TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The new funding was led by SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of government agency Enterprise Singapore. Sleek co-founder and chief growth officer Adrien Barthel told TechCrunch that the funding is part of Sleek’s seed round and brings the startup’s total raised so far to $7 million. It will start raising a Series A next year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

While the partnership with ABB will certainly give ChargeLab the resources it needs to build out and scale its enterprise software, Lefevre noted that ABB’s interest in ChargeLab stems from the company’s need for a better out-of-the-box software in North America. “Is that going to be SOC 2 compliant? .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Europe’s total tied its high-water mark set in Q2 2019,” adding that “as a combined pair, venture capital outside North America might have just had its best quarter in years, if not ever.”. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

million, in Series B funding. Nine Four Ventures also put money in the round, along with existing backers BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund, StandUp Ventures, Sands Capital and Vanedge Capital. In 2019, it brought its second product, Bridgit Bench, to market.

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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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

He then started Social West , a Calgary-based digital marketing conference that, before long, expanded to three cities. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, the easternmost point of Canada and North America. His identity and public persona were intertwined with his adopted city. Bird is also honest about the region’s shortcomings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

An Indian startup that operates a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items is the latest to attain the coveted unicorn status in the South Asian market. The startup, which in recent years has expanded to Southeast Asia and North America, said its revenue grew approximately three times in 2020-21, to $128 million. “In

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Given that the last two weeks of the year are not famous for productivity, the dataset we have should prove representative for this critical slice of the venture capital market. For our look at the third-quarter fintech VC market, head here.).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Still, there remain a lot of gaps in how location information links up with accurate information, and so today a company that’s made it its business to address that is announcing some funding as it scales up its service. Alongside those, it has built a location-based marketing service that also serves ads for its customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The Exchange previously explored the pace at which huge venture rounds were invested into the startup niche, noting that by mid-March the fintech market had already recorded a record number of $100 million rounds. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The boom in funding was a global affair, as we’ll get into shortly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Its database competes with a number of rivals in North America, including PitchBook , CB Insights , and my former employer Crunchbase. The startup collects data on private-market companies through public scraping and partnerships. In today’s market, that’s a modest round! million in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Peeba says the lack of B2B-focused online wholesale solutions and tech infrastructure hampered Asia’s antiquated B2B retail, wholesale market in business growth and new market entries during the pandemic. million in seed funding led by Headline Ventures. The new round of funding brings its total raised to $5.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Venture capital (VC) funding in U.S. In tandem, a slew of new funds and initiatives have emerged to support a fresh swathe of entrepreneurs, with Building Ventures recently closing a new $95 million fund for construction tech and real estate startups, while Agya Ventures announced a $32 million fund. Exits and unicorns.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. In North America, it is popular among Indian expat and Indian American communities, and now it will target other customer segments, too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Justt , a Tel Aviv-based chargeback mitigation startup, is emerging out of stealth today with $70 million in total funding. The startup recently raised $50 million a Series B round of funding led by Greenwich, Conn.-based It won’t charge them anything unless their funds are recovered. based Oak HC/FT. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Panasonic Automotive Systems is a Tier 1 automotive supplier and a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America. The deal, announced ahead of the virtual 2021 CES tech trade show, follows Envisics’ $50 million Series B funding round and news that its tech will be integrated in the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq electric vehicle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. As a result, fintech — one of its hottest and most-funded sectors — is evolving in a similar manner. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. billion in 2019, consumer-facing fintechs in North America and Europe have already raised $5.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

A wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People , has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B online marketplace to reach international buyers. Orders on the platform average $1,200. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We saw an average of 32% re: % of capital called in a fund’s first full calendar year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The round is the company’s first since 2013, when its GPS-based tracker first hit the market. Along with the funding round, the company is also announcing its official push into the U.S. market — though Tractive has had some presence here through a “soft launch” of an LTE tracker over the summer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

It was a healthy sum of money for the young company, bringing its total funding up to $67 million. We’ll use the funding to significantly accelerate our global expansion and grow our current lead in a competitive industry.”. It brings the firm’s total funding up to $147 million for what it calls universal AI for robotic manipulation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Kotlov said: “On the education scene, preschool education is becoming a highly vibrant market. IntellectoKids says it has more than 2 million installs across North America and Central and Northern Europe. IntellectoKids was founded by Mike Kotlov and Andrey Kondratyuk in 2017, who each have three young children.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Zero Foodprint takes the top slot, for funding regenerative farming through a model so simple, it becomes radical: Restaurants, grocers, and food companies are asked to contribute 1% of consumer purchases to directly fund farm conversions. Read more about Zero Foodprint , honored as No.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

China is looking beyond natural resources; in Israel, Chinese companies are finding the technological advantage and innovative spirit that can help them compete in their domestic market and ultimately become dominant global players. They’re investing directly in Israeli companies and are also investing in domestic venture capital funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

PitchBook recently dropped some numbers relating to venture capital funding in China for 2022, and I’ve augmented it with a quick scan of Chinese Q1 data from the same source. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Before launching Outplay, the Papineni brothers built AppVirality , a referral marketing tool for app developers. Laxman told TechCrunch that Outplay’s customers come from sectors like IT, computer software, marketing and advertising and recruiting, and most are based in North America and Europe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi — newly armed with nearly $9 million in venture capital — was preparing to bring its refinancing platform to the masses. “But the growth had been pretty noticeable from the investor standpoint in the market.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Alviere , an embedded finance startup that aims to help any brand deliver financial products and services to its customers and employees, announced today it has closed $70 million of new funding. Whatever you want to call it, the market for embedded finance is massive and expected to grow worldwide to become a $7.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. million into its Series A funding round. GFR Fund, owned by Japan’s mobile gaming firm GREE, also participated. Stacked’s vision has attracted a group of investors to pump $12.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Battery Resourcers , a startup that’s developing a closed-loop approach to lithium-ion battery materials, has raised $70 million in mid-round funding to scale its commercial operations across two continents. most people believe, including Battery Resourcers, we believe the European market will be larger than the North American market.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from the explosion in capital, other regions with more nascent startup scenes also saw big gains in their ability to attract funding. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Latin American as well.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The fresh funding was led by JMI Equity , marking JMI’s first investment in Australia, with participation from previous backers including Tiger Global and EVP, as well as several strategic investors and family office groups. The funding will also be used to fuel its U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Based in San Francisco and formerly known as Hampton Creek, Eat Just has received total of about $220 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. Eat Just announced in March that it will focus on global expansion this year , with partnerships in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Our survey had 211 respondents, 62% of them in North America and 59% at companies with greater than $1 billion in annual revenue.) They may have shaken loose some early funding. Here’s what the survey respondents placed into the “in-market or accelerating investment” bucket, in ranked order:

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The combined company, in which Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will continue to be the largest shareholder, will have a transaction equity value of $11.75 billion in total funding to Lucid. The Gravity performance luxury SUV is expected to come to market in North America in 2023.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets. Fast Forward Ventures’ managing partner Opeyemi Awoyemi said Bumpa is doing what Shopify did in North America for Africa.

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