TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Sensing a trend, Western startups are getting in on the action, with companies like Whatnot and PopShop.Live raising rounds to build out their infrastructure. This week, Miranda Halpern and Anna Heim interviewed experts on growth marketing: The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing and more.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital. million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. billion ($8.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

With the market turning so dramatically in 2022, it’s no surprise that many startups are now believed to be raising down rounds. This week alone, it was reported that Varo was raising a $50 million equity round led by Warburg Pincus at a “significantly” lower valuation. Want more fintech news in your inbox? consumer bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Picsart announced this morning that it has raised a $130 million round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2. The new capital infusion pushes the company’s valuation north of the $1 billion mark, though it declined to get more specific. The company said today it has surpassed that goal. Precisely how far? So, what about an IPO?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It warms my heart, and I hope today’s news is equally enthralling. If you don’t have your own camera crew, Studiobox has you covered with its interview-studio-in-a-box that Haje calls “a remote video team’s high-def dream.” ” Kirsten has details on how Stellantis’ new business unit will turn vehicle data into cash.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Traditional venture capital dollars are harder to come by these days, but institutional investors are still looking for smart investments, and industry watchers are hungry for the good news a new round of financing suggests. Another reason founders hesitate is if all or part of the new capital is through a debt investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

“It’s been an amazing industry to serve that I just feel like has trailed modern times and modern services by a factor of five to 10 years,” Shopmonkey CEO Ashot Iskandarian said in a recent interview with TechCrunch. That’s good news for auto repair shops – and for Shopmonkey, which sees opportunity in this increased demand.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This week Koan , a startup that provides objectives-and-key-results (OKR) and status-tracking software, announced that it has raised an additional $1 million, added a free tier to its service and acquired a design firm with which it has worked. BMNT put the new monies into the company. with which it has worked.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Hopin confirms $400M raise at $5.65B valuation. Previous backers Insight Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dynamic Loop, New Era and Workday Ventures, Access Ventures and Group 11 also chipped in. The new investment brings Papaya’s total funding to $190 million. Why so much, so quickly?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Even though E3 , Gamescom , and other summer gaming events have become online-only or outright canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems there’s still going to be a lot of gaming news this summer. What : Play for All is a “multi-week event” with news, previews, interviews, and more. Summer Game Fest. June Events.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

“This round was the first time we raised with most of the previous round still in the bank, despite the pressures of COVID,” he said. billion after raising just over $100 million. And that gives a potentially different cast to news of, say, Bolt rolling out newer scooter models , or commitments to carbon reduction.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Despite the abysmal number, there’s some good news. In the latest development, Curacel , a Nigeria-based platform that aims to drive insurance penetration in emerging markets via APIs enabling insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and administer their claims, has raised $3 million in seed funding. As many as 2.8%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In the latest development, Stitch — one of the prominent players building and operating these APIs in Africa — confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. In total, Stitch has raised $27 million to date. The South African API fintech enables businesses to build, optimize, and scale financial products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Finix announced today that it has raised $30 million in new venture capital, bringing its total known raised to $133 million. In a press release announcing its new cash, the company says that Q2 2022 was its best quarter ever in terms of new deals closed. That was our biggest core offering.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That business, an API platform for insurance infrastructure, said on Tuesday it has raised $75 million in new funding. The New Delhi-headquartered startup’s Series C funding was led by Creaegis. Zopper, an 11-year-old startup, has raised $96 million to date. It didn’t disclose the valuation at which it closed the round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Today’s news comes just six months after Dream Games raised $155 million at a $1 billion valuation (that round was led by Index and Makers Fund) , and one day after another Istanbul games startup, Spyke, announced a $55 million seed round. . And it will be similar for us.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Percepto , which makes drones — both the hardware and software — to monitor and analyze industrial sites and other physical work areas largely unattended by people, has raised $45 million in a Series B round of funding. Israel-based Percepto has now raised $72.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Metromile will likely be one of 2021’s many SPAC-led debuts, so Alex interviewed CEO Dan Preston to learn more about the process and what he learned along the way. Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm interviewed five of them to learn more about the opportunities they’re tracking in 2021: Benjamin Grubbs, founder, Next10 Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth, it said Thursday. Sigmoid raises $12 million to scale its data engineering and analytics platform by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. million seed round led by the Raba Partnership.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding. Stears started as a media publication focused on financial news and insights in Nigeria. Stears started as a media publication focused on financial news and insights in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Just short of a year after raising $24 million from backers including DHL, Everstream Analytics, a company that provides predictive insights for physical supply chains, has secured a fresh round of funding. Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Last year, for instance, it ran TRANSFER , which featured 30 brands and artists, panels, interviews, DJ sets and musical performances. The company, in announcing its news today, noted that livestream shopping in China reached $150 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow to $300 billion this year. But in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2023

Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann. Before I dive into the news, I wanted to say that I hope you all had a restful and fun holiday. Refreshing!

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

The simple answer is that Monte Carlo is growing quickly while not setting all its raised capital aflame. That fact makes the Monte Carlo round good news of a sort for other startups. ” If you grow that quickly, yes, you can raise capital for your software business like it’s still 2021. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That’s not great news for employers. “AI could finally enable a new form of software and interaction model that modernizes the workplace,” Christothoulou told TechCrunch in an email interview. Xembly raises cash to develop an AI assistant for corporate meetings by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Today a startup that has built what it believes comes next is making some news with a large funding round, its first outside money. The browser extension doesn’t impact on a computer’s or an internet connection’s latency, nor does it “just sit in the background,” CEO Amos Peled said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s our job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. One of those is Clara, a spend management company based in Mexico that announced $60 million in new funding last week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

But today comes news of a different kind of startup called Turing Labs , which is addressing the same challenges, but as they apply to people who work in laboratories. It has now raised $16.5 million in funding on the back of its growth. The opportunity is in how the whole R&D game has shifted, he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

. “Behind each independent contractor is an individual vendor, W9, 1099, e-signature, background check and a reconciliation process — a situation that ultimately blocks companies from working with contractors more,” Mironov told TechCrunch in an email interview. It brings the company’s total raised to $23.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Never begin the promotion of your crowdfunding campaign with “$0 Raised,” even if you have to donate $100 to your own nonprofit. Conduct video interviews with speakers and attendees and host the videos on YouTube or Instagram. Chapter 16: New Media Managers. Add the icons and URLs of your social networks. ?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

This week, Adam Neumann made his post-WeWork debut, co-founding a blockchain-based carbon credits market, and — more impressively — raising $70 million in funding for it, about half of which came from VCs with the other portion coming from a private token sale. In our interview this week, we sat down with Grace Isford.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tooling around : Two years ago, two former Palantir engineers started Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, and have now raised $20 million in fresh funding to hire a team to get a new product out in the next year, Jacquelyn reports. Lots of startup news again today, so let’s dig in. See you tomorrow!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

This week, he announced he’s back at the helm at YC, and Natasha M interviewed him about what’s next for Y Combinator. A new listing in the App Store under the developer’s account, TTYL, is teasing a pre-release app called Made with Friends, Sarah reports. Money for laundering : Flush with fresh funds, U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. I woke up on Monday to news that First Republic Bank has been closed down by regulators — and JP Morgan will buy $330 billion worth of assets. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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