TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond , a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. A Forrester survey found that 8 in 10 companies have taken their first steps toward working on digital accessibility. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6 Despite raising just ? Having done this much with so little, why is the company raising a seed round now? The Techstars-backed company is actively fueling its expansion across Nigeria and Ghana having raised more than $1.5 Image Credits: Shuttlers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. (Cruttenden apparently acquired some patents from Acorns in order to start this company.). ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. Its business, officially launched in 2019, is centered on helping street-side vendors and shops in Nigeria’s south-western cities access household supplies quicker and efficiently. The company is announcing a $10.5 FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 We saw it multiple times, with lab testing, with antigen testing and now with vaccines,” Color CEO and co-founder Othman Laraki told me in an interview. billion post-money, the company announced today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. But the bank wanted us to deposit 100% collateral in cash before they could give the overdraft,” the two-time YC founder told TechCrunch in a June interview. “I

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. This isn’t a way of thinking routinely instructed in underserved schools.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Seven-year-old Arya said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in its Series B financing round. Arya is addressing a vastly underserved market of farmers in India, half of whom previously had little access to post-harvest finance,” said Ganesh Rengaswamy, co-founder and partner at Quona Capital, in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It has raised a $6.2 Other features like a customizable online storefront, payment links, and access to various payment methods and logistics added to the platform’s appeal to Afrikrea merchants. Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding round for an agritech startup in India, where farm produce yields two-thirds of the country’s $1 trillion in annual retail spending. DeHaat has grown 5x in the past seven months, he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Another factor to consider is the limited access and high expense of processing credit cards and PayPal in Kenya compared to the United States.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Maher gives a preview to her testimony, sharing how funding cuts would impact Americans broad access to crucial news and information, particularly in rural and local areas. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new funding brings the total amount raised in the round to $14.4 Founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai , Farmerline works through agro-dealers, who are usually the first point of knowledge for farmers, in ensuring access to high-quality supplies, including fertilizer and seeds. million , including $6.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Planet42 , a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $100 million in equity and debt from a wide range of investors. Safe and reliable transport is a key driver of social and economic inclusion in emerging economies. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Coming off a year of exponential growth, it has raised a $48 million Series B to provide more alternative payment solutions to its millions of merchants and consumers. The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. Since the company’s Series A raise of $2.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Eden Life , strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for home service needs, has raised a $1.4 When the founders, ex-Andelans (a term to describe previous Andela staff), launched the home service app two years ago, it raised some eyebrows. Access to laundry and home cleaning services are slightly different, though.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. What this is telling us is that there’s very much real interest in the number of people who want to have debit cards and this is not going to stop anytime soon,” Mlambo said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It also just raised a $6.2 With the fresh funding, Fintor says it has now raised a total of $9 million from investors. It does this by issuing shares of LLCs that own the underlying properties, Yousefi explained in an interview. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. On Saturday, Juno announced it has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. VUZ, which has raised over $30 million since inception, is one of e& capital’s maiden investments in the MENA region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As such, people in the country have little or no access to credit, given the other few options that exist in the market. Blnk said it has raised $32 million, money split across different stages and funding types: $12.5 It’s a very fast service,” said Amr Sultan , co-founder and CEO, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Arzooo, an Indian startup that is attempting to bring the “best of e-commerce” to physical stores, has raised $70 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its retail platform across the South Asian market. The startup has raised over $85 million across different rounds to date.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Ogundeyi said in an interview that the plan is to use these new funds to continue expanding its credit offerings, to build out services for businesses, to add in more integrations and to move into more markets. Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa. “We closed February at $2.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Thunkable , which provides a set of “no-code” tools — no coding or developer skills required — to develop apps, has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding. The startup has raised $41 million to date. Even the likes of Amazon want to get in on the game.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

After being bootstrapped for seven years, Ngrok today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Coatue. Or they can access internet of things devices in the field, connecting to private-cloud software remotely. It’s actively hiring.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Remento , a company focused on capturing and preserving family stories, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures. Remento was founded in 2020 by Charlie Greene, who came up with the idea for the company after filming a series of interviews with his mother shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

MENA-based buy now, pay later startup Tabby has raised $58 million, led by Sequoia Capital India and STV, at a valuation of $660 million. The fintech has raised more than $410 million in equity and debt since its 2019 launch. . Dubai-based buy now, pay later platform tabby raises $50M at $300M valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

. “The pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in traditional network infrastructure, prompting a surge in demand for contactless solutions,” Fish, who serves as the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” Mum’s the word on Ditto’s revenue. .”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The two-year-old startup raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding this January, bringing its total funding raised this year to $4.5 With limited access to technology, these restaurants typically resort to using offline methods, including pen and paper, for things like manual reconciliation and inventory management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

B2B digital marketplace upstarts such as TradeDepot , Sabi and Omnibiz have raised millions of dollars to help thousands of these businesses purchase inventory from manufacturers while providing solutions to track cash flow, payments and access capital. million led by pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Coho AI today announced that it raised $8.5 “Coho AI has developed a unique data consolidation platform that models the business value of a software-as-a-service company and maps it to the behavior of the customers in real time using machine learning and advanced analytics,” Falcon told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

LibLab, which bills itself as an “SDK-as-a-service” platform for engineers, today announced that it raised $42 million in Series A funding from Insight Partners with participation from Zeev Ventures, Stepstone, Sheva, and Rainfall. ” To date, LibLab has raised $50 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 ” AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B billion valuation. ” Rogenmoser launched Jasper early last year with J.P.

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