TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

equities investments to retail investors in all major economies in Latin America, as well as in the United States. and Mexico, with plans to extend that capacity to other large markets this year. . Vest’s founding team is not deterred by recent stock market turmoil. Image Credits: Vest. “That’s not us.

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MARCH 20, 2025

For Gareth Hemming, chief distribution officer for UK retail business at Hiscox, AI is currently streamlining the underwriting process in retail and high-net-worth home insurance, with the potential to provide more value to long-term clients.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a blog post, Robinhood wrote that “Say was built on the belief that everyone should have the same access to the financial markets as Wall Street insiders.” Sure, some companies are including retail questions in their earnings calls, but what Say has in mind is broader. today, despite generally higher markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

.” The report had many interesting findings, but here’s the one that left the biggest impression on me: Startups that adopt USP and product-led growth strategies pay back customer acquisition costs faster and have higher net-dollar retention. The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital. GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader. It does not appear that the current trading scrap will abate soon.

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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). Securities and Exchange Commission.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The future of digital retail has arrived in Paris, naturally. Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. This is not something we can invent with AI in a few seconds.

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CIO

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. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This joint venture will bring our exciting approach to renewable energy and technology to the world’s largest competitive energy market, and the investment will turbocharge our mission to revolutionize energy globally,” said chief executive Greg Jackson (pictured above) in a statement. Australia, Germany and New Zealand. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo , a Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), wants to digitize the local retail value chain via technology. “In They will revolutionize the traditional retail industry in Vietnam with their maniacal focus on the customer and technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

“We operate in an extremely competitive and well-funded industry, and this round allows us to have a long-term mindset when it comes to doubling down on our different markets,” says co-founder and CEO Miki Kuusi in a statement. We simply had no other choice than to do it this way was we came from such a difficult home market”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The new payment option is set to encourage shoppers to transact online because Egypt is currently a predominantly cash-on-delivery market, which El-Said said is a “costly operation for merchants.”. It’s a huge market at the end of the day, you have roughly 250 million people. It’s quite the right market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Commitments to carbon neutrality keep coming from all corners of the business world — over the past few weeks, companies ranging from the fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen to the security-focused networking IT company Palo Alto Networks to the online craft retailer Etsy committed to net-zero carbon emission plans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

10 proptech investors see better era for residential and retail after pandemic. With that move, Knock eliminated its Home Trade-In program, where it helped consumers buy before selling by using its own money to purchase the new home on behalf of the consumer before prepping and listing the consumer’s old house on the open market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

That Robinhood had restricted trading in a number of securities was bombshell news after the consumer trading platform had become synonymous with not only a rise in retail investing, but also a risky wager by some individual investors to push shares of heavily shorted companies, including GameStop, AMC and others higher.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Quick thoughts : Off the back of DoorDash’s IPO, Y Combinator seems set on replicating that success in other markets, including Africa, where the likes of Glovo and Jumia Food are ramping up efforts to grab market share. What it says it does : Building Plaid for insurance in Africa. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Founded in 2017 and owned by blockchain infrastructure firm ICHX, iSTOX’s goal is to open private capital opportunities, including startups, hedge funds and private debt, that are usually limited to a small group of high-net-worth individuals to more institutional and accredited investors. (It and Grab Financial’s investment products.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Amid the growing interest for cryptocurrencies among Asian investors, institutional investors and retail investors are seeking diversification options to hedge against inflation and other risks, the company said in its statement. Its retail investor clients use Cobo Wallet. Binance Labs leads $1.6M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

More recently, the situation has improved for the digital retailer, with Wish managing to grow more quickly in the first three months of 2020. During the first three quarters of 2019, Wish posted net losses of just $5 million, before some preferred stock costs pushed its total deficit to $12 million. billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

“It’s a really convenient way to get into the market and with the ghost kitchen industry in particular, it’s early stage and there’s a lot of runway,” co-founder and chief executive officer Jason Chen told TechCrunch. “We We felt there really was a need to get going as quickly as we could and really get out into the market.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

are still under 20% of all retail sales, so there is over 80% of retail still ripe for e-commerce to grab more market share. “If Luther King Capital Management led the funding, which also included a group of high-net-worth individuals. He also notes e-commerce sales in the U.S. The company currently has 27 employees.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. But only a few players are taking advantage of the market, which can make a case as the next frontier for mobile money and investment apps in Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s been a bizarre few weeks, with Robinhood raising a torrent of new funds to keep its zero-cost trading model afloat during turbulent market conditions, other neo-trading houses changing up their business model and more. Market Notes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. By 2024, analysts predict cars with voice recognition will comprise 60% of the market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Divido, a startup that TechCrunch described as a “white-label [BNPL] platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms,” raised $30 million. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . And Zilch raised $80 million for an “over-the-top” BNPL solution. Growth versus profitability.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

markets, but plans to grow to 50 markets by the end of 2022. Walmart announces GoLocal, a last-mile delivery service for other retailers. Sure, Amazon has a bear hug on about 50% of the last-mile market, and there is no debate that they are doing well here. It is already working in 14 U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Business-to-consumer and consumer brands often use customer satisfaction metrics like Net Promoter Score to understand the customer experience, but Abdulla said current methods don’t provide the “why” of those experiences and are slow, expensive and error-prone. Clootrack team. Image Credits: Clootrack. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

It currently has operations in in five markets: Singapore, Malayasia, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, and is preparing to launch in Thailand. While StashAway has built an reputation for attracting first-time investors, about 20% of its assets under management come from high-net-worth individuals. and AutoWealth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These gatekeepers offer third-party companies access to a global market by providing their own infrastructure. An increasing number of online retailers use such platforms for their e-commerce businesses, which has made these platforms an integral part of compliance procedures. The EU VAT reform. Broad range of VAT rates across the EU.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s been a volatile year for retail investment behemoth Robinhood. In that post, Tenev wrote that while “employees from all functions would be impacted, the layoffs are “particularly concentrated” in the company’s operations, marketing and program management functions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

As a result, Kaji and Yang decided to start Allocate as a way to usher in the next era of venture capital by creating a way for retail investors of any size or background to invest in funds and for managers to find family offices. With the market the way it is, the number of accredited investors is expected to grow by 50% by 2025,” Kaji said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

And we’re not talking about a small-volume market: Some R$2 trillion (Brazilian Reais) in card transactions were processed in 2020. Here’s what this looks like in practice: Let’s say Maria purchases a few articles of clothing from retailer Clothing Incorporated. Maria decides to pay the balance of R$620 over six installments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

billion in a handful of days as it seeks to support a flood of retail investors looking to invest in individual stocks on its app – spurred by Redditors investing in GameStop in a effort to frustrate short sellers, in part. . Popular, highly-scrutinized trading app Robinhood has raised $2.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Rossanis previously served as Uber’s head of growth in retail and new verticals for the Australia and New Zealand market. . Turo plans to put the 20 million registered cars in Australia to better use and expand access for local car owners to a global network of guests,” said Rossanis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The new funding will be used to scale in its main markets of Singapore and Hong Kong, where it currently serves over 100K clients in both markets. Since TechCrunch last covered Endowus, it has launched more services like low cost passive index funds in Singapore and Endowus Private Wealth for high-net-worth individuals.

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