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

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. Fast slows its roll.

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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

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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . Once Founderpath has visibility into a startup’s finances, the company can receive an offer “in under 2 to 3 minutes,” Latka says. Enter Founderpath.

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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 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. The firm was launched late last year.

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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

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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

But for the companies on this list, distribution platforms enable companies to scale much more quickly than ever before. Look no further than the containerization movement pioneered by Docker and now CoreOS, whose growth is enabled by Open Source, to prove the point. Last, the capital to finance immense growth is readily available.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. But I suspect the most important factor is startups who raise MegaRounds use these financings to delay IPO. The chart above shows the 36 year trend in the number of tech IPOs.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 9, 2015

In a post earlier this week, Josh Kopelman coined the term Private IPO to describe patterns in the runaway late stage financing market. In fact, 25% of 2014 IPOs were down rounds , according to an analysis by Ben Narasin and Jeremy Abelson. This phenomenon isn’t uncommon. Why is this the case?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany.

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