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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Content Platform Raise Arts 107

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In an interview with TechCrunch Curtis explained why he believes Daylight is uniquely positioned to help the population deal with challenges such as higher debt accumulation to factors such as p re-existing conditions, lower insurance levels, HIV management needs and [gender] transition costs. “By Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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Community Digital Platform Raise 108

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

JUNE 11, 2021

Fresha has raised $132 million to date, and it’s not disclosing its valuation. Shedul, the booking platform for salons and spas, raises $20M Series B at a $105M valuation. “We believe that software is a commodity,” said Zeqiri in an interview. Chances are that figure is significantly higher now.

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Platform Raise New Zealand Social Media 100

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

WorkRamp , which has built a platform that helps organizations build their own training materials, and then distribute them both to their workforce and to partners, has raised $17 million, a Series B round of funding that’s being led by OMERS Ventures, with Bow Capital also participating. We are aiming for a consumer-grade experience.”

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Learning Platform Raise Train 91

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

India’s Niyo has raised $100 million in a new financing round as the consumer-facing neobank platform looks to add lending and insurance to its offerings and make deeper inroads in the world’s second largest internet market. Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round. 70,000 ($930).

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India Raise Digital Fund 91

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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Process Profit Raise North America 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

The two entrepreneurs — friends since their first day as Wharton undergraduates — for years closely followed the adoption of open banking and bank account-based payments in Europe. Valar led a $20 million Series A funding round in Link while Tiger led a $10 million seed round; to date, Link has raised $30 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Splitwise simply wants to help reduce the stress and awkwardness that money puts on relationships of all sorts, CEO Jon Bittner told TechCrunch in an interview. The startup declined to share active user numbers, but as it is merely raising a Series A we gave it an early-stage pass on more concrete usage metrics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

managed to find early in-market traction, TechCrunch has covered a number of other startups busy leveraging GPT-3, including OthersideAi which raised $2.6 million back in November of 2020 , and an “AI Dungeon-maker” called Latitude that also employs GPT-3 and raised $3.3 Not only has Copy.ai million this February.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

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Game Africa Build Raise 85

TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

But building data pipelines to generate these features is hard, requires significant data engineering manpower, and can add weeks or months to project delivery times,” Del Balso told TechCrunch in an email interview. Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Investors followed suit.

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Marketing Raise San Francisco Learning 99

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ThreeFlow , which provides software for insurance brokers selling employee benefits, announced today that it raised $45 million in Series B funding. The Chicago-based company, formerly known as WatchTower, raised $8 million for its Series A round in January 2021.

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Benefit Software Raise Chicago 87

TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Tenyx, which builds voice-based customer service apps, today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed round from AME Cloud Ventures, Cota Capital, Morado Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Point72 Ventures and StageOne Ventures. ” Even the most sophisticated AI systems today suffer from a key limitation: statisticity. .

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Voice Service Build Raise 97

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. . We believe in Pixar’s approach,” co-founder and CEO Soner Aydemir said in an interview in June.

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Game Raise Fund Mobile 102

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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Africa Fund Raise Morocco 107

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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Nigeria Raise Paypal Africa 126

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Gearset , a tooling provider for Salesforce software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding tranche led by Silversmith Capital Partners. and U.K. .

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Software Platform Raise Environment 88

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“We noticed that there (South East Asia) is a high potential market for the adoption of conversational AI. Most importantly, these markets are home to a multitude of languages and dialects,” Gupta said in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch.

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Asia Voice North America Raise 105

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. ” The market for enterprise file sync and share tools could be worth $12.84

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Data Companies Raise Help 97

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The company, co-headquartered in Seoul, Korea and San Mateo, California, has now raised around $221 million. That competition is one reason Sendbird has raised money. “We are doing a lot around transactions and payments, as well as logistics,” Kim said in an interview.

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API Interaction Video Raise 98

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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Mobile Develop Platform Raise 99

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new cash brings the company’s total raised to $33 million, which CEO Marc Boscher says is being put toward product development and expanding Unito’s headcount from 65 people to 70 by the end of the year. . Beamy recently raised $9 million to further develop its platform to detect and orchestrate SaaS apps.

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Platform Management Raise Software 87

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Last year, in the span of one week, three companies alone in the data observability space — Cribl , Monte Carlo and Coralogix — raised more than $400 million. Today the company announced that it raised €12 million (~$12.7 “The slowdown in the economy is actually a great catalyst to data adoption.

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Data Platform Raise Gartner 80

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“This approach was embraced by early adopters such as Expedia and Rakuten but really started to gain traction as more brands started moving first-party data to more modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Redshift and Snowflake,” CEO Roger Barnette told TechCrunch in an email interview. (In

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Platform Raise Atlanta Campaign 81

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 We take an interesting approach to software and helping restaurant owners set up,” chief executive officer Guy Futi told TechCrunch in an interview. million seed investment.

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System Digital Raise Africa 93

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Voly , a five-month-old Sydney-based startup that offers thousands of SKUs and promises deliveries in 15 minutes at a flat fee of A$2.99 ($2.14), has raised A$18 million (just under $13 million at today’s rates) in a seed round of funding that it will be using to expand its business to cities and towns across the country.

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Australia Raise India Europe 94

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Chameleon , a startup providing low- and no-code tools designed to help software companies personalize the appearance of their apps, today announced that it raised $13 million. Part of a Series A funding round led by Matrix Partners with participation from True Ventures, the proceeds — which bring Chameleon’s total raised to $14.8

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Experiment Companies Build Raise 81

TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

“We’ve had overwhelming demand and it’s incredible to see how businesses want to adopt us right now,” he said in an interview. “The plan is to significantly scale up and continue to define and meet that demand for digital customer service.”

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Service Integration Platform Raise 107

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.”. Gem is seeing adoption from large enterprises and is looking at an international expansion in the next year in Western Europe and parts of Asia Pacific.

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Companies Change Platform Raise 98

TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The startup just raised $17 million across Series A and seed rounds , led by Crosslink Capital and Golden Ventures, and including funding from Stanford Law School, rapper Nas and others. “And at Medchart, we’ve already built all the infrastructure with connections to these large information systems.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Instant grocery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its 10-minute delivery service to more cities in India and grow its network of dark stores. There’s no secondary transaction in the new round, which brings the startup’s to-date raise to $360 million.

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India Raise North America Europe 94

TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bluecopa , an Indian startup building a finance operations automation platform for high-volume companies, has raised $2.3 “We are already speaking to very large, key logos in the region,” Chanda said, adding, “we are also onboarding a lot of early adopters in the U.S. and North American markets.”

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Fund Global Raise Platform 89

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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Experiment Raise Taxonomy Survey 92

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Infogrid , a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series B round led by Northzone and AO Proptech. “Now was the time to raise the capital and use it to drive our expansion,” De Gruchy said.

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Build Raise Tech Data 86

sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Traveling the country, meeting these extraordinary individuals, and helping them craft resumes and participate in mock interviews opened my eyes to the incredible work being done by nonprofits also in this space. Adopt the mindset of an entrepreneur. Be willing to take risks. The effort has paid off.

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Associations Dallas Blackbaud Impact 98

TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Large-scale and mid-sized enterprises and businesses are increasingly adopting — and offering — software-as-a-service platforms as they seek to increase their revenue and parlay their growth into greater efficiency. ” said Anmol Oberoi, founder of Emitrr, in an interview with TechCrunch. . use its platform.

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Local Business Raise Delaware 84