The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Virgin Atlantic Airways has filed for bankruptcy protection for its United States business, as it tries to nail down a £1.2 The company is not yet going out of business or liquidating its operations, which is what Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection is for. Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images. billion ($1.6

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JULY 20, 2021

Almost overnight, platforms that offer non-dilutive capital for recurring revenue businesses have become white-hot. This fever is now reaching Europe, where today Capchase raised an additional $280 million in new debt and equity funding, led by i80 Group, following a $125 million round in June.

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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

JUNE 10, 2021

The Singapore-based startup’s last funding round was $3 million announced in November. Its Series A brings Osome’s total funding since it was founded in 2017 to $24.5 It now claims to be used by 6,000 companies in Singapore, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, giving it $9.5 Ong, who joined as an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. “We want to be like the Apple of business finance.” That involves two parts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Airwallex , the fintech company for cross-border businesses, announced today it has added $100 million more to its Series D round, bumping its valuation up to $2.6 The company was founded in Melbourne in 2015, and now has more than 600 employees across 12 offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Four months after announcing its last round, Employment Hero has closed another $140 million AUD (about $103 million USD) in funding. Its previous funding announcement was a $45 million AUD Series D announced in March , led by online job platform SEEK, at the company’s previous valuation of about $250 million AUD.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Fireblocks , an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 Fireblocks launched out of stealth mode in June of 2019 and has since opened offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and the DACH region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It was valued at more than $1 billion in its most recent funding round of more than $400 million, and in January it announced the acquisition of ad measurement company Soomla. Its customers include Crazy Labs, Supersonic Studios, Lion Studios, Kwalee and Voodoo. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the big leaders in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms is announcing a major round of funding today as it continues to expand its ambitions. businesses per week and now has some 200 brands in its portfolio. Upper90, funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Thunes’ last funding announcement was in September 2020 a $60 million Series B led by Helios Investment Partners. It is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. When Insight approached Thunes, it was not planning to raise more funding. Insight closes $9.5B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The public sector usually publishes its business opportunities in the form of “tenders,” to increase transparency to the public. However, this data is scattered, and larger businesses have access to more information, giving them opportunities to grab contracts before official tenders are released. Stotles is a new U.K.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Just over five months after securing $50 million in debt & equity , Valoreo has closed on a $30 million Series A funding round. California-based Presight Capita l and Kingsway Capital out of the United Kingdom co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers such as Kaszek, Upper90 and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

trillion B2B payments market in sub-Saharan Africa is one where merchants commonly use manual invoices and inefficient processes that burden merchants and make them struggle with their businesses. million in seed funding. The process of sending and receiving payments in a $1.5 YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

computer vision startup that’s sharpened its business pitch to sell an AI service for quickly anonymizing video — automating the blurring of faces or licence plates, along with a suite of other visual search services — has grabbed another chunk of seed funding: announcing a raise of $7.5 Pimloc , a U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

million seed round led by Founders Fund, an early investor in SpaceX, backed by Luminous Ventures, 7percent Ventures and Entrepreneur First. Magdrive is at the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre in Harwell, Oxford. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

William Kilmer is managing partner with C5 Capital , a venture capital fund investing in the secure data ecosystem. Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse in 2020, we received the news on the SolarWinds hack and its impact on more than 18,000 businesses and potentially dozens of U.S. and in Europe, led by the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

aren’t finished taking big swings at the commercial real estate business in the U.S. Even after the collapse of WeWork, the investors are doubling down on a similar business model as part of a syndicate investing $700 million into REEF Technology. It has since expanded its vision while remaining true to its basic business model.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Ringle created a niche for itself by focusing on adults first, with courses like business English and interview preparation. the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and Singapore. Ringle’s co-founders are Seunghoon Lee and Sungpah Lee, who both earned MBAs from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Go digital : Manual business processes were the norm, so it’s understandable that stepping away from what you know can be difficult. Case in point, Holidu grabbed $98 million in new funding to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe, Natasha L writes. million in Series A funding, Christine reports.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But business is growing again thanks to rebounds in domestic travel and Headout claims it has grown 800% since January 2021. The new funding will be used to expand into 300 cities, product development and its product, business, marketing and operations teams. Then COVID-19 hit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. The raise comes just after Wayflyer raised $100 million in debt funding to support its cash advance product, and 14 months after the Dublin, Ireland-based startup launched its first product.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But what we might be seeing more of in an increasingly challenging fundraising environment is that companies will choose to go the extension route as opposed to raising fresh capital as a new funding round. “We’re ” With the latest funding round, Faire has now raised over $1.4 It feels like flat is the new up.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Now, as it expands to Mexico, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, this startup with its roots in a rural farm in Indiana, is redefining emergency response globally for the 21st Century. The lead writer of this EC-1 is Danny Crichton. We’re always iterating on the EC-1 format.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Fund managers can leverage ESG-related data to generate insights. The DiginexESG platform quite simply takes away those challenges and does all the heavy lifting for them. It’s like DocuSign, Dropbox, TurboTax or Slack hardcoded for ESG reporting.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Making sure mental wellness is part of your routine can be difficult, especially if you are already busy and stressed. million seed round, almost eleven months after its pre-seed funding. The new funding will be used to hire for MindLabs’ product and engineering, content and market as it prepares for its public launch next year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Compared with countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, the racial funding gap is even more stark as more than 50% of Brazil’s population is classified as Afro-Brazilian. There is a clear recognition of the business case for Afro-Brazilian businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. North Wall Capital was behind the debt portion of the deal. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Oxwash , a UK startup that’s spent the last few years applying high tech processes to shrink the environment cost of dry cleaning and commercial laundry, has trousered £10 million (~$12M) in Series A funding to expand its nationwide footprint. London’s By Rotation is taking its p2p fashion rental app stateside.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

. “We think that it doesn’t make sense for 90% of deliveries in the United States of two kilogram burgers to be done in 2-ton vehicles. The company already operates in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and has recently expanded into new cities in those markets, like Manchester, U.K.

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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

APRIL 24, 2023

Founded in 2018 by CMA CGM Group chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saadé, ZEBOX already has hubs in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, West Africa and the Caribbeans, which have collectively worked with 100 startups that have raised a total of $235 million in funding. Both of these took part in ZEBOX France.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Its algorithm primarily leverages information from “open banking” data, which is secure customer information that large United Kingdom banks are required by law to share with third parties and technical service providers. government’s Future Fund, and some angel investors, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

million in seed funding from a range of investors and is announcing new plans to scale its technology to other consumer verticals in the future in the B2B space. The business model is based around an affiliate partnership model, where it makes between 5-25% of each sale. It has now raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

million in seed funding. The round, which Maya said is the largest raised by a Bangladeshi health tech company so far, was led by early-stage fund Anchorless Bangladesh and The Osiris Group, a private equity firm focused on impact investing in Asian markets. The startup announced today it has raised $2.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Since TechCrunch covered MindX’s Series A funding in November 2021 , it’s tripled its geographical coverage to 32 campuses across Vietnam, graduated 35,000 students so far and connected students to employers in countries like Australia, Thailand, the United Kingdom and, soon, the United States.

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