The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Where are all of the VCs in Asia?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

We are really fortunate to be investing at this time regardless of the hype.” This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. Winfield isn’t fully avoiding the hype though. million and another that raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

It seems we’re entering yet another interesting and tumultuous year: The crypto market is hanging on by a thread; everyone is watching with popcorn in hand to see which unicorn will be the next to tumble; and the hype around AI continues to swell. Investors say web3 and hype are in for 2023, high valuations are out — maybe?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of all the startup markets in the world, fintech in Latin America is one of the hottest. Capital is flowing into the region’s financial technology companies at a slicing pace, leading to a wave of startups that are building private-market value at a simply astounding rate. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

The venture capitalist was one of many at an AI confab last month, but he — and many others — has not yet made a new AI investment during the current hype cycle. The startup recently raised $25 million to help caregivers feel less overwhelmed through a product it describes as “tech-enabled care concierge.” It’s been fun.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Poparazzi — an app that turned Instagram’s tagging feature into its entire premise — hyped itself to the top of the App Store using a series of growth hacks not too long ago. The a16z and Accel-backed app raised $30 million in a Series A last year. It has since seen its popularity fade and is now No.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

But that’s ok, we dove deep into the hype and looked at what skeptics are worried about for the new application. federal courts FBI says North Korean hackers preparing to cash out after high-profile crypto hacks Friend.tech hype is skyrocketing, but will it actually reach the stars? federal agencies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 TripActions didn’t comment on any public listing plans, but its not unique to see a company raise ahead of a financial event of that scale. The upcoming TripActions IPO has us hype.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

SoleSavy, a community built around buying hot sneakers and related items that are increasingly hard to acquire at retail, raised $2 million in a round that closed late last year. Second-market startups like StockX and GOAT have sprung up to facilitate those who don’t mind paying 30%-200% premiums on each release. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. In fact, one of the most in-demand job skills for digital marketers and fundraisers is knowing how to effectively use social media advertising channels and Google Ads.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

housing market persists. One such startup, Abodu , has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2022

Making Nonprofit Event Marketing a Priority Can Have a Major Effect on your Event Success. Of course, just because you’re offering the same kinds of events as last year, doesn’t mean you should repeat the same nonprofit event marketing campaigns. Take a multi-channel marketing approach. gatherings. Add incentives. As part of.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The startup has now raised a $3 million seed financing round led by Xploration Capital, which was joined by unnamed new strategic investors and existing investors. The funding will be used to expand in North American and European markets. trillion market where legacy commerce is the norm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Plug, based in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, wants to make its home-market more amenable to online commerce. In an interview, the startup described Brazil as a hostile market for payments, with a quarter of transactions failing and merchants paying a multiple of what they pay in other markets to process payments.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 23, 2021

You sit down with your event marketing team and start to plan out your strategy to market your event. Maybe you want to move away from the repetitive marketing types and you really want to hype up the interest. One strategy that you should consider for your marketing campaign is exclusivity!

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Since its launch, Jam City has raised upwards of $300 million, including a $145 million round in 2019. 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. How do you stay relevant?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. while the rest are spread across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, markets where they deployed more than $6 million last year. Last year, rali_cap raised $2 million, money it has since deployed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

There was also a mega-raise, and an acquisition too. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

British autonomous vehicle startup Wayve has raised a $200 million Series B funding round from investors to scale its technology and expand its partnerships with commercial fleets. When we started the business in 2017, that was the peak hype cycle point of autonomous vehicles, with billions of dollars already invested.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Mobile landing page builder Beacons has raised a $6 million seed round to expand its vision for empowering creators to make money beyond the cramped confines of their social media profiles. MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Orb today revealed that it’s raised $19.1 million led by Greylock) rounds to date, which Morales says is being put toward customer acquisition, go-to-market and R&D efforts. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The latest to show its hand is Berlin-based Flink , which today is announcing that it has raised a hefty $52 million in seed financing. That puts it up against dark store competitors including Berlin’s much-hyped Gorillas and London’s Dija and Weezy , and France’s Cajoo , all of which also claim to focus on fresh food and groceries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The company has raised over $540 million in funding as a private company. And given some outsized first day pops from recent tech IPOs, it’s not too surprising to see a company like Coinbase opt for this path to public markets. Coinbase files to go public confidentially and we’re hyped.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Yesterday, we dug into preliminary Q3 data for the Chinese startup market. The firm ran the numbers on Q1 and Q2 venture performance in their target market. What emerged from the data is a startup market busy accelerating its ability to raise capital, mint unicorns and, increasingly, generate outsized exits.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those looking to research, trade and securely store high-value sports cards. ” Sports trading card platform Alt launches with $31 million in funding and plenty of market hype.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. If you go to any flea market in the main cities of the country, you will see that many of the sellers are using Bold to receive payments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

and over $200m has been raised over the last two years to open even more,” Dina Burkitbayeva, founder of PsyMed Ventures, said. ” A more favorable regulatory and social landscape is helping psychedelic startups gain a foothold, but they still have to walk a tightrope that’s susceptible to the vagaries of market sentiment. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the past year, there’s been a lot of hype around biomanufacturing — from growing cell-based meat to microbe-powered medicine manufacturing. The Buenos Aires-based company just announced a $17 million Series A round; combined with previous seed and pre-seed rounds, that brings its total raised to $20 million. billion. ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

While these companies have very real customer bases and products, it is not hard to imagine that at least some of these valuations were propped up by hype. In July, Swedish buy now, pay later startup Klarna raised $800 million at a new $6.7 The dominoes have already started to fall here. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. Glow Labs announced today that it has raised $4.15

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many tech workers have never experienced a job market like this one. Depending on where you worked and what you did, you may already have the experience investors are looking for when it comes to reaching product-market fit and solving engineering problems. People see the headline, ‘$107 million raised.’

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

My own organization (a cloud vendor) looked at our core marketing messages and settled on "where business is going." " You'll notice that this marketing message presents the cloud as a fait accompli, and that is increasingly true.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Anytime a company that has raised more than half a billion dollars basically implodes, it’s worth taking a look at the roller coaster ride it was on before it got to that point.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Clint Sharp says he foresaw the observability tool market’s growth while working at Splunk, where he and colleagues Dritan Bitincka and Ledion Bitincka had to deal with moving data across different IT tools without a central point of control. ” Cribl’s total raised stands at $400 million with the latest tranche. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. Another strategic backer, Polygon, is also participating in this round.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

All of that new stuff is also paired with both a higher price ($829 for the base 64GB model) and discounts and heavily marketed carrier trade-in and installment plans. Apple has joined the 5G Hype Industrial Complex. It seems obvious that both Apple and its carrier partners are trying to align to make this a supercycle for upgrades.

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