Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We’re making securing new funding for Bookshare’s international expansion a top priority! With this new copyright exemption, local Indian organizations serving people with disabilities can now provide accessible formats of any book or periodical in India, much like the Chafee Amendment allows us to do in the United Sates.

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MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. The fintech sector boomed in 2021, with global fintech funding reaching a record $132 billion.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Digip digitizes much of the process, helping its customers file trademarks by themselves instead of going to law firms. The new funding was led by Industrifonden and Seed X, with participation from family offices and angel investors. The Stockholm-based legaltech startup announced today it has added $1.3

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

It plans to become cash flow positive within the next 12 months, and recently announced a digital banking partnership with Singapore financial service corporation OCBC. Osome currently serves more than 11,000 business in Singapore (where it is is headquartered), Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

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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 In particular, Fireblocks provides custody to institutional investors and has secured the transfer of over $1 trillion in digital assets over time. .

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MAY 18, 2021

The world of digital payments is very fragmented, with different types of online bank accounts, digital wallets and money transfer services used in different countries. Thunes’ last funding announcement was in September 2020 a $60 million Series B led by Helios Investment Partners.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. Ireland, the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

As the pandemic led to increased digitization across the board, employees were suddenly making spend decisions from outside the office and more merchants were accepting digital payments. “We Specifically, the company intends on adding more than 150 headcount in the United Kingdom, Israel and across Europe this fiscal year. .

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

This latest round of funding will help the company with its go-to-market efforts, as well as growing its customer support team with 30 staff and building up its sales and marketing team. Many companies were already trying to adapt with the digital age, but Lee said many companies realized they had underinvested in ICS security.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Since then, the fintech-focused fund has made more investments in the region. QED has been investing in LatAm for seven years now, so the spike in valuation has been great for our back book and our legacy fund, but it has also made it more expensive and more competitive for new deals. Lauren Morton. QED recently closed $1.05

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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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APRIL 7, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV.

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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. Enter Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform that wants to do the heavy lifting for companies eyeing more digital operations. million in Series A funding, Christine reports. Startups and VC.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

A couple that have recently raised funding include Copy.ai million funding round led by Saama Capital and Amit Singhal, formerly a senior vice president at Google and head of Google Search. About 70% of its paying subscribers are from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, and the rest are from Asian countries.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The then used the funding and revenues from the consumer business to scale up the new company. The result is a $12m growth funding round led by Updata Partners, a Growth Equity Fund, which brings the total amount invested in the company to $30m. Can this startup solve the HR headache that is digital nomads?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The New York-based company is developing online ordering tools for enterprise restaurant chains and ghost kitchens to act as a restaurant’s entire digital tech stack for everything from managing orders to apps to loyalty programs, so the experience is not only frictionless, but also increases sales and customer engagement.

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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 15, 2020

The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate. Not to mention, they make up less than 5% of the top level of the top 500 companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Three digits, so little time. Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. Few want to dial it, but when they must, it works — every single time. The lead writer of this EC-1 is Danny Crichton. We’re always iterating on the EC-1 format.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The new funding will be used to expand into 300 cities, product development and its product, business, marketing and operations teams. The second are travel experience providers who are digitizing for the first time. Headout says it reached profitable EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) in July.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

But along with that, we have also seen a related surge in funding into companies that provide the infrastructure that financial institutions — incumbents and fintechs alike — need in order to operate faster and more competitively. With the latest raise, Pismo has now raised a total of $118 million in funding.

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DECEMBER 11, 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. The move comes as the firm approaches the two-year anniversary of its inaugural fund. Funding and M&A. The company says its jump into the U.S. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

based venture capital fund Valar Ventures and will use the funding to expand into more European countries later this year. But as more companies increasingly move to digital, the need for BNPL for B2B online will grow immensely. But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun. and three in Asia.

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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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APRIL 11, 2023

Since TechCrunch covered MindX’s seed 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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OCTOBER 5, 2021

London-based Habitual , a healthtech startup which offers a weight loss program aimed at people with type 2 diabetes (or prediabetes) that combines “evidence-based” food replacement with digital support to help people manage and even reverse the condition (so they can be medication free), has closed a $2.3 million seed round.

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MAY 17, 2022

London, United Kingdom-based startup Encode Club , founded in 2020, trained 15,000 developers last year alone through its programming, CEO and co-founder Anthony Beaumont told TechCrunch in an interview. Although the company is profitable, Beaumont says, it just raised $5 million in seed funding from investors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The company will use its new funding to grow its product and engineering teams. It also plans to add to its partnership development teams in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, along with emerging markets like the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mr Yum announced a $8 million USD post-seed round just seven months ago in April and its Series A brings its total funding so far to $74 million (about $103 million AUD). Founded in Melbourne, Mr Yum now has offices across Australia and in the United States and United Kingdom, too. Its clients include E.P.

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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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MARCH 29, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Future of work is borderless : Payday, now flush with $3 million in new capital, plans to expand its Africa-based operations to Canada and the United Kingdom, Tage writes. The funding round was led by iHeartMedia, Aisha reports. Manish has more. The app is then blasted to 16 investors.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Numan , the European subscription service covering erectile dysfunction (ED) and men’s wellness/health needs more generally, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by White Star Capital , with participation from existing investors Novator, Vostok New Global, Anthemis Exponential, Colle Capital and new investor Hanwha Group.

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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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