data during an IPO, investment attraction, in-out licensing, and corporate due diligence. billion in 2020 to $ 2.7

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 12, 2020

My partner Albert told me that when you factor in the financing costs of this swap, the average home in the Northeast United States could save $1000 to $2000 a year by doing this swap. It has gotten less expensive to do this swap out as solar and heat pump costs have come down. So let’s get on with it.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In 2021, insurtech funding reached 566 deals (an all-time record and a 21% gain over 2020) and $15.4 billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.). And yet when CB Insights dropped its 2021 fintech data collection , it noted that global insurtech venture activity hit a new high in the 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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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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