TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Now, a German startup thinks it can freeze those refrigerants out of the market using little more than magnets and water while consuming up to 40% less energy. The global market for commercial refrigeration is worth $37 billion, according to Grand View Research. Magnets and water net Magnotherm $6.9M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

PitchBook data indicates that the company was worth $28 million on a post-money basis following the investment, implying that the company’s backers managed a roughly 5x return on their investment. Sure, some companies are including retail questions in their earnings calls, but what Say has in mind is broader.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. The answer is simple: Growth marketing. Booting up an email marketing campaign. Launching a paid acquisition channel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

E-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has received a $100 million strategic investment from Shopify, according to documents filed with the U.S. There’s no shortage of competition in the marketing automation tech space (see Sendlane , Sendinblue and Cordial to name a few). The company posted a $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Canoo’s first-quarter earnings shows a company burning through cash, no near-term revenue and a warning that it may not have enough money to stay in business. in after-market trading following the release of its earnings. Canoo’s net loss reached $125.4 with a market valuation of $2.4 million, compared to $15.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Airbnb filed to go public today , bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. ai themselves filed to go public in what could be a rush to the public markets by richly valued startups. Airbnb’s financial performance.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Shares of China-based autonomous driving company Pony.ai were up around 19% in early trading Wednesday after the company made its Nasdaq debut. The company says it plans to use the proceeds to carry out the large-scale commercialization of its autonomous driving technology, including both robotaxi and robotruck services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar , South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. million), giving the car-sharing company a valuation of 966.5 million), giving the car-sharing company a valuation of 966.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Years ago, Will Allred and William Ballance were developing a tech platform, Sorter, to apply personality and communication psychology to marketing campaigns. Just as Sorter was heading to market, the pandemic hit — and marketing budgets froze. “In today’s climate, teams have to do more with less.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These venues for buyers and sellers of business-related products are exploding in popularity, fueled by better infrastructure, payments and security on the back-end and companies’ increased need to conduct business online during the pandemic. But one area of the B2B e-commerce sector holds outsized promise: marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech startup Nerdy , which owns the popular tutoring business Varsity Tutors, is seeking to become a public company through a special purpose acquisition vehicle, otherwise known as a SPAC. Like other edtech companies , Varsity Tutors uses artificial intelligence and data analytics to better match experts to learners.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The company said the layoffs were part of “realigning our global workforce.” CEO Dennis Woodside said in an analyst call to discuss the earnings that Freshworks “ended the quarter with more than 69,600 total customers with a net add of more than 800 customers.” The reality is that a lot of companies did over hire at some point.

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JUNE 3, 2025

Companies across every industry are looking for data experts who can help fuel AI, Ruiz says. With security threats growing more sophisticated, companies are expanding their hiring of ethical hackers and penetration testers, says Travis Lindemoen , managing director at Nexus IT Group. The demand is growing fast.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

“Coho AI has developed a unique data consolidation platform that models the business value of a software-as-a-service company and maps it to the behavior of the customers in real time using machine learning and advanced analytics,” Falcon told TechCrunch in an email interview. He declined to provide revenue figures, however.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s not a surprise, as COVID-19 caused many ride-hailing markets to freeze, limiting demand for folks moving around. But the decline in demand harmed both companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. We can see that in their full-year numbers. Uber’s revenue fell from $13 billion in 2019 to $11.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

The company announced Thursday the opening of its production facility, dubbed “Mega Ranch,” in Colorado. Tyler Huggins, co-founder and CEO of Meati Foods, told TechCrunch that the company wasn’t actively seeking additional capital, but had decided to keep the Series C round open due to additional investor interest.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

High retention indicates strong product-market fit. Companies with best-in-class retention grow at least 1.5x-3x Even at scale, sales and marketing expenses make up the majority of your expenditure. It’s no surprise, given all this, that companies with higher net revenue retention often command higher valuations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

After TechCrunch broke the news yesterday that Coursera was planning to file its S-1 today, the edtech company officially dropped the document Friday evening. billion by the private markets, when it most recently raised a Series F round in October 2020 that was worth $130 million. million net deficit. million in top line.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This morning Creatio , a Boston-based software company, announced that it has raised $68 million. Per Kostereva, her company’s low-code platform helps other companies automate business processes. To see another low-code company raise a big check was therefore not too surprising. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. and Mexico, with plans to extend that capacity to other large markets this year. .

