TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 Founded in 2017 by Shemen and Jiameng Gao, Papercup offers an AI-powered dubbing solution that identities human voices in a target film or show and generates dubs in a new language. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The company, founded in 2017 by former Qualcomm engineers, started out as an AI voice service provider, offering 170 virtual voice actors in Korean and English. The creator economy can be considered our total addressable market,” which is estimated at $104 billion , Kim said. Image Credits: Neosapience. raises $1.5M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

.” The company’s leadership team has previously held roles at media, entertainment and gaming companies like Havas, Twitch and Universal Music. yearly since 2017 thanks to the growing accessibility of smartphones. yearly since 2017 thanks to the growing accessibility of smartphones.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We Last year, Firework was working with some 600 companies, including Albertsons Companies, The Fresh Market and Omnicom Media Group. The company says it is now valued at $750 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. The market is ready for consolidation, Livne told TechCrunch via email. It means Verbit’s customers are in the legal, education, media and enterprises sectors. The company competes with Rev.com and 3Play Media in the transcription space, he noted. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

People familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch earlier rumors by local media outlets that a workforce deduction would happen. Founded in 2017 by Sanghoon Shin, Scott Sungwoo Choi and Luke Donghyun Ahn, the two founders, Choi and Ahn, have already left the startup, and Shin is now leading the company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

First, the FTC must define the market correctly: personal social networking, which includes messaging. Second, the FTC must establish that Facebook controls over 60% of the market — the correct metric to establish this is revenue. This is the market for personal social networking services, which includes messaging. The problem.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When Countable pivoted in 2017, Canaan Partners invested in the seed round and assisted the company’s transition into an enterprise SaaS organization. “A Instead, Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The mobile magazine publishing toolkit they developed was sold to Mic in 2017, but it was only the most recent success in a string of collaborations dating back nearly a decade. The connection to politics and media continued with Hyper, their publishing platform that sold to Mic, and continues with Klima.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

After gaining regulatory approvals for advising investment in November 2017, Fount launched its mobile app in June 2018. . year on year, based on a local media report. As per its press release, its core market is people aged 20-49, including about 66.8% Fount surpassed $730 million assets under management as of March 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Despite the investor caution narrative permeating the startup world throughout the economic downturn, certain startup-types have been a little more impervious to market conditions. For its latest cash injection, Prewave has also attracted European VC heavyweight Creandum , which has previously backed the likes of Spotify, Klarna, and iZettle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This caused a flurry of information in the media on the impacts and what parents can do to avoid it, which included checking ingredients. Sturzenegger and her team launched Amara’s first products in Whole Foods in 2017 after three years of working on the technology. As such, the global baby food market was valued at $67.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Bosta was launched in 2017 by Mohamed Ezzat and Ahmed Gaber. ” E-commerce is a fragmented sector where 80% of transactions come from small businesses selling on Facebook, Instagram and social media in general. And to be a market leader when it comes to e-commerce on the continent and be profitable.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Upwork analyzed data from its platform, examining the types of projects companies hired freelancers for thus far this year, to identify the most sought-after AI skills on the market. Here are the top 10 generative AI skills companies are seeking today, according to Upwork. Generative AI, Hiring, IT Skills

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O'Reilly Media - Data

JULY 18, 2018

While models and algorithms garner most of the media coverage, this is a great time to be thinking about building tools in data. I list a few examples from the media industry, but there are are numerous new startups that collect aerial imagery, weather data, in-game sports data , and logistics data, among other things.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas. Total Raised: $75 million. Total Raised: $330 million. HubHaus (2016-2020).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The round was led by BurdaPrincipal Investments, growth capital arm of Hubert Burda Media. Operated by fintech First Digital Finance Corporation BillEase launched in 2017, with shopping marketplace Lazada as its first merchant partner. Kenyan BNPL startup Lipa Later eyes more African markets after raising $12 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

This crop of consumer internet startups targeted industries across media and services such as jobs, commerce and travel. The likes of Jobberman and Takealot would’ve thought of themselves as winners following acquisitions by Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) and Naspers, respectively. But it might not have felt the same to Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Founded in 2017, Armenia-based DeepCraft specialized in video and image processing and was the country’s first unicorn. The team will also help to complement Picsart’s A.I. research and development arm, PAIR (Picsart AI Research) with additional senior resources, the company says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2017, the Portland-based company makes it easy for creators to sell and host multi-day experiences around the world. Hosts can also set up an email marketing campaign, in addition to promoting their bookable experience across their social media channels. TrovaTrip offers more than 150 experiences in 48 countries.

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CIO

AUGUST 11, 2023

Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. It’s intended to help organizations find insights from email, customer reviews, social media, support tickets, and other text.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

The investment brings Palo Alto-based Mighty Networks’ total raised since its 2017 inception to $67 million. . The company plans to use its new capital on product development across media types, payment options and expansion into new markets. . million in new funding. million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

To bridge the gap, Uganda-based fintech Numida , has opted to focus its digital lending business on small enterprises as part of its strategy for driving financial inclusion in emerging markets. Numida co-founders (L-R) Catherine Denis, Ben Bes, and Mina Shahid. Image Credit : Numida. Ethical lending.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Mina Shahid , Catherine Denis and Ben Best founded Numida in 2017 and capitalized on the opportunity to build one of East Africa’s first digital fintechs targeting semi-formal micro and small businesses. ” With this new financing, Numida plans to expand aggressively in Uganda and pilot in a new market, preferably in West Africa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

At the time TechCrunch commented that the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup service was tackling a large market. TechCrunch also covered the company’s $51 million round back in 2016 and its $80 million raise from 2017.). It probably is, now, but that’s beside the point.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Gotter left the media company in 2017, an exit that afforded him the chance to take up angel investing full-time and pursue new projects. Bamba is a matching solution for Kenya and surrounding East African markets, where these merchants accepted over $200 billion in mobile money payments last year.

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Agile Engine

JANUARY 10, 2019

Deloitte says there were 250+ media streaming channels in the US in 2018, with the average user subscribing to only three or four. This makes for a tough competition, so how do you win in a market like this? Two traditional strategies that media businesses pursue are 1) exploration of new formats and 2) expansion of content reach.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. His portfolio includes Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Hexa also provides a range of 3D viewer apps for customers to use, including ones for the web and AR, plus code that can be used to insert models into social media posts and video games. In turn, 38% of marketer respondents said they are using AR in 2022, up 15 percentage points from 2017’s 23%. million in total capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I want to know at what stage did Howard begin to consciously prep Yext for an IPO — the company went public in 2017 — and how long until he felt the company was ready? We’ll also get Howard’s take on the public markets in 2020 and whether he was happy with Yext’s IPO timing.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 23, 2024

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? What Is Economic Rent?

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

With media outlets racing to get exclusives out the door on the latest “big thing,” sifting through the excitement to find the bigger picture is challenging. higher [in 2022] than in 2017.” Gaming: Companies behind popular video games argue that their virtual worlds are the closest thing resembling a “metaverse” on the market.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 3, 2022

In fact, reputation matters so much that, according to a 2017 study , 67% of men and 86% of women in the US will not join a company with a poor reputation. Furthermore, do bear in mind that recruitment is fast becoming more like marketing. Marketing + employer branding… but why? Seek the expertise of the marketing team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. His portfolio includes Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential , from 2017, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains that “All organizations have problems and they nearly always concern people.” Having the right people, with the right skills, working on the right tasks is the key to future success.

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