TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

NovoPayment is a global BaaS startup based in Miami that has largely been focused on offering its API platform to customers in the Latin American market. market, as Miami continues to grow as a hub for the financial services sector, according to Perez. NovoPayment’s founder and CEO Anabel Perez Image Credits: NovoPayment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team? The startup, which is out to give brands and tech companies a way to launch custom co-branded credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The $20 million Series A round brings the company’s total capital raised to $38 million. “Everything is driven by the characters and the story… and in a way Superplastic [is] the management team,” Superplastic founder Paul Budnitz told TechCrunch. Superplastic’s proposition is a strange one. inches of perfect vinyl.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But the company, which just moved its headquarters to Miami from Dublin, is betting on rugby’s growing traction in the U.S, That’s why we’re Miami-based now, and that’s kind of opening plenty of opportunities for us,” Power said. which has 8.8 million active rugby fans, per sports analytics firm Gemba.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

“That made us step on the pedal and recruit a product, engineering and sales team across San Francisco, Austin, Miami and New York City with payments knowledge from a range of backgrounds.” Valar led a $20 million Series A funding round in Link while Tiger led a $10 million seed round; to date, Link has raised $30 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Today, Murphy lives in and leads the business from Miami — where he moved from New York just as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to gain steam last year — while James Harrison (CTO) leads part of the team based out of the U.K. Creatio raises $68M as the low-code space keeps attracting huge checks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020. It previously raised a $25 million seed round in February. We’ve been able to accelerate our business plan across all fronts, including acquisitions, technology and team building.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Mantra Health , a digital mental health startup focused on young adults, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by VMG Partners. Mantra’s care program has been deployed on 52 campuses across the country, including Penn State, Miami Dade College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Lacuna Technologies, a startup that helps cities create and enforce transportation policies by building and managing open-source digital tools, has raised $16 million in a Series A round, bringing the company’s total investment to $33.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Champions Round , a fantasy league startup that caters to Gen Z sports fans, announced today that it raised $7 million in new Series A funding. To date, the company has raised $10 million. For instance, users can draft and manage a team around a single event like the NFL draft, removing the need for a season-long commitment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Earlier this year, Rice raised $5.3 million in seed funding for Poolit , a Miami-based fintech startup that aims to open up access to investing in private equity and VC funds. And, Dakotah and the team’s sense of urgency is unmatched.”. Relationships with top firms are essential,” Tingle wrote via email.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

All Raise ’s interim CEO Paige Hendrix Buckner has now dropped the “interim,” according to the nonprofit’s blog post. Prior to joining All Raise, Hendrix Buckner worked with Dixon at Founder Gym, an online training center for underrepresented founders. firms by 2028. Lots and lots of big work in the coming months.”

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

It was August 2013 when my co-founder at SportsManias called to tell me that we had raised $1 million in angel funding. I was a second-year in college on my way to the library at the University of Chicago; she was back in Miami, where our company is based. Family Cross-Training.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

ShopThing , a live shopping marketplace focused on luxury brands, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Origin Ventures, with participation from Pritzker Group and Interplay. The company currently has shoppers in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver, New York City, Miami, Los Angeles and Texas.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Notifi , a communication infrastructure platform for web3, said Tuesday it has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed seed funding co-led by previous backers Hashed and Race Capital. Kim said its team is comprised of builders of Web 2.0 Attend TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami. addressable users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys). based major league sports team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The rise of distributed teams in response to the coronavirus has led to more video-conferencing meetings for all of us. As offices remain closed, distributed work is forcing companies to figure out a better way than Zoom or Google Hangouts to meet with employees across time zones and teams.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last year, the brand made an investment in a four-year-old, Miami-based startup called FIT:MATCH ; now, Savage X Fenty is employing FIT:MATCH’s tech in a growing number of its retail stores, starting with a location in Atlanta, Georgia. based brand incubator whose spin-outs charge customers monthly for credits toward their purchases.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. Managing Partners Shu Nyatta and Paulo Passoni run the region’s investment team. Operating Partner Alex Szapiro, also head of Brazil for SoftBank, leads the fund’s operations team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Having a helicopter in its fleet is also a bit unusual, but AeroVanti CEO and founder Patrick Britton-Harr notes that it will allow the company to fly passengers from Miami to the Florida Keys or from Boston to Martha’s Vineyard. In addition to the nine P.180s 180 is an interesting choice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Merit has now raised $80 million, according to the company. One of the higher-profile examples of this was a project Merit put in place last summer after the tragic collapse of a building in Miami. “Our non-engineering teams look pretty diverse today. What’s really helped is that we’re fully remote.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The experiences can be booked in 10 cities: Nashville, Scottsdale, Austin, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, Palm Springs, Savannah, Charleston and San Diego. As for the new funding, Petrakis says the company will put it toward building its team and investing in the app’s growth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Several of our TechCrunch colleagues headed to Miami today for the TC Sessions: Crypto event tomorrow. SigmaOS raised $4 million to develop a Mac browser where you can put your tabs in groups on the left side of the screen, Ivan writes. In this case, he plans to take one for the team and sign up for Hardcore Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Miami-based company launched in December 2020 with a curated list of gifts from robes to cookies to succulents to spa treatments. After raising a $13.1 After raising a $13.1 It’s exciting to see a team bring a delightful, consumer-grade approach to the space. and into Latin America.”. by next year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

To do this, the commercial real estate financing transaction platform raised $30 million to give it a $130 million valuation just two years into its inception. The latest financing comes four months after the company raised $10 million in seed funding led by NFX. Continued investments will be made to expand the team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you’re excited to make sense of the crypto world, we’ve got an event in Miami coming up in a couple of weeks — details and tickets here ! — Christine and Haje. Like app development, but more lucrative : Anna writes that Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money after raising a round of funding. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The event — taking place November 17 in Miami — will offer an opportunity for founders and investors to hear war stories from some of the crypto world’s most powerful decision-makers, while also picking up learnings from industry veterans who have weathered a crypto winter or two. Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Drew Sechrist, who was employee 36 at Salesforce in 1999 , was on Marc Benioff’s early sales team, pushing the company when nobody knew who they were or what hosted software was, for that matter. Connect the Dots has now raised a total of $20 million. Sechrist is living in Miami at the moment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

To date, The Rounds has raised $42 million. Miami and Atlanta over the course of 2021 and 2022. With its new funding, The Rounds is now looking to grow its team, particularly on the technology side, as well as its market penetration, including by going deeper into its existing markets and expanding to new geographies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Belong , a startup that aims to address both these issues while giving renters a way to save toward home ownership, has just raised $50 million in equity and secured $30 million in debt to expand its offerings and markets it serves. At the same time, the experiences of managing a property, and renting one, are not always smooth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Letterhead is actually a product spinout of a community publisher in Miami called WhereBy.Us has raised $5 million from across tech and media. Its viewpoints on the future of newsletters — and its customer base so far — are intriguingly different from your typical SaaS startup in Silicon Valley. And there’s a reason for that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Promising pilots and research mean the company is poised to go big as education changes, and it has raised $11 million to scale up with a new app and growing customer base. “A lot of the Amira team came from Renaissance Learning. In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Most recently, SoftBank put money in a funding round raised by Rankmi in Chile. In Latin America, where founders seek relationships just as much as they do capital, SoftBank hopes to capitalize on having an investment team that hails from the very regions in which it’s seeking to invest. And last year, Latitud raised $11.5

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