StartupNation

JULY 16, 2025

However, its growing popularity reflects fundamental changes in how businesses access financing, particularly as traditional lenders pull back. Still, this form of financing is no panacea. Building Business Credit: Your Roadmap to Financing Success The Hidden Costs and Cautions Expensive Borrowing Flexibility comes at a price.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 21, 2025

I have worked in finance and well as been though Techstars and have seen it all in the world of startups. FounderBounty Vlad Kozul Its hard enough to build a business but here are some of the positives: 1) the support 2) the network you need. The answer is YES. If you get an offer from YC , take it How to build a $20M fuel business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Deep learning takes this a step further as an advanced subset of ML, using complex "neural network" structures to decipher highly intricate patterns in massive datasets. AI automation builds much-needed muscle and foresight into these complex networks. The most recent update was in June 2025.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. Books Finance Robust accounting software to manage your entire financial operations, stay compliant, and grow your business. Practice Finance Practice management software for streamlining accounting workflows.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2025

The Resilience of Blue-Collar Industries: Unlike tech or finance, industries like construction and home services are less susceptible to rapid technological disruption. Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Find free courses, mentorship, networking and grants created just for small businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

You can create links between multiple notes by simply typing in double brackets around keywords, and as this heterarchical network expands, you can comfortably visualize it and understand it better on a graph view, where nodes are connected based on their relations rather than just proximity, like folders.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

In finance, for instance, AI analyzes structured data from financial databases to identify subtle trends, assess credit risks with greater accuracy, or detect anomalies that might indicate fraud. Deep learning—a subset of machine learning—employs neural networks with many layers to analyze various forms of data.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. GetVantage says this includes several debt lines with non-banking financial companies to help scale its financing platform. For founders without the right network, it’s hard to find investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

million, according to Yahoo Finance data. Its deals have included Cloudmark , Weblife , OberserveIT , and Meta Networks , all deals valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The news comes at the same time that Proofpoint had released its Q1 earnings , in which it reported revenues of $287.8 million, up 15% versus $249.8

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Doppler today announced that it raised $20 million in Series A financing to further develop its secret-syncing capabilities. billion by 2025. “After substantial research, [I started] working on a ‘SecretsOps’ platform designed for developers and their teams [that became Doppler.” ” Launching Doppler. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. The continent’s investment story.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2022

PayMaya is the only fintech serving all segments of consumers and enterprises with a widely used consumer e-wallet app, the leading enterprise payment processing business, and the most extensive on-ground agent network, Smart Padala.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Add to that social consciousness and entrepreneurial drive the fact that millennials will make up some 75% of the workforce by 2025, and it’s clear that social entrepreneurship — funded by impact investing — is going to be a major force in the economy. . Their annual turnover outperformed that of businesses started by boomers by 43%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Jersey City, New Jersey, is working with Oonee to create a holistic network of secure bike parking , with 30 protected lockers located near bus stops that can be used to store bikes and scooters, as well as doubling as transit shelters by offering covered seating. billion through 2025 into software and electrification. through 2030.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Cohen estimates that sales in the quantum cryptography market will top $24B by 2025. Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved. See some opportunities below: Finance Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis for DailyPay (NY). Introductions. Job Vacancies. Job Vacancies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 Toss joined the unicorn club with its $80 million financing at a valuation of $ 1.2 trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5 billion (8.5 trillion won) valuation. billion in 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

eFishery’s comprehensive ecosystem encompasses the entire aquaculture value chain, from seeds to financing. With the recent Series D funding, eFishery aims to expand its community of fish and shrimp farmers, with a target of reaching over 1 million aquaculture ponds in Indonesia by 2025.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. CEO Gómez pointed out that Latin America has gone from being a laggard when it comes to e-commerce to being home to the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market, which is estimated at over $100 billion and expected to double by 2025. So, just how does it work?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

On Wednesday, the startup announced the close of a $10 million Series A financing round led by Felix Capital. The startup relies on a network of manufacturing partners and suppliers based in the U.S., The report projected that by 2025, there’d be more than 4.5 Noissue, which mainly operates in the U.S., Canada, the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a more diverse merchant network to Square,” Alex notes. “It Developers may delight in solving complex technical problems, but the problem of a career path is one many don’t think much about, Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar writes in a guest column. That seems like a lot. In the U.S.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

This will be a 45 GWh-capacity site that is expected to launch production operations in Q1 2024, and be fully operational by 2025. . Kyte raised $200 million in asset-backed credit financing from Goldman Sachs and Ares Global Management to pay for new vehicles that will fuel the on-demand car rental startup’s expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Over the past 18 months, the company has been building out its distribution and agent networks. “The first phase is building agent networks which is good but that’s not the goal,” CEO Adejana said to TechCrunch. But Adejana says Bankly is working with these regulators towards a more realistic target of 2025.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance. short haul aviation and shipping).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Other deals that got my attention … Arrival secured a $300 million equity financing line from Westwood Capital to help it stay in business into late 2023, but no later — not unless it can raise more funds with fewer strings attached. I’m betting it’s the latter. where it can build XL delivery vans.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These public comments could be very important because the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance is considering recommending that the SEC propose amendments to Regulation D , including updates to the accredited investor definition, and to Form D, that would improve protections for investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

PhonePe has previously said that it plans to raise up to $1 billion as part of the ongoing financing round. “We PhonePe, to be sure, is the clear leader in the mobile payments market on UPI, a network built by a coalition of retail banks in India. Seven-year-old PhonePe commands about 50% of all these transactions. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Walmart-backed PhonePe has said previously that it plans to raise up to $1 billion as part of the ongoing financing round. “We PhonePe, to be sure, is the clear leader in the mobile payments market on UPI, a network built by a coalition of retail banks in India. Seven-year-old PhonePe commands about 50% of all these transactions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It comprises $6 million equity and $24 million in debt financing. . In an interview, Oja mentioned that they created the car subscription model to cater to private individuals ignored by South African banks when they need vehicle financing. Planet42 has a cohesive network of automobile industry stakeholders on its platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Investors in SiCepat’s Series B include Falcon House Partners; Kejora Capital; DEG (the German Development Finance Institution); Telkom Indonesia’s investment arm MDI Ventures; Indies Capital; Temasek Holdings subsidiary Pavilion Capital; Trihill Capital; and Daiwa Securities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

General Atlantic has poured another $100 million in PhonePe, three months after leading a $350 million investment in the Indian fintech startup that has so far raised $750 million in an ongoing financing round. However, the NPCI has extended the deadline for compliance until 2025, allowing PhonePe two more years of rapid expansion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Gozem , a super app that provides a host of services — including transport, e-commerce and financial services in Francophone Africa — has raised $5 million in Series A financing, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. firm Plug and Play Ventures, Launch Africa, BANSEA and Virtual Network. Image Credits: Gozem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Jarkata-based Astro, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery, has recently closed a $60 million Series B financing round, lifting its total funding to $90 million since the business launched just nine months ago. The e-grocery delivery market in Indonesia is projected to reach $6 billion by 2025.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Many small businesses have adopted a hybrid working environment, so it’s crucial to have things like consistent internet speed for video conferencing, built-in network redundancy to ensure backup connectivity, accessible-from-anywhere cloud storage and regular, automatic backups to data security. Business Finances in 2021. million U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

What’s really impressive with this round is that it is primarily financed by existing investors,” Lydia co-founder and CEO Cyril Chiche told me. Users can get a virtual or physical debit card that works on the Visa network. By 2025, the company hopes that 10 million customers in Europe will use Lydia as their primary account.

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