Shamus Noonan

In “The Monthly Rundown” series, I dive into a few up-and-coming startups from the past month, filtering by recent funding rounds.

This month, we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of Crunchbase sales manager Shamus Noonan’s “Monthly Rundown” Series! Check out the five new startups that caught Shamus’ eye this month, and find a full list of the 75+ up and coming startups featured in the series over the past year.

Following the classic Monthly Rundown style, this edition highlights Black-founded and co-founded companies with new funding from the last month.

While a majority of the focus in January was on the public markets, Crunchbase recorded $40.1 billion in global dollar volume for private companies in January.

Crunchbase Sales Manager Shamus Noonan highlights five startups that capped off 2020 with new funding in December.

Though October was no match for the impressive jump in startup funding in September, don’t let this distract you from the fact that there’s a strong batch of newly funded companies across the globe that are scaling like crazy. They need to put this new money to work, so try and understand how you can help them accelerate on their new expansion goals.

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