TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

As tech companies large and small shed staff in hopes of better aligning their income statements to a new market reality, it’s clear that cutting costs to delight investors is the new norm. That’s where UiPath and the larger automation market — robotic process automation, or RPA — may have an edge on other software categories.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Mike Tong has over a decade of experience leading GTM strategy and operations for tech and data companies as part of McKinsey TMT, AtSpoke, Splunk and the VC firm B Capital. Challenge 1: AI and ML categories are still being defined. Salesforce created the category they dominated. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These findings show that best practices that have become the norm at startups and tech companies are gaining ground more broadly, but also that there is still a lot of margin for progress to improve the efficiency and work environment of developers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

We featured generative AI companies five years before the popular investors took notice and climate tech 2.0 We’re seeing input/output startups that want to rewrite the rules of recycling and purification with new tech. It’s deep tech but actionable. Silver tech – Life expectancy is on the rise and the U.S.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It Addressing the ensuing sprawl was no quick fix.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. That applies to the groupings of new tech companies that were among the hottest before the recent downturn, too. Things have slowed in the intervening quarters.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Dear Targeting, With the ongoing and intensifying competition for tech talent in the wake of the Great Resignation, I find myself addressing questions like yours quite frequently. That’s no surprise: Turnover in tech last year was remarkably higher than in health care, according to the Harvard Business Review.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

But this year we’re folding TC Sessions, the standalone industry events that are traditionally held throughout the year, into the big annual tech event. Yup, sustainability, a category that will combine transportation , climate tech , smart cities and renewables. What the heck is sustainable tech, anyway?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Zoom investing , it seems, is working just fine for cash-rich firms looking to double down on bets in categories from edtech to climate. The first filing shows that the firm has closed $151 million for USV Climate 2021, which one can assume is focused on climate-tech investments. The other, more nebulous filing , is the firm’s $22.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

So we’re hooking up with Extreme Tech Challenge (‘XTC’) to present the Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals , a startup competition focused on powering a more sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and healthy world. The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions, the standalone industry events series, and merging them into the big annual tech event — which will once again this year be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt , the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back in 2023 with an enhanced new format.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it. When we came out with this, with the vector database category, nobody knew what the hell we’re talking about. And so it’s very easy to bet on the leader of a category that is already formed,” Liberty told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 Like many sectors, creator-focused startups had an easy time of attracting funding in 2020 and 2021. million in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Sure, Disrupt’s “official” run is September 21-23, but why wait to meet other movers and shakers in your specific tech category? Here are the meet and greets happening at Disrupt — choose your category and kickstart your connections. Meet and share ideas and others with the SaaS and Enterprise community.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And this doesn’t matter only for tech companies. In retail, for example, software has been the fastest-growing job category ; about half of the world’s software engineers work outside the tech industry. Their customers were more satisfied, and their business colleagues had a better employee experience. So, it’s complicated.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It will also deliver unprecedented opportunity for entrepreneurs — and the investors backing them — who can turn their climate tech ideas into commercialized products and services, whether that’s plant-based foods, carbon capture, electric vehicles or battery recycling. Are people ready for climate tech?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s not a huge stretch to say that today, as tech increasingly permeates property development and housing, few except those operating in the sector can truly pinpoint what’s happening in the fast-developing world of proptech. TC: There’s a lot of overlap between construction tech and proptech. And where do they overlap?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Now, we also went into gaming and then ‘close by’ categories, while some markets went a little bit outside of consumer electronics to become a good place for sustainable consumption.” The company will also test some new categories as it grows in the electronics space. “We Beyond this, we are testing a few related categories.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Part of that vision includes building a tech stack that leans on artificial intelligence and API to provide better manufacturing, supply chain, design and customer acquisition capabilities. Further, one of Kite’s board members is Delta Dental president and CEO Mark Mitchke, who was previously general manager of Fulfillment by Amazon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. For big brands and retailers, personalization is expected to be the top category for tech investment this year. More posts by this contributor. The beauty industry produces over 120 billion units of packaging every year, little of which is recycled.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi , an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering virtual try-on experience for eyewear. With the addition of Memomi, the retailer says the interest was both in the tech and the team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2022

Given the recent run of concerned headlines that insurtech companies have generated, you’d be forgiven for anticipating that the startup category would find itself in dire straits. We were just too pessimistic about the rest of the insurtech category. Not a bit of it. After a strong fundraising period , a number of U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

In an IDC poll earlier this year, 62% of corporate tech managers in the U.S. said that tech spending at their companies would be the same or increase compared with 2022. But while the overall work software market remains strong, not every category is performing equally well. There’s truth to that second point.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace. Apply agile principles for quick wins Although legacy tech can be monolithic, there’s no reason that the approach to their modernization should be clunky all-or-nothing propositions.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Most of the new jobs created during other tech revolutions fall into one of two categories: (1) jobs that support the new technology and (2) jobs that use the new technology. AI may follow the same pattern as past tech advancements, but it is on an exponentially accelerated timeline.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

CIOs and IT leaders local and virtual IT leadership events from C-Vision , CDM Media , Constellation Research , ET-x , Evanta , Foundry , Forrester , Gartner , HMG Strategy , Info-Tech , Sinc , and others. Open and free-to-register events scheduled by public cloud providers and other technology companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s the rub: If we want to successfully address malnutrition in Latin America, agritech and food tech solutions need to come from within. One category of innovation that can reduce food waste: tools to help farmers improve field productivity. A related category: innovation that helps reduce food loss through pest control.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. Literally months in the making, TechCrunch editorial staff read, vetted and debated every application.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This is certainly a theme of late — as other categories of robotics have struggled to raise, those operating in construction appear relatively unimpacted. But two things are true: 1) The lull is temporary; and 2) While robotics isn’t recession-proof, construction might as well be.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

10 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco’s John Chambers. On Earth Day, April 22, SOSV published the SOSV Climate Tech 100 , a list of the best startups that we’ve supported from their earliest stages to address climate change. But what can founders learn from the list about climate tech investors?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. A typical VC thesis: “We invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage.” and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. any mention of a focus on tech companies). Top Visible Heuristics (in dataset of 36 U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

More than 10,000 people will attend to learn about the latest tech and investment trends from iconic leaders, founders and VCs. It’s where investors look for portfolio potential, founders find new customers, tech journalists hunt for stories and everyone finds inspiration. It’s coming down to the wire folks.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A major challenge when developing any tech solution for seniors is to keep it as simple and as clear as possible. The underlying technology is super-sophisticated, but you’d never know it from looking at the website – thedashboard is simple, well-designed, and intuitive for even the least tech-savvy seniors. Certainly not Homemade.

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