TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. million in a pre-seed round. Enter venture capital. It likely won’t need to.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

LibLab, which bills itself as an “SDK-as-a-service” platform for engineers, today announced that it raised $42 million in Series A funding from Insight Partners with participation from Zeev Ventures, Stepstone, Sheva, and Rainfall. ” To date, LibLab has raised $50 million in venture capital.

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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 23, 2020

Cashfree, an Indian startup that offers a wide-range of payments services to businesses, has raised $35.3 The new round brings the startup’s to-date raise to $42 million. When their merchants asked if they could build a service to accept payments online, the founders quickly realized that Cashfree could serve a wider purpose.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 This new funding will be used for hiring, as well as funding the development and execution of an on-orbit demonstration mission for the company’s robotic technology, which will show its efficacy in performing in-space satellite servicing work.

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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. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. Alerzo also plans to launch AlerzoPay, the company’s cashless payments and lending platform, as well as a portfolio of new business support services.

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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 9, 2023

. “The program was highly inefficient, which made it impossible to scale to the rest of the company in order to leverage the benefits of mentoring across the organization,” George told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Recent headlines tell a bleak story: quiet quitting, sweeping layoffs and falling short on DEI promises.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. In addition, Norebase upsells on other services as long as they abide by regulatory and compliance requirements. The continent is also home to more than 1.2 Here’s a use case on how it works.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. The startup is now raising another $86 million, which means that Lydia has raised $131 million in total as part of its Series B round. They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview.

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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

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 19, 2023

Copilot , a platform aimed at helping companies, including marketing agencies, accounting firms and law firms, run and grow their businesses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by YC Continuity and Lachy Groom at a $100 million post-money valuation. ” Using Copilot for invoice payments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 That’s essentially the problem we are solving,” said Rohit Taneja, co-founder and CEO, Decentro, in an interview with TechCrunch. million in a Series A round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised a $22 million Series A – its first significant venture capital raise after mostly bootstrapping. This new Series A round was led by Silicon Valley VC Xplorer Capital, as well as German growth fund Futury Regio Growth. With its U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies , is announcing funding to continue building out its specific ambition: to provide a modern banking service for Africans and the African diaspora, or as co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi describes them, “every African on the planet, wherever you are in the world.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 According to him, ShipBlu is one of the few e-commerce fulfilment companies that offers that service to customers in the country. “We Nasser said to TechCrunch in an interview. “Or million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

However , expensive value-added services like credit cards do not necessarily address the needs of underbanked people. Coming off a year of exponential growth, it has raised a $48 million Series B to provide more alternative payment solutions to its millions of merchants and consumers. Since the company’s Series A raise of $2.5

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India , has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding round for an agritech startup in India, where farm produce yields two-thirds of the country’s $1 trillion in annual retail spending. DeHaat has grown 5x in the past seven months, he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “ demo bottleneck ” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. There’s Arcade, a startup developing a Chrome extension for product demos, which raised $7.5 million last September.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It has raised a $6.2 And also much larger product offering as we are going to serve not only people in fashion but in every industry where anyone wants to export African products,” CEO Taboure told TechCrunch in an interview. Also, sellers pay € 10 (~$12) upfront for the platform’s shipping or website hosting services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The digital lending platform partners with Egyptian merchants, allowing them to underwrite customers at the point of sale and provide them with finance to purchase items such as electronics, furniture and automotive services via 6-36 month installments. Money Fellows, an Egyptian fintech digitizing money circles, raises $31M funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 Neem is also working on a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, which will go live in December, that will onboard partners to embed wallets and payments and offer financial products such as insurance and savings customized to specific community’s needs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

SumUp , a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up in a big way. “We have very stable cash flow, which allows us to take on debt,” he said in an interview.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, which takes its to-date raise to about $68 million.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

DeepL , a startup that provides instant translation-as-a-service both to businesses and to individuals — competing with Google, Bing and other online tools — has confirmed a fundraise at a €1 billion valuation (just over $1 billion at today’s rates). Previous backers in the company also include Benchmark and btov.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . We are taking the best practices along with key learnings to our next market launch.” .

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new funding brings the total amount raised in the round to $14.4 With the support of Oikocredit alongside our first-round funders, our distribution, logistics and financing services will continue not only in Ghana but also in Ivory Coast where we’ve recently begun the process of expanding our team,” said Attah in a statement.

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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. Humane’s work is shrouded in mystery. Humane co-founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Startups and VC Highbeam, a startup that provides banking features, credit and cash flow insights to e-commerce customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in debt from TriplePoint as it looks to expand the reach of its digital product portfolio, Kyle reports. A Black YC alum explains how he raised $107M Image Credits: Andrew T.

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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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