TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. If you’ve been paying attention to news this past year, it’s clear that much of venture capital isn’t just surviving 2020 – it’s flourishing through it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. But Checkout.com kept growing and growing until it raised one of the biggest Series A rounds ever for a European company — $230 million at a $2 billion valuation. Just a year later, Checkout.com added $150 million in funding at a $5.5 It finished 2020 with 940 employees.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founded in 2015, Getaway builds “Outposts” — collections of tiny cabins in rustic locations within a two-hour drive of major cities like Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles and New York. Today it’s announcing that it has raised $41.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 At the time, the Ghanaian fintech was raising $8 million–a large seed in its own right–and had acquired just a little over 200,000 users with transactions reaching $250 million. million in an oversubscribed seed round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Too Good To Go , the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 While the company has been around for a while, this is the first time Too Good To Go is raising money from a VC firm. with New York City and Boston. Too Good To Go has expanded to part of New Jersey since then.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Time: 1pm EDT (New York). Over the last two decades the global NGO sector has embraced online technology, but economic and political factors and the quality of Internet infrastructure regionally often affects how well NGOs worldwide can use new technology. Date: Tuesday, February 7. Cost: Free. Presented By: Heather Mansfield.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Esusu , a fintech that targets immigrant and minority groups and provides rent reporting and data solutions for credit building, said Thursday it has raised $130 million in a Series B fundraising round. The company raised almost $500,000 via crowdfunding and nonprofit impact investment funds. and globally.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC. New York but Africa-based VC Lateral Capital also invested after taking part in Mono’s pre-seed. ” How African startups raised investments in 2020.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2021

The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma Brands and including Global Founders Capital, Monogram Capital, Lakehouse Ventures and Brand Foundry. The new investment gives Mixlab total funding of $30 million, said Fred Dijols, co-founder and CEO of Mixlab.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Hugging Face has raised a $40 million Series B funding round — Addition is leading the round. Existing investors Lux Capital, A.Capital and Betaworks also participated in today’s funding round. Existing investors Lux Capital, A.Capital and Betaworks also participated in today’s funding round.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. In total, Flutterwave has raised $225 million and is one of the few African startups to have secured more than $200 million in funding. . Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

With the market turning so dramatically in 2022, it’s no surprise that many startups are now believed to be raising down rounds. This week alone, it was reported that Varo was raising a $50 million equity round led by Warburg Pincus at a “significantly” lower valuation. Want more fintech news in your inbox? consumer bank.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The startup has now set out to activate more mutti pharmacies to widen its reach and to build out its tech-infrastructure as it readies itself for the next phase of growth after raising $35 million in Series D round. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. It is based in New York, NY. ? It is based in Bozeman, MT. ?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. The company previously raised a total of $15.5 million, so the latest financing brings its total raised to $95.5 million since it launched in 2017.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. ” The company’s latest round gives it $21 million raised to date, and follows a $6 million seed round that included NFX, A Capital, Liquid2 Ventures and Graph Ventures, Vilner said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

and will use a new $225 million Series D raise to help make it happen. The new capital comes from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Mark Benioff – and recording artist The Weeknd – among others. markets including LA, New York, Chicago, SF and Washington, D.C.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The Argentina-based fraud and identity protection company announced $12 million in Series B funding Monday from backers including software developer, Globant, as well as Agrega Partners, NXTP Ventures, Bridge One, the IDB Lab and Telefónica. As such, he intends to use the new funding to hire developers across Europe and in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Jendaya , a one-year-old startup that acts as a gateway for global luxury brands to the African continent and for consumers in the rest of the world to discover African brands, is coming out stealth, having raised £1 million (~$1.2 million) in pre-seed funding. Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation.

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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. ” Sangha, a law lecturer at the University of Pennslyvania and a licensed attorney in the State of New York, founded LexCheck in 2015. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Last year, former Glossier executives Henry Davis and Bryan Mahoney unveiled a new e-commerce startup called Arfa. Today, they’re announcing a new vision for the company, along with a new name, new funding and an acquisition. ” ‘Headless’ e-commerce platform Fabric raises $43M.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has raised $32 million in its Series A financing round, just months after securing its seed funding. For decades, banks and mutual funds have been trying to tap India masses with their products. Jar, which raised $4.5

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The study, which is open to babies born at New York-Presbyterian Hospitals, has sequenced more than 17,000 newborns to date. GeneDx has also partnered with the New York Center for Rare Diseases at Montefiore,PacBio, and Google Health to deliver genetic diagnoses forBronxfamilies living with rare diseases.

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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

Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E , Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million. New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. Why raise more money so soon? billion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. The company is announcing a $10.5 FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Nuvocargo , a logistics startup out to help simplify the challenges of cross-border trade, has raised $20.5 The round valued the New York-based startup at $180 million, more than double the $70 million it was valued at when it raised $12 million in April. million in a round led by Tiger Global Management. “The U.S.

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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

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. We dug into the report and talked to Revolution CEO and Chairman Steve Case about the findings. Image Credits: Revolution/PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Anytime a company that has raised more than half a billion dollars basically implodes, it’s worth taking a look at the roller coaster ride it was on before it got to that point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Botify has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by InfraVia Growth with Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund also participating. Valuation has tripled since the company’s previous funding round. Existing investors Eurazeo and Ventech are also investing in the startup once again.

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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. Meanwhile, startups like Wave raised huge bouts of VC funding to turn real performers into digital avatars in a bid to create more digital-native concerts.

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