TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

As the child explores the FabuLingua world, more stories unlock, enabling more teaching opportunities. The company says it has more than 80,000 downloads, 15,000 registered users and over 1,000 families paying for the subscription. The company is currently raising capital through Wefunder , where it raised $322,983 with a $7.5

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 3, 2023

Prominent Venture Capital Firms and Individual Investors back the AI Startup to build world’s largest AI Cluster While follow on funding is a hurdle for many startups, Inflection AI faces no such challenge. Mobile: download Pi, your personal AI for iPhone or iPad. Based in Palo Alto, California the AI startup just raised $1.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Going after the some 83% of Americans that have a credit card , the app version was officially launched in 2019, and now the Atlanta-based company is announcing a $3 million seed round co-led by Dundee Venture Capital and Calano Ventures. I downloaded the app, and on the first day, saved $20.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

One-click checkout continues to stretch out its moment, and Sleek is the latest startup to get in on the venture capital action, where similar companies like Ownit , Bolt , Checkout.com , OurPass and Rapyd have collectively raised over $3 billion in investments within the past 18 months. It raised $1.7 billion by 2026, up from $3.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Yummy’s app can be downloaded for free, and the company charges a delivery fee or merchant fee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

South Korean startup Bucketplace , which operates a home decorating and interior app OHouse, is looking to continue capitalizing on that trend with its most recent $182 million Series D round, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Jay Lee said on Monday in an interview with TechCrunch. billion by 2028-end , up from $333.7 billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

The District of Columbia Attorney General today announced an agreement with SoLo Funds, a fintech company that enables peer-to-peer lending, to settle a lawsuit that alleged SoLo Funds engaged in predatory lending practices. It also raised over $13 million in venture-backed capital from firms, including Serena Ventures and ACME Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. By 2021, the app had gone viral after Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures wrote a blog post about it. “We By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Growth for women founders : Dominic-Madori reports how the Tory Burch Foundation launches a tool to help women founders find capital. The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022,” he found. “The Tweet at Christine and let her know your favorite piece.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today it’s announcing a $12 million seed raise, led by Outsiders Fund and featuring additional investments from Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC and Liquid2 VC. Flux says its technology is supported by “all modern browsers,” requiring no downloads. Image Credits: Flux.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Depression and anxiety were taking a serious toll on peoples’ well-being even before COVID-19, and the pandemic prompted more interest (and venture capital) in mental health startups. The startup’s app for mental health professionals, called ThoughtFullCare Pro, enables them to manage and scale their online practices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, has raised $4.4 Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Having accumulated more than 40 million app downloads and disbursing over $4 billion in loans, Atome Financial has demonstrated its impactful presence in the fintech sphere. Atome’s extensive network encompasses over 15,000 retail partners across ten Asian markets, enabling seamless and flexible payment options for consumers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And we’ve seen this time and time again in other industries when standards emerge, they become accelerators, enabling more efficient things to happen to make the community as a whole better by building these common building blocks. Perhaps that also explains why venture capitalists are throwing money at the project.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The startup’s eponymous six-month-old Android app enables users to start their savings journey for as little as 1 Indian rupee. The app has already amassed about half a million downloads, the founders said. Users on Jar can invest in multiple ways and get started within seconds. market, is beginning to make inroads.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The API request is only accepted if there is a match between the MFA credential and that machine’s identity, and each API call requires a fresh, one-time-use credential, enabling zero-trust access for an organization’s API services. That’s what we’re doing in the API world,” Corsha co-founder and CTO Anusha Iyer told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW co-led the round, which also included participation from Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Signum Capital, CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Three Commas and a slew of others. The company plans to use its new capital on resources “to ship and test high quality code,” among other things.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. Following the model creation, users can review the model, improve on it and then download to a file, connect back to the data warehouse or deploy it into an API or app. From there, they can build models and select from other use cases, like churn prevention, ranking and matching users.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. We also do some old school.csv download and pasting Q: What processes are you focused on improving?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Boston-based startup built a platform, which provides tech-enabled caregiver support through employers and health plans. Previous backers, including Slow, Founder Collective, Indicator Venture, Entrée Capital and CueBall also made follow-on investments in the round. The fresh capital, which gives ianacare a total of $16.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Here’s how it works: Workers download the free Landed Jobs app and set up a profile, where, instead of just typing out their work experience, location, availability and job goals, they can record short videos to show their personality. million in Series A capital to help restaurants better advertise job openings.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million in Pre-Series A round of financing led by Intudo Ventures and BEENEXT , with participation from CyberAgent Capital, and Arkblu Capital. Users can download the Jago app on iOS and Android to order freshly brewed beverages for both pickup and delivery, eliminating the need to go out to a café for refreshment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Salt Labs, a rewards platform for hourly workers, today emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Fin Capital with participation from Anthem Venture Partners and others. “The mission of Salt Labs is to enable hourly workers to own the long-term value of their work,” Lee said via email.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

SkorLife says the private, alpha version of its app has been downloaded more than 3,000 times and is growing organically by 50 to 60 new users a day. That surpasses its internal target by 7x and the app will be available for public download soon. The Jakarta-based startup announced today it has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. I’d also like to thank my former colleague, Phin Barnes at First Round Capital, for introducing Tinybop to Mitch Kapor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Although those endeavors seem to be bearing fruit, Amazon also had a failed venture, Haven, with Berkshire and JPM that disbanded after multiple internal issues. For Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital, the move by Amazon shows the value of healthcare for leading tech companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. seed round funding for its warehouse robotics solutions, led by SMRK VC, a Ukrainian venture fund. It has raised $14.7 Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s an equity investment, through a series of investments that aim to grow the business going forward, to enable their business plan and their achievement of the company’s vision,” Contact Financial Holding chairman Hazem Moussa told TechCrunch. million downloads and has experienced 8.5 Wasla currently has 1.5

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Join OurCrowd as we invest in a Series A round with Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. Nexa3D raises $55M for faster 3D printing OurCrowd increased our investment in Nexa3d , the leader in ultrafast polymer 3D printers, as it raised $55M from investors including Saudi Aramco Ventures. Learn More.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. That same year, Latka launched a podcast and has since interviewed one SaaS founder nearly daily — recording 2,500 episodes to date that have had 18 million downloads, he said. And that podcast?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

SaaS has been bucking many of the venture slowdown trends , while data from Gartner indicates that SaaS constituted the lion’s share ($123 billion) of cloud end-user spending ($332 billion) last year. “Today, security is about enabling the business and its employees to move fast, safely and securely.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Get ready for your close-up : PhotoRoom, a photo-editing app for e-commerce sellers that enables users to remove the background behind objects, has attracted 40 million app downloads and now raised $19 million, Romain reports. We are nothing if not creatures of habit, after all. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Here I talked about Lending Club where I understand hedge fund managers are now deploying capital to lend directly against pools of borrowers. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. That’s what Deliv enables.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Appstore downloads of the top remote working apps rose from 1.4 MeMed – Provides diagnostic insights to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections and provides solutions to enable early intervention, before the onset of COVID-19 symptoms. The new shape of the world economy is already beginning to emerge.

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