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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. more than 5 years ago?—?and

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Octane raises $52M at a $900M+ valuation to help people finance large recreational purchases

TechCrunch

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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Divido bags $30M to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets

TechCrunch

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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Japan’s Zeals raises $38.8M to scale its chat commerce platform

TechCrunch

Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Image Credits: Zeals.

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Tala grabs $145M to offer more financial services in emerging markets

TechCrunch

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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Indonesia’s eFishery Raises $200M in Series D Funding, Attains Unicorn Valuation

AsiaTechDaily

eFishery’s comprehensive ecosystem encompasses the entire aquaculture value chain, from seeds to financing. The funding will also enable eFishery to facilitate more transactions involving fish feed and fresh aquaculture products through its platform, further strengthening its role in the industry.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.”