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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

The products include access to capital, spend management, and savings tools. Backers include the Rounds lead N otable Capita l, with significant participation from Redpoint Ventures and existing investors Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, and GIC. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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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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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. The value prop is pretty clear.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

TechCrunch

Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. Families with money can access the banks, but you can’t launch a business without capital, and many owners lack that access to banks.”.

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EU-based digital assets platform Finoa inks $22M Series A funding led by Balderton Capital

TechCrunch

The round was led by Balderton Capital, alongside existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor. ” “Being in the European Union requires a fundamentally different organizational setup, and poses a very high entry to new incumbents and other players overseas.

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Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion

TechCrunch

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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Australian fintech Zeller lands $50M AUD led by Spark Capital at a $400M AUD valuation

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million USD) led by Spark Capital, the investment firm whose portfolio also includes Twitter, Slack and Coinbase. The funding included participation from returning investors Square Peg, Apex Capital Partners and Addition, and brings Zeller’s total raised in under a year to $81 million AUD.

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