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JUNE 26, 2023

Apptio specializes in what has been called technology business management (TBM), or more recently, financial operations (also known as finops ) software, designed to allow diverse teams in a business manage IT costs. The company has three main offerings —ApptioOne, Apptio Cloudability, and Apptio TargetProcess.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Open source password management platform Bitwarden has made its first known acquisition, snapping up a fledgling Sweden-based startup called Passwordless.dev , which specializes in helping developers integrate passwordless authentication technology into their software. The password problem. Image Credits: Passwordless.dev.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The Air Company sells vodka , hand sanitizer and eau de parfum , and just raised a Series A to double down on its commitment to the planet. “The perfect time to start this company would have been many years ago. This round brings Air Company’s cumulative funding to over $40 million. Well, that and martinis.

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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 Sensat’s digital twin technology in action. Elsewhere, Amazon’s cloud juggernaut AWS last year launched IoT TwinMaker , a service that helps companies easily create digital twins of real-world systems.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In Deloitte’s 2019 report , the firm reveals that AI is transforming the financial ecosystem to reduce costs and make operations more efficient by providing automated insights and alternative data, analysis and risk management. Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Andela , a fully remote company that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams (initially from Africa but now a global market), is currently valued at $1.5 Its last valuation of $700 million came when the company raised a $100 million Series D in 2019. In the process, we are moving into AI as a part of that.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. The new funding comes one year after the Burlingame, California-based proptech company raised $1.2

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Applying for a frontline job can be a game of hurry-up-and-wait, and communication is not always the best when a company is trying to fill dozens of positions at the same time. Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

The company has raised $50 million, a Series D that it will be using to continue investing in R&D and expanding its base of customers. The company is not disclosing valuation, but for some context PitchBook notes that in 2019 it was valued at $140 million. That potential is what sold MSD on the company. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SoftBank-based digital creation platform Picsart , which recently hit uniciorn status , announced today it’s acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft. The company believes DeepCraft’s A.I. technology and help the company better support the recent growth of video creation on its service.

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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

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

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

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

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

AUGUST 21, 2023

billion into the co-working company WeWork in the summer of 2017 when it was still privately held, at a reported valuation of $20 billion. SoftBank invested in WeWork again in early 2019 at a $47 billion valuation. It went on to invest even more in the company and to lose nearly its entire investment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. billion in 48 companies with a fair value of $6.9 SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Big morning for Massachusetts tech companies planning to go public via SPAC. The metal 3D printing company intends to merge with ONE, a special purpose acquisition company created by Kevin Hartz, who will join its board. The deal, which could value the additive manufacturing company at around $2.1

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JUNE 29, 2021

It follows a $3 million seed round raised in late-2019. The company’s robotics technology specifically targets rebar, using robotics to assemble the foundational building material at a fraction of the time. Robotics in general have been a massively popular investment target during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The new product, dubbed “ Gusto Embedded Payroll ,” will allow vertical SaaS companies to provide payroll support to their own customers. Indeed, for many companies payroll is their largest expense. The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including $200 million in 2019.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Jarvis ML , a platform offering an AI-powered personalization engine to brands selling products, services and experiences, today announced that it raised $16 million in a seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Other rivals include Flybits and Monetate (which was acquired by Kibo in 2019).

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism , creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Bo Davis founded the company with Roy Phillips and Brian Mills in 2015. Since launching its app in 2018, the Virginia-based company is seeing its platform used in over 2,500 restaurants. It raised a Series A in 2019, then an A2 in 2020 and with the latest round, led by Schooner, has raised $25 million in total.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Blameless, based in San Mateo, California, emerged from stealth in 2019 after raising both a seed and Series A round, totaling $20 million. And in February, Nobl9 raised a $21 million Series B to provide enterprises with the tools they need to build service-level-objective-centric operations, which is part of a company’s SRE efforts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Companies sit on a lot of unstructured data and often don’t have the capabilities to get much out of it. Now imagine having a way to store data and actually be able to ask it questions, for example, “When did ABC Company sign its first contract with us?” or “Show me videos that contain blue skies.”. Small notes on big news.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Bridgit , a “workforce intelligence” technology company that is focused on the construction industry, announced today that it has raised CAD$24 million, or about US$19.4 Over the years, the pair say they spoke with hundreds of contractors and construction executives to better understand how technology could make them successful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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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

MAY 25, 2021

The company released its “Diversity Recruitment Platform” in July of 2018 with the aim of helping people earlier in their careers get a “jumpstart” via technology. We believe every company should have a DRP, which is a diversity recruitment platform. Jumpstart nabs $8.5M Jumpstart nabs $8.5M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, is the latest action by the German manufacturer to move away from robotaxis and shared mobility and instead focus on how automated vehicle technology can be applied to freight.

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