TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

VCs are also increasingly looking for what biotech startups can do with AI beyond just R&D and are wary of companies that use the technology as a marketing tool. Have declines in the public-market valuations of biotech companies impacted your investments in the sector? The survey also covers the implications of U.S

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TechCrunch

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 has a colorful background. ” Khoury has a colorful background.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 23, 2024

At the same time, revenue growth was down and churn rates were at an all-time high, reflecting a period of “normalization” post-pandemic due to rising interest rates and enterprises cutting down on their software expenditures. reading represents sales on an “average” day in 2019, while a 1.10 For this graphic, a 1.00

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Based out of the U.S., It’s raised $529.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

If you don’t join board meetings often, preparation is paramount, starting with learning about the directors’ backgrounds and reviewing minutes from previous meetings. Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team.

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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

JULY 14, 2022

No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. By March 2019, we had launched SoftBank in Latin America with an initial commitment of $2 billion, which was worth more than the entire industry at the time. Morgan and give it a shot.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Used car e-commerce platform Shift has acquired some of competitor Fair Technologies’ technology, allowing Shift to become the Amazon of the used car marketplace, a platform that displays third-party listings from dealers alongside the company’s own inventory. . That’s what makes Shift’s purchase of Fair’s tech so powerful. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Working in the world of disability insurance for a decade, Colin Nabity felt not everyone could access this type of insurance due to its nature of it being difficult to understand and underwrite. of working Americans each year will experience a short-term disability during a period of six months or less due to illness, injury or pregnancy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form of SPACs. If you’ve been following Near or the SPAC market, you might recall that there were rumors of KludeIn talking to Near back in December.

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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. As we wait for its annual report for 2020, its year in review offers a sneak peek into how Carbon grew the past year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

CEO Jon Perl tells TechCrunch that the new cash will go toward expanding QA Wolf’s engineering team as well as ongoing sales and marketing efforts. Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. ” Image Credits: QA Wolf.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Udemy is also on the way to the public markets. Because Sweetgreen raised hundreds of millions of dollars during its life as a private company, including myriad venture capital rounds — through a Series I in 2019 — along with capital from other investors. Allbirds, too. The fast-casual food game. with some 1.35

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19. There are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of companies playing in the cross-border remittances field, from incumbents like Western Union through a myriad of tech players, some of which have gone public and some of which remain privately held.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A recent report from Korn Ferry Institute predicts that by 2030 the tech industry labor-skill shortage will reach 4.3 The traditional answer would be your hiring competitors, which, with every company becoming in some sense a technology company, is just about every business out there. trillion in unrealized annual revenues. Employees?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

culture and an economy based on raw materials, Aotearoa hasn’t stood out to investors in the Asia-Pacific region, especially not when they could set their sights on larger markets in China and Southeast Asia. USD $76 million) in 2019, due to a near doubling of transactions from 46 in 2019 to 92 in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

“We seek out exceptional founding teams whose business plan is centered on the strategic utilization of technology to gain a competitive advantage. By 2019, Kaszek had closed on its fourth fund, raising $375 million and its first Opportunity Fund, reserving $225 million for later-stage investing in existing portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Ghauche admits that the company “had a hiccup on revenue” during this time, but that it didn’t have anything to do with the credit market or network. Constrafor also joined in on the AI trend by launching some initiatives using embedded generative AI related to automating manual reviews, for example, of insurance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5 InstaDeep happened to be quite different from other companies in our pipeline as they were actually into deep tech versus applying technology to a certain sector, where basically, you become an operator in that sector.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play. Scale matters in building automated driving technology. Headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. in 2019, driven largely by the global pandemic as sales shifted online while brick-and-mortar stores closed. Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Israeli startup TriEye has raised $74 million to commercialize a type of sensing technology that can be used to help autonomous and driver-assistance systems to see better in adverse conditions. The technology uses short-wave infrared (SWIR), which refers to a wavelength range that is outside the visible spectrum.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Founded in July 2019, Mexico City-based Flat.mx Flat, a Mexican property tech startup, raises $4.6M Flat, a Mexican property tech startup, raises $4.6M The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. pre-seed led by ALLVP. pre-seed led by ALLVP.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

before the market closed. The company’s path to market is twofold. Sono is also working with companies to integrate its solar technologies into other vehicles. And that’s why we see this technology [having] such a great potential to bring EVs [to] the masses.” It opened for trading on the Nasdaq at $20.06

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

And when technology is added to the mix, opportunities multiply. Our economy is based on agriculture and I believe it should be further supported by technology to increase agricultural productivity,” he says. The same is true for most African countries that need to be supported by technological solutions.” Plus, about 20.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Agrawal’s newest venture is SirionLabs , which comines AI technologies like natural language processing to import and organize contracts, negotiations, and contract review. “Technical executives care about CLM software because the data in contracts is central to their key stakeholders across the organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. ’s auto-enrollment provisions (among others), will make 401k plans more impactful at the lower end of the market, and Human Interest is well-positioned to execute.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you follow me on Twitter , you’ve probably noticed that of every three or four tweets, one has me making fun of blockchain tech. I did want to mention it, because as much as I’ll try to be neutral, my disdain for blockchain tech will almost certainly show through in this teardown. Market slide (TAM/SAM).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We first emphasized this issue in a 2019 piece: Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? From the type of deals reviewed to the definition of an African startup, each factor contributes to the disparities in numbers. African tech took center stage in 2021. billion to $1.5 That number doubled to 62%.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Roy Cohen believes that there’s a severe underinvestment in tech within the airline industry, with airlines continuing to rely on legacy systems and outdated infrastructures that date back decades. Fetcherr today closed a $12.5 ” That’s a lot to promise. .” ” That’s a lot to promise.

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For instance, the company completed its conversion to a 100% Agile company in 2019, an achievement that reinforced its commitment to clients. So since the brand began this journey, the main objective has been to execute a corporate strategy by betting on the possibilities that technology provides in combination with people and data.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Startups and VC Shopify last week announced that it would be the latest Big Tech firm to undergo mass layoffs. Also included in the announcement was news that the Canadian e-commerce giant had found a new owner for 6 River Systems, the warehouse automation firm it purchased in 2019 for nearly a half-billion dollars , reports Brian.

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