TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

More and more Gen Z users are hopping on the content creation train in an effort to earn a living beyond a regular 9-5 gig. According to a 2022 study by Adobe, around 45% of Gen Z creators surveyed said they want to earn money from their content. Sixty percent of Gen Z creators use TikTok to monetize content, the study said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Generations approach products differently. Millennials and Generation Z are now the largest consumer market in the world, so you can’t ignore them if you want to scale. Gen Z and millennials are all about empowerment. This also applies to marketing your product. Understand the different generational lenses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

As Gen Z turns into their early-to-mid 20s, a new generation of business owners is coming online. This is perhaps why, with Gen Z coming on stream, we are now seeing mobile-first startup appear to cater to this new wave of businesses. Many of these new entrepreneurs do the vast majority of work on their phones. of firms in the region.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Burns previously worked as a developer evangelist and front-end engineer at Venmo and an associate product manager at Twitter. During an interview about her role last fall , Burns told us she’s interested in backing Gen Z founders, and she pointed to HAGS as a good example of a product that was “built by and for Gen Z.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

If new users can’t quickly figure out how to use (or benefit from) your products, it won’t matter how many new customers you onboard each month. I love it when a plan comes together. I sent him a DM asking if he’d adapt the thread for a guest post on TC+; he said, “yes,” and we published it earlier this week. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

The Canadian startup was founded in 2020 by Kevin Kim and Paul Xu with the goal of gamifying the sports fandom and building a “digital playground” of sorts for Gen Z sports fans. As traditional sports viewership declines among Gen Z, social media and streaming platforms are becoming the favorite destination for young sports fans. “The

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Welcome back : Former Amplify co-founder and CEO Segun Adeyemi is back with Anchor, a banking-as-a-service startup that is helping businesses offer financial products in Nigeria and across Africa. A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash. PDT, subscribe here. Good morning, you crunchy ol’ pirates. It’ll be fun!

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Longtime engineer and product designer Michael Sayman has been building apps since he was a kid, landing him roles at Facebook , Google , Roblox, and most recently Twitter , where he’s often been tasked with developing products aimed at a teenage audience. Prior to starting Friendly Apps, Sayman was working at Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Snack , a video-first mobile dating app designed with a younger generation in mind, is opening itself up to Gen Z investors. She previously led product, marketing and revenue at Plenty of Fish, which later sold to Match Group for $575 million in 2015. Longer-term, Snack is likely to grow beyond the young, Gen Z demographic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The new capital will enable Z1 to increase its employees in areas like engineering, product, marketing and customer experience, with plans to go from 60 to over 100 within the next three months. Since the last raise in April, the company’s revenue grew 26 times and continues to do so at almost 40% per month, CEO Thompson said via email.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

BeReal, the photo-sharing app, has been a huge hit with Gen Z and beyond. Founded in 2019 by former GoPro employee Alexis Barreyat along with Kévin Perreau, BeReal began to take off in earnest earlier this year, as its Gen Z user base sent the app climbing the App Store charts. The size of the round had not previously been reported.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Founded in 2014, Th3rd specializes in creating high-quality digital twins of people and products to give brands and retailers a way to digitize their product catalog at scale. The new SaaS product offers a suite of features, like AR try-on and fit and sizing recommendation tech, to help brands leverage AR technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Iddris Sandu founded Spatial Labs in 2021, seeking to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

“Ola is the best product in the market currently with features significantly better than peers. Incumbents, despite all their resources have launched products which appear as another variant of an ICE product and lack the punch. billion to $3.5 Singapore’s Temasek is also holding conversations, the people said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

already has an international footprint as the parent company to Badoo, which is particularly popular in Europe, it sees the addition of Fruitz as a way to gain more traction with a younger, Gen Z audience. The company saw how Fruitz had particular reach with Gen Z, a growing audience in the dating app market. Though Bumble, Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

million to change the face of fundraising from a Gen Z perspective. They saw a need for a social platform that embraced the optimism and altruism of the Gen Z generation, and to help people band together to bring about real, positive change in the world. The hope is to leverage the power of social media for social good.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Targeting “Gen Z” and with a rather lofty sounding mission to “fight for the world’s financial health,” Cleo’s AI/machine learning-powered app connects to your bank accounts and gives you proactive advice and information on your finances, including timely nudges, to help you stay on top of your spending.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Like other Southeast Asian investment apps that have attracted venture capital over the past year (a partial list include Indonesia’s Pluang, which recently raised a $55 million follow-on to its Series B , Bibit , Ajaib , Pintu and Syfe ), Infina is focused on first-time Gen Z and millennial investors.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Join(unitOfWork.GetRepository<Product>().GetTableAsNoTracking(), GroupBy(z => z.productId).ToList().Select(p The Optimizely configured commerce introduces Elasticsearch v7 for a better search experience. In the dynamic landscape of the Commerce world, there is always room for extended code customization.

