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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

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Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million, organizers at The Miami Foundation realized that Give Miami Day 2014 would be their most successful Giving Day yet. Thursday’s Give Miami Day raised $5.2 Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season!

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OneRoof raises $1.25M to build a hyper-localized Nextdoor

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The app has raised a small $1.25M seed raise to carry out this vision, led by General Catalyst with participation from Kleiner Perkins’ discovery fund, Dream Machine, Script Capital and Urban US. They are also able to request door hangers which Sonmez says the app has had particular success with.

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Cloud cybersecurity startup Lumu raises a $7.5 million Series A

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Miami-based cybersecurity startup Lumu today announced the closing of its $7.5 Villadiego was born and raised in the colonial port town of Cartagena, Colombia. He founded his first cybersecurity company, Easy Solutions, in Miami in 2009, focused on preventing fraud. million Series A. The round was co-led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s

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MAJORITY raises $27M Series A six months after its seed round to expand mobile banking for migrants

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MAJORITY , a mobile banking service for migrants to the United States, said on Tuesday it had raised $27 million in its Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. Other existing investors, including Avid Ventures , Heartcore Capital and a group of Nordic fintech founders, also participated in the raise. Larsson said. every year. “If

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Uber vet raises $5.2M for blue-collar logistics marketplace

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To help it grow and further expand its reach, Shift One just raised a $5.2 Even Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has thoughts, pointing out that blue-collar jobs have been among the hardest hit by COVID-19. And Miami benefits from the virtuous circle of higher employment and strong local businesses.”.

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REEF Technology raises $700M from SoftBank and others to remake parking lots

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REEF began its life as Miami-based ParkJockey, providing hardware, software and management services for parking lots. As REEF raises money for expansion, it’s tapping into a new theory of urban development embraced by mayors from Amsterdam to Tempe, Ariz. Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images).

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Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network

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One San Francisco-based startup has emerged that wants to not only give travelers more options, but make traveling more affordable, and it’s just raised $15 million toward that goal. To date, the startup has raised a total of $26.75 It has 20 employees, up from 10 a year ago.