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Higher education, at its best, aims to be less elitist and more accessible to people from all walks of life. Today, a startup called Ocelot is announcing a big round of funding to build more tools to help in that effort. The company, which provides an AI-based platform to facilitate easier communications between universities and […] Ocelot, an engagement platform aimed at college students, raises $117M in its first outside funding by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

More signs that the economy is slowing down in Europe, and that costs are going up, are driving merchants and consumers to look for less expensive ways to carry out their everyday business. Today, a startup out of Italy called Satispay — which operates an independent payment network that bypasses big banks and credit companies […] Italy’s Satispay raises €320M at a €1B+ valuation with backing from Block, Tencent and more for its indy payment network by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across Africa make up the bulk — over 90% — of businesses in the continent but are still marginalized in accessing credit from formal institutions because of the nature of their operations; for instance, many often lack the kind of collateral that is acceptable by banks. To bridge the […] YC-backed fintech Numida raises $12.3M led by Serena Ventures to extend loans to MSMEs beyond Uganda by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

French startup Stockly is raising a $12 million Series A round (€12 million) from Eurazeo, Daphni and several business angels. The company pools together the inventory of several e-commerce websites. When a retailer is out-of-stock on a popular item, they can still accept the order and process the order through a different retailer’s inventory. This […] Stockly raises another $12 million to sell out-of-stock items via other retailers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Danielle Cohen-Shohet developed a tech platform to help spa, studio and salon industry owners manage their operations. She had seen firsthand the challenges of running a small business as a freelance makeup artist, one of her jobs while she was a student at Princeton. So taught herself how to code, launched in 2016, raised $2.8 […] GlossGenius triples valuation, raises $25M to give beauty industry’s tech stack a makeover by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch... →

No matter what mayhem is going on in the markets, every company needs to stay on top of its accounting practices — especially in crypto, where the decentralized nature of transactions and the relative newness of blockchain tech pose all sorts of complications for traditionally-trained finance teams. Perhaps that’s part of the reason why less […] Tactic’s $11M raise shows even when cryptocurrencies are down, companies still need to count ’em up by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch... →

The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world. According to Synergy Group, an IT market research firm, Amazon, Microsoft and Google together held a 65% share of the global cloud services market as of Q2, […] Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Ghanaian agtech Farmerline has secured $1.5 million equity funding from Dutch impact investor Oikocredit in its second close of the pre-series A round. The new funding brings the total amount raised in the round to $14.4 million, including $6.4 debt funding. The funding comes at a time when Farmerline, which has operations across Ghana, is […] Ghanaian agtech Farmerline raises $1.5M from Dutch investor Oikocredit by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

Faraday Future said it has secured up to $100 million in funding as the struggling EV startup tries to launch its long-delayed first model, the FF 91. The near-term funding agreements include up to $40 million in convertible notes and warrant exercise payments, and up to $60 million in convertible notes from Hong Kong holding […] Faraday Future raises $100 million to help launch flagship FF 91 by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch... →

Disperse, a U.K.-based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Disperse effectively creates a digital version of an entire construction site, including visual snapshots that track the progress […] Disperse, which brings AI-fuelled data to construction projects, raises $16M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Nibiru, a new derivatives protocol co-founded by Tribe Capital GP Arjun Sethi, has raised $7.5 million seed funding at a valuation of $100 million, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Tribe Capital, Republic Crypto and Kraken invested in the seed round, a source said, requesting anonymity as the information is not public. Sethi […] Arjun Sethi’s derivatives protocol Nibiru raises maiden funding at $100M valuation by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Mark Shaw likes running around. The serial entrepreneur joined activity and fitness tracking platform Strava as a co-founder in 2009 to lead engineering as CTO. He spent eight years there, and as of its most recent raise in 2020, Strava had reached 70 million members globally and amassed an almost cult-like following from its users, […] A Strava co-founder races into a lucrative market – lending against life insurance by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

A cloud kitchen — also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen — offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. This trend has been circling around the restaurant industry. More food entrepreneurs are turning to cloud kitchens to reduce their operation […] Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch... →

Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. On average, you have just under three minutes to convince them to take a meeting with you. In fact, for decks that fail to raise funding, investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds. That’s not a lot […] Looking at 320 pitch decks, here’s what science tells us works best by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

Let's take a look at the deck that Party Round used to raise $7 million. Pitch Deck Teardown: Party Round’s $7M, er, party round deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

Remote work has never been as accepted, or mainstream, as it is today. Yet some businesses hesitate to explore the option of hiring people in other countries because the prospect can be daunting and costly. Nurasyl Serik and Volodymyr Fedoriv started Remofirst in 2021 to open up that option to more businesses with a SaaS […] Remofirst raises $14.1M to make it cheaper and easier for businesses to hire remote workers globally by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

It was around this time last year that we reported on Immunefi – one of the emerging bug bounty and security services platforms for DeFi – had raised $5.5 million in funding. Given that almost $2 billion has been lost to hacks and scams in crypto so far this year, it would seem this was […] Web3 bug-bounty platform Immunefi raises $24M for its Series A funding round by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch... →

RiverSouth is called the smartest building in North America and features a wild array of technology for tenants, business owners, and real estate managers. Kode OS underpins the building’s systems, a real estate platform developed by the Detroit-based startup, Kode Labs. The platform ingests data from any number of systems and provides users with a […] Kode Labs raises $8m to advance its smart building platform by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch... →

A new startup wants to make it easier for any company to sell phone and data plans as part of their own branded mobile network subscriptions — and to help, it has secured the backing of big-name investors including Google’s early-stage venture capital arm Gradient Ventures and Uber’s CEO. Gigs, which was founded out of […] A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Pie Insurance, which provides workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses, has closed on a  $315 million Series D round of funding. In 2021, the size of this round wouldn’t have turned heads. But in today’s environment, where investors are pulling back and venture funding has slowed considerably, a $315 million raise stands out.  The financing […] SMB-focused Pie Insurance raises $315M Series D by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →