TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Einride is seeking $75 million in new financing, while at the same time exploring the potential for a public listing through a special purpose acquisition company, according to people with knowledge of the company’s plans. capital markets by storm led, in part, by startups focused on the electrification of mobility.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. The company plans to use the new capital toward that hiring, and to do some marketing of its own. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

E-commerce is an $85 billion business in Latin America, and as that market is poised to essentially double in three years , the current consumer demands to receive orders on time and packaged correctly will only increase. That was one of the big drivers for the company to go after additional funding, he said.

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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

MARCH 31, 2022

Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. return on it, paying it pack in full plus earnings in 2020. ” That all depends on the ability of the company to scale its offerings.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

AI is revolutionizing entire sectors and ADNOC aims to be the most AI-enabled company in the energy industry. ADNOC has developed its digital infrastructure, enabling the company to rapidly expand its business, unlock untapped opportunities, and responsibly supply energy to meet customer needs. Artificial Intelligence

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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 The company consistently receives poor marks for its quality control and support service.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The company, launched by CEO Nolan Church in August 2020, started as a play to connect startups to part-time executive help. Now, it has expand to help struggling tech companies cut staff in a more humane, thoughtful way. “If 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

billion by 2030, up from 4 billion in 2020. “We sharpened our go-to-market motion in 2022 and saw a clear acceleration in the business,” Memfault co-founder and CEO François Baldassari told TechCrunch in an email interview. The investment brings Memfault’s total raised to more than $35 million following a $8.5

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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.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

Much of this is driven by consumer behavior to reduce waste and have more sustainable consumption of goods. 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. “Now,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But it’s also one of the more expensive places to start a business, due to its high cost of living, salary expectations and relatively small labor market. It grants up to CHF 130,000 per company. Swiss companies, like almost all European companies, tend to raise lower early-stage rounds than U.S. More than 50%?

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

According to Verified Market Research , the Global Satellite Communication Market size was valued at USD 65.68 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 131.68 Companies are working with aerospace technologies to accelerate innovation and provide new differentiation. What of the Aerospace companies themselves?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

More usefully for enterprises, he also helped develop Dynamics 365 AI for Market Insights, a feature for Microsoft’s ERP and CRM platform that scans search data to provide enterprises with information about emerging trends in social interest and sentiment around their brands. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion such companies picked up in 2020 and 2019, respectively. It wasn’t sustainable and economic correction was needed. It created an opportunity to exit the hype cycle, clearing the way for development that will ensure the growth of the ecosystem in a sustainable way, adding value.” By 2022, that number dipped to $21.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder directly connects enterprise shippers with trucking companies, thus disintermediating the traditional freight model. So far it has concentrated on the lucrative European market. In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. To date, the app’s community of users have reduced nearly 6 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. ” It says it builds a self-sustainable “privacy-friendly alternative to very popular and widely used surveillance capitalism web analytics tools”.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Even though sustainability can be an amorphous organizational pursuit, it’s becoming more of an urgent priority all industries must clearly define. Whether that’s through internally motivated ESG efforts or imposed regulations, CIOs, in particular, find themselves increasingly central figures in sustainability initiatives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, when the Costa Rican-born entrepreneur, now living in the Bay Area, saw how climate change was affecting coffee growers around the world — coffee is the fifth-most polluting crop in the value chain — she wanted to create a coffee product that tasted good, but was also sustainable. Compound Foods announced $4.5 million to date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

“What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We Reebelo’s last funding was a $1 million seed round announced in June 2020. The company was founded in 2019 by Franta and Fabien Rastouil. Back Market reaches $5.7B

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Fortunately there are companies that aim to change this, and three leaders in the field — Orbit Fab, Astroscale, and Maxar — will be joining us at TC Sessions: Space in December. US President Ron Lopez will join the panel to discuss the many potential approaches to improving sustainability in space. How will the market evolve?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The plastic-free grocery, home and personal care delivery startup is one of the companies we featured two years ago when discussing venture capital interest in businesses focused on reducing waste. At the time, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner, who started the company in 2019, had just raised $4.7 million in funding. grocery sales.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Micro-EV subscription startup Dance , which launched in 2020, has raised an additional €12 million in an equity and debt round led by existing investors HV Capital, Eurazeo and BlueYard. In 2020, Dance closed a $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Scalable production of alternative proteins continues to be a big challenge for companies in this sector, and No Meat Factory wants to help with that. The Canada-based company, which produces alternative proteins for third-party customers, took in $42 million in new Series B capital to build a bigger manufacturing facility in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. According to this report , the media company will raise between $20 million and $30 million valuing the company at $80 million to $100 million. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The San Francisco-based company’s produce business-to-business marketplace provides a way for produce buyers and sellers to quickly close deals on surplus or imperfect crops in just a few clicks. Founder and CEO Christine Moseley told TechCrunch that a majority of produce companies are still using pen, paper and fax machines to do business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Consumers will be able to invest in companies and supply chains that are focused on tackling climate change. Duncan Grierson, CEO of Clim8, said in a statement: “We are launching at an exciting time for sustainable investing. Users can choose between either stocks and shares ISAs (up to £20,000) or a taxable general investment account.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Krafton, the brand behind some of the world’s most popular video games, says it has already deployed the $100 million it had committed to the Indian market two years ago in the South Asian nation and is gearing up to launch several new titles in the country. The product and the space that the company is operating in are a core concern.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The storied venture firm is known to react to macroeconomic events with grand memos aimed at portfolio companies and sometimes the entrepreneurship scene at large. ” The document reads like a follow-up course to its infamously ill-timed “Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020” memo of March 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Uber and Lyft lost a lot of money in 2020. That’s not a surprise, as COVID-19 caused many ride-hailing markets to freeze, limiting demand for folks moving around. But the decline in demand harmed both companies. But the decline in demand harmed both companies. billion in 2020. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. If you follow mainstream tech media, you could be forgiven for thinking that venture capital is a founders’ market today after two years of record round sizes and outcomes. Stories abound of massive rounds materializing quickly for companies at even the earliest stages.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Varo declined to reveal any hard revenue figures but did note that in the 13 months since obtaining its bank charter, the company has doubled its number of opened accounts to four million and tripled its revenue. billion valuation figure is up “5x” since May of 2020. First off, it effectively eliminated an intermediary.

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TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

MAY 26, 2020

We are gearing up to provide you with a completely customizable event at TIBCO NOW 2020 where you will harness the power of your business’s data to ideate your next transformative breakthrough. At TIBCO NOW 2020 you’ll learn best practices to achieve long-term innovation to keep your business in a continuous state of reinvention.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Yummy was founded in 2020 by CEO Vicente Zavarce, a Venezuelan native and former Postmates and Getaround director of user acquisition. The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch. million users, Zavarce said. Yummy app Image Credits: Yummy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Swile provides a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal vouchers, gift cards and sustainable mobility vouchers. This is a significant round for the company as it keeps raising bigger rounds year after year. million (€30 million) in 2019 and a Series C round of $81 million (€70 million) in 2020.

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