TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Silvr wants to offer new credit opportunities for e-commerce and software-as-a-service companies. Some business angels are also investing, such as Alexandre Prot, Steve Anavi, Raphaël Vullierme, Louis Chatriot and Pierre Dutaret. And unlike traditional banks, Silvr can finance riskier businesses that don’t have assets.

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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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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 27, 2020

With the launch of seven new educational classes in early 2020 as part of ACA Angel University , we believe we are well positioned to make the case to the SEC that our evolving credentialing program should be one of the premier paths to follow to qualify as an “accredited investor” …and that is just what we plan to do.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

What’s more, about 75% of the investments in that period happened in the last two years alone. That started to change toward the end of 2020 — several quarters in the last two years have seen more than $2 billion invested, and a couple have had more than $3 billion. Venture capital firms aren’t unusual in the battery world.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

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. “On It also offers tools including a business ledger for groups to track their investment performance. . The Tribevest dashboard Image Credits: Tribevest.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. Equity investments of up to $1 million will be made in at least 15 percent of participating companies. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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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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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

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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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. This has also opened up distribution opportunities for brands that were not previously able to access these markets,” said Mbaabu.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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

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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

MARCH 31, 2021

At the age of 14, Jacklyn Rome saw firsthand how divorce can impact families, and how arguing about finances both during and after the process can impact children. Ensemble kicked off a six-month pilot in January 2020, when the credit-first version of the app went live. The experience stuck with her. Image courtesy of Ensemble.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

So in August 2020, she teamed up with Yomi Ogunleye to found Lagos, Nigeria-based Hervest , a startup that describes itself as “an inclusive fintech company” serving underserved and excluded women in Africa through a gender lens. The p roblem we’re solving is an African finance gender gap, not just Nigerian,” Akinpelu said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. Much has changed since Ramp’s February 2020 launch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. Opportunities for growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The investment marks Union Square Ventures’s first B2B investment in Latin America, according to partner John Buttrick. The equity financing comes after Mundi secured a $100 million warehouse line from Silicon Valley Bank, and brings the startup’s total raised to $125 million in debt and equity since its 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. In August 2020, the product was launched. Document automation is not a new concept.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. Image Credits: Altro.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

MycoWorks , a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reishi. A lot is happening in this space,” he added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Series B funding is coming almost eighteen months after raising $10 million co-led by Partech Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). As part of the round, Wale Ayeni, the head of Africa Venture Capital Investment for the IFC and Brian Odhiambo, the West Africa director of Novastar Ventures, will join TradeDepot’s board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

The latest financing brings its total equity raised since inception to about $450 million, with the company raising $100 million across its seed and Series C rounds. Individual investors, institutional asset managers and corporate treasury departments are all exploring avenues to invest in cryptocurrencies,” the company said.

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