TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Image Credits: Postman.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Unsurprisingly, “skilling” platforms have benefited enormously from these investments. “Terner realized that there was no effective, outcome-driven employee development platform to enable companies [including his] to better invest in their employees,” Glass said. billion from VCs between early 2021 and 2022.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the quickest ways to build a list of cell phone numbers is through a text-to-donate or text-to-give mobile platform. So Is Text Messaging the New Email? A recent survey from tech giant Twilio showed that 85% of global consumers want the option to communicate with businesses via text message.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS ’ investment process. The startup has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai and Toronto, and serves about 200 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 corporations, investment firms and government agencies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. It claims that international students using its platform have now received scholarships and grants worth $10.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. We are a people-management platform for how people work today. We believe that the HR platforms of the future will not be clunky systems, annoying, giant platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

It’s the nineteenth Indian startup to become a unicorn this year (up from 11 last year) as several high-profile global investors double down in the South Asian market. The new round — a Series E — was led by Tiger Global and valued the New Delhi-based startup at $2.85 in Tiger Global-led $125M funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lynk , the “knowledge-as-a-service” platform with more than 840,000 experts, announced today it has added $5 million raised from UBS’ Investment Bank division to its previously announced Series B. This brings the round’s new total to $29 million. The company has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai and Toronto.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Moov, a data-fueled marketplace for used manufacturing equipment , has closed a $41 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. As for the new funding, Moov plans to use it to expand its domestic presence into other semiconductor hubs such as Austin and New York. With close to $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

You can count on one hand the number of funds bigger than Tiger Global. Last year, the New York-based firm, known for its famous bets on Stripe, JD.com, Meituan and Roblox, raised $6.7 In the aughts, Tiger Global participated in just 30 deals, according to The Generalist , a newsletter on topics around tech and crypto.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2017, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings infamously told investors his streaming platform not only competes with its counterparts for attention but also with sleep. The New York Times also launched its own audio app in beta with an explicit outline of where it might be able to conquer still-unaccounted-for ear time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

We live in a platform world, where technological apps connect consumers directly with goods and services. Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. Platform apps seem to offer convenience at low cost and with little effort.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

More money for the edtech boom: Munich-based StudySmarter , which makes digital tools to help learners of all ages swot up — styling itself as a “lifelong learning platform” — has closed a $15 million Series A. The platform, which launched back in 2018 and has amassed a user-base of more than 1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. Behind such transactions is cross-border commerce, where African brands, via personal shoppers, export their items to a global audience. to shop for and ship luxury items to them. million) in pre-seed funding. for relatives back in Nigeria.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. 4) Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Awning is a startup that aims to make the process less intimidating through a platform designed to allow individuals to invest in single-family rental homes not just in the cities or states in which they live but in other markets remotely as well. million in a seed funding round led by Global Founders Capital. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Fintech Brex first partnered with Weav , a developer of a universal API for commerce platforms, last summer. For one, as part of the acquisition, Brex will be expanding its global presence by building an “innovation hub” and hiring employees in Israel beyond Weav’s nine-person team, which is located in Israel and New York.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

million in new funding last week from Bessemer led by Mike Droesch, who recently was promoted to partner earlier this year with the firm’s newest $3.3 The company now has 25 employees and is centered in New York City. The company raised $18.4 billion fundraise. Bessemer Venture Partners closes on $3.3 billion across two funds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Substack , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the New York Times is reporting today. It told the Times in a story last month that it has hundreds of thousands of paid newsletters now on the platform.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One beneficiary of that increased spending is London-based Beamery, a startup developing a talent lifecycle management platform. “The new funding will support continued investment in our platform and tech capabilities and help to build out global sales footprint.” ” Image Credits: Beamery.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, the company made its North American debut with Horizon of Khufu , an exhibit in which visitors to sites in Montreal, Atlanta, and New York City don VR headsets to explore Egyptian life in the time of the pharaohs. It soon established a permanent venue in New York. million global views.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

One friend reached out to Ajiboye asking if he knew of any platform where she could find new, aesthetically pleasing places to dine in, visit and take pictures. More than 36% of social media users use platforms for travel ideas, according to Statista ; over 60% of these people share photos when traveling.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Yesterday (the pre-push) was really strong for our NPOs, which was encouraging to see,” said a spokesperson for platforms GoFundMe and Classy. The Classy platform data was showing organizations are “generally holding strong compared to last year, and we are seeing an uptick in big gifts coming online,” according to the spokesperson. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

One of the stunning facts that’s emerged over the last few years — especially as VCs and startups have turned their attention toward the climate crisis — is that our cities produce an enormous amount of CO 2 : In fact, buildings are responsible for around 40% of global CO 2 emissions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Allara is an early-stage, New York-based startup that wants to help women better manage polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS. million in a seed round led by Global Founders Capital, with participation from Great Oaks and Humbition. And it’s far from rare, affecting some one in 10 women of childbearing age.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Qureos , a UAE-based edtech and remote work marketplace that is changing how people upskill and get jobs across the globe, plans to grow the uptake of its platform by 10 times this year in its race to create 100 million jobs over the next few years. As such, you learn from peers and from the best in the world,” said Epure.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., in Ehningen, Germany. billion, a 33.9%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Stitch’s provides solutions for e-commerce companies, marketplaces & platforms and its leading clientele, fintechs. Some customers include wallet-based companies such as Chipper Cash and Luno ; embedded finance providers like ImaliPay ; subscription platforms like FlexClub ; and payment aggregators like Yoco. Image Credits: Stitch.

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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. to take part in the New York Fashion Tech Lab, she saw the impact influencers were having on shopping and created a video-enabled tool they could use.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Pet pharmacy Mixlab has developed a digital platform enabling veterinarians to prescribe medications and have them delivered — sometimes on the same day — to pet parents. The platform manages the home delivery of medications across branded, generic and over-the-counter medications, as well as reduces a clinic’s on-site pharmacy inventories.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E round that values the company at $2 billion. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In fact, a recent Global Trends in Giving report reveals that 33% of donors in the U.S. and Canada find email to be the communication channel that most inspires them to contributebeating all other platforms. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park memorial in New York City.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

San Francisco-based startup anecdotes developed a compliance operating system platform to provide customized compliance services for businesses. . The funding news comes on the heels of its 175% increase in post-IPO commercial customers after raising $5 million in seed funding in February 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Mundi, a financial services platform for cross-border trade, announced today it has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures. . The New York-based firm has also backed the likes of fintech giants such as Coinbase and Stripe. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Smartling s new AI-powered toolkit reduces translation turnaround times while delivering accurate results for companies engaged in global commerce. million from investors, spent the past year developing its platform, creating a system of integrated technologies that reduces corporate dissolution time from months to days.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

“We are continuing to monitor the situation and can confirm this was not a result of a cyber attack on the Akamai platform” says Akamai in email to The Verge. Larger outlets included the New York Metro Transportation Authority and The Times of India , who tweeted that their service outages were due to Akamai. Wear a Mask.

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