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.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

In conjunction with the launch, TC Ventures announces its first two partnerships: an angel investment in Turtle in late 2021 and a seed investment in Everimpact in early 2022. Founded by Isabelle Rickmers, the company’s mission is to enable data driven recruitment decisions at global scale and to provide seafarers with a safe home.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Wynn started the company in January 2021 with his co-founder Praveen Chekuri after working together at Instacart. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 They want all of their money up front so they can invest it. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But with 2021 came all the second- and third-order effects of the crisis, further accelerating a continentwide tech expansion to a pace beyond any projections. in 2021 from 2.3% Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm. Total unicorn market cap 2021 LatAm. in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Image Credits: Atlantico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income — like motorcycles, cars and trucks — and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Canals said Migrante offers new vehicles. They can provide financing at the point of sale,” Silva Lombardi added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Wonder Brands co-founders Nicolás Gonzalez Luna and Federico Malek came together to start the company in January 2021 to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. With its approach, the company’s goal is to enable its acquired companies to sell on multiple channels.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. However, the problems Kosisochukwu Chike Ononye and Michael ‘Trojan’ Okoh wanted to solve when they first launched the company in August 2021 affected fintechs more than any other segment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A spokesperson told me via email that “the reorganization impacted nearly all teams and the decision was in service to the larger strategy we have been enacting at Notarize, and will enable us to move faster to best serve our customers.” How can finance-focused proptech startups survive the downturn? Our TC+ recap has the highlights.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Today, the concept has made its way into the Middle East and Africa as Opontia has closed a financing of $20 million to acquire and scale e-commerce brands across the regions. This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Unique about the program, according to Better.com, is that employees will have the ability to finance their homes without actually selling their shares, only needing to pledge vested equity. Weekly News Reports Romain Dillet: “The all-in-one fintech app Revolut has released its annual report for 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Slope, how it works. Image Credits: Slope.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Another example is Market Finance, a tech-enabled SME lender in the U.K., which needs lending capital to finance loans. As Ido Vigdor, general partner at Viola Credit, says: “There is a disruption happening in financial services. In 2021, fintech lenders originated more than $120 billion in loans.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

set in January 2021. billion (a round that reportedly actually closed in December 2021 but not announced until now). That means in March of 2021, right before it closed on its Series B, the startup was actually still valued at $72 million. Nigerian fintech Grey Finance got backing from Y Combinator. Brick closed an $8.5M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Brex co-CEO and Henrique Dubugras admitted as much onstage at Disrupt.) Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? market “will enable it to empower far more financial institutions to extend their payments capabilities.”. Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners.

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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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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. human) setups. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.” In 2020, Americans lost $415 billion to poor money management and thinking about finances causes anxiety for 60% of us. This is because only 17% of us are required to learn any personal finance in school. ” Bonfire.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

will have the ability to use Square in English or Spanish, “including key products like Square Banking to unlock access to financial services and Square for Restaurants to enable seamless, bilingual communication between front- and back-of-house staff.”. I covered the company’s 2021 raise here. Hope you’re doing the same!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Its technology enables professionals and companies to create profiles and be matched to opportunities, monitor projects and pay through the platform. Ultimately, it is a new internet-native work model that we are starting with legal because it is a $100 billion market that has not been disrupted much in the last 100 years,” Ahmed said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Aztec Network launched Aztec Connect, an ecosystem that integrates with Ethereum DeFi protocols like Aave, Lido and Element Finance, in July 2021. In general, public blockchains lack a “missing piece” of encryption, which could enable more use cases by providing privacy on a case-by-case basis, Andrews said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners.

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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

APRIL 2, 2021

A $65 million Series B is remarkable, even by 2021 standards. RPA has enabled executives to provide a level of automation that essentially buys them time to update systems to more modern approaches while reducing the large number of mundane manual tasks that are part of every industry’s workflow. Kaltura puts debut on hold.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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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? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Apparently, its 2021 revenue growth was modest — just six figures — and its cash burn was high, with no fundraising prospects in sight. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Rivals like Laurel & Wolf and Homepolish shuttered in 2019, while Décor Aid, a smaller company, closed up shop in 2021. Kitty Hawk.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). It was founded by Alessandra Martini and Perseus Mlambo in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” ” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the company will end 2021 with revenues close to 2x its pre-pandemic peak, in spite of continued low interest rates, reduced travel, and depressed pandemic spending. Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Check Point Research reports that global cyberattacks increased by 38% in 2022 compared to 2021, and nearly nine in ten company boards told Gartner in a recent survey that they view cybersecurity as a “business risk” rather than solely a technical or IT issue. .” billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the company will end 2021 with revenues close to 2x its pre-pandemic peak, in spite of continued low interest rates, reduced travel, and depressed pandemic spending. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Treedom, based in Italy, enables consumers and corporations to plant trees and track their environmental impact with the click of a button. By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. Treedom has already planted 1.8M Register Here. Top Tech News.

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