TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. in 2021 from 2.3% Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm. Total unicorn market cap 2021 LatAm.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange. “We We are very Southern Hemisphere-focused.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. Since beta launching in April 2021, the company has onboarded around 5,000 customers who use its savings product. “I’m bullish on our team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

adults in an August 2021 Gallup survey saying that they’ve been unable to get a product they wanted in the past two months because of shortages. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Brick & Mortar Ventures , headed by Darren Bechtel of the Bechtel family, is teaming up with BuiltWorlds , which describes itself as a network of buildings and infrastructure professionals, to launch an early-stage accelerator program called Formwork Labs. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dragoneer Investment Group also participated, as well as some existing investors, such as Gopher Asset Management, G Squared, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Old Well Partners, Ribbit Capital, Sands Capital, Ventura Capital and Vy Capital. Today’s Series F round was led by Coatue Management and DST Global.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Joshua Politis, Deputy Managing Partner of Transport Capital and Chief Investment Officer of TC Ventures, commented: “We believe that transportation by sea and air is at a multi-generational inflection point, with the need to decarbonise and digitalise dramatically accelerating.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

In 2021, an estimated 21% of all venture deals were fintech. Last week, I talked with Airbase founder and CEO Thejo Kote about the fact that the company just secured $150 million in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Hence its recent debt financing. Kids’ finance startup GoHenry marches into Europe with Pixpay acquisition .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. Jobandtalent says the latest funds will be used to accelerate its expansion in key markets, including the US — its most recent focus. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Shell’s Gamechanger Accelerator selects three companies for its energy transition accelerator. Secondly, we are already well into planning TechCrunch Disrupt 2021! New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals. Thirdly, thank you for all the support.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

To that end, the company on Wednesday announced a partnership with Techstars to extend Brex services to companies within the accelerator, following similar tie-ups with Y Combinator and AngelList. How can finance-focused proptech startups survive the downturn? to curb finance-related fights between co-parents.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

The latest financing cements 16-year-old Klarna’s position as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe. billion in volume for the entire fiscal year of 2021 and Afterpay is projecting $16 billion in volume for its entire fiscal year. . March 2021 also represented a record month for global shopping volume with $6.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. “QED

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Broadly speaking, Hervest aims to bridge the $42 billion gender finance gap for urban and last-mile women in the country with an emphasis on women in agriculture. . The company plans to use the capital to add to its nine-person team, strengthen its digital infrastructure and accelerate marketing efforts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The real-time payments through Australia’s NPP accounted for 31% of all account-to-account payments in October 2021, according to Jewell. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. . ” .

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6 “The pandemic accelerated a massive shift to digital, which highlighted the gaps in online experience and confirmed customer experience as a key differentiator. billion). . billion in transactions daily.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Then with the global pandemic, the pace at which business-to-business payment was moving online was accelerating,” Murata told TechCrunch. “We Deng and Murata are two-time Y Combinator founders, most recently attending the 2021 summer cohort. Businesses can get approved in seconds and begin offering the installments.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I learned something new with each pitch deck, each conversation with a Founder, each term sheet, each stock purchase agreement, each follow on financing, each exit event… Of course I expected that by angel investing I would learn about angel investing. MY 2021 ANSWER TO “WHY?” A lot of new things.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. Apply now to DocNetwork. FreightVerify.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated a series of wishes that have been urgent in the context of social isolation ”. In Europe, Austria stands as an example to follow due to the rapid reaction to the coronavirus and plans to have the vaccine ready in January 2021. ” Brazil: setback in social policies vs private and local proactivity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. billion valuation, which is 85% below its June 2021 raise…As prices and valuations stabilize, we will see deals ramp back up.”. Today the U.S. Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s the message from Quiq, an AI-powered conversational platform, which today revealed that it closed a $25 million series C financing round led by Baird Capital. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal. . Chatbots are alive and kicking. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

At one point (in early 2021), Brex was in fact thinking of becoming a bank itself, going as far as to apply for a bank charter , before later withdrawing that application. Here are some takeaways from that interview: It is still hard to start a business, and there is still too little cross-border finance, and Stripe is helping with that.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 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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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have accelerated the path to public markets for privately held companies. In the first quarter of 2021, SPACs raised $92.5 Target companies span an array of industries from technology to finance to healthcare. SPACs have disrupted this model.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have accelerated the path to public markets for privately held companies. In the first quarter of 2021, SPACs raised $92.5 Target companies span an array of industries from technology to finance to healthcare. SPACs have disrupted this model.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

While we’re on the topic of payments, Goldman Sachs and Modern Treasury announced they are partnering “to accelerate the shift to embedded payments, helping joint customers embed and scale payments into products.” I covered the company’s 2021 raise here. This means that millions of Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay , a Singapore-based fintech startup, raised a $29 million Series A in debt and equity financing as it seeks to further expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa. . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4 million since its inception in 2019, which includes its $2.1 ” .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Parthean teaches personal finance to young professionals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fundraising in the space. In a statement, Nawaz said: “Embedded finance is no longer the exclusive privilege of large technology firms. There’s now yet another example of this trend in the shape of HUBUC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

” TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is underway! Studies have shown that AI is as good as humans when it comes to diagnosing disease, but the pandemic has accelerated the digitization of patient records and data. That’s much more than the sub-$50 billion valuation the company secured earlier this year,” Alex writes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

A $65 million Series B is remarkable, even by 2021 standards. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Kaltura puts debut on hold. Is the tech IPO window closing? Is Substack really worth $650M?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Specifically, Sequoia participated in Klarna’s $800 million financing ; Yokoy’s $80 million Series B; Telda’s $20 million seed round ; and Cococart’s $4 million seed financing. Now, we know that investments in fintech companies were far lower in 2022 compared to 2021. I wrote about MagicCube in 2021 here.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? to 18.2x. The faster the rise, the harder the fall.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action.

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