TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. Looking ahead, CEO Gomez projects that it will fulfill close to 6 million items in 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I recently wrote about the so-called “Embedded finance” trend, citing the example of Intergiro’s recent fundraising in the space. In a statement, Nawaz said: “Embedded finance is no longer the exclusive privilege of large technology firms. There’s now yet another example of this trend in the shape of HUBUC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Then in the first quarter of 2021, it began offering a “pay-by-link” service as well. Bold ended 2021 with more than 100,000 merchants using its services.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I discovered rhetoric in 2021 and read this book and The Elements of Eloquence which demonstrate the hundreds of literary devices we use to imbue language with flourish to entice or cajole the reader to hurdle over the period at the end of a sentence and sprint through the next, till the end of a tract. Words like Loaded Pistols.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2025

I’m a believer in the ‘ software eats the world ‘ thesis, although I often change it to ‘software enables the world,’ which is not nearly as evocative but also not as consumptive. I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups.

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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

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

JULY 13, 2022

While operating Fablic, the trio found that many users still used cash to pay and manage their day-to-day finance. The founders wanted to address the issue in the consumer finance industry in Japan and launched SmartBank. In addition, it will soon release services for parents and kids to manage finance together, the startup says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Open finance continues to be a significant theme in the world of fintech as businesses tap APIs to access customers’ financial accounts and provide a gamut of integrated and embedded financial services. The South African API fintech enables businesses to build, optimize, and scale financial products. Image Credits: Stitch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. The company, formerly known as ViveFácil, started in 2021 providing insurance, similar to a Jetty or Rhino , but for Mexico, Merullo told TechCrunch. Merullo plans to use the debt portion of the new funding for loans and financings issued. The funding round was a mix of $1.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The new fund will enable the bank to make deals ranging from $50 million to $100 million in capital. 2 bank in loans to companies in the Series A to Series C market, having already allocated over $6 billion in debt financing over the past 4 years to companies such as Crunchbase, Lightspeed and TigerConnect, McQueen said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The rapid adoption of digital payments has become a great challenge for finance teams. He worked a Melio, a business-to-business (B2B) payments platform for small companies, where he saw finance teams become the victims of their own success. According to one report , teams spend as much as 40% of their time processing transactions.

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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 trillion won in June 2021, when it raised $410 million in pre-Series G funding at a $7.4 million since its December 2021 launch. trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dr. Abrar Chaudhury is a climate finance research fellow at Oxford Said Business School researching on topics of global environmental change, climate finance, policy implementation, sustainable development, and corporate purpose. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 31, 2022

based companies invested in Germany in some way in 2021, almost matching the pre-pandemic total. This enables a transfer of resources, including technology and knowledge, that significantly increases the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. For example, 1,806 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. On August 8, Mexico City–based expense management startup Clara announced it had been approved for financing from Goldman Sachs for up to $150 million. Here in the U.S.,

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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. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. BlockFi, which lends money to cryptocurrency holders, just raised $18.3 million led by Valar Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

MycoWorks , a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reishi. The funding will enable the company to do this, Scullin said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. However, for Hassan, Mono’s play overlaps open finance and open banking.

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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. In Q1 of this year, it wrote checks to 17 companies, according to Crunchbase data, including to a few that TechCrunch has covered including corporate spend startup Ramp , tech-enabled homebuilder Homebound and Indian food delivery giant Swiggy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The company’s third quarter of 2021 was the best in its history, growing 250% in originations over the second quarter and more than 200% in revenue. We see massive opportunity to enable businesses to run more smoothly, and Fairplay is in the middle of that.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We are passionate about finding the best companies to support the future of community banking, so they can thrive and continue to enable and support their customers and communities,” says Ransom.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

In order to grow in 2022, you need to excel at the core business functions – team, finances, use of technology, marketing, operations, etc. Doing so will enable you to focus more on growth-driving activities. Final thoughts, 2021 is gone, and the whole new year is ahead. The cheapest price is not always the best price.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors. Founded in : 2021. YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

The trio had left Digital Ocean, a cloud infrastructure services provider, before the company went public in 2021 and concluded that homebuilding was not that dissimilar from their previous venture. And in February 2022, tech-enabled homebuilder Homebound raised $75 million in a Khosla-led Series C.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. “Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it’s understood Spherics had raised £1.25m in equity financing from angel investors and £300,000 in grants. Headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, Spherics is the second Bristol startup to be acquired by Sage in the last year, after Brightpearl was picked up in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Zywa was founded by Alok Kumar (CEO) and Nuha Hashem (CTO) in 2021, inspired by their lived experiences in the gulf region, where they primarily used cash or their parents’ cards to make payments. The app brings convenience to parents too as it enables them to send money to their children, and to monitor their spending and saving habits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9 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. We are here to help early-stage companies finance their assets,” she said.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2024

$15 Million Series A supports the startup’s growth with a $10M Net Revenue Run Rate In 2021 real estate fintech startup Backflip launched an all-in-one platform for real estate entrepreneurs to support their acquisition and renovation of single-family homes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Keyway , a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. And 20% of transactions fall through because the buyer didn’t have guaranteed financing.” commercial real estate value.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

MindX also continues to receive debt financing from Beacon Fund, an impact investment firm that focuses on women-owned and women-led businesses in Southeast Asia. The new investment comes just a year after MindX closed nearly $3 million in Series A funding in November 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

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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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