InfoWorld

APRIL 5, 2024

The latest data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker paints a compelling picture of growth in cloud infrastructure sales on demand. IDC says this shows a strategic move towards high-capacity, GPU-heavy servers with higher average price tags favored by hyperscalers. The fourth quarter of 2023 saw an 18.5%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This makes the question of how far above the $100 million ARR mark Podium is today rather important — we can’t effectively calculate the company’s growth rate without an up-to-date figure. billion price tag. Recall that Podium felt cheap during its last raise, given its revenue base and $1.5 Surely money helps.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

Generative AI can be a game-changer for virtually every business in every industry, opening up new possibilities for innovation, efficiency and growth,” Ravi Kumar S, the CEO of Cognizant, said in a news release. The announcement comes amid reluctance among some CIOs regarding the ROI of generative AI copilots.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

If Instagram’s photo tagging feature was spun out into its own app, you’d have the viral sensation Poparazzi , now the No. Poparazzi hasn’t necessarily innovated in terms of its core idea — after all, tagging users in photos has existed for years. 1 app on the App Store. poparazziapp comment it!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Luckily, the S-1 reveals that its earlier decisions led to sharp revenue growth at the company. Duolingo’s S-1 depicts heady growth, monetization, new focus on English certification. million in revenue during the first quarter of 2021, representing a 97% growth from the year-ago period. billion price tag.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Because the company sports a combination of rapid growth and expanding losses that make it a good heat check for the IPO market. Its debut will allow us to answer whether public investors still value growth above all else. The price of growth. Some companies that sport quick growth can have other issues that impact their value.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

That meant OpenSea appeared somewhat inexpensive at its $13 billion price tag when stacked up against the revenue multiples other unicorns were getting in new, aggressive venture capital rounds. TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale! Save 50% on an annual subscription here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founder and CEO Ryan Denehy told TechCrunch that the startup has raised $20 million in what it’s calling a Series D-1 from Harmonic Growth Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Greenspring and Slack Fund. The result of the capital raises and favorable market conditions has been rapid growth. Accelerating goals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Per the publication, the company is targeting a Q2 2023 public debut at around a $12 billion price tag. Recall that Instacart had a huge pandemic run, growing quickly before swapping CEOs , reaccelerating growth, and sticking to its IPO-timing guns. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo said Tuesday it has raised a $36 million Series B in equity and debt financing to reinforce growing consumer demand for secondhand furniture and accelerate growth and market expansion across the country, starting from California. The Series B round comes on the back of its rapid growth. billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. Back then, unicorns were a rarity and that was a far steeper price tag than we felt comfortable offering to a company in an as yet unproven market with no cash flow to speak of.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

We’re counting down until Instacart’s IPO filing drops the private tag and flips public. But when we do get that document, we’ll be hunting through it for notes on Instacart’s revenue mix and per-business line gross margins, along with the usual growth and profit material we observe for every company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. Tile launches a new cat tracking tag with three-year battery life , Ivan reports. Jagmeet has more. No judgment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Startup is a weird word to use for a company worth that much, but as Stripe is still clinging to the private markets like some sort of liferaft, keeps raising external funds, and is presumably more focused on growth than profitability, it retains the hallmark qualities of a tech startup, so, sure, we can call it one.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market. Given brands can control the price they pay for a good, it provides a compelling avenue to boost both top-line growth and bottom-line margin at little labor/production cost. Why the sudden recommerce resurgence? We waste a lot of … everything.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Gorgias offers insights on how to do that with a DTC growth playbook that Lapeyre estimates can result in 44% more revenue for its e-commerce customers. The 2020 e-commerce boom that helped fuel our growth up to our Series B has subsided, but it’s never been a more important time to upgrade the customer experience of online stores.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Drawing on a taxonomy of professional backgrounds and skills, which includes tags across expertise areas, industries and roles, the platform’s AI model attempts to predict the right programs and coach-student matches with the highest probability of achieving desired development outcomes.

