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 5, 2022

Remote workforces have come into their own in the last several years, with companies ever more willing to tap into talent wherever it happens to be, and a vast array of low-friction tools being built to make those distributed teams work just as effectively as if they were all in the same physical space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s where WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox) steps in. Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. In many emerging markets, and mature markets like Europe, WhatsApp is the preferred communication channel between customers and businesses.

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sgEngage

JUNE 25, 2024

In this article, we share insights from a white paper ‘The Importance of Charity Fundraising Technology’ to explore the significance of your technology vendor and internal team in digital transformation success. Building Your Team While your vendor and the technology solution play a key role, so does your internal team.

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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. Your bet is entirely on the founder and the founding team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Creating a course Image Credits : LMS365 From the end-user perspective, all this means that new-hires can be onboarded directly through Microsoft Teams, or receive ongoing training in all manner of disciplines from customer service to managing mental health. A little more than half of LMS365 users are based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

It continues to be a very rough week for e-commerce companies in Europe. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Getir — the $12 billion quick commerce upstart that provides grocery essentials and sundries and promises delivery of them in minutes — is cutting 14% of its staff globally.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

SleekFlow , an omnichannel social commerce platform that helps businesses build customer flow automation from messaging and live video to transactions, has closed $8 million Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. and other countries in Europe. The global social commerce market is projected to rise to $6.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Six months after raising $250 million , Papaya Global is making a key acquisition to expand its cloud-based HR and payroll platform globally on the heels of major surge in remote working. For some context, Papaya Global — backed by companies like Insight Partners and Tiger Global — was valued at $3.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 The duo will be part of the team that will steer the startup’s new business as it works to disrupt traditional finance by leveraging blockchain technology for secondary debt markets. Lenders in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The proceeds will be used to propel its research and development in artificial intelligence and synthetic speech and grow the team. “We Our goal is to be a global leader in providing AI voices that touches people’s hearts and emotions. The Global TTS market is projected to increase $5.61 billion by 2028 from $1.94

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The pandemic accelerated the development of a global workforce by virtually eliminating geographic boundaries for businesses; remote work became the norm. Customer service is often outsourced to India; manufacturing to China or Latin America; maybe developers are in Europe or Korea.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

and Europe, up to half of the population invests in financial instruments. Tiger Global, Dubai-based early-stage VC BECO Capital and Prosus Ventures co-led the Series A investment. Interestingly, this round is Tiger Global’s second investment in an African digital brokerage app in quick succession. One such is Egypt-based Thndr.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

While it’s arguably a bad signal for American innovation, it also points to a globally growing remote crypto ecosystem and workforce in a post-COVID world. Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) maintained a consistent share of around 29% during the five years from 2017 to 2022. based team, Stavropoulos noted. “It

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

You’d think that a company like Amazon or Facebook would have no end of people on in-house teams to handle whatever design need might arise, but in fact, no matter how big or small an organization is, there is always something that will need an extra pair of creative hands, especially these days.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spotify’s name will also appear on the jerseys of both the men’s and women’s teams for the next four seasons starting in the 2022/23 season. For example, using the dynamic digital displays to showcase and geo-target relevant artists to Barça’s global TV audience. Spotify wants to bring “the worlds of music and football together”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Mathew teamed up with former colleague Gaurav Agrawal, entrepreneur Rakesh Sasidharan and Y Combinator alum Emil Soman earlier this year to start Produze. Produze says it is targeting global customers. The startup says it has already set up an office in Dubai and is planning to open offices in Europe and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. million) in a Series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Two of these are being announced today to coincide with the funding news: Remote has launched a Global Employee API that HR platforms that focus on domestic payroll can integrate to provide their own international offering powered by Remote. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Well, today, an announcement by global payments giant Visa is aimed at helping facilitate banks and fintechs’ ability to work together. I talked with Terry Angelos, senior vice president and global head of fintech at Visa, to understand just exactly what that means. Global fintech investment last year was $105 billion,” Angelos said.

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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 3, 2023

The global search continues for the top early-stage founders building the next generation of startups with world-changing impact. Europe: The Startup Battlefield 200 wants your startups Today, we’re urging early-stage startups across Europe to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023. Don’t delay.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Iconiq Growth, with participation from Tiger Global, DST, KKR, Prosus, EQT Growth and Coatue. Previous backers 83North, Highland Europe, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, EQT Ventures and Vintage Investment Partners also followed on. This is what we strive to make into a reality with our team at Wolt”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

This acquisition marks Verbit’s entrance into the market research space and increases its presence in Europe. Also, Take Note’s 28 employees will join the team. to support all customers in Europe. The rest chose to relocate to safer countries in Europe and Israel. The company did not disclose the terms of the deal.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Tiger Global led the round and was joined by new investors, including DFJ Growth Fund, the social impact foundation, ZOMA Lab; athletes Lewis Hamilton and Roger Federer; and musician and DJ Questlove. He is also eyeing an expansion into Asia and Europe in the next year. We are excited to partner with Matias and his team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Pipedrive also employs what the company describes as artificial intelligence and automation to help sales teams manage leads and deals more efficiently, and track customer and prospect communications — all with the aim of helping to improve the bottom line. It hasn’t always been an easy sell, however.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team. the company has been expanding rapidly across Europe.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

and Europe continue to operate uninterrupted after making sure their teams and data are completely safe abroad or in the west of Ukraine. Having prepared emergency plans in advance, many tech companies quickly relocated their teams to safety during the first days of the war or even before the fighting broke out.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

New investors Whale Rock Capital Management, TI Platform Management and Alpha Square Group came on board for this round and were joined by existing investors Amity Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Top Tier Capital Partners, Viking Global Investors and Willoughby Capital.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

SGE’s team has a long-term mindset that will allow Virtuous to continue building an enduring business and putting our customers first.” In addition to product development, Virtuous will invest in expanding its customer success and services teams to provide support and playbooks to its base of nonprofit users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The new funding round was led by existing investors Earlybird and Picus and also includes new investor Tiger Global Management. Hive has compiled the strongest team in the European market to execute on that vision. The company aims to bring down delivery times to two days in most places in Europe and next-day for core markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South African tech talent marketplace OfferZen is one of the beneficiaries of the growing global demand for tech workers: It confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised €4.5 Most of its customers from both ends of the marketplace are based in South Africa, the Netherlands, and parts of Europe like the U.K. million ($5.07

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

New investor Bain Capital Ventures, partners of DST Global, Pomp Investments and Tiger Global co-led the Series D, which included participation from a slew of other firms including existing backer Valar Ventures, Breyer Capital, S usquehanna Government Products, Jump Capital and Paradigm, among many others.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Despite these cuts, which have been always slower to implement than communicate, inflation has been rampant across Europe and beyond, partially due to supply chain issues linked to the situation in Ukraine. Optimism that the pandemic was coming to an end and that the world was reopening extended to ambitious founders and early teams.

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