TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Mum’s been the word since on which companies have received infusions from the Fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The scope of their global service extended across a spectrum of event facets, encompassing participant recruitment, on-site QR check-in, precision name tag printing, engaging interactive survival quizzes, and the exciting prize drawings.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

TVision is building what its team hopes will become the standard for measuring streaming viewership — and to accelerate those efforts, it’s raised $16 million in new funding. So instead of relying on tags, TVision has built up a panel of connected TV watchers. “There’s no good currency, per se, in the industry.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools , the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top of their platform. “It gives you this really simple interface where you can just tag moments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

” VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Funds offering ‘friends and family’ checks could bring the change underrepresented founders need Image Credits: Overearth / Getty Images America’s long-standing wealth gap between white and Black households contributes to the lack of diversity among startup founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Image Credits: Kinga Krzeminska (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Thanks in large part to Gen Z’s interest in sustainable shopping, recommerce is soaring to new heights, and VCs are looking for the come up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past three years, it has tagged more than 250 million images and says its increased conversions for its retail customers by 10% on average. Pixyle AI has helped brands that moved from brick-and-mortar stores to “phygital,” or an omnichannel strategy that blends e-commerce with physical retail points, by automating product tagging.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Controlant platform involves screen-based IoT tags, which link to GSM networks and then feed into web and mobile apps. Last week the governor of New York held up a box (see image above and video below) containing the vaccine, with an unidentified tag that looked like a Controlant GSM tracking device. government, the CDC, U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When I first started in venture capital, back in 2001, I used to fund funds. I worked for an institutional investor that invested in both venture capital funds and later stage growth deals. They raise larger and larger funds, for example, after building up a track record of successful angel investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3 The platform includes a collaborative team inbox used by multiple agents, and features like smart routing, canned responses, data tagging and analytics.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. social network profiles (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

He would be — he’s the co-founder of Lang.ai , a startup developing a platform that automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues ostensibly more quickly. ” Lang isn’t alone in using AI to auto-tag customer service messages. “Automation in customer support is not new. ’ moment.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

The early-stage focused venture capital firm funds and supports companies that are driving AI-first business transformation as seen in their portfolio companies Cohesity , Pinecone , and Gong.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Lang.ai, which has developed a no-code platform for businesses, closed on a $2 million seed funding round. saw its revenue double from the last quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 and the seed funding was motivated mainly to continue that momentum. Angels, GTMFund, and Lorimer Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

” Investors must believe it’s a solid approach, as well, given that Komprise this week managed to close a $37 million funding round from Canaan Partners, Celesta Capital, Multiplier Capital and Top Tier Ventures. It only records the metadata or tags about data, and keeps that information in customer-specified and -owned locations.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. The vastly larger universe of B2B companies, many of which have teams focused on pushing VC and private equity funds to evangelize their product to their portfolio. In roughly descending order of impact, I suggest: Invest in funds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In an effort to help his son, Male immersed himself in the topic and found what he described as an “incredibly fragmented and polarized community and marketplace, inadequate, antiquated solutions with hefty price tags and long wait lines.”. He then launched his own venture fund. Image Credits: Autism Impact Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

And today, the startup has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Founders Fund at a $20 million post-money valuation. In a nutshell, Playbook claims it can automatically imports, tags, categorizes an organization’s entire media library, in minutes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s been a few years since we profiled the company , whose total funding to date is $72.4 In late 2020, the company had raised $25 million in Series B funding on a $305 million valuation. The company was valued at $680 million prior to this round, Gorgias co-founder and CEO Romain Lapeyre told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. To da moon : Rocket engine startup Ursa Major quietly closed $100 million in new funding , reports Aria. Jagmeet has more. No judgment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

French startup Georges — or Georges.tech — is raising a new round of funding of $42.4 Singular is leading today’s funding round. Former Alven partners Jeremy Uzan and Raffi Kamber left the Paris-based VC firm to raise their own fund. million (€35 million). Existing investors Alven and Kerala are also investing once again.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

to provide a curated feed new each day, they’re not just tagging every piece of content, they’re metatagging each frame of content to get viewers what they want, faster Interactivity ?—?by Why they raised so much initial funding As I said in the interview, we at Upfront come from the land of small first rounds of financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Betterment ( $435 million in funding, per Crunchbase) and Personal Capital ( $265 million in raised capital, according to the same data source) are other related plays. Wealthfront raises $75 million to help millennials invest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 It also includes resources that chefs tap into daily, like ingredient yields and unit conversion, a menu cost calculator and automated allergen tagging and nutrition analysis. Image Credits: Evan Sung.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Startup is a weird word to use for a company worth that much, but as Stripe is still clinging to the private markets like some sort of liferaft, keeps raising external funds, and is presumably more focused on growth than profitability, it retains the hallmark qualities of a tech startup, so, sure, we can call it one. Market Notes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Interestingly, the monetization effort from Clubhouse actually doesn’t provide them with any money; instead, it’s monetization for recipient users who get 100% of the funds directed their way, minus a small cut for processing that goes directly to Stripe, the payment provider Clubhouse is using to enable the virtual tips.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The new funding, which brings its total raised to $50 million, was led by Edison Partners and included participation from returning backers Moderne Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Max Ventures. . Loveseat gets comfy with new funding to expand its returned home goods marketplace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Customers connect their data, it is placed into various verticals and tagged in different ways. People feed in the data, we anonymize it and give it back to you for insights.”. With Varos, it is all self-serve. Varos has been a free service as its builds up its data marketplace, but also has multiple paying customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Once all the wallets are tagged, Sprout will have a token cap table ready just as it has done for equity ownership. With this two-thronged strategy in place, the startup managed to win funding from Sequoia Capital India, which led its $3 million seed round that recently closed. “Crypto is next-generation compensation.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The company today announced that it raised $25 million in Series B financing led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Vertex Ventures, bringing GrowthSpace’s total raised to $44 million. GrowthSpace was founded in 2018 by Dan Terner, Izhak Kedar and Glass.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag — $499. They say there’s a market wobble in progress, but you wouldn’t think so by the number of new funds and venture firms that got announced today. 20 million for legacy industries : C2 Ventures raises new fund to invest in the “dull, dirty and dangerous” by Catherine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The round was led by South Korea-based Dattoz Partners, which will also take a seat on Kdan Mobile, and included participation from WI Harper Group, Taiwania Capital and Golden Asia Fund Mitsubishi UFJ Capital. Its features include optical character recognition, smart tagging and search, and protection for sensitive data.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. Everyone knows thrift stores or has bought a used product before — it’s not a new concept.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 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. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

Over five years ago, as I began to deploy the first Haystack Fund, I was lucky to select HelloSign as my sixth investment ever. I discovered the product much like you might have – I used it to help handle the paperwork and signatures for the new fund. I had a friend who worked there (thanks Joel Andren!)

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Forward Cities

AUGUST 18, 2021

Create graphic design collateral for print and digital media and to support partner outreach and fund development. Keep distribution and audience lists, tags, segments, and groups accurate and up-to-date. Areas of Responsibility. Graphic Design. Support storytelling efforts for community engagement projects .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The round was led by Zayn Capital; London-based investment firm, MSA Novo; global fund manager and Graph Ventures; an early-stage VC from Silicon Valley. The seed round is the largest seed financing round in the South Asian market leapfrogging Tag, a banking and financial services platform that raised $12 million last year. “We

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