TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Tencent, which made its first African edtech bet in Nigeria’s uLesson last December, co-led this Series A round with Italy-based VC Alchimia. It’s for kids to feel represented and to grow up with cartoons that are not only white but also to understand different cultures and themes.”. The Kukua team. It was a constant hit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Insurance broker and carrier marketplace Sayata took in $35 million in additional funds toward its Series A after raising $17 million in funds last August. To date, Sayata has more than 1,000 users representing over 100 brokerage and carrier partners. Why VCs are dumping money into insurance marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The agritech’s CEO and co-founder Peter Njonjo told TechCrunch that the laid-off trade development representatives were given the option of working for the company as independent agents with pay based on the customers they acquire and sales they make.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The company today announced the close of a $16 million Series A financing led by Accel (Dan Levine led the round), with participation from angels like Elad Gil, Dylan Field, Ben Porterfield, Akshay Kothari, Jack Altman, and Bobby Lo. Across the company, women represent 32 percent of the team are people of color represent 42 percent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

This morning Mural , a startup that builds digital collaboration software with a focus on visual presentation, announced that it has closed a $50 million Series C. Mural also raised a $23 million Series A at the start of 2020. Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B. Mural — known as Mural.ly

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

million total “shopper accounts,” marking a 131% year-over-year increase and has 836 total active merchant accounts across all product lines, representing a 192% YoY increase. Since its 2014 inception, Bolt has raised over $1 billion in funding and was valued at $11 billion at the time of its $355 million Series E raise in January.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

The product line is designed to be beautiful as well as sustainable in terms of its durability and benefits for the environment. But what the revolutionary high-pressure laminate (HPL) FENIX® line can’t handle is traditional HPL manufacturing. Clearly, this was not good for the company’s bottom line or the environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Bolt , a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers, announced this morning that it has added $75 million to its Series C round , bringing the financing to a total of $125 million. WestCap and General Atlantic led the new tranche, which Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told TechCrunch was raised at around twice its Series C valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The company is describing this as a “Series A+”, with a Series A in 2022 bringing in $17.4 Friday added that the reason for not calling this a Series B is also because the company wants to wait until the market settles down to raise what it believes will be a much bigger round at a much higher valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Porsche injected $100 million into Group14 as part of a larger $400 million Series C funding round. Group14 says that its carbon-silicon material can be blended with graphite anodes, too, and that it can be dropped into an existing battery production line with few modifications.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

million Series A extension led by gaming-focused investment firm BITKRAFT , Reeves said. Indeed, the firm had participated in a $4 million capital injection into the startup in 2017 , before co-leading its Series A round in mid-2021 alongside Vine Ventures. Eden’s acquisition is funded by an $11.2 Its investors hope so.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

The company has a total of 1,100 ports in Japan, but would not share how many ports it is aiming to line up for itself in the coming months. Securing those spaces represents a unique kind of land grab for micromobility companies in Japan. Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam secures $93M Series B, enters new markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It currently works with large retailers, pharmacies, educational institutions, employers and public health organizations that represent communities of over 1.5 That’s where we’re reinvesting a lot of our profits in infrastructure, product lines and programs with different partners.” million people. have diabetes , but 8.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. Public’s Series C, therefore, fits into the trend of investors doubling down into startups that they think have potential. It also led Public’s Series A and B rounds.

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Xebia

MARCH 8, 2023

The previous post in this series introduced the constraints we had to obey to use JavaScript as untyped lambda calculus , and then we relaxed some of those constraints via currying (for functions of more than one argument) and translation (to turn const local variables into a combination of functions). Here comes the magic trick!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

.” Founded by a team of young founders, one of whom was an early advisor to YGG, the 23-person outfit just closed on $10 million in Series A funding via a token sale that was co-led by a16z and Delphi Digital, with participation from Hashed, com2us, Morningstar Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Sfermion, The LAO, Emfarsis and others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. These extractions can be used to help customers develop new travel products line and fine-tune their marketing campaigns, Dunn says. million in capital to date, inclusive of the Series A tranche closed today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 But despite being one of the largest alternative financial infrastructures known globally, this represents only a fraction of the overall market. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million in a Series A funding round led by Atlanta-based TTV Capital to advance its mission. Down the line, Onward may also build out a paid subscription model. There are 50 million co-parents in the United States, and they represent a massive, massive market that hasn’t yet been served,” she said. Image Credits: Onward.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Fintech startup N26 has raised a $900 million Series E round at a $9 billion valuation. That represents a big jump from the company’s Series D valuation of $3.5 It gives us a lot of time over the next three to four years to line up for an IPO,” co-founder and CEO Valentin Stalf told me earlier today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

When investors gave Moveworks a hefty $75 million Series B at the end of 2019, they were investing in a chatbot startup that to that point had been tuned to answer IT help questions in an automated way. Today, the company announced it had used that money to expand the platform to encompass employee questions across all lines of business.

