TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

million to expand its offering in the global market. The seed funding round was led by Mumbai-headquartered Blume Ventures, with participation from Titan Capital, T-Fund, Speciale Invest, Bharat Founders Fund, T2D3, Amplify and Force Ventures. The startup has a team of 17 people.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner.

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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. Portfolio companies include Nuro, Getaround, GetYourGuide, DoorDash, Grab and WeWork.

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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. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. 2) How do M-Changa’s crowdfunding services fill that void?

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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. At least for the next three to five months, we are not adding any new geographies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Indian fintech Money View said on Monday it has raised $75 million in a new funding round, its second this year, despite the market slump as it looks to scale its core credit business and build more products in the South Asian market. The startup, which says it has been profitable for the past two years, clocked a revenue of $30.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Tiger Global is one of the most prolific investors in India and is a backer of over a third of all unicorn startups in the country. The New York-headquartered firm, which counts India among its top three markets globally, has deployed over $6.5 In Flipkart alone, Tiger Global has invested over $1 billion. billion valuation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Add those up and then compare that amount to whats in your emergency fund and figure out how much runway you have to live on with only that money, she says. Rather than treating yourself to a new dress, treat yourself to more money in your emergency fund, Rebell says. Practice politely declining invitations, Rebell says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. The funding will be used to continue investing in its platform to target more business customers. That resulted in some substantial user growth, but still no profit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Many of these virtual events were born from a spirit of innovation and resiliency from organizations that were forced to evolve in a matter of days and raise much-needed funds in new ways. 3) Nonprofit and For-Profit Connections Will Continue to Get Stronger. 5) Remaining Nimble Is Now a Strategic Imperative .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last year. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

Mountains of capital were invested into dozens of global startups looking to reinvent or at least revamp consumer and SMB banking. There was just one fintech unicorn minted in the first quarter Money in, money out We have fintech funding data from CB Insights for Q1 2023, but it comes with a huge asterisk.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Among the largest beneficiaries of the fintech capital were Opay , which raised $400 million in Series C funding, Flutterwave , which got $170 million in a Series C round, and TymeBank , which raised $180 million in Series B. While investments grew in 2021, the bulk of the funding went to a small number of startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

After investing more than $1 trillion in new technology from 2016 through 2019, the majority of banks globally have yet to see any financial boost from digital transformation programs, according to Accenture. might restrain this invasion to an extent, or at least limit a company’s ability to directly profit. Regulations in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. In our view, Miro’s culture of customer centricity makes it well-positioned to address a myriad of use cases across hybrid work for more than a billion knowledge workers globally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Kaszek Ventures , one of Latin America’s first venture firms, has raised $975 million across two funds. Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. billion in capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

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. Just a year later, Checkout.com added $150 million in funding at a $5.5 Checkout.com is now valued at $15 billion based on today’s funding round.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. He is an effective leader who understands the needs of veterans and has experience delivering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The funding winter for the startup ecosystem may continue for another 12 to 18 months and the industry might have to grapple with a “lot of turmoil and volatility,” e-commerce giant Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has warned executives. This is going to be tough next year. We grew from there, so it’s not a problem,” he said.

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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

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. Kadavil said the startup is operationally profitable and “proficorn.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

This is certainly due to the global, social, and political climate, however its also due to trends that are transforming the tech industry itself. By Amy Rose , Co-CEO, and Brian Greenwald , Co-CEO, at Benevolent Tech – a strategic services firm of nonprofit superfans dedicated to helping for-purpose organizations thrive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Kenyan e-commerce and fintech platform for mass market consumers Copia Global has appointed John Lazar, the ex-CEO of Metaswitch, a Microsoft subsidiary, to its board off the back of $20 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Atlanta-based startup, which has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue, claims that in 2021, its software helped design and construction professionals avoid 5x more carbon than Tesla. . While the company is not yet profitable, it could be if it stopped scaling operations, according to Ahuja. “In

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

VCs in developed markets have been warning of a funding winter — with the pace and size of investments in startups slowing down considerably in the wake of other declines in the market — and that has been playing out even more in emerging markets like Kenya, too. As the global venture capital market slows, Africa charts its own course.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2022

But when donors place limitations on how funds can be used, they constrain organizations’ long-term financial stability. In fact, with unrestricted funds totaling only 20% of donations sector-wide , many nonprofits don’t have enough money to fund necessary project support. – Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation. New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Spruce House.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Image Credits: Flutterwave.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Smartling s new AI-powered toolkit reduces translation turnaround times while delivering accurate results for companies engaged in global commerce. Adobe has begun integrating its Video Model into Premiere Pro, which has a global user base of 30 million people, 47% of whom work for large companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Bond led the latest round, which also included participation from LenX (formerly Lennar Ventures), Zeev Ventures, Fifth Wall Climate Tech and JLL Spark Global Ventures. Earlier this month, we reported on 3D-printing homebuilder ICON raising $185 million in a Series D led by Tiger Global Management.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million in seed funding to supercharge its efforts. FlapKap claims to have helped generate more than an 85% increase in revenue and over 70% increase in net profits for these customers within a few months. QED, for instance, has invested in some of FlapKap’s global counterparts, such as Wayflyer and Fairplay.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Payments company Checkout.com isn’t just a unicorn — it has closed a $1 billion Series D funding round. Unlike Stripe , Checkout.com focuses specifically on large global enterprise merchants with a high volume of transactions. When it comes to today’s funding round, fasten your seatbelt, as the list of investors is quite long.

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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.”

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