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. According to this report , the media company will raise between $20 million and $30 million valuing the company at $80 million to $100 million. .

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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. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. China’s technology industry. Since the Ant IPO was pulled and the Chinese Communist Party executed off a flat-wild period of regulatory action in 2021, you have probably heard less about China’s technology. Sign up here. . Let’s go.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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. Deal terms were not disclosed. We’ve long had an impactful and collaborative partnership with Kinzen and its exceptional team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Launching a product in a foreign market where you’re unfamiliar with the language and culture is a necessary step for growing companies, “but the barriers to entry are high” in Japan, Birrmacher notes, which is why building community was foundational to their expansion. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report. billion in 2022. That’s a big drop even from just the first quarter of 2022, in which we saw $5.3 That compares to $25.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

After tech’s massive exodus of talent, we’re starting to see laid-off talent start companies that are ambitious and aspirational in aim. I’m talking about the legal analyst who got let go from Better.com starting a legal tech startup, or the head of safety at Twitter starting a Twitter rival with safety at the core.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

In practice, however, white papers are frequently a marketing play intended to help crypto startups generate earned media. Even so, they are still very much in demand — in certain situations. That said, in some cases, a white paper will be an integral part of startup strategy.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. Shaun Guthrie, Peavey Mart Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada Peavey Mart.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Across the world, climate change has bitten hard into the economies of tech-centric California, again due to wildfires. Australia and Pakistan have seen communities wrecked by large-scale flooding and continual rain, while in 2022, Europe had its hottest summer on record. But Spain’s predicament isn’t unique.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Annie reports that venture capital firm Flourish launched Madica, an investment program providing “funding, technology support and mentorship to underrepresented founders across the continent.”. Overheard at Disrupt : Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 , by Natasha M. Big Tech Inc. Startups and VC. You can sign up here.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In October 2021, we surveyed over 1,000 senior executives in the US, with a goal to understand their digital appetite and aspirations for 2022. . The survey revealed interesting insights on Corporate America’s readiness for various digital initiatives, which we consolidated in our 2022 State of Digital Transformation report.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Investors were drawn to WorkTorch due to shifting U.S. ” In the first two months of 2022, investors poured over $1.4 billion HR tech startups raised last year. Muhwezi-Hall said people would give soft commitments, perform extensive due diligence, and then back out, saying they actually never wanted to get into HR. “It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize their readership — has opened its doors to the public. The Post website itself first launched in November 2022 into a closed beta that grew to 650,000 people on its waitlist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 17, 2022! More capital for instant delivery : After a flurry of 2021 rounds, the venture market for instant delivery companies is still active. How one city is diversifying its startup market : The U.S. venture market is often considered to be its two main coasts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Customers in 11 African countries, including Rwanda, where it first established its headquarters due to its business-friendly environment, had access to the platform and could send money to each other. Payday ramped up its social media marketing push over the last few months to increase market share, which seems to be paying off.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2022

As I hear about more startups struggling amid shifting market conditions, the great resignation and the general inflection point that begins once a company hits growth stage, it’s worth addressing an elephant in the room that comes around often in the tech versus media debate. — natasha (@nmasc_) March 17, 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

” To translate marketing, support and e-commerce documents and webpages — Lilt’s principal workload — Lilt uses a combination of human translators and tools including hotkeys, style guides and an AI translation engine. .” A robust market. million by 2022.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 6, 2024

The uptick in the portion of startup investment going to female-founded companies — up from 15% in 2022 — was in large part due to a number of billion-dollar-plus rounds raised by AI companies with a female co-founder. In fact, a quarter of all funding — $34.7 billion across four funding rounds that year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and change. With those administrative bits out of the way, let’s get on with Week in Review. (If If you want it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here ). His top-level observation?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

The United States is the world’s largest cannabis market, but as more European countries consider legalizing recreational use, investors are looking for opportunities in production, distribution and retail. 8 cannabis investors share their outlook on the European market in H1 2022. Much like the U.S., Much like the U.S.,

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2023

And with increasingly immersive technologies such as virtual reality, data-driven insight using artificial intelligence and creative video delivery coming to the fore, opportunities to unite digital with human-centred design principles to win in both physical and digital realms are growing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, February 23, 2022! But late in 2021 and into 2022, we’ve seen fintech valuations fall. Climate tech is heating up : Data indicate that the market for investing in climate-focused companies is alight, with 2021 bringing hugs sums to the sector. including media.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. Its most recent smartphone model launched as far back April 2022. It wasn’t enough, though, and by 2016, Taneja was out.

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Cloudera

JUNE 13, 2022

We are excited to announce that Cloudera is named as a 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). Peer Insights is a user review site, the technology professional’s “go-to” destination for information on customer experience. ” [ Read the full review ].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

We conducted an early round due to tripling our customer base in 2023,” Atias told TechCrunch in an email interview. But he later pivoted the business into a general-purpose tech stack for VR, AR and 3D-model-viewing experiences. million in total capital. AR and VR) to shop in the next five years. ” Hexa raises $20.5M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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ProCal Tech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

9 Benefits of using IOT Technology Home September 15, 2022 Latest Technology In this article by Procal, we will be discussing briefly how IoT benefits businesses. In recent years, the benefits of the Internet of Things, innovations, improvements, and all kinds of applications have become a common theme in the media.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

But of late, they’re braving a new market shaped by three major trends: stunted online shopping growth, the impact of the latest iOS privacy updates on social media customer acquisition strategies (leading to higher costs) and macroeconomic uncertainty. Most brands will find it tough to spur growth via customer acquisition in 2022.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, we can see the impact of AI on their processes. For example, AI-powered chatbots are already being used to handle customer queries, and in the future, they will be able to handle more complex tasks such as sales and marketing. 5 ways AI/ML are transforming businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday, April 13, 2022! Today’s TechCrunch+ action : Alex opined about whether the SaaS selloff is over now that the public markets are leveling out, saying, “Ironically, interest rates may be the best reason to expect that most of the selloff in software stocks is behind us.” PT, subscribe here.

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Openxcell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Forbes reports that the number of people using social media worldwide has reached 4.9 Over the last few years, social media has evolved from being primarily a communication channel and entertainment platform to marketing and growing businesses, contributing to significant social and political discussions. billion in 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s Thursday, April 28, 2022, and Haje’s blood pressure is slowly returning to what passes for normal after raging about Social Security numbers for a few minutes. There’s a Google of Russia : Its name is Yandex, and it’s selling its media division to, get this, a company called VKontakte, which is considered “the local Facebook equivalent.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The energy renovation company based in France is doing well, but it is addressing a market that is much bigger than anticipated. We tackled this market very early on because we really believed in it.” At first, Effy wasn’t a tech-enabled startup. And it has paid off as Effy attracted 18 million visitors to its websites in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

million since its inception in 2015 and plans to raise a Series B in early 2022 to drive its rapid growth, the company said. We’ve been able to attract top talent from the [music, entertainment, tech and gaming] industries we touch,” Lee said. AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8 VR can finally blow all 2D experience out of the water.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Butlr , an MIT Media Lab spinout developing sensors that use body heat to estimate office occupancy, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round with participation from Carrier Global Corporation (a strategic investor), Tiger Global, Primetime Partners, E14, Unionlabs, Hyperplane and Tectonic Ventures.

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