TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Every quarter we dig into the venture capital market’s global , national , and sector-based results to get a feel for what the temperature of the private market is at that point in time. I covered AgentSync for the first time last August , when the API-focused insurtech player raised a $4.4 Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

In total, Okra has raised $4.5 Its business model provides integrations to developers and businesses into existing banking services and takes commissions off subsequent transactions. Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa. guaranteed uptime. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Superscript , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Germany’s Wefox last year raised $400 million at $4.5 ” The company had previously raised around $24.4 The underwriting factor.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

I will begin with a discussion of language, computer vision, multi-modal models, and generative machine learning models. Language Models The progress on larger and more powerful language models has been one of the most exciting areas of machine learning (ML) research over the last decade. Let’s get started!

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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

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. The company is announcing a $10.5 million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital. FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. We haven’t seen anyone build from the ground up with global operations in mind on day one.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised a $22 million Series A – its first significant venture capital raise after mostly bootstrapping. Also looking at scalability of the business model of being an OEM, it’s kind of […] linear.” based drone production.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million. Reliance Health operates business-to-business and business-to-customers models.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally. But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. has raised $5.6 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

They are the backbone of most economies: Globally, SMEs represent about 90% of existing businesses and create more than 50% of employment. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses. Yoco has raised a total of $107 million. Now, that number has quintupled. Image Credits: Yoco.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 Rowe Price, along with participation from Viking Global investors as well as others. billion post-money, the company announced today. including those related to the “last mile” delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. .

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Based on my 25 years experience working in global development, here are five tips to help nonprofits be ready to respond to unforeseen challenges. Yet, most nonprofits build business models that rely on one or two major funding sources. We raise significant funds from the U.S. Is it still relevant?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. With the latest capital infusion, Side’s total raised since its 2017 inception now totals over $250 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Eden Life , strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for home service needs, has raised a $1.4 Africa-focused VCs Samurai Incubate, Future Africa, Village Global, Rising Tide Africa and Enza Capital participated. But Enegesi isn’t worried; the models are quite different. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. Once the company manages to set it up, Njonjo says the model might be spun off as a separate business to maintain a more asset-light approach to expansion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “But now we’ve learned that this model works everywhere, and it’s actually easier to grow in Western Europe because they are developed markets. billion ($8.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

LatticeFlow , a startup that was spun out of Zurich’s ETH in 2020, helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves. Existing investors btov Partners and Global Founders Capital, which led the company’s $2.8

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Many of these virtual events were born from a spirit of innovation and resiliency from organizations that were forced to evolve in a matter of days and raise much-needed funds in new ways. On one hand, consumers and employees alike are demanding that businesses add more purpose to their profit-centric model.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s been estimated that 30% of annual giving occurs between GivingTuesday and December 31, and more than 25% of nonprofits raise nearly 50% of annual funds via year-end monetary donations, according to authors of the Recurring Giving Report. According to Celeste Flores, director of the U.S. Giving habits vary by generation and demographics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The investment, which catapults Zilliz’s to-date raise to over $53 million, is a sizable amount for any open source business around the world.

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TechNode

APRIL 1, 2025

However, it has also raised concerns about creating filter bubbles and biases. Details: Douyin introduced two models: the Wide&Deep model and the Two-Tower Retrieval Model. The Wide&Deep model , as its name suggests, combines a single-layer Wide component with a multi-layer Deep component.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Akros just raised $2.3 The latest funding, which brings Akros’s total amount raised to $6.1 million since its 2021 inception, will help Akros to scale its software platform and asset management products and ramp up its users, including local and global financial institutions and fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Investors such as Global Ventures and Kepple Ventures doubled down less than a year after participating in the company’s $4.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso co-founded Tecton while at Uber when the company was struggling to build and deploy new machine learning models. “Models that are provided with highly refined real-time features can deliver much more accurate predictions. One of its proponents is Mike Del Balso, the CEO of Tecton.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 30, 2024

The details of the Dataflow model. Implementation and designs of the model. To achieve these characteristics, Google Dataflow is backed by a dedicated processing model, Dataflow, resulting from many years of Google research and development. Before we move on To avoid more confusing Dataflow is the Google stream processing model.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Today it announced it has added $10 million to its war chest in a Series A extension led by Tiger Global, bringing the round’s total to $20 million. Intellect describes this as “the largest venture round raised by any mental health company in Asia.” The first half of Series A was announced in January 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

The pair teamed up with serial entrepreneurs Kent Mori and Kevin Chan in February 2021 to start a company, exploring different business models before settling on Mayfair’s current offering. Tiger Global, led by John Curtius (who has since departed the firm), led the company’s seed raise with Amity and BoxGroup also participating. “As

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hawk AI , a German company developing anti-money laundering (AML) and tangential fraud prevention smarts for financial institutions, has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding. ” Hawk AI, an anti-money laundering and fraud prevention platform for banks, raises $17M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. Taeillo , a Lagos-based startup innovating around these issues relating to time, quality and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 Made.com raises another $56 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Masterschool , which describes itself as a “network of tech career-training schools,” today announced that it has raised a $100 million seed funding round (yes, that’s correct — a $100 million seed round). That’s a pretty standard model for coding schools.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

raises funding to allow us to monitor and affect our rate of aging. It has now raised yet another seed funding round, this time totalling $2.5 million, from 65 health-tech and consumer-tech investors, taking its total raised to $5 million. Humanity Inc. More on the app in a moment. Meanwhile, the U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Beco Capital led the five-month-old startup’s seed round, while A15 and Global Ventures participated. In the CEO’s words, Sympl operates a save your money, pay later model rather than the normal buy now, pay later model. A typical BNPL model involves a purchase split into multiple equal payments. Saudi Arabia. . “It

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. The automotive marketplace, which allows customers to sell and buy used cars, has raised a pre-seed round of $12.6 Popular car models in Egypt cost about $15,000 on average.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Data labeling is a critical part of automating artificial intelligence and machine learning model, but at the same time, it can be time-consuming and tedious work. ScreenShot | AIMMO website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

For example, Helping Rhinos links to registration information for their 2021 Global Gala for Rhinos in their bio and asks people to register by visiting “the link in their bio.” According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 10% of online donors have made a donation through Instagram Charitable Tools.

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