Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. MyEO DealExchange was formally approved as a MyEO Premier Group in August 2018. EO’s “Angel-Sharks” are interested in a good investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2019

She has been an EO Colorado member since 2018. In early 2018, we happened to fall into one of those phases where we had lots of new cases requiring lots of up-front investments in records, experts and filing fees. I streamlined my accounts and finances. Megan is an EO Colorado member who joined the organization in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. In 2018 and 2019, VCs invested around $140 billion into domestic startups, making last year’s $156 billion result a record, but not a shocking departure from previous years. In the U.S.,

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups. Initially introduced in 2018, the policies have now been extended until the end of 2027, as stated in a joint announcement by the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration.

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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. And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. The answer is: not much.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow and co-founder of L3G’s & Associates, Fatima Chi, is empowering businesses in her community in Belize to take control of their finances. L3G’s & Associates’ role is to keep local businesses running well, to provide guidance on the proper business formation and importance of proper finance management.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2023, the industry attracted substantial investments, with strong financial inclusion and blockchain technology gaining acceptance in some countries. This investment came from a consortium of regional investors, including Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and January Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

On a call with TechCrunch, CEO Rotimi Thomas said the investment will help SunFi grow its operations and improve its capabilities to recommend the best systems at the lowest cost to customers. The company said it is working on a third revenue stream where it will assist solar providers with inventory financing. Think about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B But Quibi has raised $1.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On One deal led to another, Smith said, and the wealth the group created eventually gave him the financial freedom to launch his own company, Tribevest, in 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At So far, AIF has invested in seven early-stage companies. AIF brought in Rob Sarrazin from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to serve as its chief investment officer and managing partner.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence. What role have the pandemic, slowing economy and recent bank crisis had on your investments? It’s just a financing question.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2019

In the third and final article in her series on personal health and finances, Megan Hottman shares a tool that helps her stay on course for financial success. She formed her own law practice in 2010 at age 29 and joined EO in 2018. This exercise tied in perfectly with my goal for 2018, the #YearOfNoShopping.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Did you conduct any practice sessions?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Today, most investors can open a Concreit account and make their first investment in just minutes on their mobile device, the company claims.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

CAGR from 2018 to 2023 compared to Eastern Europe’s 6.9%, Asia Pacific’s 6.8%, Western Europe’s 4%, North America’s 3.5% According to the report, African developers created 40% more open source repositories on the software engineering marketplace in 2019 than in 2018 — recording a higher growth percentage than any other continent globally.

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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. MarketForce plans more partnerships to bring on board other services for merchants like insurance, savings and investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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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. Offline payment is also a costly option for buyers as it comes with a cash-on-delivery fee.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously. The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] When a collapse follows a surge, mean reversion suggests behavior should revert to a reasonable baseline.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD. Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The new VC arm, called Stronghold Capital, has already invested in companies including Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research and funds including Precursor Ventures and Backstage Capital, both of which have a track record of backing underrepresented founders. billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

This comes barely two weeks after Naspers, via its early-stage tech investment vehicle Naspers Foundry, invested in another South African insurtech platform, Ctrl, in its $2.3 Naked’s latest investment is a Series A round. According to a statement released by the company, Naspers Foundry invested $8.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It was four years after several iterations of Insidify, an aggregator site for job seekers and a review site for companies that they started SeamlessHR in 2018. Sitting on top of such data provides leverage to build out more vertical products; for this reason, SeamlessHR will venture into launching embedded finance products for employees.

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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.). Seriously, this happens.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Naked , a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard.

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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. Register today for this free week-long event, and then start unlocking exclusive content on 12 November, 2018. We equate being busy as being virtuous.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Unpacking Proptech: A data-driven series on advancing built world innovation In Part 1 and Part 2 , I reviewed proptech financing trends, sources of capital and investor types, scaling and fundraising lessons from the past five years, and potential conflicts of interest. That brings us to one of the most exciting topics — exits.

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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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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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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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