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 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2021

Get event registrants hyped before the big day! You helped us raise $102,768!To We surveyed hundreds of nonprofits who successfully shifted their events online and they shared 25 donor-engaging, money-raising ideas to inspire and encourage you and your team. For example: Hey Lend-a-Paw Volunteer! 3) Send reminders to guests.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

We will call our contacts and they’ll join, too’ ” There has been a huge wave of hype around crypto, although in the wider sense it’s still primarily an adopter phenomenon, far from being a mainstream investment, with most people having no idea how it works. No roadshow needed, we will help you.

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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

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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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. Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy.

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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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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. First, investors in Asia flock to hype.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

But there are several factors in play that make the booming venture capital totals these companies are raising more reasonable than they might initially appear. Let’s quickly chew on just how much more money fintech startups in Latin America are raising this year before turning to discuss the logic behind the influx.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Party Round is building software that it hopes will make the process of raising early-stage corporate capital far simpler than it is today. And the company just used its own service to raise $7 million. It then helps handle the requisite documents, signatures and capture of raised funds. His startup wants to work on the problem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ukrainian synthetic voice startup Respeecher is finding success despite not just bombs raining down on their city, but a wave of hype that has raised up sometimes controversial competitors. A new $1M in funding should help the company add a few studios to its media and gaming clients.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

One such startup, Abodu , has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Earlier this week, we covered the recent raise of Mighty Buildings, another Bay Area-based startup building ADUs and other housing. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. housing market persists.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

Less than a year after launching , Somewhere Good announced this morning that it has raised $3.75 MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media. So she’s in the process of reinventing how social media looks and feels, and with community and people of color at the core.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

For every crypto-skeptic that sees NFTs as yet another hype bubble, there’s an acolyte who sees NFTs as the key to unlocking the future of the creative web. The startup tells TechCrunch they’ve raised $19 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. With the company’s Series A closed, Bitski has raised some $23.4

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2011

Or perhaps you are attending your organization’s biggest fundraising event of the year, and need to be in constant contact with your fundraising team and board members who are doing a lot of networking to raise money. Forget ducking into a corner to find a quiet spot to call staff. Loose the retro walkie -talkies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The startup has spun out a rather simplistic app into a separate company and raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a very real venture capital firm at an eye-popping $200 million valuation. Back in simpler times, 2014, Yo raised $1.5 million on $10 million. ” Is any of this real?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Agora , a startup that has built a materials management platform for contractors, has raised $33 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. The startup wasn’t actively raising for the Series B — instead, investors were proactively offering term sheets, Rioumine said. “A

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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

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. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. This is the argument of Brokrete , which bills itself as the “Shopify of construction.”.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But before we get to far here’s a simple way to think about task-based fundraising contest: Instead of asking participants to raise a [insert $ amount here] ask them to complete a series of tasks that will lead to them raising more money. donations of $60 each resulting in $450 raised in a single day. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Orb today revealed that it’s raised $19.1 “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it. Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M million across Series A ($14 million led by Menlo) and seed ($5.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. growth equity firm Avenir Growth. Spark Capital and Cherry Ventures, which led the Series A six months ago, also participated. Cosuno now says its valuation is put at $150 million.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The startup raised its latest capital using a SAFE, or simple agreement for future equity, which featured a cap, though we’re not sure how high the conversion ceiling was set. Why LatAm’s fintech boom is more than hype and superlative venture investment. The company first hit the market in April.

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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

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Like Facebook Charitable Giving Tools, nonprofits are not raising much money via “Donate” stickers and “Donate” buttons in livestreams on Instagram (according to the Open Data Project ). A “Donate” buttons to livestreams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The company, which we profiled back in July , announced today that it raised another $4 million, this time from Evan Moore at Khosla Ventures, real estate strategic investors like David Gerster at JLL Spark and Lennar board member Scott Stowell as well as individuals like Adam Nash of Dropbox and TikTok star Josh Richards, who I guess has turned that (..)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Apple has joined the 5G Hype Industrial Complex. I don’t love Lightning, but I have to admit it’s better than literally nothing when it comes to wired charging. 5G is great if you can find it. 5G on the iPhone 12. It is promoting 5G as the flagship feature on all of its new iPhone models and promising incredibly fast download speeds.

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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. Why LatAm’s fintech boom is more than hype and superlative venture investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The company has now raised $121 million. . MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media. “At the heart of what we’re doing is building AI models that can help automate work that used to be manual,” said Kevin Guo, Hive’s co-founder and CEO.

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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. “The surprising thing is that the builders have continued building,” he said.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype. The app, according to a now-expired engineer job posting, has raised a “multi-million dollar” seed round to get started. The app idea is similar to the buzzy live audio startup Clubhouse, except with the ability to natively record conversations.

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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.

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