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CIO

MAY 9, 2023

Tap into open-source software Mainframe-dependent businesses often think that open source is just for cloud-based products – but that assumption is incorrect. Tap into open-source software Mainframe-dependent businesses often think that open source is just for cloud-based products – but that assumption is incorrect.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Investors include Tencent, SCB 10X, Vertex Growth, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Quona Capital, Aflac Ventures and Z Venture Capital. Its products currently include motor and travel insurance policies that can be purchased online, and Sunday Health for Business, a healthcare coverage program for employers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Founded in 2016, the Culver City-based observability and data company launched its Data Intelligence product following the raise of $45 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. It joins previous products Observability and Resolution that can be used to proactively discover, prioritize and resolve regressions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It helps increase developer productivity and efficiency by helping developers shortcut building code. By acting as a multiplier effect of developer productivity, it opens up new possibilities in what developers can do with the time they save. Engineers need to understand how to phrase prompts for AIs.

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The Hustle

DECEMBER 17, 2023

To make their fancy-pants coffees, per Mintel, consumers will prioritize complementary products (e.g., To make their fancy-pants coffees, per Mintel, consumers will prioritize complementary products (e.g., And, per usual… … Gen Z is leading the charge on social media. The chain lost 9.4%

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Xebia

MAY 16, 2023

There was no need for generating your own data; just take a percentage of production data. That cluster used to be a sandbox or pre-production environment on premise. Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. Here are the reasons: Launching the Spark job on premise was very cheap.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pivoting to Digital While Serving an Aging Population As Generation Z consumers come of age, retailers face the challenge of catering to two audiences whose needs often conflict with each other. And how is that data reconciled into the POS systems to determine in-store product quantity? Are they using technology to win the margin game?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Its product UModeler, a real-time 3D model production plugin, has been confirmed by Unity that its software development kit is optimized for Unity editor and developers. The latest funding was co-led by KB Investment and We Ventures, with participation from Naver Z and Strong Ventures. million (6.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Aimed at a younger crowd of Gen Z and millennial consumers, NTWRK offers tools that allow creators to interact with viewers and sell products in real time, in what’s been called a mix of QVC, Twitter and Twitch. NTWRK , a video shopping app that has helped to popularize the idea of livestreamed commerce in the U.S.,

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

A main thing organizations face is the position of technology within it, and how well respected or well thought of your technology team is,” says Mandy Simpson, chief digital officer at fuel retailer Z Energy, New Zealand. “A In reality, it’s hard work, and hard to do. Attracting that integral workforce, however, is a challenge in itself.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Huang said he confirmed his assumptions about Thai spending on beauty products through conversations with brands, and that drove his desire to start Konvy. For example, as more Gen Z consumers bought products they saw on TikTok during the pandemic, Konvy made itself more present on that channel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

” Gen Z embraces Fanfix: More and more Gen Z users are hopping on the content creation train in an effort to earn a living beyond the typical 9 to 5 gig. ” Gen Z embraces Fanfix: More and more Gen Z users are hopping on the content creation train in an effort to earn a living beyond the typical 9 to 5 gig.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And join an intergenerational conversation with human resources expert Anthony Onesto about how Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials in technology leadership positions can build a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce that will attract Gen Z employees. National Labor Relations Board.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. ” Image Credits: Yubo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Startups and VC Zigazoo, the startup known for its TikTok-style video-sharing app for kids, is launching a separate app targeted at Gen Z users, Lauren reports. million to help developers take the tech to production. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

At the time, Pintu chief operating officer Andrew Adjiputro told TechCrunch that it raised an A+ instead of moving onto a Series B because its focus on product development and execution remained the same. The cryptocurrency-focused app has raised a $113 million Series B from Intudo Ventures, Lightspeed, Northstar Group and Pantera Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Based in Jakarta, IDEAL simplifies the process with a platform that lets users compare mortgage products and apply for them from multiple banks at the same time. The funding will be used of product development, hiring and expanding its products. Gen Z and Gen Y is set to become the primary audience in the home ownership sector.

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