TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Nigeria’s lending startup Payhippo has raised $3 million in a seed round, funding the company plans to use in sourcing the talent needed to optimize its technology as it ramps up effort to extend speedy credit to more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the West African country. . Others include Carbon and FairMoney.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge, they said Thursday. The San Francisco-headquartered startup aims to boost the productivity and well-being of developers by helping them better understand how they are spending their time with detailed engineering analytics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A few years ago, I was driving in a rural area on the coast north of San Francisco and found myself low on gas. In the first half of this year, 30 funds received almost two-thirds of all new venture capital raised, according to PitchBook. Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview? How should I prepare?

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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. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

million in seed funding. WorkWhile screens workers with one-on-one interviews, background checks and tests based on cognitive science, with the goal of identifying applicants who are qualified and reliable. ” The startup is launching in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County and Dallas-Forth Worth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Says Chen in an email interview, “We independently select each nonprofit, and review their website and public materials to write the paragraph summary which we share in our daily emails, and on our public calendar. She said that start ups have a unique opportunity and approach to philanthropy given its entrepreneurial mindset.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Instead, HR departments are being asked to accomplish more with fewer people , completing strategic work while balancing tasks like scheduling interviews, gathering feedback and moving processes forward. To that end, ModernLoop offers tools designed to help HR teams book interviews “efficiently” across multiple time zones.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. For Equity this week, Alex and I interviewed former Greylock partner Sarah Guo about her new firm, Conviction. Royalty-backed Lightrock packs $834 million into its first climate fund . Answer: Yes, but CEOs? A few notes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. “The way we want to build this company has been with this mindset of let’s build it to scale — let’s create an environment where people can do their best work,” Urmson said in an interview Monday.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5 Then San Francisco-based Raine came along. “We We were not looking to fundraise, but when Raine reached out, what they had to offer was so strategic to our business,” Moore said in an interview. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago.

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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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It is meant to act like a language coach to help people prepare for tests, presentations, interviews or just gain more confidence when speaking English. Based in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, ELSA’s investors include Google’s AI-focused fund Gradient Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 billion, up from $2 billion a year ago. The startup today leads the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Now apply that same theory to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , and you can save a bundle when you take your team, your clients or your star startups to San Francisco in September. Enhance your trip to San Francisco at After-Hours Events happening during Disrupt week throughout the city. Not a member? Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sanlo , a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy. “We’re a technology company, not a fund,” Caliujnaia said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today, and now a startup that has built a platform to power those data streams is announcing a growth round of funding on the back of strong growth in its business into a wider set of use cases.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Soak up three days of masterclasses devoted to the art and science of building, funding, launching and scaling successful early-stage startups.

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

We kicked off our series of Q&A-styled TNW Profile interviews with Unity co-founder and CEO David Helgason and followed up with Wooga co-founder and CEO Jens Begemann (and interviewed Soundrop CEO Inge André Sandvik ). TNW: You’re Polish but recently moved to San Francisco. This helps me relax.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Maple VC’s Andre Charoo told TechCrunch that the startup has returned (unrealized) one-third of the firm’s second fund so far. Maple is based in San Francisco, but focuses on investing in founders with Canadian roots.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Natasha brought a new edtech venture fund to the table. From there, we discussed that while the pace at which unicorns are being funded is in freefall , there are still some mega-IPOs coming from select late-stage startups. Natasha recently went to an AI event in San Francisco, helping us grok the on-the-ground dynamics at play.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Now a San Francisco-headquartered startup is attempting to build software that makes it much more convenient to engage with business services. But for their internal communications, they are stuck using applications that don’t play well with one another.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

For the past five years I've had the amazing opportunity to interview 56 changemakers for the Big Vision Podcast who I think have big visions for a better world. I come away from each interview energized and inspired You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The real estate sales market has been in an upswing this year, and today a startup that’s addressing one of homeowners’ biggest needs — repair and maintenance services, and specifically the stress of sorting these out when things break down — is announcing some funding on the heels of strong growth. More on that below.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We’ll have several panels and interviews that highlight the opportunities and challenges facing the market. Investors will speak on the best way to raise capital from local firms, and they’ll talk about what sort of startups are most likely to get funding. Register here for TC City Spotlight: Boston.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The countdown to early-bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt , taking place September 19–21 in San Francisco, continues. Now known as the Builders Stage, it’s your destination for dozens of panels and interviews that focus on the nuts and bolts of building and funding new startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New backer SoftBank, via its Vision Fund 2, is leading this latest Series C round of funding. “Everyone was stuck at home by themselves, saturated with emails,” said Kris Rudeegraap, the CEO of Sendoso, in an interview. Rudeegraap said Sendoso will be using the funds in part to invest in a couple of areas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. billion pair of funds , one of which is wholly dedicated to new early-stage investments. Recursive Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm investing in U.S. This should be fun.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Bloomberg reports San Francisco-based Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and plans to invest $500 million itself. Sutskever is widely respected as one of the worlds top AI researchers, which makes this possible funding round less surprising (even if the companys valuation is higher than expected).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page. The way they're titled below is how they were listed at the time of the interview. Today is the 6th anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast! Happy listening!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In one of the latest developments, Coralogix , which has built a platform to harness those data streams into one mighty river is announcing a mighty round of funding to expand its business. “Our goal with Corlogix was always to expand to a full observability platform, which we have now done,” Assaraf said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Part of a Series A funding round led by Matrix Partners with participation from True Ventures, the proceeds — which bring Chameleon’s total raised to $14.8 Part of a Series A funding round led by Matrix Partners with participation from True Ventures, the proceeds — which bring Chameleon’s total raised to $14.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And now, having secured $2 million in pre-seed funding ($1 million equity and $1 million debt), the startup is headed for its next phase of growth, which will involve extending loans to traders offering more relief to this subgroup that is often left out and regarded as high risk by the traditional banking sector. Image Credits: Asilimia.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco and Bangalore-headquartered startup’s $30 million Series B round. A number of investors, including Qualgro, Lachy Groom and Chiratae Ventures, also participated in the round, which pushes the five-year-old startup’s all-time funding to $43 million.

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