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APRIL 7, 2023

Startups and VC Everyone needs some good competition to get the creativity flowing. In a post for TC+, he explores three recommerce areas attracting VC funds and shares “some food for thought for founders building startups in this (re)emerging space.” You can sign up here.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Corporate interest in startup investing has cooled this year , posting declines in deal value for four quarters and deal volume for two. The group isn’t into the “incubator” tag, we noted previously; it calls its accelerator a “venture lab.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Chooch.ai , a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today. His startup aims to change that. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 million, according to the company. Datasaur snags $3.9M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools , the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top of their platform. “We have a shared chat channel between the startup and my team. The trick is getting there.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The startup, which has offices in Amsterdam and North Macedonia, now works with over 20 clients, including Depop, Otrium and Minto. Over the past three years, it has tagged more than 250 million images and says its increased conversions for its retail customers by 10% on average. million USD) from South Central Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Unsurprisingly, fintech startups were well-represented in Y Combinator’s W22 batch, with 35 international companies participating and 25 more tagged as crypto-focused. One trend that caught our eye was that at least four startups – from three different regions – referred to themselves as the “Brex for” their particular geography.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

And at its core, Rewatch is a counterintuitive play: The startup thinks it can combat “Zoom fatigue” by giving employees more ways to watch video-conferencing calls. Using tags and notes, the videos become more searchable and easier to find. Using tags and notes, the videos become more searchable and easier to find.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

He would be — he’s the co-founder of Lang.ai , a startup developing a platform that automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues ostensibly more quickly. ” Lang isn’t alone in using AI to auto-tag customer service messages. “Automation in customer support is not new.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Startups and VC. Insuring the doggie : Mike reports how pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials. Sustaining the sustainable : Mike also writes that Prediction Capital hits first close of €30 million for new fund to back startups addressing UN SDGs. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Inflation may or may not prove transitory when it comes to consumer prices, but startup valuations are definitely rising — and noticeably so — in recent quarters. That’s the obvious takeaway from a recent PitchBook report digging into valuation data from a host of startup funding events in the United States.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. Kirsten got to give the app a try, and we all had nice things to say about the nascent startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The New York City startup started by measuring traditional TV viewing, using webcams to determine whether viewers were actually paying attention to the ads. So instead of relying on tags, TVision has built up a panel of connected TV watchers. “There’s no good currency, per se, in the industry.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

If that’s the price tag of a factory, the subsidy builds two and a half plants. Intel’s choice to build a $20 billion chip fabrication facility in Columbus, Ohio, along with the more recent news of the potential cash injection into the industry, could set the stage for a startup ecosystem boost.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Startups around the world are busy creating new developer-focused — or at least developer- forward — solutions at a rapid clip. The “developer tools” tag on TechCrunch has been busy this year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The business of building for and selling to developers is big.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Why the huge price tag? Sure, it’s easy to dunk on a $700 million water startup when cheaper alternatives abound; other fizzy water brands, making your own bubbly, or drinking straight tap water like a peasant are all options. Because water is a growth business, baby! — Josh Inglis (@Propllrhead) October 3, 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

French startup Weglot has closed a $50 million Series A funding round (€45 million) from Partech. The other way is that you can add a few lines of Javascript to the <head> tag of your website. The startup charges a monthly subscription depending on the number of languages and words that you need.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Use IRS Code Section 1202 to sell your multimillion-dollar startup tax-free. ” Use IRS Code Section 1202 to sell your multimillion-dollar startup tax-free. Revenue-based financing: A new playbook for startup fundraising. Revenue-based financing: A new playbook for startup fundraising.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

When startup founders think of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), we tend to think of “Mad Men”-esque processes, involving dramatic office reshuffling and expensive rebranding. In fact, since the beginning of 2021, of 530 startup acquisitions, more than half were startups buying other startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Per the publication, the company is targeting a Q2 2023 public debut at around a $12 billion price tag. These are going to be big, noisy, large-dollar transactions that will provide valuable data concerning market appetite for tech shares generally and shed light on two important startup sectors’ respective worth.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Stripe would become the first or second most valuable startup in the world at those prices, depending on how you count. Which is odd, because Stripe is a huge concern that could be worth twelve-figures, provided that gets that $100 billion price tag. Mental health-focused startup Sesh raised money this week from Polaris Partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Hello, and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week we recorded at Early Stage , TechCrunch’s event for founders who are building startups from the ground up. Anyhoo, here’s the run of show!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

French startup Georges — or Georges.tech — is raising a new round of funding of $42.4 The startup has been building an accounting automation application for freelancers and small companies. Indy then imports all your transactions and tries to tag and categorize as many transactions as possible. million (€35 million).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zomato has raised $660 million in a financing round that it kicked off last year as the Indian food delivery startup prepares to go public next year. Deepinder Goyal, the co-founder and chief executive of Zomato, said the 12-year-old startup is also in the process of closing a $140 million secondary transaction.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Startups and VC. Tage reports that YC’s latest batch cuts African startup presence by more than half , and Anna , Alex and Tage are curious where Y Combinator is startup-hunting in 2022. 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The Hong Kong-based startup was founded by Andy Lee and Tony Sun, who used to work together at Mapbox, as a cap table software provider. Once all the wallets are tagged, Sprout will have a token cap table ready just as it has done for equity ownership. Tokens can better incentivize startup employees than equity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

But this is a technology startup and financial news site. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. About one in every six unicorns has reached the revenue threshold, which means that a mere 17% of unicorns could defend a $1 billion price tag at a 10x multiple. So, to work. Just know that our hearts are where yours are.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. The platform includes a collaborative team inbox used by multiple agents, and features like smart routing, canned responses, data tagging and analytics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A startup hailing from far-flung Iceland is emerging as one of the key players in the race to distribute one of the key coronavirus vaccines around the world. The Controlant platform involves screen-based IoT tags, which link to GSM networks and then feed into web and mobile apps.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Creator economy startups are tricky. It can be risky to ask creators to rely on a possibly precarious, pre-seed company to power an important aspect of their business — if you fail, as most startups do, you might inadvertently end up hurting other independent entrepreneurs, which is (hopefully) the last thing a founder wants.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Setting aside the tectonic political moment, there’s plenty of activity inside the world of startups we need to discuss. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Which startups reached the $1 billion threshold required to earn the unicorn tag?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. s TympaHealth sounds out $23 million to expand its hearing diagnostics startup, Ingrid reports. Jagmeet has more. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Moving services giant Updater is bringing on the team from Dolly as the New York company looks to expand its scope of offerings with the acquisition of the on-demand startup known for helping consumers execute small-scale moves. A price tag for the deal wasn’t disclosed and couldn’t be learned. Dolly raised $17.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meet Omneky , a startup that leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. Omneky is participating in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022. Omneky automatically adds tags to each ad using computer vision and text analysis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

The nuance at play here is that 409a valuations are set by third parties – Carta does this work for customers, as an example – and not startups or their venture investors, resulting in a more objective price by some measures. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. trailing revenue multiple.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Searching the titles, descriptions and tags of videos was always easy enough, requiring no more than a basic algorithm. There’s also Reminiz , a French computer vision startup that claims to be able to index any type of video and add tags to both recorded and live-streamed content.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. A reminder regarding why we dwell on the exit market for unicorns: We care because the value of late-stage startups when they reach a liquidity point helps set valuation comps for myriad smaller startups. This means we can do some unpacking and thinking.

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