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Will the most successful crowdfunding portals be restricted to accredited investors?

Gust

By definition, none of these are operational yet because they won’t be legal until the beginning of 2013, but there sure are a lot of folks throwing their hats into the ring here. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess in this group until we see who the players are, with their particular wrinkles and implementations.

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Ghanaian agtech Farmerline raises $1.5M from Dutch investor Oikocredit

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai , Farmerline works through agro-dealers, who are usually the first point of knowledge for farmers, in ensuring access to high-quality supplies, including fertilizer and seeds. It also uses that data to determine the amount of business expansion credit to give to agro-dealers.

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Are SAFE’s Truly Everywhere? The Role of SAFEs in Angel-Stage Deals

Angel Capital Association

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. They’re apparently everywhere. And it is easy to understand why this perception persists. Their rationale was simple.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. The ecosystem has come a long way since I built my first startup in 2013. Having worked in finance and tech across Europe and the U.S.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Of course we can’t.

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