TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

That follows a pilot in 2020, when many agriculture companies were seeking assistance amid pandemic-related shortages. During the pandemic, there was an even larger crunch, as H-2A workers suffered from restricted travel. Even prior to COVID-19, labor shortages have resulted in tremendous waste.

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JUNE 7, 2023

The Pandemic has pushed companies to accelerate their digital journey, large companies are already being encouraged to replace their traditional working methods with telematic ones. Digital transformation is happening, especially because of the pandemic, nowadays the motto is ‘Transform or be left behind’.

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MARCH 8, 2024

During the pandemic in 2020, women’s careers took a massive hit — disproportionately higher than their male peers — because they had to work while handling much of the home and childcare responsibilities, resulting in the perception of diminished dedication to work. There’s no longer a fixed recipe for success.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

” HYCU offers software designed to protect data across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. “HYCU experienced much of its growth during the pandemic. “The pandemic also saw the fastest rise in the use of multi-cloud systems. Veeam was acquired by Insight in 2020 for $5 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

That ease-of-use has already gained the startup over 50 paying customers for its product, including TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 winner Canix , CopyAI, Ramp and others. Lin later left to work for corporate card startup Ramp, but the others graduated during the pandemic. And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2020 is… Canix.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. These venues for buyers and sellers of business-related products are exploding in popularity, fueled by better infrastructure, payments and security on the back-end and companies’ increased need to conduct business online during the pandemic.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

2020 has been a year like no other, with the COVID-19 pandemic changing our everyday lives – particularly the way we celebrate the holidays. The existing trend has grown even more pronounced with many retailers advising customers to shop earlier than ever due to potential pandemic-related shipping delays.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Thus, the global PCB market is big business, expected to grow from a $60 billion industry in 2020 to $75 billion by 2027. And it’s this sector that Germany-based Celus wants to capitalize on, with an automated platform spanning the whole circuit board design process from ideation to printed PCB. Component shortage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Robinson said that unlike other tools like Webflow and Ceros, Shorthand was designed to be used by editors and writers. “You need to provide flexibility without making writers get into the weeds of web design or making them use complicated design tools,” he wrote. month-over-month in February of this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Off the top, I’m incredibly curious what impact the pandemic had on Rent the Runway’s numbers — after all, no one needed a loaner gown for months and months — and how strong its gross margins have proved over time. Clothes are for wearing places, and the pandemic kept most of us at home. You are welcome.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2023

If there’s any lesson brands should have taken from the last three years of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s that investing in digital can deliver even more engagement – online and in-person. It was a hard moment to go through,” Gillion recalled during the recent Infosys Confluence event.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the pandemic, virtual meetings became the de facto method of collaborating and connecting — both inside and outside of the workplace. A 2020 IDC report projected that the videoconferencing market would grow to $9.7 The momentum isn’t slowing down.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The company’s new iOS app is designed to give users conversation prompts to inspire family members to share stories about their lives. Remento was founded in 2020 by Charlie Greene, who came up with the idea for the company after filming a series of interviews with his mother shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic having sent so many to work from home, those investments have paid off — the company has transcribed over 100 million meetings with more than 3 billion minutes, and has seen an 8x increase in revenues during 2020. added Zoom integration back in April 2020 — the early days of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

million in total funding since the company was founded in 2020 by Henrik Lysgaard Jensen and Alex Boyce. We thought about how we could become agents of change during the pandemic, which was a wake-up call as we saw shifting consumer demands, people wanting to get more technology-centric and engage with local merchants in different ways.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

million seed round in May 2020. During the pandemic, demand for loans increased for a wide range of reasons. Despite the economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Stilt’s loan performance has remained steady. Stilt, which provides financial services for immigrants, raises $7.5 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

million Series A announced in October 2020. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. “Inevitably we’ve seen plenty of competitors pop up as a result, but part of the uniqueness of Linktree is its deceptively simple design.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

. “We’re doubling down on Givingli because they’ve continued to not just organically grow, but thrive — even during these uncertain times — by productizing kindness & connection,” Ohanian told TechCrunch via email. billion in 2020. ” Image Credits: Givingli.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the early innings of the pandemic, top companies turned into unicorns seemingly overnight as Zoom school became an actual reality for millions across the world, and a frenzy of check-writing seized investors. The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

