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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. What do all companies, regardless of industry, say they want? In 2021, you’d be hard-pressed to find a company without a formal referral program.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

He is building Picus’ Berlin office focusing on early-stage technology ventures. As such, founders and investors have always been incentivized to believe in optimistic estimates of a company’s true worth. In order to navigate the impending challenges of a normalizing market, founders need to understand the impact of both levers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. What drove such volumes when the rest of the world was reining back the collective enthusiasm of 2021? We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. I can name more movies that feature flying cars than I can eVTOL companies, but that’s changing. As my company continues to grow, I’m considering coming to the U.S.

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CIO

MAY 17, 2024

The industry saw unprecedented growth in certain areas — such as AI and ML — alongside massive layoffs from tech vendors and cooling (or even contracting) salaries for a wide range of IT roles. Recent layoffs have been cast in part as a corrective for that period, when the average tech salary increased nearly 9%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

This funding will allow the Kenyan-based company to expand its business into Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania. On a call with TechCrunch, Rehmann narrated his journey to starting the company. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5 billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

From the type of deals reviewed to the definition of an African startup, each factor contributes to the disparities in numbers. Briter Bridges, for instance, avoids using geography to define an African startup due to factors contributing to business identities like taxation, customers, IP and management team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. When evaluating ‘AI for drug discovery companies,’ I view AI as a tool,” Shaq Vayda, principal at Lux Capital, told TechCrunch.

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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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. Edtech deal flow in 2021 looks set to match or even outpace 2020 levels, per the report: At $9.4 Last week was a good one for edtech in Europe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital , a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. Almost all tech companies are seeing their valuations decline — the Nasdaq is now more than 31% below its all-time high on November 19, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. This has resulted in a difficult environment from a capital availability perspective in India and other emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. Nearly a third of these were pre-seed and seed, with 182 deals closing just in in Q4 2021. What is your climate tech investment thesis in H1 2022? Which technologies are you paying attention to right now?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With Grab’s announcement of its imminent Nasdaq listing and GoJek merging with Tokopedia to form tech giant GoTo , casual international observers could be forgiven for believing that Southeast Asia’s tech universe only comprises similar companies. Unsurprisingly, tech startup growth is booming as well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

With quality growth companies starved for capital, the few investors active in the region were making a killing. As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. By 2003, that was gone and the company quickly introduced fees accross its markets.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

Shares of Chinese technology companies are selling off at home and abroad this week as the nation’s ties to Russia add to investor uncertainty at the expense of China’s tech industry. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In numerical terms, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index fell more than 5.7%

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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. as of January.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. Funding and activity were centered in a couple of markets and there were just a few growing companies gaining interest.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 23, 2024

At the same time, revenue growth was down and churn rates were at an all-time high, reflecting a period of “normalization” post-pandemic due to rising interest rates and enterprises cutting down on their software expenditures. New sales for B2B SaaS companies have also dramatically improved, up 20% from December’s two-year low point.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds. Lawtrades app design.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the economy is “in a period of transition,” on the grounds that “we have a very strong labor market. Marketing can’t cure everything that ails a company, but it is the easiest channel to make iterative changes that produce immediate results. Diving into due diligence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Americans spent nearly $20 billion on pizza deliveries in 2021. The potential of AI tools like ChatGPT creates a similar dilemma — should companies license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates? Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. based tech companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a compelling pitch, one that enabled Made Renovation to raise at least $31 million across two rounds of funding between 2020 and 2021 from investors Felicis, Founders Fund, Insight Partners, and actress-entrepreneur Jessica Alba among some others who liked its tech-driven approach. to shut down.

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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. It gives the company $33.5 The company employs 83 people across Australia and the United States.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Kojo , a startup that aims to help construction companies in the U.S. Founded in 2018 as Agora, the company raised $33 million in a Tiger Global-led Series B round in August of 2021. The company plans to use its new capital to continue building out its team and invest in new offerings that cross over to the fintech world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

We spend a lot of time praising tech investors and entrepreneurs for their risk appetite. In its latest yearly report, Secfi, which helps workers manage equity, found that 24% of the companies on its platform reduced their valuations last year. You’re not going to grow into your 2021 valuation. (C) That’s no hot take.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to market researchers at Gartner 1 , “Utilities are faced with unprecedented challenges.” To overcome these challenges, energy companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI large language models (LLM). 2 [link] [link] 3 [link] 4 [link] 5 [link] Artificial Intelligence

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. The company has a team of 30 people. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet changing legal demands.” “The solutions on the market were point solutions focused mostly on defined processes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

My work in early-stage startups focused on operations, so I used Wikipedia to find the formula for calculating a company’s post-money valuation: PMV = N x P. N = number of shares the company has post-investment. Most startups were overvalued before 2021, and now it’s causing problems. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Most CEOs (72%) continue to prioritize digital investments, according to the 2022 CEO Outlook report from KPMG, in part due to concerns about emerging and disruptive technology, a top three risk to organizational growth. Digital transformation is the integration of digital technologies into all aspects of business operations.

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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

MARCH 11, 2022

Aument is carving out a niche in marketing automation for e-commerce stores, raising $1.5 CEO Emilio Di Marco met his co-founders, Alan Helouani, Sacha Landesmann and Mario Leon Rojas, in Latin America while leading marketing efforts for WeWork. Few companies can take advantage of the data they have,” Di Marco told TechCrunch.

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