TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Regional inflation, weak currencies, high unemployment rates, and economic uncertainty are a couple of reasons behind this growing adoption. Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. A part of the funds will also go into investing in web3 projects.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Almost exactly a year ago, we interviewed Revel founder and CEO Frank Reig when Revel was on the cusp of expanding into multiple business lines beyond its original scope of providing shared electric mopeds. The only way to drive EV adoption in cities is with a real network of infrastructure, which does not exist right now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

This week, Miranda Halpern and Anna Heim interviewed experts on growth marketing: The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing and more. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The seed funding round was led by Mumbai-headquartered Blume Ventures, with participation from Titan Capital, T-Fund, Speciale Invest, Bharat Founders Fund, T2D3, Amplify and Force Ventures. Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Here are examples of how funding organizations are supporting the well-being of their grantees, as well as the hurdles grantmakers can face when implementing these programs. Based on the interviews with a cross-section of nonprofit leaders and funders, here are a few ways funders are becoming part of the solution.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

The six-year-old startup’s Series B funding was led by existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global. When we all come together, we can all probably do a better job and move the industry forward,” Saurabh Gupta, co-founder and chief executive of UrbanPiper, told TechCrunch in an interview. million Series A funding, he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the latest development, Curacel , a Nigeria-based platform that aims to drive insurance penetration in emerging markets via APIs enabling insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and administer their claims, has raised $3 million in seed funding. So far, its tech caters to distribution and claims automation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

billion (post-money) in eight months following a fresh $135 million funding, it said today, as the Indian cryptocurrency exchange looks to aggressively expand its product offerings and talent base, including some to double down on compliances in the world’s second largest internet market. CoinDCX has doubled its valuation to $2.15

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Having dedicated ESG initiatives is crucial for many companies to grow and retain investment funding—in fact, the ESG Finance Market stands at over $7 trillion and is expected to continue rising through 2029. Takeaways for Businesses Adopt an ESG approach. If you haven’t yet prioritized ESG, now is the time to start!

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. ” Anna and Alex are interviewing VCs in different regions to find out why they’re feeling so generous and optimistic. Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch. yourprotagonist.

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.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

So, it was fascinating to interview Thad Lurie as a guest on my Association 4.0 We don’t have unlimited funds to place our bets and they’re not going to be that big,” Thad remarked. Thad believes that staying focused and deliberate in technology adoption will be crucial for associations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

In an interview Monday, Zapier CEO Wade Foster told TechCrunch that his company now has 400 workers and crossed the $100 million ARR mark last summer. Since then the company has added more expensive tiers to its service , built out team-focused features , and recently talked to Extra Crunch about how it scaled its remote-only team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Some deals include $300 million direct equity in DP World, $75 million direct debt in Stanbic IBTC Bank, $100 million in Standard Chartered, a $20 million investment in Verod Cap, and a $15 million investment in the TLcom TIDE Africa Fund. In a new development, BII said it will invest between £1.5 We want to do a lot in Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The latest funding was led by WestBridge Capital along with existing investors Kalaari Capital and Exfinity Ventures, IAN Fund, LetsVenture and Sense AI. The Series B round brings Skit’s total funding to $30 million. We noticed that there (South East Asia) is a high potential market for the adoption of conversational AI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5 We were not looking to fundraise, but when Raine reached out, what they had to offer was so strategic to our business,” Moore said in an interview. million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. The young company wasn’t actively fund-raising, having quietly raised £3.8 million in funding announced in May. Primer , the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 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. Over the break, we published an interview that I had conducted with GGV Capital ’s Hans Tung and Robin Li during the fourth quarter. For the unacquainted, GGV is a venture firm with $9.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“This is just sprinkles for us,” he said more than once during our interview. ” “The future of the tablet as we see it is in the direction that Apple and others are heading, a fusion of laptop and tablet forms,” which complements how people also use smartphones, he said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Today, a company called Jobber , which has built a platform doing just that for a particular segment of the market — home services professionals — is announcing a round of funding as it finds its business growing. The Canadian startup has picked up $60 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform Pan-African early-stage VC firm Ventures Platform led the round, which welcomed participation from Launch Africa, MAGIC Fund, ACASIA Ventures, AAIC Investment, Adaverse/Emurgo Africa and other strategic angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. This Series C is being led by Index Ventures, with Makers Fund, IVP, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Kora and Balderton Capital also participating. We believe in Pixar’s approach,” co-founder and CEO Soner Aydemir said in an interview in June.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

