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Volocopter raises $170M, now valued at $1.87B, to fuel the first commercial launches of its flying taxi fleet 07.03.2022 6:26

Volocopter, the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets in urban areas, has picked up another big round of funding as it inches closer to its first commercial launches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

YC-backed Blocknom wants to become the “Coinbase Earn of Southeast Asia” 04.03.2022 2:37

Blocknom, a crypto-earning platform in Y Combinator’s current batch, has aspirations to become the “Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.” Today the company announced it has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator, Number Capital and Magic Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shares raises $40 million for its social investment app 04.03.2022 3:19

Shares has closed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Valar Ventures. The company has been working on a mobile app that lets you easily buy and sell shares, but with a social twist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Microsoft partners with VCs, accelerators to back 10,000 startups in Africa 03.03.2022 3:13

Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years through a series of initiatives including partnerships with accelerators and incubators across the continent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After raising $4 million, Emtech supports central banks across Africa, the Caribbean to deploy regulatory sandboxes 03.03.2022 5:51

For fintechs to thrive in such a way that they remain meaningful to economies, a synergy between them and regulatory bodies is inevitable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Enterpret launches with $4.4M, NLP technology to decipher customer feedback 02.03.2022 4:17

Enterpret is building and deploying customer-specific models, based on customer feedback, for product development teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Live near an ocean? Kin Insurance’s data aims to more accurately predict home risk 02.03.2022 5:15

By using data and technology to accurately price the risk, Kin Insurance is able to remove some of the costs of traditional insurance firms, like agents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Payhawk becomes a unicorn as it extends its Series B 01.03.2022 3:42

European spend management startup Payhawk has added $100 million to its Series B round that I already covered back in November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste 01.03.2022 4:33

Toronto-based Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date, has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by S2G Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Better Dairy slices into new funding for animal-free cheeses 28.02.2022 3:56

Better Dairy is using precision fermentation to produce cheeses that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam secures $93M Series B, enters new markets 28.02.2022 4:58

Beam, a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cococart sweetens the process for e-commerce companies to take orders immediately 25.02.2022 4:39

Cococart's tools enable merchants to set up an online store in minutes with no code, no design and no app downloads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AnyRoad helps brands measure customer experiences 25.02.2022 5:48

Brands don’t often know everyone who is attending their big events, which leads to limited return on investment and actionable insights. AnyRoad provides that insight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With mission to modernize data streaming, Redpanda snares $50M Series B 24.02.2022 4:34

When Redpanda launched in 2019, company founder and CEO Alexander Gallego thought a startup devoted to modernizing streaming data should have an appropriately nerdy name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vendr acquires Blissfully, combining its SaaS buying services with management tools 24.02.2022 5:04

Vendr, a startup that aims to help its customers buy software products faster and at a lower cost, announced this morning it has acquired Blissfully, a startup that builds SaaS management tooling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

thatDot launches Quine, a streaming graph engine 23.02.2022 4:24

ThatDot, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that focuses on streaming event processing, today announced the launch of Quine, a new MIT-licensed open-source project for data engineers that combines event streaming with graph data to create what the company calls a ‘streaming graph.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last mile delivery e-bike supplier Zoomo tacks on $20M to Series B 23.02.2022 3:56

Zoomo, an Australian startup that builds utility e-bikes for delivery workers, has raised an additional $20 million in equity to close out its Series B round. In November, the company raised $60 million in equity and debt for its Series B, which it used to fund further software development and more vehicles to expand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Agility Robotics and Playground Global join TechCrunch Live to speak on fundraising robotic delivery 22.02.2022 2:39

Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but Covid-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year 22.02.2022 6:41

Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Voltron Data grabs $110M to build startup based on Apache Arrow project 21.02.2022 5:22

Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ICON raises $185M in Tiger-led round to build more homes with its 3D printing tech, now approaching $2B valuation 21.02.2022 4:44

ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ibex Investors’ newest fund is betting on a mobility revolution 18.02.2022 3:44

When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility companies, his firm is tapping into it. “There will be more […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed 18.02.2022 3:57

Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dutch raises $20M to scale its telemedicine platform for pets 17.02.2022 4:24

Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Genesis raises $200M in Tiger-led round to grow its finance-focused low-code application platform 17.02.2022 4:59

Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices