TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Yieldstreet — which provides a platform for making alternative investments in areas like real estate, marine/shipping, legal finance, commercial loans and other opportunities that were previously only open to institutional investors — announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round. Image Credits: Yieldstreet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub. ” In a nutshell, the Future Africa Collective, CcHub Syndicate, and Investzilla want to improve access to financing for African founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dr. Abrar Chaudhury is a climate finance research fellow at Oxford Said Business School researching on topics of global environmental change, climate finance, policy implementation, sustainable development, and corporate purpose. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said. Joby was the first partner to commit to deploying air taxi services by 2023. To date, Joby Aviation has raised $820 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. 2021 was when African tech reached an inflection point and took center stage as companies raised over $4 billion (more than they got in 2019 and 2020 combined).

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. Keeping your business finances separate from personal ones are essential for practical reasons like expenses and taxes, and it keeps it all separate in your mental space, too. Here’s how to get started.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

It has secured a first close led by International Finance Corporation (IFC) with participation from the Women’s Finance Initiative (WeFi). In 2020, Savannah Fund’s portfolio raised $118 million across Series A, B and C, with some operating in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to data published from Morning Consult and Verizon in their September 2020 report, “more than two in five decision makers say it is likely that their business will expand through digital technologies and rely more heavily on communications.” How do we bridge this gap?

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 São Paulo-based Divibank was founded in March 2020, right as the COVID-pandemic was starting. Divibank will use its new capital to accelerate its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market strategy and ramp up hiring.

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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. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap was first a collective before a fund, Hayden Simmons , the general partner who launched the firm in 2020, told TechCrunch in an interview. “By the end of 2020, we recognized that was too passive of a strategy,” Simmons remarked. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. Anywhere from 20% to 50% of crypto-related pitches today are DeFi-focused, several investors we surveyed said. “To

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Here’s How .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

MONIX said that the outcome of their least funding round was a demonstration of the company’s strong growth in micro-finance lending on the path to IPO in the near future and soon becoming the market leader in Thailand’s digital lending arena. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Kara Penn is the mother of four daughters and owner of Mission Spark, a management and strategy consulting company. So far, Penn has invested in five startups across a range of sectors including real estate, food, apparel and finance. . Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In 2020, TIME listed Guardhat’s smart hat as one of the best inventions of the year. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Rebound was founded in 2020 and just getting started. Apply now to Trustpage. Apply now to Guardhat. . Apply now to Rivet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

This requires the collection and visualization of an incredible breadth of local insight and data, the development of hundreds of local strategies based on that data, and a sophisticated tool and process to deliver on such strategies across tens of thousands of digital pages,” Khoury said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

In fact, the more a founder can push the questions back to the investor in a way that gives a better understanding of their business and investment strategy, the easier the rest of the conversation will be.”. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. Fundraising in turbulent markets: Why we moved up our Series B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and existing backer early-stage Argentina-based venture firm Kaszek also participated in the financing. In 2020, 28,000 students across Latin America used its platform. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The agency — which has spun out the likes of Nigerian artiste Joeboy and Ghanaian artiste Kwesi Arthur — now has its tentacles spread in marketing, distribution, publishing, management and finance services for independent artists and record labels. It was about owning something bigger than myself, which can be great someday.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

And joining us on the subject of making money move with embedded finance are Synctera ’s Peter Hazlehurst, Alloy ’s Laura Spiekerman and Unit ’s Amanda Swoverland. Read about Marqueta’s Power Finance acquisition from earlier this year. chief strategy officer Imran Khan has acquired a 2.5% million, up from $44.6 Former Snap Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks. In early 2020, Ko (CEO) teamed up with Alex Zirbel (CTO) to launch San Francisco-based Playbook , which she describes as the “Dropbox for designers,” to tackle the challenge.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

He earned an MBA by cramming on the weekends, then just had to start something entirely new, the strategy consulting firm Outglocal. But the pandemic proved a blessing, as revenue rocketed from roughly $400,000 in 2019 to more than $4 million in 2020. He worked nights from 8 p.m. Sandro Pinto, image courtesy of Ivan Pavas).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Fortunately, there are a number of strategies that you can use to create a strong company culture in a remote work environment. . Share information about the company’s goals, plans, and finances. But really, why is this so important? ” . To do this, start by being transparent with your employees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. That’s one of the reasons Jonathan Cherki founded Contentsquare , a platform that allows businesses to track online customer behavior to inform digital strategies. In some cases, it cost them dearly. According to Couchbase, enterprises wasted on average $4.12

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. ” Insight Partners and Permira also participated in SonarSource’s latest financing round. It’s an acute problem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

The biggest difference between layoffs in 2020 versus layoffs in 2022 is cash, potentially a lifeline. A number of venture firms made news this week, either to announce new funding or new strategies. Especially for startups that hit product market fit during a once-in-a-lifetime event. What venture firms are raising despite reckoning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. ” Founders : Tobi Ololade, the CEO, was the chief technological officer of TradeBuza, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance. Founded in : 2020. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. In this seven-step guide, you’ll find strategies and tactics for identifying key members and influencers, streamlining the communication process, and creating “a little FOMO.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. So what’s the real motivation of seven law firms, which together saw revenue of over $10 billion in 2020 to collaborate on an open cap table product for startups? Aron Solomon. Contributor. Aron Solomon, J.D., More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Notably, all of the company’s previous investors — which include the likes of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coatue Management, DFJ, Pantera, Lee Fixel’s Addition — also put money in the latest financing. It launched its offering in August of 2020. companies are pivoting their strategies to include web3 on Alchemy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

I think it’s a combination of we look different, we invest with a very different strategy and we have a strong track record,” she told TechCrunch. Kiley left Insight in March 2020 to join VMG Catalyst. Upper90’s strategy of cutting checks with credit and equity may be more relevant than ever. Even more new funds.

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