TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation. “We want to build a world-class business, [and] to do that we need capital and highly strategic partners.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs. It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Headroom , a startup developing AI-powered software to make meetings ostensibly more efficient, today announced that it raised $9 million in funding led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures. “There has been a slow rollout of AI features (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. So, now, Kasparov is launching a platform he says has been several years in the making: Kasparovchess. MasterClass, which is reportedly raising funding that would value it at $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Image Credits: Postman.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

billion if you want," Altman wrote in a scathing rebuke shortly after the WSJ published its story, referencing Musk's disastrous acquisition of the social media platform, which has since lost almost 80 percent of what it was worth when he bought it. "No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. Salaries have skyrocketed,” he said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2019

This video from Candid provides easy-to-follow best practices for raising more money online. Special attention is paid to improving your donation pages and email campaigns, what to look for in an online platform, and when it makes sense to invest in digital advertising. 2) 10 Strategies for Success with Digital Fundraising.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $54 million (€50 million) Series C round. In particular, Welcome to the Jungle sends a photo and video crew to your office so that they can shoot some high-quality photos and record some quick interviews with employees. Up next, Welcome to the Jungle wants to expand to the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Inspired to solve it, Anthony Mironov and Greg Franczyk founded Wingspan , a payroll platform aimed at firms employing mainly freelancers. “Greg and I founded Wingspan in 2019 to create the system of record and payroll platform for independent contractors. . So what does Wingspan bring to the table?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Zarta, a new ad-free creator platform that focuses on pay-per-view video content, announced today that it has closed a $5.7 The platform allows creators to upload videos, set parameters for a free preview and then charge viewers a small amount to unlock the whole video. million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. So that’s what we’re evolving into as a business,” CEO Peter Njonjo said to TechCrunch in an interview. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. million equity and $6.25 million debt — in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. Adewale Opaleye founded Alerzo in 2018 as a last-mile distribution platform that helps retailers stock inventory directly from manufacturers. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

To date, Soci has raised nearly $240 million. “The pandemic drove consumers inside and online, inciting a shift to digital channels and fundamentally changing how consumers communicate and engage with brands,” Khoury told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round. “From telling us to set up takes days. Here’s a use case on how it works.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supernormal hopes to demonstrate the value of generative AI with its tech, which creates meeting notes by integrating with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other conferencing platforms. Supernormal today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Seven-year-old Arya said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in its Series B financing round. We believe Arya’s unique approach, providing a full-service digital platform with embedded finance and differentiated efficiencies for small farmholders, will drive the future of farming in India.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. But the bank wanted us to deposit 100% collateral in cash before they could give the overdraft,” the two-time YC founder told TechCrunch in a June interview. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

That led Hess to found Consensus, a platform for interactive video demos, which today announced that it raised $110 million from Sumeru Equity Partners. “Consensus is like an ‘Iron Man mech suit’ for every sales engineer to be able to do more with what they have,” Hess told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. Image Credits: Daniel Jeffries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

“Today, the way people transact has evolved,” newly appointed chief business officer (CBO) of Tilia Catherine Porter told me in an interview. The goal of the startup is to help platform operators capture more of the value of all the transactions made related to their product.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its previous funding, as the Bengaluru-based startup scales its platform that helps workers access their earned salaries in real time. Tiger Global led Refyne’s $82 million Series B funding, the two said Wednesday. times since the Series A in June.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. M-Changa has also partnered with GlobalGiving to enable NGOs already of the platform to accept mobile payments. Finally, M-Changa seeks to build trust from both local and international donors.

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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 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., has raised $10 million in a funding round led by the South Korean gaming company Krafton. Currently, One Impression has enabled its platform for Instagram and YouTube.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Often, first-time e-commerce entrepreneurs don’t know what they need to build an effective funnel and cart experience for their platforms. ThriveCart today announced that it raised $35 million in a funding round led by LTV SaaS Growth Fund, the company’s first public outside investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Eden Life , strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for home service needs, has raised a $1.4 The platform allows customers to schedule three home services — food, laundry, and cleaning — via a mobile application. million seed round to deepen its market share. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

We understand that the GivingTuesday social media landscape can be a little intimidating, and coordinating your efforts across platforms in order to get the most impact can be a challenge. You can use tools like surveys, interviews, or data analytics to understand this (more on that below). What does this mean for you?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Schools, city governments, retailers, corporations, individuals, and big and small nonprofits have been participating in GivingTuesday by the thousands, and many of them are working together to raise funds for those 24 hours and beyond. Well Aware implemented automated matching on their Shower Strike campaign to raise over $300k!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One beneficiary of that increased spending is London-based Beamery, a startup developing a talent lifecycle management platform. Beamery today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series D round that values the company at $1 billion, bringing the company’s total raised to date to $228 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. “We started Accord to solve frustrating challenges in B2B sales,” Ross told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As something of a case in point, Vic.ai , which bills itself as an accounting automation platform, today announced that it raised $52 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and ICONIQ Growth with participation from Cowboy Ventures and Costanoa Ventures. Data on the platform is retained for seven years, but Vic.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The investors behind virtual hack.summit() , the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, have launched a $200 million crypto seed fund under the Hack VC umbrella, fund partner Alex Pack told TechCrunch in an interview. The lab has also helped Hack source deals through analysis of on-chain data, he added.

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