TechSpot

AUGUST 25, 2022

Sony is raising the retail price of its PlayStation 5 console in several regions. The company announced the move earlier today, citing a difficult global economic environment and soaring inflation. While the tech giant is increasing PlayStation 5 prices across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and even North.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Today, one of such, MAGIC Fund , a global collective of founders, is announcing that it has raised a second fund of $30 million to continue backing early-stage startups across Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Southeast Asia. Some MAGIC portfolio companies. Here’s a scenario.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. According to the startup, it is now the fourth-largest fintech company globally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

Central and Eastern Europe have had less venture capital at their disposal than their GDP or population could warrant. But with new funds lured in by their startups’ talent pool, global mindset, and capital efficiency, this could be starting to change. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name.

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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. “We started off in Eastern Europe and Africa because those markets had a bigger need. . billion ($8.4 Didi quietly divested its stake in Bolt last year.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In fact, the global crisis resulted in its revenue dropping to $0, according to CEO and co-founder Ariel Cohen. 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 With the latest round, the company has raised a total of $1.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. million Series A announced 10 months ago, and its new round brings its total raised to more than $35 million since 2020. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. The startup’s offering was live in Mexico and Canada and today launched in Colombia, the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole. . and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. Moove is targeting seven new markets across Asia, MENA and Europe over the next six months. “As And that is exciting for us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The startup has raised $300 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out the tools that it provides to its customers and to expand its technology and services to more geographies. But that trend too appears to have passed over Remote, which raised this round in the last quarter. “We only see this accelerating.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

E-commerce roll-up play Opontia launched in June, raising $20 million in debt and equity to acquire older, small e-commerce brands in the Middle East and Africa. Roll-up plays are generally known to secure more debt than equity when they raise mega-round deals. Opontia has a slight operational and geographical difference, though.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

s Cybsafe , which raised $7-9 million last year — are proliferating. The Cologne-based cybersecurity awareness and testing platform has now raised a $73 million Series B funding round led by growth-capital fund Highland Europe. Thus startups built to alleviate this gap — such as the U.K.’s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Launched in 2010, GoFundMe is the world’s largest free social fundraising platform, with more than $5 billion raised by tens of millions of donors. Charities also receive reports on personal fundraisers raising money on their behalf, both currently and historically, on GoFundMe. 4) Easy-to-install donate button.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Ironhack , a company offering programming bootcamps across Europe and North and South America, has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding. Last year, Lambda School raised $74 million for its coding education program. Ironhack isn’t the only bootcamp to benefit from this growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Europe-based vertical farming firm Infarm this week announced a $200 million Series D. The round, led by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), follows last year’s $170 million raise. Canada, Japan and additional parts of Europe. .” Canada, Japan and additional parts of Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth, and plans to open its platform to a wider stream of assets. billion. . “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S.-based The company has now raised $57 million to date. million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. To meet demand, Buildots will use the new funding to continue that expansion; double the size of its global team with a focus on sales, marketing and R&D; and grow on the business side.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked. and Europe, is aiming to expand. Voi, which already has scooters in 70 cities across the U.K.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Canada, Europe and Asia. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

However, data from 2022 is showing that these innovation hubs may have some serious competition as the investment landscape in Europe is starting to outstrip robotics’ biggest players. Whilst in the past robotics has seen a similar dynamic, based on 2022 data, investors are starting to place their bets on an up-and-coming contender: Europe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Identity verification (IDV) provider Veriff , has raised a $100 million Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon. John Curtius, partner at Tiger Global said: “A reliable IDV solution for today’s digital businesses and consumers has been exacerbated over the past two years as all operations moved online to conduct business.

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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. It has now raised €175 million in total.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

The recent, and now past, venture capital boom was a global affair. While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from the explosion in capital, other regions with more nascent startup scenes also saw big gains in their ability to attract funding. Chargel, based in Senegal, recently raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

French startup BlaBlaCar has raised a new $115 million funding round (€97 million). Existing investor VNV Global is leading the round. Classified giant and global tech investor Naspers acquired Avito. Even if BlaBlaCar doesn’t go public right away (or doesn’t raise), there’s a clause with a time frame.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

GoStudent — the Austria-based late-stage tutor marketplace that has raised $686.3 According to data from Status and Forecast, the global online tutoring market is was valued at $150 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $278 billion by 2026. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2022

The company has announced in a tweet that its latest flagship smartphone will launch globally on March 31st at 10am ET, a little over three months after it launched in China. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, has a 6.7-inch

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta is tackling these challenges and has received backing from 500 Startups to scale its technology. Image Credits: Raise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. Let’s talk about the fintech market from a global perspective and a U.S.-focused The global perspective. Nor that as the boom faded, fintech did as well. focused viewpoint.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Union54 , the first Zambian startup backed by Y Combinator, has gotten another major venture capital firm on its term sheet: Tiger Global. Tiger Global declined to comment on the investment. Tiger Global had invested in Nigerian startups Jobberman, Cheki and Wakanow, and South African e-commerce company Takealot this past decade.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Laiye, a Beijing-based company that provides a one-stop platform for automating office tasks of varying degrees of complexity, just picked up $160 million from a Series C funding round to expand globally. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The company’s numbers are small compared to other layoffs that have taken place within Africa’s tech ecosystem over the past few months, especially among startups that have raised vast sums of venture capital within the last year or two; for instance, Swvl laid off 400; Wave , approximately 300; 54gene , 95; and Vezeeta , 50.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rapyd — which provides a range of financial services like payments, mobile wallets, money transfers, card issuing, fraud protection and more, all by way of an API for third parties to integrate quickly into their own services — has raised $300 million, a Series E that TechCrunch understands from reliable sources values the company at $8.75

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. Tier’s existing investors Mubadala Capital, Northzone, Goodwater Capital, White Star Capital, Novator and RTP Global are also participating in today’s funding round. the company has been expanding rapidly across Europe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the latest development, Bumpa , one of them which says it is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices, has raised a $4 million seed round. . The play is similar to what Charles has in Europe. The Bumpa app.

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