TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay, which was valued at $3 billion in a financing round in April this year, has courted one more high-profile investor: Salesforce Ventures. Razorpay said on Monday it has received a “strategic investment” from the venture arm of the American enterprise giant. The investment will help the startup “further strengthen its presence in the business banking space,” it said.
Angel Capital Association
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer As new developments unfold regarding President Biden's proposed tax increases, the Angel Capital Association, in collaboration with our partners at GrayRobinson , pledges to keep our members updated with information as it becomes available. ACA, along with our Public Policy team, is working diligently to continue to protect our members and angels in the startup ecosystem.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. Botch it and you risk looking unprofessional. Hire a traditional agency and you might be wasting time and money. Australian growth marketing agency Ammo , in contrast, wants to make sure that its clients aren’t overinvesting nor underinvesting.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Kai-Fu Lee. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kai-Fu Lee is a co-author of AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future. The global pandemic has heightened our understanding and sense of importance of our own health and the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. We’ve all come to realize how archaic many of our health processes are, and that, if we really want to, we can move at lightning speed.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Startups will be competing for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and the attention of international press and top investors from around the world.
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Family members start a major portion of new businesses launched in the U.S. every year. Brothers come to mind, of course, when it comes to family business. Whatever the family ties, however, starting a business with a spouse, parents, siblings, children or other family members presents unique challenges over and above the usual problems a startup faces.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it works to broaden its product offerings. Sequoia Capital India and Think Investments co-led the 18-month-old startup’s Series B financing round. Existing investors Elevation Capital and Beenext also participated in the round, which brings FloBiz ‘s all-time raise to more than $41 million.
Smart Hustle Magazine
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, most small businesses got affected. Now, things are improving and more and more business owners are expecting good growth. According to the latest Cox Small Business Snapshot report, 60% of minority small business owners say that they have returned or exceeded their pre-pandemic levels. What’s more, 90% of respondents are hopeful about business growth in the next year.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Airwallex — which provides business banking services directly to businesses themselves as well as via a set of APIs that power other companies’ fintech products — has raised $200 million, a Series E round of funding that values the Australian startup at $
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Facetune developer Lightricks , which operates over a dozen subscription-based photo and video editing apps across iOS and Android, now has $130 million in new funding to further grow its business. The company’s newly announced Series D round includes $100 million in primary and $30 million in secondary funding, and now values the company at $1.8 billion.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Four years later, Westermann moved to the U.S. from Austria to introduce MySugr stateside before the company was acquired by Roche for $100 million in 2017.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Flippa , an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. OneVentures led the round and was joined by existing investors Andrew Walsh (former Hitwise CEO), Flippa co-founders Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz, 99designs, as well as new investors Catch.com.au founders Gabby and Hezi Leibovich; RetailMeNot.co
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff reveals the results of a new survey about the Great Resignation afoot in America right now. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about why people are planning to quit and which industries are most affected: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Fivetran , the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on a $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration competitor that had raised more than $50 million, for $700 million in cash and stock. The company last raised a $100 million Series C on a $1.2 billion valuation, increasing the valuation by over 5x.
Feedough
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Small businesses in the U.S. now have a new way to source home and lifestyle goods from new manufacturers. Bzaar , a business-to-business cross-border marketplace, is connecting retailers with over 50 export-ready manufacturers in India. The U.S.-based company announced Monday that it raised $4 million in seed funding, led by Canaan Partners, and including angel investors Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, PhonePe founders Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, Addition founder Lee Fixel and Helion Ventur
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
DailyPay Inc., a payroll services provider, has hired a chief compliance officer in Jane Levine, who most recently worked at Sotheby’s. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in Bloomberg Law] DailyPay Wage Access App Gets Former Sotheby’s Compliance Head appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The decreasing cost of launch and a slew of other tech innovations have brought about a renaissance in geospatial intelligence, with multiple startups aiming to capture higher-quality and more frequent images of Earth than have ever before been available. Most of these startups, however, are focused on using satellites to collect data. Not so for Near Space Labs , a four-year-old company that instead aims to gather geospatial intelligence from the stratosphere, using small autonomous wind-powere
OurCrowd
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Ivy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute, the largest early-phase drug development program for brain cancer in the world, and SonALAsense, a pioneer in developing non-invasive sonodynamic therapy (SDT) for managing fatal cancers so patients can become survivors, today announced positive initial results of the first-in-human Phase 0/1 clinical trial of SDT in recurrent glioblastoma patients.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Picking up where we left off Friday , let’s spend some more time in the GitLab IPO filing. It’s going to be an IPO week, mind; Toast and Freshworks are set to price Tuesday after the close of trading and begin to float on Wednesday. Expect final notes on the value of each and reports on how they trade when they do. The Exchange will also try to get on calls with the CEOs.
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