MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B e-commerce platform, had the ambitious plan of growing the number of informal merchants sourcing FMCGs from its platform by over a million by end of 2022, laying the ground f...
After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice:One thing we'd like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, ...
For all the talk about emerging markets and their similarities, moves involving African startups expanding to Latin America are rare. Only two significant activities come to mind recently: Migo's expa...
On the back of pretty strong earnings reports and valuations, public cybersecurity companies are outperforming the broader technology segment. Yet, funding for cybersecurity startups has flatlined.
May 2023
This deep into the crypto winter big venture fund debuts are few and far between, a far cry compared to previous years. But the freeze is not stopping some venture capitalists from launching new funds...
You voted in droves and the results are finally in! We can't wait to hear the 10 incredible roundtables that you chose to send to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, September 19-21 in San Francisco.After counti...
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How many paying customers do you have, and how long are they locked in?Annual recurring revenue (ARR) has always been a key metric, but with valuations down across the board and new money too tight to...
It wasn't a surprise to learn that former scooter unicorn Bird is pursuing a reverse stock split. The company isn't treading new ground here -- it isn't the only tech firm that has IPO'd in the past c...
Yet another early-stage VC fund has closed in Europe this week, as Elkstone finalized a EUR100 million ($108 million) pot aimed at Irish startups. It comes a day after Lifeline Ventures closed a EUR15...
Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh EUR150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland.Founded in 2009, Helsinki-based Lifeline Ventures ha...
Like it or not, AI is part of our lives from here on out -- for better or worse. In the past six months alone, TechCrunch has written nearly 600 articles focused on the impact of AI technology in our ...
Elad Gil, a successful founder and prolific investor, has already been called Silicon Valley's biggest solo venture capitalist given the massive amounts of capital he has been investing in recent year...
A big shoutout to the early-stage founders who missed the application window for the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt. We have exciting news just for you!You procrastinators can ...
It's been a rough start to 2023 for European startups. In the first quarter of the year, dealmaking decelerated, valuations flattened, and exits remained subdued, according to new research.Analysts fr...
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week's startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas. Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now I have one of my ow...
How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look.If you look at the stock market, the view isn't very good: the charts are all down and ...
Invesco, which led Swiggy's previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant's valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a filing.This revised valuation, as of January...
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Partners of 3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm in India, recently went on a road show to raise a new fund. Within two and a half months, at the height of the worsening global economy, they had secu...