TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8

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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

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. Yesterday, The Exchange dug into the data behind the CVC market’s very busy 2021. Which companies are the best candidates for creating their own venture team? But it’s not a pure venture capital story. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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. It’s certainly not slowed down.

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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. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Almajdouie, the managing partner at RAED Ventures, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. New backers Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall in participating in the round.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

Mubadala Capital led the $100 million equity round, with previous backers EQT Ventures , Felix Capital , Cherry Ventures and Partners of DST Global also participating. Founded in 2020 and launched in 2021, Juni closed off its Series A only in October of last year (it raised $21.5 It didn’t give actual customer numbers.)

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

The fintech company, which was the first to digitize BPR in accelerating the financial inclusion in Indonesia’s tier 2 and tier 3 cities, said that the funding round was led by East Ventures (Growth fund). Fintech help SMEs manage their finances and capital with convenience and efficiency.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

It achieved unicorn status in August 2021 and at the time was eyeing an IPO. Level was founded by Vladimir Korshin, Asa Schachar and Molly Hogan in 2021.” In September 2021, I covered Vouch’s announcement of $90 million in new funding. Both Vouch and Level are Y Combinator alums. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

(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. . We are living in 2021 and open banking is popular, so it’s easier to get access to open banking data.

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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

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 While Conrade declined to reveal hard revenue figures, he did share that Neon grew its revenue by 3x in 2021 and he expects that the company will at least more than double it this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New York-based Two Sigma Ventures led the round, with existing backers such as Homebrew, Susa Ventures, Crossbeam and angel investor and popular podcast host Anthony Pompliano also participating. With the latest Series A financing, Nelo has raised a total of $25.6 million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

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. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Since its founding, it’s attracted interest from investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Amplo, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and Shutterstock co-founder and CEO Jon Oringer. based electronic money and finance data transfers — increased 8.7% .” Link claims to be one of the first companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When robotic process automation company UiPath filed to go public in March 2021, the startup had just closed a $750 million round that helped it clinch a $35 billion valuation. “They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. per share.

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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 Ascend app. Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents.

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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. venture capital activity,” he writes. venture capital activity,” he writes. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Flyer One Ventures and Solid led the seed round. TA Ventures, Jiji, u.ventures and AVentures Capital also participated. Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Impressively, in the third quarter of 2021, Creditas says it notched US$46.8 Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founded in : 2021. beU delivery. Website : [link]. Team size : 300. Location : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Website : [link].

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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. The round is led by Target Global and existing investors Northzone, Cherry Ventures, and Silicon Valley-based debt provider TriplePoint Capital. which is closer to the original goPuff model.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Existing backers Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, Flourish Ventures and TLV Partners also participated in the latest financing. . Unit Go is currently in beta and will be available to the public in the fall of 2021. . Unit raises $18.6M to offer banking features as a service.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That platform, called Flink , attracted the attention of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Accel, which just led a $12 million Series A for the company. Mexico’s ALLVP, Clocktower, Kevin Efrusy and Oskar Hjertonsson and existing backer Raptor Financial Group participated in the financing as well.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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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.”. Besides the fact that the company has shed about 1,000 workers this year alone, we also were struck by the fact that CEO Vlad Tenev took responsibility for Robinhood’s overhiring in the frenzy that was 2021.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The World Bank estimates that some $589 billion will be sent this way 2021, according to research from the World Bank, up 7.3% million Series A earlier this year), Slow Ventures, Breyer Capital, Wamda Capital, Flourish Ventures, and additional unnamed investors from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. I covered the company’s 2021 raise here. FIS has launched Worldpay for Platforms, an embedded finance solution aimed at SMBs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. Spurling was previously the COO and CFO at Jana, a mobile advertising company, where she managed HR and finance teams. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. TechCrunch last reported on Fast in January of 2021, when the startup raised a $102 million Series B financing led by Stripe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Nurasyl Serik and Volodymyr Fedoriv started Remofirst in 2021 to open up that option to more businesses with a SaaS offering they say is more cost-efficient, quicker and comprehensive than what currently exists. Mouro Capital and QED Investors co-led the financing, which included participation from Counterpart Ventures.

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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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