Series A

Knock takes the pain out of building notification workflows

Notifications may seem like a solved problem. You’re probably getting more than you want already, after all. The two founders of Knock, Sam Seely and Chris Bell, argue that while a lot of compan

Taking the long view on crypto

“It’s the single best time to invest in [crypto] companies,” according to 10T Holdings and 1RoundTable Partners’ CEO, Dan Tapiero.

Here’s what to know to raise a Series A right now

If you're thinking about raising a Series A, you should probably start now.

Seed to Series A: Strategic insights for tech founders in the 2024 venture landscape

Mike Cardamone Contributor Mike Cardamone is CEO and managing partner at Forum Ventures, where he focuses on developing Forum’s investment strategy with the mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easi

Practical advice for B2B startups raising a Series A

In conditions today, completing even a Series A round is a powerful symbol of your fintech project's promise.

Use LinkedIn to raise a Series A

Not every request will result in a new connection, but with patience and consistency, your pool of investors will begin to grow.

Kuva Space raises €16.6M Series A to scale hyperspectral imagery ambitions

Kuva Space, a hyperspectral imagery startup founded in Finland, has closed a €16.6 million ($17.6 million) Series A funding round as it looks to deploy up to 100 satellites by the end of the decade.

Darwinium brings digital security and fraud prevention to the perimeter

Back in 2018, LexisNexis acquired the digital identity platform ThreatMetrix for just under $820 million in cash. In 2021, ThreatMetrix co-founders Reed Taussig and Alisdair Faulkner returned to the w

How to stretch your venture dollars

If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.

Gem Security raises $23M for its cloud security platform

Cloud detection and response company Gem Security today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by GGV Capital, with participation from IBM Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Inves

Quandri raises $8.5M Series A to bring process automation to insurance brokers and agencies

Robotic process automation (RPA) has been a buzzword for a while now, but most of the tools that try to help businesses automate their workflows tend to be generalists. Quandri, a Vancouver, Canada-ba

With $18M in funding, System Initiative wants to modernize DevOps

The promise of DevOps is often frustrated by the reality of having to stitch together a bunch of products. System Initiative‘s co-founders believe that in order for DevOps to live up to its prom

What are Series A VCs looking for? Many seed investors aren’t so sure anymore

The muted late-stage funding and exit environments have left investors with few data points and examples of how to price companies.

How to prepare a hardware startup for raising a Series A

At the Series A stage, VCs want to know that they can pump money into a product that will start going into the market.

Low-code ML platform Predibase raises another $12.2M

End-to-end machine learning platform Predibase today announced a $12.2 million expansion (led by Felicis) to its $16.25 million Series A funding round from last year. The company also announced that i

Deal Dive: Why this startup chose to sell itself over raising a Series A

Heroes Jobs realized that its user acquisition costs were too high to be successful as a solo company and decided to partner.

Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte

Union AI, a Bellevue, Washington–based open source startup that helps businesses build and orchestrate their AI and data workflows with the help of a cloud-native automation platform, today announce

Bobsled raises $17M Series A to make cross-cloud data sharing easier

Bobsled, a startup that is building a cross-cloud data sharing platform, today announced that it has raised a $17 million Series A funding round co-led by Greycroft and Madrona Venture Group. This rou

OP3N raises $28M to build ‘WhatsApp meets Amazon’ for web3

OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “I wanted to make a connection for crea

Pitch Deck Teardown: StudentFinance’s $41M Series A deck

Spanish upskilling startup StudentFinance used this deck to raise a $41 million Series A.
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