TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

This enables the Mexico City–based company to expand into South America. We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. In 2021, the e-commerce roll-up, or aggregator, scene was in full force.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. Atos had planned to divide into two publicly listed companies, but on August 1 announced it is taking a different route.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. Some companies successfully pivoted and others were born as a direct result of a world forever changed because of COVID-19. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.” Isn’t it time some of those overlooked and underappreciated technologies get their due?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The latest in a string of space tech SPACs announced this year is Redwire, an entity created by a PE firm in 2020, which has acquired a number of smaller companies including Adcole Space, Roccor, Made in Space, LoadPath, Oakman Aerospace, Deployable Space Systems and more — all within the last year or so.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Pyxis One, now Pixis , closed on $100 million in Series C funding to continue developing what it touts as “the world’s only contextual codeless AI infrastructure for complete marketing optimization.”. The California-based company was founded three years ago by Shubham A. Mishra, Vrushali Prasade and Hari Valiyath.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 The startup had raised $86 million in the first tranche of the financing in June of 2021 at a post-money valuation of $600 million. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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JULY 26, 2023

Digital transformation is key in building Europe’s resilience and sustainability Huawei As a committed partner of digital Europe, Huawei builds innovative ICT infrastructure and works with customers and partners to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises, aiming to drive economic prosperity and build a sustainable, digital Europe.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Cyberattacks on operational technology (OT) systems are rapidly rising. The Colonial Pipeline attack in 2021 is one of the most well-known examples of a major OT attack; the attack prompted a temporary shutdown of nearly half the gasoline and jet fuel supply delivered to the East Coast. That led to fuel shortages and price hikes.​​

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On-demand shuttle service and transit tech company Via has raised another $110 million, bringing the company’s total funding to around $1 billion. billion at the same price per share as the company’s previous financing in November of 2021. The company has already scaled to 600 communities and more than 35 countries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

99minutos, a logistics service company for e-commerce vendors across Latin America, is making fast work out of attracting funding. The last round follows a $40 million Series B investment last May from Prosus and Kaszek and brings the company’s total funding to about $128.7

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Nillion is a deep technology infrastructure project,” Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. He previously led product at Afterpay (acquired by Square) and started a YC-backed fintech company. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. More companies, such as Coinbase in the U.S. Matt Brown. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

billion post-money, the company announced today. This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even more expansion to help put in place key health infrastructure systems across the U.S.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For Kyndryl CIO Michael Bradshaw, the clock started ticking in November 2021 when the former managed infrastructure services division of IBM was spun out as a separate entity and given two years to disentangle its IT systems from IBM’s. “We We had a 24-month transition services agreement,” he says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

But Lawless, who started the venture firm after serving in leadership positions in capital markets at Lehman Brothers and Barclays, had a vision that financial services infrastructure would be unbundled as companies moved critical operating infrastructure to the cloud. It currently has $254 million in assets under management.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to a 2021 poll by New Relic — an APM vendor itself — 75% of companies expected to increase their observability spend in 2022, while 50% were in the process of implementing an observability practice. Azulay founded Groundcover in 2021 with Yechezkel Rabinovich. Image Credits: Groundcover.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9 We decided to take a bet on the technology and became a startup. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2022

This news follows the $4 million Stitch raised out of stealth in February 2021, a prequel to the $2 million extension round it secured four months ago, bringing its seed round to $6 million. Per a statement released by the company, it plans to create a “financial graph” ecosystem across Africa with the new funding. .

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MARCH 9, 2022

The problem is not a lack of technology, but a lack of structured data,” he told TechCrunch. Radhakrishnan, who started the company with Kate Alexander and Vishnu Nair, spent years in India observing family members running factories, which ultimately inspired the idea for Silq. It gives the company approximately $19.6

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

French IT services company Atos has put an end to its attempts to sell its ailing legacy managed infrastructure services business after failing to reach an agreement with a prospective buyer, and will now have to glue the two halves of its business back together. year on year and in line with the company’s previous forecasts.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Responsible for global operations and technology services across company and customer websites, staff technology, and THG’s direct-to-consumer Ingenuity service and hosting business, Drake has looked to support the rapid growth of the Manchester-based firm through IPO, a global pandemic, supply chain instability, and the onset of recession.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

While the terms of the acquisition from private equity investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners were not disclosed, the Massachusetts-based firm is expected to bolster Accenture’s application and infrastructure-managed services capabilities in North America. Accenture, according to data from Tracxn , has acquired a total of 287 companies.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending. However, asset management is still in the nascent stage of digitization, according to the chief strategy officer and co-founder of Akros Technologies , Jin Chung. Image Credits: Akros Technologies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 Not bad for a company that only publicly launched just over two years ago. I also exclusively covered Jeeves’ $180 million Series C, which quadrupled that company’s valuation to $2.1 That remains to be seen.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The past few quarters have been a sluggish period for funding to scads of startup technology sectors. Supersize rounds went to companies developing everything from satellite networks to space stations. Supersize rounds went to companies developing everything from satellite networks to space stations. But where are the apps?

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JANUARY 12, 2023

There’s also an opportunity to explore how new manufacturing technologies can help build a bridge between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT)teams. 2] As with any advancement in technology, edge computing comes with benefits and drawbacks. A lot of it.

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MAY 22, 2024

Recognizing the crucial role of cybersecurity leaders in safeguarding the nation’s digital infrastructure, the first edition of the CSO30 Awards recently took place in Dubai, showcasing the cream of the crop in the field. Ali Alkaf Alhashmi VP, Cyber Security & Technology, Mubadala Investments 4.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Kevala , the startup that collects and analyzes energy grid infrastructure data for utility companies, renewable energy providers, EV charging companies, regulators and other energy industry stakeholders, has raised $21 million in a Series A round. Today, there is a greater range of energy sources and receptors than ever before.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

trillion worth of deals as of October 2021. In my role as a growth equity expert and venture capital investor for more than 20 years, I’ve seen companies leverage these different kinds of growth to their advantage — and their downfall. Inorganic growth is driven by mergers with or acquisitions by other companies or joint ventures.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% increase from 2021. Average salary: US$164,814 Increase since 2021: 8.4%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. PayPal was the latest large company to announce layoffs — with about 2,000 full-time employees, or 7% of its workforce, affected. The company’s stock perked up on the news.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Shares of DocuSign are off 25% in pre-market trading today after it reported earnings last night, pushing the value of shares in the e-signature company under pre-COVID levels. Even more, the company’s growth target for its current fiscal year brackets investor expectations. Tech companies are racing to avoid the same fate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

With Fixie, a company could, for example, incorporate language model capabilities into their customer support workflows by building agents that take in a customer ticket as input, automatically look up a customer’s purchases, issue a refund if necessary and generate a draft reply to the ticket.

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MAY 4, 2022

” A separate report from Fortinet released the same month found that over 80% of companies believe implementing a zero-trust strategy across a network would be challenging. “Tailscale sits at the intersection between network infrastructure (connectivity) and security.

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