TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. billion in 2020. million in equity and $19.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Driven by the global pandemic and everyone being at home with their pets, sales topped $100 billion in 2020 in this sector. Austin-based Maev , developing human-grade raw dog food, is poised to take a share of the raw food category, announcing today it raised $9 million in a round of funding led by Springdale Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. by 2022, compared to China’s 6% and South Korea’s 34% in 2020. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Similar to most other sectors today, that crumbling of confidence in the sector has trickled down to the private markets as well, slowing down venture dealmaking and further shrinking deal sizes in an already parched venture market. The developments in Australia this year are extremely interesting and worth watching closely.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. . Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. In another win for Alation, the investment from Databricks Ventures is strategic, Sangani says. There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. London & Partners and Dealroom.co

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Galym Imanbayev joined Lightspeed in 2020 as a partner focused on the healthcare sector. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. Instead, it is often unwinding and realigning the investor’s biases.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Dollars raised and deal volume in the fourth quarter dropped to their lowest levels since 2020 — with $1.6 Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” Digital lending funding was down 53% to $11.5 billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The Chicago-based indoor, smart hydroponic company raised $9 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, led by TELUS Ventures, with existing investors True Ventures and Amazon Alexa Fund and new investor Listen Ventures joining in. Customers purchased close to 100,000 plants and have harvested 50,000. of the school garden.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. International Development Finance Corp. How tech can build more resilient supply chains.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Polly this week announced it has raised $37 million in a round led by Menlo Ventures to automate workflows for mortgage companies. Existing backers Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raised since its November 2020 inception to $35 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2 million seed financing in the summer of 2020. The pair teamed up in 2020 to come up with a platform that would give FP&A teams the ability to “seamlessly” work across planning and reporting cycles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Replicant , one of the more prominent vendors in the call center automation space, today announced that it raised $78 million in Series B funding led by Stripes with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Omega, IronGrey, Norwest and Atomic. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. billion in 2020. We previously reported on the company last February when it raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I’ve been writing about Human Interest since March 2020, covering each of its funding rounds since then ( here , here and here ), and following its impressive growth. Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products. billion, had cut 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the many ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. billion valuation at the time of its $255 million raise in December 2020. Welcome to my new weekly fintech-focused column.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Since its founding, it’s attracted interest from investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Amplo, Pareto Holdings, Quiet Capital and Shutterstock co-founder and CEO Jon Oringer. However, this complexity is hidden behind a simple software development kit, which is what matters to merchants most,” Shoykhet said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

million in seed funding to further develop its tools for more accurate data and analytics. CPG sales topping $720 billion in 2020. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

” That new ventures are jumping on the ChatGPT hype train isn’t surprising, considering ChatGPT’s virality. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — see ventures like Lang , Neuron7 and Ultimate.ai. In 2020, backers poured $296.4 ” How well Lasso works in practice remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

KBIC) — a subsidiary of South Korean consumer bank, Kookmin Bank — along with Barclays, Knollwood Investment Advisory, BAM Ventures, Passport Capital, Ulu Ventures and Strong Ventures. . TomoCredit cards became available in late summer 2020. “We Tomo is not the only fintech with an alternative credit model.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company combines energy management services for commercial buildings through the software it has developed with the ability to sell energy directly to customers in an effort to reduce the energy consumption and the attendant carbon footprint of the built environment. million in pre-seed financing back in March 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Existing backers Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, Flourish Ventures and TLV Partners also participated in the latest financing. . Unit officially launched its platform in late 2020, and over the last three months, it has seen deposit volume grow by more than 300% and new end users by 600% (albeit from a small base).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The fintech then launched its product in October 2020 and today offers a checking account combined with a software layer that aims to help SMBs manage their financials. Looking ahead, the startup plans to use its new capital toward product development, growth, operations and building out a credit offering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Acrew Capital is leading the round, with Homebrew, True Ventures, Anthemis, Valor, DCVC, and LowerCarbon Capital also participating. 2020 saw over 4% of the state burning. Events like the Caldor and Dixie fires have contributed to an overall rise in the rate and size of wildfires in California, Kettle says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Scaling across Series A to C. Image Credits: Olemedia (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The futurists were right on schedule: In 2020, Mountain View-based Nuro was testing its second-generation R2 robotic vehicle, the first to earn a federal exemption to operate an autonomous vehicle. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It developed payments APIs to automate end-to-end insurance payments and to offer a buy now, pay later financing option for distribution of commissions and carrier payables, something co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Wynn, said was rather unique to commercial insurance. billion in 2020, and expected to top $1 trillion by 2028. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. When I landed at LinkedIn, I noticed that my colleagues were also doing much of the same, whether in recruiting, customer support, or corporate development. This sparked the idea for Magical.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The round was led by Lakestar, with past investors Accel (which led its $8 million Series A in 2018 ) and Cherry Ventures also participating. Stephen Nundy, the partner at Lakestar who led its investment, describes the army of users taking up no-code tools as “citizen developers.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Deqode engineer Shivam Bohare said Leda Health’s system relies on Ethereum infrastructure services from Blocknative , a company that attracted investment from Coinbase Ventures, and Infura , a startup partially owned by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin. People tend to forget that self-collected evidence is extremely common in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founded in : 2020. Website : [link].

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