TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. African startups nearly raised $1.5 African startups nearly raised $1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. As the tit-for-tat tech conflict between the U.S. drop today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. There is no more blaming or cutting corners because the system validates that and also makes construction a healthier industry to work in.”. Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

It also highlighted the broader explosion in industry value creation stemming from the transition of on-premise software to the cloud. But now it’s time to update T2D3 to account for some of the tectonic changes shaping a broader universe of B2B tech — and pushing companies to grow at rates we’ve never seen before.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang , which announced toda y (link in Chinese) that it has raised a $1.6 The latest financing brings Zuoyebang’s total raised so far to $2.93 The company did not disclose its latest worth, but Reuters reported in September that it was raising at a $10 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With so many fintechs laying off staff , it can be easy to assume that the entire industry is in distress. Insurance infrastructure startup Lula , which has raised $18 million in funding from the likes of NextView Ventures, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, is hiring 10 across engineering, product and sales. and Israel. Sign up here.

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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 and across the European Economic Area (EEA). The underwriting factor.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Other standout AI apps focuse on specific industries. has raised more than $20 million in venture capital so far. Blackbird.AI

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. We operate in Europe and we are the industry leader in online sales,” co-founder and co-CEO Philippe de Chanville told me. The company operates an e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Can we get it to industrial-scale power?” The round was led by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

During her work, she met Jake Soberal, an intellectual property lawyer, who shared Olguin’s desire to leverage the tech industry to effect change at the local level. Olguin and Soberal started by co-founding Geekwise Academy, a coding and tech skills bootcamp that teaches HTML and JavaScript.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Karthee Madasamy Contributor Share on Twitter Karthee Madasamy is the managing partner at MFV Partners , a deep tech-focused venture firm. Like nearly every other sector, deep tech faced significant headwinds in 2022. ” These are positive signs for deep tech founders preparing to raise money this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. Tabletop is now a more than $20 billion industry. 2020 was rough for everyone, but we were able to focus on the core product.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As production begins on the fourth edition of the Global NGO Technology Report , Nonprofit Tech for Good is thrilled to announce that a new sponsor has been secured. The tech report will be published in odd years and the giving report in even years. Funraise has raised more than $13 million in venture capital to date.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If fundraising via events, instead find creative ways to continue to raise funds virtually.”. “We We solicited sponsors for our biggest event and were able to raise almost as much as we netted in the past.”. “We DonorPerfect has the best support in the industry. “Changing your narrative. The transition was seamless.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the big companies conducted mega layoffs at the beginning of this year, it would be natural to think that the tech unemployment rate would skyrocket. If we think about tech jobs as purely IT, engineering and developer kinds of roles, then those jobs are definitely still in demand and less affected than you might imagine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Raising funds for your cause takes constant dedication and focus, and nothing helps you gain focus better than setting a game plan. If you raised 15% more in January 2019 compared to January 2020, take a look at the difference in your fundraising strategies between these two time periods. for every dollar raised. 1) Pledges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The investment comes in the wake of a bigger round that the startup raised in the summer of 2022, a $20 million Series A from MonotaRo and JAFCO. In addition to Panasonic, other big, industrial-level users include Mitsui Designtec, Nissan Trading and Tokyu Redesign, according to the company. It currently employs 60 people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

They posted to Facebook to help raise awareness and ask for donations. Subsequent videos could give updates on how much has been raised, another on progress made from relief efforts and another on how the money is being put to use. This summer, they’re running a raffle to raise funds and give fund prizes to their supporters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

. “I believe that the best consumer investments come from people who have unique insights on consumer behavior and ways that new tech products can allow new forms of social interaction,” said Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures , who led the pre-seed investment round. The company raised the pre-seed round of $750,000.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Samooha , a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration platform, today announced that it raised $12.5 “Data clean rooms” have been around for a while, pitched both by tech giants and startups as the ideal solution for sharing sensitive data across computing environments. It’s not a new concept.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. In fact, she will often offer a surprise song during fundraising to encourage more donations – her songs have raised up to an additional $10,000 for her beloved clients!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Now, the most profitable arm of Beast Industries is its commerce division, led by the chocolate brand Feastables. As well as Feastables, Beast Industries is also a shareholder in the snack brand Lunchly and owns Viewstats , a software firm that sells digital tools to fellow content creators.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

VCs continue to bet big on legal tech. According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. “These industry-standard playbooks are available for use immediately.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. “As a super deep ‘hard tech’ company, we’ve successfully finished our R&D and productization.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. Mondu has now raised a $43 million Series A round led by U.S.-based Previous investors Cherry Ventures, FinTech Collective and tech entrepreneurs and senior executives from Klarna, Zalando, and SumUp also participated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

A startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane , today raised another $100 million to build what it calls an “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI. And Volvo’s teaming up with Humane on a potential automotive industry offering.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4 , a platform for business “upskilling” that has now raised $37 million altogether.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Does it seem like everyone you know is raving about a new tool that’s revolutionizing the way employees in all industries are doing their work? We’ve done the legwork and compiled the top ways Chat GPT and AI can help your team save resources, perform tasks, and raise more funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We are using the funding to launch more products, go into additional markets, and also double down on our tech and data to effectively produce, reach and market to our audience,” Uncover co-founder and CEO, Sneha Mehta told TechCrunch. The new funding brings the total amount raised by Uncover, since launch in 2020, to $1.225 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2020

In the nonprofit industry, we often hear the phrase “every dollar counts” or “together, we can make a big difference.” If you’re raising funds to support an after-school program that prepares kids in low-income areas for college, consider sharing their stories. By Kaley Aposporos , Content Writer at GoFundMe Charity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The Black climate tech community is growing, according to investors and founders TechCrunch+ spoke to. based Black climate tech founders received only 1% of all capital invested in climate tech startups, according to Crunchbase. In the first quarter of this year, it was even lower: such founders raised $24 million of the $3.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy. Nothing comes close to what we are doing and that is why we are able to sign some of the biggest names in the creative industry,” he said.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

10x Genomics For bringing speed and efficiency to single-cell analysis In 2024, 10x Genomics worked to cement its status as the single-cell analysis company, making upgrades and additions to its portfolio of tools used by researchers in academia and industry to understand molecular activity in the three-dimensional space of cells and tissues.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In February, Lambda Labs raised a $320 million Series C venture round. Oxide, which cites Shopify as a major ecommerce customer, has raised $78M to date. In June 2024, UK and Colorado-based Quantinuum unveiled the industrys largest-ever trapped ion quantum computer, with 56 trapped-ion qubits.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Today, one of such, MAGIC Fund , a global collective of founders, is announcing that it has raised a second fund of $30 million to continue backing early-stage startups across Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Southeast Asia. Olubusi and the other founders knew this would be a limitation in the long run if they went solo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Some Twitter users applauded the tech, expressing an interest in using it for modeling clothing and apparel brands. and Surreal are securing big VC investments for tech that generate virtual fashion models, ethics be damned. billion by 2026.

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