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OCTOBER 20, 2023

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. When Bank Tech tapped Carey Ransom as its first Managing Director, the firm valued his extensive 25-year career in software and venture capital.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. . billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9 Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 million since its inception in 2015. Carrefour and Indofood.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The investment and finance industry is no exception. Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending. million from Z Venture Capital , the corporate venture capital wholly owned by Z Holdings , which also owns the Japanese messaging app Line and internet portal Yahoo Japan.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2022

Register Good Startup , a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on the innovation and growth of the alternative protein sector, has closed its Good Protein Fund I at $34 million, according to an announcement. Founded in 2021, Good Startup’s mission is to remove animals from the global food system.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. VC firms Algebra Ventures, Nuwa Capital, 1984 Ventures, and Global Founders Capital participated, with several regional and global angel investors taking part as well. Sylndr is yet to launch to the public.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. 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% Total unicorn market cap 2021 LatAm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Today it is announcing a $4 million Series A, led by Intudo Ventures, an Indonesia-focused venture capital firm, with participation from returning investor Vertex Ventures. . Gredu Parents enables parents and guardians to keep track of their kids’ performance and talk to teachers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It now aims to serve as a “financial operating system” for its customers, starting with a premium SaaS service it launched in 2021. Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Image Credits: Bold.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” We’ll note here that Khosla Ventures , SoftBank and Better Tomorrow Ventures all raised an opportunity fund this year.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Method launched in 2021 after two of the company’s co-founders, Jose Bethancourt and Marco del Carmen, experienced firsthand the difficulties of embedding debt repayment into their previous company, GradJoy. . “In May 2021, we started Method to provide developers with a turnkey infrastructure.”

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. In 2021, $14.2 Venture capital is going to need a record-breaking run of IPOs to clear its own decks.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Atome Financial, a prominent consumer financing platform in Southeast Asia, empowers consumers across the region with versatile deferred payment options, intelligent savings solutions, and rewarding shopping experiences through its mobile application, Atome. According to the Senate Economic Planning Office, as of 2021, approximately 34.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . Once Founderpath has visibility into a startup’s finances, the company can receive an offer “in under 2 to 3 minutes,” Latka says. Enter Founderpath.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. that have invested in Pathstream, Udemy and Coursera. Nexford University lands $10.8M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Nowsta attracted venture capital for its approach to help employers better engage with their hourly workforces in this increasingly hybrid work environment. The company announced today $41 million in Series B funding in a round led by GreatPoint Ventures that brings the company’s total funding raised to date to $59 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

The big events in the fintech world over the last week felt like a very different vibe from 2021, which was filled with mega rounds, celebrations and lofty valuations. First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Love to see it! ” Funding across the globe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In March 2021, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based startup raised $170 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global and Avenir at a valuation of $1 billion. There’s no sector you look at today in Africa that you wouldn’t see Flutterwave taking a piece of that and enabling merchants and consumers to grow and scale.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2022

million Series A round of financing led by Pantera Capital , with participation from GFR Fund and Z Venture Capital. Stacked, founded in March 2021, is a web3 video and livestreaming platform owned and operated by its community.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. enabling people to buy Bitcoin. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The adoption of buy now, pay later (BNPL) in Nigeria as a payment option both online and at the point of sale is expected to record a CAGR of 20% from 2021 to 2028, per this report. The debt financing was provided by Credit Direct, a subsidiary of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and a few unnamed financial institutions. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Earnipay , a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. Participating investors include XYZ Ventures, Village Global, Musha Ventures, Voltron Capital, Ventures Platform and Paystack CEO Shola Akinlade.

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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. Bill Trenchard, partner at First Round Capital, met Wynn while he was still with Sheltr. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

It’s also notable that Jeeves only publicly launched in March of 2021, and officially emerged from stealth last June with $31 million in equity financing and $100 million in debt. Then in the first two months of 2022, we brought in more revenue than the whole of 2021.”. billion valuation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

JULY 3, 2022

The app announced today that it has raised $3 million in seed funding from AC Ventures, Vibe.VC The company was founded in 2021 by Daniel van Leeuwen, the former country marketing head of Grab Indonesia. Van Leeuwen told TechCrunch that PINA was created because of the founders’ own challenges with personal finance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This in turn enables them to collect, send or exchange money in real time without the need for reconciliation and with almost no cost,” Rozic told TechCrunch. Rozic teamed up with Paola Sanchez and Tomislav Biscan to build a new payments network for cash-based economies in order to enable money to flow as easily as information does.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The new cash brings the company’s total capital raised to $70 million, which Gelfenbeyn — Inworld’s CEO — said will be put toward product development, research and hiring. . Image Credits: Inworld AI. Inworld’s certainly been busy. and its intellectual property.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. from a year earlier, and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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JULY 22, 2021

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