StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , If you’re an aspiring veteran business owner, check out the Veteran Entrepreneur Portal for step-by-step guidance on financing, training, government contracts and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. The Upfront VII and Growth teams are made up of 10 partners: 6 leading investment activities & 4 supporting portfolio companies including Talent, Marketing, Finance & Operations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Written for EO by Don Scott , who applies 35 years’ experience in business and finance with a master’s degree in psychology to explore the path to meaningful change. EO believes that it is entrepreneurs’ connection to family and community that enables them to thrive as business leaders. It must be productive. (Or

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. We started a pilot and it is going well,” MarketForce CEO and co-founder Mbaabu told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact Financial Holding, Egypt’s non-bank consumer finance provider, has invested $9 million in the country’s ecommerce super-app Wasla , setting the stage for the rollout of new online shopping capabilities, products and regional expansion. And the final step is integrating financing or buy-now-pay-later solutions directly within that.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, billion into construction tech in 2018. Many of these workers haven’t returned and companies are finding it difficult to attract new talent ( Giatec Scientific Inc. ).80 USA News ).Labor

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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

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. . Since launching its offering in 2018, Fidel API says it has entered markets across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

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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. million in a seed round of funding that closed in 2018 and was led by ConsenSys Ventures and included participation from SoFi. . million led by Valar Ventures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Attendees at the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in 2018. In 2018, Alan Peterson, an EO member in Orange County, California, formed MyEO Deal Exchange (MyEO DX), a resource for connecting EO members who wish to find mutually beneficial deals. Why can’t you buy a desk that will perfectly fit the available space?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world of finance is undergoing a profound transformation, and Mexico is no exception. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018. Embedded finance: Integrating solutions into mainstream services Embedded finance represents a paradigm shift in how businesses access financial services.

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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 Profitability would also go a long in enabling the company — which is eyeing a potential initial public offering in the near term — to do so successfully.) . billion (8.5

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag. In October 2018, the company concluded its first-in-human study with no recorded severe adverse events, showcasing the safety and efficacy of the technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Ashiru Jituboh tells TechCrunch that besides making APIs, Okra is in the business of selling “digital first-experiences and transformation” “We are building an open finance infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to offer digital-first experiences and financial products,” she said.

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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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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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking. Infiuss Health (Nigeria).

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 26, 2023

The collaboration is expected to leverage Crypto.com’s tailored business solutions, enabling it to reach Line’s extensive 200 million monthly active users network. LINE Corporation has been actively exploring blockchain-based applications since the establishment of the LINE Blockchain Lab in April 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

The company is the result of the Business sans Border initiative, which aims to create a global ecosystem of MSMEs through trusted credentials, and to enable B2B cross-border trade through financing and fulfillment services.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Finfra Investment Fueled Indonesian Embedded Finance Expansion Indonesian startup Finfra secured $1 million in new funding in late June. The company invests the infused capital into product development and enhancing Finfra’s engineering, data, and finance teams.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. . Japan Finance Corporation led the debt financing. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. Its investment activity started picking up again starting in late 2018 and the bank backed 30 startups in the fourth quarter of 2019 alone. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. That deal closed last week.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Krupa Srinivas is the co-founder of Owned Outcomes, a software company that enables data-driven decision making for healthcare providers and payers as they seek financial sustainability alongside clinical outcomes in patient care. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

PE becomes an important buyer of companies growing 10-25%, as it did in 2018, driven by lower debt costs. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Smith, Plauche and Engineer say this enables them more time to look for good companies, not to have to sell a company to raise a new fund and only have to update one investor. She recalls over a decade ago talking to tech-enabled consumer lenders about how technology would affect financial services.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

According to the Economist , one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life.” Using these new skills, almost 50 bots have been developed so far that complete a range of functions from finance to marketing to technical support. New jobs will be created.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This in turn enables them to collect, send or exchange money in real time without the need for reconciliation and with almost no cost,” Rozic told TechCrunch. Rozic teamed up with Paola Sanchez and Tomislav Biscan to build a new payments network for cash-based economies in order to enable money to flow as easily as information does.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. million in revenue for FY2019, up 68% from 2018. Although typical for foreign private startups, it’s almost an anomaly in Africa. At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. Companies like Wise, Modulr, and Form3 have unlocked this capability for fintech and non-finance companies. Giving fintech access to the central bank In the U.S., only banks can access systems like Fedwire, and funds must be stored at a bank.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

– APRIL 22, 2018: A statue of Albert Gallatin, a former U.S. Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. Multi Colored Bling Bling Dollar Sign Shape Bokeh Backdrop on Dark Background, Finance Concept. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

The latest round gives the company $150 million in total funding, which includes $100 million in a credit facility announced in 2018. And that’s exactly what happened; the result was Future Family saw its gross transaction volume — the volume of patients it was financing — jump 300% in 2021. The company also doubled its headcount.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country. Love to see it!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish. After bringing in $8 million in a few rounds over the years, Zubale is back with a new cash infusion of $40 million in Series A financing led by QED Investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the latest development, Bumpa , one of them which says it is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices, has raised a $4 million seed round. . Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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