TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form of SPACs. If you’ve been following Near or the SPAC market, you might recall that there were rumors of KludeIn talking to Near back in December.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Claravine , a self-described marketing data platform, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Five Elms Capital with participation from Grayhawk Capital, Next Frontier Capital, Peninsula Ventures, Kickstart Fund, and Silverton Partners. ” Claravine’s data management platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

CEO Jon Perl tells TechCrunch that the new cash will go toward expanding QA Wolf’s engineering team as well as ongoing sales and marketing efforts. Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. ” Image Credits: QA Wolf. .”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have long been a driving force for companies seeking exponential growth, gaining market share and creating shareholder value. Facebook’s purchase of Instagram in 2012 allowed the social media behemoth to dominate the photo-sharing space. But all’s not rosy in the world of M&A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. billion (~$241.35

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Optimove , specializing in customer relationship management marketing, wants to help brands “delight” their customers and keep them coming back. Now you can define the message and the marketer will have all of the data and be able to get feedback and analysis of what the customer segment looks like.”.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October, it was reported that Waverly Labs had acquired Abundant’s IP, meaning that its technology may still live on in some form. Dark Sky (2012-2021). Clearly the tech giant was interested in its features, many of which it incorporated into the iPhone weather app. Chanje (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje. Loon (2015-2021).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

The move could affect as much as 30% of UK tech startups, with potentially 10%, industry sources estimate. ” UK investors’joint statement on SVB-UK shut-down It’s understood the UK Prime Minister’s office, Number 10 Downing Street, is working the weekend to assess the impact on its tech industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The last time we covered Vezeeta was in 2020, when it raised $40 million in Series D funding (the joint largest single healthtech round in Africa alongside Reliance Health ) from Gulf Capital and Saudi Technology Ventures (STV). Layoffs hit crypto and real estate tech particularly hard this week. healthtech space.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Covering tech startup IPOs generally involves writing about companies that lose money. Or, more recently, companies like Instacart or Klaviyo that tapped public markets shortly after turning a modest profit. But in most cases, even the most valuable one-time venture-backed technology companies went public before turning profitable.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

” Flores founded the company in 2012, technically before “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) was cool. Since 2012, the company has granted nearly 5 million loans online. Kueski is currently focused on the Mexican market, but it is planning to expand to other countries in Latin America in the future. Image Credits: Kueski.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Agrawal’s newest venture is SirionLabs , which comines AI technologies like natural language processing to import and organize contracts, negotiations, and contract review. “In 2012, myself and Claude Marais, the ex-global head of outsourcing in General Motors, began to brainstorm and envision SirionLabs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It also draws on Golden Gate Ventures’ proprietary database, which dates back to 2012 and tracks information like the time between funding rounds and fundraising success rates, as well as public databases, reports and expert commentary from the New York Stock Exchange. The overall exit landscape.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. When performing whatever minimal due diligence the cloud platform permits — SOC reports, GDPR compliance, PCI ROC, etc. The enterprise IT “pushback is that they do not trust the cloud automation and technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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. After spending an additional two weeks in their offices conducting diligence sessions, the price tag rose even higher — to $3 billion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. Rokas Tamoši?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The Advisory Board members will lend their vision, range of experience, and extensive expertise in the commercial and federal technology space to Endgame’s leadership as the company continues to develop solutions that address a wide array of security problems for its federal and commercial customers. “We Previously, Ms. About Endgame.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. Madrid headquarters of IBM International Business Machine, the American multinational of informatics and technology consulting services, Spain, November 2012. Specifically — an early-stage startup founder.

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CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

Verner Vinge, in his 1986 sci-fi novel, Marooned in Realtime , explored his ideas about exponentially accelerating technology. Rapid Tech Evolution is the New Normal. Others were yelling and screaming that it breaks their existing process and workflow, but yet began adopting it due to financial incentives or penalties imposed.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As the tech economy has adjusted to the current economic environment, there has been a great deal of debate in both the vendor and investor communities about vendor consolidation. Based on the feedback from the CIO Tech Talk base, at least for the near-term the answer appears to be “no”.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the first 8 months of 2022, we reached half that number with 500+ companies announcing layoffs in tech in August. The massive wave of downsizing has hit every tech sector in the world. Meta, Twitter, Netflix, Noom, Wipro, and Oracle are just some of the tech names that have had to let go of their workforce.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. Insider, which was co-founded in Istanbul in 2012, has now raised $772.1 Founded in 2018, the company has raised $1.2 billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required. ” Cherki started to develop the technology that would become Contentsquare as a college student.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

And JCR Licklider, also known as Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, developed this technology. With his interest in information technology and several achievements he achieved during that life stage, he got hired as the IPTO head at ARPA in 1962. Because the concern of data security has risen due to hacking and malware issues.

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CIO

JULY 8, 2022

To help meet demand from enterprises that are shifting asset management methods from legacy applications to cloud-based technology, ERP provider IFS has signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based enterprise asset management (EAM) software firm Ultimo. billion in 2020, according to market research firm MarketsandMarkets.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 3, 2024

That seems unlikely , but then again, all venture-backed startups have to exit sometime, so at least some companies will likely decide to head to the public markets this year. With that in mind, we once again offer up some ideas for companies we think would be top contenders when the public markets eventually reopen for new tech listings.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From its first $100 million fund raised in 2012, the firm has built its practice in enterprise cloud-based services leveraging data and analytics. The firm incubated Vannevar Labs in 2019, before defense tech and AI were as popular as they are today. Pick things that matter — both technologies that matter and problems that matter.”

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2022

MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. Zillow wrote down millions of dollars, slashed workforce due to algorithmic home-buying disaster. The use of mislabeled data or data from unknown sources was a common culprit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

The early team behind Collabio included some devs who worked on Quickoffice but didn’t go to Google as part of that 2012 acquisition. Instead they focused on thinking about how to improve the user experience around documents — finally bringing their long-developed p2p document collaboration product to market last fall.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Ingrid reports Houston said the cuts are due to slowing growth and “the era of AI.” The concept of SaaS as a business model changed the game in tech by moving users away from buying software outright and toward paying for service availability based on time-based subscriptions, typically with per-month or annual pricing, Ingrid reports.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

The continent has not yet laid the foundations of the digital economy to impact the perception of digital money,” says Armand Ngueti, a technical specialist in computer science and president of the Blockchain Association of Cameroon (BAC), launched by the Cameroonian government. Technology comes as a solution to implement digital currency.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

One of its core products is an encrypted “on-device vault” where a user can store their personal data and see insights drawn from it — a feature Roa compared to Spotify’s “Year in Review” but spanning a broader set of preferences and behaviors. . Caden isn’t the first company to make a foray into this space.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 31, 2020

Airline industry made an impact on how we buy things today, and how those things are marketed. Driven by insane competition, airlines relied upon many tools to survive on the market. Besides innovative technologies themselves, marketing plays a huge role in running business successfully.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

If you are into technology and government and want to find ways to enhance your ability to serve big missions you need to be at this event, 25 Feb at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. Nigeria’s SME market alone is valued at $220 billion annually. In hindsight, it appears Ajua could have created a product like Janja in-house due to its vast experience in the consumer experience space. million, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

They allow shoppers to purchase products online and pay in installments with nominal or no fees, and have become more prominent due to how the pandemic accelerated e-commerce market growth around the world. The company started in 2012 as a digital lender. Credit card companies have filled in this gap for a long time.

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