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JULY 11, 2024

The region suffered its worst quarter for venture funding since the final quarter of 2015, with Asia-based startups raising only $14.6 India, by far the region’s secondest largest venture market, saw $3.4 What it means The shrinking of the venture market through the last handful of quarters is shocking. billion of funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I’m telling this story because I think it says something about what companies and their cybersecurity organizations need to be doing to power over one of their highest hurdles: hiring great talent in an absurdly tight labor market. Drive, ambition, calm under pressure, team spirit and situational awareness are far more important.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. food market and further positions Nestlé to win in the future.” Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

So far it has concentrated on the lucrative European market. The European logistics and freight sector has a market size of $427 billion. The whole digital freight forwarding market is booming. Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets. It says it will move over 1 million truckloads this year.

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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.”. Indeed, 2015 was the year when CACs began to exceed or at least rival ARPUs for Alibaba and JD.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. Moreover, this also allows Wefox to enter new markets more quickly. ” Customer acquisition.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a slow exit market, investors have had to become more creative in finding ways to bring cash back to their pockets and those of their limited partners. Secondary financings have become one way to solve the liquidity crunch facing the venture markets and its backers. Why would Wiz go public today?” “Why would Wiz go public today?”

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

In 2015, the launch of YOLO — a high-performing computer vision model that could produce predictions for real-time object detection — started an avalanche of progress that sped up computer vision’s jump from research to market. He holds an S.M. in Applied Physics from Harvard University, an M.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Chanje (2015-2021). The company announced plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles from Chanje Energy, a California-based and China-backed startup founded in 2015. Katerra (2015-2021). Founded in 2015, Katerra had at one point been valued at $4 billion and employed more than 8,000 people. Loon (2015-2021).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

billion worth of bitcoin, thus massively boosting the mainstream markets for crypto assets. Wattenström created and listed the digital asset ETP on Nasdaq Nordic in 2015. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Brands are always looking for new ways to get in front of potential customers, but though influencer marketing has grown, it’s still not so easy for brands to find the right person. That has now changed: the global influencer marketing market has more than doubled since 2019 and is poised to be valued at $13.8 billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Baffle was founded in 2015 to help thwart the increasing threats to enterprise assets in public and private clouds. Baffle, which says it has seen threefold revenue growth over the past year, tells TechCrunch that the funds will be used to help it grow to meet market demand and to invest further in product development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from returning investors Accel, Amasia and Goat Capital, the venture firm co-founded by former Y Combinator partner Justin Kan (in 2015, Xendit became the first Indonesian startup to participate in the accelerator program). Accel led Xendit’s $64.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. It does things like help these firms with building a website, effective SEO, email marketing/automation, online scheduling and, of course, online payments and invoicing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pharmaceutical supply chain across Africa has for decades remained fragmented leading to sourcing and distribution challenges as well as quality concerns; as fake and substandard products flood the market. This is besides its more grandiose plan of venturing outside Nigeria into other markets within Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas. Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, was one of the first travel aggregation platforms on the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And while the grocery delivery market has become increasingly competitive, Hall argued that Good Eggs stands out thanks to the quality and breadth of its products — 70% of its products are locally sourced, and it often delivers them within 48 hours of harvesting. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program. The company aims to commercialize it in these markets in 2022, Maggs said, adding that it is also laying the groundwork to enter Asian markets such as Japan and Korea in 2023.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

She led product, marketing and revenue and was on the executive team that eventually sold PoF to Match Group for $575 million in 2015. I fundamentally believe in our product and I see this open opportunity in the market. Snack , founded by Kimberly Kaplan, looks to merge the popularity and format of TikTok with the dating world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The corporation may not have gross assets in excess of $50 million in fair market value at the time the stock is issued. This rule was changed for stock acquired after September 27, 2010, and before January 1, 2015, such that the gain on such stock was fully excluded and no portion of the gain was an item of tax preference.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The New York-headquartered firm, which counts India among its top three markets globally, has deployed over $6.5 billion in the South Asian market since inception, TechCrunch reported last year. “We have seen incremental profit margins on market leaders be fabulous. A slide from Tiger Global’s presentation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform. “There’s top-notch talent from top-notch universities that’s still untapped.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2021

” Born and raised in the United States, Sinha moved to Bangladesh in 2015 to start working on Praava. ” Most of Praava’s patients currently pay per visit, and its pricing is at market rate, between Bangladesh’s public healthcare system and more expensive private hospitals.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

For its part, Fidelity said its purchase of Shoobx is a sign of its commitment to the private market “and will help to satisfy an increasing demand Fidelity sees from private companies to support them as they scale and grow.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. The company’s costs showed modest gains and losses, apart from its sales and marketing line item. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. The deal will value Nerdy at $1.7 2021: A SPAC odyssey.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. billion to more than 18 million customers across these markets, granting up to 120 million individual loans.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Amazon has entered the financial services and insurance markets of India in recent years. Founded by three IIT Kharagpur graduates in July 2015, Smallcase offers a platform to help introduce a new generation of investors to the Indian equity markets. Now it is paving the way to foray into the wealth management category.

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MARCH 30, 2023

MENA VC Flat6Labs’ new fund to back startups in East, West Africa The fund will finance startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia, markets where Oxfam, and Goodwell have a presence. Development organization Oxfam runs an SME incubation program in the three markets, while Goodwell’s funds are active in both Uganda and Kenya.

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JUNE 29, 2021

While the Kites website reveals little about it other than an address, the company About page on LinkedIn indicates that the startup was founded in 2015 by two researchers who taught at Carnegie Mellon and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with the goal of building machine learning translation tooling.

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JUNE 8, 2022

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. The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

million since its inception in 2015 and plans to raise a Series B in early 2022 to drive its rapid growth, the company said. After Kakao’s stock market debut, the four co-founders, who wanted to try again to build a company with global impact, uprooted their lives in Seoul and moved to Silicon Valley to develop the future in VR. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Quizlet’s quiet march toward the public markets has been slow yet steady. It was fully bootstrapped until 2015. Quizlet’s pursuit of the public markets comes as other edtech companies are proving the market’s reception to the sector. It also reclaimed the Q from its less fortunate predecessor, amid an entire rebrand.

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