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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? Now that it’s 2014 and prices have gone down it doesn’t feel so good. valuation and another person funds you with convertible debt at $5m valuation (high resolution financing) and your equity round finally closes at a $10 million valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Yes, you have to figure out how to finance inventory and sure, it’s harder to iterate products when it involved physical production?—?but Generic cam’s could never match the security use case as well as Ring could and when consumers went online or to a store to find our product the offering was very clear.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

In 2014, my co-founder and I decided to hire our first employees. We didn’t have a board, a business coach or even the right books to guide us. We had to figure out hiring, on-boarding and training. I now had a mini “board” that I could go to for guidance. I couldn’t have joined EO Accelerator at a better time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

However , unlike the last financing round where Tala raised $100 million debt financing in addition to its $110 million Series D, the microlender only raised equity this time. Integral to this new direction is the use of crypto and decentralized finance to enable the company’s roadmap.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Maven announced that it has raised $110 million in a Series D financing co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital. The financing event valued Maven at $1 billion, a rare landmark moment for women’s health, and women-led startups more broadly. The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Cavins was a board member. In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. In June, Outdoorsy raised $90 million in a Series D led by ADAR1 Partners, as well as an additional $30 million in debt financing from Pacific Western Bank.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

How to communicate with your board in tough times. Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The round is being led by Blackstone Growth (the growth equity business of the investment giant), with previous backer Battery Ventures and board member Mike Paulus (who previously ran and sold Assurance IQ to Prudential, and before that was an investor with Andreessen Horowitz). “All these were incredibly complicated.”

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and We launched our jobs board a year ago with more than 1,500 jobs featured in cities outside of Silicon Valley. and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Kaiyo founder and CEO Alpay Koralturk said in an interview with TechCrunch that he was familiar with the hassle of buying and selling furniture after moving five times in five years in NYC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Camber Creek and Storm Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the Toronto-based startup’s total raised to more than CAD$35 million. The startup launched its first product, Bridgit Field, in March 2014. million, in Series B funding. In 2019, it brought its second product, Bridgit Bench, to market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then. “The value of the company has really significantly increased between the two parts of the B round,” he told me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. in 4 years.

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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. ABS Capital: building emerging growth businesses into industry leaders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. Some have argued that each of these companies would already be public in a prior era.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

By bringing Baer and Camhaji on board, Claure said in a statement, SoftBank will “be better able to identify high-growth companies and support them at every step of their lifecycle.”. He joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In a 2021 survey from The Conference Board focused specifically on the service industry, 80% of respondents said they were having a hard time finding qualified workers. ” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick. ” WizeHire’s latest financing round — which brings its total raised to $37.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

He launched BlocPower in 2014 with the goal of replacing fossil fuel-burning heating and cooling systems with cleaner, more efficient electric air source heat pumps, water heaters and solar panels. First of all, once it got some building owners involved, there was a big word of mouth effect, and that helped get more owners on board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

“After 10 years of being a CFO, I got fed up with my constant lack of visibility into vendor spend,” he told TechCrunch, “and recurring challenges my finance teams had in identifying where we were overspending.”. We’d print out several months of invoices, and go vendor by vendor, and invoice by invoice to identify line items.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. “In 2014, three months after we found out that there was no investor to put them in front of. The plan was to run LeadPath like Y Combinator but it didn’t take off as planned.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Everything we build at Vendease — financing, logistics, warehousing, inventory management — is tailored towards ensuring that food flows efficiently from that point of production to the point of consumption.”. So far, businesses have accessed more than $12 million worth of inventory via the embedded finance product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. It’s an honour to bring on board Tencent, Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund. Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. Carmel previously founded Ethos Lending (which sold to Fenway Summers in 2014 ) and it was that experience that helped him conclude there were serious gaps in the market for automating workflows for lenders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history. “We This round is notable for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The financing was led by the Steele Foundation for Hope , a nonprofit organization that says it’s focused on finding and funding lasting solutions for some of “humanity’s hardest challenges.”. Stambolis’s reaction was triggered by the Ebola crisis in 2014. million in a Series B round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in a financing round, just three months after securing $35 million in funding, as the Bangalore-based startup demonstrates growth for its full-stack customer engagement platform in emerging markets. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two).

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Work in finance. Way back in 2014, an aspiring entrepreneur came to us with an idea for SMS customer support as a service. This will ensure you have consistent coverage across-the-board as your brand comes to life and, meanwhile, will keep you sane as you shape the business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, began developing its SaaS customer experience management tools in 2014 for businesses that rely on humans, co-founder and CEO Aaron Ward told TechCrunch. Five Elms’ Ryan Mandl is joining AskNicely’s board as part of the funding. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But Wasoko chose not to go down that route; instead, it is financing its BNPL option from its balance sheet. “We But we’re looking at debt financing options,” Yu said. Wasoko is also its second e-commerce investment on the continent after leading Takealot’s $100 million in 2014 (Wasoko is B2B e-commerce, while Takealot is B2C).

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