TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

billion, as a growing number of high-profile investors back the Indian social commerce startup that is reporting strong growth despite the pandemic. Fidelity and B Capital Group co-led the new financing round, bringing the startup’s all-time raise to over $1 billion. Everything else was primarily offline.”. Image Credits: Bernstein).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Among players in the online group emotional support space there is Pace (which raised $14.9 Circles, a platform for online group emotional support, joined the fray in 2020, and has today raised $16.5 Circles is addressing a gap in the market with the powerful yet simple principle of human connection. million) and Quilt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC, according to a filing with the SEC. These blank-check corporations, as they’re also known, have become a popular way to raise money from the public markets.

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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. General Catalyst — one of the group of VCs out of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Kapu , a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Kapu and Tushop are both enabling group buying of food supplies through agents and WhatsApp.

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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 startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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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 says it has thousands of new organic users each week and plans to scale growth through marketing. “We We’re also going to invest in the team itself, HR and marketing and branding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Hosts can also set up an email marketing campaign, in addition to promoting their bookable experience across their social media channels. “We will be growing our sales and marketing efforts to open up the platform for more creators and their communities.

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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. It’s not only a social platform, it is the best post-purchase experience — shipping, rewards, returns — everything people love and in a two-click process,” he added.

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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. Super, an Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce startup, raises $28M led by SoftBank Ventures Asia. Image Credits: Evermos.

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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 says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries. The platform also has private groups that users can invite each other to. Image Credits: MyPlace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Tupshop is powering group-buying in Kenya. Image credits : Tushop. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

People who purchase as a group, for anything from insurance to a group of neighbors fixing their fence, can often command a better purchase deal. The social commerce company, formerly known as Zapt, was founded in 2020 by Guilherme Nazareth, Guilherme Alvarenga and João Jönk. There was a full WhatsApp group and a 100% waitlist.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We’re bringing together experts from the Northeast and Silicon Valley to chat through myriad startup core competencies — from fundraising to operations to marketing — and outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. On April 20, we’re excited to bring our show to Boston, Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch. Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Regie.ai , a startup using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, South Park Commons, Day One Ventures and prominent angel investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. The company saw the opportunity in this market by observing what women were already discussing on the app, Kennedy says. The expansion may bring a broader group of women to Peanut.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Also in our Deals of the Week category was news form a former WeWork denizen that wants to help you plan a tiny home, and notes on how Klarna has wound up finding a huge market in the United States. Scooters and social media companies are surprising IPO candidates by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

SEB Alliance, the venture arm of kitchen appliance maker Groupe SEB, Korelya Capital and Algaé Ventures are also participating. Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. That’s why having Groupe SEB as an investor makes sense.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Black Swan taps into data from conversations on social media and analyzes the data to map “growth opportunities” for companies, attempting to identify trend signals more accurately than traditional market research approaches. “Black Swan is akin to the world’s largest focus group. to start Black Swan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

SoleSavy is a group of communities that is currently mostly hosted on Slack. . You only have to look at how hard it was to get a PS5 or Xbox One X or a GPU for the holiday season, and how many services, Twitter accounts and monitor groups rose up to try to help people do that to see what the future of shopping looks like. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew. Kwan Kim recently joined Archive.ai

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. The Los Angeles-based company was started in 2019 by a group of five Snap alums working in various roles within Snap’s revenue product strategy business. Trust dashboard.

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

How will you be taking this to market? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Often this ties to marketing support. For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What channels will you use (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Drimal came up with the idea for a social storytelling app, in part, because she saw the potential when working on the Snapchat “Our Stories” product. An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloe?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Hello, it’s more funding calling : In PhonePe’s quest to raise $1 billion, an investor group that included Tiger Global and Ribbit Capital invested another $100 million into “India’s most valuable fintech startup,” which is valued at $12 billion, Manish writes. Take a deposit, leave a deposit : Andreessen Horowitz led a $4.5 Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

A YC company Apollo Group is also in this space, roughly speaking. How it works is by engaging remote talent from emerging markets which can now (because of the acceptance of remote working, post-pandemic) participate in much higher value roles in finance, strategy, and public policy.

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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. According to the executives, Bitmama started as a WhatsApp group where members learned about crypto, particularly bitcoin, and made transactions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Grand View Research, the global sports betting market is expected to grow to $182.12 So we are seeing a number of startups throng around this market. Plus, Super Bowl ads boosted crypto app downloads by 279%, so there is a burgeoning market. billion in revenue by 2030, up from $76.75 billion last year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers. After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee and Tokopedia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Former CEO and co-founder David Brown will stay on Techstars’ board, while the group’s other co-founder, David Cohen , will become the chairman of its board. TechCrunch was curious, given how large the startup market is, how much space there is left for Techstars to expand into new geographies and niches.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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