TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Some include U.K.’s We’re looking to develop that as we go,” he noted.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Getting capital in the earliest stages continues to get easier.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

April users connect their payroll, bank statements, mortgage, prior year’s tax return and other finance apps to the platform and then tell April about significant tax events over the past year (e.g., ” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. moving to another state).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The startup, which is out to give brands and tech companies a way to launch custom co-branded credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital. Other investors include the owners and management of the Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics and existing backers such as Accomplice and Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

These platforms have become popular with neobanks or upstarts in different segments trying to embed financial services into their offerings because large, incumbent banks have been relatively slow to bring their services up to speed with the pace of change in the world of tech and banking. The situation is no different in Africa.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Their goal was to create a strategic finance platform for the enterprise that had the look and feel of a consumer offering. So Singh ended up assembling a 10-person “shadow finance and ops team” to get “the right information at the right time.”. Talk about validation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Led by Lindsay Holden, the startup had raised more than $20 million in funding and had built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

government’s own reported school financing data, and established that schools spend around £2 billion ($2.2 And with another chunk of change in the bank, it’s now well-financed to expand further into the U.S. Zen Educate platform Image Credits: Zen Educate. Show me the money. And in the U.S., billion transaction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology.

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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.”. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” The round, led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, Emerson Collective, Plural VC and more, came together in less than 24 hours, Yahyaoui noted.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

TA Ventures, Jiji, u.ventures and AVentures Capital also participated. Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech. Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. VC funding into private fintech companies crossed $134 billion in 2021, rising by 177% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. How can fintech startups outlast the VC winter? Reports Fintech Finance News: Turkish fintech company “ Papara. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. Reports CFO Dive : “Wilmington N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. At TechCrunch Early Stage, Managing Editor Matt Burns hosted Lotti Siniscalco, a partner at Emergence Capital, for a session on pitch deck basics. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. Capitolis valued at $1.6B

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. VC return expectations might deliver valuations that a founder perceives as too low. In some cases, this is postponing the inevitable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The first iteration of the app launched last August, and in the intervening months the company raised an “over-subscribed” $700,000 pre-seed round of funding from backers including early-stage Swiss venture capital (VC) firm Wingman Ventures, as well as U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank. Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Visa), regulation, and compliance,” he told me at the time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. The financing brings NorthOne’s fundraising total to $90.3 Ultimately, the company’s goal is to give its business the “control, clarity and confidence” they need to better manage their finances.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, in first quarter 2015, 55% of all American venture rounds were either seed or Series A, split almost evenly, while 19% of all rounds were Series B (the third round of financing), according to data from CB Insights. So more of these companies march into the wide mouth of the funnel. Because the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It’s clear that Neeva has its work cut out if it’s to differentiate in a market that includes long-established billion-dollar incumbents, and other agile startups, with much the same goals. million in venture capital funding from Silicon Valley VC heavyweights including Sequoia Capital and Greylock.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Band 1 is the private capital cohort. They are willing to pay more for startups than the private capital crew. Though Band 1 likes to blame Band 2 for not being willing to pay Band 3 prices, it always sounds like the private capital folks are merely complaining about sharing some of the winnings with another party.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. The deal fell through at the last minute and ADT chose not to continue financing the company, which was forced to shut down. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

has raised $ 30 million in new capital to help these individuals not only adjust to – but feel comfortable and “thrive” in – their new environment. based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s s SB Opportunity Fund. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round. Participating VCs include Picus Capital, LoftyInc Capital, Rallycap Ventures, Kepple Africa, Berrywood Capital, ZedCrest and Suya Ventures. Sudo collects card production and personalization fees cheaper than incumbents’, claims Shittu.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

One day, I’m hearing personal accounts of VCs pulling term sheets at the last minute, with some citing that their own investors had backed out of providing funds, leaving founders scrambling to save a round — and face. One day, I’m having a fintech-focused VC tell me they haven’t invested in any startups since last October.

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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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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent?

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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. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio. Rafi Carmeli , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This meant that Boden, who had struggled to raise traditional venture capital from VCs in London and beyond, could focus on recruiting a new team and building out the infrastructure required to launch an actual bank. She paid a high price, giving away a majority stake in the process.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. However, for capital intensive transportation companies, the rounds have gotten so huge and expensive that they often make little sense for early-stage funders to participate in (they get diluted down hugely). It’s often quite capital intensive, though.

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