TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Too Good To Go , the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 While the company has been around for a while, this is the first time Too Good To Go is raising money from a VC firm. Mette Lykke on food waste and building a big startup on a big idea. with New York City and Boston.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The startup’s ambitions aren’t cheap, FlyMachine tells TechCrunch it has raised $21 million in investor funding to bankroll its plans. Meanwhile, startups like Wave raised huge bouts of VC funding to turn real performers into digital avatars in a bid to create more digital-native concerts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. If you’re not familiar with the company, Checkout.com wants to build a one-stop shop for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. That’s why raising capital can be helpful. It finished 2020 with 940 employees.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas A&M University has brought AR/VR production into its celebrated Visualization program , letting students learn to build state-of-the-art virtual productions before they leave college. Xreal announced in January 2024 it had raised an additional $60 million in funding for further development of its AR glasses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest such neobank to emerge is New York-based Daylight , which describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ digital banking platform in the United States. Daylight says its mission is to “build a more equitable financial life for LGBTQ+ folks and their chosen families.” Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

In the unveiling of its new offerings, Invstr also announced Wednesday that it has closed on a $20 million Series A in the form of a convertible offering. The company, which also has offices in New York and Istanbul, plans to use the new capital to launch new brokerage and analytics tools and a portfolio builder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Hugging Face has raised a $40 million Series B funding round — Addition is leading the round. The company has been building an open source library for natural language processing (NLP) technologies. With the new funding round, the company plans to triple its headcount in New York and Paris — there will be remote positions too.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The study, which is open to babies born at New York-Presbyterian Hospitals, has sequenced more than 17,000 newborns to date. GeneDx has also partnered with the New York Center for Rare Diseases at Montefiore,PacBio, and Google Health to deliver genetic diagnoses forBronxfamilies living with rare diseases.

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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. and globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Maybe just a few.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Apart from AI, some of the most exciting technology developments took place in quantum computing, with companies large and small taking different approaches to building utility-scale systems. The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. Among those that do exist, very few have been able to raise much money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E , Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million. New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. Why raise more money so soon? billion.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Tesla will build its next US factory in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk announced today, wrapping up a months-long search for a location to build the upcoming Cybertruck. In addition to the Cybertruck, Tesla will also build Model Ys and Model 3s destined for the East Coast, as well as the Tesla Semi, Musk said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Anytime a company that has raised more than half a billion dollars basically implodes, it’s worth taking a look at the roller coaster ride it was on before it got to that point.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

and will use a new $225 million Series D raise to help make it happen. The new capital comes from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Mark Benioff – and recording artist The Weeknd – among others. markets including LA, New York, Chicago, SF and Washington, D.C.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. Vilner told TechCrunch that while at a previous company, he was building a category called technology marketing in Israel. In addition to Tel Aviv, the company has offices in New York and London.

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

It advises that chatbots that build "trust and rapport" through obsequiousness, flattery, or simulated empathy the Google scientists refer to this as "sycophancy" pose a particularly high risk to users. This same bot, the family claims, was the first to raise the idea of suicide in its conversations with the minor user.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. In fact, she will often offer a surprise song during fundraising to encourage more donations – her songs have raised up to an additional $10,000 for her beloved clients!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Today, B12 , a startup that is focused on helping those smaller professional service organizations such as law and accounting firms or mortgage brokerages more easily accept online payments and build a digital presence in general, announced it has raised $15.7 million in funding led by Tola Capital. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. ” Building out. “Essentially, if it’s a building, our system can handle it,” Neufeld said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year we covered how “&Open” (yes, “ampersand open,” pronounced “And Open”) had raised a raised $7.2 Other new and existing investors also contributed to this round. The Series A brings &Open’s total capital raised to $33.2 and plans to open an office in New York City in the next year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Exactly six months after raising $80 million at a $505 million valuation, blockchain and Web3 development SaaS startup Alchemy has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round that values the company at $3.5 That’s up from $30 billion at the time of its April raise. All that money is still in the bank,” he said. “We

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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

JUNE 14, 2021

French startup Upflow has raised a $15 million Series A round. And the startup is slowly building a network of companies that have used Upflow at some point. The startup will open an office in New York. The company wants to help you chase late payments. With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Nuvocargo , a logistics startup out to help simplify the challenges of cross-border trade, has raised $20.5 The round valued the New York-based startup at $180 million, more than double the $70 million it was valued at when it raised $12 million in April. million in a round led by Tiger Global Management. “The U.S.-Mexico

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

government worth just over $500,000, none of which are expected to expire, the New York Times reported. Heading into this year’s tax filing period, ZenLedger had raised just $11.5 “We are moving ahead with more government contracting, which is interesting, because, basically, what we do is we build a plan for crypto.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Corporate spend and cash management company Rho today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Participants included existing investors Inspired Capital, M13 and Torch Capital, as well as new investors such as DFJ Growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Hartman ended up building his own house, and essentially serving as the general contractor. So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Panorama declined to reveal at what valuation the Series C was raised, nor did it provide any specific financial growth metrics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $3.9 billion that New York-based Ramp was valued at in April at the time of its Series B. That’s more than double the $1.6 valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In the latest development, Stitch — one of the prominent players building and operating these APIs in Africa — confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. In total, Stitch has raised $27 million to date. And the last is getting end consumers to link their accounts via these businesses. “On

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

business, has raised $3 million in seed funding. We wanted to focus on building product, talking to users and growing our new business, and we thought, ‘ what if we could click a button and initialize a company?’ ,” said co-founder and CEO Arjun Mahadevan. Doola, a startup that aims to help global entrepreneurs form a U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This means that if a head of credit, for example, wants to make a change to the lending criteria, they have to raise a ticket with the IT department. The two met while studying at Harvard and were both a part of the leadership team at QuantCo, a company building AI-powered apps for enterprise customers. ” Image Credits: Taktile.

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