TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Singapore-based Skuad helps companies hire employees in different countries while staying compliant with local employment regulations and processing cross-border payroll. The startup now has customers from 34 countries, talent placed in about 94 companies and 3x growth in ARR since January 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. companies “gaining attention and recruiting top talent.” Here’s what I found out: Seven fintech companies ranked in the top 50: Brex (No. 35), Deel (No. 4), Ramp (No.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

— Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Brian may have found the perfect MacBook : Brian gives us the ins and outs of the new Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch M2 Max, in which he writes, “It’s a reaffirmation of the ‘Pro’ in MacBook Pro: chunky, heavy, blazingly fast, full of ports and packed with the best the company has to offer.” Kyle has more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As more people moved to remote work over the past few years, there was also an uptick in people choosing freelance or contract work, leaving companies to figure out how to manage that worker segment. The latest to receive funding to continue developing its financial infrastructure for the freelance economy is Archie , which raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer. The takeaway here?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

-based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. The combined valuation of the company, as well as further financial terms, were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It also points to the increase in multinational companies as helping to drive global employee mobility. “We have a tonne of companies in the engineering space, more traditional retail,” she tells TechCrunch. “And then we now start having conversations with the really big global companies. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Here’s a rundown of some others: Remote payroll startup Deel acquired fintech Capbase for an undisclosed amount in a cash and stock deal, the companies shared with me exclusively.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Now, even small companies are targeted with elaborate campaigns. Building a modern educational product If you work for a big company with important regulatory requirements, chances are you regularly receive mandatory training videos with quick quizzes at the end. But it feels like things are accelerating.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

On the fintech side, the company claims to help startups with a range of services, including money transfer, risk mitigation and access to a chartered bank’s infrastructure. For example, notes Dean, fintechs are good at marketing building products and relationships with specific verticals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

Global payroll provider Deel plans to provide $120 million of its own cash off its balance sheet to support startups’ payroll operations in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank shutting down. It has teamed up with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Y Combinator – both of which are investors in Deel – to offer the support to customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Fintech-turned-HR outfit Deel reached $295 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by the end of 2022, the company’s co-founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz shared today. Deel says it calculates ARR as monthly recurring SaaS revenues x 12. Further, Deel claims that it makes in profits a margin of 85%. That’s up 417.5%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Razavi invests in growth-stage enterprise, fintech and developer companies, but her background is until fairly recently an engineering-focused one. In 2017 she joined Spark, and since then has led investments in Marqueta, Deel, Rapyd, Niantic, Capitolis and Earnin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Deel’s timeline is impressive: Founded in 2018, entered YC and raised its seed round in 2019. In 2020, the company raised a Series A and Series B. In 2021, Deel raised its Series C and Series D for a total amount raised of $629 million since its founding. TechCrunch Live records weekly on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round which values the company at $1.1 The company had also raised $16 million in a Series A funding round that TechCrunch reported on in July of 2021. . It has more than 500 employees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

If you rewind the clock to February of this year, Deel, a startup that helps customers hire in other countries, announced that it had built the ability to pay workers in crypto. Regardless of your view on the financial intelligence of such a move, TechCrunch covered the news because we’re keeping tabs on Deel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . In 2018 and 2019, its biggest customers were ride-hailing companies, and with the pandemic, the company saw an increase in e-commerce and marketplace customers. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2019, Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang founded Deel , a startup that aims to help companies compliantly hire and pay talent remotely all around the world. Deel claims to allow businesses to hire employees and contractors in less than 5 minutes without needing a local entity. Deel in October was valued at $5.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

We understand that the funding is coming in at a $475 million valuation, six times the company’s valuation when it last raised money — a $20 million round just four months ago. The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Others include Deel, which is now valued at $1.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Martínez spoke to me from Barcelona, where the company is setting up a new European hub. Some like Deel and Remote are positioning themselves as platforms to help hire remote employees; others like Turing are taking the remote concept and focusing it on sourcing a specific talent pool: engineers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

