TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Nubank’s IPO is coming into closer focus after the Brazilian neobank filed privately to list its shares in both the United States and its home market, later releasing a public IPO filing. QED recently closed $1.05

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Every year we are wowed by the change-makers using this powerful medium to tell stories, raise awareness about critical issues, and inspire action – and this year will be no exception. Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia. Organizations and activists are more video savvy than ever. See contest rules here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The Zebra , an Austin-based company that operates an insurance comparison site, has raised $150 million in a Series D round that propels it into unicorn territory. million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. This new raise wasn’t to fund operations. million since its 2012 inception.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

While it may be a singular number, 911 calls are directed to roughly 5,700 public safety answering points (PSAPs) across the country, all with independent operations, variegated equipment, disparate software, multifarious organizational structures, and vast inequalities of staffing and resources.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup, spun out of the research labs at Oxford, has raised $20 million, a Series A that it will be using to continue its research and, in conjunction with partners and customers, product development. Its customers includes both private and public organizations impacted by the threat.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

The research, led by astronomers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, kicked off a fervent debate in 2023 when it suggested K2-18b, an exoplanet in the constellation Leo, gave a chemical signal for dimethyl sulfide gas. times wider, is indeed a water world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Isar’s funding history reflects this increasing overlap between public and private interest. The company is competing against fellow upstarts Rocket Factory Augsburg in Germany, Orbex and Skyrora in the United Kingdom, and a handful of others. Metzler’s hunch is that the competition will be steep.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the latest development, Grey , a fintech in this category that provides virtual international bank accounts to African freelancers and remote workers, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Last year, the startup raised an undisclosed pre-seed investment and got accepted into YC’s winter batch this March.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company announced today it has raised a $3.5 The timing of the announcement comes three days before World Mental Health Day on October 10 , to raise awareness of mental health issues and increase access to care. The startup’s platform is slated for a public launch in the first quarter of 2022.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Asking the public for money to help with war efforts is not an entirely new phenomenon, with countries like the United Kingdom and Germany selling war bonds during World War 1 to finance their military operations, for example. It’s not clear what’s happened to the funds raised by Come Back Alive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Based in London and Krakow, the startup announced today it has raised $5.5 This brings Airly’s total raised to $8.8 It also has networks of sensors in United Kingdom and Indonesia cities. million since March 2021. It is also partnered with the DivAirCity project, which is funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020.

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The first place winner will receive $10,000 and will have their submission turned into a song to be used in public education or awareness. The contest is open to all nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Up to 20 technology grants, valued at $10,000, to nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations. Before this round, Trax had raised $360 million in primary funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The investment, which comes 11 months after uLesson raised a $7.5 Contrary to public perception of the product as a second option for K-12 students, Shagaya said uLesson has become ingrained in everyday schooling activities for its users. It is the largest disclosed investment in an African edtech startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Today, another startup announced it has raised capital: end-to-end due diligence platform First AML. This brings First AML’s total raised to about $30.1 Founded in 2017, First AML entered Australia this year and will use part of its Series B to expand into international markets, starting with the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In 2021, players like Tier, Voi and Dott continued to raise VC backing. But the war for funding is ultimately about who will win in this coveted market — either through market domination via raising the most capital, putting pressure on competitors or by acquiring said competitors. and Europe. Its arrival will be timely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Personalized nutrition startup Zoe — named not for a person but after the Greek word for ‘life’ — has topped up its Series B round with $20M, bringing the total raised to $53M. Chan School of Public Health, and King’s College London. Gainful raises $7.5M for personalized sports nutrition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Easy Eat AI raises $5M to help Southeast Asian restaurants digitize their operations. Tablevibe is integrated with Google Reviews, so if someone gives the restaurant a high rating, they are asked if they want to make it public. For delivery, customers are also asked what app they used.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Its algorithm primarily leverages information from “open banking” data, which is secure customer information that large United Kingdom banks are required by law to share with third parties and technical service providers. SteadyPay raised its seed round in 2020 , bringing in £2.9

