Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

At the March 2020 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved to receive an investment: CPNet, located in Harrisburg , is an industrial IoT and AI company founded to bring Industry 4.0 Using this platform, educators easily learn new concepts that ultimately build on the district’s goals and enable student success. [link].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Airplane on Thursday launched runbooks, a developer tool for automating internal workflows, in private beta and on Product Hunt. With developers in mind, the pair wanted to give engineers back the time they were spending building internal tools and away from product engineering. The product unveiling was buoyed by $8.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“This means companies have to use mobile to stay competitive, but how they are developing mobile is getting more complex.”. Developers are busy running processes so they can’t concentrate fully on creating new value for customers, he added. Current and upcoming trends in Latin America’s mobile growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Customer success company Vitally raised $9 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to continue developing its SaaS platform automating customer experiences. From the beginning, Vitally was bringing in strong revenue growth, which enabled the company to focus on building its platform and hold off on fundraising. “A

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

. “AI Fund is excited to support WhyLabs, whose open source logging library and AI observability platform makes it easy for developers to maintain real time logs and monitor ML deployments.” “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot. . “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. We set out to build a SaaS e-merchandising platform to create unlimited visuals via a desktop so you can showcase your products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

In addition, the company launched a SaaS merchandising product that uses machine learning to make sure products are in-stock and shelved correctly. 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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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Consumer shift to buying online during the global pandemic — and keeping that habit — continues to boost revenue for makers of developer tools that help e-commerce sites provide better shopping experiences. In contrast, Nacelle enables customers to keep their tech stack and put components together as they see fit.

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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. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems. We’ve reached a point where it is working and we are eager to scale everything,” Ng said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. We’re excited to back the Sanity team and their impressive developer-focused content management platform.”. million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chile’s Buk , which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. Also of note is that Buk was bootstrapped for the first five years of its SaaS operations. Image Credits: Buk.

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

Senior Software Engineer at Zylo Location: Indianapolis, IN Zylo is the leading enterprise SaaS optimization platform that transforms how companies manage and optimize their SaaS applications. Its SaaS platform, SONAR, provides data and analytics to participants in the freight market. Looking for more opportunities?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you are developing a new, innovative product, process, or software application, and you need capital to turn that innovation in to a business, let us help you get from Startup to UP and running! At the December 2019 Board of Director’s meeting, six companies were approved for funding. For more information, visit [link].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, began developing its SaaS customer experience management tools in 2014 for businesses that rely on humans, co-founder and CEO Aaron Ward told TechCrunch. Five Elms’ Ryan Mandl is joining AskNicely’s board as part of the funding. Image Credits: AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Endgame , enabling software companies to turn customer observations into go-to-market strategies, announced Tuesday it raised a total of $17 million in back-to-back seed and Series A funding rounds. As part of the investment, Upfront Ventures Partner Kara Nortman and Menlo Ventures Partner Naomi Ionita will join Endgame’s board of directors.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing. “It’s about change management as much as anything else because replacing the existing process is hard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The RejaReja retail marketplace was launched in 2020 as a brainchild of MarketForce, a SaaS product for the formal markets, founded by Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibut i in 2018. Our mission is to enable SMEs to grow, and what we’ve realized over time is that offering them loans is great, but that we need to empower them to access goods.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Joyned , formerly known as Gamitee , announced Wednesday that it raised $4 million in seed funding to continue developing its e-commerce platform that puts merchants in the driver’s seat of social engagement. That’s when he had the idea for co-browsing and began developing the company with co-founder Michael Levinson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. As part of the investment, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, joined Apollo.io’s board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. The new funding will enable the company to make additional hires to double the size of the team next year, and invest in product development and its go-to marketing strategy.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

SignalFire leads latest round for SaaS customer identity and access management (CIAM) vendor Herndon, Va. This enables customers to engage sooner and allows companies to convert more customer visits into revenue. SignalFire, based in San Francisco, led the Series A2 investment with additional participation from Ten Eleven Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With restaurants having difficulty hiring workers, as is the environment today, one company is developing a hiring platform and restaurant worker network that aims to make that easier. In addition, Bite Ninja secured some pre-seed funding to continue developing its software that enables workers to pick up drive-thru shifts from home.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – At the September 2019 Board of Director’s meeting the largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin Technology Partners added five additional startups to its portfolio of funded clients. Below are brief descriptions of the innovations developed by the companies. www.kijenzi.com. www.constance.one.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

To continue developing its software, the company announced Friday $2.5 Whittaker notes that the audit services industry is projected to be a $43 billion market in the United States this year, so the new funding will enable the company to jump on additional hiring to meet that demand. Audit Sight dashboard. Image Credits: Audit Sight.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Axio CEO Scott Kannry tells TechCrunch that the proceeds — which bring New York–based Axio’s total capital raised to $30 million — will be put toward product and engineering team development and supporting go-to-market functions and expanding across “key geographies.” Department of Energy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials. It is produced from 100% reclaimed carbon fiber, enabling new, high-volume, energy-efficient products that have a low carbon footprint.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Khoury was the director of business development at Work4. But Bouchez argues that Reveal goes a step further by involving sales and marketing teams in the process for lead generation, sales enablement, and ecosystem expansion. Sadones was the CTO at Multiposting, while Gautier cofounded employee sourcing and hiring platform Work4.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Not only is the protocol being developed by some of the biggest tech companies — think Apple, Amazon and Google — and smart home device makers, it is designed to finally fix the issues around fragmented smart home systems so that all of your devices can be easily set up and routed from one place. Its Internet Protocol will ??define

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Image Credits: Andrey Khusid. He is also looking at M&A opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

At the same time, Prayag Narula stepped down as CEO, but stayed on the board of directors. The funding will enable Marvin to scale its team and product development to better enable teams to conduct, organize, analyze and share user interviews. The company currently has 20 employees and is hiring across the board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader. “Tackle is the leading player for enabling companies to sell software through the cloud,” he said. At the time, Casado referred to Tackle having more than 200 customers.

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