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MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Danggeun Market launched Karrot in Canada and the U.S.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

According to its S-1, it produced net income of $21 million off revenue of $193 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2020, compared with a net loss of $34 million on revenue of $150 million during the same period in 2019. Forever 21, the fast-fashion mall staple, filed for bankruptcy in 2019.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. The Sydney-based company creates hardware and software solutions designed to bring solar-based power to developing markets. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. billion, per the report.

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MARCH 1, 2022

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. First, observe that the company’s pro forma adjusted EBITDA nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020. And note how much the company’s physical sports business grew from 2019 to 2020; a nearly 50% gain helped the company grow nicely last year. Why do we care?

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

To understand how much the late-stage market has changed in the last few months, we’re once again pulling public market data that we will contrast against mega-unicorn Databricks’ known results. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The question is how far from market reality that number is today.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 29, 2019

I attended Adobe Summit 2019 to research the intersection of DevOps and marketing. Below are insights from my interviews with leading marketing technology experts. Is DevOps making its way into marketing? The post When DevOps and Marketing Collide: Insights From Adobe Summit 2019 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso — who previously led Search ads machine learning teams at Google — co-launched Tecton in 2019 with Jeremy Hermann and Kevin Stumpf, two former Uber colleagues. Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We Tecton isn’t the only startup chasing after it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The deal is a nod toward the direction the online auto market is moving, where even the sale of used cars will require a first-class, seamless user experience. billion in over 13 rounds, the latest of which was in 2019. Demand for vehicles, however, has not dropped, leading to skyrocketing prices for used cars. “In

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mobiz , a South African startup integrating hyper-personalization into mobile marketing, has raised a pre-Series A round of $ 4 million from HAVAÍC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund. and double down on marketing, sales and account management.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

.” Just consider some of the expenses accrued by the biggest eVTOLs last year: Joby Aviation spent a whopping $108 million on research and development, a $30 million increase from 2019. million, though, of course, neither company has brought a product to market yet. Meanwhile, Joby’s net loss last year was $114.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business. Trust dashboard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Israeli startup is acquiring Azimo — the London-based money transfer business that Facebook once tried to buy to spearhead its own remittance efforts — a deal that will see Papaya Global moving into more markets, and launching more services such as instant payroll payments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This morning let’s explore the company’s financials briefly, and then ask ourselves what its results can tell us about the cloud market as a whole. million in 2019 and $318.4 Its S-1 filing lists a $100 million placeholder number, a figure that will update when the company announces an IPO price range target.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

As the market matures and feature sets begin to converge, the players are seeking to differentiate themselves from the competition. But the point of interest here is these deals can tell us where both companies think they can provide and extract the most value from the market. Earning more by spending less. Let’s start with Ramp.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. A nearly $40 billion pre-money valuation is stupendous, and puts immense pressure on the company to generate the sort of numbers that public-market investors will expect from a richly valued tech company. Few companies had as good a pandemic run as Instacart. What’s going on?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

When Lyft went public in 2019, its dual-class share structure provided Green and Zimmer with super-voting shares that entitled them to 20 votes per share in perpetuity, meaning not just for life but also for a period of nine to 18 months after the passing of the last living co-founder, during which time a trustee would retain control.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russia is invading Ukraine as we write, and global markets are in freefall. Last week, this column took a look at the European technology market’s deep tech expertise. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Writing about Europe is hard today. This is the continent’s political and military backdrop.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But with the region’s thirst for innovation, the market is expected to expand nearly tenfold over the next decade, with open banking through the use of APIs leading the way and acting as digital transformation facilitators. Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The company provides financial product recommendations to both consumers and SMBs, meaning that it dabbles in the same market that fintech startups play in. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. million in revenues in 2019, a figure that rose only modestly to $245.3 NerdWallet generated $228.3 million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups, and employees to use its software to manage their cap tables and later aspiring to evolve into a “private stock market for companies,” as founder Henry Ward once told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Given how heated the overall venture capital market is proving to be, those data points were only so surprising. What did shock us a little, however, was how active the Canadian AI startup market has been this year. Perhaps it shouldn’t have.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The startup market is having a moment around the world, but few regions can brag as much as Europe when it comes to venture capital investment. as much as was raised by the region’s technology upstarts in the first half of 2020 and easily crests previous full-year records set in 2020 and 2019. That’s 2.9x

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food scientist Laura Katz, who also teaches food science at New York University, founded the company in 2019, and touts it as “the first company making functional human proteins for food.”. million combined round of pre-seed and seed investments from 2019 and 2020, respectively, Katz said. It gives the company $24.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

In 2019, I led the sales team and growth strategy for a venture-backed AI company called atSpoke. While there is no silver bullet, no secret AI buyer conference in Santa Barbara or ML enthusiast Reddit thread, these tips should help you structure your approach to marketing. Challenge 1: AI and ML categories are still being defined.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Ally raised an $8 million Series A in August, 2019 and a $15 million Series B in October of the same year. TechCrunch collected growth metrics from a host of companies competing in the OKR and corporate goal-setting market, including Ally. Such rapid growth from so many players in such a competitive space could signal a huge market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This week, sources familiar with internal happenings within the company told TechCrunch the company’s VP of communications, Patrick Lenihan; head of public relations, Tanya Gillogley; and head of marketing, Melanie Hahn, have all submitted their resignations. Ahead of public market debut, Better.com lays off 9% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance. market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Instacart, citing “market turbulence,” last month slashed its valuation by 40% and slowed hiring. “The good delivery companies can slow their spend in growth areas like hiring and marketing and become profitable almost immediately. ” But promotions and marketing are eating away at these margins.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

in after-market trading following the release of its earnings. The company’s vehicle designs, the first of which debuted in spring 2019, garnered praise and made it a buzzy EV startup. with a market valuation of $2.4 Shares of Canoo, which were down 5% Tuesday, fell another 17.5%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. CEO Pim de Witte, as to his company’s interest in Rawa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

American Sports Exchange (ASX Sports), just signed a deal with New Zealand digital media company RugbyPass to use its data to allow fans to participate in ASX’s virtual stock market for rugby games. states, particularly large markets like New York, look to legalize sports betting. . which has 8.8

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