Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) But by 2014 much had started to change. We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. You’re in charge of operations, sales, marketing and finance. With better knowledge of my finances and the ability to outsource administrative tasks to a VA, I was in a position to consider the big-picture strategy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. Alternative financing options such as revenue financing or expense financing are often overshadowed by the VC model, but they can be just as, and sometimes more, useful for SaaS startups, writes Miguel Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Capchase.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

A great finance leader is on top of your numbers with such precision that you don’t have to worry about it. But a great finance leader isn’t just budgeting but he or she is an consummate planning and they won’t take s**t from you about why you need to avoid hiring more staff until you close new contracts or raise money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you’re an associate, an assistant, in finance or a new partner interviewing with the firm – you know what we expect! And the most wonderful byproduct is that I believe it helps communicate with all of our team and with future hires what our expectations are. So what else have we done to live up to our brand changes?

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5 billion people) visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. and witnessed the rise of revenue-based financing platforms in the country and the West, including Clearco and Wayflyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you. These are the signs of innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Scott pointed to B-round SaaS valuations in excess of $100 million in $15m+ financing rounds with companies with very limited proof of customer traction or revenue. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster. And we ended. Startup Lessons'

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Greg is currently the organization’s partner-in-charge of their Huntsville, Alabama office. In 2020, Greg will release his newest book, Simple Numbers 2.0: Rules for Smart Scaling.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. As the CEO you need to realize that doing PR is part of the piechart of activities called “your job.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

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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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

In a statement, Manafa said it will use the fresh funds to accelerate its growth in Saudi Arabia and expand its offering with the launch of several products and financing solutions in addition to double the number of investors on its platform. Established in 2014, Wa’ed Ventures manages a portfolio of more than 40 start-ups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The first mission, which ispace aims to conduct in the latter half of 2022, is being furnished by earlier financing. Incubate Fund’s investments in ispace stretch back to the company’s seed round in 2014. The funding will go toward the second and third of the planned missions, scheduled for 2023 and 2024.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Staffbase , which provides an intranet-style internal communications platform for companies, has raised a $145 million (€122 million) financing round led by General Atlantic, a growth equity firm. Existing investors Insight Partners and e.ventures also participated in the round.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Notable investment successes include: Crescendo Bioscience , an early i2E investment, was acquired for $270 million in 2014. To date, $42 million has been invested in life sciences and advanced healthcare solutions, with 109 companies in Tulsa, 121 companies in Oklahoma City, and many others throughout the state receiving capital so far.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya. Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. for instance, costs about $400 in Kenya. million equity and $6.25 million debt — in 2019.

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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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In July of last year, Skydio announced its $100 million Series C financing , and also debuted the X2, its first dedicated enterprise drone. Skydio’s debut drone, the R1, received a lot of accolades and praise for its autonomous capabilities.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2019

You can take the time to prioritize your finances and see how healthy the business is. He and partner Steve Denny launched the business in 2014 to perform business valuations, help people buy and sell companies, and provide exit planning and consulting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, that new $6 billion valuation, is up 50% from the $4 billion it was valued at last November when it raised $200 million in Series D financing. The investment brings Better.com’s total funding raised to over $900 million since its 2014 inception.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Founder Sara Blakely, an EO member , received a White House invitation in 2014, was named the youngest self-made female billionaire in 2012 and continues to sell Spanx in 50 countries around the globe, serving the company’s core mission: To help women feel great about themselves and their potential. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Experience. Relationships. Founder’s perspective. In the Growth Years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The company views the new capital as two separate extension rounds of its March raise, a $1 billion Series G financing event. The G2 financing was led by DST Global, with participation from CITICPE, GIC, Temasek, TBP, DCP, Ocean Link, Greenwoods and Danhe Capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

The consolidation of big banks and decline of community banks has made it much more difficult for entrepreneurs to receive financing (less than 1 percent receive venture capital and only 16 percent receive bank loans or other private loans). The factors affecting entrepreneurship today are complex.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Accel and Quona recently backed Shivalik Small Finance Bank. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. As part of the deal, Insilico also received an equity investment from Fosun Pharma, which has financed over 60 startups, according to startup database IT Juzi.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups. But that was a long time ago. In recent years, Bay Area startups have accounted for a smaller percentage of U.S.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Review financing options. There are nearly 1,000 local centers available for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners to get free face-to-face business consulting and at-cost training on a variety of business topics, from marketing to finances. Among other things, a business mentor can help you: Shorten the learning curve.

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