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 lets engineering teams build a library of reusable, interactive video demos that sales teams can send out on demand. million last September.

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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

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

MAY 4, 2022

Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Onayemi, a lawyer by profession, said the idea for Norebase came after various conversations on how his clients and colleagues in tech could leverage AfCFTA for their businesses.

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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. Hack VC partner Alex Pack. Image Credits: Courtesy of Hack VC.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine learning (ML) projects. Then in May, news emerged that Pulse had acquired team communication startup Lounge. ” Feel the pulse. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Contract management vendors have benefited in particular as contracting workloads increase; contracting teams at large organizations now manage an average of 19,000 contracts a year while the busiest organizations manage more than 50,000, according to a 2021 EY survey. To date, the startup has raised $22 million.

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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. For manufacturing sector, we have an on-ground team that goes for orientation and induction. times since the Series A in June.

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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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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Despite the novelty, we were interviewing some of the most forward-thinking leaders in our community. More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams. In 2005, when Highroad was one of the few virtual businesses, the concept raised some eyebrows. Today, the idea is more mainstream. What are the lessons learned?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 If you look at the embedded finance space, it is a $167 billion opportunity,” Shaikh said in an interview with TechCrunch. Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5M million in a seed funding round as it works to support underbanked communities in the country.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Money to raise. Until you can surround yourself with people who want to help, you’re going to be a team of one. That’s important when you’re a team of one. Volunteer Inquiry Volunteers are imperative to growing beyond your team of one. Remember: As a team of one, you’ll need to work smarter, not harder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Teams dedicated to boosting customer acquisition, retention and sales don’t necessarily have the time or tools to use data insights effectively. Coho AI today announced that it raised $8.5 ” Coho AI’s target audience is sales, customer success and product teams within business-to-business (B2B) SaaS companies. .

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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. It’s not just Starship’s cargo capacity that excites the Gravitics team. We’re betting on launch costs coming down.

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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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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. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid Response features candid conversations with todays top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. It’s a lot of practice.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. This helps recruiters to build teams in other regions without worrying about the lengthy recruitment process and paperwork.

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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

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. In total, the company, which LoftyInc Capital and other local investors back , has raised $8.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. “The capital we raised allows us to capture the market opportunity as it evolves over the next several years,” Bijapur, who serves as CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

I immediately tasked my team with creating a recruiting platform tailored to military veterans, and the results were remarkable. Traveling the country, meeting these extraordinary individuals, and helping them craft resumes and participate in mock interviews opened my eyes to the incredible work being done by nonprofits also in this space.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity? You may place individual gamers head-to-head and compete against one another or set up a points system with teams.

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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 As organizations look for ways to find efficiencies within teams, AI generation is the natural choice to augment creators and teams.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Blnk said it has raised $32 million, money split across different stages and funding types: $12.5 It’s a very fast service,” said Amr Sultan , co-founder and CEO, in an interview with TechCrunch. Money Fellows, an Egyptian fintech digitizing money circles, raises $31M funding. million debt financing and $8.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team.

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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

MARCH 18, 2021

Ogundeyi said in an interview that the plan is to use these new funds to continue expanding its credit offerings, to build out services for businesses, to add in more integrations and to move into more markets. Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa. “We closed February at $2.2

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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

JULY 12, 2022

But building data pipelines to generate these features is hard, requires significant data engineering manpower, and can add weeks or months to project delivery times,” Del Balso told TechCrunch in an email interview. Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We

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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 6, 2023

If you liked that item above on Lumus, then you’ll love what else the TechCrunch team has in store for you today as they continue to cover the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. 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.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. Before becoming a solo GP, Wischooff was an early employee at lending platform Blend Labs, which went public in 2021 , and part of the founding team at One Finance, a neobank acquired by Walmart earlier this year.

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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 29, 2023

In the latest development, Hygraph , a startup out of Berlin that has built a platform around a new, “federated” approach to content management — think: many sources of data and many endpoints for using it, and using composable architecture, orchestrating all of it from a single platform — has raised $30 million.

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