TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The company seems confident that its model can apply to many verticals beyond SaaS, which is where it started. Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. Women in Fintech.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. We started a pilot and it is going well,” MarketForce CEO and co-founder Mbaabu told TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2022

Register Dianxiaomi, the parent company of BigSeller, Southeast Asia’s ecommerce enabler, has raised US$100 million in its Series C financing round led by Huaxing Growth Capital and Tiger Global Management along with participation from existing investors CDH Investments, GGV Capital, and Gaorong Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. Ghost Financial founder John Meyer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But co-founder and CEO David Cancel did say the SaaS company saw 70% growth in its annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020 compared to the year prior and is on target for a similar metric this year. based unicorns with Latin founders and serve as an inspiration for other entrepreneurs of Latin descent.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S. The region, Architect maintains, does not have a plethora of institutional financing available against assets. and Latin America, but with an emphasis on the latter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The new round follows quickly behind a $23 million Series D extension the company announced in April, led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management to bring its total Series D financing to $80 million. With this new round, we want to go beyond what we do today and deliver more and more value to our customers.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In an interview, CEO and co-founder Domagoj Rozic described Minka as “a seamless payment network built from the ground up.” This in turn enables them to collect, send or exchange money in real time without the need for reconciliation and with almost no cost,” Rozic told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Minka. That wasn’t the original plan.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 15, 2023

Register Financial technology (fintech) firm Jenfi , renowned for its pioneering work in revenue-based financing for digital-native companies, has successfully secured US$6.6 This approach enables real-time monitoring of business activity and health, expediting credit underwriting and risk assessment. Aki Okamoto and Jonathan M.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Founded out of Spain in 2019, StudentFinance partners with educational institutions such as Ironhack and Le Wagon to help finance those looking to upskill into disciplines like software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, serving as an alternative to traditional bank or student loans.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The latest round includes $8 million in equity and $50 million in debt, Boopos founder and CEO Juan Ignacio Garcia Braschi told TechCrunch. Most small business acquisitions don’t often qualify for bank financing, and help from Small Business Administration loans can be slow and require personal guarantees, he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

million, so the latest financing brings its total raised to $95.5 They joined existing backers including Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang, Pantera Capital, Coinbase, SignalFire, Samsung, Stanford University, Google chairman and Stanford University President John L. The company previously raised a total of $15.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Strategic angel investors include Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie, and Naman Budhdeo, co-founder and CEO of TripStack and FlightNetwork. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I have talked at great length with the founders of Brex and Ramp in the past, as well as the individual in charge of that segment within TripActions. Image Credits: Ramp co-founders Karim Atiyeh and Eric Glyman. Image Credits: Pluto / Pluto co-founders CTO Nayeem Zen, CEO Mo Aziz, CPO Mohammed Ridwan. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Hevo Data, a SaaS startup that is helping firms collate troves of data they generate and accumulate to make better use of them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth. For this, I have to combine my marketing, orders data, finance data and customer support data,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Ubie , a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. The extension round consists of 90% equity and 10% debt financing, according to the co-founder and CEO of Ubie Kota Kuto. million in Series C.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Fairplay co-founder and CEO Manolo Atala started the company with Andrew Devlyn in 2019. We see massive opportunity to enable businesses to run more smoothly, and Fairplay is in the middle of that.”. In total, the company has raised $40 million. Debt-as-a-service provider Sivo wants to power the next generation of lending startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. Meanwhile, $1.1 It’s certainly not slowed down.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There’s nothing like an increasing level of regulations to create spaces for new startups to appear, especially in SaaS. Persefoni is claiming this to be the largest round for a SaaS climate tech company, although TechCrunch could not confirm that at publication. Certainly, it’s significant.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

TechCrunch spoke with Brex co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras, who confirmed that the company did in fact put its name in the hat for SVB but only for the early-stage and growth portfolios within its business. The idea actually came from a customer, he said, who thought Brex “could handle those customers better than big banks.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are a few notable things about this financing. Also of note is that Buk was bootstrapped for the first five years of its SaaS operations. Interestingly, a group of founders from unicorns such as Rappi, Kavak, Konfio, GBM, Ualá and Brex also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

It has secured a first close led by International Finance Corporation (IFC) with participation from the Women’s Finance Initiative (WeFi). US investor Tim Draper via his VC fund, Draper Associates and Visa Forsten, co-founder of Tencent-owned Supercell, are other notable investors. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago. We are solving a fundamental problem for the technology landscape.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. Skit has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rupifi has raised $25 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup, which currently provides buy now, pay later service to several marketplaces to serve their merchants, looks to expand its business-to-business payments offerings. The workflow of Rupifi’s BNPL service. Image Credits: Rupifi.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Steadview Capital led the seven-year-old SaaS startup’s Series D round. MoEngage enables its customers to gain deeper insights into the way they are engaging with apps and websites. We are an enabler of digitization for our customers’ brands. Image Credits: MoEngage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. Sure launched its first (enterprise SaaS) product in early 2016, and today counts traditional financial services and fintech companies alike among its customers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

As the fundraising environment changes, some SaaS companies will look to reach cash flow break even on their existing reserves. Founders may reduce staff, particularly in recruiting or new projects that the company prefers not to finance. Growing this way requires a lot of cash to finance the acquisition investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Scotts Valley, California-based company is using cloud technology and the Ethereum blockchain as the engine for its Paystand Bank Network that enables business-to-business payments with zero fees. This brings the company’s total funding to $85 million, Paystand co-founder and CEO Jeremy Almond told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

million in pre-seed investment to offer full back-office SaaS for small and medium businesses in Latin America. He was previously CEO of Zen Finance, which was sold to Rappi in 2020, and Biva, which sold to PagSeguro in 2017, he said. BHub announced Tuesday that it took in a new round of capital just three months after receiving $4.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Menlo also put money in the company’s latest round, in addition to 40 angel investors, including tech unicorn founders and chief financial officers. Their goal was to create a strategic finance platform for the enterprise that had the look and feel of a consumer offering.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

And the energy in the room reflects that of Pear’s founders, Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, who year after year project the cheery demeanor of people eager to win you over. Pear lets the founders choose the check size. Founders: Pol Hevia (CEO), Joaquim Tresserra (CTO). Founded in: 2020. HQ: Barcelona, Spain. FairStreet.

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