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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 billion and $1.8 billion and $1.8

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

TechCrunch

After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Essential (2017-2020).

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The only take about the future of media is that media is the future

TechCrunch

The final quarter of 2020 and the full year brought an ocean of capital to bear on U.S. The march of live, tech-powered tutoring lives on! TripActions raised a pallet of new capital despite having had a somewhat rough 2020 due to the pandemic. startups , something that we delighted in chewing on. Danny’s GPS story.

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How To Do Tech Recruitment Marketing Efficiently?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Indeed it’s true that 2020 was a tough year for the whole world to handle. Employers started to use online management tech to efficiently manage their employees who were working remotely. Hiring top-tech talent is the highest priority of companies nowadays. Let’s understand what tech recruitment is and how to market it.

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Elon guts Twitter, Google shutters Hangouts, and the tech layoffs continue

TechCrunch

Hey, all — welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Layoffs everywhere : Meanwhile, news of tech industry layoffs continues to pour in. And oof, what a week it was. Want this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Let’s just dive right in.

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Spotify acquires content moderation tech company Kinzen to address platform safety issues

TechCrunch

Spotify this morning announced it’s acquiring Dublin, Ireland-based content moderation tech company Kinzen, which had been working in partnership with the streamer since 2020. million in funding over 2 rounds, the last being a November 2020 seed round. Deal terms were not disclosed.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

She told TechCrunch that last year’s run of 23 pre-seed rounds (10 of which were $150,000+ deals) per Briter Bridges data , was due to the confidence investors had in the market, especially fintech. million; Nigerian automotive tech startup Autochek Africa , which raised $3.4 ”

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