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AI-Native Apps
Software will transform as AI-native apps unlock value in unstructured data, disrupt traditional enterprise SaaS, and realize the “no-code” promise.
Vertical SaaS
Vertical operating systems and marketplaces will replace hacked-together tech stacks to bring business operations together in a single solution.
B2B Fintech
The future of finance is embedded. Any non-financial org will be able to offer financial services and tools previously only available via banks.
Stage
Pre-Seed to Series A
Check size
$250K - $3M
Geography
U.S.
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Crux, a new startup aiming to remove friction from the use of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of climate law tax incentives, just landed another $4.25 million in seed financing.
Incentivio, a Boston, MA-based provider of an intelligent guest engagement platform for restaurants, raised $10M in Series A funding.
The Crux platform will make it easier to discover the price of tax credits, which tend to trade at a some varying discount to their full value. Sellers can list their tax credits on option, get bids on those credits, and compare offers. The software will employ risk management tools and processes to increase trust, ensure regulatory compliance and report on the status of the project.
In October 2022, Atlanta-based Overline and Washington D.C.-based Ardent Venture Partners joined Durant and Kleiman's Boardroom Pickleball entity for a $750,000 seed round into the company. Those funds will be used by the company for engineering, marketing and design.
Pickleheads claims to be the first venture-backed technology startup to enter the pickleball space. Atlanta Inno has not been able to independently verify this.
That investment happened the same month Durant and Kleiman purchased a Major League Pickleball team of their own, with the intent of helping grow the league. The Brooklyn Nets player is one of several athletic celebrities, such as Lebron James and Tom Brady, to become an owner of a MLP team.
Method, a startup that aims to make it easier for fintech developers to embed repayment, balance transfers and bill pay automation into their apps, today announced that it closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Truist Ventures, Y Combinator (Method’s a Y Combinator graduate), Abstract Ventures, SV Angel and others. Co-founder Mit Shah says that the new cash will be put toward product development and growing the company’s headcount from eight people to 28 by the end of the year.
Method, an Austin-based embedded debt repayment startup, has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, Ryan writes.
Why it matters: Embedded finance APIs are becoming more sophisticated and enabling fintech developers to offer new applications to end users.