TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Now, a startup called Deliverect that has built a platform to integrate the many moving parts that go into ordering and delivery for the average restaurant is announcing a big round of funding to pursue the opportunity. The startup has raised $150 million, a Series D round of funding that values the company at over $1.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

In March 2020, Tame had a digital event suite for offline corporate events. The result is that it has now raised a seed round of $5.5 But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S.-based based venture capital fund Valar Ventures and will use the funding to expand into more European countries later this year. has raised $5.6

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

You may be surprised to learn that multichannel donors contribute four times as often as online-only or offline-only donors. Socially-driven crowdfunding solutions equip donors to raise more money for their organization, simply by asking their family, friends, and colleagues to give to their page. Crowdfunding. Giving Tuesday.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

Donors are most interested in giving tribute gifts as memorials (43%), birthday gifts (25%), and for religious holidays (10%) $222 is the median amount raised by one-time peer-to-peer fundraisers; $501 is the median amount raised by return fundraisers. Classy ] GivingTuesday 2023 raised $3.1 billion—only 0.6% per visitor.[

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They’re excited to get their fledgling organization off the ground, and they need the funds to do it. They’ve tried what they know to raise money, but it just isn’t working. It’s not easy to figure out what works in fundraising when you have little to no experience raising big bucks. I’ve been there. And it’s frustrating.

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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 20, 2021

French startup BlaBlaCar has raised a new $115 million funding round (€97 million). Otiva J/F AB is a fund created by Avito founders Jonas Nordlander and Filip Engelbert. We already had a lot of cash before this round and we still have more than €200 million in cash following this funding round,” Brusson told me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The Los Altos, California-based company announced today that has raised a $50 million Series B led by Josh Buckley, the chief executive officer of Product Hunt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

German startup Dance has raised $19.4 million in new funding (€16.5 Eurazeo is leading today’s funding round. HV Capital and BlueYard are also investing, as well as Dave Morin and James Higa from Offline Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Roxanne Varza and Verena Pausder.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years. Dragoneer Investor Group and Steadfast Capital also participated in the new round, which brings the startup’s to-date raise to over $580 million against equity. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The round, which is co-led by Tiger Global and Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, values Spinny at over $1.75 This is the third funding round raised by Spinny this year. billion post-money, the source said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Easy Eat AI , a Singapore-based startup that wants to “transform restaurants into technology companies,” announced today it has raised $5 million in funding. Malaysia-based inventory management platform Food Market Hub raises $4 million from Go-Ventures, SIG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Hong Kong-based events management platform EventX said today it has raised another $8 million for its Series B, lifting the total amount secured for this round to $18 million. And even if live events resume their normalcy, the company believes it can cling onto its long-running offline business.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The startup has now raised a $3 million seed financing round led by Xploration Capital, which was joined by unnamed new strategic investors and existing investors. Other strategic investors include Ronald Richardson, Avlok Kohli (CEO of AngeLlist Ventures) and the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zaver , a Swedish fintech that enable merchants to accept cardless payments and offer buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) as an option, has raised $5 million in new funding. for both online and offline commerce, after claiming to have found product-market-fit. Swedish fintech Zaver has raised $1.2M

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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 18, 2021

With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic. That strategy appears to have paid off as it has now raised a $13 million Series A funding round, taking its total amount raised to $14.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the latest development, Sympl , an Egyptian fintech founded only five months ago, announced today that it has picked up $6 million in seed funding following a soft launch in October. El-Feky said when the company raises its next round of investment, expansion outside Egypt will be on the cards. The most likely destination?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

A startup that is helping these firms tackle this challenge said on Thursday it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. New York-based Olympus Capital Asia made the investment through Asia Environmental Partners, a fund dedicated to the environmental sector.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

AltSchool, which is now Altitude Learning) has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts, said chief executive Adewale Yusuf to TechCrunch. Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers. The company (not to be confused with U.S. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The startup announced today it has raised a $14 million Series A led by Jungle Ventures with participation from eWTP Capital (a venture fund under Alibaba and Ant Financial) and ThinkZone Ventures. This brings Edupia’s total funding to $16 million. Edupia currently has a total of 5 million users, with 400,000 paying students.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. The Series B funding is coming almost eighteen months after raising $10 million co-led by Partech Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

And while terminals have different providers (banks and fintechs) and functionalities, they primarily operate online with j ust a handful of them having offline capabilities too. Lagos- and Helsinki-based ZirooPay , one such provider, has raised an $11.4 million Series A round led by Lagos-based VC fund Zrosk Investment Management.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), a region that encompasses 160 million students.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Download this Board of Directors Fundraising Worksheet to help your board members execute their board pledges to raise or give donations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

IntellectoKids , a developer of educational apps for children aged 3 to 7 years, has raised $3 million in a Series A financing led by U.S.-based The rush to capitalize on the shift to online learning, post-pandemic, continues. based Allrise Capital and other investors, including Genesis Investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

French startup Wecasa has raised a $17.7 million funding round (€15 million). Blisce is leading the funding round with existing investors Serena, ISAI and Frédéric Mazzella also participating. The company has been building a marketplace for home care and wellness. Over the past few years, Wecasa has kept adding new verticals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Real estate tech startup Sunroom Rentals , which leases units on behalf of property managers and apartment owners, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding led by Gigafund. Looking ahead, the company will use the funding to expand across Texas, including in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The startup, which says it is the country’s largest direct-to-consumer insurance marketplace, announced today it has raised a $9 million Series A. The new funding brings its total raised to $12 million. Qoala raises $13.5M Part of Lifepal’s funding will be used to build products to make it easier to claim policies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. Among those that do exist, very few have been able to raise much money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

One company working to serve that need, Socure — which uses AI and machine learning to verify identities — announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round at a $1.3 Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round. billion valuation. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Slice , a startup that helps independent pizzerias build an online business, has raised another $40 million in Series D funding. Why not raise more money this time? Slice, an online ordering and marketing platform for pizzerias, raises $43M. Last spring, the startup announced a $43 million Series C.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

This morning Queenly announced that it has closed a $2.262 million round, following its $800,000 pre-seed raise. Queenly, long a team of two , intends to expand its staff to six full-time workers with its new funds. Queenly had set out to raise $1.5 million, but wound up raising $2.1 Queenly had set out to raise $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The company, in a statement, said it plans to utilize the funds for strategic hiring and further development of its platform.

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