TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson was a seed investor in KeyPay in 2012. Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson, was a seed investors in KeyPay in 2012. Bernie will stay on as KeyPay’s managing director, while Duran will remain its chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The $49 million Series E puts the total amount raised by HackerOne at close to $160 million since the company’s founding in 2012. Since launching in 2012, HackerOne has provided its bug bounty offering to customers including U.S. Department of Defense, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft and Twitter.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Founded in 2012, the company had previously raised at least $1.5 The Glendale, California-based company, which provides cloud-based software for residential and commercial HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other field-service businesses, filed its S-1 Monday. billion from a long list of venture and private equity backers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Since its 2012 inception, Chime has raised a total of $2.3 As a result, we are eliminating some positions, while still hiring to select others.”. The company’s memo, along with the fact that Chime has paused its public debut plans, suggests that growth trends may have changed. billion in funding , according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

Leaning on several PitchBook reports , TechCrunch+ has compiled the following graph of American venture-backed startup exits from 2012 through the first quarter of 2023: It’s beyond time we started worrying about unicorn exits by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When Vine launched in 2012, TikTok was still five years away, and Vine never figured out how to monetize its platform successfully in a way that took care of the top creators and influencers. It launched in 2012, which means it was likely using REST APIs, which means it was pre-container, pre-gRPC and pre-Kafka.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Peter Platzer co-founded Spire Global back in 2012 with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. Named a White House Champion of Change in 2013 and a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Platzer is now regarded as one of the pioneers in launching small form factor satellites into space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, Chicago-based Avant started out primarily as an online lender targeting “underserved consumers,” but is evolving into digital banking with this acquisition. Since its inception in 2012, Avant has connected more than 1.5 million consumers to $7.5 billion in loans and 400,000 credit cards.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The company was ranked 9th by Wall Street Journal and was called “Next Big Thing 2012.”. Several companies began using the MongoDB database for its amazing functions and features. The company established its offices in Sydney, Reston, Barcelona, Palo Alto, Dublin, and London that includes the west coast.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark its first legal step in the process to IPO. billion in the private markets, during a Series F fundraising event in July 2020. Bloomberg pegs Coursera’s latest valuation at $5 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

CYE was founded in 2012 by Reuven Aronashvili to help companies shore up their security posture. Cybersecurity startup CYE has raised $100 million in a new growth round, led by investment firm EQT and with participation from 83North.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The new line was ultimately Braava, which arrived as part of its 2012 […] Ultimately, however, mopping up and filling a tank with dirty water proved inefficient, and the line was eventually phased out.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Olive is a homegrown Columbus, Ohio unicorn; hear from the CEO and lead investor how the company was founded and grew into an industry leader. Now, nearly ten years later, Olive raised $856.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The round brings its total funding raised to $646 million since it was founded in 2012. Existing investors Commerce Ventures , Scale Venture Partners and Sorenson Ventures also participated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

million round back in 2012 that tapped Bessemer, DFJ and others. Zapier , a well-known no-code automation tool, has purchased Makerpad , a no-code education service and community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch has covered Zapier often during its life, including its first, and only, fundraising event, a $1.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Netskope co-founder and CEO Sanjay Beri told TechCrunch that since its founding in 2012, the company’s mission has been to guide companies through their digital transformation by finding what is most valuable to them — sensitive data — and protecting it. What we had before in the market didn’t work for that world,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

