AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

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.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million since its inception in 2014. Its grazing insights enable ranchers to maximize productivity, eliminate waste, and validate grazing and animal management decisions in a way that other record-keeping systems can’t touch,” Webb pointed out. In addition, the latest funding will enable the company to establish its database.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today. This is only the beginning for us.”.

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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. Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since 2014 their funding supported No Kid Hungry providing 300 million meals for kids facing hunger and Citi volunteers have packed over 1.7 Citi and Citi Foundation have a solid track record of supporting communities around the world. million meals on behalf of U.S. Hunger since 2017.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

.” Kumesh Aroomoogan, a former research analyst for Wall Street firms including Citigroup, cofounded Accern with Anshul Vikram Pandey in 2014. But the company later broadened its scope to other aspects of corporate finance, like credit and fraud monitoring and compliance.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As part of the equity investment, the Singapore-based group will enable Westpac customers to access exclusive offers and deals when they shop via ShopBack. Founded in 2014, ShopBack offers shopping deals, rewards and payment methods at the users’ fingertips.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2022

Register Dianxiaomi, the parent company of BigSeller, Southeast Asia’s ecommerce enabler, has raised US$100 million in its Series C financing round led by Huaxing Growth Capital and Tiger Global Management along with participation from existing investors CDH Investments, GGV Capital, and Gaorong Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. Karkal told TechCrunch that the idea for Sila was born out of frustration while starting another bank.

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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. enabling people to buy Bitcoin. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. TIME Ventures, Marc Benioff’s investment fund, also participated in the latest financing, which brings Chainalysis’ total raised to $265 million.

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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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Key highlights: The Deep Tech Incubator Programme has contributed to 49% of total new deep tech deals (80 out of 162 deals) between 2014 – 2023.* Cumulative private investment commitment and follow-on investment is about 8.6 times amount of public repayable grant funding. 381M private vs $44m public). 

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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. For the first time we are enabling this over the cloud with our full-stack platform.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. All merchants need to have is a bank account and a “smart-enabled device” to receive payments. Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

The company, launched in 2014, has now raised $250 million altogether, including from, Deutsche Börse, Temasek, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and Munich Re. Called D/XYZ (pronounced “Destiny”), the idea is to enable any investor — not just the 1% — to invest in startups whose services they use and love. Prasad demurs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Some of the functionalities they build enable both local and cross-border payment players in credit and debit cards, bank transfers, digital cash, mobile wallets, and other alternative payment methods. Schwarzkopf and his business partner, Sebastián Castro, had previously built and sold a fintech called Leaf in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent. Next , they request the funds via bank transfer, leading to more incurred costs or use other cross-border money platforms like WorldRemit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Greg Sands started the firm in 2012 as a sole general partner and told TechCrunch that all the way back to the first fund, it invested in companies, like Intaact, which was acquired by Sage in 2017 , and Datalogix, acquired by Oracle in 2014 , that established a pattern. Each fund since then has been better than the one before it, he added.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and e ach day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. This leads to cash flow problems that cause businesses to be late on important expenses and fulfilment of new orders. Ghansah is a serial entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2014, London-based Dropit counts retail brands including L’Occitane, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Estee Lauder as customers, in addition to shopping malls. where it already has an office in Austin, Texas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Much of this is being enabled because of how Kuda is built. . “We can offer loans to salaried customers instantly as long as their salary is with Kuda,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fin VC led the financing, which values New York-based Ocrolus at “north of $500 million” and brings its total funding raised since its 2014 inception to over $100 million. It is also about financial inclusion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Months after acquiring gamified finance mobile app startup Long Game, Truist Financial Corporation has introduced the Truist Foundry, an innovation division that it says “will function as a startup within the bank.” In other cases, decisions were less honorable and more about furthering the executive’s own agenda. Weekly News.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6 The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6 This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As an example, between the 1960s and 1980s, VCs moved later and ultimately invested nearly 90% of their capital in leveraged buyouts and late-stage financings before ultimately refocusing on early-stage bets in the 1990s at the dawn of the internet. But Facebook was only the start. There was also Uber and Airbnb.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

So UberPool is a fundamental enabling technology for Uber in addition to providing lower price points and increased efficiency. The company spent most of 2014 raising optimization and utilization, such that UberX could be as affordable as possible for the largest constituency possible. Jeff Bezos.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe. Founded in 2014 in Lagos, Andela’s original business model was based on building physical hubs to source, vet, train and house talent across the continent.

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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. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely. Image Credits: AskNicely.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The Girlboss Foundation was launched back in 2014 by an entrepreneur called Sophia Amoruso. They go for companies with technology-enabled services and products. They attend workshops on business financing and money management. For you to be eligible, you have to be running a for-profit business with a maximum of 500 employees.

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