TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

AllRight is a platform for English language learning, aimed at children four years or older, which combines lessons with real teachers and homework with “AI-powered” tutors. He said: “Our pilot language pair launch three years ago showed that learning a language with gamification in early childhood produces excellent results.

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CIO

MARCH 1, 2023

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO of DataStax Every business needs an artificial intelligence strategy, and the market has been validating this for years. We started with Apache Cassandra ® 12 years ago, serving the largest datasets in the world. Still, most companies have not yet benefited from real-time AI. Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

A15 , an early-stage VC in the MENA region that has backed the likes of Esaal , Paymob and Helios Investment Partners subsidiary, TPay, made a follow-on investment, according to TFK. Antaki is also a general partner at A15. Earlier this year, we found that one of the most important areas we thought we needed to focus on was the brand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Durable Capital Partners, D1 Capital Partners and Dragoneer Investment Group co-led the first tranche of the financing. In mid-November, when it announced its last raise, Faire said that it saw “more than 3x year-on-year growth” and had reached more than $1 billion in annual volume in less than five years.

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MAY 1, 2024

By Jo Ann Corkran and Loretta McCarthy Twenty years ago, the landscape of angel investing bore scant traces of female presence, with women representing a mere 5% of all angel investors and 3% of funded companies. This shift is not just a numeric increase; it’s a seismic evolution reflecting broader changes in society and the business world.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Digip currently makes about $500,000 in annual recurring revenue and that amount is forecasted to grow 3x during the 2022 fiscal year. Over the last year, Digip has also expanded its IP service into the United States and other international markets. The Stockholm-based legaltech startup announced today it has added $1.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The fact the numbers are the same was not lost on Bansal, and in fact the Cisco deal closed at the end of March in 2017, almost exactly five years ago. That platform has expanded over the years and includes CI/CD tooling, cloud pricing optimization, feature flags and chaos engineering. He sold his first company , AppDynamics, for $3.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Adam Carmel, founder and CEO of Polly , says the company has increased its customer count by nearly 3x over the past year, including “several of the country’s top 100 lenders.”. New backers Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall in participating in the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Other investors, including MUFG Innovation Partner, BRI Ventures and its previous backers like AC Venture and Quona Capital, also participated in the latest round. Other investors, including MUFG Innovation Partner, BRI Ventures and its previous backers like AC Venture and Quona Capital, also participated in the latest round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Supply chain shortages and high gasoline prices have forced consumer packaged goods companies to manage trade more effectively over the past year to compete with other brands. We profiled the company last year , back when it was still Cresicor, and when it raised $5.6 million in seed funding. At the time, it had grown revenue by 2.5x

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

This round of funding was led by DST Global, with additional participation from Aspex Management, Reverent Partners and existing investors such as Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, Kakao Ventures, Strong Ventures and Capstone Partners. By the way, Danggeun means carrot in Korean.). Canada and Japan. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns. The startup has secured $4.2 million in seed funding led by Headline Ventures. The new round of funding brings its total raised to $5.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Portside today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors including I2BF Global Ventures, bringing the company’s total raised to more than $70 million. “As operators scale, they need to capture efficiencies through technology. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India & Southeast Asia, and new investors DST Global Partners and Shopify (marking the e-commerce platform’s first venture investment in a startup operating in the Southeast Asia region). That’s where WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox) steps in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The three-year-old startup runs a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items that connects OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and EPC (engineering procurement construction) customers with manufacturing small-businesses and enterprises. All the products it sells today are custom-made.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Owl Labs , a startup developing a linuep of AI-powered meeting hardware, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C round led by HP Tech Ventures (HP’s venture capital arm) with participation from Sourcenext, Matrix Partners, Spark Capital and Playground Global.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Over the past year, adoptions of pets spiked as more people were at home, also leading to an increase in vet visits. Pet pharmacy Mixlab has developed a digital platform enabling veterinarians to prescribe medications and have them delivered — sometimes on the same day — to pet parents. Where top VCs are investing in digital health.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. Also, CEO and co-founder Wayne Slavin says its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown “by more than 3X every year over the past several years.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Sourcegraph , a late stage startup that wants to bring the power of search to code, announced a $125 million Series D investment today on a $2.625 billion valuation, a 3x growth from its previous valuation in December 2020, according to the company. The company has now raised almost $225 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

