TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. GetVantage says this includes several debt lines with non-banking financial companies to help scale its financing platform. Vasa said companies typically repay financing in about six to nine months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. It announced today that it has been accepted into Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 startup batch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Our role is to help both the entrepreneur and their VC partners grow that business with incremental capital,” he told TechCrunch. “We Our opportunity in good times is to allow VCs to sit on their dry powder while we use the bank’s capital to help grow their portfolio companies.”. We don’t replace equity, but extend the runway.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Though 2021 is far from over, it’s already witnessed a record level of venture capital activity in the technology sector. billion in venture financing across the globe, of which $138.9 Good VCs who are aligned with a startup’s vision create more value than the dollars they bring to the table. So far this year, we’ve seen $292.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

African tech took center stage in 2021. The number of deals in 2021 grew 73% year-on-year from 244 deals in 2020. Briter Bridges : In 2020, the publication reported that fintech companies accounted for 31% of the total VC funding. In 2021, fintech startups got 63% of the continent’s total investments. The Big Deal : $4.33

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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

MARCH 16, 2021

While it has been encouraging in recent years to cover what has felt like a boom in Latin American and European fintechs , or a general rise in VC activity in a host of Asian countries , the landscape remains imbalanced. billion in 2021 if current trends hold, a healthy increase from the 2020 figure. So let’s poke at it a bit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

Post-money valuations were inflated by market expectations in 2021, but they were also inflated by the underlying mechanics of the valuation model itself. The miracle year of 2021. For founders, employees and VCs alike, 2021 must’ve seemed like a miracle year. versus 471 a year earlier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. So far in 2021, only about 27% of U.S. VC dollars have gone to Bay Area startups. But that was a long time ago. In recent years, Bay Area startups have accounted for a smaller percentage of U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Luis Daniel Arbulú, partner at Salkantay, told TechCrunch via email that the fund is “the country’s largest VC fund” as per PitchBook and Crunchbase data. Xiao Schadeck joined the firm in 2021. VC fundraising gets weird as autumn nears. For years, Northzone looked at sectors for its U.S.

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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

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

JUNE 20, 2021

Also notably, Amber’s Series B financing was bankrolled by a list of high-profile financial and VC firms, including China Renaissance, which led the round, and Tiger Brokers, Tiger Global Management, Arena Holdings, Tru Arrow Partners, Sky9 Capital, DCM Ventures and Gobi Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Atomico/Dealroom report details that the total value of tech M&A in Europe through the third quarter of 2021 has crossed the $100 billion mark. Per the same data set, in the first three quarters of 2021, VC-backed tech M&A worked out to $54.9 Good news for 2022 European exits.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Startups and VC.

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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. And in Q4 2021, the platform witnessed a 44% month-on-month customer growth and a 72% month-on-month increase in linked financial accounts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria. This is compared to the 80% revenue growth between FY 2021 and FY 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Startups and VC. Finally raises $95M for its SMB finance suite : Everything is fintech, so it won’t surprise that you that Finally, which offers bookkeeping and other software products to SMBs, is working to roll out a lending product. Brex is also busy in the space , as is Airbase. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September. A former NEA partner and a former Uber exec just closed their $140 million debut VC fund. Disrupt 2021 goes down from September 21 to 23 and is virtual.

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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. Global VCs have invested $268.7 billion as of July 2021, already passing the total investment amount in 2020.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB), a SaaS platform for DevOps, completed a successful public listing on October 14, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This narrative falls short when you consider data that goes back beyond 2021. and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. Focusing on a narrow slice of the VC pie. In the U.S. More volatility.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021. Across Series A to Series E rounds in the US, hedge funds participated in 63% of startup financings worth more than $200B in 2021. 2021 marked a near universal strategic focus on Series C, D, and E rounds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

What to expect while fundraising in 2021. Do not pass go — VCs insist pitch decks meet 3 key criteria. According to the data, overall founder and VC activity took a nosedive in early 2020 once the serious nature of the pandemic became apparent. Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsend. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Any change is an opportunity to create leverage, and a downturn is no exception,” writes Masha Bucher, founder and general partner of early-stage VC firm, Day One Ventures. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. Rigorous Recruiter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. billion, per insights from data trackers Briter Bridges , Partech and The Big Deal , with slight percentage differences from their 2021 numbers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. More financings occur outside San Francisco, but Bay Area companies now raise 2000 to 2500 rounds per year, up from 404. It’s not that VC dollars have left San Francisco to fuel other geographies. But that’s not the full story. per year to $30b-$36b per year.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

About 1 million left the workforce in November 2021 alone, according to the U.S. Qwick today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B financing round led by Tritium Partners, with participation by current investors Album VC, Kickstart, Desert Angels and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. million in capital.

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