TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. Today, the seven-year-old company is announcing a $50 million Series C round to scale its efforts in the East African nation and other neighbouring countries.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Does negativity and alarm really raise funds?” —John, CEO of a civic education nonprofit Dear John, This is a top-of-mind question for many fundraising professionals. The truth is that fundraisers must sort out when and how to message their constituents using positive, negative, or a blend of both. That’s clearly you, John.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Gainful , a startup offering personalized subscriptions to protein powders and hydration products, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 ” Cure Hydration raises $2.6M million in Series A funding. “In my personal experience, trying to find a protein powder can be a very overwhelming experience,” Wu said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The need for a solution has helped tech-powered mental health solutions raise funding to meet increased demand. In the latest development, it emerged that Lyra Health, a platform that focuses on providing workforces with mental health care, has filed paperwork to raise a $175 million Series E at a $2.25 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

French startup Agicap has raised a new $100 million funding round led by Greenoaks. Clients include Cityscoot, Meero, Merci Handy, Ornikar and Blend Burger. With today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of more than $500 million (€415 million). They pay a monthly subscription fee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

million raise for its income and employment verification service. The capital came from a blend of venture firms and angels. Citadel was founded back in June of 2020, before raising capital, snagging its first customer, and shipping its product all inside of the same year. This morning Citadel ID announced a combined $3.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Orbiit , a startup that automates the interactions within an online community, has raised a $2.7 Orbiit brings the perfect blend of tech-enabled software with human curation to create strong connections and provide insights back to community managers.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Specifically, it blends info from public profiles, GitHub, papers and patents, employee referrals, company alumni, candidates in ATS systems. 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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Digital Trends

APRIL 22, 2021

Pictures Mortal Kombat reboot raises the bar for the franchise with a great blend of action and mythology, but isn't quite a flawless victory. Warner Bros.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

BuildBuddy , whose software helps developers compile and test code quickly using a blend of open-source technology and proprietary tools, announced a funding round today worth $3.15 The startups from the cohort then had to raise capital as the public markets crashed around them and fear overtook the startup investing world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

After launching in October, Tradeswell is announcing today that it has raised $15.5 The startup has now raised a total of $18.8 Why e-commerce startups aren’t raising more funding during this historic boom. million in Series A funding.

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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. Among its portfolio companies are Asana, Blend, Flexport, hims and hers, Mammoth Biosciences, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company, Qualia and Wish. I really hope we can keep it this way.”

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This strategy has already seen great success in the PC and console gaming worlds; last year, game-centric organizations like Extra Life , Child’s Play and Humble Bundle each brought in millions of dollars in donations while raising awareness for children’s hospitals, HIV/AIDS prevention, cancer research, and more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The latest such startup to raise capital is Forum Brands , which today announced it has raised $27 million in equity funding for its technology-driven e-commerce acquisition platform. . In May, that startup raised $160 million in debt and equity to scale its business. Why Amazon should pay attention to Shein.

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TechNode

APRIL 21, 2025

The event, blending technology and sports, attracted 20 participating teams from Chinese universities, enterprises, and research institutions, with some 12,000 human runners taking part in the race alongside the robots. However, some robots underperformed, raising questions about commercialization.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company’s IPO price, then, could help the private markets more fairly price startups offering their own blend of software-and-fintech incomes. To see Toast raise its range, therefore, got our eyebrows up. Toast’s financial-services revenues, by contrast, are largely transaction-based and sport lower gross margins.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. Before becoming a solo GP, Wischooff was an early employee at lending platform Blend Labs, which went public in 2021 , and part of the founding team at One Finance, a neobank acquired by Walmart earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the technology byproducts of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has raised the game for businesses to have better digital tools in place to interface with customers, and their own work, to get things done. The company is not disclosing its valuation and had raised just $16 million before this round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Back in 2018 we covered how Open Mineral (OM), a startup aiming to leverage greater transparency in commodities trading, had raised $2.25 Well, they’ve come a long way, and now the Zug, Switzerland-based, company has raised a $33 million Series C funding round led by Mubadala Investment Company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Startups that produce lab-grown meat and meat substitutes are gaining traction and raising cash in global markets, mirroring a surge of support food tech companies are seeing in the United States. Green Monday Holdings, Asia’s answer to Beyond Meat, raises $70 million from TPG, Swire Pacific.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. We have a blended education model, we teach in twelve local languages, and we’re positioning ourselves as a regional leader.”. GOMYCODE programs target mass markets, and our blended model makes us accessible and affordable, which you don’t see a lot.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. The company has now raised just over $30 million in total.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Singapore-based Next Gen Foods will bring its plant-based chicken alternative to the United States after raising a $20 million seed extension. The first $10 million was already the largest seed funding ever raised by a plant-based food tech company, based on data from Pitchbook, and now the round totals $30 million. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Mosaic, which aims to change the way CFOs of high-growth companies operate, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Founders Fund. The startup last raised in January of 2021, an $18.5 Mosaic raises $18.5M Today, it doesn’t charge per user but that may change down the line.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