-based caretech software-as-a-service maker, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina, with Omers Ventures and Index Ventures also participating — the latter reupping its backing after leading Birdie’s Series A last year. In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

New York-based Greycroft led the extension, which also included participation from new backers GGV Capital, Citius Capital and Intersection Growth Partners, as well as existing investors Union Square’s Opportunity Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Endeavor Catalyst, Foundation Capital, Monashees and Quona Capital. . million from Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Partners Investment and Murex Partners co-led the new funding, with participation from Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea , ABC Partners , Everrich Group, GS Group’s corporate venture capital firm GS Futures , We Ventures, Base Investment and Dunamu & Partners. AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2023

Digital initiatives are innovative and although it’s fair to have an anticipation of ROI, having an iron-clad approach to specific monetary returns from each IT project won’t let some of the big bold ideas to go through,” says Sushant Rabra, partner at KPMG. Companies today don’t want to have three- or five-year plans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you’re a heavy user and you spend more than $15,000 on your card per year, you’re upgraded to a new tier and earn 3X points. If you’re a heavy user and you spend more than $15,000 on your card per year, you’re upgraded to a new tier and earn 3X points. You can then spend your points with retail partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

HealthPlix , an Indian startup offering its in-house platform for doctors to help record patient data digitally, has raised $22 million in fresh investment to broaden its reach in the country and allow more doctors to utilize its software to offer improved care to their patients. In India, roughly 300,000 doctors practice medicine regularly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This process often takes months, if not years, and requires an investment of thousands of dollar,” he said. This process often takes months, if not years, and requires an investment of thousands of dollar,” he said. The startup announced today it has raised $15 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The trio’s innovative approach has caught the attention of investors for the second time in two years. In 2021, Neo.Tax saw its revenue grow 3x and its goal is to have over 5x growth in 2022. But one startup is on a mission to make taxes less…well, dreadful and an actual benefit. But the process can still be daunting to some.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. That’s why marketing and product teams need onboarding goals, says Sam, who explains the tactics he used to insert themselves into the customer journey and how those changes helped them reduce turnover by almost 3x. I love it when a plan comes together.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered Chargebee said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its Series G financing round led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners. The new financing round valued the 10-year-old startup at $1.4 Tiger Global goes super aggressive in India.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Late last year, the startup began the process of raising its seed round of funding. Yet some businesses hesitate to explore the option of hiring people in other countries because the prospect can be daunting and costly. On paper, an employee signs an employment contract with Remofirst’s local entity versus with the actual hire.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple signaled it is close to testing its system without a human safety operator on public roads before the end of the year. operations , has been driverless in Europe for a couple of years now, but will only be operating without a human driver in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For as long as Bates has been in the real estate industry, about 20 years or so, renters have wanted to pay rent with a credit card for convenience and to earn loyalty points. Bilt launched back in June out of Kairos, the startup studio led by Ankur Jain, focused on enabling over 109 million renters in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Last year was a good one for Bitso, which says it processed more than $1.2 “The growth of the crypto ecosystem this year has been remarkable. It took Bitso six years to get its first million clients. Bitso was founded in January 2014 and acquired its first customer in April of that year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Some people spend four to six hours a week to create data-driven stories, and we get it down to a few minutes, saving them over 200 to 300 hours a year to do more strategic work and speak to customers,” he told TechCrunch. Because the content is dynamic, presentations are “completely editable” after they’re generated, the company says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

For a company that launched just three years ago, this is a fairly remarkable trajectory. Alkeon Capital led the round with help from new investors Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Sorenson Capital and Thomvest Ventures. It didn’t hurt that revenue grew almost 3x last year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The startup has been on a fundraising tear in the last year, a mark of how its service has grown during COVID-19. Last year, he said, some 600,000 people filed for bankruptcy protection due to healthcare issues — meaning, they were being crippled by the costs and managing them.

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