TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One thing that stood out to him was how only a small group of select people and firms could invest in venture capital and private equity funds. million in seed funding for Poolit , a Miami-based fintech startup that aims to open up access to investing in private equity and VC funds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

million in funding. At the time, CEO Selin Sonmez told TechCrunch that the app was live in 400 buildings in New York City, and today that has increased to over 40,000 active neighbors across 1,300 buildings in New York and Miami. million in seed funding to give the company $4.45 million in total funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

To help remedy this problem, Vest aims to provide direct access to U.S. But soon the company plans to expand its platform to include a passive investing product (robo funds) and crypto. Van Thienen is originally from Argentina and grew up between there and Miami, so he’s naturally always had an eye on LatAm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Interest in alternative investments such as private equity, real estate and crypto continues to surge, and Miami-based fintech startup Allocations is riding the wave. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $12 million, according to the company.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America can find it difficult to get the funds they need to export their goods to the United States. Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MAJORITY , a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The new feature will allow migrants to bypass onerous identity verification requirements that can bar them from accessing banking services for months at a time, the company says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

million seed round led by City Light Capital , with participation from K50 Ventures, Ventura Investments and Human Ventures, as well as Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen’s JAM fund and angel Felipe Villamarin. JAM Fund principal and Tinder co-founder Mateen believes Shift One is turning the labor problem of “adverse selection” on its head.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many entrepreneurs prepared for a slowdown in funding, putting hiring and expansion plans on ice as they searched for ways to continue operating in a world that had been remade by the pandemic. The question under consideration this week: How should founders prepare for an eventual retreat in startup valuations and investor interest?

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

According to the DOJ, the Trickbot malware was designed to capture online banking login credentials to gain access to other personal information including credit card numbers, emails, passwords, Social Security numbers, and addresses. Witte was arrested February 6th in Miami. and foreign beneficiary accounts,” the DOJ said.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

In addition, Super73 unveiled several other new models, including the Super73-R Brooklyn full suspension e-bike, the entry-level Super73-Z Miami, and a Youth Series of e-bikes for kids. The company raised $20 million last year amid a series of funding announcements from major e-bike makers, including VanMoof , Cowboy , and Rad Power Bikes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Rose Park Advisors led the round with participation from prior investors a16z, Bow Capital and Govtech Fund, along with new investors Experian Ventures, Spike Ventures, InState Capital, Collier Fund, Metaplanet Holdings and other individual investors. Today the company announced a hefty $50 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The company added a $14 million of equity and venture debt, bringing its funding to a total of $29 million. “On paper, I came into the hospitality space as an underdog: no industry connections, no VC funding, no experience, and no Wharton MBA. The company currently operates 500 units across South Florida and New Orleans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Originally called Back Office, Miami-based Finally is collecting data points on bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment and payroll, and leveraging artificial intelligence and automation to put together a financial picture for their clients. Access to credit is something everyone is excited about.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The funding round values Flow at over $1 billion, making it a unicorn before it even commences operations, which it plans to do in 2023, according to the Times. He took a pass at this concept before with WeLive, a set of residential communities he planned to build under the WeWork brand that fizzled out after opening just two locations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Miami-based startup Caribou aims to make that decision easier through its healthcare cost prediction and optimization software packaged into a SaaS business model designed for financial planners so they can advise their clients on the best plan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Novo , the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. Watching its growth after that “validated” another quick round of funding, he added. Despite being the heart of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

million in funding led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Operator Partners, Precursor Ventures, Primetime Partners, Scribble, Shrug, Polymath and TVC. The funding will be used to expand into new markets across the United States. Aidaly is currently active in the Miami-Dade area.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Since the startup was founded in 2018, Lacuna has invested in helping cities like Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami build digital twins, or software models of real world cities – including all forms of mobility from delivery to rideshare to drones to regular traffic. Mobility startups can be equitable, accessible and profitable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But today, a startup that’s cracked open that model with an autonomous, AI -based camera that lets any team record, edit and distribute their games, is announcing a round of funding to build out its business targeting the long tail of sporting teams and fixtures. million) in a Series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Frustrated by the sponsorship space’s opaqueness, Bob Lynch, the former VP of corporate partnerships for the Miami Dolphins, in 2017 founded SponsorUnited , a software-as-a-service platform that provides analytics data on the sponsorship industry. based major league sports team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Mantra Health , a digital mental health startup focused on young adults, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by VMG Partners. This latest investment brings the company’s total amount of funding to nearly $28 million. The program is designed to work with students’ insurance as the payer instead of the school.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has been building low-code finance tools is announcing funding to tap into that trend and expand its business. “We were not really fixated on valuation,” said Murphy in an interview, who said the funding came about after a number of VCs had approached the startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

billion of that capital has been allocated across more than 80 investments, according to Juan Franck, managing partner of the SoftBank Latin America Funds. We continue to be extremely excited about the opportunities in LatAm,” said Alex Szapiro, managing partner of the funds, in an interview. “It And last year, Latitud raised $11.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

ShopThing , a live shopping marketplace focused on luxury brands, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Origin Ventures, with participation from Pritzker Group and Interplay. These companies give shoppers on ShopThing exclusive access to discounts and inventory.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Six months after announcing $30 million in equity and debt, Boopos , a Miami-based lending platform for business acquisitions and growth, is back with an even bigger round, a $58 million Series A, again in a mix of equity and debt. Actyus and K Fund are also in the investor group.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

million in a funding round led by Matrix Partners with participation from PayPal Ventures and GoldenTree Asset Management. GoldenTree also said that it would form a joint venture with Concerto to fund a minimum of $2 billion in credit card receivables. ” Expanding access. Our funding allows us to ramp accordingly.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

cities, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. based Onto, it revolves around providing alternative access to electric vehicles. Currently, Kyte operates in nine U.S. At the start of October, the startup expanded beyond Manhattan and into Brooklyn. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One might wonder why Schnapp, with a reported $250,000 per episode salary in Stranger Things’s most recent season, would turn to crowdfunding to help fund the business when he could have just as easily bootstrapped or secured venture funding. Depending on how much they invest, shareholders get access to a variety of perks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another one. Wealth effect.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Take, for example, a corps member who lived and served with TFA in Buffalo, New York, but then moved to Miami, Florida after fulfilling their two-year teaching commitment. Success Story: Hispanic Scholarship Fund: From Luminate CRM to Nonprofit Success Pack. Success Story: Creating Engaging Student Journeys With St.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Now, she wants to take that experience and apply it to growing Morado , which offers same-day delivery, access to credit and what Acosta describes as “the biggest portfolio of products in LatAm” on its B2B marketplace. “We H20 Capital Innovation is a cross-border early-stage venture capital fund with operations in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. We also wrote about Tellus, a startup that raised $16 million in an Andreessen Horowitz–led seed round of funding last year that is now being scrutinized by the U.S. government.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

million Series A, bringing its total funding to $56 million. The new Saltboxes are set to be situated in Miami, Minneapolis and Phoenix. Our goal is to create a frictionless end-to-end logistics ecosystem that is incredibly accessible and approachable to small businesses.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Earlier this year, Petal announced it raised a $140 million Series D round of funding at an $800 million valuation to help upend the “broken” traditional credit system.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Valencia-based startup Internxt has been quietly working on an ambitious plan to make decentralized cloud storage massively accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. It had previously raised around half a million dollars via a token sale to help fund early development.

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