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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. With Decagon, Nwobi is charting new territory in the fast-paced startup world after years of investing via his seed-stage firm called L5Lab. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5 also took part.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 17, 2020

Startups need capital to launch and grow. What many entrepreneurs don’t know is that startup capital comes in many different flavors. Here is a 2-page table summarizing each of the major flavors of capital, their pros, cons, and who they are good for. I hope you find it helpful!

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The funding aims to strengthen Fluid’s business-to-business purchase financing solutions. Fluid Series A round, led by Insignia Ventures Partners, is vital for the Singapore-based startup, known for its flexible B2B purchase financing platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Truebill , a startup offering a variety of tools to help users take control of their finances, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series C funding. When I first wrote about the startup in 2016 , it was focused on helping users track and cancel unwanted subscriptions.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Register Indonesian startup, Finfra, has secured $1 million in new funding to expand its embedded finance offerings. Finfra aims to address this gap by providing the necessary technology infrastructure for online businesses to offer embedded finance products.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

SunFi , the Nigerian clean tech startup that connects people and businesses who want solar energy access to payment plans that match their needs, has raised $2.325 million in seed funding. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup. Think about it. We’re the guys in the middle of all this,” Thomas said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Fintech startup StudentFinance — which allows educational institutions to offer success-based financing for students — has raised a $5.3 Existing investors Mustard Seed Maze and Seedcamp, along with Sabadell Venture Capital, also participated. million (€4.5 It’s now raised $6.6 million total, to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

He is passionate about changing working capital dynamics to make it the main source of cash for tech companies. Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best course of action? Revenue financing.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Twinco Capital , a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed angels.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a deeply researched report for TechCrunch+ , reporter Christine Hall examined the state of the cell-cultured meat industry and identified many of the startups innovating in the sector, along with the challenges they face when it comes to ramping up production and getting regulators and consumers on their side. “It

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 The seed funding round was led by Mumbai-headquartered Blume Ventures, with participation from Titan Capital, T-Fund, Speciale Invest, Bharat Founders Fund, T2D3, Amplify and Force Ventures.

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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

MAY 26, 2022

While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations , European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the U.S. The revenue-based lender says its pricing model and “pay-as-you-go” features set it apart from similar startups that have arisen in the last 18 months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Recurring revenue as an asset class is a relatively new concept, and made more popular by startups such as Pipe , which has built a marketplace connecting investors to companies with businesses that have predictable, recurring revenues. In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 million. . “A

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

As an entrepreneur or founder starting a business, you may think of capital as purely monetary. Capital is often viewed only as an opportunity for an infusion of money into a business to get it started or grow and scale your company. Many entrepreneurs leverage a uniquely laser-focused mindset to bring their vision into reality.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. New investors such as AfricInvest, MUFG Innovation Partners, Latitude and Kreos Capital participated. that same year. Image Credits: Moove.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. For Banyan, these inefficiencies in communication and monitoring are pain points it wants to solve with its purpose-built project finance software.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. Luther King Capital Management led the funding, which also included a group of high-net-worth individuals. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. They might not want to sell equity in their company, but often struggle to secure working capital loans from traditional financial institutions. The startup announced today that it has raised a $6.3

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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.

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500

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Startup founders often have ambitions not just to make money, but to change the world. Enter ImpactAIM Indonesia, a program forged from a partnership between 500 Startups and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). ImpactAIM Indonesia’s goal is to bridge the world of impact financing with the world of tech startups in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Yet, fittingly, when it came time to join Google full time, he turned down the offer to build an edtech startup — one that would help young professionals like him create continuous, daily structured learning but without it feeling like a chore. Activation edtech. Metrics and the market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Element Finance has raised a $32 million Series A round at a $320 million valuation. The company has been building a new DeFi (decentralized finance) protocol on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Polychain Capital is leading today’s funding round. So far, 9,000 users have tried Element Finance.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 The Karachi-based startup targets communities across sectors including agriculture, MSMEs, e-commerce, logistics, healthcare and others. If you look at the embedded finance space, it is a $167 billion opportunity,” Shaikh said in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A team of Google executives, many of whom worked with one another for years, left the company earlier this year to launch a startup. The fintech firm, Arbo Works, has raised a financing round led by Sequoia Capital India, the two said Thursday. But he offered some context around the opportunity the startup sees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. ” The firm’s past investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com also participated in the new round.

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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. This is an extraordinarily large and attractive place to deploy capital,” Van Horne, a managing partner at JPMorgan, told TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Masa Finance , a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau founded by Pngme CEO Brendan Playford in late 2020, has raised $3.5 Decentralized finance’s premise transcends this segment of banked people. Masa Finance is the result of these collective ventures. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. More recently, we have seen numerous new investment models and financing instruments, including shared earnings agreements and point-of-sale capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Recurring revenue financing (RRF) isn’t just a new package for lending, it’s a whole new model for financing a company, and that’s crucial. Recurring revenue financing treats your revenue as a tradable asset, which you then sell to investors. It can also be a great tool to use in addition to equity financing.

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