TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In 2020, 8VC famously moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas. The fund is believed to be the biggest Texas-based venture fund for startups, according to AustinInno.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV this morning announced work on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey focused on growing industrial, healthcare and climate startups. Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The property industry now requires high-quality photographs, floor plans and virtual tours, so the industry for software providers in the space is booming. million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. Giraffe360 CEO Mikus Opelts commented: “We are very excited to partner up with Founders Fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Family offices and accredited investors are eager to get involved in high-quality funds, but face hurdles like access to fund managers. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Founded in 2012, the startup has steadily grown to be a leader in the mortgage tech industry. The San Francisco-based startup’s SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform currently processes over $5 billion in mortgages and consumer loans per day, up from nearly $3 billion last July. That compares to a $3.3 million in 2019.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

AI is making inroads across the entire healthcare industry from genomic research to drug discovery, clinical trial workflows and patient care. Healthcare has a more severe labor shortage than any other field the industry is expected to be short 10 million workers by the end of the decade, according to the World Health Organization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

There were millions of bets made in the tech industry last year. Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub? Some of those bets involved actual venture capital dollars.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Just imagine what $100,000 of equity-free funding could do for your startup. This how-to begins here, and it ends onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt , which takes place in San Francisco on October 18-20. And, if they’re good enough, founders will have a shot at taking home $100,000 in equity-free funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In addition to the launch, the San Francisco-based company announced it raised a $20 million Series A funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, SemperVirens, XYZ, Magnify Ventures and a group of individual investors. We thought it shouldn’t be hard for someone to take care of themselves.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Mycel , a South Korean startup making fungal-based biomaterials that can replace leather and meat, said it has raised $10 million (13 billion WON) in a pre-Series A round of funding. A San Francisco-based startup called MycoWorks raised $125 million in a Series C round early this year, while Bolt Threads also secured $253 million at a 1.15

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s not hyperbolic to say that the self-driving car industry is facing a reckoning. Meanwhile, activists in San Francisco have taken […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. million in funding, including a $5.5 With around $10 trillion currently spent on construction each year, the industry is prime for some big-ticket investments. The round follows $8.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Since their launch the two co-founders have been committed to the humble hustle of starting their own business — including flying between San Francisco and Dallas weekly to participate in the 19th 500 Startups cohort or participating in Y Combinator’s Fellowship program. Now, with a seed round of $2.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

” To make matters more complex, robots used in warehouses, mining, agriculture and other industrial environments have hyper-specific applications that are structured and are often repeated thousands of times. Think of it as SaaS for industrial robotics. Image Credits: Polymath Robotics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HomeLight , which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million. in the coming months. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

In May 2022, a16z announced a fourth crypto fund to the tune of $4.5 billion, which brings the total amount of funding it has raised for crypto and web3 alone to more than $7.6 The company seems intent on staying in an industry from which many traditional VCs have stepped away. We want to know why. And that’s just for starters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Osana Salud , which aims to transform the healthcare infrastructure in Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding led by General Catalyst. It also gave the industry the opportunity to show the benefits of a “virtual first” approach, he added. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. S econd, the startup says it also already powering the majority of the NFT industry. For inside players, Alchemy’s efforts are paving the way for the whole industry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Other standout AI apps focuse on specific industries. The company closed two funding rounds in 2024: $200 million in February and $260 million in September at a $4.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. The San Francisco-based company declined to reveal at what valuation its Series C was raised.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Application performance monitoring startup Sentry announced today that it has reached unicorn status, raising a $60 million Series D with a post-funding valuation of $1 billion. Accel led Sentry’s seed funding in 2015, and has invested in each of its rounds since then.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The three friends — all German immigrants whose paths had crossed in San Francisco — decided to pool their collective expertise from BMW, McKinsey and Uber and launch Kyte to create a new kind of car rental experience without taking on the costly business of owning and maintaining large fleets. Image Credits: Kyte.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Locale, based in San Francisco, enables customers to order from dozens of businesses, including bakeries and restaurants, and get them delivered in one box for just a $5 delivery fee. In addition to San Francisco, the company is now operating in Los Angeles. It is both an exciting and incremental market,” Li said.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

After securing $70 million in funding in April, in September the company announced Modalix, the first edge-computing chips targeted at multi-modal AI. In June 2024, UK and Colorado-based Quantinuum unveiled the industrys largest-ever trapped ion quantum computer, with 56 trapped-ion qubits. billion in 2024 to $54.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

June Homes , a proptech startup that aims to make renting less painful and more flexible for both tenants and landlords, is emerging from stealth today with $50 million in total funding. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston. less tenant defaults than the industry average.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions, the standalone industry events series, and merging them into the big annual tech event — which will once again this year be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The San Francisco and Hong Kong-headquartered company announced it has raised $37 million in a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz through its Growth Fund , which serves new companies at an inflection point, along with Alibaba and Craft. . It allows players to step into another world and go anywhere with their friends. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. How nontechnical talent can break into deep tech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

It was Salisbury’s first foray into fintech, and high on the excitement of getting a new product live in a highly regulated industry, he admittedly got bit by the fintech bug. In 2021, Salisbury came to the conclusion that layering on a fund was a natural extension of the community he’d grown. I wanted to meet these people.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions, the stand-alone industry events series, and merging them into the big annual tech event — which will once again be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. At Disrupt, we will look at the current state of the industry, but most important, we’ll look toward what’s next.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Rowe Price, in part because of its founders Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell and Chris Urmson, all of whom are veterans of the autonomous vehicle industry. The entire industry took pause and Uber halted all testing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new and awesome opportunity available for early-stage startup founders at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 18-20. Be bootstrapped or have pre-scale funding (variable by industry). It’s called the Startup Battlefield 200 , and it’s packed with perks and possibilities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Monograph, a startup providing a cloud-based platform for architecture and design professionals to manage their projects, announced today that it has raised $20 million in its Series B funding round. The round brings Monograph’s total funding raised to $29.3 million since it was founded in 2019. million for its Series A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Moov, a data-fueled marketplace for used manufacturing equipment , has closed a $41 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. Investors joining the round include public semiconductor investor Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Avenir Growth Fund, and existing investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Agora , a startup that has built a materials management platform for contractors, has raised $33 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Image Credits: Agora.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Certain industries were hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic than others, especially in its early days. Today, SpotOn announced it has achieved unicorn status with a $125 million Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). They had to adapt quickly to survive. All that “plugging away” has paid off.

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