TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Too Good To Go , the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 While the company has been around for a while, this is the first time Too Good To Go is raising money from a VC firm. with New York City and Boston. Too Good To Go has expanded to part of New Jersey since then.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founded in 2015, Getaway builds “Outposts” — collections of tiny cabins in rustic locations within a two-hour drive of major cities like Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles and New York. Today it’s announcing that it has raised $41.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital. The new funds total more than $1 billion, with the company telling TechCrunch that they were raised from its existing investor base.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma Brands and including Global Founders Capital, Monogram Capital, Lakehouse Ventures and Brand Foundry. The new investment gives Mixlab total funding of $30 million, said Fred Dijols, co-founder and CEO of Mixlab.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Time: 1pm EDT (New York). Over the last two decades the global NGO sector has embraced online technology, but economic and political factors and the quality of Internet infrastructure regionally often affects how well NGOs worldwide can use new technology. Date: Tuesday, February 7. Cost: Free. Presented By: Heather Mansfield.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Hugging Face has raised a $40 million Series B funding round — Addition is leading the round. With the new funding round, the company plans to triple its headcount in New York and Paris — there will be remote positions too. You can find the Transformers library on GitHub — it has 42,000 stars and 10,000 forks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Maybe just a few.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Avenir Growth Partners is seeking to raise $800 million for its fifth fund, it disclosed in a securities filing, two years after it began the paperworks for raising its IV fund. It ended up raising about $780 million for the fourth fund, it disclosed in a filing earlier this year. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. Among those that do exist, very few have been able to raise much money.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The connection to Habitat for Humanity started in September 1984, when Carter and his wife Rosalynn, who died in 2023, went to New York City and helped restore a six-story apartment building. Williams added: Born and raised in Georgia, a place like home for me, he regularly saw that racism and bigotry existed.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The study, which is open to babies born at New York-Presbyterian Hospitals, has sequenced more than 17,000 newborns to date. GeneDx has also partnered with the New York Center for Rare Diseases at Montefiore,PacBio, and Google Health to deliver genetic diagnoses forBronxfamilies living with rare diseases.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. ” The company’s latest round gives it $21 million raised to date, and follows a $6 million seed round that included NFX, A Capital, Liquid2 Ventures and Graph Ventures, Vilner said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

” Sangha, a law lecturer at the University of Pennslyvania and a licensed attorney in the State of New York, founded LexCheck in 2015. Terzo recently raised $16 million for its tech that automatically extracts key data from contracts. ” LexCheck, which is based in New York, has 32 employees currently.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E , Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million. New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. Why raise more money so soon? billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. million Series A round led by New York-based Nosara Capital. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. The company is announcing a $10.5 FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

and will use a new $225 million Series D raise to help make it happen. The new capital comes from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Mark Benioff – and recording artist The Weeknd – among others. markets including LA, New York, Chicago, SF and Washington, D.C.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A self-described “foodie,” Poddar — who didn’t have much time to cook meals — was a heavy user of food delivery and pickup services in New York City. “Many restaurants don’t […]

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. In fact, she will often offer a surprise song during fundraising to encourage more donations – her songs have raised up to an additional $10,000 for her beloved clients!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The company won’t be doing a company-wide pay raise to match rising prices. That rings especially true as Google expects 80 percent of its employees to spend at least some time in its offices (often located in cities with higher-than-average costs of living like Austin, New York, or San Francisco) when they end up returning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Anytime a company that has raised more than half a billion dollars basically implodes, it’s worth taking a look at the roller coaster ride it was on before it got to that point.

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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. She booked over 80 nights in her first 8 months on Kindred staying in San Francisco, New York, and a few other destinations, according to Palefsky.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

"With the hardest part behind us, Firefly looks forward to completing more than 14 days of surface operations, again raising the bar for commercial cislunar capabilities," said Firefly CTO Shea Ferring in a statement. As the New York Times reports , the company's shares fell 20 percent on Thursday.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Panorama declined to reveal at what valuation the Series C was raised, nor did it provide any specific financial growth metrics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. Disperse, which brings AI-fuelled data to construction projects, raises $16M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4 , a platform for business “upskilling” that has now raised $37 million altogether.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The move comes after the New York-based company raised $380 million in equity and debt in the past two years.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This means that if a head of credit, for example, wants to make a change to the lending criteria, they have to raise a ticket with the IT department. Taktile today closed a $20 million Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and Tiger Global, bringing the startup’s total raised to $24.7 ” Image Credits: Taktile.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

An example of this out of New York is Sealed , a climate tech company that designs, manages, and finances home weatherization and electrification projects. In Germany, a similar startup is “ Enter ” (formerly named Baupal) which has now raised a €19.4 Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. Today, Welcome Homes is available in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

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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 1, 2023

With the market turning so dramatically in 2022, it’s no surprise that many startups are now believed to be raising down rounds. This week alone, it was reported that Varo was raising a $50 million equity round led by Warburg Pincus at a “significantly” lower valuation. Want more fintech news in your inbox? consumer bank.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Anyplace launched Select last year in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and San Diego, and achieved a $1 million run rate within seven months of its launch, according to Naito, who serves as the company’s CEO. The round brings Anyplace’s total raised to $8 million, and will go also toward boosting its current headcount of 17.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

million Series A round that brings the company’s total raised to $24.63 In New York City, for example, only about a fifth of garbage is recycled — far below the maximum theoretically possible — reportedly in part because garbage crews, under pressure to complete long routes, mix sorted recyclables with trash.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Called Somethings , Gilligan’s now 14-month-old, New York-based startup is the outcome of that effort. raise led by General Catalyst by Neesha A. As Gilligan describes it, Somethings is a youth-specific wellness platform that connects teenagers with trained mentors between the ages of 19 and 26 for asynchronous help.

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