TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

The company was acquired by Clearlake Capital in 2018 , and over the last several years has been modernizing and expanding its reach through acquisition. Today, the company announced it intends to acquire Puppet , the infrastructure automation company. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Yet, ThankUCash , a platform launched in 2018 by Connected Analytics , has managed to thrive, proving that not all is gloom in the deals, coupon and rewards business. Having matured as a business, Ononobi and his team want to take on a more complicated task: building infrastructure for companies that want to offer akin services. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The Series A funding comes after its 10x year-over-year revenue growth throughout the four years since its launch in 2018. More than 100 Australian organizations, including banks, fintech companies and credit unions, use NPP (new payments platform), Australia’s open-access infrastructure for fast payment, according to the NPP website.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Pyxis One, now Pixis , closed on $100 million in Series C funding to continue developing what it touts as “the world’s only contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimization.”. The Series C follows 600% revenue growth since 2018. And it’s not just a ploy saying it’s “no code,” it’s actually no code, he noted.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The company announced today that it is now the highest-valued digital asset infrastructure provider in the world after receiving an $8 billion valuation, nearly four times higher than the sum it commanded during its Series D six months ago. The latest round brings Fireblocks’ total raised since its 2018 inception to just over $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

At the time of the company’s $30 million Series C in 2018 , TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois described the company this way. As for Instana, the founders see a good fit for the two companies, especially in light of the Red Hat acquisition in 2018 that is core to IBM’s hybrid approach.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If there’s one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it’s infrastructure. The company raised $170 million in 2020 in a round led by Viking Capital after landing an undisclosed amount from Visa Ventures in 2018. The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Based in San Francisco and Kuala Lumpur, LottieFiles was founded in 2018. ” The new funding will be used on LottieFiles’ product roadmap, expanding its infrastructure and increasing its global user base. The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, with participation from returning investor 500 Startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Bay Area company’s origin was as Puzzl, a payment processing startup for the gig economy, founded in 2018 by Shenoy and CTO Pranab Krishnan. The latest round now gives the company $14.6 million in total funding, which includes a $1.6 million seed round in 2020, CEO Kirti Shenoy told TechCrunch. It was part of Y Combinator’s 2019 cohort.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

From vehicle design and data to safety reporting and infrastructure, these five innovative moments have helped fuel the global growth of shared e-scooters and are helping lead cities into a healthier, more sustainable future. #1: took nearly 39 million trips in 2018 and another 86 million the following year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Instead of developing and embedding the entire self-driving system, including sensors into a vehicle, Seoul is turning to surrounding infrastructure to do some of the heavy lifting. And its contrarian approach has attracted a new group of investors and $25 million in venture funding.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively. Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Of those AI dollars, almost a third of all AI funding went to foundation model companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies. The company has then added various infrastructure products around USDC, such as Circle Accounts. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. at the time.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Costanoa’s focus today is applied AI and AI infrastructure, and B2B fintech. Nuance in picks and shovels Costanoa has made several bets in AI infrastructure. In a 2018 blog post “ What the $%&* is Applied AI? With generative AI, “we can solve problems that were unsolvable two years ago,” said Sands.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. . So far, these regulators appear not to be concerned with the activities of API fintech infrastructure startups. Okra is not the only company looking to capitalize on the budding API financial infrastructure space.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2018, Coherent’s platform, called Product Factory, allows insurance providers to digitize their backend operations by uploading Excel pricing models, which means their IT departments don’t need to write new code or re-haul their IT infrastructure. The company also offers three tools for working with customers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The B2B e-commerce industry has broad reach, encompassing everything from commerce infrastructure and payments technology to procurement and supply-chain solutions. trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Over the course of their careers, Alex Bovee and Paul Querna realized that while the use of SaaS apps and cloud infrastructure was exploding, the process to give employees permission to use them was not keeping up. Companies of all sizes often have hundreds of apps and infrastructure providers they’re managing.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 27, 2024

