TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

When Acorns last raised funding, $300 million in March 2022, it was valued at $2 billion; GoHenry has not disclosed its valuation but was believed to be valued at between $250 million and $500 million in October 2022, when it raised $55 million. In March of 2022, CEO Noah Kerner told TechCrunch that the company had more than 4.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s been a 12-year journey for Purely Elizabeth founder Elizabeth Stein, and based on her plans for the company’s next phase, she is just getting started. Fast-forward to today, and Purely Elizabeth, which has since added pancake/waffle mix and oatmeal, is one of the top brands in the breakfast category.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

TechCrunch spoke with Brex co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras, who confirmed that the company did in fact put its name in the hat for SVB but only for the early-stage and growth portfolios within its business. billion of financial fraud in 2022 to the Federal Trade Commission. million in funding led by Better Tomorrow Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s typical for creators and their teams to rely on email, text messages, Word Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox, and other file-sharing services and tools that aren’t optimized for audio content, Highnote co-founder and CEO Jordan Bradley told TechCrunch. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. Image Credits: Highnote.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

billion all-female founding teams raised in Q1 2022. When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular. When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. Cure founder and CEO Lauren Picasso.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Most founders are not experienced entrepreneurs, which means they tend to repeat the same mistakes as they try to overcome universal challenges. According to Klaviyo co-founder and chief product Ed Hallen , luck was a contributing factor to his marketing automation company’s success. Stay tuned! Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, February 25, 2022. Day One Ventures agrees with our general vibe, adding ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi as a climate-focused investor to its staff. Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup. Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup. Big Tech Inc.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 23, 2022

On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of up to $10,000! Second Place: Talia East with HER Tech World took home $3,000 for developing a solution that matches up underserved female founders with investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

For founders hunting up their next capital tranche, the news could prove less desirable. We’re mere weeks away from the conclusion of the first quarter of 2022, which means in short order we’ll get a deluge of data concerning the domestic and global venture capital market’s performance at the start of the year.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Kandal will focus on unlocking greater synergies across Grab’s superapp ecosystem to create more value for our users and partners, and building a product mix that offers affordable services for those seeking value as well as highly differentiated premium offerings. He then became head of Geo in January 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. He intends to use the new funding to scale the company and its creator ecosystem, while also expanding the end-to-end logistics part of the platform. Meanwhile, U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The Israeli company is only a year old, but has already tackled the structure of the whole cut, which is complex, co-founder and CEO Ofek Ron told TechCrunch. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. The second generation — where Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods comes in — were about both taste and texture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. Image: (supplied).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Kodland’s latest tranche of funding — which brings its total raised to date to $11 million — will be used for market expansion, with courses in a further eight languages planned over the next two years. Ireland, the U.S.,

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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

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. We believe very much in the consumerism of healthcare, and what that means is you have to build healthcare around the consumer,” says founder and chairwoman Gina Bartasi. Zimmerman, the founder and CEO of Drift. With 12 outlets in 10 U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 17, 2022! And Chicago, one of the most important American metropolises, is funding more and more underrepresented founders at the seed and angel stages. You can program it and use it for all sorts of things. PT, subscribe here. We dug into how that change is happening.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

. “It’s been a turbulent few months for all tech sectors, including insurtech,” said Stephen Brittain, director and co-founder of Insurtech Gateway. There’s another reason why fundraising is harder for insurtech founders in 2023. Wechsler said, “Many firms who dabbled in insurtech (A.K.A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to Seoul Robotics CEO Hanbin Lee, the LV5 CTRL TWR uses an automatic transmission and connectivity built into vehicles to maneuver them autonomously without requiring hardware. It is also not possible to mix and match sensor, which we come in.”. Image Credits: Seoul Robotics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Going for larger rounds with higher multiples means reduced ownership, and it’s shifting more power to founders as investors are “paying more and at shorter intervals for less of less profitable startups.” Thanks very much for reading!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Could it also be a sign of some of the changes we are planning to track in 2022?”. Max Haot, founder and CEO, Launcher. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Thanks very much for reading, and have a great week. Walter Thompson.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2021

That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” . Part of Jenfi’s Series A funding will be used to develop automated analytics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We decided to raise again at the start of the year,” co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve told me. Alan’s founders have been clear about their vision from the very beginning. Very quickly, users discovered that they can use the Alan app to find a health professional near them using Alan Map.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s April 27, 2022, and here’s a thing we didn’t see coming: May. In a conversation with Editor Greg Kumparak at TechCrunch Early Stage, YC managing director and group partner Dalton Caldwell spoke about the application process founders must navigate before they’re accepted to one of the world’s top accelerators.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

GPS is one of those science fiction technologies whose use is effortless for the end user and endlessly challenging for the engineers who design it. Eschewing the hybrid chip model of mixing old signals with new, it wants one chip monitoring the singular band of L5 signals to drive cost and power savings for devices.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 17, 2022! versus-China battle but could have a third hub, or series of hubs, in the mix. Our own Matt Burns chatted with Emmalyn Shaw of Flourish Ventures and Itai Damti, a co-founder at Unit. PST, subscribe here. It has also been reforged at a far higher price.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The total funds obtained through series A reached $33 million or equivalent to IDR 510 billion on October 20, 2022. Xurya’s Managing Director and Co-Founder, Eka Himawan said, “We appreciate the trust given by Mitsui, Surya Semesta Internusa, our partners, and Xurya customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Thankfully, though, a group of ex-Google/Firebase employees is now resurrecting the Inbox experience — with a bit of the Slack user experience mixed in, too. Think of it more as Inbox re-imagined for 2022. Because it was so good, it’s no surprise Google shut it down in 2019. But it’s also much more than that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Blank Street’s co-founders Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha. Today, the company announced a $25 million Series A round, led by General Catalyst and Tiger Global, with additional strategic investors, including Warby Parker founders Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, Harry’s founder Jeff Raider and Allbirds founder Joey Zwillinger.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The funding round was a mix of $1.5 Joe Merullo, founder and CEO, grew up in Boston and started his first business in real estate at 19 years old. The company pivoted to Arrenda in 2022. Merullo plans to use the debt portion of the new funding for loans and financings issued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. What founders really want to know is: what are investors looking for right now ?

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

were made in 2022. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. The legal structures have gotten so much better, and the costs have come down to assemble investors using instruments like the SPV [special purpose vehicle] to invest together. What is unique about us? Client segments?

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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. In retail, “assortment optimization” refers to the process of selecting the right mix of products to stock on store shelves. billion in Q1 2022 compared to $26.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Looking ahead, KPMG’s view on the prospects for financial services M&A over the next six to 12 months is mixed. Wiseasy is a brand you might not have heard of, but it’s a popular Android-based payment terminal maker used in restaurants, hotels, retail outlets and schools across the Asia-Pacific region. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Vue Storefront , which is building what it describes as “frontend-as-a-service”, has closed a $20 million round, which it plans to use for R&D, to bring on more tools targeting B2B e-commerce businesses, and for business development after seeing revenues grow 300% in the last 18 months.

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