TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As production begins on the fourth edition of the Global NGO Technology Report , Nonprofit Tech for Good is thrilled to announce that a new sponsor has been secured. The tech report will be published in odd years and the giving report in even years. Funraise has raised more than $13 million in venture capital to date.

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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. Setu raises $15M to help developers connect with banks to offer Indians ‘sachet-sized’ financial products.

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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. It’s one of the few companies offering such services, including Firstbase.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Infogrid , a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series B round led by Northzone and AO Proptech. “Now was the time to raise the capital and use it to drive our expansion,” De Gruchy said.

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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 It’s that way in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2023

It’s been a big week for tech acronyms. Read the rest of our piece on TC+: “As another startup bank partner collapses, tech feels the gap.” As our interviews tell us, OpenAI is clearly changing things for edtech entrepreneurs, and at large, asking them to ask much harder questions, ironically enough.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Generative AI is the tech industry’s buzzword of the moment. 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. The new cash brings the company’s total raised to around $12.9

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

VCs continue to bet big on legal tech. According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. Terzo recently raised $16 million for its tech that automatically extracts key data from contracts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In fact, Africa has the largest return on education of any continent, with each year of schooling raising earnings by 11% for boys and 14% for girls. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. TechCrunch: You last closed a $2.8

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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

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 owns and operates its full-stack tech-driven supply chain and logistics to process these orders. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. VCs want to fund the newest tech mafia startups before banks do , top MBA programs want laid off workers to join so badly that they’re waiving standardized test score requirements , and the tech companies that are in a position to hire really want you to know it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The investment comes in the wake of a bigger round that the startup raised in the summer of 2022, a $20 million Series A from MonotaRo and JAFCO. Another company, Procore, went public in 2021 after raising $75 million at a $3 billion valuation in 2018. It has been partnering with Aldagram since 2022. It currently employs 60 people.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2023

It kind of feels like tech forgot its umbrella. She’s already landed checks from the who’s who in tech. Sequoia injects $195 million into an ever-eager seed environment Women-founded startups raised 1.9% Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital raised $2.1 To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Billion, reports Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million. “I hope it doesn’t sound corny, but we don’t have the luxury to move more slowly,” explained Immunai co-founder and CEO Noam Solomon in an interview.

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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Samooha , a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration platform, today announced that it raised $12.5 “Data clean rooms” have been around for a while, pitched both by tech giants and startups as the ideal solution for sharing sensitive data across computing environments. It’s not a new concept.

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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

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

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

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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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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This brings the health tech startup’s total funding to $45.2 With this round, Ubie has raised a total of $76 million since its inception in 2017. Ubie isn’t the only health tech company developing an AI-enabled symptom checker for users. Japan’s health-tech Ubie wants to fuel its U.S million in Series C.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

To date, it’s one of the biggest financings, debt or otherwise, for any startup (that is, any privately-backed tech company) in the region. “We have very stable cash flow, which allows us to take on debt,” he said in an interview. ” 14 VCs discuss COVID-19 and London’s future as a tech hub.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Bringing the company’s total raised to $116 million, the proceeds will be put toward supporting product development and expanding Zesty’s workforce from 120 employees to 160 by the end of the year, CEO Maxim Melamedov tells TechCrunch. He briefly worked together with Baikov at big data firm Feedvisor. Image Credits: Zesty.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Orda , a Nigerian food tech platform that provides a cloud-based restaurant operating system to solve these issues for small, independent restaurants, is announcing that it has secured a $3.4 The two-year-old startup raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding this January, bringing its total funding raised this year to $4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

million grant) seed raise in September 2021, said the funding will support the launch of two new technologies: Kraken II and SITE. . It’s different for Releaf, which operates upstream and has less competition, at least when the application of tech is considered. million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round. million (including a $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. VUZ, which has raised over $30 million since inception, is one of e& capital’s maiden investments in the MENA region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Automation tech continues to attract funding in an increasingly challenging macroeconomic environment. Ushur today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Third Point Ventures with participation from investors Iron Pillar, 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Pentland Ventures.

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