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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

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Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million, organizers at The Miami Foundation realized that Give Miami Day 2014 would be their most successful Giving Day yet. Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2 Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season!

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Upstream, a Miami-based professional networking platform, raises a $2.75M seed round

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million seed round, bringing their total raised to $3.25 8 Miami-based investors share their views on the region’s startup scene. Upstream, which is pre-revenue and is Miami-based, is a company whose founder was attracted to the Sunshine State from NYC during the pandemic. “I Accessing social groups through referrals.

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Cloud cybersecurity startup Lumu raises a $7.5 million Series A

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Miami-based cybersecurity startup Lumu today announced the closing of its $7.5 Villadiego was born and raised in the colonial port town of Cartagena, Colombia. He founded his first cybersecurity company, Easy Solutions, in Miami in 2009, focused on preventing fraud. million Series A. The round was co-led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s

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Extra Crunch roundup: first-check myths, Miami relocation checklist, standout SaaSy startups

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Dismantling the myths around raising your first check. Dismantling the myths around raising your first check. How has it managed to not raise money for so long? Cities like Miami, Pittsburgh and Austin have been drawing talent and wealth from Silicon Valley for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the trend.

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Uber vet raises $5.2M for blue-collar logistics marketplace

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To help it grow and further expand its reach, Shift One just raised a $5.2 Even Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has thoughts, pointing out that blue-collar jobs have been among the hardest hit by COVID-19. “Companies get access to a steady, predictable source of high-quality labor. .

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MAJORITY raises $27M Series A six months after its seed round to expand mobile banking for migrants

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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. Other existing investors, including Avid Ventures , Heartcore Capital and a group of Nordic fintech founders, also participated in the raise. address instead. every year.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

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To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. “By Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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