The second day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day is now behind us, and the TechCrunch team is recovering from watching hundreds of pitches in quick succession. Every accelerator […]
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Back to news homeOur favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2022 Demo Day, Part 1
Day one of Y Combinator’s Demo Day confab for the Winter 2022 batch is over. We shook up our coverage this year, divvying things up by sector and geography. Our […]
Liberty Strategic Capital nabs majority stake in mobile security startup Zimperium for $525M
Liberty Strategic Capital, the private equity firm launched last year by former treasury secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, announced today that it is acquiring a majority stake in mobile security startup […]
Talenthouse flotation finally reveals a $40M exit for EyeEm, Europe’s almost-Instagram
Talenthouse AG has made a name for itself as an aggregator of content creators, which is then commissioned by brands for their own social media channels. Brands just can’t seem […]
Philippines-based MSME platform GrowSari adds $77.5 million to its Series C
GrowSari, a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 million to its Series C round. Along with prior funding, including $45 million […]
Singapore-based esports startup Ampverse lands $12M
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization […]
a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’
Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way. When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more […]
Freelancer marketplace Malt acquires consulting marketplace Comatch
It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch, a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. Comatch originally started in Germany, which means […]
Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff […]
Are we about to see a unicorn selloff?
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Welcome to the […]