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Perficient

JULY 13, 2023

The Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) and Google Tag Manager (GTM) are powerful tools for collecting and analyzing data. ODP provides insights into customer behavior, while GTM simplifies managing marketing tags without modifying website code. It helps optimize marketing campaigns, enhance customer engagement, and drive business growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

We talked through some of the high-level numbers and marveled at the company’s growth. Ramp raises $300 million : In this market, a multibillion-dollar valuation is a win for a fintech, even if Ramp’s new price tag is a bit lower than it was previously. TechCrunch has more on the matter here. billion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Data from Bessemer growth-stage investor Mary D’Onofrio indicates that unicorns that have reached the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) mark are rare. About one in every six unicorns has reached the revenue threshold, which means that a mere 17% of unicorns could defend a $1 billion price tag at a 10x multiple.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

But 2023’s rate of consumer spending growth is not necessarily sustainable in 2024, the NRF’s chief economist warned, so retailers may need all the help they can get. Its SaaS-based Shrink Analyzer application uses a combination of RFID tags, computer vision linked to in-store CCTV, and analytics to help retailers identify causes of loss.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

For this analysis, we look at the nine most active venture and growth investors globally who have racked up the most investments in unicorn companies since 2018. These firms tended to invest earlier in companies and kept investing through the growth in venture markets. In 2021, that number was 471 companies, or 30% of this asset class.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The new money raised unlocks a new round of growth for Cradlewise. The final product the team created was a rather pricy cradle, and I asked the team whether the price tag made sense. “Cradlewise is the only baby product in the market that uses deep tech and AI to learn the baby’s sleep patterns and growth trends.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

The valuation change fits into the larger trend of the value of high-growth technology companies flagging in recent months. At the company’s prior $39 billion price tag, its 2021 revenues would have given it a far greater 21.7x The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. trailing revenue multiple.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

” VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Funds offering ‘friends and family’ checks could bring the change underrepresented founders need Image Credits: Overearth / Getty Images America’s long-standing wealth gap between white and Black households contributes to the lack of diversity among startup founders. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The deal’s price tag will prove lucrative for Truebill shareholders. That’s the precise profile that companies want to put up before going public: big revenues and fast growth. That number will compress as time continues, to the single digits in 2022, provided that growth can keep up at Truebill in the new year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Sources pegged the price tag at $1.1 “We are excited to partner with the Gainsight team in its next phase of growth, helping the company to expand the category it has created and deliver even more solutions that drive retention and growth to businesses across the globe,” Saroya said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Create target customer personas to develop successful growth strategies. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Your positioning statement serves as the foundation for developing your key messaging, value propositions, tag lines, and voice and tone. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. But in its case, photo tagging wasn’t an afterthought; it was the full focus.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

But the hype around AI has fueled the rise of startups such as Lang.ai , which automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues. Competition aside, Sudhakar believes Aisera is well-positioned for growth with over 100 customers and close to 80 million users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The “developer tools” tag on TechCrunch has been busy this year. The company’s growth story was a little odd , and its pricing was seemingly a little rich. Startups around the world are busy creating new developer-focused — or at least developer- forward — solutions at a rapid clip. ai IPO from late 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Today, one called Granulate — which has built software for organizations to handle those loads more intelligently and cost-effectively — is announcing a round of funding after seeing a huge boost in business in the last 10 months, with customer growth up 360% and revenues growing 570%.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

7 With the vast majority (estimated around 85%) of Internet traffic encrypted, there is exponential growth in security risks posed by encrypted channels that can hide harmful content such as viruses, spyware, and other malware challenging security teams to secure an increasingly distributed enterprise and avoid costly repercussions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. Canada, Australia and Asia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

This morning, Crunchbase closed an oversubscribed $50 million series D round led by Alignment Growth with participation from OMERS Ventures, Mayfield and Emergence Capital. McConnell sees differentiation — and raw ambition — as the key to Crunchbase’s continued growth. ” Investors seem convinced. million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database. “The app is quickly internationalizing.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

After that, he co-founded Dovetail without the intention of raising venture capital, instead planning to build the company along the lines of Buffer and Basecamp, well-known technology firms that have pursued a more self-funded approach to growth. That’s actual product-led growth.

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