TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Founded in 2016, Linktree now competes with a roster of “link in bio” services, including Shorby, Linkin.bio and the recently launched Beacons. We were first to market and, with over 12 million users globally, still hold 88% of market share,” founder and chief executive officer Alex Zaccaria told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Qotto told TechCrunch it plans to scale in existing markets, and expand to Ivory Coast where it is set to begin operations by next month. The growth bid follows the planned introduction of new products in the market, including financial services and internet access hotspots, as Qotto evolves into an all-rounded essential services operator.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360 , a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, bringing the total investment raised in the round to $7 million. The company said its internet calling app has connected 2.3

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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. You had a great legacy of last 17-18 years of materially profitable internet companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

billion in Q2, the lowest quarterly tally since 2016. To get a better handle on the Indian startup market more broadly, The Exchange got ahold of Accel investors Arun Mathew (based in the United States), and Prayank Swaroop (based in India), for a bit of digging. Market Notes. Let’s see what gets built. The news was mostly good.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Talk360, a leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) player in Africa, enables people to make international calls through its app for a fee, and it is built in such a way that only the initiator needs the app and internet – a smartphone– to make calls. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Eight years after starting Starry to change the way the home internet is delivered, CEO Chaitanya “Chet” Kanojia announced this week that the company completed its special purpose acquisition with FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. You can read more about Starry’s origins in a 2016 interview with Kanojia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wallapop has confirmed that the funding is coming at a valuation of €690 million ($840 million) — a significant jump on the $570 million valuations sources close to the company gave us in 2016. By 2016, Wallapop was merging with a rival, LetGo , as part of a bigger strategy to crack the U.S. market (with more capital in tow).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds. Lawtrades app design.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego has now raised more than $200 million since launching in 2016. s burgeoning e-scooter rental market, partnering with companies like Tier, Voi and Dott. More recently, Zego has become a key partner in the U.K.’s Next up, the insurtech is betting big on offering insurance for fleets.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 6, 2016

The best business strategies will perfectly balance the ever-growing IoT market opportunities versus a rapidly evolving threat environment. To help IoT solution providers define their 2016 product roadmap, here are some of INSIDE Secure’s top IoT predictions for the year: IoT hype will become reality.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3 “Fintech is compelling.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it announced financing totalling €750 million (around $895 million at today’s rates), money that it will be using to continue expanding its business — specifically, for acquisitions; to launch in new markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and to build out the suite of services that it provides to businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . Its main products include digital door locks and wall pads that connect to users’ smartphones.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. We were built — by definition — to serve the smaller part of the small business market,” COO Adler added. New York-based challenger bank NorthOne is one such example.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

A key factor in this potential is the improvement of internet connection in Africa, which is central to facilitating the continentsdigital transformation. This bodes well for growth in market size, GDP, and a population of digitally fluent consumers. billion inhabitants making up 15% of the global population.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Deftly sliding from desktop browsers to mobile devices to smart TVs and other Internet of Things devices, ad fraud is a multibillion-dollar business problem that has been running rampant across the Internet for years. In a 2016 analysis, Hewlett Packard Enterprise identified it as the most lucrative form of cybercrime.

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The Parallax

JUNE 13, 2018

And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble. DDoS attacks have been around since the Stone Age of the Internet: The first recorded denial-of-service attack dates back to 1974.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Australian edtech start-up Vivi has raised $20 million from education investor Quad Partners, funds that it intends to use to improve its platform, upgrade its operational infrastructure, and hire more sales and marketing teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Abundant Robotics (2016-2021). Two-plus years after spinning off the X graduate, the company grounded the project aimed at bringing internet connectivity to underserved areas via balloon. The South Korean electronics giant simply couldn’t keep up in a market dominated by Samsung, Apple and, increasingly, manufacturers in China.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Founded in 2016 by a group of PhDs from the University of Tokyo and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, VisionNav’s valuation was boosted to over $500 million in this round, up from $393 million just six months ago when it picked up 300 million yuan ($47 million) in a Series C financing, it told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Not only is the company offering ride-hailing and food and grocery delivery services (via Yassir Express) in 45 cities across six countries, but this report also says that three out of five on-demand activities in Algeria, its first market, are made via the platform. . Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Founded in 2016, the Culver City-based observability and data company launched its Data Intelligence product following the raise of $45 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. That’s where Embrace comes in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

I want it to exist, but at the same time, I’m struggling to imagine the vehicle finding a market, when its $10,000 price tag buys a lot of other cool transportation options. Annie reports how internet use in most of Africa remains low despite the growing broadband internet coverage. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The resulting platform has found particular traction in the current market climate. Although companies continue to invest in their security architecture, security teams are also feeling the market squeeze, which is impacting IT budgets, and sometimes headcount in an industry that was already facing a shortage of expertise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Zededa’s success in securing cash during a downturn, too, suggests that the edge computing market is robust. ” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar. As the edge computing market evolves and matures,” Ouissal said. million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The fresh cash brings the company’s total raised to $20 million, and CEO Shinji Kim tells me that it’ll be put toward product engineering, go-to-market and customer success efforts. ” Kim was previously the CEO of data processing provider Concord Systems, which was acquired by Akamai in late 2016. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $2.8

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The Parallax

AUGUST 2, 2018

The wireless-service provider is marketing its Safe Wi-Fi VPN as an ad-blocking privacy protector and charging users $3.99 As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. But quality will have its place in the market. It always does.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The attack began with cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government departments with floods of internet traffic and data-wiping malware, followed by a ground, sea and air incursion. Uber, which has operated in Ukraine since 2016 and is present in nine cities, paused operations within the country.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

His company developed various shareware and Internet Distribution Channels that brought a revolution in the field of computer games and how they were sold. Quake offered multiplayer gaming on the internet. Online gaming has encouraged the growth of the 3D rendering sector of the computer hardware market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. The firm has a presence in Kenya, South African and Tanzania, but its core markets remain Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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A List Apart

MAY 15, 2018

— Airbnb Help (@AirbnbHelp) July 12, 2016. Of far more significance is the increasingly gaping chasm between Internet Explorer and every other major browser. Internet Explorer, meanwhile, has been all but abandoned by Microsoft, which is attempting to push Windows users toward Edge. Hi Rustram. Web MIDI, Web Bluetooth).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded in 2016, with a team of about 250 people, Ayoconnect is currently working toward more financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs. One way that Ayoconnect differentiate is by being the only licensed open finance platform in Indonesia, which enables it to offer solutions that aren’t available on the market yet.

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