Tag: Innovation

(Innovation/Technology) UIPath’s meteoric rise from unknown startup to $35B RPA juggernaut (TechCrunch)

Ron Miller When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017, it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise...
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(Innovation/Technology) Headless commerce startup Swell raises $3.4M (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha While new headless commerce platforms are emerging all the time, Swell CEO Eric Ingram told me that it remains “really hard to do something new...
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(Innovation/Technology) Benitago Group raises $55M in combined debt and equity to buy and grow Amazon brands (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Benitago Group, a startup looking to build a big portfolio of Amazon brands, is announcing that it has raised $55 million in new...
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(Innovation/Technology) What Silicon Valley could learn from China’s Q&A platform Zhihu (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao China’s largest question and answer platform, Zhihu, began trading in New York at $9.50 per share at the lower end of its IPO...
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(Innovation/Technology) Baton raises $10.5M to create ‘drop zones,’ where truckers can hand off freight (TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec In the trucking industry, “dwell and detention” times are the enemies of efficiency, profits and drivers. More than two billion hours are lost...
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(Innovation/Technology) Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company (TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois Holberton, the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in...
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(Innovation/Technology) Ryu Games raises $2.3M, betting that cash tournaments for mobile games are the future (TechCrunch)

Alex Wilhelm Ryu Games, a startup that helps developers add cash tournaments to their mobile games, announced this morning it has raised $2.3 million in...
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(Innovation/Technology) European branded payments startup Recharge raises $11.8M debt round led by Kreos Capital (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Online branded payments now run the gamut of anything from Spotify vouchers, Netflix vouchers, Neosurf, PaySafe cards, and everything in between. Consumers use...
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(Innovation/Technology) Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation (TechCrunch)

Steve O'Hear Gorillas, the Berlin-HQ’d startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as ten...
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(Innovation/Technology) Investors feed the meter for curb management startup Automotus (TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec The curbside is being squeezed as the number of commercial vehicle operators and gig economy workers battle over this increasingly scarce real estate...
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(Innovation/Technology) CoScreen launches its screen-sharing product, announces $4.6M in fundraising (TechCrunch)

Alex Wilhelm This morning CoScreen, a startup that helps teams share screens and collaborate in real-time, formally launched its product to market. It also disclosed that...
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(Innovation/Technology) Drone data scanning company Skycatch announces a $25M raise (TechCrunch)

Brian Heater Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker. Founded in 2013, the Bay Area-based company provides centimeter-accurate 3D scanning services,...
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(Innovation/Technology) Big banks rush to back Greenwood, Killer Mike’s Atlanta-based digital bank for underrepresented customers (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Before even taking its first deposit, Greenwood, the digital banking service targeting Black and Latino individuals and business owners, has raised $40 million — only...
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(Innovation/Technology) Notarize raises $130M, tripling valuation on the back of 600% YoY revenue growth (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo When the world shifted toward virtual one year ago, one service in particular saw heated demand: remote online notarization. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/25/notarize-raises-130m-tripling-valuation-on-the-back-of-600-yoy-revenue-growth/
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(Innovation/Technology) Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s...
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(Innovation/Technology) Pie Insurance raises $118M for data-driven workers’ comp coverage (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Pie Insurance, a startup offering workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses, announced this morning that it has closed on $118 million in...
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