TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Previously, he worked in finance and founded an IoT coffee company. This growth was boosted by an increasing number of companies prioritizing tools that support communication, collaboration, transparency and a seamless end-to-end workflow. Gleb studied Physics at Georgia Tech and enjoys chess, motorcycles and space.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2022

Other backers included Visa (Brankas was a member of its 2021 Accelerator Program), AFG Partners and Treasury International, the venture capital firm led by fintech veterans including Jeff Cruttenden, co-founder of Acorns and Eli Broverman, co-founder of Betterment, also invested.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

In 2021, the average cost was US$18,000 and at one point we paid US$21,500. . Our margins dropped from 45% in 2020 to 25% in 2021. . We had a slight price increase, but our clients supported us. In autumn of 2021, it became impossible to find cups and lids. Adjust for margin impact. “In It was a win-win!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Unique about the program, according to Better.com, is that employees will have the ability to finance their homes without actually selling their shares, only needing to pledge vested equity. Amazon is letting employees use their stock to finance home purchases and even second homes by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

With all of those, Lai said the firm was able to return a “significant amount of cash” back to its limited partners in the fourth quarter of 2021. They did exactly that to continue to support our deal as agreed to, and our round was closed during the pandemic. Bank then acquired TravelBank in December 2021.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history. billion in 2021, per Crunchbase data , with more than 17,000 startups around the world raising funding at seed. Of course, YC itself remained remote during 2021, as did all of our programs.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2023

The inaugural MM Catalyst Fund launched in 2021 invested in 16 businesses across Massachusetts that included Black-led growth companies and rural startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Eratani is an end-to-end management system that helps them get financing and supplies, and then helps them sell crops once they are ready. Founded in 2021 by Andrew Soeherman, Kevin Laksono and Angles Gani, Eratani is now used by more than 10,000 farmers in Java to manage a total of 8,000 hectares producing 52,000 tons of rice.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million custodial parents in the United States had either legal or informal child support agreements. Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. Lerer Hippeau, Citi Ventures, Correlation Ventures and Gingerbread Capital also participated in the financing. Uber alum rakes in $9.7M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. These should be getting the support,” CEO Coucha told TechCrunch. In 2021, Coucha spent some time in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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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. billion Series H, in 2021. More posts by this contributor.

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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

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

JANUARY 25, 2022

OZÉ , a Ghanaian fintech startup that provides digital recordkeeping tools with embedded finance products to medium and small businesses, has raised a $3 million pre-Series A round. The company said that the number of loans granted on the platform also increased by 200% from Q3 to Q4 of 2021. Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These investments have made a significant economic impact, creating thousands of jobs and supporting the growth of numerous innovative companies. billion at its IPO in April 2021.The billion at its IPO in April 2021.The Novazyme Pharmaceuticals Inc. was acquired by Genzyme Corp for $137.5 million in 2001.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Register Karakalpakstan , a region in Uzbekistan, outlines plans to allocate $200 million in soft loans to support companies and establish a Youth Socio-Economic Center in the Khojaili district, with an investment of 1 trillion soums. Further, Karakalpakstan is enhancing its support infrastructure for businesses. in national currency.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

Grants of $5,000 and $10,000 are being given to businesses that anticipate pursuing financing for growth for their “scalable, high-impact solution or idea.” The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. The program is set to reopen in September 2021, so get a head start and find out if your business qualifies here.

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Source Link

MAY 10, 2022

Nathan Ohle kicked things off by acknowledging that in recent years, the IEDC has broadened its understanding of the importance of small business growth and entrepreneur support and how vital these strategies are to the prosperity of communities of all sizes. Nathan Ohle. Take a demand-driven approach. Rob Williams.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2021, we extended a grant to Grand Valley State University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Lab. In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program. Veterans and/or military spouses work on their business launch over a three-month period.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The trading service’s investors came in force to ensure it had the capital it needed to continue supporting consumer trades. Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Anyhoo, I asked Mader about no-code trends in 2021, as I have my eyes on the space.

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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. M-KOPA is known chiefly for its pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing model that allows customers to build ownership of appliances over time by paying an initial deposit followed by flexible micro-payments.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

As NetSuite’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Ramon will support NetSuite’s continued success in supporting small and medium businesses as they look to scale and grow. NetSuite On Air: Power Up : Ramon will host NetSuite’s spring virtual event April 13 – 15, 2021. See the NetSuite News Room post here. Four Initiatives.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

More importantly, they continue to hire talent both to support their business and help the economy. As the development of the IT sector is integral to the maintenance of the country’s GDP, the government fully supports it. The entire world is supporting Ukraine. These trends are only gaining momentum.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

Our proposal: governments systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just the local founders. I co-wrote this essay with Prabhat Gusain , currently the Chief of Staff at Caffeinated Capital; formerly an intern with Versatile VC ; and a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. Many countries’ governments (Canada, France, etc.)

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Source Link

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

According to 2021 data from the Census Bureau , Americans filed paperwork to start 4.3 Now more than ever, entrepreneurs and small business owners require support from economic developers driving local economies forward. Developed with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and 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. This year, the startup is looking to add regional support in Europe, APAC and LatAm for its retail clients. .

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 26, 2022

Ben Franklin’s investments paid huge dividends for the commonwealth as the state continued to rebound from the pandemic, according to the statewide initiative’s “2021 Annual Statewide Impact Report,” with clients generating more than $2 billion in revenue and securing $917 million in post-Ben Franklin financing.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

For an updated list of grant programs for women and minorities available in 2021, please click here. Of course, securing capital is often necessary, but depending on what type of financing you apply to and qualify for, it can also be expensive. And you could be paying back a loan for several years (if not longer). Updated Nov.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

This funding follows a $3 million seed round raised by Legit Group in 2021, from East Ventures and AC Ventures. Founded in 2021, Legit Group currently operates four of its own cloud brands: Pastaria, Sei’Tan, Sek Fan and Ryujin. Since then, Legit Group says its sales have grown three times.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future. 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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. billion as of July 2021, already passing the total investment amount in 2020. Global VCs have invested $268.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2021, investors overdid a version of “founder-friendly” capital that boiled down to founders continually raising capital and reaching record valuations, enjoying no inputs from their investors. For many founders in the startup community, a “founder-friendly” investor is one who stays relatively hands off.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“Support for entrepreneurship and digital transformation is essential to economic growth, job creation, and resilience,” said Makhtar Diop, IFC’s Managing Director. In 2021, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan received less than 2% of the $643 billion global venture capital funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Its previous investor SkyDeck Fund and a private investor, vice president of finance at DoorDash Michael Kim, also joined the funding. billion in 2020, based on Research Interviewer’s report published in August 2021. We want to be the platform for all things voice-related,” Lee said. The Global TTS market is projected to increase $5.61

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