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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. So, the publishers weren’t against all licensing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. According to him, starting pawaPay was to help people send and receive money internationally using mobile money. How big is mobile money in Africa?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Most African startups’ bulk of VC money is from foreign investors, making it imperative for African startups to incorporate abroad, especially in the U.S. Image Credits: Raise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The company has raised $200 million, a Series C that it will use toward its next steps as a business. This will be combined with a shift to a licensing model for its chip hardware, so that they can be produced by multiple third parties. Wiliot says that it already has several agreements in place for the chip licensing part.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 A rewards engine designed to incentivize users to save or invest money. It is also now licensing its engagement technology to banks, retailers and fintechs across the Americas. Flourish has piloted or licensed its solution to U.S.-based based startups. Moura came to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

It has quietly since amassed nearly 1 million customers across the United States as a licensed insurance broker. And now today, Jerry is announcing that it has raised more than $57 million in funding, including a new $28 million Series B round led by Goodwater Capital. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The new service, currently in beta, is designed for everyday TikTok users — not just professional creators — who want to earn money by reviewing brands’ products. Aside from earning money from views, the creator also gets paid when the brand reuses their video in other ways.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

As their license states , you’re free to use Goldman Sans for just about anything you like so long as you don’t use it to criticize Goldman Sachs. And although Goldman Sans is nominally a free font, Goldman Sachs retains complete control over the license, allowing it terminate usage for any reason it likes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy. A majority of the funding will go into buying exclusive licenses and into building our tech team; that is the developers and engineers by fourfold,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

GoHenry (which raised $121.2M), which bills itself as “smart banking for kids” has attempted to crack part of this market, but is aimed at kids not families, per say. It’s now raised a €3.5M It’s now raised a €3.5M Children learn via modules, set up savings pots, can earn money via errands and chores, and customize their cards.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old, with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. Egyptian social e-commerce platform Taager raises $6.4M Now we’re proud to have SEC’s first fintech license. led by 4DX Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4 billion post-money valuation. It’s unclear whether Ghostwriter, too, was trained on licensed or copyrighted code.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. Kuda currently provides services for consumers to save and spend money, and it has recently introduced overdrafts (essentially revolving credit for individuals).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Transfr makes money by charging a software-as-a-service licensing fee to companies, which can go for up to $10,000 depending on the size of the workforce. The company raised money in August to expand to Asia. It’s an ambitious goal, and one worth raising financing to achieve.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Just months after raising $28 million, Jerry announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series C round that values the company at $450 million. At the time of the company’s last raise, Agrawal said Jerry saw its revenue surge by “10x” in 2020 compared to 2019. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The two-year-old startup, led by high-profile entrepreneur Kunal Shah, said on Monday it has raised $81 million in a new financing round and bought shares worth $1.2 We are now playing matchmaking role between customers and brands that otherwise had to spend a lot of money in marketing.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Juni , a Swedish pre-launch startup that’s building a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, has raised just over €2.1 Initially, Juni will make money on interchange fees (minus the cashback it offers) and by charging a subscription in the best SaaS tradition. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched in February 2019, Kroo, the London-based consumer-facing fintech, raised some seed funding last year for its prepaid card service which claims to offer more “social features” in its drive toward offering full-blown banking services. It has now raised $24.5 million (£17.7 ahead of rebrand. That was a choice.”.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. This news comes three months after The Information reported that the company was in talks to raise “up to $400 million at a $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users. and the E.U., country, probably France.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

“This round was the first time we raised with most of the previous round still in the bank, despite the pressures of COVID,” he said. billion after raising just over $100 million. And what that means is no need to spend money on finding drivers.” “This shows the frugality of the company. billion ($4.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Matik , which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Image Credits: Matik. It says that since Handshake started using Matik, it’s already saved 4,500 hours.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The startup announced today it has raised a seed extension of $1.5 The funding brings Jeff’s total raised to about $2.5 Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia. Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company says that across its roster of clients — which also includes Dude Perfect , Aphmau , Smokin’ & Grillin’ wit AB and others — Spotter has licensed content that generates over 40 billion monthly watch time minutes. Before that, Spotter raised $555 million across three undisclosed funding rounds.

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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. I also remember taking money from loan sharks with ridiculous interest rates, sometimes as high as 20% a month, to meet payroll.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The company has seen enormous growth over 2021, and just raised a $25M B round to keep accelerating. Promise works with government agencies and related organizations that collect anything from utility bills to license fees. We talked with Promise almost exactly a year ago when it raised $15M to expand operations, and expand it has.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And the company has recently raised another $45 million to consolidate its position. “When your mission is to build the biggest bank in Mexico, you will need a ton of money,” said albo founder Angel Sahagún. “We are targeting a similar target market to Chime,” the albo founder and chief executive said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Upgrading ParkMobile’s license plate-based service with a computer vision based system that recognizes cars as they enter and leave garages has been Metropolis’ mission since founder and chief executive Alex Israel first formed the business back in 2017. REEF Technology raises $700M from SoftBank and others to remake parking lots.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Zego has now raised more than $200 million since launching in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

The company said it has raised $2.75 This round values the startup, which was founded in January 2020, at $11 million post-money. Everyone picked to go through training is paid a stipend and earn two safety licenses. Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $3.9 The transaction volume on its corporate cards has tripled since April, when its last raise was announced. That’s more than double the $1.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors. NetBox dashboard Image Credits : NetBox While NetBox is available for free to anyone under an open source Apache 2.0

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The Japanese fintech startup said today it has raised a $20 million (2 billion JPY) Series A funding round led by Globis Capital Partners with participation from Z Venture Capital, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, and DBJ Capital. However, we do not operate under a banking license and leveraging the fund transfer license.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There is no money, there are no resources, and the situation is only getting worse. In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. Studies show that fundraising campaigns with regular updates can raise up to 138% more funds than those without updates!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

The new funding brings the total seed amount raised by the startup to $7 million. It said the user base of the neobank app, which also allows users to deposit money directly into their sacco accounts, and track their finances and payments, has grown 35-fold since launch last year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Senti Biosciences , a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer. Cell and gene therapy startup ElevateBio raises $170M.

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