TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Conceptually, social commerce isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Today social networks are more powerful than ever, and startups and corporations are innovating new commerce models that leverage the greater reach available to us.

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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. And, as Follow’s creator network grows, users can subscribe to additional creators to better diversify their portfolios. He was also with J.P.

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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 million them, helping little-known brands sell and distribute their goods via different networks. billion by 2024. Image Credits: Brimore.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Elon Musk buying a huge stake in Twitter , the popular American social network. Here’s what we got into: A strong start to the week from global stocks, and a general updraft to crypto prices in recent days. The move comes after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted that Twitter was not allowing enough free discourse.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When we get on a social network, the first thing that surfaces is normally suggestions for following. One of KNN3’s better-known customers is Mask Network, which enables users to send cryptocurrencies on Web 2.0 “It’s a good time to hire in the bear market because a lot of rivals are downsizing,” Yu said.

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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. The app, a lifestyle social network, had originally launched in arch 2020 but was artificially inflated on TikTok this spring.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Chefclub has been building a major media brand on social media platforms. Finally, the startup plans to enter a new market — consumer-packaged goods. SEB Alliance, the venture arm of kitchen appliance maker Groupe SEB, Korelya Capital and Algaé Ventures are also participating. That’s why having Groupe SEB as an investor makes sense.

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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

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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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

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

APRIL 1, 2022

Gaming: With the huge Axie Infinity hack making headlines , we talked about the matter and how other startups are tinkering with the play-to-earn market. And we closed with the topic of social networks , what Elon Musk is up to and how Facebook managed to confirm everyone’s suspicions about its ethics. Chat Monday!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That’s now been topped up with seed financing to get a prototype to market later this month. ” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. So there could soon be a bunch of apps built atop its network touting social networking services without the meddling hand of Big Tech.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Social commerce sellers can be as small as one person selling products to their followers on social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook. This might not seem like enough to move significant amounts of product, but in many Southeast Asian markets, social commerce sellers are making up an increasingly large portion of e-commerce.

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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

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

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. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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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. The startup is now expanding its network of local agents that consumers can place orders with.

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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. Look for “VR-chat-esque” social platforms—or the adoption onto existing social platforms—with user communities of notable size.

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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 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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg.

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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

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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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. I suffered from a crippling lack of self-worth.”

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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

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. This isn’t a social network. Zenly still wants to make the definitive social maps app. This isn’t a utility.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

But how many of those people do you actually know well, and, more importantly, do you ever connect with them and meet others from their networks? You don’t hang out and spend meaningful time there,” said Alex Taub, co-founder and CEO of Upstream , a new professional networking platform that just closed a $2.75 The origin story.

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Kaseya

JANUARY 27, 2023

Managed service providers (MSPs) are increasingly investing in social media as part of their digital marketing strategies and for good reason. Between 2021 and 2022, social media users increased by more than 10%, with users spending an average of 2 hours and 27 minutes between messaging apps and social media platforms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Investors want to benefit themselves and their own personal and professional networks along the entire journey. Design your shareholder relationships and communications around benefiting investors’ extended personal networks. Here’s how to help investors market your company. They desire a halo effect.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Chief , a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an email seen by TechCrunch that the move is a response to the economy and that the outfit is restructuring to further focus on member experience. The layoff largely hit Chief’s U.S. presence is smaller.

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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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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. Then as part of its community, companies share knowledge of marketing buys and data insights typically reserved for larger advertisers. Trust dashboard. E-commerce sales in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Achieving product-market fit (PMF) arguably ranks as both the No. During his session, aptly named “How to Find Product-Market Fit,” Thacker will share the fundamentals, explain the processes involved and address the challenges. Got product-market fit? 1 strategic objective and the biggest challenge for early-stage founders.

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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. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career. I was in transition twice and wasn’t ready to handle the networking, persistence, and stress that comes with finding a new opportunity. Networking is a lifelong endeavor.

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