San Francisco-based Cribl raised a $319 million Series E led by new investor GV and valuing the data infrastructure company at $3.5 Founded in 2018, Cribl says it has raised more than $600 million. The new round is actually a mix of $200 million in capital and a $119 million secondary offering, per Bloomberg. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Indian electric mobility startup Magenta Mobility has closed a $22 million Series A1 round, backed by $11 million each from Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure and BP Ventures. “We were always aware that we wanted to focus on the last-mile mobility, wherein we built up this charging infrastructure as a captive service.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. million seed round in 2018 , bringing its total raised to $82.5 Lightning Labs brought in $10 million from its Series A last September after its $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company will use its proceeds for the development of DeFi as a service (DFaaS) infrastructure and its existing custody services such as wallet as a service (WaaS), trading and staking as a service (StaaS). ConsenSys raises $65M from JP Morgan, Mastercard, UBS to build infrastructure for DeFi.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Aditya Haripurkar told TechCrunch HitPay started in 2016 as an e-wallet but then pivoted toward being an SME-facing platform in 2018 as a virtual POS product. As its team began to understand the needs of SMEs more, it started to develop the other tools on the platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Its last round, a Series C of $50 million, was announced back in September 2018. Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B. The funding brings PingCAP’s total raised so far to $341.6 TiDB developer PingCAP wants to expand in North America after raising $50M Series C.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Instead, you farm out your infrastructure needs to the major cloud platforms, namely Amazon AWS , Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. From its period of customer discovery to working on product market fit after raising funds from Engineering Capital, Yotascale raised a Series A in mid-2018. And thus more capital was required.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. Growth equity firm Prysm Capital led the financing, which brings the round total to $435 million. billion valuation. The public U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Its gross revenue has tripled since 2018, going from just under $300 million to about $900 million to close out 2020. In a nutshell, it connects skilled laborers with infrastructure and energy companies looking to staff and manage projects efficiently. It currently has more than 600 employees in 25 offices. Fetcher raises $6.5M

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 3, 2025

and international quantum technology infrastructure has been built out in the last seven years since the initial Quantum Initiative Act in 2018 - with commitments to cryptography, quantum agility, networking, and computing that will reshape national security and federal operations. Domestic U.S.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The IT infrastructure company said it will use the fresh cash for M&A activities and entering new markets globally. Vista bought LogicMonitor in May 2018 for about $415 million. Founded in 2018, Wonder has raised nearly $1.9 and AI product development. billion in 2021. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Existing backers Point72 Ventures, 500 Startups and Envestnet | Yodlee also participated in the financing, which brings its total raised since its 2018 inception to nearly $19 million. We’ve been building our basic infrastructure and compliance and technology,” Vo told TechCrunch. Productfy Inc. ,

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

CEO Michael Healander explains to TechCrunch that the company sees airspaces as digital infrastructure lacking critical regulations. Founded in 2018 by Michael Healander, Daniel Bradshaw and Ana Healander, the Detroit-based startup employs 20 full-time staff. The company is one of seven FAA-approved companies to provide this service.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Specifically, the company plans to continue investing in nationwide infrastructure, technology and logistics and toward accelerating digitalization of Turkish SMEs. Trendyol founder Demet Suzan Mutlu said the new capital will go toward expansion within Turkey and globally. A 2020 report by JPMorgan found that e-commerce represented only 5.3%

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Since announcing its Series A in April 2018 , Kdan Mobile has grown from 70 employees to 200 in Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States. 5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021. “We’ve observed more and more industries embracing remote or hybrid work for years now, even before 2020,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The company allows contractors, manufacturers, distributors and logisticians to plan and optimize their B2B or B2C shipments while providing a cloud platform for real-time visibility of shipments, logistics infrastructure and seamless collaboration that breaks down traditional organizational silos. Infiuss Health (Nigeria). Pylon (Egypt).

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The IT infrastructure company will use the fresh cash for M&A activities and entering new markets globally. Vista bought LogicMonitor in May 2018 for about $415 million. The startup’s networking infrastructure helps tie AI chips together — allowing for the consistent flow of data needed for modern AI workloads.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Valtix should fit in with other security company acquisitions in recent years, including Duo Security in 2018 and Kenna Security in 2021. Valtix launched in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Revel started its moped business in New York in 2018, and it has since expanded into Miami, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. ” Revel’s ride-hailing business, which currently has 50 Teslas driving around Manhattan, will also expand alongside the EV charging infrastructure, he said. If anything, it’s gotten worse.

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