TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Though Google’s investment in SafeBoda serves as an early reminder of Gajria’s statement, startups from the Big Four markets will likely fill the fund’s portfolio in the next couple of years.

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CIO

MARCH 29, 2024

With genAI-powered copilots or systems, which is a lot of what we’re building, we find that, with the combination of a genAI model that knows everything posted on the internet for years, and human judgment, the accuracy of the decision is going to increase 10% to 15%, which is huge,” he says. The rest are on premises.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

After a day full of righteous online backlash, Prosecraft creator Benji Smith took down the website, which had existed since 2017. But tools like ChatGPT are basically trained on the sum total of the internet, so this means that real travel writers or children’s books authors could be getting inadvertently plagiarized.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way. It also built smart farming software and hardware for farmers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The funding lands amid increased focus on the less-secure elements in an organizations’ supply chain, such as Internet of Things devices and embedded systems. The startup says it plans to use the funds to scale to meet the demands of the market. million Series A round. million Series A round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For the unacquainted, Web3 refers to a set of protocols led by blockchain, that intends to reinvent how the Internet is wired in the backend). Put simply, Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and Web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. ?? In June, the firm revealed its $2.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. We were surfing the internet like any good venture capital group, and we ran across the video that Agility released,” says Leak. “We From lab to launch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

We’re thrilled to have Gharegozlou joining us at Disrupt this September 21-23 , to discuss the future of NFTs, crypto gaming and the decentralized internet. With the larger NFT market’s sales volume sliding significantly in recent months, can it make a comeback?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. Like the internet, it is a reality we will interact with, in all parts of life: at home, in the office, in cars, or out in public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As I am writing this, Uber has a $69 billion market cap ( nice ) and it’s a global superstar startup. The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while; we shared it as a gallery back in 2017 , and these days it isn’t really seen as a good example of how to do a pitch deck.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

23, 2023, is likely to shake up the market for AI-based enterprise services, said Rajesh Kandaswamy, distinguished analyst and fellow at Gartner: “It provides additional impetus for Google to relook at its roadmap. The deal, announced by OpenAI and Microsoft on Jan. It’s the same for other competitors like AWS,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Wuxiaworld expects to launch more content in its platform with Kakao Entertainment’s broad access to the best original stories and intellectual properties in Korea’s fast-growing online serial fiction market and Radish’s strong marketing team (in the U.S.), market, according to its statement. . .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. without the outsized market of South Africa. The opportunity is massive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. In 2020, it increased its market share to 24.6%, up from 18.1% Coupang market share. Later cohorts have already improved on that.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Turtlemint, an Indian startup that is helping consumers identify and purchase the most appropriate insurance policies for them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to reach more users in small cities and towns in the world’s second largest internet market.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 20, 2024

This isn’t the first time the NSTAC has opined on the challenges of cybersecurity market fragmentation and the benefits of consolidated cybersecurity platforms. In 2017, the NSTAC’s Report to the President on Emerging Technologies Strategic Vision (2017) warned that organizational reliance on a patchwork of point products would: “.create

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 23, 2024

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? What Is Economic Rent?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds. Seedstars launches second fund to invest in 100 startups in emerging markets. Image Credits : Seedstars Africa Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Besides being an Azure customer, AiFi’s market share could well have something to do with it. A 2017 report from Juniper Research predicted that automated checkout systems would process more than $78 billion in transactions by 2022 across as many as 5,000 retail outlets. The average Go store generates an estimated $1.5

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. per share, a premium of around 60% over the market price. Hussain and others made false and misleading statements to, among others, regulators, and market analysts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent. In 2017, Africa generated $16.5 But at the same time, it solidifies Flutterwave’s position in the eyes of multinationals looking to enter the African market.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Everyone is doing digital marketing as a way to promote their products, services, and brands these days. The measurable nature of digital marketing and the fact that even small businesses can achieve great results with a good campaign make digital marketing very appealing to more and more businesses. Leave It to Experts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Kakao Mobility , the ride-hailing subsidiary of South Korean messaging and internet giant Kakao, has made its first acquisition as it looks to raise its international profile. Kakao Mobility currently offers limited services in about 30 markets outside of South Korea: most recently, it launched in Guam last year and Laos earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

South African consumer internet giant Naspers led the round through its investment arm, Naspers Foundry , investing $5.6 is the company’s primary market, and Aerobotics says it has two provisional patents pending in the country, one for systems and methods for estimating tree age and another for systems and methods for predicting yield. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As going to stores became more risky over time, many shoppers turned to buying more goods from the Internet, bolstering ecommerce players like Shopify, BigCommerce, as well as companies that facilitate online payments, like Square and PayPal. From 2017 to 2018, for example, when Wish saw revenues of $1.10 billion and $1.73

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The Parallax

MAY 9, 2018

It’s just one example of how “Internet of Things” connected devices, from personal assistants like Google Home and Amazon Echo , to smart locks like August and Ring , can seemingly give your home powerful technological upgrades. Internet-connected home devices appear to be at the beginning stages of a massive upward adoption rate.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 20, 2020

The DevOps market had generated two and half billion dollars profit in 2017, and it is estimated that it would make a profit of nearly $7 billion dollars by 2022. According to Statista, a German online market portal, the DevOps Market had grown into a 3.5 billion dollar industry by 2018. billion US Dollars by 2024.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 23, 2021

This data is an inevitable part of a cohesive ecosystem known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT) , often referred to as healthcare IoT. The IoMT market is projected to reach $158.1 That’s three times as much as it was in 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Billions in capital were raised by crypto native funds and web3 VCs during an unprecedented bull run, but as the crypto markets turn bearish, how will investors keep their web3 dream alive? As crypto markets continue to gain mainstream adoption, regulators globally are watching the young industry with laser focus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

As we’ve written about before , several years ago, the market for cloud optimization software, while nascent, was consolidating as incumbents in adjacent sectors saw an opportunity to make a mark. In 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Billions in capital were raised by crypto native funds and web3 VCs during an unprecedented bull run, but as the crypto markets turn bearish, how will investors keep their web3 dream alive? As crypto markets continue to gain mainstream adoption, regulators globally are watching the young industry with laser focus.

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