TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The energy renovation company based in France is doing well, but it is addressing a market that is much bigger than anticipated. The company just closed a €20 million funding round (roughly $22 million at today’s exchange rate) from Felix Capital. This is the first external funding round for the company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Gbike , a South Korea-based micromobility Gcooter operator, is acquiring Hyundai Motor’s shared micromobility sharing platform ZET as it wants to increase its market share and create technological synergies via ZET’s fleet management system. . “We are very open to any other opportunity.”

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JUNE 26, 2023

The company has three main offerings —ApptioOne, Apptio Cloudability, and Apptio TargetProcess. IBM is acquiring the company from Vista Equity Partners, which purchased it in 2019 for $1.94 IBM also acquired Instana in November 2020, to target the application performance monitoring market from a hybrid cloud standpoint.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. Clearly we’re not the only ones who saw promise in the company’s mission. The Sydney-based company creates hardware and software solutions designed to bring solar-based power to developing markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. Marketers have now realized that their customers trust the recommendations of people they relate with. AIfluence is a two-year-old startup with an AI-driven influencer marketing approach to measuring these campaigns.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

As popularity of project collaboration software grows along with other software-as-a-service products, a research report from SaaS purchasing platform Vertice shows that more than 90% of enterprises are overpaying for these tools. The project collaboration software market is estimated to reach a value of $27.40

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Poshmark , the nine-year-old, Redwood City, California-based online marketplace for second-hand clothing, beauty and home decor products, is set to start trading as a public company on the Nasdaq tomorrow after tonight pricing 6.6 Forever 21, the fast-fashion mall staple, filed for bankruptcy in 2019.).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Automattic , the for-profit company tied to open source web publishing platform WordPress, is announcing that it has acquired analytics provider Parse.ly. Both companies, Gernert said, come from similar backgrounds, with “roots” in digital publishing and a “heavy focus on understanding the impact of content.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. billion, per the report.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Twitter is abuzz with the news that Topps, a company perhaps best known for making collectible trading cards, is going public via a SPAC. The reverse merger with its chosen blank-check company values the combination on an equity basis at $1.163 billion. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Why do we care?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

It brings the company’s total raised to $90 million, which CEO Ryan Glasgow says is being put toward expanding Sprig’s service line, support sales and marketing efforts, and dedicating resources to integrations and partnerships. Glasgow founded Sprig in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Aforza , developing cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies, announced a $22 million Series A round led by DN Capital. Using artificial intelligence, the company recommends products and can predict the order a retailer can make with promotions and pricing based on factors like locations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Danggeun Market launched Karrot in Canada and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Pet tech company Fi today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B. The round, led by Chuck Murphy of Longview Asset Management, follows a $7 million Series A raised back in 2019. according to the company). There’s such a huge market in the U.S. The round values the startup at north of $200 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

To understand how much the late-stage market has changed in the last few months, we’re once again pulling public market data that we will contrast against mega-unicorn Databricks’ known results. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. billion ARR numbers for the company. For that we are thankful.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In-session marketing, a form of inbound marketing that attempts to analyze and influence web and app users’ purchasing decisions, is often challenging to implement. With so much competing for consumers’ attention these days, rare is the brand that’s able to make a lasting first impression.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors The company raised $106.3 Ghauche admits that the company “had a hiccup on revenue” during this time, but that it didn’t have anything to do with the credit market or network. Now Constrafor is back with another cash infusion of $7.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Peer-to-peer car-sharing startup Turo has released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States, a process the company began confidentially in August. The company boasts 85,000 active hosts and 160,000 active vehicle listings in over 7,500 cities as of September 30, 2021. million in 2019 to $95.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . Last month, TechCrunch reported on Rebellions closing on $50 million in funding that valued the company at an estimated $283 million. The global AI chip market is projected to reach $194.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. billion (~$241.35

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sensat , a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 Ultimately, it’s all about helping companies better plan and manage major infrastructure projects, assess risk, predict outcomes and optimize efficiency before building work even begins. Image Credits: Sensat.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

GitLab has confirmed with TechCrunch that it oversaw a $195 million secondary sale that values the company at $6 billion. The company’s impressive valuation comes after its most recent 2019 Series E in which it raised $268 million on a 2.75 CNBC broke the story earlier today. billion valuation, an increase of $3.25

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Rakesh Yadav said that the new capital will be used to grow Jarvis ML’s R&D and sales and marketing teams to “accelerate product development and market penetration.” “ The pandemic has accelerated the shift in consumer purchasing trends moving online.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

billion valuation, ranking itself as the highest-valued electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) company in the industry. It’s not the only air taxi company to reach unicorn status. The field is now dotted with new or soon-to-be publicly traded companies courtesy of mergers and special purpose acquisition companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Its host companies include AWS, Carrefour, Dentons, GAM Investments, Asian Development Bank and Bio Pharm Dongsung.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds. Lawtrades app design.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups, and employees to use its software to manage their cap tables and later aspiring to evolve into a “private stock market for companies,” as founder Henry Ward once told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mobiz , a South African startup integrating hyper-personalization into mobile marketing, has raised a pre-Series A round of $ 4 million from HAVAÍC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund. and double down on marketing, sales and account management.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Israeli startup is acquiring Azimo — the London-based money transfer business that Facebook once tried to buy to spearhead its own remittance efforts — a deal that will see Papaya Global moving into more markets, and launching more services such as instant payroll payments. The deal will help Papaya Global on two levels.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

AskNicely is the latest company attracting capital for its app targeting shift or frontline worker success as more businesses rightly begin to see how valuable these employees are to their bottom line and how technology can ensure these key employees are empowered to help the company grow. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Yesterday, the ride-sharing company Lyft said its two co-founders, John Zimmer and Logan Green, are stepping down from managing the company’s day-to-day operations, though they are retaining their board seats. Should we expect this to reverse course now that the market has tightened and money isn’t flowing so freely to founders?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business. Trust dashboard.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, Anderson explained that he wanted to hold off on releasing the news until Candu’s product was in the market. The $5 million investment began like many venture investments do, with an investor getting in touch with a young company months before a transaction is put together. What does that mean? Superpowers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

When Yin Wu started Pulley , a cap table and equity management startup, back in 2019, she was out to compete with the likes of Carta. My colleague Connie Loizos spoke to Wu in 2020 when the company raised $10 million. The company now works with over 1,700 companies, and revenue tripled in the last year.

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