StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

If you want to be taken seriously, you need to look like you belong in that category. Independent sponsor investment platforms like CapitalPad , for example, connect sponsors with curated deals that are already vetted for growth potential. These platforms don’t waste time on flat or risky companies. Investors pay close attention to both.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 30, 2025

Small Door Veterinary, the New York‑founded membership‑based veterinary care company redesigning the pet health experience, has closed $55 million in new financing. Valspring Capital Backs Category Leadership For Valspring Capital , a healthcare‑focused growth‑equity firm, Small Door represents a “category‑defining brand.”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. Category Description CRM Sales Manage your sales process and client communications, including leads, contacts, accounts, and deals. Automate Zoho What is Zoho?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." It's a truly modern finance platform that uses AI not just to manage spend, but to intelligently understand and control it.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead of dividing enterprise automation into those categories, I'll stick to a people-first framing here—because automation is only valuable if it actually helps teams work better. Finance might build automations for recurring approvals or monthly reporting. They also aren't exclusive to enterprise-level automation.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

No one wants to be in the latter two categories! HW: Debt financing for startups can sometimes seem like ‘cheap money’ but its definitely more complicated than most founders realize. JH: Debt should be looked at as a legitimate financing tool for a start up as long as youre clear about how it really works.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.” He and his wife hatched the idea for DogVacay and decided to go for it. I’m sure of the value.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The investment will see Spleet scale its products: the flagship residential rent management and rent financing solution. The rent financing solution, dubbed Rent Now, Pay Later , gives renters access to no-collateral loans up to ₦3 million (~$6,000) with an interest of about 3.5% monthly to finance rent payments.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Educating Consumers on the Health and Moral Imperative There is a significant opportunity to increase consumer education in this category. While it’s still early days for alternative sources of proteins, the category holds tremendous promise. I bet alternative proteins will achieve price parity in the next couple of years.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

By claiming your Google My Business listing and customizing it with photos, categories, and a detailed description of your products and services, GMB can be your company’s most visible asset for local search. This option provides you with the utmost flexibility when it comes to financing. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

Influencer parenting bloggers are already putting together lists of their favorites items in these categories and sharing them broadly. Hasbro , which currently has five of the 10 top-selling board games on Amazon, has major potential here. Your business may want to consider partnering with them. Food Delivery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company. As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

The corporate spend category continues to evolve. Last week, I talked with Airbase founder and CEO Thejo Kote about the fact that the company just secured $150 million in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Hence its recent debt financing. Kids’ finance startup GoHenry marches into Europe with Pixpay acquisition .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. I’m making my way down the list!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

That’s why today I’m so excited to finally be able to tell you about Density , a company I led a $4 million financing (2) along with Jason Calacanis (We’re teaming up on the board together! Density raises $4 million from Upfront Ventures, Ludlow, Dawn Patrol, Jason Calacanis and more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For instance, SKU #L122UV from Bausch+Lomb was categorized as Intraocular Lens (also called “IOL,” one of the test categories our customer assigned us) and had the following attributes: Optic Shape, Optic Material, Haptic Material, Pieces, Optic Diameter, Overall Diameter, Power, Haptic Design, A-Constant, AC Depth and Haptic Angle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a new category of data analytics that helps users understand their own performance as it compares to direct competitors, Yarden Shaked added. Varos founders, from left, Gil Shaked, Yarden Shaked and Lior Chen. Image Credits: Varos. Varos, which officially launched Wednesday, started with marketing KPIs, but doesn’t want to stop there.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Those recognized in this year’s list have raised a cumulative $30 billion in venture capital financing, with a total valuation of over $140 billion. Miro, founded in 2011 and third on the list in the same category, has over 2700 employees and raised $476 million in total capital. They represent 17 countries. billion in total capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. He said the startup still has to spend about half of the $100 million that it raised in its previous financing round last year. Vedantu co-founders.

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StartupNation

JULY 29, 2021

If the price tag is too high, can you finance through borrowed revenues? Most sizable companies need expertise in sales, marketing, technical knowledge, accounting, finance and operations — typically skills beyond one person’s knowledge base. Does maintaining your lifestyle depend on cash flow? That’s valuable information, too.

energy

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

It’s also notable that Jeeves only publicly launched in March of 2021, and officially emerged from stealth last June with $31 million in equity financing and $100 million in debt. Its success is yet another example of how competitive — and lucrative — the corporate card and expense management category has become.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, it co-led a $350 million Series D round in Argentine personal finance management app Ualá. The vast majority of the population is underserved in almost every category of consumption. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. each for Kavak and VTEX; 2.6x for QuintoAndar and 3.5x

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But for category leaders, there’s potential for significant upside. However, we see a lot of overlap between the two categories and think it is beneficial to be deep in both areas. Our approach has always been to invest in and support the growth of companies that are true category leaders or well on their way there.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. It includes two primary categories: tourism companies undertaking capability development initiatives and technology companies contributing innovative products and services tailored for the tourism sector.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

And older people still have to manage their day-to-day routines and finances, not just plan estates and wills. The program included fintech startups because of the pandemic’s economic impact, focusing on three companies that “are helping aging populations better manage finances and budgets, and effectively plan for the future.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. Using it, managers can implement policies that automatically collect approvals or deny expenses that fall into certain categories. It seems that his thesis was correct. This morning marked the close of the company’s $47 million ($35.25

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wei Zhou, the former CFO at Binance, will serve as a strategic adviser and investor of OFR, and its venture arm will be supported by partner Jiang Xin, who led Binance Labs’ and Launchpad’s major investment deals such as Axie Infinity , Moonbeam, Alpha Finance, and others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

However, the site classified companies such as Better.com in the “Real Estate” category. In 2020, fintech trailed behind the transportation and travel categories when it came to layoffs as percentage of the total, Lee told TechCrunch via email. Notably, in all of 2020, 8,715 employees in fintech were laid off.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. How can the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and DeFi be bridged?

frameworks

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play). That announced Nigeria as Africa’s unofficial capital for fintech investment and digital finance startups. Also, all but two deals were solely equity-based: TradeDepot and MFS Africa raised a mix of equity and debt.

venture capital

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes. The way it works is that Point first evaluates the finances of applicants and makes a provisional offer. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Point raises $8.4

real estate

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We’re keeping an incredibly open mind for the next generation of founders to define totally new categories as well,” she added. However, the firm is also expanding that into crypto and web3, Xiao Schadeck said. “We’re The firm is looking for seed-stage startups working to bridge those gaps using technology.

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