TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. “Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. It seems that his thesis was correct.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Today, Tomo announced a $7 million seed funding round that included participation from a slew of investors including KB Investment Inc. KBIC) — a subsidiary of South Korean consumer bank, Kookmin Bank — along with Barclays, Knollwood Investment Advisory, BAM Ventures, Passport Capital, Ulu Ventures and Strong Ventures. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Yesterday, The Exchange dug into the data behind the CVC market’s very busy 2021. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. But that’s just data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Its aim is to “finance consumption for Brazilians in a healthy way.” “It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans. It also aims to allow its customers to access over $616 million in financing in 2022. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. Mendel says its software gives finance teams a way to manage card transactions in real time, set granular spend rules and track spending from a central dashboard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. In February, Neon raised a $300 million Series D financing that valued the company at $1.6 According to Conrade, BBVA’s condition upon investing was that it take the whole round. “I It also has an investment product that Conrade describes as “super simple” to use. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. In 2021, NorthOne replatformed the company with a new banking partner, The Bancorp Bank, N.A, an investment that it says has paid off. The financing brings NorthOne’s fundraising total to $90.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In February 2021, corporate spend startup Brex was the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter. What does this mean for digital banks as a whole?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tile , the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic , announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. During the first half of 2021, Tile says revenues increased by over 50%, but didn’t provide hard numbers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

voting rights tied to its original investment, “contingent on the final settlement of certain legal proceedings (which has not yet occurred).” As these technologies proliferate in everyday life, we’ll witness the advent of the Internet of Payments …Together, sooner than you might think, the newcomers will unseat the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There were other funding events and product launches, but that’s enough of a sample for us to understand that private-market investors around the world are investing in the consumer checkout-and-credit capability, even after industry incumbents Affirm went public and Klarna has grown to massive scale with global reach.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

Register Komunal has announced that it secured new investments amounting to $8.5 Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy. Fintech help SMEs manage their finances and capital with convenience and efficiency.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. According to the founders, Sylndr also plans on providing seven-day money back guarantee, warranty and availing flexible financing options to users.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Band 2 is the long-term public investing cohort. I was recently chatting with an early-stage founder who has a history of investing — narrowing it down to 17,823 people, I know — about the price of software companies both private and public and why they may or may not make sense. Now Affirm is worth $116.58

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Founded in 2020 and launched in 2021, Juni closed off its Series A only in October of last year (it raised $21.5 Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. It didn’t give actual customer numbers.) They likely do business in multiple geographies and multiple suppliers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Bringing Expeto’s total raised to over $25 million (inclusive of $5 million in debt financing), the proceeds will be put toward product R&D as well as customer and partner acquisition, according to CEO Michael Anderson. billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. beU delivery is YC’s first set of investments in Africa’s food delivery space alongside Heyfood, another startup in this batch. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. beU delivery. Website : [link]. Team size : 300. Location : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Website : [link]. Team size : 11.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The company said it plans to use the investment to launch neobanks in eight countries over the next 24 months. Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. According to Marc Schröder, managing partner at MGV, “seed-stage investing is the best place for venture capital to deploy when global uncertainty sprouts up.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. Led by Lindsay Holden, the startup had raised more than $20 million in funding and had built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The latest to show its hand is Berlin-based Flink , which today is announcing that it has raised a hefty $52 million in seed financing. Related: goPuff itself is also looking to expand into Europe and is currently in talks to acquire or invest in the U.K.’s unicorn goPuff. ’s Fancy , which some have dubbed a mini goPuff).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

.” April, which Borodach co-founded in 2021 with Daniel Marcous, previously the CTO of Waze, is an attempt to cut through the complexities of the U.S. ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. Financing climbed to $131.5 moving to another state).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. While it invested mostly on its product in 2021, it plans to put some of its new capital toward its go to market strategy while continuing to be “heads down focused on product.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

billion valuation, which is 85% below its June 2021 raise…As prices and valuations stabilize, we will see deals ramp back up.”. Retail investment behemoth Robinhood laid off 23% of its staff — just 3 months after letting go of 9% of its workforce. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 Ramp says its revenue grew “early 10x” in 2021 compared to 2020 while its cardholder base grew 7x and its user base grew 15x. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

2021, however, has been a different story: new pricing rules being put into place will likely see a number of providers tip into the red for the year. “They are big companies and stuck in their ways. These companies have been around for decades, some for centuries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

billion raised across 447 deals in 2021. While of course I still believe fintech is in its early innings, I do also think that people went a little too crazy, too fast in 2021 and a lot of companies that probably shouldn’t have gotten funded did. Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. That compares to $25.3

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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. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

And, in a series of results that could indicate a hot market for startup growth, they had a smashingly good first quarter of 2021. Myles Udland , a reporter at our sister publication Yahoo Finance, has at least part of the puzzle in a piece he wrote this week. That became $4 trillion in mid-2018. Fair enough. Various and sundry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

-based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. s SB Opportunity Fund. Image Credits: Welcome Tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

The funding was led by Addition, the investment firm founded by former Tiger Global partner Lee Fixel, and included participation from returning investors Square Peg and Apex Capital. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. million USD) Series A last year, it announced today.

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