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Monzo, the UK challenger bank with 9 million customers, raises $430 million
London-based fintech company Monzo raised a late-stage funding round of $430 million (£340 million), confirming a report from the Financial Times from a few weeks ago. Following this round, the…
A peek inside Alphabet’s $7B growth-stage investing arm, CapitalG
Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, David Lawee, stepped down. Few were surprised…
AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation
Market intelligence — where organizations gather information about industries, other businesses, trends and more in order to use that data to help make business decisions — has become a huge…
Serena Williams’ next act in venture capital is essential in this moment
When Serena Williams steps from away tennis, she’ll be walking into an arena as white as the one she just left.
Whatnot’s valuation doubles to $3.7B as livestream shopping gains popularity in US
Whatnot plans roll out additional categories for collectors, including diecast cars, stamps and action figures.
As Ariana Grande would say, god is a woman. So it should come as no surprise that Chief, the network designed to develop the leadership skills of women, has hit…
Expel raises $140.3M Series E for its managed threat detection and response platform
Cybersecurity platform Expel, which specializes in threat detection and response, today announced that it has raised a $140.3 million Series E funding round co-led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund CapitalG,…
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250M to more than double its valuation
The new valuation is more than double what the Brussels-based company announced last year when it secured $112.5 million in a Series F investment that put its valuation at $2.3…
Mixing the personal with the professional in startup fundraising
For CapitalG’s Laela Sturdy and Webflow’s Vlad Magdalin, the investor/startup relationship has become a kind of genuine friendship.
Curated wants to be the expert in your pocket when making that next big purchase
Consumers answer a few questions about the products they are looking for, and Curated will match them to a category expert who provides a list of personalized recommendations.
Webflow’s Vlad Magdalin and CapitalG’s Laela Sturdy to discuss finding success in no-code
Webflow has raised more than $200 million and become a household name in the world of web design, creation and hosting. What makes Webflow special is that it has been…
We’ll be discussing why it’s automation’s moment at TC Sessions: SaaS on Oct. 27th
This year automation hit center stage when robotic process automation (RPA) vendor UiPath went public after raising $2 billion in private investment. Investors who had been a part of that…
Announcing the final agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: SaaS 2021
TechCrunch Sessions is back! On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our final packed agenda, overflowing…
Temasek leads $550M Series C extension into Orca Security, which aims for further international foothold
This is the third in a quick succession of funding that Orca Security received in the past 12 months.
All good things must come to an end, and this proverb totally applies to our early-bird price on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021. Today’s the final day you can…
Whatnot raises another $150M for its livestream shopping platform, evolves into a unicorn
Whatnot, a livestreaming shopping platform for collectors to buy and sell things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops, has closed a $150 million Series C — its third round…
Freshworks disclosed on Monday that it is aiming for a valuation of up to $9 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, in which it is hoping to raise over…
TechCrunch Sessions is back! On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with…
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Fintech startups set VC records as the 2021 fundraising market continues to impress
The first three months of the year were the most valuable period for fintech investing, ever. Where did the fintech venture capital market push the most money in Q1, and why? Let’s dig in.
Community banks and credit unions aim to be the heart of the, well, communities, they serve. But without the big budgets of larger institutions, keeping up technology-wise can be a…
Notarize raises $130M, tripling valuation on the back of 600% YoY revenue growth
When the world shifted toward virtual one year ago, one service in particular saw heated demand: remote online notarization. The ability to get a document notarized without leaving one’s home…
Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets, today announced that it has raised a $210 million Series C round at a…
10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future
“Transportation is important to basically all people and is a real mess, so it will likely continue to be a hot topic and a source of investor interest for years…
9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes
About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like…
Alphabet’s CapitalG leads $27.5 million round in India’s Aye Finance
CapitalG, the growth equity arm of Alphabet, is doubling down on its bet on Aye Finance, an Indian startup that operates a digital lending platform for small businesses. On Wednesday,…
Expel lands $50M Series D as security operations increase in importance
Even in these trying economic times, there are some services that companies can’t do without. Having good security tools is one of them. Expel, a four-year-old startup that offers security…
Everlaw announces $62M Series C to continue modernizing legal discovery
Everlaw is bringing modern data management, visualization and machine learning to eDiscovery, the process in which legal entities review large amounts of evidence to build a case. Today, the company…
Portfolio bloat: What’s happening to thousands of startups going nowhere fast
Earlier this week, much was made of the e-commerce business Brandless deciding to shutter its doors. Industry observers found its fate particularly interesting, given that Brandless was only a few…
Enterprise AI company Dataiku has announced some changes in its capitalization table. CapitalG (formerly Google Capital), Alphabet’s growth equity investment fund, is investing in the startup by buying out some…
Freshworks, a company that makes a variety of business software tools, from CRM to help-desk software, announced a $150 million Series H investment today from Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (formerly Google…
