TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

AppDirect, a San Francisco- and Montreal-based platform for buying, selling and managing tech through a network of IT advisors, has raised $100 million from CDPQ to expand its financing program for small- and medium-sized tech businesses. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The sessions provided a platform for in-depth discussions and collaboration talks between startup representatives and notable participants, including government investment agencies like the Korea Startup Agency and Korea Growth Finance , alongside venture capital and accelerator representatives from MYSC and The Invention Lab.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Back in February, we started calling for content — urging startup subject-matter experts to submit applications to lead roundtable discussions or breakout sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Audience Choice voting opens Now comes the part where you, dear readers, play a major role.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

In 2023, it’s back under a new moniker. Why Bootstrapping Is No Longer a Dirty Word in 2023 with Carey Smith (Unorthodox Ventures) and Hussein Yahfoufi (Arta Finance) It’s possible to build huge companies without venture money. Disrupt 2023 runs September 19–21 in San Francisco. Seriously, what are you waiting for?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

September 21, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the establishment of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) which will work to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Do you expect to see more down rounds in 2023? Private market valuations, at any point in time, are not only a reflection of a team’s hard work and progress, but are also impacted by the financing environment. How many will not manage the task in 2023? What are you most excited about in the fintech space?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. What steps are you taking to better prepare for 2023? How are you advising your portfolio companies going into 2023?

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 2, 2023

In this blog post, we'll look at the top entrepreneurship blogs in 2023. This blog covers a wide range of topics, including business news, marketing, finance, leadership, and more. This blog covers topics such as business planning, financing, marketing, and more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. And while Nagpal agrees that there’s no “north star” company that has shown how to tackle finance literacy at scale, he’s hoping that Ocho’s 10-person team may just have a not-so-boring wedge that changes that. Image Credits: Ocho.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

We spoke to a diverse array of investors about finance-focused proptech and the move towards greener proptech. Construction tech would fall into the buckets of planning and execution in the examples I just gave, and could also touch financing (for things like construction loans) and repair.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 2, 2023

In this blog post, we'll look at the top entrepreneurship blogs in 2023. This blog covers a wide range of topics, including business news, marketing, finance, leadership, and more. This blog covers topics such as business planning, financing, marketing, and more.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

QED-led extension brings total for Series D round to $142M CHICAGO, IL – September 13, 2023 – Kin, the direct-to-consumer home insurance company built for every new normal, today announced the closing of a $33 million Series D extension. Kin is also succeeding in geographies where other legacy insurers are either leaving or stalling growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. The model predicts about $30b in early stage VC in 2023 (assuming a 10 year rate of 3.7%). In the past two years, the correlation has grown stronger from -0.46 correlation to -0.51. for only 2 variables.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Analysts polled by Yahoo finance expected revenue of $1 billion and an adjusted earning per share loss of $1.36. Rivian also lowered costs through layoffs in 2022 and 2023 that reduced payroll and other expenses. Rivian reported a net loss of $1.19 billion compared to a $1.7 billion loss in Q2 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

The business climate in 2023 will be unfamiliar to many who founded a company in the past decade. Equity financing is no longer cheap and plentiful, and as drought strikes, a sense of anxiety will grip founders. We need to destigmatize down rounds in 2023 by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 ” The firm said that deal volume, dollar volume and deal size for financings of life sciences companies also continued to decline in Q3 2022 compared to Q2 2022 and 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Vartana also secured a $50 million line of credit from i80 Group, which Kella says will ensure financed deals can be managed through Vartana’s new capital marketplace. Image Credits: Vartana On the capital marketplace side, Vartana-developed algorithms normalize data, rate each buyer and extend debt financing offers.

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Secure Docs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Financial sponsors are still sitting on over a trillion dollars in dry powder, but headwinds include a tougher regulatory environment, more expensive financing, and a widening gap between buyer and seller. 2023 is the year of cautious optimism.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Its first service is Adelanta, a revenue-based financing offering that leverages Arrenda’s proprietary technology to enable landlords in Mexico to advance up to a year of future lease receivables in 24 hours or less. million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

It is difficult to quote a specific number for salary, as that is a combination of the level of financing the company has raised, the experience of the CEO, and their financial obligations. Patrick Salyer, partner, Mayfield Fund What kind of opportunities are you looking for in April 2023? Would you back a founder who has a second job?

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 1, 2023

Biography: Vlad Kozul Vlad started his career in finance having done a bachelor’s at Cass business school in London and a master’s at ESCP in Paris specializing in finance. He speaks both French and English and has previous experience working in finance on the buy and sell side.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuations down even further in 2023. We need to destigmatize down rounds in 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

AI startup Fourthline locks down $54 million to bring better ID checks and compliance tools to the finance sector, Ingrid reports. Still going : Rivian will stick to its 2023 production goal for EVs , despite a quarterly dip, Kirsten reports. Who are ya? :

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 17, 2023

Manage your finances: As a digital nomad, you will need to keep track of your finances and expenses. Consider opening an online bank account and using online tools to manage your finances. These are just a few of the many digital tools and apps available to digital nomads in 2023.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Funding Will Grow Medication Adherence Services for Medicaid and Other Under-resourced Populations Baltimore, MD (April 12, 2023) – Scene Health , the leading medication engagement company, has closed an oversubscribed $17.7 This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The investment arm of the UK retail bank M&G has led a funding of $340 million into Udaan, a business-to-business e-commerce startup, in one of the largest financing rounds secured by an Indian startup in 2023. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

February 16, 2023 – Avilar Therapeutics , a biopharmaceutical company focused on extracellular protein degradation, today announced it has raised additional funding with an expanded syndicate of new investors to support advancing a pipeline of first-in-class extracellular protein degraders. For more information, please visit www.racap.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Tamara, a buy now pay later platform for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, has raised $340 million in a financing round that values the fintech at $1 billion. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on the state of the venture capital market in 2023 and, most recently, the fourth quarter of 2023. Long story short, it was a terrible year for raising capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Founded in 2015, Yieldstreet gives people a way to invest in areas like real estate, marine/shipping, legal finance, commercial loans and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 25, 2023

Preparing for a recession involves taking steps to protect yourself and your finances from potential economic downturns. If building a startup is hard enough try adding a recession to it. I have been through techstars and so know how hard it really is!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

billion yuan ($340 million) in total financing […] © 2023 TechCrunch. While the U.S. has spawned notable players like OpenAI and Anthropic, China has its own emerging candidates. One of these foundation model developers, Zhipu AI, announced today that it has raised 2.5 All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Having alerted customers to more than 36 million such instances in 2023 alone, the solution is purpose-built to empower environmental health and safety (EHS) teams to drive changes that enhance efficiency, streamline compliance, and ultimately help prevent workplace incidents without compromising worker privacy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023. Score : 0.5. 3 KnowBe4 4.6

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