TechCrunch

JULY 17, 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. CB Insights released its global State of Venture report last week, while PitchBook issued its own U.S. And it wasn’t only funding. Fundings and M&A. Everything was down.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has shined a spotlight on the value of philanthropy and, for this reason, many foundation representatives believe society at large will expect philanthropy to address global distress in the future. In addition to addressing the inequality gap, ensuring global equitable access to COVID-19 has become a moral responsibility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2021, alternative seafood companies received $175 million in investment globally, increasing 92% from 2020. million (10 billion KRW) Series A funding to compete with 120 companies around the world that produce alternative seafood. The new round of funding, which brings its total raised to $14.1 The startup has 25 employees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

DeHaat, a startup that offers a wide-range of agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $60 million in a new funding round as it looks to deepen its penetration in the country and reach break-even profitability within two years. Kumar acknowledged that raising funds in the current market scenario isn’t a walk in the park.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

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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. The challenge that Remote is addressing is longstanding in the world of work, one that has been exacerbated with globalization.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. It also plans to unlock it for LinkedIn and Moj in India and TikTok for global markets over time. The Krafton-led, all-equity Series A funding round also saw participation from Peer Capital. It valued the startup at $70 million post-money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has to be digitally enabled for a quick evolution,” said Peeyush Asati, co-founder and CEO of Vecmocon, in an interview with TechCrunch. Tiger Global co-led the pre-Series A round of $5.2 The funding from the all-equity round will be used to build a business around the offerings created by Vecmocon, Asati said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Fast-forward a year later, the startup has laid off multiple employees and now its CEO and COO have been relieved from their duties after allegedly mismanaging funds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Chopra and Daniel Chan had worked at private equity hedge funds for most of their careers and grew frustrated by not being able to put any of their own money to work “for decent yields , with the average savings account for businesses paying 0.3% It is using its funding toward hiring, with a focus on engineering, product and design.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

of Africans are insured , which is less than half the global average of 6.3%, making it the least insured continent in the world. Something needed to be done to cut down on fraud so that insurance companies can reinvest into creating cheaper products for the end consumer,” Mascot said in an interview with TechCrunch. As many as 2.8%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. This is the largest check that the $250 million Smbhav Venture Fund has written so far. The new round takes FreshToHome’s all-time raise to over $250 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

million pre-seed from Target Global and other investors last November. In the interview with CEO Ekezie-Joseph last November, he said Kippa had over 130,000 active businesses, ranging from small kiosks and street corner shops to local food vendors and high-end merchants. The company announced its $3.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Arta is building the “digital family office for the world,” said Sengupta in an interview with TechCrunch. The eponymous platform will allow members to start with as low as $10,000 in investment and gain access to funds from top-10 fund managers including BNY Mellon who have consistently delivered high returns over the past decades. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

According to Fintech Business Weekly , the struggling neobank would be raising the funding at a pre-money valuation of $1.8 In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO and founder Colin Walsh last September insisted that the company was “still seeing strong customer growth” and still had “a clear path to profitability.” consumer bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

billion (post-money) in eight months following a fresh $135 million funding, it said today, as the Indian cryptocurrency exchange looks to aggressively expand its product offerings and talent base, including some to double down on compliances in the world’s second largest internet market. CoinDCX has doubled its valuation to $2.15

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its previous funding, as the Bengaluru-based startup scales its platform that helps workers access their earned salaries in real time. Tiger Global led Refyne’s $82 million Series B funding, the two said Wednesday. times since the Series A in June.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Last June, global architecture and design firm Gensler named Elizabeth Brink and Jordan Goldstein as co-CEOs, succeeding Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins, who jointly led the company for nearly 20 years. The prior CEOs, who actually were mentors to both of us, have now stepped into global chair roles. and Fast Company. Though some U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. “It’s amazing what COVID has done.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

Indian fintech Jar, which closed a $32 million financing round in February this year , is in talks to raise new funding as it looks to scale its product and expand its offerings. Part of the reason is confusion, explained Nishchay Ag, co-founder and chief executive of Jar, in an earlier interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding. While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75 So that’s what we’re evolving into as a business,” CEO Peter Njonjo said to TechCrunch in an interview. The funding will be used to test the concept out. First-time investors OP Finnfund Global and Endeavor Catalyst Fund participated as well. “We

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

I reach out to sources with Gmail and then interview them over Zoom, on my laptop. One of Anthropics early investors is James McClave, whose BEMC Foundation helps fund Future Perfect. Barnett notes that if this happens, the effect on global economic growth could be massive (maybe a doubling of economic output).

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.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

So, it was fascinating to interview Thad Lurie as a guest on my Association 4.0 AGU is a global community supporting over half a million advocates and professionals. We don’t have unlimited funds to place our bets and they’re not going to be that big,” Thad remarked.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Last year, more than 20% of venture dollars went into fintech startups globally, according to CB Insights. But while this year’s pace of funding in the fintech space is noticeably slower — and falling — the fact remains that the sector still accounts for a significant share of venture funding globally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

But if you care more generally about the larger global cryptoeconomy, it’s time to imbibe some good news. We have notes from an interview with Circle to help us there. Save your tweets, please. Our goal is to highlight a few recent trends and then talk a little about what we might see coming from startups. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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 company had raised $43 million in funding from investors such as Foundation Capital, QED Investors and Maverick Ventures, according to Silicon Hills. billion valuation.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Thanksgiving holiday—has developed a solid reputation as the global day of giving. You can use tools like surveys, interviews, or data analytics to understand this (more on that below). From Boomers to Gen-Zers, people like to know where their funds are going and how they are being used. The campaign is undoubtedly effective.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The deal, announced ahead of the virtual 2021 CES tech trade show, follows Envisics’ $50 million Series B funding round and news that its tech will be integrated in the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq electric vehicle. This process enables images to appear three-dimensional, Christmas explained in a recent interview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. Meanwhile, Appruve processed up to 100,000 verifications monthly, Damalie disclosed in the interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Investors such as Global Ventures and Kepple Ventures doubled down less than a year after participating in the company’s $4.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Additionally, the funding will be used to double its headcount to 100 employees, and set up an office in the U.S. Venture capital funding for global chip startups more than tripled year over year in 2021, with $9.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The firm co-led the round with Global Ventures, the MENA-focused VC that has backed the likes of Tabby, Helium Health and Paymob. “I Last year, Klasha’s consumer product allowed users in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya to create virtual cards, fund with their respective currencies and send and receive money. Image Credits: Klasha. KlashaCart.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Neobanks, other financial startups and the basic concept of “finance anywhere” are seeing huge gains at the moment, and today one of the key companies building the infrastructure that powers services like these is announcing a major growth round of funding to double down on the opportunity. Notably, that last round was at a $2.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. The one-and-a-half-year old startup has amassed over 75,000 customers in the U.S. Tokenized loyalty program.

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