TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

Driven by inflation, the war in Ukraine and other economic headwinds, recessionary fears have put a squeeze on sources of funding that were previously easily attainable. Capchase suggests that successful companies achieve at least 80% and skyrocket to over 110% during the growth stage and maintain around 55% even after they go public.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. billion Norwegian crowns in equity (about $151 million at today’s rates) — a big round, but executed under tough conditions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Xreal announced in January 2024 it had raised an additional $60 million in funding for further development of its AR glasses. Varjo and partner Dogfight Boss also announced in August that their headset-based F-16 simulator had been deployed to help Ukraine train fighter pilots in its war with Russia. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Turns out not every company is going to grow vertically : Back when SPACs were hot, many startups looking to combine and go public were content to forecast aggressive revenue growth. The push to fund Ukraine’s war-torn nation-state with crypto is turning out to be An Actual Thing. How far from reality were the projections?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

All Raise hires new CEO : A nonprofit focused on “increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision-makers” per our reporting, All Raise now has a new boss. Evidence of that can be found today in Run:ai raising a $75 million round. And after raising a $1.5 I, for one, cannot wait. The TechCrunch Top 3 4.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Storm clouds for late-stage startups : To close out a cheery week on a high note, TechCrunch dug into late-stage valuations in light of public market declines. In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. social networking services. “

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital , a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. Valuations in 2022 have been falling like a rock as the war in Ukraine rages, inflation skyrockets and the Fed tightens the screws.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Right now, Stinnes says VC firms are prioritizing “the high-growth B- and C-stage companies that raised substantial cash and operate at high burn rates.” Conversely, if you raise a $4 million-$6 million Series A at a more modest valuation, it gets much easier to reach the goal for a 2x-2.5x Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Governments, public sector organizations and many private companies moved heaven and earth to ensure public safety and adequate supply of core services. ” This realization justified the beginning of deep cuts in public spending compared to before and during the pandemic. .” billion last year from $20.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Yet they can inevitably be buffeted by economic, social and, in recent times, extreme public health headwinds. a special-purpose acquisition company that unsuccessfully attempted to take Fertitta Entertainment, a dining, hospitality, and gaming giant, public. Some of the complaints have been more public and open.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

Weeks ago, Ukraine-based influencer Kristina Korban’s TikTok was a steady stream of gym motivation and personal finance tips punctuated by trending audio. Korban’s videos about the war have become a go-to source for people outside of Ukraine who didn’t know much — if anything — about the country until a few weeks ago. And it did.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

TechCrunch reached out to the Egypt- and Dubai-based company for comment but didn’t get any response at the time of publication. . One said the layoffs were a result of “disasters in the market,” while another said it was “due to the global market crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Firefly Aerospace’s roller coaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. AEI took Redwire public last September via a SPAC merger. Firefly raised $75 million in a Series A round in May 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a TC+ guest post, they share a calculator for using growth metrics and public market valuations that can help founding teams “triangulate to a more company-specific enterprise value.”. What financial milestones will investors expect me to reach between each raise?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How tech is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine : The technology world is a global industry, which means that when geopolitical conflicts arise, it impacts the world that TechCrunch covers directly. We have notes up on cyberattacks and companies in Ukraine. It just raised $140 million at a $1.5 The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Tech talent flees Russia : As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds along, technology companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to handle their business operations and staff. Ramp raises (again) : The startup battle for dominance in the corporate spend market is huge, expensive and rapidly growing. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

Generally, it appears we are experiencing a market pullback – which Alex touches on in this piece – precipitated by a number of things, not the least of which – the conflict in Ukraine and disappointing performances by companies who went public in the last year. That’s why, honestly, this raise feels very satisfying.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The mix of debt and equity is typical for a company building, effectively, a leasing business: it is the same approach Grover took when it raised $71 million for its Series B a year ago. ” He continued: “I don’t think we have been a boom-and-bust raising kind of company,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. Its biggest competitor, Bolt, raised “roughly 50 times that figure,” according to The Information. .

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CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

In our effort to highlight brilliant changemakers, we sat down with Cylinda Nickel at Compassion Services International to dive deeper into their global fundraising initiatives – particularly their work for Ukraine- and hear about her top fundraising tips. By providing regular updates, CSI was accountable for the funds raised.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

In other words, this mood swing precedes the war in Ukraine, the technology stock selloff and signs of a global slowdown by several months. Other interrogations, however, are more specific to the region: Did valuations get too high, too fast compared to other regions?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Macro raised $9.3 Yer in luck, m’droogs: Op3n Sesame : Sesame Labs raises $4.5M Well, look what we have here : Paul reports that data observability platform Acceldata raises $50 million. Which publications are valid? By 2020, those experiments had grown into a fully fledged, custom PDF editor. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

When given the name of a VC-backed company, VC Exit Predictor generates a score on the probability that it’ll be acquired, go public or not exit due to becoming self-sustaining or experiencing any event (e.g., bankruptcy) that prevents an exit. ” VC Exit Predictor might perform well on PitchBook’s test set.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

My heart goes out to all of the people of Ukraine and our TechCrunch readers there. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 It’s been really tough concentrating during the latter part of this week due to global events so forgive me if my tone is less upbeat than normal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

According to the firm, the steepest declines in valuation have occurred for late-stage fintech companies; “enterprise value” to “next 12 months” revenue multiples for public fintechs have dipped 55% since the market peaked in early January. UK fintech Banked raises $15M for US expansion. for their company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

On Tuesday, VP and managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, Yair Snir, shared an article explaining why founders should plan to get acquired , particularly since their odds of going public are so long. According to PitchBook, 270 new venture funds raised a total of $16.8 The road to an LOI. Bring in bankers? billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

But it does underscore the widening digital fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Simetrik raising at a $100 million valuation , Digits raising at half a billion , and RapidAPI raising at a billion are some recent examples. It raised the round from a single investor, a “major sanitation solution provider.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

register people to vote, encourage involvement in elections, raise money for. extremely effective way for organizations to get messages out to the public, monitor elections, and encourage voter participation.??? a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. participation in civil society.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

TC: Given that public shares are so volatile right now, are acquirers more or less inclined to offer equity as a component of a deal? . Certainly, we have companies that were racing to close valuations [before Russia invaded Ukraine] and [that period since] has changed everyone’s expectations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed that, however. “The 2022 correction is different.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2022

Established in 2020 as an independent entity, the WHO Foundation complements and strengthens the work of WHO and its global network of partners by mobilizing new funding from diverse sources—including philanthropists, corporate entities, and the public—to power WHO’s mission. Setting up a Secure, Yet Flexible Platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It’s also teasing a Series B round coming next year — which it anticipates being one of 2023’s largest B rounds in Europe in the alternative proteins industry (for some context, another European startup, Planted, raised a $72M Series B round earlier this fall ).

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

It was 3% more for Public Media nonprofits, and 4% more for the Health sector. Nonprofits raised an average 94 cents through direct mail for every dollar raised online. Only three sectors reported a rise in one-time revenue — Cultural, Health, and Public Media. Some nonprofits did have increased online revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

intelligence community) that brings its total raised to $122 million, which Kumar says will be primarily used to expand sales and marketing operations and open new offices in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several recent, severe malware attacks have happened at the in-use state, including the Triton attack and the Ukraine power grid attack.

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