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Launching in 2019 and bootstrapped until now, the company also puts all receipts, certificates, board minutes and financial statements all up on their public ledger. It’s now hit a pre-money valuation of £75 million after exceeding its £2 million crowdfunding target on the U.K.’s s Crowdcube platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Compared with countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, the racial funding gap is even more stark as more than 50% of Brazil’s population is classified as Afro-Brazilian. Almost all of the companies have achieved double-digit growth and various companies have gone on to raise further funding or corporate backing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Since its founding in 2020, Gilgamesh has raised over $10 million and invested in nearly 30 early-stage fintech companies across the Americas, including Xepelin, Klar, Pomelo, Glean and Modern Life. TechCrunch covered its previous raise here. Uplinq raises $5.6M Uplinq raises $5.6M More by me here. in seed round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

and had just raised $53 million to provide its HELOC service to SMBs, not individual consumers. Fenwick points out, where it’s estimated to be a $150 billion market, with some of the bigger names in the space including Blend (which is now public), Noah and Hometap. “The real opportunity was consumers,” he said.

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The Verge

APRIL 9, 2021

Nature reported that the number of adults in the United Kingdom showing symptoms of depression had nearly doubled from March to June of last year, to 19 percent. In the United States, 11 percent of adults reported feeling depressed between January and June 2019; by December 2020, that number had nearly quadrupled, to 42 percent.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

The complaint cites a number of internal messages to establish that Facebook understands this difference, although the specific content of the messages is redacted in the public version of the document. Further, Facebook Blue and Instagram are the two largest personal social networking services in the United States.”

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The public sector usually publishes its business opportunities in the form of “tenders,” to increase transparency to the public. And public-to-private sector business makes up 14% of global GDP, and even a 1% improvement could save €20 billion for taxpayers per year, according to the European Commission.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Myst Labs, a Chinese e-cigarette maker co-founded in 2019 by Chenyue Xing, a chemist who was part of the team at Juul that invented nicotine salts , a key ingredient in vaping, recently raised “tens of thousands of dollars” from a Series B funding round. The financing was led by its existing investor, IMO Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While many of its clients are in the tech space, they “range in size and industry” and include private and public companies, according to Peng. And today, Northstar is announcing that it has just raised $24.4 For example, Northstar’s customers include the likes of Zoom, Snap, 23andMe, Virgin Orbit and, ironically, NerdWallet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

A survey from the Public Interest Research Group in the U.S. . “So I thought, surely a subscription model would work here.” ” The high cost of textbooks is something that many a student if higher learning will know all too well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The companies would not disclose the terms of the deal, but last October, Tier raised $200 million , much of which the startup said would be used for strategic investments and acquisitions. At the time of the raise, Tier reported its value at $2 billion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While Flutterwave has been rumoured to acquire some startups in the past, this is its first public announcement of any acquisition since launching in 2016 to tackle Africa’s payments problems. African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This funding round saw participation from Safe Security’s existing investors, including former Cisco chairman and chief executive John Chambers, and brings the total amount raised by Safe Security to $49.2 BT will also work collaboratively with Safe Security to develop future products, according to an announcement from the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Delivery system : Tage is back with another top story today, this time on MaxAB’s $40 million raise. Raise(arm) : Meet E-liza Dolls, the startup that’s building dolls to help young girls learn to code, Aisha reports. The Egyptian e-commerce platform helps facilitate the grocery store relationship with suppliers. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Flip , which makes a communications app for frontline workers to chat with each other, to get communications from management, and to carry out HR activities like swapping shifts, has raised $30 million. Flip’s engagement with the company currently totals some 60,000 people.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Flip , which makes a communications app for frontline workers to chat with each other, to get communications from management, and to carry out HR activities like swapping shifts, has raised $30 million. Flip’s engagement with the company currently totals some 60,000 people.

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