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. In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fundraising in the space. Billing itself as “AWS for financial services” the startup — which emerged from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain — has now raised a $10 million seed funding round co-led by WndrCo and Runa Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, Petal offers “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. . Petal operated under stealth until launching its first product, and announcing its first funding, in September 2017.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

The capital will be used to build new product lines, and although Amberdata has existing deals in the U.S., If you think about this, digital assets will touch every person and business on the planet and transform finance, and that requires data and insights to be able to embrace that,” Douglass said. What’s happening in the market?”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. ” The firm’s past investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com also participated in the new round.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. involved in developing state-of-the-art AI systems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. Due to this environment, funds can no longer be just a source of capital for startups. Funds can no longer just be a source of capital by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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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. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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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. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. With our increases in capital we hope to be able to serve you in the near-term future.

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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 round also included a $5 million debt from Talanton and Verdant Capital Specialist Funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

The latest financing brings its total equity raised since inception to about $450 million, with the company raising $100 million across its seed and Series C rounds. Zac Prince — who comes from a background in consumer lending — founded BlockFi with Flori Marquez in 2017. Bain Capital Ventures Partner Stefan Cohen agrees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

The company was founded by Mohamed Abdulaziz and Ahmed Sheikha in 2017. Brimore, in a statement, said it uses “its unique infrastructure–which is an ecosystem of supply, demand, logistics and finance– and proprietary technology to avail market penetration opportunities to emerging brands owners.”. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2023

Whether their expertise ranges from gaming and finance, or art and tokenomics, it’s critical to select the right people carefully. The most successful business campaigns were launched by those who gathered a team of brilliant minds across multiple disciplines, including developers, engineers, capital raisers, marketers, and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Investors involved in the merger have committed $415 million in PIPE financing. The company also recently raised $440 million in capital. In other words, Circle will have plenty of capital on its hands if the merger goes through. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Capitolis , which makes technology for capital markets players such as investment and merchant banks, has closed on a $90 million Series C funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The financing included participation from existing backers Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Spark Capital, SVB Capital, Citi, J.P.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet. Invoca has enough capital where we should never need to fund raise again. Great companies get financed. We targeted $20 million in a raise and ended up pulling in $30 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. Individual investors like Stephen Pagliuca, the chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan of Twitch also participated. million in grants will focus on providing working capital financing to these farmers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cobo , a Singapore-based crypto asset management platform, raised a $40 million Series B to accelerate the development of decentralized finance as a service (DFaaS). The round was co-led by DST Global , A&T Capital and IMO Ventures. ConsenSys raises $65M from JP Morgan, Mastercard, UBS to build infrastructure for DeFi.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In contrast to her future success in finance, Kelly Peeler’s early start as an entrepreneur began with flipping refurbished furniture at the age of 11. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. share of blockchain developers has fallen 2% per year in the last five years, dropping to 29% last year from 40% in 2017. and web3 worlds Archie Finance, told TechCrunch+. The number of blockchain developers in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. million raise in 2017. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The second iteration has been more around like decentralized finance and non-custodial trading of financing activities,” said Bademosi. The Connecticut-based venture capital and holding company has over 60 crypto and blockchain subsidiaries and investments across 30 countries, including LUNO, CoinDesk and Bitso.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis. Lim teamed up with Benny Yiu and Max Zschoch in 2017 to build HoneyBee with that goal in mind. “We million in equity in a round led by FFVC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and Singapore, led the funding. Established in 2017 by twin brothers Phan Thanh Long and Phan Thanh Vinh, MFast has rapidly expanded its footprint to cover all 63 cities in Vietnam. MFast operates under the umbrella of Vietnam-based startup DigiPay.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round. AfricInvest, through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and French-based development finance institution Proparco, co-led the early-growth round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

’s venture capital fund CapitalG. The company, which runs an app matching truck drivers and merchants transporting cargo and provides financial services to truckers, was formed from a merger between rivals Yunmanman and Huochebang in 2017. The Chinese Uber for trucks Manbang announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To that end, Breadfast , an online grocery delivery company that wants to become a regional leader in the sector has raised $26 million in Series A financing from an impressive group of investors. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The investors backing MNT-Halan include private equity firms Apis Growth Fund II, Development Partners International (DPI), and Lorax Capital Partners; VCs like Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, and DisruptTech. Then in mobility, MNT-Halan provides courier, delivery, and ride-hailing services. . billion worth of loans to 1.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. SafeBoda has rarely announced any of its funding rounds since its inception in 2017, but people who know the company’s dealings say it has raised over $20 million. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Alviere , an embedded finance startup that aims to help any brand deliver financial products and services to its customers and employees, announced today it has closed $70 million of new funding. Alviere has now raised a total of $90 million since its 2017 inception. TOA was a Cleveland, Ohio, cloud-based enterprise software company.).

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