TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. Social investing is not a new concept. The size of the market is huge,” he told TechCrunch. Our biggest competitor is inertia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. Ulta Beauty launches a fund, showcasing the resilience of corporate venture capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets. And be used to pump out unwanted direct marketing or spam.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Linktree’s latest funding will be used on tools that make social commerce easier. This is in partly because people have been spending more time on social media and e-commerce shopping during the pandemic. Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. million in pre-Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons. More brand-oriented platforms such as Sprinkler, Sprout Social and Hootsuite have obviously risen in use, but so did traffic to Oktopost, a much more B2B-oriented proposition. It can also handle social listening and analytics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter? What does all that mean for growth marketing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Nick writes actionable growth marketing insights as head of content at Demand Curve. Demand Curve: 10 lies you’ve been told about marketing. This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. How businesses use social proof.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Snap, the parent company of the popular Snapchat social media service, reported earnings last week that investors rejected. Snap was not the only victim of its lackluster earnings digest — other companies that make money off of advertising incomes saw their share prices dip on concerns that the social network was not an outlier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Joyned , formerly known as Gamitee , announced Wednesday that it raised $4 million in seed funding to continue developing its e-commerce platform that puts merchants in the driver’s seat of social engagement. market,” Abraham said. market and build our brand there.”. expansion, where the company is already seeing impact.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 The company was founded by Mohamed Abdulaziz and Ahmed Sheikha in 2017. billion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. was a no-brainer since the market has so little variety in it at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day. and other countries in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Now the company is back with an even bigger Series B round of $20 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

TikTok appears to be working on an integration with Lemon8 , another social app owned by TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, according to new findings from product intelligence firm Watchful.ai. Currently, Lemon8 has 25 million estimated worldwide downloads, per market intelligence firm data.ai.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. The 1,500-employee-strong company — which has an estimated 11.2% of the third-party air travel market in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. ” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess? Fizz closed a $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

A privately backed tech company going public on the U.S. markets is welcome news. Sadly, while Triller is an interesting business, it may prove too small an offering to fully unlock the domestic IPO market for technology companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group.

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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. Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures. Our app is like if TikTok and Amazon had a baby.”. Meanwhile, U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. The company says it currently has 100,000 active resellers in more than 500 Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, mostly in Java.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 Giraudie joined the team after Larroque and Martin put Walkie-talkie on the market and saw organic growth in several countries. Audio was coming back into fashion, especially with Gen Z and with the movement around anti-social networking.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

When I talk with business leaders, I often hear metaverse as a marketing focus or an innovation one; usually, it’s not comprehensive and strategically integrated with the business. As we have seen, even companies that are supposed to be leaders in their fields miss where the future is going. Only 4% say it’ll take six to 10 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

The company started as a peer-to-peer payment app for the French market. The company recently reached unicorn status and the team has been iterating with more services and features. More importantly, the company is positioning its mobile app as a social product — not a fintech product. Image Credits: Lydia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Tedooo , a Tel Aviv-based social network marketed towards the trade world, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Stardom Ventures. The company was founded in 2020 after CEO and co-founder Michelle Apelker collected thousands of business cards when visiting several countries to keep track of brands and form partnerships.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 22, 2024

Here’s a rundown of the businesses that flourished (and failed) in 2023 and how companies should plan to face crises in 2024. In a business landscape where every move or decision is immediately broadcast through the grapevine of social media, companies that are not adequately prepared for a crisis could be left decimated in its wake.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. According to the company’s internal data, the app has now reached 35 million monthly active users. This isn’t a utility.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The global social market is rapidly growing. million online social sellers in Egypt alone, the Egyptian social e-commerce market is forecast to be worth more than $14.8 One of its players, Taager , is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. With over 1.25

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. This is a company that two years ago had planned to go public at a $7.7 But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Launching today with the help of these former teen heartthrobs, Scriber is a creator subscription company geared toward more established figures in entertainment (… like the Jonas Brothers). Joe, Kevin and Nick aren’t just Scriber’s first creators — they also have equity in the company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Here’s a rundown of fintech companies from the batch , and our look at the Indian participants , and those hailing from Africa. Instacart as trendsetter: The well-known grocery delivery company has lowered the price at which it will value employee equity comp, something that could become a trend.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Consumer packaged goods companies — think PepsiCo or Nabisco — face steep challenges from the rising cost of living and distribution. While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment.

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