Mike Butcher
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Announcing the final batch of judges for Startup Battlefield Africa
Startup Battlefield Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, is coming up fast. As usual, we have a great lineup of panels that will include investors and founders discussing issues such as blockchain, raising venture capital on the continent and beyond and more. → Read More
Fintech investors and founders to judge Startup Battlefield Africa
TechCrunch will soon be returning to Africa to hold its Startup Battlefield competition dedicated to the African continent. → Read More
Announcing the latest set of judges for Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
Startup Battlefield Africa is right around the corner. This year it’s in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11. → Read More
Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you
Walking into the office of Viktor Prokopenya – which overlooks a central London park – you would perhaps be forgiven for missing the significance of this unassuming location, just south of Victoria Station in London. → Read More
African investors and founders to judge Startup Battlefield competition in Nigeria
TechCrunch will soon be returning to Africa to hold its Startup Battlefield competition dedicated to the African continent, in Lagos, Nigeria, on December 11th. → Read More
Argent, a smart crypto wallet app with a banking look, raises $4M from Euro VCs
One of the biggest problems for the mainstream adoption of crypto is the need for memorizing seed phrases, the inability to get your cryptocurrency back if something goes wrong, the list goes on. → Read More
Meet TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher at #WebSummit at 4PM today
One Minute TechCrunch! Since it’s impossible, as a journalist, to crawl around all the stands at Web Summit in Lisbon, I thought it would be easier to stand in one place and meet people there! Thus, you will get the chance to meet me (Mike Butcher) and pitch me your company for 1 MINUTE at [&… → Read More
The Blockchain wallet plans a £125M air-drop of Stellar crypto to drive mainstream adoption
Blockchain, one of the world’s biggest crypto wallets, plans to give away a vast amout of cryptocurrency in a bold move to scale the adoption of crypto to a more mainstream audience. Blockchain and the Stellar Development Foundation (stellar. → Read More
Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform
SF-based Engineer.ai launched in an invite-only manner two and a half years ago, bootstrapped by its founders. → Read More
Aiden.ai raises a $1.6M seed round for its AI marketing analyst
Aiden.ai, a London based AI analytics startup, has raised a $1.6M seed round to develop its “AI-powered marketing analyst” which, they claim, is like having an extra person on the marketing team for mobile apps. → Read More
Venture capital and the blockchain will be the talk at Startup Battlefield Africa
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield returns to Africa next month, and we have an agenda chock-full of interesting panels and our premier startup competition. → Read More
Appyling AI to insurance documents, omni:us raises its first Series A funding
Earlier this year omni:us, an AI-driven service which is able to process digital documents (some of which contain handwriting) by classifying them and extracting the valuable data, revealed it was working with over half of the top 10 insurance providers in the German-speaking DACH region. It’s now … → Read More
LoopMe closes $17M growth investment led by BGF to expand further into the US
In 2013 LoopMe was a start-up which started out trying to solve the problem of intrusive ads on a mobile screen by consolidating them into an “ad inbox”. → Read More
Here are 25 of the most innovative new projects using tech to help refugees and NGOs
From humble beginnings as a simple Facebook group I posted in September 2015, Techfugees has come a long way. → Read More
Futrli raises a Series A to hone its decision-making platform for small businesses
Futrli, a cloud-based business decision-making platform aimed at small businesses, has raised a £4m Series A from e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute Capital. → Read More
Power Ledger launches token for retail investors to back renewable energy projects
Back in May Power Ledger, the Australian-born startup which allows consumers to buy and sell renewable energy directly between one another using a blockchain platform, launched its first commercial deployment in the US. → Read More
Parity founder demos Substrate, live launches a blockchain in minutes instead of days or weeks
While the blockchain world has seemingly blazed along in the last 18 months, much of the action has been in the currency world. → Read More
New ‘Dark Ads’ pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers
A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up UK ‘Leave’ voters, and distributed via Facebook, may have reached over 10 million people in the UK, according to new research. → Read More
Unifonic, dubbed the Twilio of emerging markets, closes $21M Series A round
Those of you familiar with the incredible rise of Twilio, which came along to utterly disrupt the communications world, will be interested to hear that another player plans to do the same, but this time in the staid and tricky area of emerging markets. Unifonic, which has been dubbed “the Twilio of… → Read More
European late-stage FinTech startups get a boost with new Corviglia fund
In a boost to late-stage funding for FinTech startups looking to scale-up without having to leave Europe, what claims to be the largest growth equity fund for Fintech in Europe launches today. → Read More