TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. We can bring dignity back to the technology world, while also understanding users’ needs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. Marketers have now realized that their customers trust the recommendations of people they relate with. AIfluence is a two-year-old startup with an AI-driven influencer marketing approach to measuring these campaigns.

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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 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

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.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool. The technology automates communication between global enterprises and candidates using a conversational interface. Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

A quick peek at comments and posts on LinkedIn reveals squabbles among industry insiders and analysts about when this emerging technology will truly take off and which companies will come out ahead. million, though, of course, neither company has brought a product to market yet. Other disagreements have higher stakes.

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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

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

JANUARY 24, 2023

The company is not disclosing valuation, but for some context PitchBook notes that in 2019 it was valued at $140 million. Notably, the Series D was closed in December and took six months to complete — a very different cadence to its $35 million Series C in 2019 , which closed in a flash, he said.

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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

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. . billion in over 13 rounds, the latest of which was in 2019.

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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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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

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. The success of Michelangelo inspired Del Balso, Hermann and Stumpf to create a commercial version of the technology, which became Tecton.

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TechCrunch

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

AUGUST 10, 2021

Similar to other insurance products, disability insurance was sold the same way for more than 20 years: using outdated technology, data science and underwriting that didn’t provide consumers an appropriate policy based on their occupation and health. market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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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. That technology is now coming to Medal.tv. CEO Pim de Witte, as to his company’s interest in Rawa.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect. CEO Meagan Kinmonth Bowman founded the Arkansas-based company in 2019 after working at Hallmark, where she was tasked with the digital transformation of the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That is what SeMI Technologies is building with Weaviate, a vector search engine. However, SeMI’s goal is to commoditize this technology and has an open source business model so that anyone can use it. We need to educate the market not only about Weaviate but also vector search databases, or AI-first databases for that matter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Fast-forward to today, with millions of hours in aggregate clocked up on services like Zoom, Microsoft’s Teams, Google’s Meet, WebEx and the many other videoconferencing apps out there, and skeptics might argue that what we have on the market today has been good enough.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Papier , a startup leveraging technology to bring very non-tech products into the world, has raised some funding to continue expanding its business on the heels of strong demand for its personalized notebooks, planners, cards and other paper-based stationary that it sells online. This funding is an important part of that plan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Pennarun co-launched Tailscale in 2019 to commercialize the technology. By raising money now, we make sure we can ride out any upcoming market fluctuations. “[We’ll be] expanding our marketing and sales teams, but especially investing in building additional product features.

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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

MARCH 27, 2022

Is this market big enough for so many global players? We’re seeing pretty big market changes. So when you see, you know, a deal, and a [founder] who normally was going to go out for a $20 million Series A, they’re being told by the market to raise 12 to 15 million, because that’s where the appetite is.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Taptap Send believes that its unique place in the market is that it has built not just the easiest, but the most reliable system to initiate, manage and receive those transfers. Segovia was acquired by Crown Agents Bank in 2019, and theoretically the product of Taptap Send was spun out from that ahead of the deal.

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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

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. Sweetgreen operates its 140 food spots in 13 U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. The addressable market for campuses that would likely use Starship’s services is around 400-500, he said, “but grocery is billions of dollars.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In February 2020, Career Karma published a report on the state of the coding bootcamp market, which revealed a few interesting key findings. Market size . In 2019, a total of 33,959 students attended one of the 105 coding bootcamps studied in this market analysis, representing a 4.38% growth since 2018. 16 bootcamps).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. But new technologies such as crypto and web3 provide hope to Africans to play a massive role in defining what it looks like in years to come. million pre-seed to that end.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. It paid $1.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s early in the Wednesday trading session, meaning that we’re waiting on the first trades of Rent the Runway stock on the public markets. For a company last valued at around $1 billion in 2019 , those figures may not sound too impressive. And an e-commerce platform is a technology company.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Earls’ articles about how IaaS providers will increase stakes in hybrid cloud on Tech Target : AWS, Azure, and Google made hybrid cloud technologies the main point of focus in 2018. Their strategies, however, were unique — and look to remain that way in 2019, as all three providers continue their efforts to […].

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