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Glendale, California-based company, which provides cloud-based software for residential and commercial HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other field-service businesses, filed its S-1 Monday. Founded in 2012, the company had previously raised at least $1.5 Net loss for that period totaled $92 million in 2024, down 12% from a year ago.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Glendale, California-based company, which offers a platform for building services professionals, priced its IPO at $71 per share late Wednesday. That was above the projected range of between $65 and $67 and set an initial valuation for the company of around $6.3 billion following a 2021 funding round, near the market peak.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder , plans to list its share on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.” But before we do, the company’s board makeup, namely that it is over 70% women is already drawing plaudits. Net income of $68.6 Net income of -$116.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

That’s partly because there is a limited number of workers with these skills, and partly because it’s not just technology companies that are looking for technical talent. Enter Hackajob , a two-sided marketplace that brings together technical candidates and companies looking for help.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Successful CIOs work hand-in-hand with their C-suite peers to ensure that IT initiatives reflect the company’s ambitions—enhancing operational efficiency, driving innovation, or expanding market presence. For instance, tools such as Net Promoter Scores (NPS) can assess how IT initiatives improve the customer experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi , the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 In addition to payments company Nets/Concardis, Orderbird’s other investors had included Digital+ Partners and Metro Group, and it had raised around $55 million in all.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And by 2033, the same study predicts that AI solutions will result in more than half a billion net new human jobs. Do it right—now In 1995, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sent an internal company memo calling the internet a “tidal wave” that would be crucial to every part of the company’s business. IBM’s research supports this.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

The 400-person company, which we explored in great detail in our EC-1 , was co-founded by Luis von Ahn, the inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and Severin Hacker. The company has had a somewhat circuitous journey — full of trial and error — on finding the perfect business model. billion, has officially filed to go public.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

In an S-1 filing on Thursday , the security company revealed that for the three months ending April 30, its revenues increased by 108% year-on-year to $37.4 Despite this pandemic-fueled growth, SentinelOne’s net losses more than doubled from $26.6 million and its customer base grew to 4,700, up from 2,700 a year prior.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The investment comes just months after the company secured a combined $60 million asset and equity financing. What it’s doing is basically allowing businesses to defer payments digitally and on better terms than what they’ve seen historically via an automated underwriting process, the company claims. Image Credits: Resolve.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Which is why Advanced Ionics is a hydrogen company that has nothing to do with transportation. Amid the crowd of hydrogen companies hoping to elbow their way into these markets, Advanced Ionics hopes its more efficient approach to using electrolysis will give it an unfair advantage in producing hydrogen.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The company said it does not expect the bank to have a material impact on its consolidated balance sheet, total net revenue, gross profit, or adjusted EBITDA in 2021. Opening the bank “deepens Square’s unique ability to expand access to loans and banking tools to underserved populations,” the company said.

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APRIL 30, 2025

UIPaths 2025 Agentic AI Report surveyed US IT execs from companies with $1 billion or more in revenue and found that 93% are highly interested in agentic AI for their business. AI agents are valuable across sales, service, marketing, IT, HR, and really all business teams, says Andy White, SVP of business technology at Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Here’s about 1,000 words on something that I’ve been chewing on for a few weeks! — Alex Under pressure Modern software companies grow in two key ways. This is called net retention, net revenue retention (NRR) or net dollar retention (NDR).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

According to research by Gainsight, a customer success software platform, “companies that invest 10% or more of their revenue into the CS function have the highest net recurring revenue (NRR).”. Simply put, these jobs serve a critical role in tech companies today. Companies mostly deploy two or more customer success archetypes.

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