TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. million (again, minus land costs). But with a 5.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Amitruck , a Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform, is one such provider of solutions that streamline the shipping market. He, thereafter, joined Bluecrest Capital Management, a British-American hedge fund, as part of the executive team involved in the operations of a number of private holdings in Canada, Ecuador and China.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We’re less than two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a day-long deep dive into the state of diversity, inclusion and equity in tech. I-Ally : I-Ally is a community-driven app that saves millennial family caregivers time and enables informed decision-making by providing services that fulfill their unique needs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. This has resulted in a difficult environment from a capital availability perspective in India and other emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Fintech outperformed the market in 2021, and it’s set to do even better. The company announced today it has closed a $8.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. billion in 2021 from $790 million in 2020, compared to global funding growth of 34% to $20.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

annually from 2021 to 2027; the food delivery market in Southeast Asia is expected to reach $49.7 billion in 2021. The startup had seven cloud kitchen locations in the Philippines when it raised its Series A in October 2021; it now operates 25 ghost kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, Yao told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

million grant) seed raise in September 2021, said the funding will support the launch of two new technologies: Kraken II and SITE. . Offering farmers better prices and providing working capital are two ways Releaf uses to gain market share in this segment, Ayogu noted. . million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

The round was led by Menlo Ventures, following a seed round in 2021 of $5.1 Orb powers billing for high-growth B2B technology companies including Airbyte, Dune, and Materialize, saving them engineering costs and enabling them to unlock more revenue. Orb enables them to focus on their core business, not on billing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

These plans also include enabling the digitization of traditional insurers as innovation continues to shape the industry. million seed extension raised in a round led by Harlem Capital — which invests in minority and women founders. All this against the backdrop of a $3.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New-York-based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round.

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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. The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

PeopleFund, a South Korean marketplace that connects borrowers and investors to enable lending, has recently added $20 million to its $63.4 Apart from the capital, PeopleFund also secured $240 million in debt financing in 2022 from Goldman Sachs, CLSA Lending Ark Asia and Bain Capital. In 2021, PeopleFund raised $63.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego , the insurtech that got its start by offering flexible motorbike insurance for gig economy workers but has since expanded with a range of tech-enabled commercial motor insurance products, has raised $150 million. Leading the London-based company’s C round — giving it a $1.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. The startup will use the capital to mass-produce its second AI chip prototype, called ATOM, which will be used in enterprise servers, Park said. billion in early 2021.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I discovered rhetoric in 2021 and read this book and The Elements of Eloquence which demonstrate the hundreds of literary devices we use to imbue language with flourish to entice or cajole the reader to hurdle over the period at the end of a sentence and sprint through the next, till the end of a tract. Words like Loaded Pistols.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

On March 3, we’re hosting TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a day-long virtual conference dedicated to examining diversity and inclusion in tech. This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. The new law enables the licensed P2P lending startup to operate as an authorized financial institution to lend, raise capital from international and domestic institutions, and provide loan referral services to its customers. million (75.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fine Structures Ventures led with participation from J2 Ventures, SV Pacific Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, Amino Capital, Sand Hill Angels and Gaingels. But Fok claims that it will enable product developers to run 10 MB AI models at the power it normally takes to run 100 KB models. ” Image Credits: Femtosense.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” billion in H1 2021. million in capital. billion in H1 2022, down 24% from $69.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Nowsta attracted venture capital for its approach to help employers better engage with their hourly workforces in this increasingly hybrid work environment. Joining GreatPoint in the financing were VMG Catalyst, Rally Ventures, Tribe Capital and existing investors Green Visor Capital, Compound Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Obviously, the pandemic hasn’t gone away, but when asked to predict the biggest storylines for 2021, VCs pointed to themes as varied as new distribution models, new kinds of interactivity, new tools for creators, the return of advertising business models and even the role of media in a democratic society. Siegler, general partner, GV.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

One of its partnerships there is with Dotdash Meredith , announced in 2021, which uses Clerk’s technology to manage its publications in over 15,000 stores per quarter. Where he believes Clerk is getting it right is by having a “ First Principles approach,” which enables the company to offer a cheaper cost structure. Clerk’s team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

That’s not much of a surprise, given that the buy now, pay later market size was valued at $16 billion in 2021 and is poised to grow nearly six times by 2029. Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’. It is now enabling financing for over 2,500 businesses in the U.S. Slope process.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

NewView Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and W23, and new investor AirTree Ventures. In addition to product development, the new funding enables Eucalyptus to build toward being a major player in the telehealth industry. Telehealth platform Eucalyptus raised a $22.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Then there was Integromat, which did not raise any external capital but sold for around 2.5 This offer is only available to readers in Europe and expires on April 30, 2021. Roman Horacek , partner, Reflex Capital. 6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021. billion crowns or $59 million. Lukáš Kone?ný

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

million seed round in August 2020, and then again in February 2021 when it raised another $4 million. Yadav wasn’t intending to raise additional capital so soon after its last round; in fact, the company thought it would be able to ride it out for a couple of years and go after capital again in early 2022. Image Credits: Circle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today the company closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Emergence Capital with participation from 11.2 Capital and GreatPoint Ventures, bringing the company’s total raised to $31.92 Moreover, 75% percent of data teams feel that outdated migration and maintenance processes are costing them productivity and capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The round was co-led by Valor Capital and EMLES Ventures and included individual investments from a group of founders. We want to make sourcing and procurement safe through technology-enabled distribution, similar to Alibaba, so we connect parties across the supply chain and get them access to discounted prices.”.

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