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Arrenda emerges with Adelanta, a financing offering for landlords in Latin America

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The funding round was a mix of $1.5 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. The company, formerly known as ViveFácil, started in 2021 providing insurance, similar to a Jetty or Rhino , but for Mexico, Merullo told TechCrunch. Merullo plans to use the debt portion of the new funding for loans and financings issued.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. from 2016 to 2021, 1.4x from 2016 to 2021, 1.4x

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We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble

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The boom of the past decade, and especially the bubble of 2021, has pretty much faded away, and that means startups looking for investment need to adjust their approach and unlearn what they learned during the bubble. Below is a mix of best practices and advice I would give to anyone trying to raise money for their startup in this climate.

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Revenue-based financing startup Jenfi raises $6.3M to focus on high-growth Southeast Asian companies

TechCrunch

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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Global Processing Services adds $100M to its coffers to grow its embedded finance and API payments platform

TechCrunch

Embedded finance continues to be the engine driving the growth of fintech, with one group of companies building core banking, payments and other financial technology, and a much bigger group tapping that technology through APIs to build customer-facing businesses. billion transactions, with 190 million cards now issued to date.

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2021 Marketing Trends to Grow Your Business

StartupNation

To help simplify your efforts, we’ve put together a list of the top 2021 marketing trends to help grow your small business. For most, Facebook is used to catch up with old friends, share a relevant post, or just peek into others’ lives that you don’t see on a daily basis. Use the digital advertising market to your target audience.

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How capital-as-a-service can help you get your first check in 2021

TechCrunch

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million. Does YC care at all? Across the week.

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