TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Six months after announcing $30 million in equity and debt, Boopos , a Miami-based lending platform for business acquisitions and growth, is back with an even bigger round, a $58 million Series A, again in a mix of equity and debt. Founderpath secures $145M in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Based in Hong Kong, Finverse ’s ambitious goal is to enable open banking throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Founder and chief executive officer Stephane Lesaffre told TechCrunch that Finverse plans to launch in one new market per quarter, with the goal of covering about 75% of consumer and SMEs banks in each place. Plaid won the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“There were a lot of cool businesses coming out of Asia and being efficient in real estate, which enables you to cut down and save money on rent and push customers to order ahead,” Menda told TechCrunch. Blank Street’s co-founders Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha. and King David Tacos. and King David Tacos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? 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

JULY 14, 2022

chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch. “It sits between the big brands and retailers, enabling them to customise a store’s assortment to match the needs of the local consumer. We call it ‘hyper-local retailing.'”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

an Sümer, CEO and founder, said: “The size of today’s funding round by an extraordinary investment consortium underscores the tremendous market potential that lies ahead of us. This has enabled them to reach over $300M revenue run-rate in only one year with continued double digit monthly revenue growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company, which is now fully owned by factory14, has kept the original founders on to lead the smaller company. One estimate puts the number of third-party sellers at 5 million, with more than 1 million sellers joining the platform in 2020 alone. based pioneers of the roll-up space, was seeing for the model.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients. My co-founder, Amy, was hospitalized in Thailand after taking counterfeit medicine. Alonge sees RxAll as a pioneer in the world of deep tech mixed with health tech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. He looks at ideas that “failed to go mainstream and change financial services in the way the founders originally intended.” Super interesting read.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. My one thought: perhaps, it’s time for us all to put our grown-up pants on and stop normalizing this kind of behavior. The pairing has been something of a mixed bag.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There are an estimated 100,000 Italians already living in London, attracting the likes of Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King.com (maker of Candy Crush) and Simon Beckerman of social shopping app Depop. Gianluca Dettori , partner and founder, Primomiglio. Matteo Elli , partner, Pariter Partners. Simone Riva , partner, H14.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. The company is not disclosing its valuation but said c hat revenue grew by 500% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“Right now we enable [organizers] to sell events, but we don’t give them distribution,” said CEO Ben Simpson, who co-founded the London-based startup with his wife Lisa. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.” ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

. “We raised $3M in late 2020. So it’s using quasi-brevity as a device to try to cut through. Which means the resulting thread can be, well, a mixed bag in terms of interest/quality from the listener’s perspective. While in the testing phase, we had very high interest and attention from investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Telemedico, which was founded back in 2014 — but only launched its current B2B model (which is primarily targeted at insurance firms) in 2017 — says 2020 was a record year for its business. One million consultations were carried out via its platform during the 12-month period, it told us.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

What are you advising startups now about designing their brands, versus what you said circa December 2020? Founders, help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. When do I use Slack versus email? The pandemic has forced us all to adapt, and design is no exception. What do startups continue to get wrong?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The startup was only founded in mid 2020 — launching its service in the UK last July — but it touts rapid domestic growth (100,000+ monthly downloads of its apps; reaching sixth position in the iOS App Store’s top finance apps); and is already gearing up for international expansion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unit itself is not a labor union, but instead helps worker-organizers set up, affiliate and manage a union with a mix of software and human resources. Unit founder and CEO James White watched Occupy Wall Street unfold in real time while he was a graduate student. In July 2020, Unit closed $1.4 Janitorial entrepreneurship.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

We also hope to uncover demographic variations that will enable us to better understand the different experiences leading to a business surviving, thriving or failing. In September, we surveyed over 1,000 of Azlo’s founders, entrepreneurs and freelancers, all running a digital business in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Emmanuel Schalit, the co-founder of popular password manager Dashlane , is stepping down as CEO of the startup. But above and beyond all that, password managers are likely to continue to play a role in the mix. ” Sherman’s career focus, in contrast, has been all about B2B. .” That remains the strategy for Sherman.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Izquierdo told TechCrunch that she is a big fan of cooking and wanted to mix that passion with a business. “It Izquierdo aims to open another six kitchens, as well as use the new funding to enter the Brazilian and Peruvian markets next year. Latin America’s food service industry was forecasted to generate $264 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Cadoo , a US-startup that’s gamifying fitness by turning it into a betting opportunity, using the prospect of winning (or losing) cold hard cash to motivate people to get off the couch, has collected $1.5 “We are working to build a motivation platform that enables anybody to reach their goals,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Pipedrive is an EU-based CRM company with offices in eight countries, but it has a Czech co-founder in VP of Product Martin Henk, one of several founders to emerge from the ecosystem. billion crowns ($114 million), making its seven Czech founders into multimillionaires. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. government.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The gig economy has, to use a well-worn word, disrupted industries from ride-hailing to quick-service restaurants. Raphael Ouzan and Kobi Matsri are among this cohort, having founded A.Team , a gig marketplace for product engineers, in early 2020. The evidence is mixed on this. “Our algorithm can … learn what [A. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

After a record 2020, the Pittsburgh-based company also opened up about its plans for the future, including a focus on speaking a new language (in addition to listening, reading and writing). Domm Holland, co-founder and CEO of e-commerce startup Fast, appears to be living a founder’s dream. Thanks for reading!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. Will the behavior changes from COVID-19 be permanent?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

“We operate in an extremely competitive and well-funded industry, and this round allows us to have a long-term mindset when it comes to doubling down on our different markets,” says co-founder and CEO Miki Kuusi in a statement. This was mostly a primary raise,” Kuusi tells me when I ask if the new round includes secondary funding (i.e.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. Zoomin Software.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Recently, offenders have been using victims’ smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices,” the FBI said in a formal public warning. which will be a 600% increase in ARR over 2020. Hear from three founders who will reveal how they are both driving and leveraging the spatial computing revolution.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Founder and CEO Jason Corso tells TechCrunch that the new capital will be put toward further developing the company’s platform and doubling the size of Voxel51’s team from 13 to 26 employees by year-end. .” ” Voxel51’s core product, FiftyOne, launched in open source in August 2020.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

I asked co-founders from three of these newer companies for their insights, hoping to learn a bit more about what they’re doing, what they’re doing so right , and what’s next. Deel was created when its co-founders, just out of college, experienced how heavily where you live impacts the opportunities you get.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. In contrast, male-only founded U.S. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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