CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Examples are ad tech, prop tech, insurance tech and the underlying data for the commercial trucking industries. C2V’s Fund 1, which closed at the end of 2019, has a current IRR of more than 50% and two exits. 7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. With TSA facial screening verification already used at ~30 airports and expanding to 400+ more in the coming years, biometric tech looks like it’s here to stay.

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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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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. We also see AI being used in the biologics space, although the technology is used there far earlier. Where else can AI play a role in health tech?

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Byteboard , a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. A group of experienced engineers review and rate the interviews. The business took off following its 2019 debut.

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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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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

AUGUST 8, 2023

Founded in 2019, Made Renovation assures customers that it can transform their outdated bathrooms into showstoppers within months at an affordable price point. On HomeAdvisor , a digital marketplace that connects service professionals with customers, Made Renovation has received half a star of five across seven reviews listed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. without the outsized market of South Africa.

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OverOps

MARCH 26, 2019

Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think [link] pic.twitter.com/MHIGkKrXk6. — OverOps (@overopshq) March 26, 2019. What is Technical Debt? Technical debt , like most terms in the technology sector, has a different meaning depending on who you ask. So, what is technical debt?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? billion in 2019. billion and $1.8 billion and $1.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. It’s a tradition Dozie hopes the company will keep this year. billion (~$241.35

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So it’s not a huge surprise that Canadian construction tech startup RenoRun , which has built an e-commerce platform for construction and building materials, is today announcing a $142 million Series B funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Sozo Ventures. Notably, the financing is a significant jump from the $17.1

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 29, 2024

But here we see exactly when maintenance stopped: sometime in late 2019 or 2020. Here's technical debt that couldn't be paid. A fun, traditional piece of difficult maintenance. Now, I'm speculating a bit, but, I suspect this is pretty clear evidence of how the pandemic may have impacted some businesses. So it wasn't.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2019, startups based in Nigeria attracted $747 million, or 37% of Africa’s total VC investment. The ample optimism in Nigeria’s tech community and belief that better days are ahead are unsurprising, despite questions around investors’ due diligence and the eyebrow-raising valuations of some of the nation’s startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. The app doesn’t run ads.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. city for tech investment. outside London, according to Whitecap’s 2019-2020 Ecosystem Report.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A look back at DevOps in 2019. Over the period of 2019, a massive wave of new approaches and innovations came to software testing landscape at an exponential way. Along with those new introductions is the continuation of technological improvement, evolution, and reinvention.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. TechCrunch reviewed the Nerdy-SPAC investor presentation, which can be read here. That growth rate is slower than what it managed in 2019, some 26% growth, and is around half of what it anticipates for 2021, namely 31% growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. That said, the signs are all pointing to technology being New Zealand’s next export industry, as long as everyone keeps pushing in the same direction. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Technology has evolved drastically over the last decade and is only expected to continue transforming. With the changing landscape, the skill sets that organizations look for in tech professionals is also changing. At HackerEarth, we have helped thousands of organizations find top tech talent. Software architects .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

If you’re trying to recalibrate online sales, this TC+ guest post contains formulas for calculating lost lifetime value (LTV) due to churn on a monthly and annual basis. Flow’s founder is Adam Neumann, the former WeWork co-founder who resigned and gave up majority voting control after the company pulled its IPO filing in September 2019.

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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. Pitch Deck Teardown: Arkive’s $9.7M

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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

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

MARCH 15, 2022

Performing due diligence is critical, but it won’t give you all the information you need to approach a VC. Likewise, one investor may ask to review your deck in detail; another may prefer a probing one-on-one conversation. Since launching in 2019, Snorkel.AI Deb Gildersleeve, CIO, Quickbase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After a launch on Product Hunt in 2019 offering “complex automation made easy, and with no code,” Bryant Chou, a founder at WebFlow, put money into the company. Alloy’s tech was being used by Shopify and BigCommerce customers, helping make e-commerce a fertile area for the company, its co-founders said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

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. New investor Fifth Wall joined existing investors, including FinTech Collective, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Commerce Ventures, FJ Labs and NotreVis, in the round.

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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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