CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

One thing we have learned during the pandemic is that organizations need to find new ways to build stronger connections with their employees, and that’s precisely what Peakon provides. But this ability to check the pulse of employees goes beyond this crisis period. Workday started the work day with some big news today.

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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. The last time I had interviewed Garg was in 2020, when everyone and their brother was refinancing their homes and Better.com was raking in the cash. There was also a mega-raise, and an acquisition too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

SendOwl enables creators and businesses to sell digital goods such as ebooks, podcasts, online courses, memberships, coaching services, live remote events and more. SendOwl says it has delivered nearly $2 billion of value in digital and virtual goods for tens of thousands of paying merchants across millions of transactions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The startup is bringing a pick-and-shovel play to the coding bootcamp world: instead of creating its own up-skilling curriculum, the startup empowers students to find the best bootcamps for their price point and career goals. Career Karma , founded in 2018 by Ruben Harris , Artur Meyster and Timur Meyster , wants to help.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It is finding patients through digital outreach, community work and hospitals. It is finding patients through digital outreach, community work and hospitals. Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. Four years later, Westermann moved to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

nationwide launch this year — meaning that the proptech is expanding beyond its current footprint of London. nationwide launch this year — meaning that the proptech is expanding beyond its current footprint of London. Backing comes from Axel Springer, alongside previous backers Balderton Capital and Northzone.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That is incredible, considering how difficult it is to find videos, how unfiltered it is and how inaccessible it is for many students who have different learning abilities and learning levels,” said Gross. Beyond the HapYak acquisition, Newsela plans to tap into its access to thousands of videos it has through content providers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

In 2021, Electric said that it doubled users and revenue, leading to annual recurring revenue (ARR) expansion from $17 million in 2020 to $38 million last year, or 124%. Wherever we are in the journey of navigating a pandemic, remote work is still hot. Image Credits: Electric. Hard unicorn data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In 2011, Clickatell got a capital infusion from Sequoia Capital and other investors for its $12 million Series B round to move beyond customer engagement and add payments into one of its numerous offerings. As the largest digital platform in the world with more users than the internet’s 4.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Humane has been around since 2017, but it closed/filed its Series A only last year: $30 million in September 2020 at a $150 million valuation, according to PitchBook. This is a Series B, and it’s coming from some very high-profile backers. RES, Plexo Capital and the legal firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s a tremendous labor of love for our team, and something we’ve been thinking about since the last time we held the show, way back in early March 2020. Frankly, there’s never been a better time to put on a robotics event, and fittingly, we can confidently say that we’ve never put on a robotics event as good as this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They kicked off Los Angeles-based Stoggles in August 2020 with a crowdfunding campaign and then launched an e-commerce website in February 2021. They kicked off Los Angeles-based Stoggles in August 2020 with a crowdfunding campaign and then launched an e-commerce website in February 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Really, this market isn’t good enough? Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. I think it would be nice to IPO when it’s a little bit more sound,” he told CNBC’s Karen Tso.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2023

Taiwan’s semiconductor factories, the source of many of the chips used in the world’s PCs, servers, and mobile phones, operate under a constant threat of disruption. It regularly illustrates its seriousness about reunification by holding military exercises in the seas around Taiwan, including a mock blockade and land bombardment earlier this month.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was then that he realized their “good jobs with 401ks” would never be enough for them, he told TechCrunch. The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

According to a 2020 McKinsey report , almost 90% of sales moved to a videoconference/phone/web sales model in 2020, as business-to-business companies in particular began to see digital interactions as highly important. billion in size by 2028. Image Credits: Zoom.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

If you look at the stock market, the view isn’t very good: the charts are all down and in the red, and all you can see are psychedelics companies tottering by, doing their best to impress cynical investors. How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months ? Well, it depends on where you look.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

