TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

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. “At the end of the day, you have to build a business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

NovoPayment is a global BaaS startup based in Miami that has largely been focused on offering its API platform to customers in the Latin American market. market, as Miami continues to grow as a hub for the financial services sector, according to Perez. NovoPayment’s founder and CEO Anabel Perez Image Credits: NovoPayment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Champions Round , a fantasy league startup that caters to Gen Z sports fans, announced today that it raised $7 million in new Series A funding. To date, the company has raised $10 million. Users, particularly Gen Z users, are moving away from traditional fantasy sports, where leagues are tied to entire seasons.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. Image Credits: MAJORITY.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For founders at the earliest stages of building a company, it’s imperative to spend in a balanced yet growth-focused manner. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 last week, Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques and BBG Ventures’ Nisha Dua explained how founders should allocate their recently raised dollars in today’s environment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Like the one we held last month in Miami, the event was a blast and featured a talk with two local VCs on which startups work in Detroit and how to raise money from local investors. Building tech for worker safety, Guardhat Technologies is a company that could only come from Detroit. Hardware is still hard in the Motor City.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Frustrated by the sponsorship space’s opaqueness, Bob Lynch, the former VP of corporate partnerships for the Miami Dolphins, in 2017 founded SponsorUnited , a software-as-a-service platform that provides analytics data on the sponsorship industry. based major league sports team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Papa , the elder tech company that offers care and companionship to seniors, today announced a $60 million Series C led by Tiger Global Management, bringing its total raised to date to $91 million. The Miami-based company has since partnered with 80 insurance providers who offer Papa nationwide as a benefit to their members.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot is announcing a new $20 million funding round to build out an imagined virtual world populated with deranged-yet-cute cartoon influencers. The $20 million Series A round brings the company’s total capital raised to $38 million. Superplastic’s proposition is a strange one. Are you ready?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

One San Francisco-based startup has emerged that wants to not only give travelers more options, but make traveling more affordable, and it’s just raised $15 million toward that goal. Kindred is building a members-only network to allow people to essentially exchange homes. To date, the startup has raised a total of $26.75

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Both companies have recently raised millions of dollars. The startup tells TechCrunch that it has raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Semil Shah at Haystack with participation from Kent Goldman at Upside Partnership. Startup cynicism and Substack, or Clubhouse, or Miami or ….

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Kyte , a fleet-logistics platform that allows customers to order rental cars delivered right to their doors, has raised a $30 million Series A round. Part of that is really building the data platform that includes sensing and telematics capabilities, and really supports teleoperated launches in the future.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has been building low-code finance tools is announcing funding to tap into that trend and expand its business. This saves needing to build or integrate that complexity from scratch and expands access to the processes within those wrappers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

“That made us step on the pedal and recruit a product, engineering and sales team across San Francisco, Austin, Miami and New York City with payments knowledge from a range of backgrounds.” 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

JULY 7, 2021

Lacuna Technologies, a startup that helps cities create and enforce transportation policies by building and managing open-source digital tools, has raised $16 million in a Series A round, bringing the company’s total investment to $33.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But today, a startup that’s cracked open that model with an autonomous, AI -based camera that lets any team record, edit and distribute their games, is announcing a round of funding to build out its business targeting the long tail of sporting teams and fixtures. operations, with an office in Miami.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020. It previously raised a $25 million seed round in February. We’ve been able to accelerate our business plan across all fronts, including acquisitions, technology and team building.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While attending Harvard Business School, Rice became determined to build a platform that provides accredited investors with access to invest in such entities with as little as $1 — essentially giving them a way to be LPs without meeting the strict requirements that have historically existed. Earlier this year, Rice raised $5.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

All Raise ’s interim CEO Paige Hendrix Buckner has now dropped the “interim,” according to the nonprofit’s blog post. Prior to joining All Raise, Hendrix Buckner worked with Dixon at Founder Gym, an online training center for underrepresented founders. I have been in the trenches with Paige — she brings all that and more.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Homebound has raised about $73 million over the years from the likes of Google Ventures, Fifth Wall, Khosla, Sound Ventures, Atomic and Thrive Capital. It raised a $35 million Series B last April and then closed on a $20 million convertible note late last year. Some people are opting to build second units on existing properties. “In

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Notifi , a communication infrastructure platform for web3, said Tuesday it has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed seed funding co-led by previous backers Hashed and Race Capital. Its platform allows web3 developers to integrate multichannel communication into their applications without building the infrastructure themselves.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

It was August 2013 when my co-founder at SportsManias called to tell me that we had raised $1 million in angel funding. I was a second-year in college on my way to the library at the University of Chicago; she was back in Miami, where our company is based. Our family training gives us an edge in communication and teamwork.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Merit has now raised $80 million, according to the company. The company spent the last five years working with various governments to build connectors to these licensing databases to allow third parties to access the data and have it update automatically. “Our non-engineering teams look pretty diverse today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

To date, The Rounds has raised $42 million. Combined with the fact that he lived in a building with 500 other apartment units where likely many other people were also ordering hand soap and other items on a regular basis, it also didn’t seem like the most efficient way to restock supplies, either. . Image Credits: The Rounds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. The new fund builds upon SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was first announced in March 2019 and was formerly called the Innovation Fund with an initial $2 billion in committed capital.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

If we do it, we would build it entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with the community. The issue has been raised before by one of the company’s investors, Elliott Management. What can we say: the guy loves to talk about bitcoin , even when other more pressing matters are at hand!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The event — taking place November 17 in Miami — will offer an opportunity for founders and investors to hear war stories from some of the crypto world’s most powerful decision-makers, while also picking up learnings from industry veterans who have weathered a crypto winter or two. Building for Normies. Building a Blockchain Behemoth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Novo , the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. The startup to date has raised just over $135 million. Instead, it decided to build its central functions from the ground up in-house. (It

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Having a helicopter in its fleet is also a bit unusual, but AeroVanti CEO and founder Patrick Britton-Harr notes that it will allow the company to fly passengers from Miami to the Florida Keys or from Boston to Martha’s Vineyard. In addition to the nine P.180s 180 is an interesting choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

That’s something we have heard more and more over the last year, as foundations and nonprofits look for ways to tap into the growing online giving market with these daylong campaigns raising funds for local causes. Giving Days aren’t just about dollars raised—though they certainly can bring in lots of cash for worthy causes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A former Salesforce executive wants to make it easier to find those connections, and he’s building Connect the Dots , a startup that aims to build a personalized, professional relationship graph. Sechrist wanted to build a better way to do that. Connect the Dots has now raised a total of $20 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The company announced today it has raised a $100 million Series A that will be used to expand quickly in the United States and on its Singapore research and development center, which is currently under construction. Next Gen Foods says this is the largest Series A ever raised by a plant-based meat company, based on data from Pitchbook.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Given that travel was stalled during this time, Petrakis and Sprague used the downtime to test and build out this marketplace. The experiences can be booked in 10 cities: Nashville, Scottsdale, Austin, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, Palm Springs, Savannah, Charleston and San Diego. .” Image Credits: Bach.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Aument is carving out a niche in marketing automation for e-commerce stores, raising $1.5 Miami-based Aument is building a library of actions, taking e-commerce best practices and automating them for small businesses to start sending automated and personalized marketing messages and convert visitors to customers.

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