TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75 Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. The above makes Nichole Wischoff something of an exception: Her solo venture capital firm Wischoff Ventures closed a second fund of $20 million, a sizable increase from her first $5 million fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the latest development, Curacel , a Nigeria-based platform that aims to drive insurance penetration in emerging markets via APIs enabling insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and administer their claims, has raised $3 million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. market yet,” explained Gitai founder and CEO Sho Nakanose in an interview. This funding was led by SPARX Innovation for the Future Co. So we would like to get missions from U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2019

This video from Candid provides easy-to-follow best practices for raising more money online. Whether you’re searching for a new role or planning your long-term career, watch this interview with a nonprofit career coach. 4) Executive Director’s Guide to Fund Development. 2) 10 Strategies for Success with Digital Fundraising.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

If you came into the office and had messages waiting from major funders who wanted to learn more about your organization, and about what your funding needs are? How Can Good PR Help Me Raise Money? There are several ways good PR can help you raise more money: 1. Wouldn’t it be great if new donors sought you out?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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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. million pre-Series A funding last September. Jordan and U.S.-based Cartona gets $4.5M

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Yesterday in Helsinki, this editor interviewed four of the six general partners at Benchmark, the nearly 30-year-old, Silicon Valley firm that’s known for some notable bets (Uber, Dropbox), paying each general partner exactly the same way, and for continuing to raise similar-size funds over its many years rather than balloon in size.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. Some of these customers are white-labeling InVideo platform to their own clients. InVideo ’s $15 million Series A financing round was led by Sequoia Capital India.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC.

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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. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. billion ($8.4

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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

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supernormal today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC. The new cash brings the company’s total raised to around $12.9 It’s a strong sales pitch. ” Supernormal automatically transcribes and summarizes meetings. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A Noida-based startup is working with all the stakeholders — farmers, food processors, traders and financial institutions — to bridge this post-harvest services gap — and it just secured new funds to continue its journey. Seven-year-old Arya said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in its Series B financing round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S., million seed round last year.

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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

APRIL 24, 2023

Showing investors are keen on the idea, Haltian recently closed a €22 million (~$24 million) funding round led by Mandatum Asset Management Growth Equity with participation from Varma, Tesi, Ventic and Inventure. Bringing the company’s total funding to date to €40 million (~$43.7 We’re able to customize any.

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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. On Saturday, Juno announced it has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Private station operators “are going to need an easy LEGO brick to build in space,” he told TechCrunch in a recent interview: versatile, modular hardware to let humanity build in space at scale. In addition to these physical spaces, the company will also use the funds from this seed round to continue growing its team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Navin Chaddha , the storied investor running Mayfield Fund , doesn’t want to be running a billion-dollar fund like many of his peers. Everyone wants to be Sequoia or a16z,” he said, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We Today’s pair of funds closed in less than a month, with a 10% carve out allocation for new LPs.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

ThriveCart today announced that it raised $35 million in a funding round led by LTV SaaS Growth Fund, the company’s first public outside investment. ” ThriveCart, which sells tools to build e-commerce carts, raises $35M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Nucleus Genomics , a genetic testing company focused on calculating a patient’s risk of certain diseases, is adding $14 million to their initial seed funding round. With this round the company has raised, in total, $17.5 This “seed plus” funding round was led by Alexis Ohanian’s 776.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. In fact, she will often offer a surprise song during fundraising to encourage more donations – her songs have raised up to an additional $10,000 for her beloved clients!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Euler Motors, an Indian startup that designs and builds commercial electric vehicles, has raised $60 million in a new funding round as it works to ramp up its production capacity and broaden its offerings. Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC led the New Delhi-headquartered startup’s Series C funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, which takes its to-date raise to about $68 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies , is announcing funding to continue building out its specific ambition: to provide a modern banking service for Africans and the African diaspora, or as co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi describes them, “every African on the planet, wherever you are in the world.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Angling to cash in on the gold rush, LexCheck, an AI-powered contract analysis platform, closed a $17 million Series A funding round today led by Mayfield Fund, the startup announced. Terzo recently raised $16 million for its tech that automatically extracts key data from contracts. To date, the startup has raised $22 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. What this is telling us is that there’s very much real interest in the number of people who want to have debit cards and this is not going to stop anytime soon,” Mlambo said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Kippa , the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 Image Credits: Kippa has raised over $11 million in a full year of operation. in new funding by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. The Krafton-led, all-equity Series A funding round also saw participation from Peer Capital. Krafton backs Indian influencer marketing platform One Impression in $10M funding by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Eden Life , strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for home service needs, has raised a $1.4 When the founders, ex-Andelans (a term to describe previous Andela staff), launched the home service app two years ago, it raised some eyebrows. million seed round to deepen its market share. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and OpenAI) specifically those helping humans communicate with each other, are commanding a lot of interest from investors, and today the latest of these is announcing a big round of funding. The funding closed earlier this month. DeepL is indeed in a fortunate position.

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