TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Truebill , a startup offering a variety of tools to help users take control of their finances, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series C funding. When I first wrote about the startup in 2016 , it was focused on helping users track and cancel unwanted subscriptions.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. CEO Eric Youngstrom founded the company in 2020 after a career at multicarrier shipping software company ShippingEasy. Revenue is growing 30% month over month.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If economists tried to measure the cost of the malaise that the election of 2016 left, we'd undoubtedly see billions, if not more, lost in worker productivity. Pre-sales would enable companies to exist off the financing of the fans most passionate about their vision for products. These two realities are linked.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  It’s vital to reflect upon, what does the business truly need and how far can you go without external financing? By the time of your growth-stage financing, your milestones will help you define when and how much to raise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. 2015 turned to 2016. Great companies get financed. Fall turned to winter.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. In 2016, when she was selected as a YLAI Fellow, Ashna was able to further develop her ideas, and her YLAI Reverse Exchange became a great success that grew her confidence for undertaking international projects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Twinco Capital , a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Founded in 2016 by Sandra Nolasco and Carmen Marin Romano, Twinco Capital offers a supply chain finance solution that includes purchase order funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 2, 2021

Since 2016, not one US state has added personal finance to its K-12 standards. Kids who spend and handle money on their own (with parental supervision) tend to be more self-confident about money once they are on their own and less anxious about their finances. Include your children when you make trips to the bank or ATM machine.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

One of the biggest fears about the future of data is that everyone will turn into a number--that algorithms will turn everyone's personal experience into a single score that will decide whether or not you get what you want, a job, a house, a car, financing for a new business etc. or whether you get shut out.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

As we noted in our survey of more than 150 VCs we know in the industry, many saw drops in Q4 valuations last year with nearly all of them projecting decreases in 2016. The terrible consequence is that some great companies struggle to get financed. The best deals will continue to get financed. In my mind this simply means.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2020 performance of individual fintech companies vs. SPX Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Matrix U.S. E-commerce undoubtedly stood out as a major driver.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Shota Horii , his twin brother Yuta Horii and Jun Taketani co-founded SmartBank in 2019 after selling their previous startup Fablic, a Japanese online secondhand marketplace, to Rakuten in 2016. While operating Fablic, the trio found that many users still used cash to pay and manage their day-to-day finance.

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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 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. Ayoconnect says it is the only open finance player in Indonesia to be licensed by the central bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 Tuplejump, another startup Buddhavarapu founded, was acquired by Apple in 2016. It also claims to work with all the existing SaaS tools as well as Excel, Google Sheets and all other platforms that finance teams use.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. I recall someone in the audience suggesting that the NYSE and Nasdaq could rebuild their markets on top of these technologies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. Let’s get this out of the way: JPMorgan Chase doesn’t have the best reputation in the climate sector.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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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. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2016, I was looking for my next big thing after 25 years of operating a marketing business. To learn more about the MyEO DealExchange DX22 event, we asked Alan Peterson (EO Orange County), champion of the MyEO DealExchange premier group, about the DX22 event.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

In a region where more than half of the population is either unbanked or underbanked , open finance players like Mono are trying to improve financial inclusion and connectivity on the continent. Compare the payments market now with 2016, when Paystack and Flutterwave just started. “The way I see it, our market is not that big.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 12, 2018

Billion acquisition, Quentis Therapeutics picking up $48 million in financing, and Paige.ai They began laying the groundwork for Radformation in 2016, after all three left their jobs working as medical physicists in the cancer clinic. Long gone are the days when NYC was just a place to build a fintech company or an ad platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself. There were an average of 35 “megadeals” (with over $100 million raised) per month from 2016 to 2019, according to Crunchbase. In 2021, that number stands at 126 per month.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million in Series A-1 financing from existing investors led by Base10 Partners, VisionTech, and Collina Ventures and its new investor IU Ventures. Register Boardable , an online board management and meetings platform , secured another $2.6 The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Investors involved in the merger have committed $415 million in PIPE financing. From the day we founded the company three years ago we’ve focused on trying to build a new consumer finance company. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016. These are extreme positions and often the deals settle in between but it can be U-G-L-Y and the financings are at times coupled with changing management teams. Some called this “buying logos.” The market eventually slowed down.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. And so it goes. Back to my non-VC example.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So she taught herself how to code, launched in 2016, raised $2.8 The New York-based startup nabbed $25 million in financing led by Imaginary Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Left Lane Capital, which brings its total funding to $44.2 million since its launch back in 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . In April, Knotel a nnounced the close of a $70 million Series B financing led by Newmark Knight Frank and The Sapir Organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Founded in 2016, New York-based Petal offers two Visa credit card products aimed at underserved consumers with little to no credit history. Specifically, Petal offers “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

and Nigerian-based company is announcing a financing round of $3.15 RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge , Amy Kao and Wei Lui. So far, RxAll has stayed alive by winning grants and prize monies at competitions, with some equity financing from the likes of Africa-focused accelerator Founders Factory Africa. Today, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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