TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

A wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People , has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B online marketplace to reach international buyers. Orders on the platform average $1,200. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Briq , which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. The company is currently focused on contractors in North America but does have long-term plans to address larger international markets, Hamdy told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

His platform AngelList has helped individual founders-cum-investors source and participate in deals via collectives. The idea was to bring global founders together with diverse skillsets in diverse industries and geographies to evaluate deals better and drive value for each other. Thus, they decided to create MAGIC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Finally, i f you, like me, are curious about how micromobility platforms are unlocking profits, and what tech is enabling this, you’re going to want to pay attention to this one. It also announced the next generation of Hyperion, which will include a more robust sensor platform and more compute power. Miscellaneous .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

million that year, it has grown the number of organizers (which Easol calls “creators”) tenfold, with the customer base up 913%, transaction numbers up 50x and spend on the platform up by 30x. Since closing a seed round of $4.5 It has set ambitious targets to treble its growth in 2022. investments at Alibaba. ”

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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. In fact, that is how buywith started out with Walmart, enabling the retail giant to get up and running with the platform and go live immediately, Ronen Almagor said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The startup’s new wholesale business dubbed The Folklore Connect , will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to bulk retailers in North America, and later, in Europe. The Folklore Connect is a B2B wholesale platform that links African luxury brands to retailers in the US. We are looking at it from a global perspective.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Staffbase , which provides an intranet-style internal communications platform for companies, has raised a $145 million (€122 million) financing round led by General Atlantic, a growth equity firm. The partnership with General Atlantic will further help us achieve this and accelerate our growth, especially in North America.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Global firm DLR Group significantly broadened the scope of adaptive reusethe practice of repurposing existing buildings for new usesfinding new lives for buildings like department stores, hospitals, libraries, and even jails.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

TiDB developer PingCAP wants to expand in North America after raising $50M Series C. Some examples include Square; Japanese mobile payments company PayPay; e-commerce app Shopee; video-sharing platform Dailymotion; and ticketing platfrom BookMyShow. Its last round, a Series C of $50 million, was announced back in September 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. Vashisht said HealthifyMe is India’s top health and fitness app, but its long-term goal is to become the global leader.

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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. That’s up from a valuation of just north of $100 million at the time of Jeeves’ Series A, which closed in May and was announced in early June.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Cylus , a Tel Aviv-based rail cybersecurity startup, built a cybersecurity solution, CylusOne, to protect the global mainline and urban railway companies from an array of threats and risks. Cylus will use the current funding to fuel its growth globally in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. billion by 2027. “We

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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. It’s fast heading to processing some 100 million orders globally, he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

It is currently powering services for “tens of millions” of cardholders and “hundreds of thousands” of merchants globally. The raise is another example of how infrastructure companies in the fintech world continue to be resilient despite an apparent slowdown in global funding overall. The company did not disclose its valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Today a startup that has built a platform to help consumers mitigate that situation is announcing some funding on the back of more demand for its services. With this new investment, Symend is well funded to execute its strategy of scaling globally, and to partner with large enterprises in many industries.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

2014 Nonprofit Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America. The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and Blackbaud have released the findings from a first-time study that shows how nonprofit professionals in North America approach content marketing. Download here. Technology for Good Report.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But on Wednesday, it reported its first-ever quarterly decline of daily users globally, along with lower-than-expected ad growth that sent its stock plunging roughly 20 percent. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Since its inception, Facebook’s user growth has essentially been up and to the right.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Oriient, which powers the platform that Instacart shoppers use to gather their orders in hundreds of stores in North America, this week announced that it has raised an $11 million Series A round, which brings its total funding to $16 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports. It has raised a $6.2 they account for 90% of ANKA’s sales. “We

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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. Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

We’ll use the funding to significantly accelerate our global expansion and grow our current lead in a competitive industry.”. Covariant has deployed its technology in a number of markets in North America, Europe and Asia, across a broad range of different sectors requiring pick and place, from grocery to fashion to pharmaceuticals. “As

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Saltmine , which has developed a web-based workplace design platform, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Saltmine claims to have a 95% customer retention rate and in 2020 saw 350% year over year growth in monthly active users of its SaaS platform. That’s something one startup hopes to help companies figure out.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform. Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global strategy officer to lead its growth in international markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Conduit is building a set of APIs that developers can use to build platforms that provide access to DeFi products. Conduit says it plans to triple its headcount, which is fully remote, during the next year across the North America and LatAm regions by hiring engineering, sales, and compliance professionals with localized knowledge.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Lone Pine Capital is leading the round, with new backers G Squared and Vetamer Capital Management, and previous backers 1835i Ventures (formerly ANZi), DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Sequoia Capital China also participating. The GOAT marketplace for sneakers, or Papaya Global’s HR platform are classic examples of this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Tessian has around 350 global customers at this stage, across the legal, financial services, healthcare and technology sectors — name-checking the likes of Affirm, Arm, Investec and RealPagem among them. Prior to that it grabbed a $13M Series A in mid 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The company says the funding will be used to increase research and development and attract new partners as it looks to expand its global footprint. That arrives in part, due to things like object tracking, coupled with an open platform that allows users to program different shots. The company is also in the process of eyeing an IPO.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

ChowNow also promises that restaurants on its platform retain their own customer data for marketing and insights. As of July 2022, ChowNow claimed it had over 22,000 restaurant customers across North America that were generating $2 billion worth of revenue combined through its platform. warehouses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

It previously raised its Series A in January 2019, and Ward said the driver for going after additional capital was in part the global pandemic. The new capital will enable us to go deeper on product and invest in business out sales and marketing as we get ready to take our platform to market and announce ourselves.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

in Auckland, New Zealand, TechSoup hosted a #Storymakers2014 global discussion via Twitter. Here, we got to tap into experienced storytellers who were sharing mobile tools and platforms. Important issues emerged in the conversation: data access, data literacy, design of platform, dissemination strategy, and impact measurement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Simon is a partner with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Devices running the new OS have limited third-party tracking capabilities that platforms like Facebook (or Instagram) depend on. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Millions.co , a social commerce platform geared towards professional and semi-professional athletes wanting help to monetize their fanbase by selling merch and/or on-demand video, has grabbed $10 million in funding led by Boston-based Volition Capital. “We love Cameo , but we’re really different and focused on sports.”

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