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

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Fundraising is a huge part of building a successful startup, and whether you’re looking for information about the latest trends, alternative funding or how to fine-tune your pitch to attract investors, you’ll find that and a whole lot more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Public Listing Will Change Startup Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup in 2019, and Ugochukwu is quite familiar with currency devaluation. . This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Image Credits: Xend Finance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading startup, said on Monday it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. Amber has been profitable since its inception, according to Wu, with annualized revenues of $500 million based on figures from January to April 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Specifically — an early-stage startup founder.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2022

Register India -based FinTech startup Stack Finance offers customized investment strategies for retail investors based on their goals and risk-taking capabilities. Finance and investment had always piqued Smriti’s interest since she was a teenager. The startup claims to have had more than 100,000 users since its launch.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

But as businesses grow, it’s sometimes necessary to obtain outside financing. In some cases, a startup or small business won’t qualify for traditional financing options. For instance, traditional lenders don’t normally offer short-term, flexible financing. What is alternative financing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The rapid adoption of digital payments has become a great challenge for finance teams. He worked a Melio, a business-to-business (B2B) payments platform for small companies, where he saw finance teams become the victims of their own success. According to one report , teams spend as much as 40% of their time processing transactions.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2021

Admissions Associate : Twice a year, Y Combinator receives tens of thousands of applications from promising startups all around the world. This is a unique opportunity for somebody who loves data and startups to help us build definitive points of view to guide investment decisions. Find out more about the open roles here. ADMISSIONS.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. Admissions Officer : Twice a year, Y Combinator receives tens of thousands of applications from promising startups all around the world. Find out more about the open roles here. ADMISSIONS. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. 2020 performance of individual fintech companies vs. SPX Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. More posts by this contributor. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Ben Altshuler. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

She left NEA to start her own fund, Construct Capital, that focuses exclusively on early-stage startups, with a portfolio that includes Copia, ChargeLab, Tradeswell and Hadrian. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. He was recruited to June Homes, a startup in the proptech space that integrates technology into the residential real estate industry, specifically rentals. Merullo plans to use the debt portion of the new funding for loans and financings issued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Open finance continues to be a significant theme in the world of fintech as businesses tap APIs to access customers’ financial accounts and provide a gamut of integrated and embedded financial services. And in Q4 2021, the platform witnessed a 44% month-on-month customer growth and a 72% month-on-month increase in linked financial accounts.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. billion, per insights from data trackers Briter Bridges , Partech and The Big Deal , with slight percentage differences from their 2021 numbers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Lee Li is a project manager and B2B copywriter with a decade of experience in the Chinese fintech startup space as a PM for TaoBao, MeitTuan and DouYin (now TikTok). For the first half of 2021, Asian fintech funding activity amounted to $7.5 Given the record number of deals in the first half of 2021, Mohanty’s optimism seems justified.

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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. Onward remains pre-revenue.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Managing your finances can be difficult, especially if you want to try something new like investing or even taking out a mortgage for the first time. It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

In the startup world, adding lines of business is always a risk. The corporate spend startup launched its bill pay feature in October of 2021, building upon its corporate card business and accounting software product. Now they can extend financing through other forms of payment, and finance any invoice through us.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is a popular source of capital for early-stage startups, but it’s definitely not the only one. Debt is an increasingly popular alternative, as is non-dilutive, revenue-based financing. ” Mathew argued that the majority of startups are actually not a great fit for venture investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A year after the FTC blocked Harry’s from getting acquired by Edgewell Personal Care, the direct-to-consumer razor startup raised $155 million in Series E financing to give it a $1.7 million in a new financing event. Early in 2021, it launched its Headquarters hair care line. billion valuation. It recently acquired Lum?,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders with access to top founders, investors and subject-matter experts across the startup realm. Learn and develop the skills essential for startup success, avoid common mistakes, expand your network and discover new opportunities. Are you ready?

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Shortly after, Terry and Ellis were accepted into Elemental Excelerator’s startup incubator and have landed contracts with major EV charging network providers like EV Connect and SparkCharge. Workers receive full training, earn two safety licenses, are guaranteed a wage of $30 an hour and receive shares in the startup, Terry said.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. 2021 was a year filled with more opportunities for angels to interact and learn.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The consumer fintech company is focused on helping people build credit and raised $30 million in June 2021. In June of 2021, the company raised $150 million at a $2.17 The B2B payments company raised $200 million at a unicorn valuation in 2021. Collective raised its latest round , a Series A, in May 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

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. I’ve noticed trends that point toward the old ways of fundraising becoming relevant again.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

This funding follows a $3 million seed round raised by Legit Group in 2021, from East Ventures and AC Ventures. Founded in 2021, Legit Group currently operates four of its own cloud brands: Pastaria, Sei’Tan, Sek Fan and Ryujin. Other cloud kitchen startups in Indonesia include Yummy and Hangry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. Matt Brown.

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