TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

On Wednesday it announced its acceptance by the market has helped it raise $70 million in a new financing round as the startup prepares to scale the 16-month-old app across India. The app also offers people the opportunity to upskill themselves, practice with their interview performance, and become eligible for even more jobs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. to select African countries include unicorn Chipper Cash , Lemonade Finance, Zazuu and Sendwave. O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K.

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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. enabling people to buy Bitcoin. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Today, he claims, SwipeRx has transformed and digitized the pharmacy industry and become a one-stop platform for pharmacists to perform all their daily tasks, from education to purchasing to inventory financing in Southeast Asia. The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Getting financing for the contract was a struggle. In August 2019, Kimberly Hickok Smith spoke at the MyEO Women of EO Summit in Bogota, Colombia. I was the first elected president of EO and the first chairman of the Global Board. I was the first elected president of EO and the first chairman of the Global Board. Living every day.

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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. 1) Your school. 1) Your school. school of engineering).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations). Where are we today? 50x more Internet users (2.4 Online connections that are 180x faster (10.5 Why is this?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2017

When Hana Laurenzo launched her translation business in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2007, she did what every smart small business owner does—joined local professional organizations, like the chamber of commerce, and generally sought opportunities to mingle with like-minded professionals. She relished the accountability of her peers and advisors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

And today, Yu and Yang’s new company, San Francisco-based Vesta , is announcing it has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from new investor Zigg Capital. If you’ve ever taken out a mortgage, you know how painful and tedious the process can be. trillion in loan originations in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

We’re thrilled this new funding will enable us to continue to define this evolving industry and to help even more patients get the care they deserve.”. This is the slide-deck equivalent of a standup comedian standing on a stage, peering into the spotlights, muttering ‘pharmacies, amirite?’

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

This makes us a somewhat unique case in the ecosystem and among our fintech peers in general – few companies have managed to reconcile over 100% year-over-year growth with a positive bottom line,” he told TechCrunch, describing Mercado Bitcoin as “the crown j ewel” of 2TM Group. Today, Mercado Bitcoin has about 500 employees.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Our members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $600 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. The best way to predict the future is to create it,” as Abraham Lincoln once said.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. These are needed for any business to grow.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

When leveraged properly, an exit can be the beginning of a firm’s true impact, especially when we’re talking about giving all founders equal opportunities and empowering the best ideas. More posts by this contributor. Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another one.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Founded by Sambhav Jain and Kush Taneja (pictured above) — both of whom graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2019 — FamPay enables teenagers to make online and offline payments. How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

It’s not so much that we have a shortage of talent as much as we have an overabundance of opportunities for innovation. Back in the 60’s, JFK make a bold proclimation that we were going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In addition to DepositoPR, Komunal also has a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects MSMEs with lenders. Komunal was founded three years ago as an SME financing platform based in Surabaya, East Java. Another opportunity presented itself in the form of Indonesia’s 1,500 BPRs. Komunal’s team.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

and opportunities for impact focused start-ups in the current ecosystem, at the Resurgence TiEcon. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. “We Delhi-NCR event. programs, across 60 countries to India.”

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. There are nearly six million small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country, employing 43 million people. This gap is most visible in the payroll and benefits sectors. First, SMBs are fragmented and hard to reach.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., Champaign, Ill. September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., a company dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare by providing physicians with better diagnostic tools, today announced an oversubscribed $5.2 with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Math-based currencies are novel ways of enabling instant settlements, low cost transactions and foreign exchanges. Math-based currencies are novel ways of enabling instant settlements, low cost transactions and foreign exchanges. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. It also includes machine-learning-based analytics to enable credit scoring and KYC verifications.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Access to finance remains a key growth constraint for small businesses, with data showing a $330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses. The opportunity and impact in solving working capital problems for SMEs is huge. [We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Meanwhile, Sequoia’s investments in payments tech companies spanned both consumer and business payments and operate in four distinct markets: buy now, pay later (BNPL), expense management, peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, and online payments acceptance. Welcome to The Interchange ! We saw a similar trend at a16z.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression co-founders Jivesh Gupta (left) and Apaksh Gupta (right) Image Credits: One Impression In addition to helping brands reach the right influencer, One Impression is building tools for creators to help them monetize their content and unlock opportunities to collaborate with other creators and make finance easier using automation.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We talked to her to find out what it’s all about and how it will help organizations to scale their impact and that of their communities — by accessing our knowledge base, learning through our capacity building activities and enjoying collaboration opportunities within our network. But we can’t do this alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

Business consultants can provide invaluable insights into the best practices for running a successful business, enabling startups to avoid costly mistakes and maximize their opportunities for success. When you scale back any startup, you’re left with the fundamentals of business, which to their core are the same. from there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He noted that the SPAC option yielded the company larger amounts of capital and was the more attractive option for what the company wanted to do in the long term, which included M&A opportunities. Being a public company will enable them to see us as a peer.”. The SPAC deal values Brivo at $808 million.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Capria leads the “largest network of collaborating fund managers in emerging markets” Their product Edge enables you to benchmark your internal processes against other investors. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

The pandemic has just pushed edtech mainstream, but language-learning startup Duolingo had already spent the past decade figuring out how to build a successful edtech app. Want this kind of coverage on a different company or sector. Check out our ever-growing list of EC-1s , which include recent profiles of Klaviyo, StockX, Tonal and more.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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