TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The Zebra , an Austin-based company that operates an insurance comparison site, has raised $150 million in a Series D round that propels it into unicorn territory. million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. We’re not highly unprofitable or burning through money like crazy,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. We decided to go with this model because we really want to have a relationship where we help the creators really make money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An organisation can register an account on M-Changa and within 5 minutes they’ll have their own web page to accept payments using Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and mobile money. By establishing trust, M-Changa can assist NGOs in Kenya to raise more funds and therefore achieve more. How do you see it evolving over the next 10 years?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

To date, Step has raised more than $175 million. According to CEO CJ MacDonald, Step hasn’t yet spent the money from its Series B, but believes the additional funds can help the startup grow more quickly. At the time of the Series B, for comparison, Step said it was adding around 7,000 to 10,000 accounts per day.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined Runa Capital almost a year ago, my task was to help our portfolio companies enter the Chinese market, find the right partners and raise funding from Chinese investors. And almost on every call with our startups, colleagues from Runa or other global VCs, I heard: Is it a good idea to raise from a Chinese VC? funds and 12.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

On the heels of Jumio announcing a $150 million injection this week to continue building out its AI-based ID verification and anti-money laundering platform, another startup in the space is levelling up. It has now raised some $182 million to date. Those periods are, essentially, before-pandemic and during-pandemic comparisons.).

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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 All that money is still in the bank,” he said. “We That’s up from $30 billion at the time of its April raise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Having just raised $30 million in a Series C round in October and achieving profitability in 2020, the Nuvemshop team was not looking for more capital. The company declined to reveal at what valuation this latest round was raised but it is notable that its Series D is triple the size of its Series C, raised just over six months prior.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit will double the number of employees it has over the course of this year to around 1,400 after raising $250 million in a new funding round, the company has announced. The company says it plans to use the money to invest in video, advertising, consumer products, and international expansion. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday , one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). billion, the company has confirmed to us.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. For now, the three-month-old company is in its infancy — the pre-product phase, which makes it even more notable that the company managed to raise such a large seed round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

How many of us have not switched insurance carriers because we don’t want to deal with the hassle of comparison shopping? Existing backers Viola FinTech, MassMutual Ventures, Nationwide, Hearst Ventures and Moneta VC also put money in the round, as well as new investors Viola Growth and Fort Ross Ventures. A lot, I’d bet.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

While that pales in comparison to the world’s most popular search engines (i.e., ” Certainly, You has been putting its money where its mouth is, investing substantial development in experiences like the aforementioned YouCode. It seems there’s some truth to his words. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

companies with all female founders are raising less capital this year than the last amid current economic woes. Last year, women raised around 2.4% last year, Black and Latinx women hovered around 0.05% each, while Indigenous Americans raised approximately 0.004% of known capital in the United States, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

million in seed money, is looking to change that. In comparison, South Africa did $48.3 Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa. There are just a handful of female founders who have raised million-dollar rounds. Lami Technologies , a startup out of Kenya armed with $1.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New data indicates that France’s startup market is posting record totals in terms of dollars raised. For comparison, that two-quarter figure is billions more than French startups raised in all of 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

As a country of 220 million people, almost two-thirds of whom are under the age of 30, Pakistan draws natural comparisons to Indonesia — which has rapidly emerged as one of the most vibrant technology ecosystems outside the U.S. In 2021, Pakistani startups are on track to raise more money than the previous five years combined.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Because we want to start working on what the gaming company is worth; some comparisons are being made to Unity , another unicorn that went public earlier this year with a gaming focus. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. According to Crunchbase data , Roblox’s $150 million Series G was raised at a $3.9

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

VanMoof just raised another $128 million in funding, after announcing a $40 million investment round in September 2020. That brings Amsterdam-based VanMoof’s total haul to $182 million raised in the last two years, excluding crowdfunding rounds in 2018 and 2019, making it “the most funded e-bike company in the world,” according to VanMoof.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

