Tagged: entrepreneurs

November 8, 2023 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, a UK digital bank, says it has launched its business banking services, aimed at “helping mid-sized businesses (revenue of £1m-£100m) that are currently overlooked and underserved in the UK’s current financial landscape.” OakNorth is authorized and regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the… Read More

November 6, 2023 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, a regulated digital bank, and Founders4Schools, an ed-tech charity for teachers, have announced a new partnership to support 100,000 secondary school students -16 year-olds) – “including 40,000 from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds – over the next three years.” The program will provide secondary school students… Read More

July 3, 2023 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RTP Global says they are pleased to unveil RTP IV, their latest fund to support and nurture the founders building the next generation of category-defining companies. The fund, totaling $1 billion “in new capital, is their firm’s largest to date and will be deployed across… Read More

May 6, 2023 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VentureWave, an Irish-based venture private equity group committed to impact investing and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs, and Funderbeam, an online investing and trading platform that serves individual investors, have agreed “to enter into a transaction to create a leading global entity which will serve institutional and… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bizcuit provides invoice financing to Rabobank clients in their need for flexible liquidity. These services are for those who need money quickly to meet their payment obligations in the short term, want to take advantage of a purchasing option with their supplier, or because they… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Breega, the European VC built “by founders for founders,” has closed a €250 million venture fund and now celebrates the launch of a Barcelona office along with its London and Paris locations. The fund should enable Breega to finance founders at Series A stage and… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 1:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

2021 was a “watershed” moment for the European technology startup ecosystem, according to an update from Capchase. More than $100 billion was invested in companies/businesses across the continent – “more than triple the amount in 2020.” This has put founders in a “rare” – and… Read More

March 26, 2022 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plurall, a Colombian Fintech firm that’s focused on enhancing the financial inclusion of Solopreneurs in Latin America, finalized a pre-seed round by securing $1.5 million in equity and $10 million debt financing, marking a key milestone for entrepreneurship in the region. Supported by well-known investors… Read More

March 3, 2022 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, which is the United Kingdom’s business financial platform with full-scale operations set to launch in India, has confirmed their plans to support 500,000 female-led companies by 2027. UK based #fintech #Tide commits to incubate 500,000 women-led small businesses in India in next five years,… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 11:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice finance platforms, notes that at their company, the whole team connects every week for their (presently virtual) Townhall. But now that COVID-related restrictions are gradually easing and businesses can “take stock” of this past year,… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Plaid announced on Thursday it has launched FinRise, an incubator program to empower early-stage entrepreneurs that are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. “During an internal hackathon, Plaiderdays, last summer, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, a group of us got together to… Read More

October 29, 2020 @ 9:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Barclays announced earlier this week it is launching a 12-week virtual accelerator program that is designed to help early-stage tech businesses, founded by one or more black entrepreneurs. Barclays reported that the program, which is in partnership with social enterprise Foundervine, was created in order to… Read More

August 6, 2020 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

eBay announced on Wednesday it has joined forces with LendingPoint, a data and technology platform dedicated to democratizing credit and accelerating commerce, to launch a new program that will give eBay sellers in the U.S. access to funding to help grow and sustain their businesses, called… Read More

July 3, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nextfin, a UK-based investment aggregation platform, announced on Thursday it has launched its “Free Our Startups” campaign to help entrepreneurs and startups that are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the “Free Our Starups” campaign, Nextfin also revealed it penned an open letter to… Read More

October 2, 2018 @ 7:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Since Mr & Mrs Smith, a global luxury travel business, launched its equity crowdfunding campaign through Crowdcube in September, the business has been the first offering to top €5 million. At this writing, Mr & Mrs Smith has secured over £5,817,124 — overfunding by 581%–… Read More

May 15, 2018 @ 9:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Santander announced its Changemaker Fund has surpassed £1 million in matched funding and support from the crowd for charities, social enterprises, and community projects across the UK. According to the bank firm, The Fund, which is in partnership with Crowdfunder, supports organizations looking to deliver social… Read More

May 14, 2018 @ 10:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Ripple announced the launch of Xpring, which is a new initiative by the company that will invest in, incubate, acquire and provide grants to companies and projects run by proven entrepreneurs. According to Ripple, every entrepreneur will use the digital asset XRP and… Read More

February 23, 2018 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cubimo, a Sweden-based startup that helps people become entrepreneurs, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise €350,000. Founded in 2015, Cubimo describes itself as an online platform that aims to help anyone our an idea into a business, regardless of previous experience…. Read More

September 20, 2017 @ 11:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Indiegogo announced the launch of Entrepreneur’s Elevator Pitch challenge. The global crowdfunding platform, which is powering Elevator Pitch, revealed that the media outlet has teamed ups tie a group of real investors to put entrepreneurs to the “ultimate” pitch test. “Entrepreneurs have sixty… Read More

September 12, 2017 @ 3:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced it has teamed up with Jif for a new young entrepreneur contest, Imagine If, With Jif. While sharing details about the contest, Indiegogo stated: “We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with Jif and the brilliant young thinkers of… Read More