TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. Some of these customers are white-labeling InVideo platform to their own clients. InVideo ’s $15 million Series A financing round was led by Sequoia Capital India.

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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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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

During a Bloomberg interview at the Paris AI Action Summit today, Altman took another jab at the richest man in the world. That's despite having founded his own AI company, dubbed xAI, a for-profit entity that has raised billions of dollars , much like OpenAI. "No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Press releases and press conferences, letters to the editor, calls into talk radio and interviews with journalists… getting coverage of your non-profit and getting your message out through the press is the essence of good PR. How Can Good PR Help Me Raise Money? There are several ways good PR can help you raise more money: 1.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6 Despite raising just ? Having done this much with so little, why is the company raising a seed round now? The Techstars-backed company is actively fueling its expansion across Nigeria and Ghana having raised more than $1.5 Image Credits: Shuttlers.

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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. Whether you’re searching for a new role or planning your long-term career, watch this interview with a nonprofit career coach. 2) 10 Strategies for Success with Digital Fundraising. 3) Strategies for a Successful Nonprofit Job Search.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. The company is announcing a $10.5 million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital. FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. We won’t expand like crazy without having positive unit economics in every city,” CEO Mahmoud Talaat told TechCrunch in an interview. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 market yet,” explained Gitai founder and CEO Sho Nakanose in an interview. million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. So we would like to get missions from U.S. commercial space companies, as a subcontractor first.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supernormal today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Balderton with participation from Acequia Capital and byFounders VC. The new cash brings the company’s total raised to around $12.9 It’s a strong sales pitch. ” Supernormal automatically transcribes and summarizes meetings. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Moove , an African mobility company with a fintech play, wants to change that, and is raising $23 million in Series A to scale rapidly across the continent. And that’s what’s driving mobility drive and vehicle sales,” Delano said during the interview. Moove raised a $5.5 Nigeria’s Autochek raises $3.4M

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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.

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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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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

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

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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 We saw it multiple times, with lab testing, with antigen testing and now with vaccines,” Color CEO and co-founder Othman Laraki told me in an interview. billion post-money, the company announced today.

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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 When the founders, ex-Andelans (a term to describe previous Andela staff), launched the home service app two years ago, it raised some eyebrows. million seed round to deepen its market share. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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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

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. What this is telling us is that there’s very much real interest in the number of people who want to have debit cards and this is not going to stop anytime soon,” Mlambo said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. On Saturday, Juno announced it has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Private station operators “are going to need an easy LEGO brick to build in space,” he told TechCrunch in a recent interview: versatile, modular hardware to let humanity build in space at scale. Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. The recent slowdown in tech has not been seen among small businesses and entrepreneurs, the core users of ThriveCart’s tech,” McKeand told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

When the $80 price was first revealed, gamers immediately raised questions. Credit: Nintendo In interviews with the media after the big Switch 2 Direct two weeks ago, Nintendo employees generally took the position that Mario Kart World 's price makes sense because of how much content is in the game.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“At a time of macroeconomic challenges, companies need a solution that accelerates key business processes,” Sangha told TechCrunch in an email interview. Terzo recently raised $16 million for its tech that automatically extracts key data from contracts. To date, the startup has raised $22 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In early August 2018, Nonprofit Tech for Good published an open call for sponsors and after six weeks of interviews, Funraise (located in Long Beach, CA) has been selected as the new sponsor. We use data, design, and informed instinct to create the best all-in-one platform to manage donors, host campaigns, and raise money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Everyone wants to be Sequoia or a16z,” he said, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We We could have raised $2 billion, but what will we do if we don’t believe in it — you just need a billion to be called a unicorn VC fund? “We We want to be who we are: just copying somebody else is strategy for disaster, strategy for failure.” “We

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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. “In this next stage of growth, Vic.ai ” Vic.ai ” Vic.ai

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. I was talking to a friend about doing this interview. For every single federal dollar we get, local stations raise an additional seven. It’s like trying to go to Carnegie Hall.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Planet42 , a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $100 million in equity and debt from a wide range of investors. It became carbon-neutral certified in 2021. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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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 ” AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B billion valuation. ” Rogenmoser launched Jasper early last year with J.P.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Wiz today announced that it raised $300 million in a Series D round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Greenoaks Capital Partners and angel investors including Starbucks owner Howard Schultz and French business magnate Bernard Arnault, valuing Wiz at around $10 billion post-money. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Cologne, Germany-based DeepL is not disclosing the full amount that it’s raised — it doesn’t want to focus on this aspect, CEO and founder Jaroslaw Kutylowski said in an interview — but as we were working on this story we heard a range of figures. DeepL is indeed in a fortunate position.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

But one of the more successful vendors is Cast AI , which today announced that it raised $20 million in an investment led by Creandum with participation from unnamed existing investors. ” Cast AI raises $20M to help companies reduce cloud spend by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch There’s several out there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Coho AI today announced that it raised $8.5 “Coho AI has developed a unique data consolidation platform that models the business value of a software-as-a-service company and maps it to the behavior of the customers in real time using machine learning and advanced analytics,” Falcon told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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