TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Tedooo , a Tel Aviv-based social network marketed towards the trade world, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Stardom Ventures. The company was founded in 2020 after CEO and co-founder Michelle Apelker collected thousands of business cards when visiting several countries to keep track of brands and form partnerships.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

million Series A announced in October 2020. Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. The Sydney, Australia-based startup’s last round was a $10.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Soci , a startup focused on what it calls “localized marketing,” is announcing that it has raised $80 million in Series D funding. Soci said that in 2020, it brought on more than 100 new customers, representing nearly 30,000 new locations. ” Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing. .”

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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 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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee and Tokopedia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew. Kwan Kim recently joined Archive.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. Public grew quickly in 2020, expanding its user base by a multiple of 10 since the start of the year. As investing apps boom, Public doubles down on its social focus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

How it works is by engaging remote talent from emerging markets which can now (because of the acceptance of remote working, post-pandemic) participate in much higher value roles in finance, strategy, and public policy. We are addressing the gap in the market between traditional consulting firms and freelance portals.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. The company plans to use the new capital toward that hiring, and to do some marketing of its own. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A number of startups are experimenting with what a better social app could look like. For a startup called Alms , the answer is a social network that focuses on users’ well-being through participation in creator-led challenges in areas like personal growth, sustainability, and others with positive impacts. Image Credits: Alms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. The company has been quietly operating in beta since April 2020, but is now making its public launch. The company has been quietly operating in beta since April 2020, but is now making its public launch. Yoni Circle founder Chloe? Image Credits: Yoni Circle.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Indeed it’s true that 2020 was a tough year for the whole world to handle. Also, good talent acquisition software provides a recruitment marketing platform for your recruiting team to efficiently source, attract, engage, and hire the best suitable candidates. Let’s understand what tech recruitment is and how to market it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Mark Spera is the head of growth marketing at Minted. He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. The good news is you can quickly learn which growth marketing strategies work by studying other companies’ success and adapting it to your own business.

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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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OTS Solutions

MARCH 5, 2020

Quite obviously, it’s mostly used in the marketing and sales departments of a business as that’s where client interaction is most important. Instead, the problem with CRM tools is choosing which of the many options on the market best fits the needs of your business. Increased Social Media Integration.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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OTS Solutions

MARCH 5, 2020

Here Are Top Seven Trends Of Microsoft Dynamic CRM In 2020. Quite obviously, it’s mostly used in the marketing and sales departments of a business as that’s where client interaction is most important. With this in mind, here are the top seven trends of the Microsoft Dynamic CRM Solutions tool in 2020. #1:

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Luxury Presence, a startup selling marketing software to real estate brokerages, announced today it has raised $25.9 The Los Angeles-based company, which last raised in January 2020 , has amassed a total of $33.3 They might have a marketing assistant on a team, they might have a brother-in-law who does their SEO.

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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. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We’re not drowning in consumer social rounds, for example. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. To get a handle on edtech in 2020, I went a bit more caveman and decided to look at the sector’s funding totals in 2020 by merely comparing the first and second half of the year. billion.

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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. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. million pre-seed to that end.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

The transaction will combine AIQ’s breakthrough AI energy solutions with Presight’s cross-sector big data analytics, product development, and international markets access to position AIQ as a leading energy-focused AI organization. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and ADNOC Managing Director and Group CEO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. To date, the app’s community of users have reduced nearly 6 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But it’s also one of the more expensive places to start a business, due to its high cost of living, salary expectations and relatively small labor market. I really wish that the business case for social and ecological startups will finally be proven (kind of like Oatly showed with the Blackstone investment). More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

It’s tough to assess exactly how many retail investors (aka regular people) started investing for the first time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one Schwab study estimates that 15% of investors who were participating in the market in 2021 got started for the first time in 2020.

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TechSoup

MARCH 16, 2020

The dust has cleared and 2020 is upon us. For years, transformative marketing tools and technologies have been making the leap from the business sector to the nonprofit space. But growing your brand awareness, gaining new followers, driving impact, and accelerating funding, all with a bite-sized budget, can be challenging.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So for obvious reasons, it faced challenges in 2020. The company had already pivoted once, shifting focus from political work to commercial marketing. In fact, the Knoq team had socially distanced outdoor meetups over the summer, “to brainstorm or just hang out and make sure people are okay.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them. ” Hughes and his agency were recommended multiple times in our growth marketer survey, which we launched to surface experts that startups can work with.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Roblox is now one of the world’s most valuable private companies in the world after a monster Series H raise brings the social gaming platform a stratospheric $29.5 In February of 2020, the company closed a $150 million Series G led by Andreessen Horowitz which valued the company at $4 billion. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl , a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority. 6 reasons why reporters aren’t interested in your content marketing. Marketers seem to know this.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Coinbase’s financials show a company that grew rapidly from 2019 to 2020. In 2020 the company’s net income rose to $127.5 The crypto unicorn grew just over 139% in 2020, a massive improvement on its 2019 results. million in Q1 2020, a number that dipped to $186.4 million in the final quarter of 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A brand new social media platform focusing on social responsibility today announced it snagged $1.2 The hope is to leverage the power of social media for social good. There are so many social movements. million to change the face of fundraising from a Gen Z perspective. There are natural disasters every other day.

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