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. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” But the way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices?—?super

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of premium software companies” that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend “all on a single tech platform.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo Ventures , the “Indonesia-only” investment firm, announced today it has closed its third fund, totaling $115 million. Called Intudo Ventures Fund III, it was raised in less than three months and oversubscribed. When we gave him the term sheet, six months later in March 2019, Bitcoin was at $3,000,” he said.

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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. Bolster also will allow venture capital firms and startup investors to participate in its platform as super users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. Mosaic raises $18.5M

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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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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. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

Register Thailand’s health-tech company, HD , has secured investment from FEBE Ventures , a well-known venture capital firm headquartered in Vietnam. The investment from FEBE Ventures will enable HD to strengthen its marketplace further. Last month, the global healthcare venture platform VentureBlick secured US$2.6

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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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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. 2020 performance of individual fintech companies vs. SPX Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance.

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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. Let’s not even mention Andreessen Horowitz’s paltry $2.2 So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Sourcing deals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

I suspect what we will see is a very active venture capital market, quite the opposite of what was initially expected. Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3 Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3 So Q2 was down from Q2 2019 but almost flat with Q1 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” Lessin notes that venture capitalists once made risky wagers on companies that often withered away. Thus, venture capitalists sold their capital dearly to founders. A capital explosion.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. What happened? billion fund.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Image Credits: Stears.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. The company’s previous investors include USV, True Ventures, DFJ Growth and Flybridge.

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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. This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, is one of the participating investors (this marks its first investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) but second in the MENA region after Egyptian fintech Paymob ). The fintech has raised more than $410 million in equity and debt since its 2019 launch. .

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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. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspeed Venture partners. The capital is in addition to the $12.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

million debt — in 2019. Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. Most of the investors from Twiga’s Series B round in 2019 took part in this recent fundraise. This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75 million equity and $6.25

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Others may not have the experience you want and they fill up a seat that makes retaining founder control more difficult if you ultimately raise large rounds of venture capital in the future. What happens at the A-round of venture capital? Is it possible that you still retain board control after raising a C-round of venture capital?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

in 2019 and quickly gained investments from some of the top fintech venture capital firms. Along with Matt Sueoka, Global Head and SVP of Amex Ventures Stephany Kirkpatrick will speak on what it takes to get financing in the fintech space. Stephany Kirkpatrick launched Orum.io PDT/2:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The five-year-old startup said the new tranche of its Series B financing round was led by VII Ventures, with participation from Nutresa, Veronorte, Jumbofund, Klinkert Investment Trust, Peter Crosby Trust, Nexus Venture Partners and Discovery Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced its 2024 Future of Work 100, an annual list of venture-backed startups impacting how work gets done in the future. Those recognized in this year’s list have raised a cumulative $30 billion in venture capital financing, with a total valuation of over $140 billion.

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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. According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, investors poured $156.2 venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so. But while the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. The company has raised a number of private rounds, including a $126 million deal in August of 2019 that valued the company at $454.3 from 2019 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2019, William Hockey, the cofounder of fintech business Plaid, announced that he would step down from his position as Plaid’s chief technology officer and president. billion, builds out its global finance network. billion, builds out its global finance network. ” A growing fintech trend. While some $18.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5 billion in size in 2019 and projected to reach $4.4 Other new investors include ADM Ventures, Be8 Ventures, S2G Ventures, Marinya Capital and Future Ventures, run by Jurvetson and partner Maryanna Saenko. Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group. The financing comes barely three months after Orum announced a $21 million Series A, and brings its total raised to over $82 million.

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