TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. Development Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. One of the problems with shipping at that time, back in 2012, was that you would have to log into each individual marketplace. Revenue is growing 30% month over month.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” I won’t rehash all of the customary convertible note financing deal terms and points of negotiation here. (For

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Bolten does a really good job on why, what, and how to present numbers, just as in his subtitle, so people will understand you. June 13th, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

Third, the total number of Series Bs is remaining relatively constant, even for the newer cohorts, like the 2012 class. Data from 2012 and 2013 will show lower success rates because most of these companies won’t be mature enough to be in the market for a B. Originally posted by Tomasz Tunguz on his blog, www.tomtunguz.com.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

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 billion people) visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier. We had a specific goal in mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. These are extreme positions and often the deals settle in between but it can be U-G-L-Y and the financings are at times coupled with changing management teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2016

GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners. On the surface that sounds unremarkable — fundings happen daily. But this isn’t just any funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. In contrast to her future success in finance, Kelly Peeler’s early start as an entrepreneur began with flipping refurbished furniture at the age of 11. Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin. Katrina Lake / Stitch Fix. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2021

See that blip in 2012? There are 3-5 financings and M&A every working day. Startups are basking in the IPO market. They’ve raised 3x as much year-to-date in IPOs as all of 2020, which was a healthy market. Where will the tally end the year? That was the Facebook IPO. VC fundraising will achieve a record.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You can read more about her here but let me give you my take.

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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. The productivity and collaboration company founded in 2012 has over 700 employees and has raised approximately $1.3 They represent 17 countries. Six of those eight are in San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

2012-2015 were boom times in tech startups as prices were always moving up leading to FOMO leading to higher than normal multiples driven by a massive entry of new investors in the market. Great companies get financed. I feel safe in knowing that I was one of the few who publicly called b t.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Since its 2012 inception, Acorns has raised just over $500 million from investors, such as private equity firm TPG, BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. In my opinion, that’s why micro-finance has rarely worked, even for loans. Investors know how tough it is to get a set of terms accepted by even two investors, much less hundreds.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Bay Area startups claimed of 55% total dollars up from 45% in 2012. More financings occur outside San Francisco, but Bay Area companies now raise 2000 to 2500 rounds per year, up from 404. The challenge with looking at relative share is we see only one leg of the elephant. per year to $30b-$36b per year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Yuanfudao , a homework tutoring-app founded in 2012, has raised $2.2 The company views the new capital as two separate extension rounds of its March raise, a $1 billion Series G financing event. The company views the new capital as two separate extension rounds of its March raise, a $1 billion Series G financing event.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2013

But to grow a business, entrepreneurs eventually have to solicit financing from the venture capitalists who invest on behalf of endowments, pension funds, foundations and the like. One group that doesn’t lose, in this scenario, is the subset of startups funded in 2012 that have launched successfully and are doing well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Accel led Socure’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers C ommerce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Flint Capital, Citi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Synchrony, Sorenson, Two Sigma Ventures and others. . Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Since launching in 2012, Savannah Fund — led by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel — has backed more than 30 startups. It has secured a first close led by International Finance Corporation (IFC) with participation from the Women’s Finance Initiative (WeFi).

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Working closely with these investors early-on is good preparation for future rounds of financing and usually a good point of entry into the VC financing world. Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 The latest financing event brought its cash balance to $300 million, right around the money that Chegg had before it went public. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark its first legal step in the process to IPO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

This was as Zepz (formerly WorldRemit) raised $292 million in Series E financing, while Chipper Cash raised $250 million , Tala $145 million as Wave sealed $200 million in funding. Startups specializing in digital/mobile payments have received the greatest financing over the years followed by banking/lending startups and insurtechs. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, Chicago-based Avant started out primarily as an online lender targeting “underserved consumers,” but is evolving into digital banking with this acquisition. Since its inception in 2012, Avant has connected more than 1.5 Avant, notes Paris, uses thousands of AI-driven data points to determine credit risk.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The personal finance company went public last year. Mohnot previously served as vice president of business development at Groupon after a startup he founded, FeeFighters, was acquired by the company in 2012. Gibson co-founded NerdWallet, where he also served as COO from 2010 to 2014.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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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. In 2012 ChiefMartec landscape counted 350 vendors selling to sales and marketing. Salesforce for Sales, Workday for HR & Finance, ServiceNow for Operations, Atlassian for Engineering and so on.

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