TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures. Africa has it different. It’s not a predominantly card continent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The company has raised $200 million, a Series C that it will use toward its next steps as a business. This will be combined with a shift to a licensing model for its chip hardware, so that they can be produced by multiple third parties. Wiliot says that it already has several agreements in place for the chip licensing part.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The San Francisco and Hong Kong-headquartered company announced it has raised $37 million in a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz through its Growth Fund , which serves new companies at an inflection point, along with Alibaba and Craft. . Sandbox VR raises millions more in celebrity party round. Image Credits: Sandbox VR.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta is tackling these challenges and has received backing from 500 Startups to scale its technology. Image Credits: Raise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If the question at hand was a global treaty setting “fair use” as a global norm, I would expect the same objections. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Everything is negotiable under license, except in practice, they don’t want to negotiate about access -- because there’s not enough money involved.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

A global game You might be surprised to learn that the U.S. has experienced inconsistent success on the global stage because of a lack of infrastructure, limited resources, and persistent gendered assumptions that hamper the development of womens baseball. But they receive scant media attention and remain unknown to most baseball fans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Knowledgehook , a proprietary mathematics learning platform, has now raised a £13.5 Knowledgehook raised a seed round in 2016 that included John Abele’s North Point Ventures. In 2021, it plans extend its reach to 50,000,000 students globally. The platform offers school licenses, as well as Netflix-like home subscriptions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old, with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. Egyptian social e-commerce platform Taager raises $6.4M This was partly due to the global financial crisis that occurred in 2008. . led by 4DX Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are many Robinhood-esque platforms globally because of a growing need to invest in U.S. Following two years of significant growth and raising $2.4 million to facilitate it, the investment firm is announcing that it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. Following two years of significant growth and raising $2.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. billion valuation and a unicorn status — is DST Global.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. This alternative financial infrastructure is one of the largest globally. He also sits on the board of 88mph.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Six months after raising $250 million , Papaya Global is making a key acquisition to expand its cloud-based HR and payroll platform globally on the heels of major surge in remote working. For some context, Papaya Global — backed by companies like Insight Partners and Tiger Global — was valued at $3.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. By the way, Danggeun means carrot in Korean.). Canada and Japan.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

million in a seed funding round led by Global Founders Capital. It’s a similar, but different, model to another startup we covered recently — Mynd, a company that also aims to make it easier for people to buy and manage single-family rental properties, which last week announced it had raised $57.3 Mynd raises $57.3M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit. “And

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Rebill , an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6 The $3 million seed round was led by Tiger Global Management and included Y Combinator, Soma Capital, SV Angel and a group of angel investors, including Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Jakarta-based Lifepal wants to simplify the process for Indonesians with a marketplace that lets users compare policies from more than 50 providers, get help from licensed agents and file claims. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cloudsmith , a cloud platform for software supply chain management, has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global, which it claims is the largest-ever Series A funding round in Northern Ireland since 2005 (according to PitchBook data). sales and engineering teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Before Nick Macario launched Verifiable , the Austin-based company that just raised $3 million for its API toolkit that verifies healthcare credentials, he ran a series of other businesses designed to offer public credentials for professionals. “We’re at an inflection point with healthcare,” said Macario.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The two-year-old startup, led by high-profile entrepreneur Kunal Shah, said on Monday it has raised $81 million in a new financing round and bought shares worth $1.2 The Series C financing round, as first reported by TechCrunch in late November , was led by DST Global. million (about 90 million Indian rupees) from employees.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The startup announced today it has raised a seed extension of $1.5 The funding brings Jeff’s total raised to about $2.5 Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia. Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The new unicorn has been on a rapid-fire fundraising clip since TechCrunch first spoke to the company just over a year ago, when it raised a $4.4 The company stayed busy, raising another $6.7 So, AgentSync raised a $25 million Series A in March of this year, increasing its valuation to $220 million. Why AgentSync raised again.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Greycroft and Global Founders Capital co-led the $75 million in equity financing, which is notable for a few reasons. Something else that stands out about this raise is that Pacaso, which just launched in October 2020, has achieved unicorn status faster than any other company, according to an internal company analysis of Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. So, we thought this was a much-needed space, not only for kids in Africa but globally. The company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Telda , an Egyptian consumer money app founded by ex-Swvl executive Ahmed Sabbah last April, has raised $20 million in seed funding. “We are humbled to be the first company to receive the license in Egypt. . “We are humbled to be the first company to receive the license in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Pretty soon, people won’t have to provide a fingerprint or a driver’s license to prove their identity — if VU has its way. VU is one of several startups applying technology to fraud and identity within a global digital identity market expected to reach over $33 billion by 2025, according to Adroit Market Research. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The Japanese fintech startup said today it has raised a $20 million (2 billion JPY) Series A funding round led by Globis Capital Partners with participation from Z Venture Capital, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, and DBJ Capital. Existing investors, including Global Brain, and ANRI, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Casa Blanca , which aims to develop a “Bumble-like app” for finding a home, has raised $2.6 Co-founder and CEO Hannah Bomze got her real estate license at the age of 18 and worked at Compass and Douglas Elliman Real Estate before launching Casa Blanca last year. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Steel production accounts for roughly 8% of the emissions that contribute to global climate change. The global steel industry may find approximately 14% of its potential value at risk if the business can’t reduce its environmental impact, according to studies cited by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

The project expanded in March with the launch of the National Emergency Library, which suspended waitlists in response to the global pandemic, making all scanned books immediately accessible to anyone with an account. Crucially, the project circumvents the typical licensing restrictions used by conventional libraries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $3.9 The transaction volume on its corporate cards has tripled since April, when its last raise was announced. That’s more than double the $1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

.” The company, which currently offers mobile-first banking services in Nigeria, has picked up $25 million in a Series A being led by Valar Ventures, the firm co-founded and backed by Peter Thiel, with Target Global and other unnamed investors participating. African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has now raised $7.2 million in a seed funding round led by SignalFire , with participation by Justin Mateen and current investors Soma Capital, Global Founders Capital and others. Alongside that, it has also acquired Uncapped Mortgage, a licensed mortgage brokerage startup based out of Nashville, and re-branded it to QuoHome.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Existing backer Bain Capital led the extension, with participation from previous investors such as Access Ventures, CLSA Capital Partners Lending Ark Asia, D3 Jubilee Partners, 500 Global, Kakao Investment, TBT Partners and IBX Partners. The additional funding brings PeopleFund’s total raised to around $100 million in equity.

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