TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? Fintech startups raised 24.9%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Just months after raising $28 million, Jerry announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series C round that values the company at $450 million. At the time of the company’s last raise, Agrawal said Jerry saw its revenue surge by “10x” in 2020 compared to 2019. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The new ALICE data also offers glimmers of hope and raises questions for further research. By comparison, the rate of financial hardship at retail trade nonprofits (e.g., How can we close this gap and attract and retain these valuable workers? Where are the best outcomes in the nonprofit workforce?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34 is the closest comparison. million ($6 million) in a seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures and Connect Ventures. They were joined by investors Village Global, and the founders of Wagestream, Peter Briffett and Portman Wills. In the U.K. Comma payments dashboard.

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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. While in Web 2.0,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. By comparison, fitness attracts roughly $34 billion in annual spending from 150,000 businesses. That could be because of the size of the industry.

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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. This new raise wasn’t to fund operations. million since its 2012 inception.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

To date, Step has raised more than $175 million. At the time of the Series B, for comparison, Step said it was adding around 7,000 to 10,000 accounts per day. ” Mobile bank Current raises $220 million Series D, triples valuation to $2.2B. Image Credits: Step. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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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

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports. We first emphasized this issue in a 2019 piece: Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? The figures were closer together when we carried out another comparison in 2020 , with each study reporting between $1.3

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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. Beacons raises $6 million for its link-in-bio homepage builder that lets creators monetize.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

The Palo Alto-based startup launched a car insurance comparison service using artificial intelligence and machine learning in January 2019. And now today, Jerry is announcing that it has raised more than $57 million in funding, including a new $28 million Series B round led by Goodwater Capital. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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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). The funding values the company at around $1.65

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The startup, which launched its app in Vietnam last year, announced today it has raised $1 million, led by the Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN). GajiGesa, a fintech startup serving underbanked Indonesian workers, raises $2.5 Jeff’s competitors fall into two main categories. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Neo4j , which offers a graph-centric database and related products, announced today that it raised $325 million at a more than $2 billion valuation in a Series F deal led by Eurazeo, with additional capital from Alphabet’s venture wing GV. Eurazeo managing director Nathalie Kornhoff-Brüls will join the company’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

TechCrunch was curious about platform risk at MealMe; could the company get away with offering price comparison and ordering across multiple third-party delivery services without raising the ire of the companies behind those apps? 10 favorite startups from Techstars’ October 2020 class.

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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. As of December, Reddit boasted 52 million daily active users , For comparison, Facebook has around 1.85 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

This latest round comes nearly four years after Feedzai raised its Series C, a $50 million round led by an unnamed investor and with an undisclosed valuation. It has now raised some $182 million to date. Jumio raises $150M as its all-in-one ID authentication platform crosses 300M verified identities. Zeotap raises $18.5M

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! Virtual Conference/Meeting Software Comparison spreadsheet comparison of different platforms from Giving Tuesday. And it can be exhausting staring at a screen most of the day. Virtual Happy Hours – How-To.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The new unicorn told TechCrunch that the round was pre-empted a few months ahead of when it had planned to raise and that it was four times oversubscribed. It’s not perfect as far as comparisons go, but we hope that it helps all the same. As is common with rounds of this size, a bevy of prior investors kicked in cash as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The platform ensues funds are collected in a transparent way so that anyone interested in giving can also read the fundraisers story and see how much has been raised already. 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

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? With the new financing, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Insurify has now raised a total of $128 million since its 2013 inception. The company declined to disclose the valuation at which the money was raised.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Jendaya , a one-year-old startup that acts as a gateway for global luxury brands to the African continent and for consumers in the rest of the world to discover African brands, is coming out stealth, having raised £1 million (~$1.2 Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M million) in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

PitchBook data indicates that that round was raised at a roughly $550 million valuation, while our reporting at the time of the company’s Series E includes the tidbit that “a Contentful spokesperson [told TechCrunch] that [the company was] approaching a $1 billion” valuation.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This is sufficient for a basic overview of how money is being raised and spent, but for an organization accounting for different funds, that’s usually only one aspect of reality. Standard accounting systems often allow tracking and reporting against revenue and expense lines at the account level.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

While that pales in comparison to the world’s most popular search engines (i.e., Still others have struggled to find a reliable source of revenue — Cuil , which was founded by former Google engineers, raised $33 million in capital before shutting down in 2010, after just over 2 years in operation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Calling Terra the Plaid for fitness data is not merely a useful comparison to help ourselves understand what it’s building; the company is pursuing a consumption-pricing model, meaning that its economics will scale akin to Plaid’s, or perhaps Twilio’s own.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

It will also launch on price-comparison site uSwitch. Cuckoo Internet, which is aiming to be an insurgent startup in the broadband provider space in the U.K., has closed a $6 million investment round led by RTP Global, along with participation from JamJar Investments. RTP Global was an early backer of Yandex, Delivery Hero and Datadog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Glia raises $78M for its integrated, hands-on, AI-based customer service platform. There is still a lot of opportunity, though, as the market continues to push ahead and not just shift online, but starts to look like it’s here to stay. Before COVID, Ciabarra said, “just 10-15% of transactions were online.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For comparison, website builders Wix and Squarespace charge as low as $16 per month. Komi, a landing page tool for content creators, raises $5M seed round by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch. Komi is currently invite-only, yet has plans to open to the public in early 2023.

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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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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

YouTube TV has announced that it’ll be raising its monthly price from $50 per month to $64.99 The price was first raised to $40 per month in early 2018 as it added Turner networks (including TBS, TNT, CNN, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, truTV, and Turner Classic Movies). Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For this latter group, Instagram is a powerful engine for “social comparison” — when one judges one’s own value, attractiveness, and success based on comparisons with others. Instagram, by comparison, spotlights users’ bodies and lifestyles more often.

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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.

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