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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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To support and accelerate this momentum, the National Entrepreneur Center (NEC) and Orange County Government have partnered with SourceLink, tapping into our consulting services, software solutions and national network to strengthen and build upon the rich tradition of collaboration the NEC and Orlando entrepreneurial ecosystem have forged.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best course of action? Choosing the right financing partner can be tedious, as they need to align with your mission, values and objectives. Revenue financing.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 16, 2025

In a significant step toward accelerating the global transition to renewable energy, Terabase Energy has successfully raised $130 million in a Series C financing round. The round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from existing and new strategic investors, brings the companys total funding to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”. So, just how does it work? “QED

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners , an affiliation marketing company. These shifts are also likely to change how people work and shop far into the future and accelerate the pace of changes already underway. We are entering a new reality: the stay-home economy. Direct to Consumer Brands.

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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. Image Credits: Sonoma home / DANIEL KELLEGHAN PHOTOGRAPHY.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 “This is enabled by a highly robust and scalable next-generation technology, which has been demonstrated in generations of test chips, scaled to advanced nodes and scaled-up in architectures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We decided to do this raise right now because we grew so much in the past year that there’s an unlimited opportunity to go out and be the infrastructure that enables all institutions to onboard digital assets,” Douglass said. The capital will be used to build new product lines, and although Amberdata has existing deals in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

When Keto Kitchen had good sales in the first quarter, Meyer went to the bank to ask for expansion financing and recalled the banker asking him what a ghost kitchen was. That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tonik’s acquisition of TendoPay, has augmented its core lending portfolio while integrating payroll-enabled financial services into its operations. Tonik’s acquisition of TendoPay is a testament of our passion for accelerating financial and credit inclusion in the Philippines.

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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.

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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

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. It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From managing finances to overseeing operations, marketing, and customer service, it can quickly feel like there are never enough hours in the day. Accounting and Bookkeeping Managing finances is crucial for every small business, but it can also be time-consuming and prone to human error. to work together in real-time.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. For some, it’s a strategy to accelerate its ARR by covering part of that expense by foregoing, say, an implementation fee for a higher annual subscription amount. Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. But on the commercial front, they need some assistance,” he said. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Capchase Pay enables SaaS companies to collect the full contract value for their software while also providing their customers with flexible payment terms. We thought it was a perfect time to bring a product to market and accelerate conversion,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 16, 2023

Register Visa, digital payments corporation, has unveiled its partnership with seven promising startups in the Asia Pacific region through the Visa Accelerator Program. Singapore-based Doxa Holdings offers a collaborative trade platform that streamlines procure-to-pay and financing workflows across various industries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Companies that sell software that enables cost-cutting or additional lead-generation opportunities are seeing accelerating adoption as incumbent mortgage companies realize they need an edge to drive demand,” Zach Aarons, co-founder and general partner of MetaProp, pointed out.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. Previously, the startup has been through the prestigious Station F incubation program in Paris and the Norrsken Impact Accelerator program.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Then in July, it became the first African startup to join New York’s MetaProp Accelerator. The investment will see Spleet scale its products: the flagship residential rent management and rent financing solution. monthly to finance rent payments. Spleet’s growth has courted investors’ attention.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Novoloop will use the $21 million Series A financing to scale-up runs of its chemical process above the 1 metric ton scale and set up a feedstock pretreatment unit in California later this year so that it can get pilot product Oistre thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) customers faster, Wang told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Novoloop.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Now Meatable , based in The Netherlands, is adding to that excitement with the announcement of $35 million of its own new financing. As far as I’m concerned, this [Meatable’s] is the only material financing that has been completed probably for 18 months, maybe even 24 months, of any meaningful size,” Chow said.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. million in the fintech accelerator. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Register Taiwanese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Term Structure , specializing in non-custodial fixed-income protocols for peer-to-peer borrowing and lending, has successfully raised initial funding of USD 4.25 Such products are currently absent in decentralized finance (DeFi). million in a series of seed fundraising rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Banks don’t like risk, which means businesses spend most of their time trying to get financing rather than increasing sales,” Spradling told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The round was led by Wavemaker Partners, which focuses on enterprise and deep tech companies in Southeast Asia, with participation from the Tribe Accelerator, a program for blockchain startups backed by the Singaporean government. STACS’ goal is to make GreenSTACS “the common infrastructure” for ESG financing and impact monitoring, he added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had raised a $12 million financing round.

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