It brings the company’s total raised to $30 million, which includes contributions from high-profile celebrities like actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Elton John and Starwood Hotels founder Barry Sternlicht. For instance, Qloo can create “taste affinities” for entities (e.g. Elias demurred when asked about revenue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The evidence flies in the face of some underlying, pervasive assumptions: namely, that people work primarily for money and that the best incentives to keep people motivated and productive are financial. It turns out that most people do their best work when they are motivated by something other than money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Led by Ahren Innovation Capital Fund with participation from Mobileye CEO and co-founder Amnon Shashua, Walden Catalyst, Pitango, TPY Capital and Mark Leslie, the tranche brings A21Labs’ total capital raised to $118.5 ” AI21 Labs was co-founded in 2017 by Goshen, Shashua, and Stanford University professor Yoav Shoham.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Goals for all your different objectives—total dollars raised, number of donors, number of new donors, etc.—you’ll Nonprofit Fundraising Strategies by Channel There is no one right way to raise money for your nonprofit. By setting S.M.A.R.T. you’ll have all the data you need to refine and improve with each successive ask.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3 But over the years, those same seed-stage rounds have become more common, with some very early-stage startups even raising eight-figure sums. But the narrative as to how much an early-stage African startup can raise as pre-seed has changed. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2013

If you are wondering about the different between these two platforms, here’s a good comparison from TechCrunch , but either platform your nonprofit needs to share compelling videos, that use good storytelling , and support your goals. Simple, yet potentially lifesaving. Watch Video: https://vine.co/v/bJm0XD7zgUA. v/bJm0XD7zgUA.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Quibi wasn’t the spark of the proverbial college dropout with a passion for entertainment trying to invent a new format for mobile phones with ramen money from friends and family. Next to market, Root Insurance released its stock pricing set this week, raising the goal to a valuation above $6 billion. But closing the gap a bit?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Klarna got repriced via an equity round, and other richly funded startups that raised last year are staring down the prospects of either flat or down rounds as 2022 continues. And then there’s Discord, which raised $500 million last year at a massive $14.7 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The comparison between the five most valuable U.S. In contrast, the Next Generation of Tech Leaders is, well, raising lots of money and building private-market value. Naturally, there are huge caveats with any such comparison. tech firms that everyone can name.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Amazon-backed electric vehicle startup Rivian has raised another $2.65 The new money arrives a mere six months after Rivian raised $2.5 billion , and about a year after it raised $1.3 It has now raised more than $8 billion to date. Image: Rivian. The investment round was led by T.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ola itself has raised more than $4.5 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. And for comparison’s sake, we’ll loop in both historical and present data from the Chinese startup market to see how India stacks up. That data set indicated that Indian startups raised $6.3 Venture capital in India.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. And it helps explain why startups have been able to raise so much capital lately in the United States , as they have in Europe , and why private-market investors are pouring so much capital into fintech startups. Insurtech startups are leveraging rapid growth to raise big money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. As we reported yesterday , SaaS has resisted the slowdown better than we’d have expected when it comes to venture capital raised. According to Carta data, SaaS startups using the platform raised a total of $1.04 billion in Series A deals, only 38% less than in Q4 2021 ($1.70

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Yesterday, we considered the rise of the VC-led SPAC and whether venture capital groups that offer seed-through-SPAC money will wind up with advantage in the market over firms that specialize on any particular startup stage. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. And why chat about MoneyLion? Image Credits: Rover.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Earlier today, TechCrunch reported that an online rental marketplace, Zumper, just raised $30 million in a Series D1 round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins to help it better serve people looking for short-term rental options. Landing has now raised $237 million in venture funding and $230 million in debt since its launch in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Just this year we’ve seen French BNPL startup Alma raise a $130 million equity round , BillEase raise $11 million for BNPL in the Philippines , Lipa Later raise $12 million for the same effort in Kenya , and ThankUCash raise $5.3 And Klarna raised $639 million at a valuation of nearly $46 billion in mid-2021.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 18, 2022

Online Fundraising saves you time & money. Online fundraising builds automation into the process to save you time and money. Custom-branded donation pages nested inside a nonprofit’s website raise 6X more money. You can learn more and run comparisons here. That means donors are moving online and so should you!

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