In some ways, this recalls how many of us spent months in creative play during the height of the pandemic engaged with games like Animal Crossing, the popular Nintendo game whose pressure-free environment helped many relax and pass the time under Covid-19 lockdowns. Now a full-time team of 12 and growing, Lumi Interactive closed on $6.75

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Even as he and his wife discussed renovating two older bathrooms, he knew himself well enough to know that “I’m not going to design things. To enable customers to check out its design ideas, it launched its very first storefront in a popular shopping district of San Francisco in February 2020. to shut down.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Contact centers were never a walk in the park for employees, but they became much harsher work environments during the pandemic. Customers can draw on a library of prebuilt components to design conversation flows using a visual editor. ” Automating customer interactions. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Earlier this year, Turntable.fm’s founder Billy Chasen dusted off the old site and resurrected it for the pandemic age. I know I wasn’t the only one feeling a wistful pang of nostalgia for the service during the long, dull days of sheltering in place. I have a lot of ideas for the space and I’m excited to start building them.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Those relationships could carry over through the pandemic, but let’s say you’re a new company and you’re remote-first. In the interview below, she says that after the pandemic, startup founders will need to develop a mentality that places growth at the center of company strategy. We will evolve, but we can never go back.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In July of 2020, publicly traded construction design software giant Autodesk led a CAD$9 million round into Bridgit. During that same time frame, Bridgit has onboarded 58 new customers, including Clayco, The Walsh Group and Hoffman Construction, with enterprise-wide agreements signed with Skanska, Ryan Companies and Alberici-Flintco.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

For Emily Elyse Miller, founder and CEO of OffLimits , launching during a global pandemic was “interesting to navigate,” but in the end, worked out. It was there that she started writing about food and design, traveling all over the world. Miller launched OffLimits in 2020 out of Science Inc. ’s s startup studio.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

CaptivateIQ , which has developed a no-code platform to help companies design customized sales commission plans, has raised $46 million in a Series B round led by Accel. The number of payees — defined as someone receiving a payout in CapitvateIQ’s system — was up four times in December 2020 from the year prior.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

During the worst days of the pandemic, when people were stuck at home and starving for some form of entertainment beyond streaming yet another TV series, many turned to DIY home improvement projects. Eight years ago, OHouse was simply a community of people sharing interior design content,” Lee said. billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How did fashion marketplace Poshmark go from posting regular losses in 2019 to generating net income in 2020? Like many e-commerce platforms, Poshmark saw a surge in activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it also slashed its marketing spend, which helped boost profits. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

When the pandemic hit last year, Punchbowl , an online party planning service was left in the lurch with gatherings all but shut down, but instead of lamenting the situation, founder and CEO Matt Douglas went to work to rethink the company’s approach. Enter new markets and embrace a distributed workforce to grow during a pandemic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They created Marvin in 2020, a user research platform that helps companies better understand the needs of their customers. Not coming from a sales and marketing background, he decided to hire a friend to join LeadGenius, who eventually transitioned to CEO at the beginning of the pandemic. did for sales calls. Image Credits: Marvin.

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JULY 30, 2020

2020 Scrummer Reading List. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they were during WW II. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz ” by Erik Larson. Lean Presentation Design " by Maurizio La Cava. One where the need to escape, learn, grow maybe even more acute.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

We’ve observed more and more industries embracing remote or hybrid work for years now, even before 2020,” he said. “We During the past year and a half, the number of signatures processed by DottedSign increased by 30 times as companies switched to remote work because of the pandemic. We always sensed that trend would continue.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The role of HR professionals grew in scope during the pandemic as companies were forced to navigate major workplace changes, like working from home. Previously a director of product design at Quibit, Luperti co-founded Humaans in 2020 with Karolis Narkevicius, who’s also a Quibit veteran.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Its first product is designed to help such businesses to claim an IRS R&D tax credit that could result in $250,000 back in their pockets. It raised a $3 million seed round in June of 2020. Neo.Tax was incorporated in July 2019 but the founding team came together in April 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Raphael Ouzan and Kobi Matsri are among this cohort, having founded A.Team , a gig marketplace for product engineers, in early 2020. ” That’s a lot of jargon and positive framing, but the crux is that A.Team helps companies assemble teams of vetted specialists to design and/or bring products to market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company, which last raised in January 2020 , has amassed a total of $33.3 Luxury Presence will use the funds to build new sales products for agents, some of which it expects to announce later this year, as well as to continue iterating the platform’s design and user experience. million since its launch in 2016.

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