TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading startup, said on Monday it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. The latest valuation is 10 times that of the company’s Series A closed in 2019, a $28 million round that counted Coinbase Ventures as one of its investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Our company, Felix Media Solutions, landed a spot on the 2019 Inc. Lindsey—who, at the time, was my girlfriend, programmer and designer—said, “I will take over the finance piece, you go sell and run the shop. I started the company in 2015 as a side-hustle with my old friend Mike Watts. I’ll handle this side of things.”

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

million Americans filed a business application in 2020, 500,000 more than in 2019. While it may sound obvious, your finances are one of the most critical elements of any business. In this article, you’ll learn five tips for getting your new business finances set up for success this year. Are you a member of this group?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Although typical for foreign private startups, it’s almost an anomaly in Africa. While Carbon has been hailed for transparency and openness, it remains to be seen if it’s a trend other African startups are willing to follow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. The startup, launched in 2020, is now present in six African cities: Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi and Ibadan. .

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt is a great CEO and has even written a book about leading and growing a company called Startup CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. YC S20 had 198 startups, so that’s a 90% increase from last year. include India, with 33 startups; the U.K., with 18 startups; Mexico with 17; Singapore with 12; and Canada and Brazil, 11 each. Amenli (Egypt). Freterium (Morocco).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Recurring revenue as an asset class is a relatively new concept, and made more popular by startups such as Pipe , which has built a marketplace connecting investors to companies with businesses that have predictable, recurring revenues. In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 million. . “A

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The figure represents an 80% increase compared to the amount raised for its previous fund, VVSEAI Fund IV, in 2019. VVSEAI Fund V’s substantial corpus includes a dedicated co-investment envelope of $50 million, which will be utilized to invest alongside the primary fund in startups led by women founders.

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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. billion into domestic startups last year, or around $428 million for each day of the year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But while the U.S. Boring, yeah? Not really.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. African startups nearly raised $1.5 Predictions were made on how much the continent’s startups would raise in December. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Enter SeekOut — a startup that is out to give companies no excuses with its AI-powered platform. The startup wouldn’t name names but said it is working with 6 out of the 10 “most highly valued companies” by market cap in the U.S. In a world where so many startups have yet to turn a profit, SeekOut is a refreshing exception.

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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. It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Register Stilt Studios , the Indonesian startup renowned for its innovative prefabricated modular homes, has successfully concluded a series A funding round, raising $10 million through a blend of debt and equity investments. The injection of capital will fuel the startup’s expansion across international markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

There’s a prevailing narrative that the health of the Bay Area startup ecosystem faces challenges. San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech startup Nerdy , which owns the popular tutoring business Varsity Tutors, is seeking to become a public company through a special purpose acquisition vehicle, otherwise known as a SPAC. Will they come to startups next? That particular realm of expense rose from $38 million in 2019 to an estimated $44 million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Africa is home to more than a billion people, where a majority have limited or no access to vehicle financing. In 2019, Africa had fewer than 900,000 new vehicle sales. Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019. Moove says it is democratizing vehicle ownership by employing a revenue-based vehicle financing model.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. This should come as no surprise, given that fintech combines two sectors traditionally dominated by men: finance and technology. In 2019, less than 3% of all VC investment went to women-led companies, and only one-fifth of U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

billion invested across 2,197 deals, a 23% decline in deal count compared to the second quarter of 2019 but only down slightly from 2,298 venture capital deals in the first quarter of this year. Likewise, there has not been a drop in late-stage activity as deal count tracked at a higher pace than 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it last raised money , he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Jonathan Pasternak, a partner in the bankruptcy, restructuring and creditor rights group at New York-based Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, believes the company’s Chapter 11 filing was inevitable despite it reaching unicorn status after raising $400 million in Series C funding in August 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. million seed round led by the Raba Partnership.

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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. All of these sums are substantially higher than what the sector received in 2019 — just $3.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

-based investors backing Latin American startups. based startups. Founded by Pedro Moura and Jessica Eting, the startup offers an “engagement and financial wellness” solution for banks, fintechs and credit unions with the goal of helping them engage and retain clients. Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

While this news in and of itself is certainly attention-getting, it’s even more impressive when you consider the startup just raised a $50 million Series C last August at a $450 million valuation. The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6 It’s a model that seems to be working in a big way.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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