TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Micro-EV subscription startup Dance , which launched in 2020, has raised an additional €12 million in an equity and debt round led by existing investors HV Capital, Eurazeo and BlueYard. In 2020, Dance closed a $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo.

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The Hustle

JANUARY 25, 2024

But the sport seems to be entering the modern era, with a surge of women showing interest. More than 800k American women started playing golf between 2020 and 2022, according to the National Golf Foundation, representing a 15% increase. Golf has historically been a boys’ club — literally. Plus, remote work freed up time for hobbies.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

N2Growth and Stanford Graduate Graduate School of Business are pleased to congratulate those individuals recognized on the 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO List. Leaders25 2020 Top CHRO Awards. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

It then added massage, beauty treatments, housekeeping, babysitting and sports coaching. Up next, Wecasa expects to launch its service in a couple of new European markets as soon as next year. That would represent a three-fold increase compared to 2020 revenue. The startup originally specialized in hairdressing at home.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

billion valuation when it raised is last financing, a $200 million venture round in October 2020. On the product side, Instacart broadened its offerings from groceries to also include same-day delivery of a wide range of products, including prescription medicine, electronics, home decor, sport and exercise equipment and more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2022

Instead, I think that changes within a particular startup can be used as benchmark questions for their larger market; in other words, we can use the micro to better understand the macro. When I first covered the company in March 2020 , I got stuck on its pitch of aspirational learning.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Yummy was founded in 2020 by CEO Vicente Zavarce, a Venezuelan native and former Postmates and Getaround director of user acquisition. 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.

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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 December 2020 and $119.3 It’s expected to raise about $1.6

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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

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 2020, the company had plans to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) in Africa for its video-on-demand service, iROKOtv, from $7-8 to $20-25.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

With the pandemic bringing professional sports to a screeching halt in 2020, a number of major leagues have adopted the ring, including the NBA, WNBA, UFC and NASCAR. The company says the round will go toward R&D (both hardware and software development) and hiring, including additional marketing and customer experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Like every other podcaster in the known universe, my show went all-virtual in mid-2020. 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

JUNE 11, 2021

insurance technology market is hot, and has been for years now. Back in early 2020, to pick an example, TechCrunch reported on a wave of funding events among domestic insurtech marketplaces. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . What about other markets? like Root and MetroMile go public.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020. Upflowy was born out of this growing market of talent,” Ang said in a statement. The Australian tech scene is driving innovation globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

million Series A announced in October 2020. We were first to market and, with over 12 million users globally, still hold 88% of market share,” founder and chief executive officer Alex Zaccaria told TechCrunch. Coatue chairman Dan Rose will join Linktree’s board of directors. Linktree raises $10.7M

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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 28, 2022

It has become normal to raise funds long before you have a product/market fit, and this poses challenges to entrepreneurs that are of a very different nature than those the ecosystem has faced in the past years,“ he added back in November 2021. Since 2020, we have been trying to find an amicable solution. Entrepreneurs know this well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The acquired company, which bootstrapped itself to material revenue scale, will retain its brand and in-market product. Hopin raised a $40 million Series A in late June of 2020 , and a $125 million Series B last November at a valuation of $2.125 billion. TechCrunch used Hopin’s service to host several of its events in 2020.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. At the upper end of HashiCorp’s price range, using a fully diluted share count, the former startup will land among the most richly valued tech companies in the world that sport a reliance on open source code. For more on the company’s economics, head here.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Between 2020 and 2021, Pair grew its revenue 10 times year over year and attracted the attention of investors who pumped $60 million of new Series B funding into the company to give Pair $73.5 Pair Eyewear began 2020 with four people and now has 65 full-time employees, most of whom joined in 2021, Kondamuri said.

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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. which was acquired by Unilever in 2020. Having already secured $2.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

He considers Moonshot Brands, which you can read more about in this deep look into aggregators , to be a boutique company, focused on Amazon and direct-to-consumer brands globally, and initially in the mobility and action sports sectors. The Hahnbeck director works on e-commerce M&A and follows the aggregator market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

And it’s no surprise that 2020 has been a “watershed moment” for the company, as Daily put it, with the company now live streaming millions of events per year — everything from sports to religious services to virtual safaris offered by Sri Lanka’s tourism board. You can also just stream from an iOS device.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

It then leverages its technology to scale their operations and grow sales by taking care of the marketing, analytics, supply chain management and working capital needs of the companies. It focuses on companies in the areas of home and garden, sports and fitness, beauty and personal care.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Here it’s meant to be a reference to what the New York-based company sees as its principle differentiator from an increasingly crowded market. along with previous investors Cassius Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment and BDMI. Mills describes it as “where entertainment and fitness meet. Talent is key to that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Perth-based startup Vitruvian has made a name for itself in the Australian market. The company’s at-home strength-training system sports resistance-based weights up to ~440 pounds. Founded in late 2018, the company ended 2020 with a $3.4 Few consumer technologies were better positioned to ride the pandemic to new heights.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

The investor group includes CAVU Ventures as well as sports and entertainment celebrities like Russell Westbrook, the Chainsmokers, 24kGoldn, Kygo, Halsey, Kevin Love, Ellie Goulding, Olivia Munn, Nicole Scherzinger, Chantel Jeffries, Bryce Hall, Noah Beck, Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson and Blake Gray.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These extractions can be used to help customers develop new travel products line and fine-tune their marketing campaigns, Dunn says. ” Zartico launched in March 2020 — one week prior to most of the world shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, it was just in August that the U.S. . or to places.”

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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. In fact, customers leaned into growing food so much that Rise Gardens saw its sales eclipse seven figures in 2020, and gardens sold out three times during the year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

He also wrote the 2020 book “ The Commando Mindset ”, published by Penguin. The company says it already has 40 paying customers including Reed, Farfetch and JD Sports. There is of course, competition in the market. The two founders are battle-hardened, former Royal Marine Commandos, Ben Williams and Antony Thompson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So, let’s talk just how expensive it is to build an EV company, why market size estimates are b t, what sort of voting structure Rivian intends to sport post-debut, how Amazon is a blessing and a sticking-point for the company, why services matter, and where Tesla crops up. Sound good? It doesn’t exist since.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

including Atlanta’s Nourish + Bloom Market that opened in January. It does this in grocery stores, sport stadiums and convenience stores via a camera-only resource that does not require weighted shelves, significantly decreasing the cost and time it takes to get up-and-running, co-founder and CEO Steve Gu said.

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Xicom

JULY 3, 2020

Also, the Global Fitness App Market is predicted to rise at a CAGR of 26.2 % during the timeline for 2020-2026. According to the analysis, the global fitness app market was targeted at $3.15 Also, such apps jell well with smart sports pieces of equipment and have an admin panel. billion by 2026. Activity Tracking Apps.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Yet these companies are building businesses in a tough market plagued by myriad challenges, from banking prohibitions to ever-changing regulations. “About 18 months ago in the California market, regulators kept layering on more regulations…and started asking the brands to put on unique codes.”

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