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APRIL 5, 2024

The secondary markets — where stakeholders can sell private company shares to investors ahead of an IPO, acquisition or other exit — appear to be rebounding again as valuations drop, a slew of new dedicated secondary funds launch, and the backlog of highly valued unicorn startups swells. We let the technology do the work.”

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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). Today, over 70% of the U.S. How can AI and generative AI help?

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CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dutch insurance and asset management company Nationale-Nederlanden, part of the NN Group, has a presence in 19 countries and serves several million retail and corporate customers. For instance, the company completed its conversion to a 100% Agile company in 2019, an achievement that reinforced its commitment to clients.

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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

MAY 3, 2023

It’s reasonable to ask what role ethics plays in the building of this technology and, perhaps more importantly, where investors fit in as they rush to fund it. A founder recently told TechCrunch+ that it’s hard to think about ethics when innovation is so rapid: People build systems, then break them, and then edit.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts. As Michael Dell predicts , “Building systems that are built for AI first is really inevitable.” As a current example, consider ChatGPT by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Following nearly four years in the prototype phase, Cana Technology is unveiling what it calls the “world’s first molecular beverage printer” after securing $30 million in funding from venture foundry The Production Board. The company has partnered with certain brands for drinks and also created their own combinations. “It

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Brodmann17, an Israeli computer vision technology startup that developed a novel approach to take on a marketplace dominated by Mobileye, shut down this week. The trio focused their efforts on developing a new approach to computer vision technology designed to support advanced driver assistance systems. We just needed more time.”

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APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. Google also saw an increase in its market share.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today, one of the companies building tools to meet that demand — a startup called m3ter — is coming out of stealth, and as sign of the state of the market, it already has customers and a tidy sum of funding. It was just last week that another usage-based pricing company, Metronome, announced its own round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” ” Khoury has a colorful background.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When one company acquires another, it’s typically to enter a new market, gain market share, or obtain a new technology. In all three cases, IT systems and the data they hold are crucial to the realization of those goals. You’re buying people just as much as you’re buying technology,” he says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sure, due diligence matters in the investment process, but lying about your capabilities can undercut the founder-investor relationship — and in extreme cases, to the detriment of the larger, global startup market. Soon she was the CEO of a company with a $10 billion valuation, but it turned out that the technology didn’t work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off. This is a struggle for companies of every size.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The fundraising news arrives as the Seoul-based company shows off its wares at CES in Las Vegas. The company says the funding will be used to increase research and development and attract new partners as it looks to expand its global footprint. The company is also in the process of eyeing an IPO. New Angle”) camera system.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Their products, research, and technologies are changing the way the world works. The impact of space technology, on other industries, is wide and vast, and the innovation ripple of research has spurred many high-profile products, including Teflon and CAT scans, as well as many more developments from NASA.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Founded in 2013 by Leonid Shangin and Yakov Filippenko, the company offered services to collect customer data and leverage it to create games, texts, and tasks designed to encourage repeat business. ” According to Khlebinsky, Retail Rocket uses a mathematical model to segment first-time buyers of a company’s product. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To solve it — an ambitious goal, to be sure — Hanif Joshaghani and Tiffany Kaminsky co-founded Symend , a company that employs AI and machine learning to automate processes around debt resolution for telcos, banks and utilities. Examples of messages customers might see from brands working with Symend. delinquent credit card).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2022

In the mix were anticipated improvements to its various operating systems and computers — and plans to expand its fintech footprint. Apple has been growing as a consumer finance company for some time, most famously thanks to its Apple Pay service and the launch of a branded credit card in recent years. That could be changing.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta. The formula is well-known: black hat hackers encrypt a company’s data and demand a ransom payment for the decryption key.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. When performing whatever minimal due diligence the cloud platform permits — SOC reports, GDPR compliance, PCI ROC, etc. And what if that Belgian company’s client happens to be a Chinese company?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Africa is the world’s third fastest-growing crypto market, with crypto adoption increasing by more than 1,200% over the last two years. In the latest development, one such company, Bitmama , has raised a pre-seed extension of $1.65 million, adding to the $350,000 it received last October, thus, closing the round at $2 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Global logistics and delivery companies like UPS, FedEx and Amazon have all begun trialing some form of electric bike or cargo bike for delivery. The last-mile delivery market size is expected to hit $123 billion by 2030 , at a compound annual growth rate of 13.21%. The technology is available now, not in 10 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Gbike , a South Korea-based micromobility Gcooter operator, is acquiring Hyundai Motor’s shared micromobility sharing platform ZET as it wants to increase its market share and create technological synergies via ZET’s fleet management system. . The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. .

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Tomago Aluminium is an industry giant in the Asia-Pacific region, and as IT superintendent, Dennis Moncrieff is responsible for leveraging the right technologies to make the process of producing aluminum more efficient. This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Lawmatics , a San Diego startup that’s building marketing and CRM software for lawyers, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 ThoughtRiver nabs $10M to speed up deal-making with AI contract review. They have not only created the best software product the legal market has seen, they have created a movement.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In-session marketing, a form of inbound marketing that attempts to analyze and influence web and app users’ purchasing decisions, is often challenging to implement. With so much competing for consumers’ attention these days, rare is the brand that’s able to make a lasting first impression.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. For example, close to 60% of respondents are using OSS for Database and 53% for Operating Systems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

According to a 2021 survey (albeit from an edge computing services vendor), 77% of companies said that they expect to see more spending for edge projects in 2022. Ready — who, among other ventures, runs a beer brewing company in Indianapolis — co-launched Scale Computing in 2007 with Jason Collier and Scott Loughmiller.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. It will also be doubling down on expanding its technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The market for app performance monitoring (APM) is expected to grow to $6.3 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. The reason? Image Credits: Groundcover.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 21, 2021

Amongst the most pressing issues confronting IT departments, today is system connectivity. Particularly when the number of applications, data, and devices used by each company grows. Not only can an integration platform as a service (IPaaS) integrate any technology. The situation is escalating. Why MuleSoft? Why MuleSoft?

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MagmaLabs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These agencies offer businesses the opportunity to leverage AI technologies and achieve greater productivity and profitability. The primary goal of these agencies is to help companies reduce costs and increase profits by leveraging AI technologies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. The company, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., The company saw 10x sales growth in 2020, Uknes told TechCrunch. AgBiome co-CEOs Scott Uknes and Eric Ward.

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APRIL 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. However, in the last two years, OCI has begun to attract more new customers of its own.”

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