Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Last May, the company raised $1 billion in funding, giving it a $12 billion valuation. In January, it raised a red flag about DeepSeek , finding that the Chinese AI system had inadvertently exposed a significant amount of sensitive data. As Wizs fortunes rose, so too did its reputation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Other standout AI apps focuse on specific industries. has raised more than $20 million in venture capital so far. Blackbird.AI

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma Brands and including Global Founders Capital, Monogram Capital, Lakehouse Ventures and Brand Foundry. He met Kim, a user experience expert, whose family owns a pharmacy, and wanted to bring technology into the industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, said on Friday it has raised an additional $14.2 It ended up raising about $44 million in the Series B round (including Friday’s tranche), and to date has amassed about $54 million in equity investment, the startup told the publication.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. The company previously raised a total of $15.5 million, so the latest financing brings its total raised to $95.5 million since it launched in 2017. While in Web 2.0,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Foxglove , a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7

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The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Magic Leap has raised $500 million in funding and is preparing to release a new AR headset, the Magic Leap 2, next year, the company announced Monday. peggyj just revealed #MagicLeap2 on @CNBC - the industry’s smallest and lightest device. Magic Leap. She revealed the new device in an Monday appearance on CNBC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company has clearly picked up some good, strategic interest in the intervening year and a half, as more and more industries are looking to embrace the benefits of automation. Today it announced that it has raised a $7.5 Why don’t we bring robots into the service industry?” Image Credits: RoboTire. “I

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

This morning Gtmhub , a multinational startup that builds software to help other companies manage their corporate planning, announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B. Gtmhub raised capital around 13 months ago, a $9 million Series A. How has Gtmhub managed to raise so much money? In a word, growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

But the market in LatAm has shifted in recent years, and with increased digital adoption, more people are opening their minds to using credit cards for payments. The startup, which offers credit cards to underserved populations in Mexico, told TechCrunch it has raised an additional $50 million in equity at a $1.2 Enter Stori.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

The massive valuations and funding rounds of 2021 left some room for optimism around the state of the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2022, instilling a sense of security in Q1 of the new year. billion over 109 funding rounds), it seems that 2021 was a blip on the radar, and that the industry is returning to where it left off in 2020.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

Your established experience in the nonprofit industry and your ability to adapt to ever-changing circumstances have gotten you this far. A solution many adopted in 2020 is the small dollar donation campaign. Adopt tried-and-true best practices for major donor engagement. Not to worry.

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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. Pays says Ozow is creating automated bank-to-bank payment solutions for over 47 million bank account holders and more than 100 industries in South Africa.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

In November, 58% of Missouri voters approved Proposition A, which raises the state minimum wage to $15 by 2026 and requires employers to provide paid sick leave. In 2022, nearly 59% of voters approved a measure that will raise the states minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026 and keep increasing it in later years to keep up with inflation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If fundraising via events, instead find creative ways to continue to raise funds virtually.”. “We We have been successful with pleas explaining our loss of revenue due to canceled fundraising and adoption events. We solicited sponsors for our biggest event and were able to raise almost as much as we netted in the past.”. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B , SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. SODA said that the deal means its share of Japan’s sneaker resale industry is now 80%, making it the market leader by far. million monthly users. SODA claims it hit record sales of $34.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform allow for staff adoption and collaboration between teams (i.e. Many CRMs are feature-rich but you want to choose once that is built and designed for the nonprofit industry – it needs to be donor-centric and meet the needs of each persona working at your organization. Is their expertise – nonprofit industry specific?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. Insight Partners and Georgian Partners co-led the round and it brings the total raised by the company to $115 million.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI is transforming industries, and the nonprofit sector is no exception. But AI adoption comes with challenges. Concerns about authenticity, disparities in access, and biases in AI tools raise urgent questions: Will this technology help bridge societal gaps, or will it deepen them? Yet significant barriers to AI adoption remain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These “ pods ” have already been piloted commercially, but regulatory hurdles has led Einride to adopt a two-pronged approach that also involves human-driven electric trucks as an intermediary step toward autonomy. trillion industry in 2020 to nearly $3 trillion within the next five years. Einride in action Image Credits : Einride.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This has raised the profile and pursuit of data science: After all, as Airbyte CEO and co-founder Michel Tricot succinctly put it, no data, no AI. Chainalysis For bringing transparency to the crypto industry Chainalysis blockchain data platform targets trust and transparency in the crypto industry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Others found ways to expand the opportunities within existing hometown industries: NCBiotech built pathways to bring more local residents into the Research Triangles booming life sciences sector. to adopt a net zero goal back in 2019. The initiative will also benefit local industry by slashing energy costs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

LottieFiles , a platform for JSON-based Lottie animations, has raised a Series A of $9 million. The new funding brings its total raised to about $10 million. “It’s not often a revolutionary format comes about and disrupts an entire industry, saving tons of precious design and development hours,” said Minglani.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Overall, it had about 500 customers as of January across a range of industries from technology to pharmaceutical to aerospace and defense to banking. Since its $6 million Series A raise in May 2019, the SaaS company says it has grown its subscription revenue (ARR) by “more than 10-fold” (although it declined to reveal hard revenue figures).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. Over the years, 8VC has invested in companies spanning a variety of industries such as logistics, life sciences, healthcare, IT infrastructure, government and defense, financial services, consumer and enterprise.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Lightyear , a Dutch startup developing a long-range hybrid solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €81 million ($81 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle in the coming months. “The industry needs to be certain of the viability of the technology to produce it at scale. Driving change.

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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 “The major challenge that the AI generation industry faces is around ethics in regard to data and consumer acceptance,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

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. The population also faces a lack of adequate financing products, Dixon believes, for things such as surrogacy, IVF, adoption, transition support and mental health.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Wiz today announced that it raised $300 million in a Series D round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Greenoaks Capital Partners and angel investors including Starbucks owner Howard Schultz and French business magnate Bernard Arnault, valuing Wiz at around $10 billion post-money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Today’s news comes just six months after Dream Games raised $155 million at a $1 billion valuation (that round was led by Index and Makers Fund) , and one day after another Istanbul games startup, Spyke, announced a $55 million seed round. . In eight months, Royal Match has become one of the most played mobile games of 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Image Credits: Ditto “By operating independently of an internet connection, Ditto’s platform enables industries to swiftly adopt contactless solutions, bolstering their apps and processes with added resiliency and redundancy,” Fish said. ” The market for enterprise file sync and share tools could be worth $12.84

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As something of a case in point, Vic.ai , which bills itself as an accounting automation platform, today announced that it raised $52 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and ICONIQ Growth with participation from Cowboy Ventures and Costanoa Ventures. “In this next stage of growth, Vic.ai ” Vic.ai ” Vic.ai

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In February, Lambda Labs raised a $320 million Series C venture round. Oxide, which cites Shopify as a major ecommerce customer, has raised $78M to date. NextSilicon plans to build on the adoption of the companys Maverick-1 chips by government agencies and academia. The company ended 2024 with more than 10,000 customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Ushur today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Third Point Ventures with participation from investors Iron Pillar, 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Pentland Ventures. “We optimize our [AI] models for industry-specific taxonomy and document types,” Sadasiva told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Badili , a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 Lawania told TechCrunch he launched the startup after noticing that re-commerce did not exist in Kenya as a legitimate and trustworthy industry, yet demand for pre-owned devices was high. Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It has now raised €175 million in total.

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