TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion (or about $890 million USD). The company itself has a team of more than 500 full-time employees based around the world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mr Yum , a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a $65 million USD Series A round, led by Tiger Global. Founded in Melbourne, Mr Yum now has offices across Australia and in the United States and United Kingdom, too. Its clients include E.P.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Osome currently serves more than 11,000 business in Singapore (where it is is headquartered), Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. It also offers business incorporation services in Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, and integrates with e-commerce platforms like Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Lazada, Etsy and Shopee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With this funding announcement, they’ll be opening up an early access program. Stotles’ founders say they had “scathing” experiences dealing with public procurement in their previous roles at organizations like Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. The fintech sector boomed in 2021, with global fintech funding reaching a record $132 billion. Western Europe, U.K.,

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More of the world’s economy is moving online, and that is underscored by the long list of recent fundings and acquisitions in the digital ID authentication and anti-money laundering (AML) space, including Okta’s $6.5 Today, another startup announced it has raised capital: end-to-end due diligence platform First AML.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Ubco, the New Zealand-based electric utility bike startup, has raised $10 million to fund a global expansion focused on the U.S. The company already works with Domino’s in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as well as a range of other national clients, like the New Zealand Post, the Defense Force, the Department of Conservation and P?mu,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Future of work is borderless : Payday, now flush with $3 million in new capital, plans to expand its Africa-based operations to Canada and the United Kingdom, Tage writes. The platform they’ve been using is Seed Checks. The funding round was led by iHeartMedia, Aisha reports.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Four months after announcing its last round, Employment Hero has closed another $140 million AUD (about $103 million USD) in funding. Employment Hero is an automated human resources, payroll and benefits platform for SMEs. Over the past 12 months, the company says $14 billion in gross wages was processed through the platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Fireblocks , an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 Fireblocks launched out of stealth mode in June of 2019 and has since opened offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and the DACH region.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Thunes’ last funding announcement was in September 2020 a $60 million Series B led by Helios Investment Partners. It is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. When Insight approached Thunes, it was not planning to raise more funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Almost overnight, platforms that offer non-dilutive capital for recurring revenue businesses have become white-hot. This fever is now reaching Europe, where today Capchase raised an additional $280 million in new debt and equity funding, led by i80 Group, following a $125 million round in June. Right now it’s live in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

The Singapore-based startup’s last funding round was $3 million announced in November. Its Series A brings Osome’s total funding since it was founded in 2017 to $24.5 It now claims to be used by 6,000 companies in Singapore, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, giving it $9.5 Ong, who joined as an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

million USD) in Series C funding. The company’s Series C, which it claims is one of the largest private rounds raised by a Southeast Asian healthtech company, brings its total funding to more than $140 million SGD. . The funding will be used to deepen Doctor Anywhere’s presence in its current markets and expand into new ones.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The DiginexESG platform quite simply takes away those challenges and does all the heavy lifting for them. Fund managers can leverage ESG-related data to generate insights. It’s like DocuSign, Dropbox, TurboTax or Slack hardcoded for ESG reporting.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. At present, the startup is self-funded through revenues from Music Vine, but Foster says they’ve had some VC interest.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

And today, one such company, Play2Pay , has raised $13 million in a Series A round of funding. The alternative payment platform says it brokers a “value exchange” between brands and consumers, converting attention and engagement into a currency, which can be redeemed for bill payment. Image Credits: Play2Pay.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Enter Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform that wants to do the heavy lifting for companies eyeing more digital operations. Case in point, Holidu grabbed $98 million in new funding to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe, Natasha L writes. million in Series A funding, Christine reports. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

million funding round in PlayerData. Every time a new team encounters one using Playerdata’s platform, it generates five more clubs as users. Zwift, maker of a popular indoor training app, just landed a whopping $450 million in funding led by KKR. It’s now led a $2.3 soccer and rugby, and logged over 50 million meters of play.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

million in seed funding. FMCG distributors can onboard retailers in their network on the Duplo platform, collect payments digitally and access real-time insights into business performance. The news is coming just seven months after Duplo announced its $1.3 million pre-seed investment ; in total, the YC-backed startup has received $5.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the big leaders in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms is announcing a major round of funding today as it continues to expand its ambitions. Upper90, funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., It said that it’s currently on a rate of buying 1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

million seed round, almost eleven months after its pre-seed funding. The seed round was led by PROFounders Capital, with participation from Slack Fund; Sky executive chairman and former chief executive officer Jeremy Darroch; and returning investors Passion Capital and Seedcamp. The company announced today it has raised a $3.5

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In a statement given to CNBC , the platform said it “does not allow any campaigns involved in violence or purchasing of military equipment, regardless of their cause.” Come Back Alive’s page said that funds would be used to train soldiers, as well as provide technical equipment, according to Patreon’s blog post.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

million seed round, and while that may be the kind of funding a younger company takes, the livestream shopping platform is actually a “veteran” in this emerging way of shopping. Buywith completed a $9.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

based venture capital fund Valar Ventures and will use the funding to expand into more European countries later this year. But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market. Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

startup called MarketFinance — which has built a loans platform to help SMBs stay afloat through those leaner times — is announcing a big funding infusion of £280 million ($383 million) as it gears up for a new wave of lending requests. Now, a U.K. Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The round was joined by existing investors including Stride, Ada Ventures, Hearst, Episode 1 and Maersk Growth, and takes Huboo’s total funding raised to nearly £80 million since April 2019, after its £14 million Series A funding, raised last year. a site in the Netherlands, and has plans to roll out across other European markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The company, based in South Africa, has raised $3 million in seed funding to scale outside Africa and build the infrastructure for the digital insurance economy. Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Mass transit has made a rebound with the return of city life post-Covid 19, and today a startup that’s building tech to help it run more smoothly is announcing a big round of funding to meet the rush. The Series D funding values Optibus at $1.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

We are now seeing a new wave of startups turn up to tackle this space by applying Apple’s age-old model of owning the experience end-to-end and running everything on a platform. million in a Series A funding round led by Fuel Ventures. This latest funding round takes the total raised by Lifted to $11.2 Lifted says its U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today, one of the startups that’s been a strong benefactor of that trend is announcing some funding to continue its growth. The funding is coming from a single backer, SoftBank, via its Vision Fund 2, and Atom claims that this sum is the largest-ever for Series A round for a UK edtech startup.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Launched in January 2020, the platform now claims 25,000 retailers across the U.K., Creoate, which doesn’t own inventory, says it helps retailers forecast which products will sell well so they can buy and manage inventory levels more easily. It says its cataloging software allows retailers to deal with fewer middlemen. France and Netherlands.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

startup Purple Dot has an e-commerce “waitlist and pre-order” platform, allowing fashion brands to only produce the exact volume of goods ordered, thereby cutting down waste. Purple Dot has now raised a $4 million early-stage funding round led by U.S.-based based Unusual Ventures.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2022

A year ago, Platformer was the first to report that Signal was considering adding cryptocurrency payments to the platform , and it started with MobileCoin. Signal announced a test of the integration in the United Kingdom in the spring , and it quietly rolled out to the rest of the world in mid-November.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It also has networks of sensors in United Kingdom and Indonesia cities. It is also partnered with the DivAirCity project, which is funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020. After realizing that other people had the same problem, they started building the Airly platform to monitor real-time air quality.

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