TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. ” The round is being led by Stripes, with Valar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Rainfall Ventures, and BoxGroup — all of whom backed Novo in its $40 million Series A , just six months ago — also participating. . Despite being the heart of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today, psychedelic therapeutics are being used to treat a variety of mental health issues. With VCs pulling back on the reins, valuations slipping, and 2021’s hype fading, founders are finding themselves working harder to raise capital than they were in 2021, Alex Wilhelm found in his analysis of early data from DocSend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Bill Trenchard, partner at First Round Capital, met Wynn while he was still with Sheltr.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. and Mexico. As a result, they may have to sell.”. from the previous quarter” to $24.1

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. In addition, investors will seek under-explored areas to finance, looking for great returns. Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Previous backers were Passion Capital and Investec. Tim Holliday, a founding employee who is now the chairman, has been integral also to understanding what the company can use tech to tackle in terms of incumbency: he has a longstanding record as an executive in the industry. The logic was that U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

That includes managing payroll, taxes, employment, compliance and providing work equipment as well as helping businesses come up with competitive compensation plans and offering health, dental and vision insurance. million in capital in a round that closed in February. That makes up about 90% of the startup’s business.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Co was created earlier this year by the merger of Geru, an eight-year-old o nline lender, and Rebel, a four-year-old startup using AI and bank account data to underwrite risk and assess clients’ financial health. Its aim is to “finance consumption for Brazilians in a healthy way.” Naturally, it will also be doing some hiring.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries. The report says 36% of all-time funding reported by the health supply chain startups it profiled was raised in the last 12 months.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That idea ended up being the genesis of what is today Intus Care , a healthcare analytics startup that aims to synthesize financial, clinical and administrative data to identify trends in long-term care facilities by integrating with electronic health record, claims and accounting software to highlight clinical risks in elderly patients.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions , patient health records and user device logs. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service. ” Recently, DynamoFL closed a small seed round ($4.15

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and health care and just generally feeling lost. has raised $ 30 million in new capital to help these individuals not only adjust to – but feel comfortable and “thrive” in – their new environment.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Connie Loizos sat down with Jason Green of leading enterprise-focused firm Emergence Capital to get his view of SPACs , and how they are likely to be used next year and beyond. I think that’s what’s required to build a relationship and the conviction, because financings are happening so fast. Virtual fundraising is here to stay.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today a startup that has been focusing on one specific aspect of payments — recurring billing — is announcing a round of funding to capitalize on that growth with expansion of its own.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. practice of employer sponsored health care coverage. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). As Brex has scaled, so have their customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Adi Levanon Chazan , partner, Flint Capital. Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital. Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Mix in the impending SPAC-led debut of eToro, general bullishness in the cryptocurrency space, record highs for some equities markets, and recent rounds from Public.com, M1 Finance and U.K.-based Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. The new capital came less than a year after Brex raised $150 million at a $2.9

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He talks about his view that maybe democracy [and capitalism are just going to eat each other alive. Ezra Klein : You’re talking here about electronic health records. It’s a fun interesting conversation.

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