TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Mass transit has made a rebound with the return of city life post-Covid 19, and today a startup that’s building tech to help it run more smoothly is announcing a big round of funding to meet the rush. billion, which the Israeli startup says makes it the first “unicorn” in the public transportation tech space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Last week, Andreessen Horowitz wrote the largest individual check in the firm’s history, investing $350 million in residential real estate startup Flow. Surviving the SaaS tsunami: Optimize your tech stack to reduce risk and free up cash flow. Image Credits: Edwin Remsberg (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

HR tech platform Darwinbox has more than tripled its valuation to become a unicorn in a new $72 million funding round as the Indian startup leads what an investor calls the “SaaSification of Asia” trend. Darwinbox operates a cloud-based human resource management platform. Image Credits: Darwinbox.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources management firm PERSOL Holdings. Glints co-founder and chief executive officer Oswald Yeo said this is the largest funding round to date for a talent platform in Southeast Asia, and brings the startup’s total raised to $33 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

That number has now doubled as the startup has now delivered 500 million installs. It has developed its own tech stack that optimizes the performance of each game. The startup has developed an all-in-one SDK that helps developers optimize their mobile game through analytics and A/B testing to turn it into a profitable venture.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Egypt-born and Dubai-headquartered mobility startup SWVL is planning to lay off 32% of its workforce it said in a statement today. Tech companies, private and public, have faced a reckoning in the past few months with their valuations taking a beating. Over 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

specializes in high growth business-to-business software-as-a-service, is aligned with our goal of high but responsible growth, and has the financial resources to help us go big in the automation space,” Cochran told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” “H.I.G. ProsperOps’s control dashboard. a few months).

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Startups said no to SQL and used Hadoop—SQL was kind of lame back then, for reasons that in hindsight appear absurd. I don't think so.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The accelerator program’s first cohort accepted 30 startups from a pool of over 220 applicants across 76 countries. million smartphones charged or 13,800 pounds of coal burned.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

. “Reviving parts of a codebase is like changing a plane’s engine while it’s mid-flight,” but rebooting involves an inordinate amount of technical resources. “In both cases, you’re wasting time and resources,” he says. “I’d wager that the tech is the least of their problems.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Existing backers Point72 Ventures, 500 Startups and Envestnet | Yodlee also participated in the financing, which brings its total raised since its 2018 inception to nearly $19 million. Since July, the startup has seen 119% month over month revenue growth. Productfy Inc. , It currently has eight clients, including HatchCard.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Veriti’s launch comes as VCs continue to show enthusiasm for cybersecurity startups despite the generally unfavorable funding climate. This is due to many reasons, including tool sprawl, increased complexity, massive amounts of data and limited resources,” Koren told TechCrunch in an email interview. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

All startups must grow, but as markets contract, conserving resources is a higher short-term priority. Tech isn’t like other industries: workers can explore uniquely personal interests while earning a sliver of equity in a potential unicorn. What connects the stock market contraction to startup valuations?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Silverflow , a Dutch startup founded by Adyen alumni, is breaking cover and announcing seed funding. The aim is to offer a modern replacement for the 20 to 40-year-old payments card processing tech that is mostly in use today. It brings the fintech startup’s total funding to date to ~€3 million. million seed round is U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events. “We Goldcast’s founding team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Building a startup is never easy, especially when you’re in the early innings and navigating a huge learning curve. Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Each event features a distinct lineup of startup experts, topics, workshops and interactive Q&As.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

You may not have heard of Amadeus, but if you’ve taken a trip, you’ve probably interacted with its tech stack. Amadeus has 16,000 employees and earned more than $2 billion in revenue last year, but early-stage startups can learn from its digital transition, Ron writes. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We’re only two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a virtual conference focused on making diversity, equity, inclusion and labor as integral to tech as data, software engineers, startups and venture capital. Meeting of the Minds: Diversity and inclusion as an idea has been on the agenda of tech companies for years now.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The economic downturn prompted a hiring slowdown across the tech industry, forcing CTOs — and the teams that they manage — to do more with less. The data is a bit hard to come by, but — to Menezes’s point — internal tools appear to cost companies a lot of time and resources. Image Credits: Superblocks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“If you wanted fast data, you used the stream processing stack [like Kafka and Confluent], right? What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. “So this idea was pretty wild, in a sense that it brought a lot of a database tech structure on top of the data lakes,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Other observability vendors with substantial backing behind them include Manta , Observe , Better Stack , Coralogix and Unravel Data. But it’s not deterring Metaplane, a data observability startup founded by MIT graduate Kevin Hu (CEO), former HubSpot engineer Peter Casinelli and ex-Appcues developer Guru Mahendran in 2020. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tech, meanwhile, is unique to SightCall, built over years and designed to be used by way of a basic smartphone, and over even a basic mobile network — essential in cases where reception is bad or the locations are remote. Yet it too is undergoing an evolution supercharged by technology. SightCall has raised $67 million to date.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Generative AI and AI-related startups raised nearly $50 billion in 2023, per Crunchbase data , with some, including OpenAI , Anthropic and Inflection AI , raking in billions of dollars all by themselves. A similar trend could happen here, especially when you consider Big Tech has all the data,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. A lean startup’s growth marketing tech stack. This increased competition means that startups have become laser-focused on beating the opposition on initial clicks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

You’d think that an industry like manufacturing had its own software stack, but in a lot of cases, a huge amount of getting-things-made is managed through Excel spreadsheets. A handful of investors agreed, adding €6 million to the Dutch startup’s coffers, as it starts ramping up. He claims there are 2.7

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. Or, indeed, build a whole site using an engine like WordPress or Wix. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The move comes as the fintech startup leans into payments, both in terms of facilitating them itself and aiming to help others do so better and faster. According to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, 72% of startup founders are affected by mental health issues. Image Credits: John Anderson, head of payments / Plaid.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. That startup was DoorDash, by the way. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. Yesterday, Jon Shieber and Alex Wilhelm covered 500 Startups’ 27th virtual demo day and selected eight companies as their favorites: Stack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Digital identity startup Passbase , which offers SDKs for running remote identity checks, has raised $10 million in Series A funding as it dials up attention on crypto compliance — touting tools to help fintechs with rapidly evolving regulatory requirements. So the 2018-founded startup’s total raised to date is around $17.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

“Companies implement and integrate the tool into their tech stack, and we act as the layer of communication between the workers and recruiters, automating that process.”. Cavasotto sees the HR tech space is crowded, with many startups going after the frontline worker space.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. ” Instead, they buy companies to bolt onto their existing services or pay for off the shelf tech like Twilio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

” Then he stumbled across coverage of a San Francisco startup called Made Renovation that promised bathroom remodels “made easy.” But Made Renovation seems unlikely to see much of that market share if customer complaints continue to stack up. I didn’t want to go and source materials.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space. 10 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco’s John Chambers. It’s not clean tech 2.0. Is it another clean tech bubble? Climate tech is not a walk in the park and the playbook is yet to be written.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

With its novel approach and a fresh $10 million in funding, the startup hopes to embark on the first part of a 10-year plan. million seed in 2020 as VastBiome, in case the tech sounds familiar. Fortunately pharma companies do it every day and are happy to trade this resource for a potentially beneficial (and profitable) drug candidate.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 11, 2024

NVIDIA is known for its cutting-edge accelerators and full-stack solutions that contribute to advancements in AI. Live from GTC “Live from GTC” was an on-site studio at GTC for invited speakers to have a fireside chat with tech influencers like VentureBeat.

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