TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 He referenced his time at Microtraction, an early-stage investment firm he founded in 2017 to back African startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But inside the big numbers is a surprising picture of a startup market in the process of maturing while outside money hunts for breakout opportunities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. food market and further positions Nestlé to win in the future.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Though Google’s investment in SafeBoda serves as an early reminder of Gajria’s statement, startups from the Big Four markets will likely fill the fund’s portfolio in the next couple of years. The company counts more than 25,000 drivers who have completed over 40 million orders in both markets. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

As fintech services proliferate across different African markets, the need to have sufficient KYC and identity verification processes in place has intensified amid increasing fraud challenges and more stringent regulatory requirements. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange previously dug into the fintech VC market , focusing our examination on the payments, insurtech, wealth management and banking verticals. Fintech appears to be in a very similar boat.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Launched in 2017, Fuse connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels and partners to make insurance services accessible and affordable through its technology. Fuse claims it currently has more than 60,000 marketers or agent partners using the Fuse Pro mobile app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The market for grocery delivery across Africa and the Middle East is worth over $50 billion. And Egypt, buoyed by a young and growing population, is a big market across both regions. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. They are precious when startups are trying to figure out product-market fit.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The company was listed on NASDAQ with the name MDB, and public trading of their product started on 20th October 2017, at over $24 IPO rate for each share. Since September 2021, MongoDB Inc has had a market cap of over $32.79 It made MongoDB the most valuable firm by the market cap as per the data. MongoDB Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Zac Prince — who comes from a background in consumer lending — founded BlockFi with Flori Marquez in 2017. Prince describes BlockFi as a financial services company for crypto market investors that offers a retail and institutional-facing suite of products. The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel. Aurora plans to bring autonomous trucks to market first. Uber wasn’t a party to either arbitration.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. An average Indian makes about $2,100 a year, according to the World Bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Consider that FortressIQ raised $46 million since its founding in 2017, according to PitchBook data. But compare that with Celonis, the market leader, which has attracted $1.4 UIPath, the RPA market leader, went public in April to much fanfare and a final private valuation of $35 billion , although the stock has cooled since.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This latest round of funding will help the company with its go-to-market efforts, as well as growing its customer support team with 30 staff and building up its sales and marketing team. Lee said the company’s priority had been to work on its threat platform, and less selling it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

With the latest capital infusion, Side’s total raised since its 2017 inception now totals over $250 million. It says it’s seen a 200% year-over-year increase in agent-represented home sales across its three operating markets of California, Texas and Florida. The company plans to enter 15 new states by year’s end.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been riding the wave with what it says are the lowest fees on the market, and a platform that is aimed at both newcomers and experienced traders. In 2017 and 2018, crypto was not this big but we saw a huge opportunity there. Reku’s team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas. Total Raised: $75 million. Total Raised: $330 million. HubHaus (2016-2020).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Seeing the modern world of voice technology as more people were outfitting their homes with Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home and voice-controlled televisions, the trio pivoted their business in 2017 to create a similar experience for the world of customer service. Customer care as a service: Outsourcing can help your startup wow clients 24/7.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program. The company aims to commercialize it in these markets in 2022, Maggs said, adding that it is also laying the groundwork to enter Asian markets such as Japan and Korea in 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Gbolade Emmanuel and Ayomide Awe launched Termii after Emmanuel’s experience as a digital marketer helped him recognize the need for businesses to have exceptional communication channels. “And we had to make the process simple because in the African market, you can’t do complex stuff. Playing in a $3.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

There was an original wave of companies working on partial document automation, which still needs a human review, but Ondrej Antos, Klarity’s co-founder and CEO, explained that the full document automation market is still very nascent. Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

yearly since 2017 thanks to the growing accessibility of smartphones. Meanwhile in the Philippines, there are more than 43 million active gamers, a number which has grown by 12.9%

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent. In 2017, Africa generated $16.5 But at the same time, it solidifies Flutterwave’s position in the eyes of multinationals looking to enter the African market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

But Plümmer says the company say so much potential in the technology it had developed, and the emerging drone delivery market, that the exponential growth curve of its drone delivery-as-a-service model helped make traditional VC backing make sense. based drone production. With its U.S. With its U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Studienkreis had previously been owned, since 2017, by the London-based private equity firm IK Partners. The acquisition gives GoStudent a substantial offline presence, a ready-made market for its online offering and the ability to cater to families that prefer their children participate in group or real-world, centre-based classes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

CZ will join our stage virtually and we’re looking forward to discussing global market opportunities in a bear market, the regulatory challenges up ahead and where opportunities are (and aren’t) in web3. The company has continued to diversify its offerings and scour for new markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

Live in India, Singapore-based MarketWolf has plans to introduce stock trading to first-time investors in more markets. million since it was founded in 2017 (it launched in India in 2020). million since it was founded in 2017 (it launched in India in 2020). This brings MarketWolf’s total raised to $17.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

No-code platforms have developed into a hot market , and Stacker , a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. The company is remote first with Skelly in London and his co-founder based in Geneva and they intend to stay that way.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We Last year, Firework was working with some 600 companies, including Albertsons Companies, The Fresh Market and Omnicom Media Group. The company says it is now valued at $750 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round. It offers over 30 learning tracks ranging from web development to digital marketing and data science to artificial intelligence. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

It has now raised a total of $39 million since its 2017 inception. Our bread and butter is the 1-4 unit single-family rental market and we offer coverage in all 50 states,” Aaron added. Since the company’s last raise — a $10.4 There are over 18 million residential real estate investors in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

” The latest round followed an early-stage $3 million raise in 2017 and $400K the year prior. The launch of their robotic strawberry picker in commercial fields is a big step forward for the $10 billion strawberry market, and a peek into the future of agricultural production more broadly. The company has raised $8.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

MotoRefi, which was born out of QED Investors in 2017, developed an auto refinancing platform that handles the entire process, including finding the best rates, paying off the old lender and re-titling the vehicle. “But the growth had been pretty noticeable from the investor standpoint in the market.”

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