TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The investment will also see VUZ scale its Los Angeles office and scale with creators and content in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.

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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.”. MaxRewards offers and benefits.

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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, 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. The funding will go toward expanding Flux’s development team, investing R&D for additional features and increasing its marketing reach. Image Credits: Flux.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Ultimately, the best solution would be to pay gig workers a fair wage for the time they spend doing their work, but barring that, technologically developed band-aids to help heal technologically enabled wounds seem like the only option. Download the Chrome extension to detect if UberEats has underpaid you. UberCheats is now live!

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) can help customers shopping online preview products before making a purchase, and is a growing area of investment for e-commerce businesses. Its previous backers, including Kakao Ventures, Shinhan Capital, Lotte Ventures and Naver D2SF, participated in the latest round, bringing its total raised to $4.8

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument. Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or stocks, for instance. Users on Jar can invest in multiple ways and get started within seconds. s recurring payment support.)

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2011

First of all, their CrunchConnect product will make your pitches a lot easier, by not forcing your clients to download plugins to do over the web presentations. That’s unfortunate, because Salescrunch is one of the most exciting deals I’ve ever seen and Sean Black is the right person for the right job if I’ve ever seen one.

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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

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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For consumers, Greener offers an app that links to the user’s bank account, enabling customers to learn about their carbon impact and get suggestions to make better choices on shopping greener based on potential purchases for 250+ brands. million), led by NAB Ventures with participation from RealVC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. “With human MFA, as soon as you get your authenticator downloaded and set up, you’re pinning access to your trusted machine. Corsha, a Washington, D.C.-based

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

GEN member organisations include universities, district councils, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Xero, NZ Entrepreneur, Bridgewest Ventures NZ and many more. While the GEN New Zealand network supports startups and business ventures to succeed, there are always roadblocks and failures on the entrepreneurial journey.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Prosus Ventures, Alpha Wave and Accel co-led Virgio’s Series A funding, valuing the one-year-old startup at $161 million (post-money). This is then fed into our agile and responsive supply chain to enable the trendiest, elegant and yet affordable line in near real-time.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Last June, OHouse launched a next-day furniture delivery service, enabling users to choose the date and time they want to receive the furniture. Bucketplace also claims that OHouse has been downloaded more than 20 million times in South Korea. billion ( 2 trillion KRW).

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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

Q1 VC results tread water, but that’s cold comfort for SaaS unicorns Image Credits: Nigel Sussman/TechCrunch As Q1 2023 draws to a close, Alex Wilhelm reviewed early data from PitchBook to get a feel for key VC trend metrics like deal count and total capital invested. Tweet at Christine and let her know your favorite piece.

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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. That’s also why this is the second company (the other is Editorially ) I’ve invested in from that network.

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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

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 new investment brings Vega’s total funding raised to over $10 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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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. ianacare announced this morning it has raised a $12.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact Financial Holding, Egypt’s non-bank consumer finance provider, has invested $9 million in the country’s ecommerce super-app Wasla , setting the stage for the rollout of new online shopping capabilities, products and regional expansion. million downloads and has experienced 8.5 Wasla currently has 1.5

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The startup has raised $4 million in a seed round to build a neobank app that will enable individuals to sign-up with their preferred credit unions to access various financial services. “We The app gives power to the members, who have the ability to view and download their financial statements, apply for loans and make repayments.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Appstore downloads of the top remote working apps rose from 1.4 Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 10, 2020

Entrepreneurship and the upward social mobility it seems to enable have always captured the nation’s imagination. While much attention is devoted to fast-growing venture-backed startups, other companies that have moved past the startup phase but whose growth has stalled before reaching the middle market lack support.

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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. Haje explored how ButcherBox grew to $600 million in revenue , without taking external investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A startup called Matter , which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) As Matter exits private beta, the app will be open to anyone who wants to download it from the App Store.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

As the demand for Spawning’s service grew, the company — which was entirely bootstrapped up until that point — sought an outside investment. And it got it. “We are enthusiastic about the potential of AI tooling. Adobe, which recently announced generative AI tools, is pursuing its own opt-out mechanisms and tooling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Recently raised $7 million from Atlas Ventures out of Boston. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Total round was $2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company today revealed that it has raised a total of $17 million in funding, including a $4 million seed funding led by Courtside Ventures, 1984 Ventures and Tau Ventures back in January. Dexcom became an investor in Signos’ most recent investment round as well, as a strategic investor.

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