A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . We did our first investment in January 2015. It means filters that are supporting climate tech, or enable decarbonisation, or to fight global warming. The firm led the $9.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Now, a startup that’s built a platform to help provide financing specifically to businesses working within that supply chain is announcing some financing of its own. “Accenture estimates that the demand for finance in this business segment is $3.6 No one else is using technology to facilitate financing [for them].”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And, according to a 2015 report , just 50.2% million custodial parents in the United States had either legal or informal child support agreements. Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. Today, Onward — formerly called Ensemble — raised $9.7 Uber alum rakes in $9.7M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Greenoaks led the financing, which also included “strong participation” from Elad Gil, Base partners and “all key existing financial investors.” billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic. The latest financing is notable for a few reasons. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Last month, it announced that a total of $267,500 had been raised to support three Nigerian startups’ bridge financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Accel led Sentry’s seed funding in 2015, and has invested in each of its rounds since then. Its Series D will be used on product development, like adding support for more languages and frameworks, and hiring for its offices in San Francisco, Toronto and Vienna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Access to finance remains a key growth constraint for small businesses, with data showing a $330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses. The fintech is able to extend loans of up to $10,000 at single-digit interest rates, and a repayment period of one year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

But critics contend that AWS Impact Accelerator doesn’t go far enough in supporting historically marginalized entrepreneurs. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. Breega’s aim is to finance at least 20 companies in total with the new fund.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Specifically, the new firm aims to provide non-dilutive or less-dilutive financing options to asset-rich fintech, e-commerce and SaaS companies in the U.S. The region, Architect maintains, does not have a plethora of institutional financing available against assets. and Latin America, but with an emphasis on the latter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The American e-commerce giant has backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase in a $40 million Series C financing round. Founded by three IIT Kharagpur graduates in July 2015, Smallcase offers a platform to help introduce a new generation of investors to the Indian equity markets. The round was led by Faering Capital and Premji Invest.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Established in 2015, Carro has expanded its operations across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan. The fundraising, anticipated to exceed $100 million, has the potential to elevate Carro’s valuation beyond its existing $1 billion valuation with strong support from global and regional investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Olist , a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, has raised $23 million in a Series D round extension led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management that brings its total Series D financing to $80 million. Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. On August 8, Mexico City–based expense management startup Clara announced it had been approved for financing from Goldman Sachs for up to $150 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Obviously I’m a proponent of still working closely with your investors to make sure that they feel bought into your decisions which will matter a lot if you ever need their support in the future. And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 million farmers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year , he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty. By some estimates, it takes 1 million pounds of raw material to support the lifestyle of an average American in a year. Of that material, 99% is no longer in use after 6 months.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, SoftBank, Menlo Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. The HPA Deal Lead is Eddie Leshin , who supports ShipBob with his deep knowledge of the logistics space and first-hand experience in quickly scaling 3PL solutions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

SoftBank Latin America Fund led the financing with a $50 million contribution, bringing Pipefy’s total raised to $138.7 million since its 2015 inception. The company touts that a variety of teams within an organization can benefit from its offering, including finance, human resources, customer service, procurement and marketing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

With a 98% client-retention rate since our founding and the successful resolution of more than 20,000 IT support requests in 2015 alone, we’ve discovered the core to building a winning customer-service promise is to start with your team, particularly through employee recognition and staff-training programs. Results through Rapport.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The fintech, which claims to be the region’s largest SME digital financing platform, uses alternative forms of credit-scoring and has disbursed more than $2 billion in financing to MSMEs since it launched in 2015. The company was founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya after they met in Harvard Business School.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. Valor Ventures : founded by Lisa Calhoun in 2015, the firm has a diverse team investing in seed rounds for AI / B2B startups in the South.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021. Even though productivity in this industry is much higher than in many others, this number is only a fraction of other big markets like finance or retail. Importantly, the average number of users per repository has shrunk from 0.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It is also coming a year after raising $55 million in a similar unnamed financing round. In total, JUMO has raised more than $200 million in equity and debt rounds from backers such as Brook Asset Management, Finnfund, Proparco, Leapfrog and Goldman Sachs since founder and CEO Andrew Watkins-Ball launched the company in 2015.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. This did not happen by magic. trillion in deposits. expectations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

While I’ve always loved supporting fellow entrepreneurs by sharing experiences, it’s interesting how this evolved to be the focus of Entreholic. In just one month, we got over US$10,000 worth of digital marketing, graphics, content and sales support for less than US$800. How did that become your focus? It wasn’t my initial plan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shoobx is a provider of automated equity management operations and financing software to private companies “at all growth stages,” up to and including an initial public offering. The last time Fidelity acquired another company was in 2015, when it acquired wealth planning software company eMoney Advisor , according to a company spokesperson.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Baffle was founded in 2015 to help thwart the increasing threats to enterprise assets in public and private clouds. California-based Baffle, a startup that aims to prevent data breaches by keeping data encrypted from production through processing, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. George Rzepecki, its founder, in a statement, likened Thepeer’s move to unify Africa’s wallet ecosystem to how Flutterwave entered the fragmented card and mobile money payments space in 2015. African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Since its founding in 2015, Moderne Ventures has built a successful investment track record yielding top-tier returns on its 35+ investments, backing over 150 Passport companies across three funds. The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s a growing market for private cellular networks, or dedicated cell networks configured to support a company’s specific requirements within a confined area (think a warehouse or wind farm). But today, mobile operator connectivity is hard to buy, integrate and manage,” Anderson told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Whurley has successfully co-founded and sold two Austin-based companies: Chaotic Moon Studios to Accenture in 2015 and Honest Dollar to Goldman Sachs in 2016. We like to say that the Central Texas ecosystem is much more supportive of each other than a lot of other places. In 2015, Accenture bought Chaotic Moon for an undisclosed price.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. Started in 2015, FreshToHome is one of the largest players battling for a slice of the $100 billion Indian fish and meat market.

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