TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games. billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

At this years GDC conference, running March 17-21 in San Francisco, NVIDIA is revealing new AI tools and technologies to supercharge the next era of graphics in games. Half-Life 2 RTX was made possible by NVIDIA RTX Remix , an open-source platform officially released today for modders to create stunning RTX remasters of classic games.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

Nigerian fintech Cleva, focused on creating a banking platform for African individuals and businesses to receive international payments by opening USD accounts, has raised $1.5 The round was led by 1984 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

OpenAI announced the service, called GPTs, during the company's first-ever developer day in San Francisco. It defined GPTs as custom versions of ChatGPT that can be created for a specific purpose. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

San Francisco-based Postman, which operates a collaborative platform for developers to help them build, design, test and iterate their APIs, said on Wednesday it has raised $225 million in a new financing round that values it at $5.6 API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation. Image Credits: Postman.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

On December 26th, the Arizona Cardinals / San Francisco 49ers game will skip national television networks entirely and head to Prime Video, Twitch, and two local affiliates as part of Amazon’s recently expanded deal with the NFL. Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Aplos is backed by private equity firm Alpine Investors in San Francisco. The plan is to have all three products on one platform, according to Anush Vinod, CEO of Aplos in Fresno, California. “We There is a “stick in the ground” to have a single sign-in for the platform by late 2024 or early spring 2025, he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. Singapore as well as Europe, according to Chikizawa. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The San Francisco-based company, which operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has been open about past layoffs. Banking-as-a-service startup Synapse confirmed today that it has laid off 86 people, or about 40% of the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India who recently moved to San Francisco to work at a different division within the company, is leaving the firm to launch an edtech startup, according to nine people familiar with the matter. Maheshwari and Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment two weeks ago.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Microsoft has recently strengthened its partnership with OpenAI, integrating several AI services into the Azure cloud platform and investing an additional $10 billion into the San Francisco-based research lab. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Narrato , a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree Ventures, the Australian firm that was an early investor in Canva , Linktree and Employment Hero.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SF New Deal began with a vision of San Francisco as a world class city that provides an abundance of support, opportunity, dignity, respect, and appreciation for small businesses and neighbors in need. SF New Deal launched in March 2020 as a rapid response to the COVID pandemic in San Francisco.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

APRIL 22, 2025

The brain is the last frontier in modern biology, said BrainStorms founder and CEO Robert Fremeau, who was previously a scientific director in neuroscience at Amgen and a faculty member at Duke University and the University of California, San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub? Clubhouse believes it can reinvent radio with the right interactivity and build a unique social platform. It’s a new social platform, with new social dynamics.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

” Faction , which launched last year and graduated this winter from the Y Combinator accelerator program, started with a three-wheel motorcycle platform. However, it has developed a core platform with safety features that will step in if the autonomous system fails.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round. But with the introduction of virtual dollar cards in a few digital banks and fintech platforms, this has become less of an issue. This opens up a flow of opportunities for the fintechs and companies that use our platform.”. million in pre-seed funding.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In 2021, we celebrated our DataDev community with our very first DataDev Day—a virtual forum to connect, learn, and share the amazing work that’s built daily on the Tableau developer platform. Join us April 27–28 in San Francisco—or virtually from anywhere—to boost your skills and celebrate with other builders, creators, and makers. “We

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In 2021, we celebrated our DataDev community with our very first DataDev Day—a virtual forum to connect, learn, and share the amazing work that’s built daily on the Tableau developer platform. Join us April 27–28 in San Francisco—or virtually from anywhere—to boost your skills and celebrate with other builders, creators, and makers. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. The company is also describing itself as a machine learning-as-a-service platform. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. The San Francisco-based company’s latest round comes seven months after its market launch and brings its total funding raised to $25 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Green was previously the director at Google’s experimental X division and co-cofounded Houzz, an online interior design platform. are taking the plug-in approach, integrating with existing videoconferencing platforms to drive meeting transcriptions and other “intelligent” features. and Read.ai Image Credits: Headroom.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds. Patiño explained how the original online education platforms, also known as MOOCs, are “super accessible,” with low completion rates. Broad but better.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While the global pandemic was still in full force, Dipti Desai, who had been building data platforms at Uber at the time, started working with a nonprofit selling masks on Shopify. So, she decided to take that on and founded Crstl , a San Francisco–based SaaS application and platform that is now making its national launch after raising $4.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco and Bangalore-headquartered startup’s $30 million Series B round. Firms, with so many divisions such as marketing, engineering and design, engage with numerous services and platforms for their business. One of the additional value prepositions of Hevo is that it’s a no-code platform.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

That Saturday in January, as she did every two weeks, Sánchez left her home in the small beach town of San Francisco (San Pancho), in the state of Nayarit on the central Pacific coast, to visit her family in the neighboring state of Jalisco. A flyer posted in the search for Wendy Sánchez in San Francisco, Nayarit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

AppDirect, a San Francisco- and Montreal-based platform for buying, selling and managing tech through a network of IT advisors, has raised $100 million from CDPQ to expand its financing program for small- and medium-sized tech businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX. As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift , a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized documents. Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. million (versus 16.49

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Creating a spend and procurement platform from scratch might’ve been a big risk, but it appears to have paid off for Jobani, who claims that PayEm now has “hundreds” of customers and fast-growing revenue (up 550% over the last year).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Substack , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the New York Times is reporting today. Substack told Axios late last year that the top 10 writers on the platform collectively generate $20 million in annual revenue.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of the deal, Cruise will use Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, to help speed up the process of making money off its fleet of autonomous vehicles. Cruise recently began testing its fully driverless vehicles in San Francisco for the first time. But the company doesn’t allow non-employees to ride in its vehicles.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HomeLight , which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million. in the coming months. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In one of the latest developments, Coralogix , which has built a platform to harness those data streams into one mighty river is announcing a mighty round of funding to expand its business. “Our goal with Corlogix was always to expand to a full observability platform, which we have now done,” Assaraf said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

‍Eco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto. Founded in 2018, the SF-based startup’s platform is designed to be used as a payment tool around the world for daily-use transactions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

But in late 2020, Cent’s small, San Francisco-based team created Valuables , an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the small blockchain startup was thrown a serendipitous curveball. million on the platform himself. With Cent’s seed funding Hejazi hopes to continue building the platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Galileo , a startup launching a platform for AI model development, today announced that it raised $18 million in a Series A round led by Battery Ventures with participation from The Factory, Walden Catalyst, FPV Ventures, Kaggle co-founder Anthony Goldbloom and other angel investors. It’s in serious demand. .

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