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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. Image Credits: Reliance Health.

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MARCH 27, 2023

. “We started our journey at WaveOne, realizing that machine learning and deep learning video technology could potentially change the world. Apple saw this potential and took the opportunity to add it to their technology portfolio.” Perhaps we’ll see similar innovations from the Apple-owned WaveOne team soon.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While Flutterwave has been rumoured to acquire some startups in the past, this is its first public announcement of any acquisition since launching in 2016 to tackle Africa’s payments problems. Oyemade will continue to lead the technology behind the product with a new role as software and architectural lead.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, XM Cyber CEO and co-founder Noam Erez sees the advantages of being part of a large corporation, even if it lacks a technology focus. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor — where he taught classes in space science, aerospace engineering and innovation — he focused on solar, heliospheric and planetary instrumentation and data analysis. Zurbuchen joined NASA in 2016, and he engages people worldwide with the agency’s work and the inspiration of science.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We believe choosing the latter is imperative – because the benefits of genAI can only be realized when combined with human creativity and innovation. If we want a future of AI for all, we should reinvest productivity gains into the people and processes that drive growth and innovation. GenAI is no exception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A group of former Microsoft executives and engineers — Anoop Gupta , Aravind Bala , John Tippett , Vikas Manocha — founded SeekOut in 2016. Overall, it had about 500 customers as of January across a range of industries from technology to pharmaceutical to aerospace and defense to banking. Image courtesy of SeekOut.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. For example, fossil fuel companies in Saudi Arabia will utilize Terra Drone’s technology for inspection services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are some of the most transformative technologies of our generation, and have been a main focus area for Amazon for more than 20 years….[we’re]

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The 21st Century Cures Act, which passed in 2016 and will begin to be enforced this year, outlines information sharing guidelines, API standardization and national infrastructure for sharing this type of information. An increase in healthcare innovation is listed as one of the act’s goals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. These are the kinds of innovations that makes me optimistic about the VR category in general.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

After investing more than $1 trillion in new technology from 2016 through 2019, the majority of banks globally have yet to see any financial boost from digital transformation programs, according to Accenture. Never before has this gap been more prevalent than amid the pandemic as customers migrated online en masse.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Ruthe Farmer is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund , and a global advocate and evangelist for equity and inclusion in technology and engineering. The result is a homogeneous tech sector creating critical technologies that don’t serve everyone equally. More posts by this contributor. What does this mean in practice?

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JULY 23, 2024

He points out that technology without strong governance is risky and uses the example of autonomous vehicles needing a human in the car (or overseeing its operation). At the systems level: Prioritize explainability Jeff Frick has a background in technology and media, and interviews many of today’s most innovative leaders.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a simulation that takes into account body dimensions, fit, size and even the fabric of the garment itself. Deal terms were not disclosed. Image Credits: Walmart.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Murphy’s strategy overall for the economy is to build a stronger and fairer New Jersey and a stronger and fairer economy,” Sullivan said, adding that the state is also focused on “reclaiming New Jersey’s heritage of leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship.”. As one evidence of that, last year Crunchbase found that as of Aug.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Automation and advanced computing was changing how we work and undermining livelihoods before COVID-19, but by 2030, technology and automation will negatively affect hundreds of thousands of jobs that exist today. Since 2016, the retention rate of Black and Latinx employees in Big Tech has fallen from 7% to 5%.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. I experienced hundreds of rejections before raising $2 million to start a mobile payment platform, Bleu, using beacon technology to drive simple and secure payments. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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MARCH 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Terra Drone develops drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft system traffic management solutions. The firm acquired a Netherlands-based drone company, Terra Inspectioneering , in 2018 and invested in Belgium’s drone company Unifly in 2016. . We will be able to scale up operations and innovation faster.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

. “With the addition of Alcide, we can help organizations obtain comprehensive, unified visibility across their entire cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications so that they can continue to rapidly innovate while still remaining secure,” he added. It raised about $12 million along the way, according to Crunchbase data.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

and moved to San Francisco in 2020, was co-founded by Andrew Butt and Denys Shortt in 2015 but launched fully in 2016. Its technology automates how distributors and manufacturers create, execute and track rebates. The new funding will be used for product innovation and building sales and go-to-market teams.

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APRIL 29, 2022

CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. Walmart stores. Hardware is hard and if you don’t do it right, it can be expensive.”.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

This agreement sets two of the most admired financial technology companies in recent history on a path to becoming one. Critical innovations in fintech. Every five to 10 years, the global payments industry undergoes a critical innovation cycle that determines the winners and losers for the next several decades.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

If implemented effectively, open banking will unlock innovation that will transform and improve the customer banking experience. Innovation through engaging with developer community. PSD2 (Revised Payment Service Directive) is an European Union directive that came into force in January 2016. David Beardmore. Potential Impact.

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MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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JUNE 1, 2021

In an attempt to tackle this problem head on, Lincoln Ando and Raphael Melo started idwall in mid-2016. Our mission is to always stay ahead of innovation in our market, and that’s why we invest so much in growth and in building the best possible team to develop our products.”. Its investors are, naturally, bullish. ”

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MAY 25, 2021

eYs3D Microelectronics , a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, eYs3D was spun out of Etron , a fabless IC and system-in-package (SiP) design firm, in 2016.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Image Credits : Einride Pods Founded out of Sweden in 2016, Einride garnered attention in the European mobility space for its cabless self-driving cargo truck that can be controlled remotely by human operators when needed. Einride’s planned transport network grid. Einride in action. . ” Einride’s PepsiCo (Walkers) Truck.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

So Full Harvest got busy developing some technology that includes a spot marketplace with a matching algorithm and visibility so that buyers could see what suppliers had available. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. The company raised an additional $8.5

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JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. His first startup was a successful casual, mostly mobile gaming outfit known as ELEX Technology. Innovations such as return insurance have also sped up customer adoption.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I started my current career path with Hortonworks in 2016, back when we still had to tell people what Hadoop was. Coupled with amazing technology was an amazing team that only grew and improved with the merger with Cloudera. The post A Talented Team, Innovative Technology, and The Opportunity to Grow.

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JULY 20, 2021

Some technologies have helped deal with this menace; for instance, radio frequency identification, which works by assigning serial numbers to containers of each product. More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s about rethinking how we use technology to drive new or improved strategy, people, and operations to meet changing business and customer needs. The ongoing role of CIOs In this third stage of digital transformation, technology leaders need to ask themselves the right questions, including: How can we excel at using data to drive growth?

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JULY 23, 2024

Gen AI has become a priority tool across all industries for all types of companies, where up to 40% have a budget or related gen AI initiatives, and 30% believe this technology is disruptive to the business, according to recent data from IDC. But it’s still early days since ChatGPT burst on the scene in 2022.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The deal will also help Lucid realize its vision to supply electric vehicle technologies to third parties, such as other automotive manufacturers, as well as offer energy storage solutions in the residential, commercial and utility segments, Rawlinson said. Image Credits: Lucid Motors. Scaling an electric vehicle company is not cheap or easy.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016.

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