American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6 Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. This deep integration streamlines operations and provides business owners with greater visibility and control over their finances.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

Now that we are halfway into 2021, it is time to think about how you can further improve your startup’s operations to guarantee greater success in the latter half of the year. Here are just a few ways to organize and keep your startup’s finances in check: Complete your journal entries. Key takeaways on startup finances.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

-based startup Adaplay Esports, tweeted that African startups had “already raised $500 [million] in 2021,” which he contrasted positively to what he described as a full-year 2020 result of $1.4 billion in 2021 if current trends hold, a healthy increase from the 2020 figure. So this morning, let’s do a little digging.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. We have tasked ourselves to be 90 percent paper free by 30 June 2021. Madhavan Sivashankar is the CEO and founder of Gulf International Finance Limited , a regulated firm based in the Dubai International Finance Centre.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I discovered rhetoric in 2021 and read this book and The Elements of Eloquence which demonstrate the hundreds of literary devices we use to imbue language with flourish to entice or cajole the reader to hurdle over the period at the end of a sentence and sprint through the next, till the end of a tract. Words like Loaded Pistols.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

In 2021, the average cost was US$18,000 and at one point we paid US$21,500. . Our margins dropped from 45% in 2020 to 25% in 2021. . In autumn of 2021, it became impossible to find cups and lids. Before Covid, each 40-foot container cost between US$2,000-$4,000 but went up to US$27,000 in September 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 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. Amazon is letting employees use their stock to finance home purchases and even second homes by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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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 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based

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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. In 2021, Coucha spent some time in the U.S. million in seed funding to supercharge its efforts. We want to drive growth for them.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2011, I was part of the Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness with several other leaders in finance and tech. Additionally, Revolutionpartnering with PitchBookfound that between 2011 and 2021, more than 1,400 new venture firms emerged from smaller ecosystems across the country.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

This year in particular, many of these searches are coming from the millions of Americans who quit their jobs in 2021. Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), which can provide assistance with business planning, access to financing, counseling services and classes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. Lerer Hippeau, Citi Ventures, Correlation Ventures and Gingerbread Capital also participated in the financing. The Los Angeles-based startup previously raised $3 million in seed funding in March of 2021. Uber alum rakes in $9.7M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. In 2021, JPMorgan said it would lend and underwrite $2.5 In 2021, such companies raised $17.85 billion.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2025

One byproduct of this movement, especially during the blitzscaling era , were new startups in areas such as finance, healthcare, housing, education, using venture capital to acquire customers at accelerated rates. I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation In Part 1 and Part 2 , I reviewed proptech financing trends, sources of capital and investor types, scaling and fundraising lessons from the past five years, and potential conflicts of interest. That brings us to one of the most exciting topics — exits.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2021

Census Bureau data shows that business applications surged during the summer of 2020 and then again in the early part of 2021, a trend that continued throughout the spring. When small businesses apply for financing, these are the products they are most likely to consider: SBA loans: Variable interest rates in the mid-to-upper single digits.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Thanks not to Public, really, but M1 Finance, a Midwest-based consumer fintech that has a stock-buying function amongst its other services (more on it here ). Things like this are merely a first step.

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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 million since its December 2021 launch. trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Naspers, through its early-stage investment vehicle, Naspers Foundry , co-led the $15 million equity round (the SA-based investor also led Planet42’s previous $30 million round in late 2021) alongside ARS Holdings. It became carbon-neutral certified in 2021. Planet42 also received $10 million in debt funding from private investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. M-KOPA is known chiefly for its pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing model that allows customers to build ownership of appliances over time by paying an initial deposit followed by flexible micro-payments.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

Grants of $5,000 and $10,000 are being given to businesses that anticipate pursuing financing for growth for their “scalable, high-impact solution or idea.” The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. The program is set to reopen in September 2021, so get a head start and find out if your business qualifies here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

The question for 2021 will be: how will vaccinations and a return to normalcy change consumer and enterprise buying behaviors, and consequently, startup financing rates in different categories? If you have a hypothesis, send me a tweet at @ttunguz.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021. Across Series A to Series E rounds in the US, hedge funds participated in 63% of startup financings worth more than $200B in 2021. 2021 marked a near universal strategic focus on Series C, D, and E rounds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

The latest financing brings its total equity raised since inception to about $450 million, with the company raising $100 million across its seed and Series C rounds. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Learn why you should be investing in cybersecurity for 2021 in this article. Financing to help with payroll or hiring a cybersecurity agency. You may be wondering where and how to get a small business loan or other type of financing. This option provides you with the utmost flexibility when it comes to financing.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2021, we extended a grant to Grand Valley State University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Lab. In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program. Veterans and/or military spouses work on their business launch over a three-month period.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CEO Yarden Shaked founded Varos in 2021 with CTO Lior Chen and his father, Gil Shaked and was part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 batch. Varos , based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, is shedding some light on how companies compare to their peers in terms of key performance indicators, like customer acquisition costs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. This was as Zepz (formerly WorldRemit) raised $292 million in Series E financing, while Chipper Cash raised $250 million , Tala $145 million as Wave sealed $200 million in funding. Image Credits: Briter Bridges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Since October 2021, Mondu has signed merchant customers across industries such as beauty, cleaning and manufacturing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. has raised $5.6

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. If you felt that way, you’re not alone as over 4 million people left their jobs in 2021 in what economists are now dubbing the Great Resignation. Take the first step and open a business account for your finances.

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