TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 “Fintech is compelling.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Claravine , a self-described marketing data platform, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Five Elms Capital with participation from Grayhawk Capital, Next Frontier Capital, Peninsula Ventures, Kickstart Fund, and Silverton Partners. ” Claravine’s data management platform. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Soci , a startup focused on what it calls “localized marketing,” is announcing that it has raised $80 million in Series D funding. Soci said that in 2020, it brought on more than 100 new customers, representing nearly 30,000 new locations. ” Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing. .”

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

However the government still hasn’t confirmed exactly when it expects to legislate to empower the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) — saying only that it will introduce legislation to put it on a statutory footing “in due course.” UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Mark Spera is the head of growth marketing at Minted. He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. The good news is you can quickly learn which growth marketing strategies work by studying other companies’ success and adapting it to your own business.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B The demand side takes into account the behavioral patterns of the audience while the supply side adopts tech innovations to differentiate their service and content portfolio. revenue that was generated in 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The figures were closer together when we carried out another comparison in 2020 , with each study reporting between $1.3 This year, we’ll be looking at figures from data-tracking publications: Briter Bridges , Partech and The Big Deal , and not media ones, for the sake of cohesiveness. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them. ” Hughes and his agency were recommended multiple times in our growth marketer survey, which we launched to surface experts that startups can work with.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So for obvious reasons, it faced challenges in 2020. The company had already pivoted once, shifting focus from political work to commercial marketing. The Knoq team will bring a tech-forward approach to sales outreach and customer analytics. “It’s been a pleasure partnering with Knoq over the last few years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Edtech deal flow in 2021 looks set to match or even outpace 2020 levels, per the report: At $9.4 million, average deal size is triple 2020 levels; seven companies have raised $50 million in five different markets; and the U.K. has more than three times as many deals as the next individual market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. China’s technology industry. Since the Ant IPO was pulled and the Chinese Communist Party executed off a flat-wild period of regulatory action in 2021, you have probably heard less about China’s technology. Sign up here. . Let’s go.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

founders Gabby and Hezi Leibovich; RetailMeNot.com founders Guy King and Bevan Clarke; and Reactive Media founders Tim O’Neill and Tim Fouhy. The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

” To translate marketing, support and e-commerce documents and webpages — Lilt’s principal workload — Lilt uses a combination of human translators and tools including hotkeys, style guides and an AI translation engine. .” A robust market. Translators are paid a fixed hourly rate, negotiated individually.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2023

Dollars raised and deal volume in the fourth quarter dropped to their lowest levels since 2020 — with $1.6 And lastly, wealth tech made an impressive showing in terms of investor interest. Wealth tech companies brought in $1.7 Digital lending funding was down 53% to $11.5 billion in 2022. billion raised across 121 deals.

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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. In November, Puls Technologies raised $15 million for its mobile app connecting tradespeople with on-demand home repair services. It is already operating in select markets in Europe, the U.S. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. What are your general impressions on the health of the AR/VR market today? Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

In the aughts, Tiger Global participated in just 30 deals, according to The Generalist , a newsletter on topics around tech and crypto. This crop of consumer internet startups targeted industries across media and services such as jobs, commerce and travel. Tiger Global also had a solid 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Given that we just came off one of the most active quarters in recent history for technology companies going public , it’s a good time to dig into the matter. 2020 IPO report card: Are tech’s newest public companies meeting expectations? What can startups learn from the choices that Yext has made?

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 3, 2022

Every aspect of handling a business has seen a significant change in recent years and quite a lot of it is due to a storm of post-COVID technological advancements. From AI, and machine learning, to HR tech, every aspect of running a business is being revolutionized. Marketing + employer branding… but why?

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The media and entertainment sector saw quite a few changes with respect to content development, aggregation, and delivery as major players in the business adopted new strategies and agile approaches to leverage the changing consumer demands. The global OTT market size that stood at $171B in 2020 is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 29.4%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Falling Facebook : The social media giant is “losing its grip,” as Sarah put it, on younger consumers who are preferring newer apps like TikTok and BeReal. 5 investors explain why longevity tech is a long-term play. years, but by 2020, that figure shrank by 2 years and 3 months. Big Tech Inc. The evidence?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. Global losses from ad fraud totaled $35 billion in 2020 alone. “Back in 2016, we were running a digital marketing agency in the U.K. “During that time, they kept noticing the same problem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Its first product will ship in a few months, but it’s just the start of what the company hopes will be a new approach to using tech to better enjoy nature. But co-founder and CEO Franci Zidar explained how this market is something of a sleeping giant. “Birdwatching is the second biggest outdoor hobby in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

social media posts and web pages). These extractions can be used to help customers develop new travel products line and fine-tune their marketing campaigns, Dunn says. ” Zartico launched in March 2020 — one week prior to most of the world shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. or to places.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The last in-person CES held in 2020 attracted a total verified attendance of 171,268, according to organizers. But just 40,000 people attended, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies. That’s a 75% decline. Fill that vacuum.”

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2023

And with increasingly immersive technologies such as virtual reality, data-driven insight using artificial intelligence and creative video delivery coming to the fore, opportunities to unite digital with human-centred design principles to win in both physical and digital realms are growing.

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TechSoup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

What are the trends in the donor management and fundraising software market, and are the systems changing fast enough to make it worth your while to select and implement a new one?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is serious talk of a “ Deep Learning recession ” due, among other things, to a collapse in job postings. TRUSTS is a data market funded by the European Commission. MIT Tech Review has a good explanation. Social Media. Short-term effect of COVID or long term trend? New Infrastructure. Operations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Seeing how saturated the market was, they saw an opportunity to make protective eyewear a similar and sexy space, initially targeting the healthcare industry. They kicked off Los Angeles-based Stoggles in August 2020 with a crowdfunding campaign and then launched an e-commerce website in February 2021.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 3, 2022

Every aspect of handling a business has seen a significant change in recent years and quite a lot of it is due to a storm of post-COVID technological advancements. From AI, and machine learning, to HR tech, every aspect of running a business is being revolutionized. Marketing + employer branding… but why?

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CTOvision

JULY 8, 2015

NASA Announces Updated Television Coverage, Media Activities for Pluto Flyby NASA (Today) - NASA is inviting media to cover the New Horizons spacecraft’s closest approach and July 14 Pluto flyby from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site. Marine Corps, Interior Dept. LATEST NEWS.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. There’s so much fragmentation in the space.

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