TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019. StackRox was founded in 2014 and raised over $65 million, according to Crunchbase data. StackRox’s acquisition is part of some consolidation we have been seeing in the Kubernetes space in general and the security space more specifically.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. In China, that distribution network was present across the digital and physical worlds.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

From Blasé to Bad Ass I was recently turned on to a TED talk that legendary skateboarder Rodney Mullen gave back in 2014. Founded in 2014, the CTA is a non-profit organization that exemplifies the skateboarding collective Mullen describes. And, like skaters sharing new tricks, threat intelligence thrives on collective discovery.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. Starting in 2014, wireless carriers began offering free smartphones, and once truckers got their hands on these devices, the industry quickly started to change. Convoy launched at the right time, CEO Chris Howard told me. Join the event here.

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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. With funding from Algorand, FlexID aims to make its decentralized identity network available in emerging markets where over one billion people are estimated to lack formal identification, the startup said in an announcement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Ninja Van raises $30M to build a regional logistics network in Southeast Asia. This round comes after its $279 million Series D round at about $750 million of valuation in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Founder and chief executive officer Bimbola Adisa , an aerospace engineer, started the company in 2014 after working several years for a power turbine manufacturer and as an investment banker covering the power sector in the U.S. Adisa launched BPS in 2014 to address the inadequate electricity supply from power distribution companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million. Ko said Summer International differentiates by owning its own distribution network and it also has a network of live commerce and social commerce distributors, mainly micro influencers based in Southeast Asia. “It

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Its a complex neural network, powered by algorithms that interact with an exponential amount of data, mimicking the human brains learning process. Fast forward to 2014, when I joined IBM as an associate partner in their Innovation Practice for Natural Resources, focusing on Cognitive (Watson IBMs version of AI and deep learning models).

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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 focuses in particular on e-commerce and social commerce, or people who sell goods through their social media networks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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. Western Technology Investment and Javelin Venture Partners led the latest funding round, which brings Pixalate’s total funding to $22.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Because the HotelPlus client-base currently uses on-premise software, this creates a unique integration opportunity with our cloud solutions…We are creating a massive win-win situation for the HotelPlus clients, in other words,” said Bauck, who co-founded HotelOnline with Endre Opal in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 2014, was most recently valued at just over $4.5 Confluent became the latest company to announce its intent to take the IPO route, officially filing its S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week. billion when it raised $250 million last April.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Founded in 2014, Great Deals is an e-commerce enabler that helps brands like Abbot, L’Oréal and Unilever build their online retail operations in the Philippines. The investment by Fast Group, which has a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles and 90,000 stores in its distribution network, marks the beginning of a strategic partnership.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014. Meralli told TechCrunch it is easiest to think of SwipeRx as a LinkedIn meets Amazon for pharmacies. Certainly, SwipeRx — which raised $6.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. “In 2014, three months after we found out that there was no investor to put them in front of. The plan was to run LeadPath like Y Combinator but it didn’t take off as planned.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Chief executive officer and co-founder Francesca Chia founded GoGet in 2014. GoGet’s platform also has career-building features, including online trainings and networking tools, so workers can prepare for jobs that require different skill sets. Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. Extra Crunch Live has left room for you to network (you gotta network to get work, amirite?).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Prior to his appointment, Walsh served as the mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021, where he led the creation of close to 140,000 jobs and helped secure a statewide $15/hour minimum wage, paid sick leave and paid parental leave. From 1997 to 2014, Walsh served as a State Representative for one of the most diverse districts in Massachusetts.

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Inception Framework’s attack methodology has evolved since it was first detected in 2014 in part by Waylon Grange, senior threat researcher at computer security company Symantec. Grange speculated in 2014 that its APTs could be the work of “a medium-sized nation state, or possibly a resourceful and professional private entity.”.

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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. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Workrise was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. Workrise’s online platform matches workers with over 500 companies in its network, manages payroll and benefits and provides access to training. Fetcher raises $6.5M to automate parts of the recruiting process.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. Investments from its mentor network include Carousell, Dapper Labs, Tiki, Dcard, Yummy Corp and Animoca Brands. AppWorks’ total assets under management (AUM) is now $212 million. Want to double your rate of return?

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Notably, Doximity has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data. Doximity is a social network that allows doctors to speak to each other while complying with HIPAA, a federal law that promotes medical privacy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2021

While visiting Bangladesh in 2014 for a family wedding, however, Sinha had a “lightbulb moment” after her mother nearly died after an operation at a top private hospital. The company has a flagship medical center in the Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, and a network of 40 smaller clinics throughout the city.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then. Lydia has the largest P2P network in Europe outside of PayPal and has the potential to grow all across Europe with a mobile-first, customer-focused solution. It seems like Jhawar agrees with that take.

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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. PayPal, Visa expand Instant Transfers for fast payouts globally on all PayPal’s networks. This is a pain point for these businesses, particularly in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families. It started by selling to employers as a benefits platform, which it still does today — the idea being that women could turn to their employers to get access to a network of women’s health and family health provider networks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Overflow allows users to post a selfie video alongside news content out to other social networks. Fisher has been building products for nearly 10 years, most notably coming from Wander, which sold to Yahoo back in 2014. Onboarding to River simply includes ticking boxes for categories that interest you and you’re off to the races.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2014 by James Paterson and Benji Meltzer, Aerobotics is currently focused on building tools for fruit and tree farmers. ” Besides Aerobotics, Naspers Foundry has invested in online cleaning service SweepSouth, and food service platform Food Supply Network. million, according to Aerobotics.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

Founded in 1998, DDN formerly called DataDirect Networks helps companies store, analyze and manage data a value commodity as more businesses look to create and train AI models. Founded in 2014, the company has raised $654 million, per Crunchbase. No lead investor was announced, but investors included B Capital and Kaiser Permanente.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The accelerator has now invested in four logistics and digital freight focused startups, including Nigeria’s Kobo and SEND, ever since it successfully backed Flexport in 2014. That said, it will be interesting to see how this investment plays out in the foreseeable future.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

billion and will fuel further expansion of its logistics networks in Africa and the United States. The company, which launched in 2014, is vertically integrated – meaning it designs and manufactures the unmanned drones, the logistics software, and the accompanying launch and landing system.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Like Windows XP before in 2014 , if you have a Windows 7 computer, it’s long past time for you to shell out some cash for a new one. Block it off, put it on a separate network, implement access controls,” he says. But what can you do to protect your digital resources, if you aren’t in a position to do so?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blockstream focuses on its own sidechain technology, dubbed Liquid Network, and it has bitcoin mining operations and provides hardware wallets for bitcoin and other assets. “I think investment into crypto kind of peaked early last year,” Svenson said on TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast this week.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DeFi network Stellar Enterprise Foundation participated, alongside new investors Kindred Ventures and the J. In 2014, Tala first launched its mobile application to offer credit and collateral-free loans to consumers in Kenya but has since expanded to the Philippines, Mexico and, more recently , India. Safra Group.

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