Microsoft 365 goes Basic: Microsoft will introduce a lower-cost tier of Microsoft 365, its family of productivity software and cloud-based document editing services, starting on January 30, the company announced Wednesday. Called Microsoft 365 Basic and priced at $1.99 per month or $19.99

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s clear that remote and hybrid work are here to stay — the pandemic forever changed the way many companies do business. A recent Deloitte report found that slightly over half of companies won’t permit employees to work in locations in which the company isn’t already established for tax purposes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As a result, Deel — a San Francisco-based startup which provides payroll, compliance tools and other services to help businesses hire remotely — has seen a massive surge in demand. Just since April, Deel has seen its global customer base jump from 1,800 to over 4,500, according to CEO and co-founder Alex Bouaziz.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Deel, a startup which provides payroll, compliance tools and other services to help businesses hire remotely, has seen increased demand in the wake of this shift. For one, it comes just over seven months after Deel raised a $30 million Series B financing. Deel also plans to do some hiring itself, and grow its product offerings.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. And in the past six months, more than 8,000 customers have moved over $10 million in transaction volume to Africa, the company said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Like always, each episode features an entrepreneur presenting their early pitch deck along with the investor who funded the company. Anish Acharya (a16z) + Alex Bouaziz (Deel). Alex Bouaziz co-founded Deel after running into major hurdles hiring remote workers for another venture. Register for TechCrunch Live with a16z and Deel.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

During his two years at the firm, Salisbury went on to back the likes of now-decacorn Deel and Tally , two companies he had gotten to know through the Cambrian community. The fund itself reflects a community ethos with some of the top fintech founders who are both investors in the fund and resources for the companies we back.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

TechCrunch+ is launching a series of posts looking at recent, notable venture rounds, exit activity and other news that relates to the financial side of building new technology companies. Despite posting some growth since 2020 in 2022, the company shrank compared to the 2021 period last year. They’re also looking for exits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

Next week, I plan to interview Freedman for TechCrunch’s Equity podcast and ask her about how to build a company when the mission may be irreversibly challenged by our government; we’ll talk about the origin story, and how they plan to pivot in the future. Tech layoffs don’t happen to companies, they happen to people . Start here .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

We report that “the company calculates hundreds of billions of losses (in dollars) across emerging markets per year. The company estimates the market is $20 billion and it is only going after a quarter of it currently. It’s a massive opportunity to increase the aggregate revenues and top line of those utilities by 50%.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. Turing is not disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

It’s Wednesday, May 11, aka the start of GooglePalooza, which the company insists on referring to as the far less entertaining “ Google I/O 2022.” Or, as they put it: Layoffs happen to people, not companies. Rumor has it that Deel just raised at a $12 billion valuation fueled by the remote-work revolution. PT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Regular TechCrunch readers are likely familiar with HR-tech unicorns like Rippling , Gusto and Deel , late-stage startups with valuations around or above the $10 billion mark. Even more fun, Velocity Global CEO Ben Wright shared a grip of financial data about his company with TechCrunch+ recently. And perhaps some less familiar names.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Meet Easop , a new software-as-a-service startup that helps companies manage equity incentives for employees across multiple countries. That’s why more companies are now hiring remote workers. The idea is that Easop should work for everyone in the company — people based in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Given, you know, the country’s regulatory crackdown on technology companies. We closed with a number of major fintech rounds, including new capital for Deel and a funding scoop on Brex , which is now officially a decacorn. Notably, Deel and Brex both raised mega-rounds just six months after raising mega-rounds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Companies are raising less money at lower valuations than in 2021, which reflects the market sentiment.”. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We are thrilled to announce that employees at YC companies can now leverage one of the major benefits previously only available to YC founders – YC Deals. We built YC Deals for our companies with a growing team. Now any employee of a YC company can redeem these deals and help their company save money.

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