Wannabe ‘social bank’ Kroo swerves VCs to raise a $24.5M Series A from HNWs
Launched in February 2019, Kroo, the London-based consumer-facing fintech, raised some seed funding last year for its prepaid card service which claims to offer more “social features” in its drive toward offering full-blown banking services. Kroo's pitch is that it removes friction
LawVu, a cloud-based platform for in-house legal teams, raises $17M NZD from Insight Partners
In-house legal teams play a critical role in companies, but a lot of them don't have the same kind of technology as their counterparts in sales or finance. Instead, they often rely on email, shared inboxes and spreadsheets. LawVu gives them a cloud-based platform to share legal advice and docum
Moove raises $23M to create flexible options for drivers to own cars in Africa
Africa is home to more than a billion people, where a majority have limited or no access to vehicle financing. In fact, the continent has the lowest per capita vehicle ownership in the world. In 2019, Africa had fewer than 900,000 new vehicle sales. The U.S. sold more than 17 million new cars that
India’s UpGrad enters unicorn club with $185 million fundraise
UpGrad, a Bangalore-based startup that specializes in higher education and upskilling courses, hit a valuation of $1.2 billion with a $185 million funding round Monday as global investors plow record capital into firms in the world’s second-largest internet market.
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Two months after its Series A, Pintu gets $35M in new funding led by Lightspeed
Just two months after its last funding announcement, Indonesian crypto assets platform Pintu has closed a $35 million Series A+. The new round was led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from returning investors like Alameda Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase
Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board
Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher.
Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to jo
SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach
With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different
How to hire and structure a growth team
Everyone at an organization should own growth, right? Turns out when everyone owns something, no one does. As a result, growth teams can cause an enormous amount of friction in an organization when introduced.
Growth teams are twice as likely to appear among businesses growing their ARR by 100% or
zeroheight raises $10M round led by Tribe Capital to scale DesignOps for UX teams
High-quality UX for websites and apps is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a must-have if a company is to succeed. But scaling the impact of UX teams is not simple, and in recent years teams have turned to what's known as DesignOps platforms to help them.
Now, a new startup hopes to become a k
Raise, a startup building Africa's Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups
As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Most African startups’ bulk of VC money is from foreign investors, making it imperative for African startups to incorporate abroad, especially in the U.S.
The processes for incorp
Verifiable secures $17M for its API that manages healthcare provider information
Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, Verifiable snapped up another $17 million for its healthcare provider credentialing API toolkit.
The Austin-based company's technology creates an infrastructure for healthcare provider data management that puts providers at the center. Verifiabl
Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers
This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. It’s a space many in the Nigerian ecosystem like to think is budding yet overcrowded.
So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was gene
Micromobility startup Voi raises $45 million to end sidewalk riding, improve safety
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked.
The funding comes a month after Voi launched a pilot in
Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow
While Amsterdam garners the lion’s share of attention in the Netherlands tech ecosystem, the not-so-far-away region around Utrecht has its fair share of tech startups and investors, as is evidenced by our latest survey of locals, below.
Area ecosystem wranglers such as StartupUtrecht, Utrecht