TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Following a Covid-driven boost, the popular AllTrails resource for hikers, bikers, climbers, and anyone else who enjoys the outdoors, announced today it’s raised $150 million from the growth fund of global private equity firm Permira to further accelerate its business. Image Credits: All Trails.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ’s Accelerator program empowers early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow and master their businesses. Attendees at the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in 2018.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years. The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Founded by Brendan Playford and Cate Rung , Pngme started primarily as a lending platform in 2018. led Cate and me to found the company specifically focusing on providing access to finance to Africans,” he said to TechCrunch. . Playford, who grew up in the U.K.,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. monthly to finance rent payments.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself. But these days, there are more of them, and the outliers are more extreme than ever before.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord , the communications service that’s become the 21st century’s answer to MUD rooms, is close to closing a new round of financing that would value the company at up to $7 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the round. The new funding comes just months after a $100 million investment that gave the company a $3.5

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 3) Accelerators. Right here. million in cash and prizes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

With this, APX, which launched in 2018 , is now able to deploy up to €500,000 in pre-Series A seed funding per company. In addition to the new funding, APX also today announced that it is doing away with its 100-day accelerator program and instead opting for a long-term commitment to its companies, including participation in future rounds.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The funding will be spent to further accelerate its business and market expansion and to help optimize the development of PlayMining. Founded in 2018, the company provides dynamic financing solutions to high-growth and capital-intensive businesses. A separate Web3 partnership was also signed.

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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. Manafa was founded in 2018 by Abdulaziz Al-Adwan and Arm Murad.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before joining Paystack in 2018, Hassan co-founded OyaPay, a payments startup the year before. In a region where more than half of the population is either unbanked or underbanked , these open finance players are trying to improve financial inclusion on the continent.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. 80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, USA News ).Labor

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world of finance is undergoing a profound transformation, and Mexico is no exception. This evolution has been accelerated by regulatory changes that are fostering innovation and competition within the financial technology landscape. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018.

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HPA

APRIL 13, 2021

The financing round was led by Eldridge, with participation from existing investors including Hyde Park Angels; LightBank; American Family Ventures; Cox Enterprises, owner of AutoTrader and Manheim auto auctions; and OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a Canadian pension fund; as well as additional new investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. Specifically, the company plans to continue investing in nationwide infrastructure, technology and logistics and toward accelerating digitalization of Turkish SMEs. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This adds up to a total of $205 million in equity and debt financing, which the New York-based fintech plans to primarily use to invest in technology and build “more expansive products to continue to cover the entirety of corporate spend and cash management,” its CEO Everett Cook told TechCrunch. was close to $1.4

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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). Cobo, which also has offices in Hong Kong and Seattle, raised a $13 million Series A round in October 2018 to enter new international markets.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Seed financing round of CTRLStack and seed and Series A financing rounds of Cortex, two more KJ portfolio firms, was led by Sequoia Capital. million 2018 maiden fund, Krishnan said. “I’ve The two hit it off and First Round Capital led the seed round of Sprig. Kearny Jackson has distributed about 20% of its $3.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). An estimated 752,000 new cancer cases, 4% of the world’s total, occurred in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. Infiuss Health (Nigeria).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Venture capital firms, which provide equity financing for early- and growth-stage startups, play a critical gatekeeper role, deciding which new technologies and technology companies will receive funding. Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. of all U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Developers use the company’s tools to power a range of features, including digital receipts, omnichannel attribution, loyalty and rewards, expense management and personal finance management. . And this capital will help us continue to accelerate down that path. Other backers include Citi Ventures, RBC Capital and Commerce Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 Toss joined the unicorn club with its $80 million financing at a valuation of $ 1.2 billion in 2018. trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5 billion (8.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

million in funding from government investment firms and traditional accelerators like SOSV, with a tech that the company claims can give vertical farms a better way to monitor and manage nutrients and water quality. In late 2018 the company moved back to Denmark and raised a small amount of additional capital from SOSV and Rockstart.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Yet, as the accelerator points out, “it’s the most commonly available metric to compare companies in the startup world.”. Case in point: No African company made the list in 2018.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Though the round was acquired before going into the accelerator program, the Belarus-based pair wanted to wait to publicly share the milestone. It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Tunde Balogun co-founded the startup, formerly RentSmallSmall, with Naomi Olaghere and Pidah Tnadah in 2018 after returning to Nigeria from the U.K. For tenants, it’s the comfort of managing their finances better by paying monthly rent and the respite that comes with not transacting with housing agents that SmallSmall provides.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. . LESSON: When solving large-scale problems, chase the art of the possible instead of settling for a pre-agreed target.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Unlike WeWork, the business actually has a fair shot at working out — especially given business trends that have accelerated in response to the health and safety measures implemented to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. To basically build their marketplaces.” Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It is also coming a year after raising $55 million in a similar unnamed financing round. When JUMO raised its $52 million in 2018, it opened an office in Singapore to enter Asia, but the company seems to have closed shop there based on information from its statement.

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