About 41% of workers recently surveyed by Willis Towers Watson say that they’re living paycheck to paycheck, while the Bureau of Economic Advisers reports that personal savings rates reached a seven-year low in April — reflecting the dire financial situation many workers find themselves in.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The US presidential election of 2020 has been the most technologically sophisticated ever, but I’m gonna skip because there are relatively few startup angles for us here. Subscribe here. Policies on topics as broad as customer usage and employment or as narrow as a drug chemical got the vote across the country.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Edtech is so widespread, we already need more consumer-friendly nomenclature to describe the products, services and tools it encompasses. Is that “edtech?”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The amount of plastic pouring into our oceans is set to triple by 2040, and most un-recycled plastic in the world is generated by consumer packaged goods. The amount of plastic pouring into our oceans is set to triple by 2040, and most un-recycled plastic in the world is generated by consumer packaged goods. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Bears are hard to find right now: the sector, once undercapitalized, has brought in $10 billion in venture capital funding globally in 2020. As investors told us last week , the biggest consumer opportunity in 2021 and beyond is lifelong learning (and portfolio companies have the profits to prove it).

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A lobby television isn’t all that uncommon or remarkable for a $4.5-billion-dollar billion-dollar company, but what’s on the 85-inch screen in the lobby of Generac’s headquarters certainly is. Simple metrics, but dense with information, telling not only of any one region’s energy landscape but of the entire energy market’s trajectory.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

As always, you can find me on Twitter @nmasc_ or e-mail me at natasha.m@techcrunch.com. It aims to take away the money chores of a relationship, from splitting the bill at dinner to requesting rent through a payment app every month. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation, and with nearly 2,500 startups, it has the highest number of budding tech companies outside London. So to find out what the startup scene in Edinburgh looks like, we spoke to six founders, executives and investors. Andrew Noble , partner, Par Equity.

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MAY 20, 2020

This year, I was so excited about doing a workshop about optimizing Python & Django apps with Postgres superpowers for the PyCon 2020 conference. Working with other developers on performance is something I always find amazing. Where to find this PyCon video on Django performance. pycon2020. On this very blog post, below.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Dover was part of YC’s Summer 2019 class (which debuted in August 2020 ), and Founders Fund led its seed round. A new startup is hoping to change that, and it’s picked up some funding on strong, early signs of traction. Tiger Global led the Series A round, with Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, and Y Combinator also investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

is the brainchild of CEO Maria Grineva , who sold a previous data startup called Orb Intelligence to Dun & Bradstreet back in 2020; CTO Fedor Soprunov , previously a machine learning researcher at Russian tech titan Yandex; and product head Dmitry Pyanov , who has worked in product teams at companies including Yandex and Replika.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2023

It’s a situation raising a critical question for every IT and business leader: How can we increasingly harness technology not just for technology’s sake, but for the good we can do with it? It was also the motivator behind every presentation and technology investment discussion at this year’s Infosys APAC Confluence event.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company has picked up $150 million and says that since quietly opening for business in mid-2020 it has already acquired 20 startups in categories like home, leisure and lifestyle across Europe, the United States and Asia. Today, one of the latest of these, Branded Group , is coming out of stealth with a significant round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The Australian lidar maker has raised a $31M B round to continue the deployment and development of its “unique and ingenious” imaging system, with participation beyond the usual VC suspects. As co-founder and CEO Federico Collarte told me back in 2020 of the lidar industry, “if you don’t differentiate, you die.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. Steinbruch himself also has an interesting background.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Coburn, previously CEO of DoubleDutch, had been under a non-compete with its acquirer until December 2020, which is one reason why he didn’t first attempt a return to the events space. The team’s original idea was to help people who were missing out on social connections under Covid lockdowns find a way to meet others and chat online.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Will your company be in compliance? Modeled after the EU’s GDPR, the new regulations “[introduce] perhaps the most stringent set of requirements and protections for data privacy in the world,” writes Scott W. Pink, special counsel in O’Melveny’s Data Security & Privacy practice. based firms that service Chinese consumers. PT/5 p.m.

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CodeSignal

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Recently, we conducted a survey asking technical recruiting professionals what trends they anticipated for 2020. Beyond degrees, organizations are also no longer requiring a certain number of years of experience overall or in specific languages. Distributed teams just make good business sense! More Distributed Engineering Teams.

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