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If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. While not marketing in the traditional sense, generative models are attention grabbers — and increasingly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Not many startups can claim Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta as paying customers, but Confetti can. And the list doesn’t stop at a quintet with a collective market value of $10 trillion — the New York-based company says it works with Zoom, Netflix, Stripe, TikTok, Shopify, Adobe, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and 30% of the Fortune […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer also couldn’t ignore the potential to solve a problem he saw unfolding as the head of product and marketing at Nextdoor. “The top use of Nextdoor is people looking for providers, HVAC especially,” Laufer told […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Global Screening Services (GSS), a London-based regulatory compliance platform that helps financial institutions meet their global sanctions obligations, has raised $47 million in a round of funding. The raise comes amid a spike in economic sanctions, with the U.S. issuing trade-restrictions and asset-blocking against states including Russia, China, Iran, and more. Enforcement GSS co-founder and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Lucid Motors is raising another $1 billion from its biggest financial backer, Saudi Arabia, as it looks to blunt the high costs associated with building and selling its luxury electric sedan. The company announced in a Monday morning regulatory filing that Ayar Third Investment, an affiliate of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, has agreed to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

After a three-year fund-raise, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of it’s target in 2021, but still a considerable number given a background of war and economic uncertainty. The VC originally emerged from the founders of the Ecosia independent search engine, where search enquires funded the planting of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The company’s head of storytelling Nashilu Mouen confirmed the investment to TechCrunch. “Now, more than ever, we continue to believe that the successor to the personal computer […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The sum will be split roughly evenly between two funds, Frontline Growth and Frontline Seed. The seed fund will favor European ventures, while the growth fund is focused on American ones. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Mermaid, the open-source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language. As is often the case, Mermaid founder Knut Sveidqvist created the project because he saw a need for it in his own job as a software architect and then open-sourced it without […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Globally, healthcare IT systems are groaning under the weight of legacy platforms. Thankfully, there’s a new wave of startups entering the arena: UK startup Anima is a “care enablement” platform that operates almost like a combination of Slack, Salesforce and Figma, but for healthcare clinics and hospitals. The company recently raised a $12 million Series […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Rather than grimly assembling data about cancer deaths to predict outcomes in treatment, the founders of Cure51 had another idea. They decided to turn the model around 180 degrees. Instead, the company assembles data about long term survivors of cancer, thus hoping to crack the code on what keeps people alive. It’s now raised a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The field of insurance technology has had a rough time. About 7 years ago, early insurtech companies promised to disrupt the insurance industry with new tech, but today, most of those companies have either been acquired or are floundering in the public markets. Fortunately, insurtech has found a new wave to ride in the past […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on his channel today that the company secured $330 million in investment through bond sales last week. Durov said that the offering was oversubscribed with favorable terms to the company. “This bond offering was oversubscribed, and we were delighted to have global funds of the highest caliber with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

African financial institutions typically scale their solutions using a mix of local and foreign tech. Appzone is one of the standout local fintech software providers for banks and fintechs, providing better pricing and flexibility. For over a decade, the Nigeria-based Appzone has functioned as an enabler (at payment rails and core infrastructure) within banking and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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If your robotics startup is looking to raise, there’s close to a 100% chance you’re going to get two questions from potential investors: 1) How are you incorporating generative AI? and 2) Have you consider building a humanoid? The first is easy enough to answer. If you’re running a robotics firm in 2024, you have […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Even though NFT sales volume is still down 88% from 2022 all time-highs (and down 38% year-to-date), Pallet Exchange is building a new type of NFT marketplace focused on user retention. And it’s doing it on a blockchain less known for NFT trading: Sei. Co-founders Kelvin Wang and Davy Li have convinced investors that there’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Youverify, a Nigerian provider of identity verification and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions for banks and startups, secured a $2.5 million investment from Elm, which specializes in offering ready-made and customized digital solutions to public and private institutions in Saudi Arabia. The pre-Series A investment from Elm also includes a strategic partnership to help Youverify streamline […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The company says it was cash flow positive in 2023, and plans to be again in 2024. With $8.7 billion in venture capital it likely means it has little to no need to raise more before it goes public. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The cement startup promises to slash carbon emissions in the process, helping the company raise a $6.5 million seed round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →