American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Mosaic, which aims to change the way CFOs of high-growth companies operate, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Founders Fund. The trio moved on to other senior finance roles at companies such as Piazza, Axoni and Everlaw before teaming back up to create Mosaic. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. However, a Kenyan B2B management startup founded by Yacob Berhane and Wossen Ayele wants to close the gap on three of the six factors — access to capital, knowledge, and talent.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Board will work to increase capital to minority-owned startups, create diverse innovation economy WOODBRIDGE, N.J. The board will provide knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs. Harmon, Sr.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Yin Wu, a three-time YC alum, is founder of Pulley , which offers cap table management tools that help companies better understand and optimize their equity. As a founder, you will understand less than investors when it comes to fundraising. For investors, negotiating with founders is their full-time job. Contributor.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. One truth is that successfully raising capital from a VC firm is a huge milestone in the life of a startup. That’s a problem for a number of reasons. Where VCs get their money.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. or incorporated here to raise capital. International founders typically have some combination of these three reasons: a) Access to capital The number one answer is access to capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. The company has tripled its revenue since its previous funding round in June 2022 and is expecting continued revenue growth with this new capital.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2021

million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. As a serial founder, Nwobi ran a couple of tech businesses, most notably mobile internet company MTech in the early 2000s. For its equity financing, Decagon raised money from Kepple Africa and Timon Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase , which provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS and comparable recurring-revenue companies. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. But in recent years, more options have become available to founders. What is revenue-based financing?

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

This post highlights what has happened and what might be coming for investors and founders. And what does this mean for founders? For founders, valuation resets often mean “down rounds” where unrealized employee wealth evaporates seemingly overnight, with the corresponding morale problem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. As part of the investment, Ravi Adusumalli, founder and managing partner at Elevation Capital, will join Zeni’s board. The company has now raised $47.5

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Over that time, ABS Capital has invested more than $2.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Early-stage startups are increasingly looking for alternative ways to access capital, meaning not every company wants to raise money from VCs or take on debt. Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. When you’re running your own venture — especially if it’s your first — it’s unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase. He is passionate about changing working capital dynamics to make it the main source of cash for tech companies. Choosing the right financing partner can be tedious, as they need to align with your mission, values and objectives. The evolution of alternative financing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It has now raised an additional $45 million in growth capital, in a round led by DN Capital Group (which has also backed Auto1, HomeToGo, and Shazam, previously). Also participating is Cherry Ventures, Soravia, Kreos Capital, TruVenturo and Scope Hanson. Co-leading the investment is Headline (formerly eventures).

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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 3, 2023

The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital. Think about it.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc. Lewis & Clark Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Knollwood Investment Advisory, WTI, Bronze and Square co-founder Sam Wen also participated in the Series A financing.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Jeshua’s audacious adventure unfolded during the pandemic, where he traveled to over 55 countries, joining Accelerating Asia and Decacorn Capital to dive deeper into the world of disruptive technology-led innovations. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets. Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is a popular source of capital for early-stage startups, but it’s definitely not the only one. Debt is an increasingly popular alternative, as is non-dilutive, revenue-based financing. Hurst unfortunately had a power outage so was not available for the entirety of the panel).

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Embedded finance — the idea of offering financial products where customers are already congregating via white label solutions and APIs – isn’t an entirely new concept. And merchants benefit from speedy access to working capital. Liberis, the embedded finance provider for SMEs, raises additional £70M in debt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Earlier this month, we reported that investors’ sentiments surrounding venture capital activity going into this were more reserved than upbeat. Partech: The venture capital outfit pegged funding for African tech at $6.5 When these companies have at least one male co-founder, the number increases to 9.7%. billion in 681 rounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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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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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

MAY 25, 2022

Harry Hurst is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pipe. 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. How founders are using RRF.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Register Investment firm Heritas Capital has announced the successful first close of Asia Impact First Fund (AIFF) with $20 million in total commitment. This allows the fund to take a patient stance when investing in social enterprises, in comparison with traditional financing options which prioritise short-term profitability metrices.

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