As Riney and Sawayama started investing in seed and early-stage startup companies back in 2012, the startup world was a black box in the country, according to Riney. Japan’s annual startup investment is estimated at $5 billion, with six unicorns including Coral Capital’s portfolio company, up from just about $600 million in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Jungle Ventures was founded in 2012 by Amit Anand and Anurag Srivastava, launching with a $10 million debut fund. We’ve been investing with that philosophy since our inception in 2012. Returning backers include Temasek, IFC, FMO and DEG, while new LPs include StepStone Group.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The cryptocurrency exchange was founded in 2012 and allows users to buy and trade decentralized tokens like bitcoin and ethereum. Coinbase plans to go public by way of a direct listing, the company announced in a blog post today. The company has raised over $540 million in funding as a private company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Yuanfudao , a homework tutoring-app founded in 2012, has raised $2.2 billion from investors, surpassing Byju’s as the most valuable edtech company in the world. The Beijing-based company is now worth $15.5 billion dollars, almost double its valuation set in March.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2012 inception, Ribbit Capital had previously raised about $1.3 The amount is significantly higher than the $750 million the firm was said to be raising in March of 2021. It is also more than double the $420 million it raised in its sixth fund in January of 2020. billion in capital, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Spiegel’s had success selling technology to lawyers in the past, with his practice management software startup MyCase acquired by AppFolio in 2012 (AppFolio recently sold MyCase to a variety of funds for $193 million).

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

AWS licensed their technology , rebranded it Redshift, and launched in 2012. If you looked at Redshift in 2012, there was a lot of things that favored it. ↩︎ A fun thing is I randomly had lunch with the Snowflake founders in 2012 and they offered me a job the next day. I'm very happy we're out of this era.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

More than a decades worth of funding Founded in 2012, the company had previously raised at least $1.5 ServiceTitan, which has long been a favorite on lists of likely IPO candidates , was the exception, submitting its S-1 in mid-November. billion from a long list of venture and private equity backers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The startup was founded in 2012 in London. It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure partner in your product. The company’s fundraising story in particular is jaw-dropping. At first, it grew slowly and methodically. We can hire one employee this month.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Quartz was founded in 2012 by Atlantic Media, then acquired by Uzabase (a Japanese financial data and media company) for $86 million in 2018. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news that Uzabase wanted to sell the property, also reported that Uzabase CEO Yusuke Umeda (pictured above) has made a personal loan to support the site.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

He developed the Sirenum product as a solution for his agency and in 2012 won the contract to staff the Olympic Stadium. Thankfully, the employee was fine, but Rubin realized that to avoid being in that same situation again, he needed a tool to be able to manage his staff safely at multiple locations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Sure, the tried and true may have solid balance sheets, but they also perhaps stagnated in the idea department sometime around 2012. Companies recognize that they must keep one eye on the future and that innovation tends to happen at new companies, not those supposedly trusty older ones. ” Casey Aylward, partner, Accel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Expanse was founded in 2012 and has raised $130 million, according to Crunchbase data. Matt Kraning, will be joining Palo Alto under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in Palo Alto’s fiscal second quarter, assuming it passes regulatory muster.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Since it launched in 2012, the firm says its drones have inspected more than 300,000 blades across dozens of countries. SkySpecs builds its hardware and software in house, and already claims to monitor the health of close to half of all turbine blades in North America (for reference, there are 71,666 turbines in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Prior to launching the company and serving as CEO in 2012, Kazerooni founded Ekso Bionics in 2005. SuitX is a spinout from UC Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Lab, founded by mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni. That company went public back in 2014.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

One of the highest-profile companies is San Francisco-based Chime , a pioneering challenger bank founded in 2012 that has raised $2.3 A time for exits The funding spree comes amid anticipation of a fintech IPO comeback in 2025, with several big names prepping offerings. billion in known equity funding to date.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Since its 2012 inception, Acorns has raised just over $500 million from investors, such as private equity firm TPG, BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From its first $100 million fund raised in 2012, the firm has built its practice in enterprise cloud-based services leveraging data and analytics. Costanoa’s focus today is applied AI and AI infrastructure, and B2B fintech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The company is led by Marcus Jacobsson, co-founder and CEO, who started the company in 2012 with Axel Wolrath and Jonas Sjöstedt. Tipser’s technology enables consumers to purchase products natively from sites like online publications, mobile marketplaces, price comparison sites, social media platforms or search engines.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

per share back in the 2012-2013 time frame. Andreessen Horowitz is going to do very well, having led the company’s Series A at a per-share price of just more than $2. IA Ventures, which led DigitalOcean’s seed round, according to Crunchbase , paid just $0.26 That’s going to convert well.

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