American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The company now has North America’s largest parking network having also purchased Premier Parking’s 500+ locations in 2022. Being part of a diverse founding team attracted early funding from Haloge n Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing- on early-stage consumer technology companies led by female and co-ed teams.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Here are my predictions for 2022: Web3 consumer products go fully mainstream with more than 35% of Americans, about 100m people, engaging with them by 2023. Silicon Valley falls to below 20% in all venture financing. In 2021, 601 venture-backed IPOs raised $198b, up 40% in deal count and 173% in dollars.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Every penny counts when you’re just starting out, and making a few simple adjustments can really save your startup some cash in 2022. Brian Evans of BDE Ventures suggests looking for partners with audiences in a parallel cluster. The post Do These 8 Things to Save Your Startup Money in 2022 appeared first on StartupNation.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. They have been recognized for this innovation in FreightDocs, FreightWaves, and Venture Michigan. DocNetwork. RightBrain Networks. Bedestrian.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It would be a few years of self-employment, and building a venture firm later, before Nagpal returned to the moment as one of the early catalysts for his newest startup, Ocho. Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. million from Nagpal’s own venture firm, Vibe Capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

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. It introduced a corporate credit card in 2022, which has quickly become the most-used card among its users. The result?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Indian venture funds have historically gotten most exits by the way of mergers and acquisitions. Many venture investors are now increasingly chasing opportunities to back banks instead.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). But the way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices?—?super

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2022

AngelList published their quarterly state of venture report. I wrote down five data points that struck me: Q1 2022 was the most active quarter ever in Angellist history, and likely venture history. SAFEs should persist as a dominant form of financing early-stage startups, and consequently inform board construction.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of premium software companies” that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend “all on a single tech platform.”

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. Let’s look at the three growth trends we saw in 2021 and how they will shape marketing in 2022. ” Predictions for 2022. Jonathan Metrick. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. Founded in early 2021 by Randy Fernando and Andrew Dust, New York-based Power Finance announced last September that it had raised $16.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We started 2022 on a relatively high note. Venture capital was still readily available. valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue : The corporate spend startup had doubled its valuation from August 2021 to March 2022. Mega rounds were still taking place! Decacorns were born. and it wasn’t pretty.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. In 2022, startups raised about $75b from VCs.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

Register Thailand’s health-tech company, HD , has secured investment from FEBE Ventures , a well-known venture capital firm headquartered in Vietnam. The investment from FEBE Ventures will enable HD to strengthen its marketplace further. Last month, the global healthcare venture platform VentureBlick secured US$2.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Last year, more than 20% of venture dollars went into fintech startups globally, according to CB Insights. But while this year’s pace of funding in the fintech space is noticeably slower — and falling — the fact remains that the sector still accounts for a significant share of venture funding globally.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. Venture capitalists tightened their investments, thousands of people lost their jobs and company valuations stalled or fell amid a protracted bear market. Frederik Mijnhardt.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 22, 2025

The number of small businesses in the state grew by nearly 16% between 2016 and 2022, the fourth-highest percentage in the country. The state saw a nearly 16% increase in the number of small businesses between 2016 and 2022, one of the highest growth rates in the nation. Beyond taxes, Floridas business growth is impressive.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Suzanne Fletcher , venture partner, Prime Movers Lab. Where are you looking for opportunities in construction tech in Q3 2022? For example, we haven’t yet partnered with any companies in robotics, procurement and finance, and labor management, but we’re seeing a lot of interesting early players emerge.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. It also expects revenues to double from last year as half-year revenues for 2022 have already surpassed full-year revenues for 2021.

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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. Ahmad Coucha and Khaled Nassef founded FlapKap in 2022; Sherif Bichara and Adel Hodroj are on the founding team.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s no coincidence that Enron happened in the late 2000s and that FTX occurred in 2022. As the bull market raged on from 2015 to 2022, it became quite trendy for venture capitalists to wave the requirement for an annual audit which is embedded in almost every standard Series A term sheet. Letting the Good Times Roll” .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By I am also an advocate of female founders investing in other female founders, especially given the low numbers of venture capital allocation to women, less than 2%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. Meanwhile, Jeeves says it has seen its revenue grow by 900% since its September raise and even more impressively, that in the first two months of 2022, it brought in more revenue than all of 2021. billion in annualized gross transaction volume (GTV).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

venture investment, totaling just over $4.3 Minuscule and even backward progress in creating a more fair venture market is dismissive of the importance of change, especially because significant economic progress is needed to help the Black community close the wealth gap. Black founders raised 1.3% of the $125 billion invested.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. No one raises venture money on a 7 out of 10. You might see headlines of financings that don’t make sense to you but trust me, I have worse deals sitting in by inbox.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

CB Insights released its global State of Venture report last week, while PitchBook issued its own U.S.-focused focused venture report. in the second quarter of 2022. In 2021, an estimated 21% of all venture deals were fintech. Hence its recent debt financing. And it wasn’t only funding. Everything was down.

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