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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. Even if you’re growing quickly, not all founders want to set a valuation for their company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that you really can’t be overprepared. Whether it’s related to your personal finances, business growth or world events, one characteristic many entrepreneurs share is a knack for preparedness. Change your strategy. Not sure how to boost your persistence? Stay positive.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

We asked EO members from various industries about the solutions and strategies they have implemented in response to these significant challenges. In 2020, we paid US$6,500 for a container to be shipped and delivered. Our margins dropped from 45% in 2020 to 25% in 2021. . Here’s what they shared: Take creative actions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. The Zebra doubled its net revenue in 2020 to $79 million compared to $37 million in 2019, according to Melnick , who is former president of travel metasearch engine Kayak. And The Zebra has increased its headcount to over 325, compared to about 200 in early 2020.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

At Upfront we often talk about these as “shots on goal” (a fitting soccer analogy given the EURO 2020 tournament is on right now). We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million.

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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. One of our portfolio companies, Material Bank , has used this monetization strategy with success. 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2020

I wondered if Softbank's changes in investment strategy had much to do with it, but as the chart shows, they were not a meaningful contributor. That answer never changes: build businesses prudently and finance them when you can at reasonable valuations so the company can grow into them over time.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

— samir kaji (@Samirkaji) April 7, 2020 To guide startups through the confusion, Dreamit interviewed three leaders helping startups secure emergency funding from different perspectives as bankers, attorneys, and investors. The information on this page was updated on April 6th, 2020. Last Friday was anything but orderly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2020

Along with the excitement that comes with a new decade, 2020 brings a lot of speculation on the economy, including a focus on what we call recession proofing. Finance to keep you recession-proof. Contributed by Bill Lyons, CEO and president of Griffin Funding. Strengthen your team and ensure employee retention.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2020, Greg will release his newest book, Simple Numbers 2.0: In 2011, Greg’s first book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Existing backers Jungle Ventures and Xplorer Capital led the financing, which also included participation from JLL Spark, the strategic investment arm of commercial real estate brokerage JLL. . Saltmine claims to have a 95% customer retention rate and in 2020 saw 350% year over year growth in monthly active users of its SaaS platform.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The financing comes just just over two months after the startup raised $27 million in an equity funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Brenton Howland, Ruben Amar and Alex Kopco founded New York-based Forum Brands in the summer of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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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 9, 2021

This adds up to a total of $205 million in equity and debt financing, which the New York-based fintech plans to primarily use to invest in technology and build “more expansive products to continue to cover the entirety of corporate spend and cash management,” its CEO Everett Cook told TechCrunch. was close to $1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. M-KOPA is known chiefly for its pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing model that allows customers to build ownership of appliances over time by paying an initial deposit followed by flexible micro-payments.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

energy independence aligned with Washington policies to make domestic battery material production a centerpiece of its industrial strategy which has included more than $6 billion in grants and tax incentives since 2022. Before founding Ionic MT in 2020, Zeitoun served as President & CEO of Applied Minerals Inc., Aligning with U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With a wealth of experience in traditional finance, as well as fintech, and her vision for bringing digital assets into the mainstream, we feel very lucky to have her on board.” Biggs is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and served as Head Tutor for their Blockchain Strategy Programme from 2018 to 2020.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

Drawing on insights from these resilient entrepreneurs, readers will discover practical strategies for navigating setbacks and emerging stronger in the face of adversity. Chunyang Shen , Finance Expert, Jarsy Inc. First, I gathered my team to reassess our strategy.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

We looked at the analysis in two parts: the 1997–2010 time period and the 2011–2020 time period. 2010–2020 We then looked at the top quartile fund performers for fund vintages since 2010. This post highlights what has happened and what might be coming for investors and founders. So what does this mean for venture capitalists?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The startup raised a $9 million seed round from investors, including Index and Accel, in 2020. Many standard joint accounts just give every user entire access to other users’ finances, while Zeta wants to give folks a more flexible way to share money. Zeta, which raised a $1.5 It’s a key difference in state of mind,” she said.

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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

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

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news aggregator Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Thursday it has raised over $450 million in a new financing round, just five months after securing $200 million , as the Indian startup looks to expand its offerings to international markets. India’s ShareChat valued at $2.88

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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 8, 2022

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the hottest, fastest-growing areas within crypto. The DeFi market is evolving rapidly, with companies spinning up increasingly complex financial products akin to those that have long taken hold in the traditional finance world. The company, founded in 2020, announced today that it raised a $4.3

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

million in new financing. Salesforce Ventures launched a $100 million Impact Fund in October 2020, a month after Class launched, to back edtech companies and cloud enterprises businesses with an impact lens. “Tom Class, an edtech startup that integrates exclusively with Zoom to make remote teaching more elegant, has raised $12.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Using a special purpose acquisition company to go public was a popular fad in 2020 and 2021, but many startups that took this shortcut into the public markets haven’t done very well. across 3,356 deals in 2020, setting a new record. Just how wrong were those SPAC projections? Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Lambda School creates online bootcamps in the career and technical space — and it’s also a pioneer of the ISA, an income share agreement, touting it as a vital way to finance employment-ready education. It’s still a hard thing to finance as a startup, since the company is essentially in a waiting game of debt until students pay.

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