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. It follows Crowdz’ recent partnership with Meta to power the social media giant’s SME financing program. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

ALLVP and Infinity Ventures, a firm founded by a trio of ex-PayPal execs, co-led the equity raise. Better Tomorrow Ventures, Lee Fixel’s Addition, Broadhaven and Magma Partners are also backers of the company. based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor.

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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. Customers can expect 18% growth in sales on average, he added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Now he’s putting his money where his mouth is and launching his own venture fund, called simply The Fintech Fund.

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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 While at the social media giant, Orekhova says she built Facebook’s “first-ever” data science team within FP&A. Naomi Pilosof Ionita, partner at Menlo Ventures, led Vareto’s seed round last year.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

I think it was just this incredibly powerful technology, and given that AI wasn’t quite there yet, [social media] was the main thing that there was to do, to apply all the technology to. You know, incumbents versus startups. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Here are 6 tactical guidelines drawn from my work with 15+ global tech upstarts in D2C, B2B marketplaces, SaaS for SMBs, logistics, cybersecurity, and digital health over the last decade: 1. Winning big often means starting small. Test different channels, with the ultimate goal of finding one on which to focus?—?a

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