TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Let’s look at six reasons to invest in tech startups that hail from Ukraine. As the development of the IT sector is integral to the maintenance of the country’s GDP, the government fully supports it. Ukraine is one of the most popular centers for the development of IT. Ukraine has an immense talent pool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. Currency devaluation is a common economic nightmare faced in most African countries and other developing countries worldwide. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Image Credits: Xend Finance. It has since secured $2.2

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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.” cash back on all spending.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Blockchain and other web3 projects are racing to reach developers, hosting hackathons, bandying out grants and offering other perks to lure those who can build. QuestBook operates an eponymous platform that allows firms to give grants to developers and invest in them in an efficient and more transparent way.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

Post-money valuations were inflated by market expectations in 2021, but they were also inflated by the underlying mechanics of the valuation model itself. The miracle year of 2021. For founders, employees and VCs alike, 2021 must’ve seemed like a miracle year. versus 471 a year earlier.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. 2021 was a year filled with more opportunities for angels to interact and learn.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. “[Our annual recurring revenue is] $29 million and projected to $50 million before the end of the year,” Komoni told TechCrunch via email, adding that the latest investment values Tive at $300 million (post-money). .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 The seed funding round was led by Mumbai-headquartered Blume Ventures, with participation from Titan Capital, T-Fund, Speciale Invest, Bharat Founders Fund, T2D3, Amplify and Force Ventures. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company. While companies initially adopted solutions for employee safety, rapid response and short-term air cover, they are now shifting their focus to long-term, strategic investments that empower growth and streamline operations. Automate workflows and mitigate risk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Naked , a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

But I am writing again as there is likely to be a bunch of chatter about Dapper, Flow, and NBA Top Shot as the news of a financing round comes out today. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. That got our attention and led to a financing that spun out the team and Cryptokitties into Dapper Labs.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Azim Premji’s Premji Invest, Motilal Oswal Alternates, TPG-backed NewQuest Capital Partners, and Mirae Asset Ventures — all previous backers — invested, as did Japan’s MUFG Bank. Previously, in 2021, KreditBee raised $75 million in a Series C round. KreditBee has raised over $280 million to date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management. The financing comes 11 months after the company announced it had raised $45 million , as our own Ingrid Lunden reported last March.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Next steps in social entrepreneurship: Policy development in Jordan A dynamic partnership in Jordan led by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) and backed by the United Nations Development Programme Jordan (UNDP Jordan) and Impact Hub is in full swing.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Next steps in social entrepreneurship: Policy development in Jordan A dynamic partnership in Jordan led by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) and backed by the United Nations Development Programme Jordan (UNDP Jordan) and Impact Hub is in full swing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Open finance continues to be a significant theme in the world of fintech as businesses tap APIs to access customers’ financial accounts and provide a gamut of integrated and embedded financial services. And in Q4 2021, the platform witnessed a 44% month-on-month customer growth and a 72% month-on-month increase in linked financial accounts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

A few examples… When asked in February what differences in the landscape he saw in 2021 and if deals were much more competitive, Accel partner Ethan Choi responded: “On the investing side, deals were definitely more competitive and valuations certainly reflect that, even despite a correction in public fintech comps.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. ” The firm’s past investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com also participated in the new round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

They refer to distributing “Juice Funds,” their investments in creators, as underwriting creator businesses or as revenue-based financing. Creators might use these funds to hire an assistant, rent out a studio that makes filming more efficient, invest in merchandise to sell or buy new equipment.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To help simplify your efforts, we’ve put together a list of the top 2021 marketing trends to help grow your small business. Even more important is to take that principle and develop a plan to activate those same reviews on social media. Invest in local marketing. Upgrade your marketing with small business financing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

At NEA, where she was a partner for eight years, she led investments in and sat on the boards of companies including Desktop Metal, Onshape, Framebridge, Tulip, Formlabs and Guideline. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

While the 2021 venture cycle was still booming , every startup sector felt hot. Most startup sectors appear to be busier digesting last year’s excesses than attacking the future, while geographic startup investing trends have reversed. Every geography set records. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jamil Wyne is an advisor, investor and author focusing on entrepreneurship, technology and economic development in emerging markets. As of October, climate-tech startups had raised over $32 billion in 2021 and, according to Dealroom and London & Co., VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

But when investment banking firm UBS picked up financial robot-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4 European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The financing was “heavily oversubscribed,” according to the company, which has now raised $28 million since its October 2018 inception. We’ve demonstrated product-market fit and are helping more and more companies embed finance offerings into their products,” Storf said. In short, the company aims to be “LatAm’s fintech factory.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 trillion won in June 2021, when it raised $410 million in pre-Series G funding at a $7.4 Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. billion (8.5

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Moving through 2021, however, we’ve seen increasing signs of optimism. 2021 is all about establishing new relationships and routines that were disrupted in 2020. Here we’ve compiled three marketing tips for small business owners to continue to succeed in 2021. This will develop targeted marketing efforts and pay off in droves.

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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. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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