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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. Using AI, the editor — called Macro — pulls out key terms, sections and equations to make documents interactive and hyperlinked.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

I don’t think it matters what the obligation is — but rather — it’s an opportunity for the founders to supply their most passionate early supporters with information and ammunition to infuse into our conversations with downstream investors, potential candidates, and potential angels and BD prospects. Yes, of course.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

You also need to know who are the executors, trustees, and beneficiaries of all your parents’ legal documents. Documents such as wills, trusts, automobile titles, property deeds, insurance policies, tax returns, Powers of Attorney, healthcare directives (eg, DNR) . You certainly don’t want that to happen in your family.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

If you’re a business owner who has survived the conversion to remote work, you could have a lucrative opportunity in front of you: job demand. However, employment opportunities are scarce. Microsoft Teams, a platform that allows users to share documents, send messages and chat over video saw a 500 percent uptick in conference calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

We need more standardized tools if we’re going to “arm&# our sales teams with the tools they need to effectively do their jobs and we need to better “aim&# them at the right opportunities. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit. As a very early-stage startup person you’re used to rigorous prioritization.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If you’ve ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process. Ocrolus is a startup that is hoping to change that with an automation platform that it says analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy. It’s a lot. We wanted to create a new way of doing this.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And the process of borrowing money or financing asset purchases can be an eye-opener for those who are not used to today’s lender and seller aversion to grant easy credit. It is only smart to consider ways to mitigate risks when opportunities to do arise. All entrepreneurs assume risk when starting and growing a business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

With what she gained as Fellow, she took on the opportunity to prepare her team in Suriname to be part of the International Robotics Olympics. As someone who gave them an opportunity.”. Ashna has always been somebody who sees opportunity and acts on it. in-kind support”) instead of financing. The Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

To help the finance sector meet those demands, an Amsterdam-based startup called Fourthline has built a set of AI-based solutions to help with identity verification, help businesses comply with anti-money laundering rules and more. Some of these might be straightforward database checks, but others are very much complex moving targets.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Many universities (e.g., 5) Student-focused VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Working with writers to create documentation. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Communicating with the developers who write code.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If you are doubling down and want to take your best shot at making sure your business is still around in the next five to 10 years or more, here are four things you need to stop doing: Stop mixing business and personal finances . Not only will tax time become much easier, you may also find it easier to qualify for certain types of financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. This usually takes about a week.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

MONIX said that the outcome of their least funding round was a demonstration of the company’s strong growth in micro-finance lending on the path to IPO in the near future and soon becoming the market leader in Thailand’s digital lending arena. “We 1 financial application in Southeast Asia and become the best financial friend ever.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Bling Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Garage Capital also participated in the financing, along with angel investors such as AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, Jason Calacanis, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and other executives based in Silicon Valley. Now today, the startup behind that platform, Figure, announced it has raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. The most interesting opportunities we see are around modernizing legacy infrastructure, reducing friction, and improving the customer experience,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2024

If challenges are occurring in particular areas such as sales, marketing, human resources, or finance, look for consultants with expertise in those areas to benefit from their depth of knowledge. If no plans exist, this may be the opportunity to create one collaboratively with the consultant.

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Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

That can seem dire, but the new age also presents opportunities in hotly-contested secondaries. I do feel, however, we are in a unique time as it relates to capital 1) in the market and 2) focused on technology — and this has created never-before-seen conditions, mega-financings from traditionally public or indirect investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The challenges her father faced as a business owner in the construction industry always stayed in the back of her mind, so when Lin got the entrepreneurial itch, it was a natural move to help start a company that helped trade contractors better control their finances. And today that company, Siteline , is emerging from stealth with $18.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

It allows investor groups, which it calls “tribes,” to form LLCs, create operating documents, establish FDIC-insured bank accounts, and vote to make investment decisions, Smith said. There just isn’t any platform out there that helps you piece all these things together,” Smith said. Tribevest wants to be that platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. You should anticipate and plan for business, legal and other questions, and ensure your documents are in proper order. Set a date to close a funding round, stick with it, and circulate proper legal documentation ahead of time. We understand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Interestingly, that same survey — conducted by Caring.com — found that 50% more young adults (aged 18 to 34) had estate planning documents than before the pandemic. Lim added that Amex is not only investing in the company but also is excited “to explore opportunities to partner with them.” Sign up here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

On the fundraising side of things, there is no milestone more validating for a young company than securing your Series A financing. When raising a Series A, it’s recommended to create a data room that can feature your main deck and support documents that can tell a more holistic story of how your company is doing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Other participating investors in this financing round include existing ones such as Vibe VC and new investors Earl Grey Capital and Packy Mccormick’s Not Boring Capital. By going through Central Banks, we want to understand and agree on a common framework for the paperwork that documents that cements that trust,” the CEO said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Rising property prices in cities, coupled with a lack of financing options, mean more people have to delay buying their first homes unless they have family support. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Nomad Homes is creating its own MLS for the region and applies technology to the expertise provided by local customer services experts to provide home buyers with all of the information they need, from the initial search to financing and signing all of the documents.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The financing will be used to dial up OfficeRnD’s marketing with the aim of expanding market share, including by growing its partnerships. A lot of companies we know have grown yet kept the same lease on their office and now realize they want to use it differently and provide more opportunities to their employees”.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. Participating in an accelerator allows you to join a community of other startups in the program, be provided with networking opportunities, and have the chance to elicit feedback from your peers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you ask Perttu Ojansuu, the answer is an intranet, or a company-specific, digital portal that centralizes much of a businesses’ software and documentation in one place. Beyond this, the service — which integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — offers a place to host shared files and documents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Exo , pronounced “echo,” raised a fresh cash infusion of $220 million in Series C financing aimed at commercializing its handheld ultrasound device and point-of-care workflow platform, Exo Works. Exo then adds in its Exo Works, the workflow platform, that streamlines exam review, documentation and billing in under one minute.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Staff Accountant position reports directly to the Vice President and Director of Finance and works closely with other divisions of the company to provide accounting and financial support services to the organization and its subsidiaries. Assists VP and Director of Finance with other accounting and financial duties as assigned.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Armed Services.” .

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