TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

million in 2020 to $62.6 SentinelOne raised $276 million in a funding round in November last year , tripling its $1 billion valuation from February 2020 to $3 billion. One of the biggest attacks saw Russian hackers breach the networks of IT company SolarWinds , enabling them to gain access to government agencies and corporations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Unybrands is the latest e-commerce aggregator to pick up a significant investment, this time closing $300 million in growth capital from Crayhill Capital Management. The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money will use the proceeds to grow its e-wallet application – TrueMoney Wallet – and expand its digital financial services ranging from digital lending and digital investment to cross border remittances in Southeast Asia. Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. in 2021 from 2.3% Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. Meanwhile, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock led the Series E investment, with new investors Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, CreditEase and H.I.G. Checkout.com raises $1B round at $40B valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market. Pantone co-founded Turaco with Peter Gross after their stint at MIC Global (Micro-Ensure), a tech-enabled embedded insurance provider. Its users have grown 300% since 2020.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

Its disrupting nature has given it an enormous potential with countless applications. Another study by Gartner says by 2020, 85% of customer interaction will be managed without a human. One technology trend that has caught everyone’s attention in recent years is the way artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” So, there’s just a lot of momentum that we wanted to be able to continue to support with some real investment.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Visa is actually an investor in MagicCube, having backed the company in August of 2020 and another time before that. Sony’s VC fund invested an undisclosed amount in MagicCube in late May 2020). .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek led Cora’s $10 million seed round (believed at that time to be one of the largest seed investments in LatAm) in December 2019 with Ribbit then following. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Draper Associates led the investment and was joined by Midnight Venture Partners and Cartograph Ventures. If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. The new capital gives VAE Labs an $8.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . Flip, which intends to be the most customer-centric financial technology company in the world, enables users to do fair financial transactions from anywhere to anyone. trillion in 2020, citing Bank Indonesia’s data. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In fact, more than 70 percent of small business leaders felt a moderate-to-large negative effect from the pandemic, according to an October 2020 U.S. Technology enables organizational resilience. Small businesses are vital to our global economy, yet they are disproportionately vulnerable to the economic fallout from COVID-19.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

One of those was Grip , previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). This funding round is going to enable us to take the experience to a new level, leveraging our extensive industry-leading platform, offering unique value for Virtual, Hybrid and In-Person events.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Michael Breitstein, principal at CoVenture, said his firm has made a variety of investments on the debt and equity sides of e-commerce and believes Malek and Gonzalez Luna provide a “great one-two punch” with their backgrounds, as well as the ability to raise capital and build out a platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

billion in 2020. “Composable architectures ensure that enterprises can innovate swiftly, deploy new features rapidly, and remain agile in the face of digital disruption. An interesting data point: VCs have invested over $118 million in CMS startups in the last year alone.) billion by 2030, up from $21.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, and Natixis Investment Managers also participating. It plans to use the capital to expand its international footprint and make acquisitions, it said.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? Finishing is the ripest for disruption.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. In September 2020, Halifax-based fitness data management company Kinduct was acquired by mCube. In November 2020, Newfoundland-based Verafin was acquired by Nasdaq for $2.75 More posts by this contributor. billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The new investment brings Vega’s total funding raised to over $10 million, according to Crunchbase data. The startup launched its ‘t estnet’ (a testing version of its network, as the name implies) in the second quarter of 2020 and has had a number of iterations since. For now, Vega is still under development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

When he and co-founder Allan Fisch were getting started in 2020, they saw how similar companies, like Thrasio, were using debt capital to buy lots of brands and take them over. When the investment group decided to break up the assets, those brands, including La Scoota and WOD Nation, were sold, Moss said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. Food automation startups are having a moment, as recently evidenced by Chipotle’s investment in Miso Robotics’ tortilla chip–making robot.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The following days and weeks are going to prove illustrative in terms of the value of tech-enabled businesses, especially in contrast to more digital and hard-tech efforts. That growth has not been inexpensive, with Sweetgreen “targeting” an “average investment of approximately $1.2 The fast-casual food game.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. Last year, the competition attracted startups from 87 countries, and one third of the XTC 2020 finalists raised more than $167M combined in venture investment since being selected.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

In 2020, a 500% increase in order volume drove Instacart’s revenue to $1.5 According a report from AgFunder, total venture investment for “e-grocery” companies reached $18.5 Between 2020 and 2022, investors poured more than $5.5 In a 2021 survey from Coresight Research, nearly two-thirds of U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The company decided to develop secured loans for products that enable borrowers to improve their income — like motorcycles, cars and trucks — and unlike their competitors providing used vehicles, Canals said Migrante offers new vehicles. Kayyak invested in Migrante’s previous rounds, including pre-seed and seed rounds that total $4 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

. “Company disrupted an existing industry with a new business model, has been doing well for a while, and is now raising more money to do more of the same, except more” is hard to tell a compelling story around. And in 2020, when the company raised a $250 million Series D.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Following its seed round, the company “still had tons of runway,” and wasn’t planning to raise additional funds for at least another year, said Guild, who started the company with Dean Bloembergen in 2020. We decided that it was better to save ourselves time in the future by accepting the money early from some incredible people,” Guild added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

billion, which compares to a valuation of $810 million at the time of Honor’s $140 million Series D round of funding in October of 2020. ” Since its Series D funding round in October of 2020, Honor says it has added hundreds more caregivers — dubbed “Care Pros” —and expanded its care delivery platform to four new states.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. are using services enabled by open banking (these include payments, getting lines of credit, authenticating services, and more). million in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Socher co-founded You , a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages). Unsurprisingly given Socher’s data science background, You sprinkles AI-enabled features liberally throughout the search experience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mermade Seafoods is out to disrupt the $8 billion global scallops market with its circular cellular agriculture technology approach for producing cultivated scallops. Collectively, 15 startups in this area raised $175 million in 2021, which was double the amount raised in 2020, GFI reported.

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