(Photo From Deposit Photos) Leaders at nonprofit organizations struggle to adopt technology in meaningful ways, and this can be due to many factors. Impact: Describing impact is important to the makers — it helps them get customers and funding. Cost is a big one. Is there a way to get ongoing help from a support desk?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“By providing the analytics that track the end-to-end process and track diversity, we can identify if there is any bias or drop-off during the interview process.”. On Tuesday, the company announced $100 million in Series C funding at a $1.2 The new capital brings the company’s total funding to $148 million.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In a recent joint interview, Brink and Goldstein explained how co-leadership permeates the entire organizationmost of Genslers offices and its regions are led by pairsand the way the model helps nurture managerial talent and train future managers to collaborate. Though some U.S. MC: Would you recommend co-leadership to other organizations?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Your best chance of gathering the detail you need is to interview your main character in person. But that assumes the interviewer (not you) behaved in an ethical manner toward your story subject and that they gathered the right level of detail for your appeal. Not exactly heartwarming, right? postal service.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries. Telemedicine, the standout offering, witnessed massive adoption during the pandemic, and in the last five years, no other service has been launched more by healthtech startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to an interview , QED only invested in the company after being impressed with its CEO, David Vélez, instead of due to a larger push into Latin American fintech. Since then, the fintech-focused fund has made more investments in the region. Lauren Morton. QED recently closed $1.05

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

“Orange DAO will help startups apply to, and be accepted into Y Combinator, provide them with pre- and post-YC funding, while helping mentor their leadership and recruit talent, and acquire customers,” Orange DAO’s official charter reads. ” Has Y Combinator’s new deal changed the early-stage investing game? .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Founded by L GBTQ+ entrepreneurs Rob Curtis (CEO), Billie Simmons, a trans woman (COO) and Paul Barnes Hoggett (CTO), Daylight is announcing today that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round. And, on top of that, having a child is generally more expensive for this population because people either have to adopt or hire a surrogate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

million in seed funding led by SMOK Ventures and Movens VC. He even recalled signing papers with an investor one morning in early December and doing an interview with Y Combinator that evening. The company was also part of the latest class at accelerator Y Combinator, and it recently raised $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Other institutional investors include Techstars Boulder, Magic Fund, Hustle Fund, Norrsken Foundation, Microtraction, DFS Labs, Oxford Seed Fund, Enza Capital, Agrolay Advisors, and angel investors such as Buycoins’ Ire Aderinokun, Jesse Ovia and Ademola Adesina. Last year, 80% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

million in a seed funding round. Apurv Bansal, co-founder of Zenskar, said in an interview that 10% to 15% of SaaS companies today have moved toward a consumption-based pricing model on customers’ demand because of macro tailwinds such as product-led growth, automation and AI. The startup targets the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Those backers include Kaszek Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, SoftBank Latin America Fund and DILA Capital, among others. Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

The fresh funds, led by SoftBank Ventures Asia , bring Seadronix’s the total round up to $8.3 “With this funding, we hope to recruit more staff for the AI, sensor fusion and navigation business and accelerate our global market penetration plan.” The company just secured a $5.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Anderson explained that while Plaid will be personally facilitating payments through its Transfer offering, it will also continue working with its dozens of payments partners , which include the likes of Square, Stripe, Marqeta, Gusto and Silicon Valley Bank. This is where we are focused.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

A Pakistani startup, which has taken inspiration from China’s JD.com and India’s Flipkart to build a managed marketplace of electronics products, said on Tuesday it has raised seed funding from scores of investors including PayPal founder Peter Thiel. That’s the genesis of PriceOye.

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