TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. He recalls pre-selling his inventory at a discount in order to get the money to import the goods.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Joining Lerer Hippeau in the investment are Siddhi Capital, Idea Farm Ventures, Simple Food Ventures, Animal Capital and American Pie executive Alan Mitzner. In fact, of the $348 billion in annual sales generated by the top 25 food and beverage incumbents in the U.S., Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. Finance government stimulus Internet Payment Regulation Uncategorized Venture Capital Disruption payments wealthfront'

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

million in funding from Anthemis, Financial Venture Studio and Soma Capital. ” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world. Zeta, which raised a $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. million in equity, $11.75

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

There’s clearly a lot of venture money to be raised — and most tech entrepreneurs happily take it in exchange for equity. Understanding the real cost of venture debt and when it makes more sense than the traditional equity route relies on an understanding of what you and your company hope to achieve. Understanding your goals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Breeze raised $10 million in Series A funding in a round led by Link Ventures that Nabity boasts is the “largest first round of institutional capital ever invested in a Nebraska-based software startup.” Northwestern Mutual Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, M25, Fiat Ventures and Invest Nebraska also participated in the financing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. The startup was founded earlier this year to build a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Register Indonesian open finance platform Ayoconnect has raised an additional $13 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount it raised to date to $43 million. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Open Finance API platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data. Mosaic is a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from all sorts of systems in the alphabet soup of enterprise IT — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Almajdouie, the managing partner at RAED Ventures, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2 million seed financing in the summer of 2020. Their goal was to create a strategic finance platform for the enterprise that had the look and feel of a consumer offering. Talk about validation. Image Credits: Vareto.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes. Clocktower Technology Ventures makes $25M bet on Latin American fintechs. incumbents. “It market with different dynamics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. But it’s not a pure venture capital story.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. New backers Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall in participating in the round.

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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. BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), a group consisting of 13 tech-focused insurance agencies in the U.S. million in a seed round. Are insurtech startups undervalued?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Incumbents feel threatened.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Led by Lindsay Holden, the startup had raised more than $20 million in funding and had built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

General Atlantic doubled down on Klar , leading its latest financing in addition to its $70 million Series B last July. Prosus Ventures, Quona Capital, Mouro, IFC, Acrew and Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the round. WTI provided $20 million in venture debt, Möller said. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures led the seed round alongside South Park Commons, Core Innovation Capital, and Operator Partners. Wealthy Americans have access to CPAs and accountants and tax advice people watching over their finances year-round. Mobile income tax software Column Tax announced today that it raised $5.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

(KBIC) — a subsidiary of South Korean consumer bank, Kookmin Bank — along with Barclays, Knollwood Investment Advisory, BAM Ventures, Passport Capital, Ulu Ventures and Strong Ventures. . And we leverage your cash flow data to underwrite you.”. And that’s not their fault.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The funding is being led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the rebranded venture fund the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (a prolific investor for years in tech), with previous backers Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum and Redalpine also participating. Turbotax, Intuit’s big product in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. Most VCs lead one round of financing in your company and are looking for other VCs to lead subsequent rounds. Will these milestones be enough that a VC would pay a higher price in the next round of financing? That’s what’s called a “soft no.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. London & Partners and Dealroom.co

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Polly this week announced it has raised $37 million in a round led by Menlo Ventures to automate workflows for mortgage companies. Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Jarkata-based Astro, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery, has recently closed a $60 million Series B financing round, lifting its total funding to $90 million since the business launched just nine months ago. The startup is competing with incumbents like Sayurbox, HappyFresh and TaniHub to win over users.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Salesforce was founded in 1999. Since then, many major categories of software have been saasified.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Mubadala Capital led the $100 million equity round, with previous backers EQT Ventures , Felix Capital , Cherry Ventures and Partners of DST Global also participating. Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. It didn’t give actual customer numbers.)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend on Wednesday announced a $5.5 Ascend app. Brokers are here to stay,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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