TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The deal will accelerate PlayVS during its growth phase and help it expand into the Canadian market. GameSeta has a partnership with BC School Sports, the governing body for organized school sports in British Columbia, which will transfer to PlayVS. PlayVS has served more than 19,000 high schools across all 50 states.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Last time we checked in on the Boston-based company was in late-2019, when it raised $55 million. In fact, the company has a specific offering for sports teams, as well as solutions for businesses, healthcare and government/defense. Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Grant LaFontaine and Logan Head founded the company in 2019 as a place where avid collectors could share their interests along with buying and selling things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops. That has evolved into other collectibles, including sneakers, trading cards, sports memorabilia and rare toys.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team? The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million. Cardless is attempting to shake up a massive market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

I had put a plan together in 2019, was away for a few weeks when the news of COVID hit,” he told TechCrunch. “I billion pre-packed oats market with his first product, a direct-to-consumer instant oatmeal called The PrOATagonist. 5 tips for brands that want to succeed in the new era of influencer marketing. Chernow raised $2.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you have been following Molotov for long enough ( like me ), you may remember that telecom company Altice also announced plans to acquire a majority stake in Molotov back in 2019. An easy market expansion. It quickly expanded to focus on sports in general, and then non-sports content.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The latter, which is a fairly new entrant ( founded in 2019 — talk about fortuitous timing), just announced a beefy $35 million Series B. We are not a trivial company, being where we are in the market with the quality and quantity of content creators using Riverside on a daily basis,” co-founder and CEO Nadav Keyson says in a release.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

” AiFi’s “smart stores” are grocery stores, sport stadiums and convenience stores equipped with cameras that track what customers pick up and place in their carts, automatically charging their payment cards when they’re ready to check out. .” million purchases to date.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As Henkel CDIO Michael Nilles puts it, by 2019, Marc Andreessen’s pronouncement that “software is eating the world” had come true for the CPG sector, and Henkel was at risk of falling behind. “We Today, someone interested in buying tennis equipment might go to a website that specializes in the sport.

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MARCH 4, 2021

An intelligent and automated micro-savings feature where users can create personalized rules (such as transferring $15 into a rainy day fund every time their favorite sports team wins). In particular, it plans to next focus on the Brazilian market, and will scale in a few select countries in the Americas. . In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And while the addition doesn’t work for everyone — LinkedIn and Twitter recently shuttered their Stories features, for example — there’s enough demand for Stories out there on the market that a company called Storyteller has managed to create a revenue-generating business that provides “Stories as a Service.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. In October 2019, Njoku hinted that the company was going public either on the London Stock Exchange or a local exchange on the continent. But it’s quite different with IROKO.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Today, the free super app provides delivery of items — from food to medicine to clothing — ride-sharing, grocery delivery in under 20 minutes and the purchase of experiences like concerts and sporting events. The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including $200 million in 2019. billion in 2019, according to PitchBook data. Instead, it was something that was discussed over a multi-year period while Gusto waited for the right market timing. What it adds next is a more interesting question.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019. The company estimates it helped keep more than 2,000 pounds of food from being wasted and saved 250,000 gallons of water since launching in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

billion of which was raised since 2019); expanded its Normal, Illinois, factory; hired thousands of employees; landed Amazon as a commercial customer; and, most recently, filed confidentially for an IPO. . Since then, Rivian has raised about $11 billion ($10.5 Now, its S-1 is revealing more details about the company and its operations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2019, West Africa reported the most live mobile money services in any region, with 56 million active accounts. In Ivory Coast, one of Francophone Africa’s largest mobile money markets, 75% of the population own a mobile money account, compared to 20% who hold bank accounts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In the wake of last year’s debuts by neoinsurance companies Lemonade and Root, it’s not surprising to see others test the public markets. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Lemonade, for reference, sells rental insurance with an eye on going up-market in time to other forms of home-focused insurance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

based company that operates 14 sports centers across the U.S. Indeed, he was brought into Toca in 2019 to transform it from a manufacturing business that sells Major League Soccer teams a ball-tossing machine that Lewis had developed, to the services business it has become. Toca Football , a nine-year-old, Costa Mesa, Ca.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. tapped the equity crowdfunding market, a noodle or two on the a16z media game, Talkspace’s SPAC, VC and founder predictions for 2021, and where’s the right place to found a company. Click here if you want it in your inbox every Saturday morning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Discord is a well-financed unicorn that has raised oodles of capital and reportedly sports rapidly expanding revenues. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. There are three things to discuss.

