TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

TechCrunch reports that data indicates that the crypto trading ad push during the big American football game led to a spike in downloads for the pertinent companies. And the company is working to commercialize an open source tool. This will save Peloton : The at-home exercise company is getting into games. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The company provides a one-stop-shop for managing employees’ remote working options. According to Gable, companies using its service have seen their employees’ interest in coming into an office increase by 75%. The company says over 5,000 employees are making use of Gable’s service.

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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

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

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

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

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

APRIL 15, 2022

Coming off an $8 million seed round announced last November, company founders Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata say the biggest thing that has happened is growth. The new investment gives the company total funding of $32 million. Credit card and payments companies compete for a slice of the growing BNPL market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In March 2020, Sami Bouremoum and Michael Ginzo, two tech entrepreneurs with a background in consulting (Bouremoum worked for Bain & Company) and software development (Ginzo led product at hiring startup Deel), came together to co-launch Hofy , a company that delivers office equipment to remote hires.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Remote workforces have come into their own in the last several years, with companies ever more willing to tap into talent wherever it happens to be, and a vast array of low-friction tools being built to make those distributed teams work just as effectively as if they were all in the same physical space. “We only see this accelerating.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 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. But for some reason, when you’re talking about a company that had achieved the highest-ever valuation for a privately held startup, it sits differently. Will it raise or go public?

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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

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 22, 2023

Customer success platforms (CSPs), or software designed to help business-to-business companies manage and monitor their customer success efforts, are increasingly in demand. The company didn’t disclose its exact valuation, but it’s reportedly 5x higher than the previous valuation.) billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The company targets organizations that not only have global workforces, but are expanding their employee bases quickly. The major impact of COVID-19 for us has been changing attitudes,” CEO Eynat Guez, who co-founded the company with Ruben Drong and Ofer Herman, told me in an interview last September.

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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

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

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 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

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

AUGUST 19, 2022

I sat down (virtually, that is) with General Partners Angela Strange and Anish Acharya to learn more about why the pair believes that the fact that more people are working globally spells huge opportunity for fintech companies. And then over time, if the product and company was successful, you would slowly expand globally. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In the wake of the pandemic, more and more companies are relying on independent contractors to sustain and grow their businesses — and more people are turning to freelancing. One of the major challenges for companies drawing on the gig economy is managing payroll and benefits. And Fiverr rival Upwork found that 39% of the U.S.

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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

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

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Billion-dollar links : LinkTree is a company that you are familiar with. But did you know that the company is now worth $1.3 That is going to cost the on-demand item printing company $500,000. The company is working to make Africa’s informal retail market less fragmented. billion after closing a $110 million round.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history. This year presented an exceptional challenge to startups and established companies alike as the world struggled through a full year in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. We reflected on the.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Oyster , a startup and platform that helps companies through the process of hiring, onboarding and then providing contractors and full-time employees in the area of “knowledge work” with HR services like payroll, benefits and salary management, has closed a Series A round of $20 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 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. I was intrigued because the bank — which counted Mark Cuban as one of its investors as a private company — took what some might say was a backward route to becoming a bank.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Christina Melas-Kyriazi of Bain Capital Ventures is excited to see companies build and take advantage of new payment rails and Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures generously shared an example of a cold email that worked. BTV is focused on investing in the super early stages of a company, such as pre-seed and seed.

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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

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

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

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

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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