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20:00 30.11.2023

Clayful, a startup that helps students connect to mental health experts within 60 seconds, raises $7M

Clayful is a platform that enables students aged eight to 18 to connect with a mental health expert within 60 seconds when they need it. The startup said it had raised $7 million in funding from investors, including Google Latino Founders Fund, Reach Capital, Ovo Fund, Common Sense Ventures, Charter School Growth Fund and Wisdom […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:00 30.11.2023

Tech-enabled warehousing startup Huboo raises another $36.6M amid continued e-commerce growth

When consumers switched to home deliveries and “digitized” their lifestyles during the pandemic, it led to a surge in e-commerce sales and thus, also, in the need for warehousing and shipping. But of course, most e-commerce businesses outsource this function. Amazon’s ‘Fulfilled By Amazon’ (FBA) service has boomed on its own platform, but if you’re […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 30.11.2023

Kognitos raises $35M to help businesses automate back-office processes

Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the form of budget cuts. Other times, it’s more drastic — e.g. layoffs or hiring freezes. But Binny Gill, the co-founder of Kognitos, makes the case that companies can have their cake and eat it too […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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19:32 29.11.2023

Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model dev infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins with […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 29.11.2023

Acctual raises $3.85M to help crypto companies better manage their bills

Acctual has raised $3.85 million in seed funding at a $15 million post-money valuation to help crypto startups manage their money, the company’s co-founder and CEO Atikh Bana exclusively told TechCrunch. “At a high level Acctual is just a better way to manage invoices and bills in crypto,” Bana said. “It’s like a true accounts […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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10:12 29.11.2023

Immensa, a MENA-based additive manufacturing and digital inventory platform, raises $20 million

The global energy spare parts market is valued at over $90 billion, with the Middle East representing about 35% of this sector. This sector remains largely untapped by existing additive manufacturing and digital inventory platforms that have spread footprints across medical, aviation, automotive and jewelry industries. Unlike these industries, which have embraced additive manufacturing and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:37 28.11.2023

Pika Labs, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55M

The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet. Case in point, Pika Labs, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos from captions and still images, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Homebrew, Conviction Capital, SV Angel, Ben’s Bites […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:16 28.11.2023

Vimcal raises $4.5 million to expand its team offerings

Vimcal, a YC-backed calendar app, has raised a $4.5 million seed round from Altos Ventures to expand its team and enterprise offerings. The company, founded by CEO John Li, launched its iOS app and Outlook integration last year. Li told TechCrunch that Vimcal has improved its Outlook integration with fewer bugs. Since last year, Vimcal […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13:37 28.11.2023

Why 2024 could be a hot year for startup founders

If you are building a startup you might wish that 2021 were here again. So much capital flowed around the world that many young tech companies were able to raise several times in the span of a single year, unicorn births were announced by the dozen, and IPOs were hot. The ensuing multi-year downturn has […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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11:59 28.11.2023

As pet owners turn to mobile insurance apps, Lassie raises $25M Series B led by Balderton

We last wrote about Lassie, a pet health app and insurance provider, when it closed an €11 million Series A round in 2022. It’s growth had been spurred by the boom in pet ownership during the pandemic (nearly half of all European households now own a pet, and and owners spend €23.5 billion on them […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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08:00 28.11.2023

Paris-based startup studio Hexa raises some funding to launch even more startups

You might not be familiar with Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, but some of its portfolio companies have become well-known unicorns, such as Front, Aircall and Spendesk. And it turns out that Hexa itself could be considered as a startup as the company just raised a funding […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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03:59 28.11.2023

European startup funding halved to $42B in 2023, says Atomico

The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist, and one of the most acutely impacted areas has been VC funding for startups, particularly those outside the U.S. According to VC firm Atomico, companies in Europe are on track to raise just $42 billion […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:59 27.11.2023

Mozaic raises $20 million to build payment splitting solution for creators

Creators often work with different collaborators for different projects. And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators. Mozaic (previously Jammber) is trying to solve this problem through its range of solutions including APIs and Chrome extensions. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round of funding from Volition […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13:00 27.11.2023

So you want to craft a killer pitch deck

Hey, friends! So, you want to craft a great pitch deck. You want to come up with something authentic to what you are building, but also informed by past successes. Hell, you probably want to avoid common mistakes and get a feel for what other startup founders are using to raise capital, right? Good news: […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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19:25 25.11.2023

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing published this week shows the company increased its previous tranche, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, from $280 million to $323 million in early […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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11:01 23.11.2023

DoorFeed raises another €7M for its platform allowing large-scale investors to hoover-up family homes

Institutional real estate investors have historically struggled to buy up tonnes of family homes (the so-called ‘Single Family rental sector’) so they can turn us all into rental slaves and lock millions to a rentier economy. A few startups are trying to ease the ‘pain’ of these rapacious harbingers of hyper capitalism. Immo Capital, a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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21:00 22.11.2023

Google Meet can now detect when you raise your hand IRL

Google launched its hand gesture detection feature on Google Meet that recognizes when your physical hand is raised and triggers the hand raise icon to notify participants in the video call that you have a question. The AI-powered feature was initially announced back in March. Google Meet only detects your hand when it is visible […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:21 22.11.2023

Uber-for-parcels startups Relay raises $10M Seed round to scale in the UK

Incumbents in the parcel deliveries space usually have fixed daily routes from suburban depots. But since most parcels are fairly lightweight, this is a bit of a hammer to crack a nut. So it makes sense to “Uber-ise” local deliveries. Indeed, in Asia, the ‘asset free’ delivery model of using mini depots instead of large owned […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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12:04 22.11.2023

FrontEdge raises $10M in debt, equity from TLG, Flexport to facilitate trade for African exporters

In the dynamic landscape of African international trade, a prevalent challenge looms large: A mere 30% of trade volumes find financial intermediaries in banks. This glaring gap in financing disproportionately impacts small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as their larger counterparts absorb the lion’s share of the limited available capital. The opportunity to reshape African trade […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 21.11.2023

Generative AI startup AI21 Labs raises cash in the midst of OpenAI chaos

One AI startup’s undoing is another’s opportunity. Case in point: today, AI21 Labs, a company developing generative AI products along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, closed a $53 million extension to its previously-announced Series C funding round. The new tranche, which had participation from new investors Intel Capital and Comcast Ventures, brings AI21’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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