Crunchbase News

MARCH 26, 2024

Lauren Rivera, professor at Kellogg School of Management, co-authored the original 2019 benchmark study upon which subsequent annual research has been based. Executive summary Our fifth annual study, which characterizes the boards of the most heavily funded private companies in the U.S., venture funding since 2018.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019. trillion next year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

The startup, which debuted on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage back in 2019, was founded by a pair of University of Michigan professors (Matthew Johnson-Roberson — now CTO — and Ram Vasudevan) seeking to solve a number of issues posed by many delivery robots. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Abasi Ene-Obong has stepped down from his executive role, the African genomics company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The three-year-old company has appointed General Counsel Teresia L. She will be supported by Chief Operating Officer Delali Attipoe , the company said. Bost as interim CEO.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Today we behold another unicorn: African payments company Flutterwave announced that it has closed $170 million, valuing the company over $1 billion. based payments company with offices in Lagos and San Francisco, Flutterwave helps businesses build customizable payments applications through its APIs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2023

Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. For us, this has been a monumental and strong partnership with the Australian Open since 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months. million, including a seed round announced in 2019.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 11, 2024

AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Helaina , a company producing a first-of-its-kind infant milk, announced $20 million in Series A financing to usher in its next phase of growth that includes beginning the manufacturing and commercialization process for its first product. It gives the company $24.6 The company is working to gain approval from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Not to mention, they make up less than 5% of the top level of the top 500 companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring direct-to-consumer home furnishing brand The Inside , the company announced on Thursday. The company’s e-commerce platform is connected to hundreds of retailers for clients to make direct purchases. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He met with Shai Onn and then Oded Hareven, with whom Angel had worked five years earlier, to look for signs of product-market fit. And the company’s revenue has increased 350% over the past year. Secrets stored by the platform are made accessible in all of a company’s environments. Image Credits: Akeyless.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

While much work remains, we’ve made substantial progress as we build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company. We overhauled our software portfolio, our go-to-market approach and the overall organizational structure. Many major brands and Fortune 500 companies run their mission-critical workloads on VMware software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Australia native Richard Steggall is the CEO of Urban FT , a New York-based fintech company. Financial institutions are falling behind the tech curve in delivering on the convenience consumers demand, leaving the door wide open for Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Google to become our bankers. Regulations in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors. Lori has raised a total of $38.2 million, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. It paid $1.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

So much so that companies like Costco are raising their minimum wage to $17 per hour, while Starbucks said it is going up to $23 per hour. Behr admits there is “no one silver solution,” which has resulted in this challenging situation that includes a majority of companies getting fewer candidates applying for jobs this year versus last year.

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Capgemini

DECEMBER 30, 2022

AWS for advertising and marketing helps Capgemini deliver innovative advertising solutions Neerav Vyas 30 Dec 2022. The changing privacy and marketing technology landscape continues to create more uncertainty in measuring marketing ROI.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Like many incumbents in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, Henkel was slow to embrace digital technologies, resulting in a widening disconnect between the 147-year-old company and the changing needs of its customers. Big CPG companies like Henkel can spend billions on trade promotion, so there’s a lot at stake in getting it right.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The new valuation is more than double what the Brussels-based company announced last year when it secured $112.5 That followed a $100 million investment in 2019 at a valuation of just over $1 billion. The valuation is a strong reflection of our position in the market,” Felix Van de Maele, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In February 2020, Career Karma published a report on the state of the coding bootcamp market, which revealed a few interesting key findings. Market size . In 2019, a total of 33,959 students attended one of the 105 coding bootcamps studied in this market analysis, representing a 4.38% growth since 2018. 16 bootcamps).

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Modern CTO

APRIL 18, 2024

He is responsible for establishing the company’s future technology vision and strategic direction, while building and implementing platforms to support customers, employees, and partners. Recognized for rapid growth, continued innovation and company culture, Impact has been listed as Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Grassroots campaigns continue, and technology-wise, innovation in the wider women’s health sector is only gearing up. We are not a niche market as 50% of the population.” I foresee capital to healthcare companies increasing in 2023,” she told TechCrunch. million, the amount raised in 2019. The good news is that the $1.16

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Founded in July 2019, Mexico City-based Flat.mx The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. The company plans to use its new capital to continue to develop what it describes as a “one-stop shop where homeowners and buyers will be able to get all the services they need in one place.”.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

By 2020, the smart healthcare market value is predicted to be US$ 169.32 Health insurance companies may find data capture by IoT-enabled wearables useful for detecting frauds and validating claims. A report by Zion Market Research states that the global smart agriculture market is expected to reach US$ 15,344 million by 2025.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75 million debt — in 2019. million equity and $6.25

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been focused on building consumer-facing apps that would allow the company to test out new social features and gauge people’s reactions. Now, NPE will begin testing out a new thesis: that the next big idea may come from a market outside the U.S. based projects.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

cheese market alone was valued at $34.3 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.25%, according to Allied Market Research. billion in size in 2019 and projected to reach $4.4 Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2024

As companies enter new markets, we see a rise in competition from often unexpected sources. Organizations have to take innovation and agility to the next level to survive in this new age. Moving Away from Shareholder Value In August 2019, the Business Roundtable, a group of chief executive officers of nearly 200 major U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s created the innovation group in 2018 that has backed or launched several consumer product companies, including cat products startup Cat Person , body care line Flamingo and hair care line Headquarters. The acquisition follows Harry’s $155 million Series E round of funding that gave the company a $1.7

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Battery Ventures

APRIL 24, 2019

We all know that companies need an innovative, and constantly evolving, culture to grow and thrive. And that’s more important than ever in today’s ultra-competitive technology-job market. out of five) for private companies and 4.2 out of five) for private companies and 4.2 How important? for public ones.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If there’s a company that can boast being 100% digital native, it’s PayPal, the platform that allows companies and consumers to send and receive digital payments in a secure, comfortable and profitable way. Another fundamental piece is speed, that is, the ability to maintain innovation at a rate higher than that of the industry.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Singapore-based Reebelo , a marketplace for affordable and sustainable consumer electronics, has had a passion for keeping electronics out of landfills since it was started by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil in 2019. “In The company offers one-year warranties, certified sellers and 30-day free returns.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

During that time, she also held a full-time job as a marketing manager at Microsoft. At first, the company offered its services direct to consumer but by 2017, it had started working with employers so businesses could cover the cost of Wellthy as an employee benefit. Companies like Salesforce and Snap signed up immediately.

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