TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets. and Asian markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury, founded in 2011 but out of stealth since 2014, has now raised $106 million, and we understand from a source close to the company that the valuation is in the range of between $200 million and $300 million. In terms of the wider industrial market, the funding and Augury’s growth are coming at a key moment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories from TechCrunch dot-com this week. whereas in 2014 around 71% of teens used Facebook, the study says in 2022 that number has dropped down to 32%. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Is Facebook for old people? other stuff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

However, with today’s IPO market frozen like a glacier, any and all exit data is welcome. If Mobileye manages a smooth IPO at an attractive price, the company could help shake loose the exit market for tech companies. No single IPO will fix a bear market, but it would help. Mobileye’s market cap was about $10.5

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly gambled that merging two market leaders in the aircraft leasing industry, one of the biggest M&A deals in recent years valued at around $30 billion, would pay off as the sector bounced back from a slump caused by the pandemic. The main driver for moving to a single cloud provider is skills.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. In Zimbabwe, for instance, only 30% of the adult population had access to any financial services as of 2014. million in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

‘High conviction, low volume’ Playfair, for its part, seeks out founders “outside of dominant tech hubs,” as well as founders working on projects that may run more tangential to where the main hype and “buzzy-ness” exists. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It was a much-needed success for the African music scene, and though it didn’t appear so, it was a boost for its tech scene. . Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. Europe and globally. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

I was blown away by the ubiquity and convenience of mobile money in 2014 when I visited Kenya for the first time. Similarly, a Nigerian or South African with a bank account cannot make transactions with an M-Pesa mobile money account or an MTN Ghana account due to the difference in payment ecosystems.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2014

By Bob Gourley The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory is holding a Data Science Symposium we believe will be of high interest to the enterprise CTO community. Please submit your topics in accordance with the below (From: [link] ): Data Science Symposium 2014.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

“We seek out exceptional founding teams whose business plan is centered on the strategic utilization of technology to gain a competitive advantage. Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively. We don’t limit ourselves to any specific sector,” Kazah said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Unparalleled contrasts have marked the last decade and a half — from the devastating plunge of a major housing crash to the soaring heights of the longest bull market and the unforeseen havoc of a global pandemic. Flyover Tech ) have played a significant role in this shift. the free YC Startup School courses).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

More posts by this contributor Edtech’s honeymoon might be over, but expect a second boom Despite creaky markets, European edtech is showing its resilience During the darkest days of the pandemic, money was no object in many developed markets. Against this background, we formed our annual review of European edtech activity for 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Western Technology Investment and Javelin Venture Partners led the latest funding round, which brings Pixalate’s total funding to $22.7 million Series A round raised back in 2014, Jalal Nasir, founder and CEO of Pixalate, told TechCrunch. The company grew 1,200% in revenue since 2014 and is gathering over 2 terabytes of data per month.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

In the aughts, Tiger Global participated in just 30 deals, according to The Generalist , a newsletter on topics around tech and crypto. However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Rather than striking covertly and selectively, Tiger began papering a vast swath of the market.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and e ach day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. Ghansah is a serial entrepreneur. L-R: Barima Effah and Jesse Ghansah.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Hiring in the IT industry has traditionally relied on reviewing a candidate’s experience and education, with less focus on specific skillsets. As you identify and categorize skills, it’s important to review job descriptions as well to ensure they’re up-to-date and don’t include any unnecessary skills or vague requirements.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Funding and activity were centered in a couple of markets and there were just a few growing companies gaining interest. Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. But that’s no longer the case.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Nubank’s IPO is coming into closer focus after the Brazilian neobank filed privately to list its shares in both the United States and its home market, later releasing a public IPO filing. QED partner Lauren Morton is dedicated to the Latin American market for the investor, so we reached out to get her take on recent results from the region.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2014 when we featured the company , the pitch then from IroFit (ZirooPay’s parent company) was that its “Internet-free” tech —a mobile platform for small businesses to accept card payments via a mobile app and EMV-certified card reader — operated in areas where there is no data coverage, particularly in emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“InstaDeep happened to be quite different from other companies in our pipeline as they were actually into deep tech versus applying technology to a certain sector, where basically, you become an operator in that sector. And it was also interesting, especially in Africa, where such companies are quite rare.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. The last startup he co-founded before Blockstream was Dan’s Plan, a health tech company.

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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 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. Concept illustration depicting technical support. ” Support and services. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. We’ve seen widespread losses in global equity markets this year. The markets have now become skittish, as evidenced by widespread correlation across asset classes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is expected to hold one of the biggest tech IPOs of the year on March 11. In 2020, it increased its market share to 24.6%, up from 18.1% Coupang market share. This is due in large part to Coupang’s heavy investment in logistics. We’ve seen this with Kakao, Naver, and now Coupang.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed? “Digital art has become an accepted, mainstream medium with the market accelerating largely due to the explosive growth of NFTs,” said Niio CEO and co-founder Rob Anders. Digital art has long been on our radar at L Catterton. “We

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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. Clearly the tech giant was interested in its features, many of which it incorporated into the iPhone weather app. There was a time that Katerra was considered the darling of the construction tech world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

But just 40,000 people attended, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Somewhere around 2014 or so, CES turned into a car show. Technology that is further away from commercialization showed up, but not in the same force as in previous years. That’s a 75% decline. Fill that vacuum.”

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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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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

These are some of the hot technology stories we are following… The Mysterious Company That Has Tech Giants Dropping 2 Million. Increased Technology Innovation Necessary to Grow Business. — dominated Big Data news this week, while the third, MapR Technologies Inc., Read more on ABC News.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 5, 2015

Here are some of the technology stories we are tracking: Ulrich Beck, Sociologist Who Warned of Dangers of Technology , Is Dead at 70. CES 2015: What the Biggest Tech Trends Will Be. NASA explores inflatable spacecraft technology. 2014''s innovations in technology far-reaching. virtual-reality technology.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Tavakoli previously founded video advertising startup Videoplaza, and sold it to Ooyala in 2014. Within the product pipeline are spreadable and melting cheese that Tavakoli expects to be on the market in the next 12 months. He ended up in the world of food, plant-based food, in particular. Together they started Stockeld in 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

CEO Tunde Kara , in an interview with TechCrunch, said Vendease plans to use the investment to deepen operations, consolidate its presence in eight cities across Nigeria and Ghana (the company recently expanded to the latter), move into new markets and build new products to increase customers’ efficiency. And that’s what keeps us going.”.

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