article thumbnail

As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

TechCrunch

million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX. Giraffe360 CEO Mikus Opelts commented: “We are very excited to partner up with Founders Fund.

Fund 97
article thumbnail

Visual workspace Whimsical closes first funding as it enters next phase of growth

TechCrunch

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. The funding follows four years of bootstrapped growth and profitability, Dancis said.

Phase 92
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Giraffe360, a robotic camera for real estate, raises $4.5M from LAUNCHub and Hoxton Ventures

TechCrunch

million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. It was founded in 2016 in Riga, Latvia by two brothers, Mikus Opelts and Madars Opelts, and is headquartered in London, U.K. It has now raised $4.5 Also participating is HCVC (Hardware Club), alongside existing investor Change Ventures.

Camera 101
article thumbnail

Printify bags $45M, led by Index, to ride the custom printing boom

TechCrunch

The creator economy loves merch which is great news for on-demand custom printing startups such as Latvia-based Printify — today it’s announcing a $45 million Series A round, led by Index Ventures, off the back of rising demand for its services. Facebook will lure creators with $1 billion in payments.

Latvia 103
article thumbnail

Montonio is building the payment and checkout solution to rule them all

TechCrunch

The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures. Montonio currently supports all major banks in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and a few major banks in Finland. Previous investors Tera Ventures, ffVC and Superangel also participated in today’s funding round.

Estonia 98
article thumbnail

Financial comparison “super app” Jeff raises $1.5M seed extension

TechCrunch

The funding brings Jeff’s total raised to about $2.5 Part of the funding will be used to increase Jeff’s team from about 15 people now to more than 40 employees for its offices in Latvia and Southeast Asia. The startup announced today it has raised a seed extension of $1.5 million, led by J12 Ventures.

article thumbnail

Richard Branson backs Lightyear as UK stock trading platform launches into Europe

TechCrunch

To power the expansion, which will see Lightyear land in 19 new markets, including the Baltics and much of Western Europe, London-based Lightyear has also raised $25 million in a Seres A round of funding led by U.S. On top of that, users can invest in what are known as exchange traded funds ( ETF s), which are essentially investment funds.

Europe 86