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. Socar’s debut comes amid a sluggish period in the IPO market in South Korea that has prompted a series of Korean companies to delay their listing plans.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 21, 2025

Asia sags to 2014 lows Asia posted its weakest quarter for venture investment since 2014, with only $13 billion going to VC-backed startups in the region, Crunchbase data shows. As in 2024, the decline was largely driven by China, which as the regions largest venture market, significantly sways the numbers. Whats ahead?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” Going after very large markets. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. Step-functionally better consumer experience versus the status quo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

It all starts with creating a product, testing it and finding the right market fit. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. From there, it was off to the races. From there, it was off to the races.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In 2014, it set up an AI Research Institute and technology laboratory with elite schools including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Microsoft. Asia more broadly has a stronger education market because of consumer spending and a cultural focus on outcomes in education.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

While global venture investment rebounded last year , the Asia funding market cratered, totaling only $65.8 billion in 2024 the exact same low the market hit in 2014. Angel and seed fail to sprout Although angel and seed funding do not move the overall total funding numbers much, it can be a sign of where the market is heading.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In Zimbabwe, for instance, only 30% of the adult population had access to any financial services as of 2014. These are issues that affect Africa and emerging markets, not just Zimbabwe. More than 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unbanked, according to World Bank estimates for 2021. Several years ago the numbers were starker.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. Hootsuite was rumored to be worth around $1 billion back in 2014, but if Pitchbook data is anything to go by, Hootsuite was worth about a quarter of a billion less than that figure in 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

billion market cap), Lazada ($1 billion exit to Alibaba), Jumia ($3.2 billion market cap), Zalando ($21.2 billion market cap) and many others. My personal observations on Rocket’s successes and failures start with this crucial point: These learnings might not apply to your unique combination business model, market and timing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

. “We believe the increase in valuation over the past year reflects the progress of our complete DevOps platform towards realizing a greater share of the growing, multi-billion dollar software development market,” he told TechCrunch. GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.75B valuation. ’

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

“The challenges marketing teams face are vast and evolving rapidly, said co-founder and CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy. Founded in 2014, StackAdapt has raised more than $500 million, per the company. This new round follows a $300 million investment from Summit Partners in 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Yesterday, we dug into preliminary Q3 data for the Chinese startup market. The firm ran the numbers on Q1 and Q2 venture performance in their target market. What emerged from the data is a startup market busy accelerating its ability to raise capital, mint unicorns and, increasingly, generate outsized exits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Founded in 2014, Shippit’s technology automates tasks related to order fulfillment, including finding the best carrier for an order, tracking packages and handling returns. Shippit , a Sydney, Australia-based e-commerce logistics platform, will expand in Southeast Asia after closing a $30 million AUD (about $22.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. Physically, the Chinese market also differs greatly from much of the developed West.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Founded in 2014, HappyFresh was the first Instacart-style grocery delivery service to launch in Southeast Asia. It expanded into five markets before shutting down its operations in Taiwan and the Philippines in 2016. The company’s previous round of funding was a $20 million Series C announced in April 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. As the market changed its direction this year, many Indian startups including MobiKwik and Snapdeal have delayed their listing plans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. SiCepat , an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. million packages per day in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

By leveraging this investment, we will capture broader Japanese market opportunities. This acquisition is the first step in an inorganic strategy to ultimately apply Riiid’s AI technology to the global market and help more learners around the world.” . The company expects to address local remote learning and education in the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

The growth funding for the company comes after bootstrapping since 2014, in large part because product managers (PMs) are no longer needed just inside tech companies but have become sought after across almost virtually all industries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

New space startup bluShift wants to bring a new kind of propellant to the small satellite launching market, with rockets powered by bio-derived rocket fuels. These differ from traditional fuels in that they offer safety advantages during handling, and ecological advantages during production and use.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

This means the means the pricing would give Coupang a potential market capitalization between $46 billion to $51 billion, a huge increase over the $9 billion valuation it reached after its last funding round in 2018, led by SoftBank Vision Fund. exchange, and the largest since Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO in 2014.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Talking about the acquisition, Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash said in a statement that the move “will accelerate our product development, bring greater focus to each of our markets and improve the value we provide to consumers, merchants, as well as Dashers and couriers around the world.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent. But at the same time, it solidifies Flutterwave’s position in the eyes of multinationals looking to enter the African market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. Zeitview competes with vendors like PrecisionHawk , Skyspecs and Raptor Maps in the emerging drone services market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. It also provides data points like pricing and demographics to create new brands and market them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. In 2014, Micromax poached Samsung’s country head for mobile and digital imaging Vineet Taneja and appointed him the CEO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Incubate Fund’s investments in ispace stretch back to the company’s seed round in 2014. ” As launch market matures, space opportunities on the ground take off. The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

AfterShip launched in 2012 to help online sellers track packages across different carriers, but since then it has built a suite of data analytics tools covering almost every step of the shopping experience, from email marketing to customer retention. AfterShip’s last round of funding was a $1 million Series A in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay , the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along with Klarna and Affirm. Dovetail helps them build companies from the ground up, preparing them for growth and more funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. China issue. Rising totals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The global market of conversational commerce, also known as chat commerce or conversational marketing, is expected to increase to $290 billion by 2025, up from $41 billion in 2021, representing a 590% rise for the next four years, according to a report by Juniper Research. Image Credits: Zeals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Over 100 million people live in the North African country compared to Saudi Arabia’s 30 million+ people, yet the e-commerce market in Egypt is a third of Saudi Arabia’s. As online payments boomed globally and in Egypt and upon finding out via research that the market size for last-mile delivery in MENA stands at over $3.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The Series B will be used to accelerate growth and expand to Brazil and nine other markets in Central America. We focus on going into the markets and we basically rebuild an entire infrastructure, so we put everything into one API,” said Schwarzkopf. “We never thought that we would return home [from the U.S.]

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