American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2023

The inaugural MM Catalyst Fund launched in 2021 invested in 16 businesses across Massachusetts that included Black-led growth companies and rural startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Assembled , which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million in a Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Emergence Capital and Basis Set Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

About 29% of Indonesia’s workforce is in the agriculture sector , but many small farmers face challenges like low access to working capital. Eratani is an end-to-end management system that helps them get financing and supplies, and then helps them sell crops once they are ready. Eratani’s team. Image Credits: Eratani.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

The program offers all YC founders resources to help them achieve the best possible outcomes when raising capital: year-round workshops, detailed fundraising guides & templates, and 1:1 support. Our primary goal is to support YC alumni companies by investing in their subsequent funding rounds. Learn more. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

Only a small minority of people are born into the kinds of connections and life paths to provide them instant access to capital. I’m a straight white dude who grew up in NYC and worked in finance. What’s that investor going to be like in a board meeting when you as a female founder need their support or worse, actually their vote?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Managing your finances can be difficult, especially if you want to try something new like investing or even taking out a mortgage for the first time. It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.”

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StartupNation

AUGUST 2, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses venture capital investment, which was at a record high throughout the first half of 2021 and is experiencing greater gains through all stages in North America, according to Crunchbase. That’s topped only by March 2021, which saw more than $54 billion in venture capital investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The rapid adoption of digital payments has become a great challenge for finance teams. He worked a Melio, a business-to-business (B2B) payments platform for small companies, where he saw finance teams become the victims of their own success. According to one report , teams spend as much as 40% of their time processing transactions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million custodial parents in the United States had either legal or informal child support agreements. Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. million in a Series A funding round led by Atlanta-based TTV Capital to advance its mission. And, according to a 2015 report , just 50.2%

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. The program offers all YC founders resources to help them achieve the best possible outcomes when raising capital: year-round workshops, detailed fundraising guides & templates, and 1:1 support. ADMISSIONS. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The rush to capitalize on the shift to online learning, post-pandemic, continues. IntellectoKids , a developer of educational apps for children aged 3 to 7 years, has raised $3 million in a Series A financing led by U.S.-based based Allrise Capital and other investors, including Genesis Investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Fasanara Capital led the investment and was joined by Kube Ventures, ODX, Toehold Ventures, Wharton Fintech, Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout Fund, PRMM Inmobiliaria and a group of angel investors. million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt. The funding round was a mix of $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. These should be getting the support,” CEO Coucha told TechCrunch. In 2021, Coucha spent some time in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. On August 8, Mexico City–based expense management startup Clara announced it had been approved for financing from Goldman Sachs for up to $150 million. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

David Toh from Mirana Ventures, Venture Partner of Bybit and BitDAO, said, “As an early supporter and investor of Treehouse, we are excited by the growth of the company and what the team has achieved in a short time. It helps the users to understand their DeFi positions and risks so that they can make informed decisions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. CEO Michael Sanchez told TechCrunch that the proceeds will be put toward general growth and supporting Savana’s go-to-market and product development projects. billion in H1 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The corporate spend startup launched its bill pay feature in October of 2021, building upon its corporate card business and accounting software product. With the early success of the bill pay feature, Ramp is now adding financing and overlay with a new product called Flex. . The latter appears to be true in Ramp’s case.

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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. The company aims to help e-commerce merchants “unlock growth” by giving them access to working capital (from $10,000 up to $20 million) so they can improve cash flow and drive sales.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Customers have a natural tendency to prefer voice call support over other self-service channels and this has led to the increase in pressure on the traditional interactive voice responses (IVR) systems and support agents to respond to all incoming queries,” he said. Skit has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. The Series C will support hiring AI engineers and secure alternative data to advance its credit-scoring algorithm further. . PeopleFund claims it has managed over $1 billion in loans as of October 2021, with a delinquency rate of 2.06%.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Moving through 2021, however, we’ve seen increasing signs of optimism. Consumers are now aware and actively supporting small businesses, as well. 65% of consumers are now choosing to support small and local businesses whenever possible. 2021 is all about establishing new relationships and routines that were disrupted in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Broadly, the two appointments align with Abraham’s view of what his company focused on last year, namely scaling its business operations and its human capital. TechCrunch spilled much ink covering the 2020 and 2021 savings and investing boom. Public has supported equities and crypto assets since last October.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. billion Series H, in 2021. Andy Stinnes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

OZÉ , a Ghanaian fintech startup that provides digital recordkeeping tools with embedded finance products to medium and small businesses, has raised a $3 million pre-Series A round. The company said that the number of loans granted on the platform also increased by 200% from Q3 to Q4 of 2021. Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

One of the larger seed rounds of 2021 in the industry, the raise was led by XYZ Venture Capital and Congruent Ventures with participation from First Round Capital, Garuda Ventures, MCJ Collective, Skyview Ventures and numerous other individual investors. . The problem with climate project financing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. “These are heavy RegTech lifts.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. Together with the rest of the Kairous investment team, the firm has collected more than 80 years of investment experience within the private equity and venture capital space across Greater China and the Southeast Asia (SEA) region.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. We are passionate about finding the best companies to support the future of community banking, so they can thrive and continue to enable and support their customers and communities,” says Ransom.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

The round was led by MDI Ventures, the venture capital arm of PT Telcom Indonesia Tbk, the largest telecom conglomerate in Indonesia. It included participation from Sinar Mas Digital Ventures (SMDV), returning investor East Ventures and Winter Capital. Since then, Legit Group says its sales have grown three times.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Register Karakalpakstan , a region in Uzbekistan, outlines plans to allocate $200 million in soft loans to support companies and establish a Youth Socio-Economic Center in the Khojaili district, with an investment of 1 trillion soums. Further, Karakalpakstan is enhancing its support infrastructure for businesses. in national currency.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Also, foreign embassies are returning to Kyiv, indicating that Ukraine’s capital could soon be safe enough for companies to reopen offices. More importantly, they continue to hire talent both to support their business and help the economy. The entire world is supporting Ukraine. These trends are only gaining momentum.

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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. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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