American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Africa’s fastest-growing fintech, successfully raised US$110 million in equity financing, supporting its all-in-one financial ecosystem. The startup initially provided infrastructure and payment solutions for banks and financial institutions. Moniepoint Inc., Global impact firm Lightrock, an existing investor, also participated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

When fundraising gets tougher for startups, the existing investors (insiders) will often provide a bridge loan to the company to extend the runway for getting another round done. Most commonly they are a bridge to a round of financing with new investors (outsiders). That is a real round of financing and it is not a bridge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. With no revenue three years in and an ever-increasing pile of expenses, my personal finances took a hit. Loans replaced savings, and credit lines were stretched to their limits.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Because the hundreds of millions that it takes to greenlight a theatrical film could never be absorbed by a startup and because they way we experience media & characters has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years to a point where the starting point for media is often digital, gaming or even graphic novel oriented. And Seriously.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt is a great CEO and has even written a book about leading and growing a company called Startup CEO.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

“Metropolis has developed a new growth buyout model, demonstrating how innovation and technology can evolve legacy industries for the 21st century,” said Tony Minella, Co-Founder and President of E ldridge Industries , an existing investor in Metropolis that led the recent financing transaction. The financing included $1.05

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6 The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

EQ and Team Leadership? Politics are a part of human nature and thus a part of all startups. As I like to say “ Startups are all naked in the mirror ” (we see our own flaws but see everybody else in their Sunday best.). Startups are hard. Startup Advice VC Industry' Nail on the head. FourSquare.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

VCs want to learn the total available market and see evidence that you can grow your startup into a US$1-10 million (or more) revenue business. Once senior leadership took over our sales component, we discovered so many good nuggets about which features were most important to customers. Here are 11 tips EO members shared: 1.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. It literally drove FOMO. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. Startup Advice' When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom. She was a natural leader. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. Even today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

If you let them control and manipulate you rather than controlling them, emotions can ruin your startup. Are your friends really suited to the roles you need in a startup ? Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained. Emotions can be incredibly effective in ruining both your workflow and your relationships.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Lindsey—who, at the time, was my girlfriend, programmer and designer—said, “I will take over the finance piece, you go sell and run the shop. Our conversations often moved from things we cared about in our personal life to business strategy and hiring and finances. I’ll handle this side of things.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team. More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2020

This is especially critical when talking about finances—one of small business owners’ biggest challenges anyway. What you discover will make you a stronger, more competent entrepreneur ready to face leadership in difficult times. You’ll sleep better—and so will your trusted employees. An opportunity to trim fat from your budget.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Being an effective founder of a high-growth company requires a bundle of technical, analytical, leadership and communication skills that don’t often come packaged in a single individual.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 The Karachi-based startup targets communities across sectors including agriculture, MSMEs, e-commerce, logistics, healthcare and others. If you look at the embedded finance space, it is a $167 billion opportunity,” Shaikh said in an interview with TechCrunch.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

A Great Example of Mentoring Byron Bennett is a serial entrepreneur and now CEO and founder of Z ergratran , an international startup organizing the construction of an alternative to the Panama Canal in Columbia. By leveraging your mentor’s network, you can unlock new business avenues and gain valuable industry insights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem. Jamil Wyne.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Our global goal is to ignite women leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and future-preneurs to spark startups, drive economic expansion, and advance communities worldwide,” Milena shared. Our goal is to help increase the number of entrepreneurial startups led by women and increase the number of women in early-stage investing.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the fast-paced world of startups, financial forecasting can often be overlooked or considered a back-burner issue. Why is financial forecasting important for startups? For startups, financial forecasting is not just a tool for appeasing investors; it’s the backbone of effective strategic planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch. For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” In fact, I would argue that most people don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.”

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. The fund will focus on verticals including finance, commerce, health, work and education. Another criteria is to back local founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Cashfree, an Indian startup that offers a wide-range of payments services to businesses, has raised $35.3 million in a new financing round as the profitable firm looks to broaden its offering. Y Combinator later financed Cashfree’s seed round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. That’s a bit like imagining Apple launching the 2007 iPhone and then not having 10-years of constant improvements to maintain its market leadership position.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal , business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. No bank would even consider us for financing, so we had to find a way to make it all work. He is also an active member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Montreal chapter. . The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

This isn’t weakness – it’s leadership. Progress to date of your company (when started, key milestones, what shape is the product in, any pilot / beta customers, financing). Give everybody pages of the deck they’re to cover or parts of the demo for which they are to talk. What is a VC looking for? Competition.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. You might see headlines of financings that don’t make sense to you but trust me, I have worse deals sitting in by inbox. You should be all good.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “Sima.ai

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Collective , an all-in-one back-office finance platform for the self-employed, which has raised over $28 million in funding, is hiring for five roles across engineering, marketing and member services (tax, accounting). It’s great to see more women in leadership roles in the fintech community. TechCrunch had covered its $20.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The financing comes 11 months after the company announced it had raised $45 million , as our own Ingrid Lunden reported last March. Leadership, it adds, is primarily located in the U.S. Interestingly, Genesis had raised less than $5 million prior to last year, mostly bootstrapping its business. Today, it has over 200 employees.

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