TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

SumUp , a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up in a big way. and basing their service around small card payment dongles that attached to phones or tablets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. Meanwhile, I corresponded with three firms about their funds and any concerns that limited partners had brought up during the fundraising stage. Last month, Alaya had the first closing of $80 million in capital commitments for its third fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Today a startup that has built a platform to make the business of fishing more efficient — and thus the process overall more traceable and less prone to waste — is announcing a round of funding to ride on that wave. Fishing business’s greatest problem, he said, is uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The Indian hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo is in late-stage discussions to secure about $50 million in a new financing round, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the Bengaluru-headquartered startup scrambles for comfort in an otherwise funding winter for younger firms. It’s a dynamic that is playing out globally.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite continuing talk about a possible recession , slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investing, the business of funding was positively humming last week. Consider the following: NEA revealed that it closed its two newest funds adding up to $6.2 Is venture funding already back? Even non-U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. billion ($8.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove, which deals with new cars, is a flexible option for these drivers who want to get into the business of ride-hailing without having to borrow from car owners or taking bank loans to finance cars bought from dealerships. So we’re still a young business. Moove’s total funding is $174.5 Image Credits: Moove.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Yair Snir is vice president and managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, leading venture investment activity in Europe and Israel. Prior to becoming an early-stage investor at DTC, I ran business development and M&A for Microsoft across Europe and Israel. Contributor. Good companies get bought not sold.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. has the third most WhatsApp users in Europe with 40.41

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S. And it wasn’t only funding. Fundings and M&A.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There are multiple messaging apps active in Southeast Asia and most consumers prefer to use them over email when they contact a business. Respond.io’s dashboard, which processes over 140 million messages per month, consolidates all the messages a business gets, so the right person can see them. Respond.io has grown its revenue 25x.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

million in pre-Series A funding. Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards. It is in talks with partners, mainly property portals and CRM platforms, to expand into Europe (France, Germany, Belgium and the U.K.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Source: United Nations Population Fund. First-time access the mobile internet is exploding across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East and in Europe, North America, and Australia, the mobile web has surpassed desktop. Source: Business Insider. Source: Rothschild’s Giraffe Project.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

On one side, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries and other food businesses contribute surplus food items. It’s a win for everybody as businesses can generate a bit of revenue from surplus food, customers can buy food at great prices and it reduces unnecessary waste. 65,000 businesses have sold something on Too Good To Go so far.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. The Krafton-led, all-equity Series A funding round also saw participation from Peer Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. With its new fund, the company says it will look to make investments ranging from anywhere between €150,000 and €2 million. billion for a majority stake in 2016. . when invited to do so.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Part of this process will have to involve making it easier for consumers and businesses alike to transition to electrification, for example through extending access to electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as the U.S. ” Papaya wants to help electrify last-mile logistics in Europe by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The company, which allows e-commerce businesses to scale and grow by targeting businesses with limited bank or venture financing access, is announcing that it has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to supercharge its efforts. We always thought to ourselves that this should be the exact opposite. Wayflyer raises $150M on a $1.6B

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Today, an adtech out of Spain that’s doing just this has raised a big round of funding to double down on the opportunity. The money is coming in the form of an equity investment from a single investor, Advent International, and it will be used to help the company expand beyond Europe, specifically deeper into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We saw an average of 32% re: % of capital called in a fund’s first full calendar year. That’s new.”.

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MARCH 18, 2025

The six-year-old company, which has raised upwards of $40 million in venture funding and served over 2 million students, is now being used across more than 1,800 districts and in 3,000 schools. In 2024, Good Inside launched an AI-powered app to help subscribers more effectively navigate day-to-day parenting challenges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. That’s up from $91 million when the round closed in November.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Deep tech has become a hot topic in Europe, with hopes that the region can have an edge over the rest of the world for innovation rooted in fundamental research. “From startups to universities, we join forces to make Europe a world leader in the new wave of deep tech innovation!” Want it in your inbox every Saturday?

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. This fund grew again by €34 million in April 2021 , and after deploying investments into 28 climate-forward companies, the investor this week announced it has officially closed its second fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Those specific investments were from Playfair’s inaugural fund which wasn’t focused on any particular “stage” of company. “I’d say probably half the funding in our portfolio is pre-product, pre-traction,” Playfair managing partner Chris Smith explained to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. based venture capital fund Valar Ventures and will use the funding to expand into more European countries later this year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Since open banking requires that banks make valuable data available via APIs, it is leading to a revolution in the way that small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) are funded — one in which data, and not hard capital, is the most important factor driving fintech success. Here’s why so many fintech startups are loaning to small businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

million pre-Series A funding. debt) pre-Series A funding. The equity round was led by Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, with participation from Greater Impact Foundation. Farmerline was founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai. million ($6.4m

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. That pivot has proven to be a smart move for the company, which today announced it has raised $275 million in a Series F “growth” funding round at a $7.25 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Now Nord Security , the startup behind one of the bigger paid VPN providers, NordVPN , is announcing significant funding at a “unicorn” valuation to build out both its consumer and enterprise business lines to capitalize on that growth. So why raise now? firm Versprite.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

It’s crunch time in the world of instant grocery delivery, with the latest turn representing a big blow specifically in Europe. Gorillas’ news today spells out a couple of different challenges both for it, and for the wider instant delivery space. “Now even more people will look at this like it’s just a bubble.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

-based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the better-funded revenue-based lending businesses in Europe. It has now raised a total of £307 million. which has raised $681.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers. With this new financing, Credable plans to launch four more products this year and partner with businesses in these countries. million seed round. So far, over 1.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

and Europe. However, after putting all that work in, many founders make the mistake of letting a funding moment pass by without extracting all the value they could have. Publicizing funding news lets you create incremental value beyond the capital investment by highlighting your momentum and driving brand awareness. Scott Brown.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So much software is dedicated to helping businesses improve interactions online, whether it be aimed at sales, marketing or customer service. million in seed funding in a round led by Crew Capital , an under-the-radar venture firm co-founded by UiPath co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Dines and UiPath chief strategy officer Brandon Deer.

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