To grow their vision, Infinite Canvas has raised $2.8 Roblox raises at $29.5 The pair liken the new venture to “an esports team for the metaverse.”. million in pre-seed funds led by Lightshed Venture Partners, the venture firm founded by media analyst Richard Greenfield. billion valuation, readies for direct listing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Lorax is backing Mylerz to become the continent’s first fully integrated e-commerce logistics player, bringing a unique blend of premium customer service and efficient delivery services to regional businesses and consumers alike.”. Egyptian fintech Paymob raises $50M led by PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Sensor Tower, for example, raised $45 million last year, as demand for app data continued to grow. To date, Apptopia has raised $30 million in outside capital. Apptopia’s own data, historically, was not always seen as being the most accurate, admits Apptopia CEO Jonathan Kay.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

With travel and tourism rising across Latin America, Casai , a startup combining Airbnb single unit rentals with hotel room amenities, has raised $23 million to expand its business across Latin America. Latin America Roundup: Big rounds, big mergers and a $3.8M pandemic fund from Nubank.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

This morning WorkBoard , a software startup that sells software designed to help other companies plan, announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D. Prior to its new round, WorkBoard had raised $65 million, according to its co-founder and CEO Deidre Paknad. Its new round, then, is larger than all of its prior funding combined.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The experience blends commerce with entertainment, as viewers watch and chat with other viewers and hosts in real time, as they shop for streetwear, shoes, collectibles and other items. ” NTWRK had previously raised a $10 million Series A, according to Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Mosaic raised $25 million in Series B funding from Founders Fund to continue developing what the company calls a “strategic finance” category to get all departments within a company talking about finance. Bored of range anxiety as you whoosh around in your EV? How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. .” Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Cognixion, a startup designing an intuitive brain-monitoring headset and interface for people with physical disabilities, has raised a $12M A round to pursue its accessibility ambitions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Today, the company announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding, in a round led entirely by mothers. It integrates with dependent care FSAs so parents can use their pre-tax funds as they become available, and blends them with secondary payment methods, like their bank account.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The women want to rebuild the diner loved by neighbors for its shrimp and grits, catfish, and Shays secret house coffee blend. The grants came largely from GoFundMe.orgs Wildfire Relief Fund , which has raised $7.7 Her nonprofit, which normally focuses on protecting children and amplifying female voices, raised $1.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Bay Area startup wants to take a more blended solution to crypto lending with its protocol, building up capital pools and allowing fintech organizations outside the U.S. The firm raised an $11 million funding round last June. Other backers include Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Blocktower, Bill Ackman and Heli-cap.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This year, the event raised $302,000an incredible jump from the $80,000 it raised just five years ago. The Turtle Creek Corridor truly has it all, blending natural beauty with the vibrancy of city life. It creates a fun, lively atmosphere where members and supporters can mingle, network, and reflect on our shared successes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The company — co-headquartered in New York and Tallinn, Estonia — has now raised more than $150 million overall, it said. The blended approach, and the attention to providing tech-based webbing to make the transition from one to the other easier for all kinds of users, is what has attracted investors to Glia so far.

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