TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. In addition to Tel Aviv, the company has offices in New York and London. Vilner intends to use the new funding to grow the team across the U.S,

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Xreal announced in January 2024 it had raised an additional $60 million in funding for further development of its AR glasses. And in October, it shared that it has sold more than 430,000 pairs of glasses as it promoted new retail distribution deals around the world, including with Micro Center in the United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

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. Today, Blend made its debut as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol “ BLND.” million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday , one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. Hibob , a London-based company that targets the mid-market with an all-in-one platform that handles various human resources functions, closed a Series C of $150 million.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unsplash.com X Corp, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a nonprofit dedicated to exposing and counteracting digital hate speech which has published research critical of the tech company’s handling of hate speech on its platform. The group has also turned a critical eye toward X Corp (formerly Twitter).

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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. He was motivated after his one struggle with apartment hunting in New York City. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Vicarius , a New York-based startup that has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, has raised $24 million in Series A funding to protect organizations from the next major supply-chain attack. The current vulnerability remediation situation isn’t working, Vicarius tells TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital. The new funds total more than $1 billion, with the company telling TechCrunch that they were raised from its existing investor base.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Yesterday (the pre-push) was really strong for our NPOs, which was encouraging to see,” said a spokesperson for platforms GoFundMe and Classy. The Classy platform data was showing organizations are “generally holding strong compared to last year, and we are seeing an uptick in big gifts coming online,” according to the spokesperson. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Indian insurtech Acko is in late-stage discussions to secure $120 million in a funding round at a time when weak global market conditions have subdued large financing deliberations in the South Asian market. Amazon-backed Acko nears $120 million in new funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today, the company has more than 120,000 rentals under management and about 10,000 new rentals per month. Its rental platform is live in 40 cities across Brazil, while its home-buying marketplace is live in four (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre) and seeing more than 10,000 sales in annualized terms. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Earlier today, we reported that New York-based startup Adapty raised $2.5 By magnitude of funding, the leader by far is YC-backed RevenueCat , which has raised $56.5 Why mobile subscription management platforms are enjoying tailwinds by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It’s been more than 10 years since that percentage fell below 30%, the study said, despite the fact that the country is on track to see record amounts of venture funding overall this year. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. Image Credits: Revolution/PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The startup’s ambitions aren’t cheap, FlyMachine tells TechCrunch it has raised $21 million in investor funding to bankroll its plans. The funding has been led by Greycroft Partners and SignalFire, with additional participation from Primary Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Red Sea Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Substack , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the New York Times is reporting today. It told the Times in a story last month that it has hundreds of thousands of paid newsletters now on the platform.).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest such neobank to emerge is New York-based Daylight , which describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ digital banking platform in the United States. The banks in nearly all cases are trying to meet the needs of certain populations that they believe are feeling left out or underserved by traditional financial institutions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Creating a spend and procurement platform from scratch might’ve been a big risk, but it appears to have paid off for Jobani, who claims that PayEm now has “hundreds” of customers and fast-growing revenue (up 550% over the last year).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

million in a seed funding round. Headquartered in New York and Bengaluru, Zenskar is building a platform for SaaS companies to generate bills for their complex pricing plans — whether they are based on usage-based pricing, subscriptions, nuanced discounts, credits, custom currencies, prepaid or ramp deals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. On the technology front, Sketchfab lets you view 3D models on any platform. It also works with VR headsets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S.

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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. So far, its tech caters to distribution and claims automation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Vets , a tech-enabled pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, has raised $40 million in seed funding led by Target Global, PICO Venture Partners and Bolt Ventures. Starting today, The Vets’ services are now available in New York City as well. The Vets has served more than 7,000 pets to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Where many see regulatory murkiness, the five-year-old, New York-based investing platform Republic sees opportunity. Asked how Republic manages it all, Nguyen says “not to think of it as different platforms” but a company that can cater to everyone, no matter their interests or bank account balance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Amagi, which offers cloud broadcast and targeted advertising software to scores of media and entertainment giants, has raised a large new funding round as it looks to expand its tech offerings and invest in AI-powered personalization stack. The Series F funding has propelled Amagi’s valuation to $1.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In the latest development, Stitch — one of the prominent players building and operating these APIs in Africa — confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. Per a statement released by the company, it plans to create a “financial graph” ecosystem across Africa with the new funding. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The pair had one previous successful exit in Dealtable.com, a social data room platform. . TechCrunch reported on the New York-based startup’s $10 million Series A raise in mid-March 2021. Its number of funded accounts stands at over 2.7 Its app launched into iOS and Android in early 2020. million at the end of 2019, 17.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One beneficiary of that increased spending is London-based Beamery, a startup developing a talent lifecycle management platform. “The new funding will support continued investment in our platform and tech capabilities and help to build out global sales footprint.” ” Image Credits: Beamery.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the Series C round, which comes just over one year after New York-based Alloy raised $40 million in a Series B financing. Put simply, the startup’ s initial mission was to help banks and fintechs make better identity and risk decisions using its single API service and SaaS platform. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage (i.e. Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Some estimates say that if global urban growth continues at its current pace, then we’d build a New York City every month for the next 40 years. This is why we are seeing so many new climate funds appear, which are concentrating on the built environment.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Today, Hack The Box , one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cultivate more of the latter group with a gamified approach, is announcing $55 million in funding to expand its business after racking up 1.7 Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M million users.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

PearPop a new Los Angeles-based company, is on its way to racking up nearly 25,000 users in less than a month, and has already landed seed funding from the firm Rocket One Capital. PearPop’s platform works by letting TikTok celebrities set a price for sharing screen time. The company’s premise is simple.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Coro — a startup building an all-in-one cybersecurity platform aimed at mid-market companies, with functions to monitor devices, users, email, networks, data and apps and remediate any malicious activity — has raised $60 million, funding it plans to use to continue doubling down on this particular gap in the market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Luke Hutchison didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do as a graduate of West Point — only that he wanted to serve his country, graduating as he did two years after the 9/11 attack in New York. Interestingly, the idea ties to Hutchison’s five years in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Ukio , a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. It’s worth noting that guests book initially for a set period of time, but they can extend their stay through Ukio’s online platform.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress. The six-year-old company, which has raised upwards of $40 million in venture funding and served over 2 million students, is now being used across more than 1,800 districts and in 3,000 schools.

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