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17:00 23.01.2024

Bulk Exchange raises $4.5M to help construction companies source bulk materials

That fact that the startup raised from industry folks is not a massive shock once you understand the market that Bulk Exchange is tackling: They likely want to use what it's building. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 23.01.2024

Blueshift, a marketing automation startup, raises $40M in debt

Blueshift, a San Francisco-based startup that taps AI to help brands automate and personalize engagement across different marketing channels, has secured $40 million in debt financing from Runway Growth Capital. Co-founder and CEO Vijay Chittoor said that the loan will be used to refinance Blueshift’s existing debt as well as expand sales and marketing and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13:00 23.01.2024

Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M

Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Qdrant is seeking to capitalize on the burgeoning AI revolution, targeting developers with an open source vector search engine and database — an integral part of […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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11:59 23.01.2024

Byju’s seeks new funding at less than $2 billion valuation, a 90% drop

Byju’s, once valued at $22 billion, is willing to cut its valuation to below $2 billion as it hunts for new funding, a person familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, once India’s most valuable, is looking to raise $100 million to $300 million in new funding via a rights issue and the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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10:31 23.01.2024

Germany’s Instagrid, which uses software to supercharge portable batteries, raises $95M

Energy supply is one of the bigger issues impacting how technology will evolve over time — a challenge that might be feel closer to home when you consider the batteries of objects like mobile phones or electric vehicles but is definitely not constrained just to consumer tech. A startup called Instagrid is using software to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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09:00 23.01.2024

Business travel management platform TravelPerk raises $105M

TravelPerk, a business travel management platform targeted at SMEs, has raised $105 million in a fresh equity-based round of financing led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2. Existing investors including Kinnevik and Felix Capital also participated in the round. The funding gives TravelPerk a valuation of $1.4 billion, just a fraction over the $1.3 billion valuation […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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09:51 22.01.2024

India’s Captain Fresh in talks to raise $50 million in new funding

Captain Fresh, a business-to-business harvest-to-retail marketplace for animal protein, is engaging with investors to raise up to $50 million in fresh funding, according to sources familiar with the matter. The startup is in advanced stages of deliberations to raise the capital from Nekkanti Sea Foods, SBI Investment, Evolvence, Tiger Global, and Prosus Ventures, the sources […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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07:58 22.01.2024

Kenyan agtech Shamba Pride raises $3.7M to grow its merchant network

Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of merchants (agro-dealers) extending across 24 counties in Kenya, which represents just over half of the country. It now […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:00 19.01.2024

How FYPM used Instagram Stories and thirst traps to raise $275K

Lindsey Lee Lurgin took an unconventional route to becoming a founder, so it’s only fitting that her fundraising strategies are just as unique. Her company Fuck You Pay Me (FYPM), which is like a Glassdoor for influencers, raised a $275K seed extension solely via Instagram stories, with no pitch deck. “If you think of what […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:50 18.01.2024

YC’s Tom Blomfield will speak at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 about raising money with no regrets

What does it take to raise your first round of funding? That’s just one of the many topics that will be featured at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 on April 25 in Boston. At this daylong event, experienced founders, VCs and startup experts will lead sessions focused on the building blocks that new and prospective founders […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:30 18.01.2024

Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation

At a time where many startups are struggling to raise funding, or are raising – but at lower valuations, it’s notable when companies raise at flat or higher valuations. Especially when their last raise took place in 2021 – a time when capital was much easier to come by and valuations were climbing at crazy […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:17 18.01.2024

Staking technology provider Kiln raises $17 million in rare crypto funding round

2023 hasn’t been the best year for crypto companies. According to PitchBook data, VC investments in crypto companies are down by 68% in 2023 compared to 2022. To be fair, crypto companies still raised $9.5 billion. But that’s a small number compared to 2022, the year during which crypto companies raised $30 billion. And yet, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:30 17.01.2024

RevOps platform Fullcast raises $34M to set the stage for growth

Dharmesh Singh and Bala Balabaskaran, once a part of Microsoft’s Office 365 team, headed up revenue operations and planning at Salesforce together for a number of years. While there, they say that they experienced common operations pain points like trying to forecast using spreadsheets and executing plans involving a small army of people. Their mutual […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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14:44 17.01.2024

Build a Rocket Boy, a game studio from former Grand Theft Auto developer, raises $110M

Build a Rocket Boy, a Scotland-headquartered game development company founded by one of the former lead developers behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, today announced it has raised $110 million in a Series D round of funding. The funding comes ahead of the much-anticipated launch of the company’s first titles and immersive open world platform. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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14:05 17.01.2024

Vertice raises $25M for AI-based tools to help companies tackle software spend

When you say the phrase “expense management” in a business context, people might think of software like Concur that tracks what you spend on travel, entertainment and other work-related activities; or the software used by finance teams to help track outgoings across the wider operation. You might even think that it’s a problem that has […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20:16 16.01.2024

Weavix, a startup developing ‘smart’ radios for frontline workers, raises $23.6M

Do frontline workers — workers providing essential services like healthcare — use radios? They once did. But with the advent of affordable smartphones and service, radios have slowly, steadily given way to voice and video chat apps on mobile. According to one recent survey, 44% of frontline workers now use push to talk — “walkie […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:33 16.01.2024

Tired and tested: Onera raises $32M to help clinicians conduct sleep studies in patients’ homes

Onera Health, a startup providing sleep diagnostic and monitoring technology to help clinicians conduct studies, has raised €30 million ($32 million) in a Series C round of funding. Poor sleep is thought to impact the U.S. economy alone to the tune of $400 billion, due to factors such absenteeism and sleep-related presenteeism. While there are […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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01:01 13.01.2024

Pitch Deck Teardown: Qortex’s $10M Seed deck

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19:07 12.01.2024

Prometeo raises $13M from PayPal, Samsung, and more to bring open banking to Latin America

Open banking — where traditional banks can share data, and build new services, by way of APIs that bring their ageing systems into the 21st century — has seen its biggest traction to date in mature economies, where the vast majority of consumers and businesses already have bank accounts; are au fait with digital transactions; […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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04:00 12.01.2024

OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots

The race to perfect the humanoid form factor will be one of 2024’s defining tech stories. Last year saw the category heat up, as companies like Tesla, Apptronik and Figure debuted their systems, while Agility inched closer to the finish lining, announcing a warehouse pilot with Amazon. 1X is a name (well, a number and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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