TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. Field’s background is in finance, most recently as COO of Acorns and the CEO of Acorns’ regulated entities. Social investing is not a new concept.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ninety-three percent of MPOWER female borrowers reported that they had no alternate means of financing their degree, versus 79 percent of MPOWER male borrowers. Diversity, gender equity, and financial inclusion have been central to our business model from the start,” said Manu Smadja, MPOWER’s CEO and co-founder. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

David Friend is a serial entrepreneur, six-time founder, and the current co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company, Wasabi Technologies. Even if you’re growing quickly, not all founders want to set a valuation for their company. David Friend. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From Dorm Room to Dominating the Finance and Tech World: A Deep Dive with Michael Mills, CEO of Infinitary Fund I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael E. Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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Red Rocket

JULY 14, 2023

I was recently introduced to Tim DeBone a finance and accounting expert with The Bagchi Group , a business consultancy group in Morrisville, NC. He had some interesting suggestions about how best to staff your finance and accounting function within your company, and how that changes over time as the the company scales.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the third of four installments in our new series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. A founder/CEO’s presence may also be necessary in helping lay out the full story. Read part 1 on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here. Read part 2 on Trade-offs Across Terms here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This report prepared by Eddie Ackerman, Thomvest’s strategic finance operating partner, looks at startup hiring velocity since February 2021 by region, company type and, notably, how much time passed since last fundraise. I would be moving, and my co-founder will continue to run our engineering team from Colombia. Problem slide.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

More posts by this contributor Treasury management should be top of mind for startup founders The recent banking sector developments that sent founders scrambling for places to diversify their cash reserves left markets wondering if the Fed would follow these events with another rate hike.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brent Leary, founder and principal analyst, CRM Essentials. Leary said Taylor’s elevation likely signals that Salesforce founder Marc Benioff is getting ready to transition “into the next phase of his life, whatever that may be.”. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Getting it right requires input from many perspectives: product, operations, finance, and sales, to name just a few. Here’s a closer look at the questions we ask to begin laying the foundation for a pricing strategy. Michael Perez. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. . Christine and Haje. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Thomas Rush. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 13, 2022

Register GoImpact , an ESG and Sustainable Finance start-up , announced the closing of its Series-A round fund-raising, at a valuation of $22 million, tripling that of the last round. GoImpact is founded by finance industry veterans Helene Li and Clarence T’ao, and a serial entrepreneur, Andy Ann, in 2020.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2014

It was a company whose product I believed in and whose founder I liked, but a firm lobbed in a term sheet at a price 33% higher than what I had offered using a very light agreement meant for a much earlier stage company. Then, I read about the idiotic comments made by a co-founder of Rap Genius. Perhaps we all should. No, probably not.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2022

Register India -based FinTech startup Stack Finance offers customized investment strategies for retail investors based on their goals and risk-taking capabilities. Finance and investment had always piqued Smriti’s interest since she was a teenager. ” How it all started? All it is about giving new growth to your idea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Darpan Munjal is the founder and CEO of Squadhelp. And, we regularly review our marketing efforts to ensure that our spending goes into channels and strategies that bring customers in sustainably. We even have marketing strategies that we only use when the market is strong. Darpan Munjal. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes when you’re in the zone as a founder, a case of the twisties can utterly derail progress. As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Similarly, there’s no reason to be fearful about raising money, but like carefree cruisers at full sail, founders should have healthy respect for a process that’s not under their control. 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. Crafting an XaaS customer success strategy that drives growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other backers include Opendoor CEO and CEO and co-founder Eric Wu, Flyhomes’ co-founder and CEO Tushar Garg and Divvy Homes’ co-founder Brian Ma. The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. To build an iBuyer, we had to solve the transaction end-to-end,” said co-founder Victor Noguera.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? What problem are they solving? What value do they add?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The financing comes just just over two months after the startup raised $27 million in an equity funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Although they meet with 15-20 founders a week, they are selective in which companies they choose to acquire. “We The new funds will be used to, naturally, acquire more e-commerce companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked hard for them.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

First, these financings establish a company’s value on a near-quarterly basis. Investors furnish founders and early employees with cash in exchange for common shares. Mark-to-market rounds press private markets closer to public markets in three ways. Second, mark-to-market rounds offer secondary.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months. But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

In this case perspective, like any story worth telling, has two sides — founder and venture. All three founders bring funding bonafides to the table. What strategies did these founders use to secure their funding? Sara Du is the co-founder of Alloy Automation, a no-code automation platform for e-commerce.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S.

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