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Perficient

MAY 31, 2023

The ‘box’ represents the interquartile range (the middle 50% of scores), while the ‘whiskers’ represent the rest of the distribution, except for any potential outliers. Median (Q2) : The middle value of the data when arranged in ascending order, represented by a line inside the box.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In the latest turn, Commercetools — a provider of e-commerce APIs that larger retailers can use to build customized payment, check-out, social commerce, marketplace and other services — has closed $140 million in funding, a Series C that CEO Dirk Hoerig has confirmed to me values the company at $1.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Auslander said that colored diamonds, particularly pink ones, are super-rare, representing 0.001% of diamonds mined globally. It’s a little bit more bordering the lines of commodities, luxury and collectibles,” Auslander said. “This particular stone has returned [11.5%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On Thursday, another major player, Generate Biomedicines, announced a $370 million Series B round. . The company emerged from stealth back in 2020 with an initial investment of $50 million from the firm, in line with what we’ve seen in other Flagship companies, like the newly launched Alltrna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The startup, which says it is the country’s largest direct-to-consumer insurance marketplace, announced today it has raised a $9 million Series A. Indonesian insurtech startup PasarPolis gets $54 million Series B from investors including LeapFrog and SBI. In fact, Ficari said about 90% of its customers use it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

“If you’re just a biologist, you need to learn to use CRISPResso, use the command line, install the dependencies, feed it the right data…” The only realistic way to handle this volume of raw data now is to hand it over to a computational biologist — a rare breed and seldom available on short notice.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Galileo , a startup launching a platform for AI model development, today announced that it raised $18 million in a Series A round led by Battery Ventures with participation from The Factory, Walden Catalyst, FPV Ventures, Kaggle co-founder Anthony Goldbloom and other angel investors.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2023

With Next CIO UK targeting digital, data, and technology professionals with aspirations of being in a senior executive role within five years, it represents an opportunity to recognise developing talents while addressing the IT industry’s biggest flaw – diversity. How to apply for Next CIO? What to include in your submission?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Netflix’s Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the most-watched dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential for foreign-language programming to become a hit in overseas markets. We believe Deepdub represents the next great leap forward in global content distribution, engagement and consumption,” he added.

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Perficient

JUNE 5, 2023

Forecasting is one of the important features of Power BI which helps take out insights from time series data. This blog is the continuation of my previous blog that is – “ Analytics Pane in Power BI / Blogs / Perficient ” where we have seen multiple analytics line and their uses, now in this blog we will see the following lines in detail: 1.Forecasting

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Xebia

MARCH 8, 2023

Weren’t we already representing lambda terms as JavaScript functions? Indeed, that’s what we were doing in the previous parts of the series: use the fact that JavaScript is a superset of lambda calculus to piggyback on an interpreter to execute our lambda terms. Lambda terms as values Wait a minute!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Egyptian grocery delivery startup Appetito has raised $2 million in pre-Series A funding, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. Appetito’s first line of products when launching in 2017 was groceries. The round, which comes after the company’s $450,000 seed round in April, was led by U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

BukuKas , one of several startups helping SMEs go online, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital India. Its users represent wide range of sectors, including retailers, food vendors, grocery markets, mobile and phone credit providers, social commerce sellers, wholesalers and service providers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Branches from one of those trees fell on our power line, making the outage not just inconvenient but also scary. It last raised in August of 2021 — a $450 million Series D funding round at a $2.85 The New York–based firm, started by Joshua Kushner, also led the company’s $70 million Series C in 2014 when it was valued at $3.5

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Henrik Warne

APRIL 18, 2021

I like the clever algorithms, and how you can solve difficult problems efficiently in a few lines of code. But they are not representative of what I do at work. One test I did consisted of a series of programming tasks at an interviewing site. In one case the input was lines from a log file. Timed, auto-graded.

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OpenCredo

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

JSON lines (jsonl), Newline-delimited JSON (ndjson) and line-delimited JSON (ldjson) are popular, closely-related formats, with each line of a file being valid JSON string, representing an object. gzip # Count the lines in a compressed file, using zgrep zgrep -c ^ *.gzip We do not accept external contributions.

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