TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Singapore is home to fewer than six million people, making it one of the smallest ASEAN countries, in terms of population.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

On Wednesday, October 19, I’m moderating “How to take the BS out of your TAM,” a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. Aydin Senkut, founder and managing partner, Felicis Ventures. Deena Shakir, partner Lux Capital. Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

To help them along, one construction tech-focused venture capital firm is eager to fund a new generation of startups in the space. Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. The company also plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product road map and toward business development efforts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Boast.ai , a company that plugs into business systems and automatically finds them R&D tax breaks, announced Wednesday it has raised a $100 million credit facility from Brevet Capital to advance those R&D incentives. I was curious as to why these companies chose to go after debt/credit as opposed to raising venture capital. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. Julio Vasconcellos.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. Cities like Miami, Pittsburgh and Austin have been drawing talent and wealth from Silicon Valley for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the trend.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

To that end, the company on Wednesday announced a partnership with Techstars to extend Brex services to companies within the accelerator, following similar tie-ups with Y Combinator and AngelList. Glyman and Kote shared how they’re working to preserve capital, while Blader offered up some of the advice she’s giving to her portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 million since its inception in 2015.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, that new $6 billion valuation, is up 50% from the $4 billion it was valued at last November when it raised $200 million in Series D financing. Secondly, it’s further proof that mortgage – a traditionally “unsexy” industry that has long been in need of disruption – is officially hot.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Previous backers include Sequoia Capital, SilverLake, Dragoneer and Ant Group, among others. The latest financing cements 16-year-old Klarna’s position as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe. and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. The new valuation represents a 47.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

Last week, I talked with Airbase founder and CEO Thejo Kote about the fact that the company just secured $150 million in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Companies close credit lines all the time, but the reasons behind the moves are often more interesting than the financings in and of themselves. Hence its recent debt financing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”. And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. For context, the company’s model is similar to that of Deliverr and ShipBob.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. have already dipped their toes into similar alternatives at brick-and-mortar stores.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

First, TechCrunch Disrupt will be in person this year, and today is the last day to raise your hand to speak. Getting in on a growing market : The International Finance Corp. Sunny days are here again : India’s SolarSquare has raised $4 million to accelerate the country’s move toward clean energy. Now, isn’t that refreshing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. Berkley and Menlo Ventures. Like any legacy industry being disrupted there are many players trying to ride the wave of ‘embedded’ by rebranding their 1.0

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption across many domains. “We Continuity & Disruption Mitigation – Remote working, Distance learning, Robotic Process Automation, Home exercise, Cybersecurity, etc. This worldwide crisis presents the greatest challenge yet faced by digital technology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The startup will use the latest funding to advance its functionalities on top of the NPP’s PayTo framework and accelerate its international expansion, starting with New Zealand, driven by growing demand for Zepto’s infrastructure in the region, Jewell said. After New Zealand, Zepto wants to enter the U.S. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

In recent years, the tech and venture scene in Latin America has been growing at an accelerated pace. Today, Volpe Capital announced the $80 million first close of its fund targeting high growth technology investments in Latin America. Global investors are not only pouring money into companies. They’re also investing in funds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Justos also plans to use artificial intelligence and computerized vision to analyze and process claims more quickly and machine learning for image analysis and to create bots that help accelerate claims processing. . The company also has a social good component.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. We knew a relationship with TransUnion in particular had the capacity to significantly accelerate our business,” he said. Spring Labs is one of them.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

But recent trends only reinforce the importance of understanding how valuations are set in SPAC deals, which we believe will continue to reshape the market for venture capital exits. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have accelerated the path to public markets for privately held companies.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

But recent trends only reinforce the importance of understanding how valuations are set in SPAC deals, which we believe will continue to reshape the market for venture capital exits. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have accelerated the path to public markets for privately held companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. ” As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

While we’re on the topic of payments, Goldman Sachs and Modern Treasury announced they are partnering “to accelerate the shift to embedded payments, helping joint customers embed and scale payments into products.” FIS has launched Worldpay for Platforms, an embedded finance solution aimed at SMBs. See you next week!

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. Laura González-Estéfani. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

RPA market surges as investors, vendors capitalize on pandemic-driven tech shift. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Just a year ago, digitally native brands had fallen out of favor with venture capitalists after so many failed to create venture-scale returns.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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