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IDC

APRIL 12, 2019

CX improvement must become a top initiative for CMOs or marketing will be the proverbial canary in the coal mine – the first to be blamed if the pipeline erodes due to customers’ poor experience. Marketing can’t do this alone. sales, finance, marketing, HR, support) are separated into distinct units with relative autonomy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Gingko’s market debut is one of the largest in biotech history. The imagery is clearly sporting Jurassic Park themes, as MIT Tech Review’s Antonio Regalado pointed out. The decor also sports a company motto: “Grow everything.” million in 2019. . It’s expected to raise about $1.6 billion for the company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

million Series A in April 2019, which gave it the boost to create the marketplace. A market that used to have little technology is now flush with startups giving attention to this underserved population. The company raised an $8.1 The new funding will enable the company to scale its operations across 25 new U.S.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 23, 2019

With the 2019 US Open starting, we wanted to see if we could use DataRobot to predict how this tournament will play out. Continuing the approach we used for the Wimbledon predictions (and following the methodology of our March Madness and Stanley Cup Finals predictions), we simulated both the men’s and women’s draws for the 2019 US Open.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. Cure Hydration raises $2.6M which was acquired by Unilever in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Joining CapitalG in the round are existing investors Forerunner Ventures, which first came in during Curated’s $22 million Series A round in 2019, and Greylock. Following a hefty $39 million Series B announced in April, the company secured a $75 million Series C in a round led by CapitalG. With the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 , Earbuds has allowed users — whether they’re famous artists, NFL stars or ordinary people — to share their favorite playlists, livestream music like a DJ and comment on other people’s music picks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Launched in 2019, the idea came from one of the co-founders, Olga Dogadkina, who previously worked in the luxury retail sector. “This is a nascent industry and so there is a lot of both market and user education involved in introducing people to this technology and ensuring brands can capitalize on its potential,” Dogadkina said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

It’s here that a startup like Blair, which graduated Y Combinator in 2019, could be of use. And then the debt market was fairly dead, so we needed to shift our focus to a more software-like approach.” The startup is in talks with a sports association and large companies that are working on upskilling and reskilling their workforces.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Use cases for the tech include more accurate location for smartphone apps for navigation or location tracking (for example for running and other sports); to help companies with their navigation services (for example for transportation or fleet management); and for better GPS security overall. Today, a U.K. billion by 2029. billion by 2029.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 11, 2024

AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019. Campaign Manager in Americas Field Marketing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Champions Round , a fantasy league startup that caters to Gen Z sports fans, announced today that it raised $7 million in new Series A funding. Users, particularly Gen Z users, are moving away from traditional fantasy sports, where leagues are tied to entire seasons. participate in DFS, up 12% from 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

startup, which was founded back in March 2019 by Artem Semyanov (the former head of the machine learning team at Prism Labs ), is now fully focused on selling its fit-tech to e-tailers via an SDK. market, as we currently have several brands testing our tech (yet for free) but we are optimistic here. .

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. But workers who are interested in accessing liquidity have just two options: wait for a tender offer from their employer, or find a private buyer in the secondary markets. In 2019, it was 78.86

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Founded out of Menlo Park in 2019, Pulse in its initial guise was a “virtual office” platform called Loop Team , but after honing the idea for a couple of years it pivoted and rebranded last November. But Pulse sported myriad integrations with business tools that brought similar functionality. ” Feel the pulse.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

No one’s going to tell you when your startup has reached product-market fit — there are no flashing lights, no siren, no balloons falling from the ceiling. Finding product-market fit, from the earliest stages through growth. We’re planning to post the remaining rundowns next week, so watch this space. Walter Thompson.

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