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If you’ve experienced any form of harassment on Twitter in the last couple of years, then you’ve probably heard of Block Party. And if you haven’t, lucky you! Developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, Block Party helps people curate a safer experience on Twitter. By building on top of Twitter’s API, […] Block Party, a tool to combat online harassment, raises a $4.8M seed by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

African capital markets exist in silos, as various exchanges within the continent are often inaccessible to investors outside their home countries. For instance, a South African investor who wants to diversify their portfolio outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange may find investing in the Nigerian Stock Exchange difficult. Not only does this limit investors’ access to […] Ghanaian fintech SecondSTAX allows investors to access capital markets outside their countries, raises $1.6M by Tage Kene-Okafor origin... →

Managing cap tables and equity at high-growth companies can be a complicated (and sometimes messy) business, a fact that founders and employees often discover too late. That’s given rise to a wave of companies building software to help, and today a European leader in that pack is announcing some funding to fuel its own growth. […] Ledgy, a Carta for European startups to manage equity and cap tables, raises $22M from NEA, Sequoia and more by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

TrovaTrip, a travel planning and booking platform that lets creators host adventures with their communities, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Madrona. Founded in 2017, the Portland-based company makes it easy for creators to sell and host multi-day experiences around the world. TrovaTrip offers more than 150 experiences in 48 countries. […] TrovaTrip, a group travel management platform and marketplace, raises $15M by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

As fintechs become more efficient, so too do fraudsters. “Faster instant payments mean faster fraud,” Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch. That’s the thesis behind his startup, which uses behavioral, financial and device-specific user data to detect fraud on behalf of its clients in the crypto and fintech industries. Those conditions also mean […] Sardine raises $51.5M led by a16z to sniff out fishy fintech transactions by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch... →

Tres, a financial “data lake” for web3 companies, has raised $7.6 million in a seed round led by boldstart ventures, its founder and CEO Tal Zackon, exclusively shared with TechCrunch. Investors include F2, The Chainsmokers’ venture fund Mantis, New Form Capital, Kenetic Capital, Blockdaemon Ventures and Alchemy. As well as angel investors like Fireblocks CEO […] Tres raises $7.6M to help web3 teams manage their financials and crypto data by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Early this year, Nigerian health-tech startup Remedial Health announced plans to scale within the West African country digitizing pharmacies and bringing efficiency in the pharmaceutical supply chain after raising seed funding. The YC-backed startup has since February grown its reach from six to 16 states within the populous nation, and plans to cover the remaining […] Nigeria’s YC-backed Remedial Health raises $4.4M seed funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

A group of former Meta engineers is building a platform to help enterprises deploy machine learning models at the speed of big tech companies. Their startup, TrueFoundry, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round. The San Francisco, California-headquartered startup automates repetitive tasks in the machine learning pipeline to allow data scientists and engineers to […] Meta alumni’s startup TrueFoundry raises $2.3 million to accelerate ML deployments by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

For more than half of a decade, Zopper built a platform for small and medium-sized businesses, helping merchants with invoicing and payments through its point-of-sale platform. It sold that IP to PhonePe in mid-2018, but instead of joining the fintech giant, Zopper has been working on a new venture from scratch and independent of PhonePe. […] Zopper raises $75 million to solve India’s insurance problem by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

In this issue: Morpheus Space's big raise; Starlink comes to... Antarctica!; News from Firefly Aerospace, Spire and more Max Q: Propulsive! by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

Portabl is a digital wallet and password manager for financial services and banking apps. Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M to help consumers securely store financial data by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch... →

First Star, backer of deep tech startups like Plus One and Fyto, aims to raise as much as $40 million for its third venture fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, First Star typically backs robotics, blockchain, AI and machine learning-focused startups at the early stage. The firm has not disclosed a first close […] Deep tech VC First Star plots a $40M third fund by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Will Ross and William Steenbergen were AI researchers at Stanford working on climate and atmospheric modeling and reinforcement learning, respectively, when they began to collaborate on wildfire modeling and hurricane modeling initiatives for the insurance industry. They were surprised to learn how big of a difference there was between what the data told insurers to […] Federato raises $15M to help insurance customers manage risk by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Denim, the fintech platform for freight and logistics formerly known as Axle Payments, today announced that it raised $126 million in a Series B funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from Crosslink Capital, Anthemis, Trucks VC, FJ Labs, Tribeca Early Stage Partners and Refashiond Ventures at a “nine-figure” valuation. CEO and co-founder […] Denim, a fintech platform for freight brokers, raises $126M in equity and debt by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

HICX, a supplier experience management platform designed to give companies visibility into their supply chain, has raised $30 million in a round of funding led by U.S. private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital. The funding constituted a mixture of $22 million equity and $8 million in debt. Businesses from across the industrial […] HICX raises $30M to give companies visibility into their supply chain by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Insurance penetration in Africa is currently below 3% largely attributable to the slow adoption of innovation in the sector. Many underwriters rely on traditional systems involving agents and lots of paperwork to sign-up new customers, which limits customer reach, and hampers the uptake of their products. However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs […] Kenya’s insurtech Turaco maintains 1 billion user target as it raises $10M funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. The Germany-based startup plans to use the funding to build new hubs in Africa and Europe, grow its team, and re-launch its proprietary platform to […] MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

Sigmoid, a startup helping firms in the U.S., U.K. and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth, it said Thursday. Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco-headquartered startup’s Series B funding, which included some secondary shares […] Sigmoid raises $12 million to scale its data engineering and analytics platform by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Groundcover, a performance monitoring platform for cloud apps, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Zeev Ventures with participation from Angular Ventures, Heavybit and Jibe Ventures. The new capital brings the startup’s total raised to $24.5 million, which CEO Shahar Azulay says will be used to “raise awareness” […] Groundcover lands $20M to help companies monitor app performance by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →