TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Mo’ Twilio, mo’ problems : The hits from Twilio’s data breach earlier this month keep coming. Authy is a company Twilio acquired in 2015. Asia’s crypto games and web3 investment powerhouse Animoca Brands is making inroads into Japan as its local unit picks up $45 million in financing at a $500 million pre-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year.

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Many startups in Silicon Valley and other leading startup hubs have increasingly relied on unpriced rounds (SAFEs or convertible notes) for their first or even second rounds of financing. But as today’s data pull (the October 2019 Vintage) shows, 2017 was actually an increase from 2016 (though still down compared with 2014).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. Laiye’s Series C financing came in three tranches, with the last one to have recently closed at $70 million, an oversubscribed round led by influential Chinese private equity firm Hopu Magnolia.

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