TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Amazon is coming relatively late to this market, but it will now have the support of a popular podcast maker as it works to catch up. The startup was founded in 2016 by former Fox executive Hernan Lopez (who’s currently fighting federal corruption charges tied to his time at Fox). Financial terms were not disclosed.

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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. The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Of course, SoftBank knows quite a bit about the Arm ecosystem, having acquired British chipmaker Arm Holdings in 2016 for $32 billion. It was a famously successful investment, with Arm going public in 2023 and currently sporting a market cap around $124 billion. SoftBank has also been stepping up activity for its Vision Fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

In recent years, other markets have begun exploring the space. In Tel Aviv, meanwhile, Intuition Robotics has been promoting a “companion” robot since 2016 […] © 2023 TechCrunch. In some parts of the world (read: Japan, primarily), eldercare has been an important robotics focus for decades. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Our own representation of the public fintechs’ performance is the Matrix Fintech Index — a market cap-weighted index that tracks the progress of a portfolio of 25 leading public fintech companies. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Matrix U.S. E-commerce undoubtedly stood out as a major driver.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . It marketed its offering as “headquarters as a service” — or a flexible office space that could be customized for each tenant while also growing or shrinking as needed. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu. Increasing competition in the market for DPUs put pressure on Fungible, as well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. But amid pandemic-induced lockdown fears, consumer discretionary spending reduced in Nigeria and other African markets. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Why Salesforce, a massive software company with a strong position in the CRM market, and aspirations of becoming an even larger platform player , would want to buy Slack is not immediately clear though there are possible benefits. TechCrunch reached out to Salesforce, Slack and Slack’s CEO for comment on the deal’s possibility.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Thanks to a 13-year bull market that propelled software IPO and M&A outcomes to new heights, and an abundance of capital in the venture ecosystem, private software valuation multiples have skyrocketed. The recent market correction suggests that they do not. This dynamic has led to this misperception on the size of unicorns.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The founder says Ibadan was the ideal market to establish its headquarters because informal retailers in the region experience these challenges more than those in Lagos. But though Alerzo has enjoyed almost a first-mover advantage in less crowded markets, stiff competition will play out as other key players look to come in.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This is part of a strategic investment, with startup and MUFG planning to expand into new markets and product together in 2023. Founded in 2016, its target is to serve 50 million users by 2025. Jakarta-based fintech Akulaku has raised $200 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest bank in Japan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

AnyMind acquired ENGAWA, a Japan-based cross-border marketing company, in January last year with its Series C proceeds. Founded in 2016 in Singapore, AnyMind expanded into Southeast Asia, East Asia, India and the Middle East through aggressive acquisitions. AnyMind operates 17 offices across 13 markets with more than 1,000 employees.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Andrew Ng, one of the best-known researchers in the field of AI,wroteabout the benefits of establishing a chief AI officer role in companies, as well as the characteristics and responsibilities such a role should have.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

TechCrunch in February reported that Sarah Pierce, who served as executive vice president of customer experience, sales and operations, and Emanuel Santa-Donato, who was senior vice president of capital markets and growth, were no longer with the digital mortgage company. The company’s $875.6 Last year Better.com’s revenue grew to some $1.23

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

With this tool, genAI allows customers to ask questions like, Help me reduce the physical footprint by 30% or How do I drive my go-to-market timeline to three months shorter? In 2016, he transferred to the Phoenix corporate headquarters to take on the global application and business relationship management role.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

It expanded into five markets before shutting down its operations in Taiwan and the Philippines in 2016. Resurgent HappyFresh raises $20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2014, HappyFresh was the first Instacart-style grocery delivery service to launch in Southeast Asia.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Market shifts, mergers, geopolitical events, and the pandemic have further driven IT to deploy point solutions, increasing complexity. Marcus Taylor has worked as an executive and thought leadership writer for the information technology industry since 2016, specializing in SaaS, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, and quantum computing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. New York-based B12 markets itself as an “all-in-one solution that helps professional services firms establish, run, and grow their business online.” .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital wrote on Twitter: The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions.” of venture capital deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

BrainCheck , a Houston- and Austin-based company developing cognitive healthcare software to aid physicians in detecting and managing this type of care, raised $10 million in Series B funding to expand its R&D and go-to-market capabilities as it works on new digital therapeutics for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The new funds put OutSystems on an IPO path, we reckon; the company declined to discuss public market plans with TechCrunch. TechCrunch had asked the company to break down its stated plan to invest its new capital in both go-to-market (GTM) capabilities and product (R&D) work. It could go out sooner rather than later.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company, which was founded in Kenya seven years ago, plans to first scale in Kenya and Uganda, before exploring other markets backed by a $1.3 The company, which was founded in Kenya seven years ago, plans to first scale in Kenya and Uganda, before exploring other markets backed by a $1.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Rather, Falck chose a two-step process to bring Einride to market. By the time Einride is ready to go to market with its autonomous pods, it will ideally already have a range of commercial shipping partners in its pipeline.

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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

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

AUGUST 25, 2022

Startups that are catering to homebuyers are struggling as interest rates and inflation have climbed and inventory shortages continue in many markets. . The latest casualty in the space is Reali, which announced that it has begun a shutdown and will be laying off most of its workforce on September 9.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Egyptian proptech startup Nawy , which began life in 2016 as an AI-driven property, listing has grown to offer brokerage services, supporting the closing of property deals. Nawy is now set to introduce in its catalog a mortgage service for pre-owned property, to serve a market that is predominantly shunned by traditional lenders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

million in total funding since the company was founded in 2016, founder Obi Omile Jr. and it is one of the fastest-growth markets. As a result, the new funding will be used to hire additional talent, marketing and to grow the business across the country. The latest funding gives theCut $5.35 told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Skit announced today it has closed $23 million Series B round to accelerate its growth in domestic and global markets including the US and South East Asia and enhance its voice automation platform. The company was founded in 2016 by two co-founders, Indian Institute of Technology alumni, Roorkee alumnus, Sourabh Gupta and Akshay Deshraj.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Quizlet’s quiet march toward the public markets has been slow yet steady. Glotzbach, who was previously an executive at YouTube, then joined in 2016. Quizlet’s pursuit of the public markets comes as other edtech companies are proving the market’s reception to the sector. It was fully bootstrapped until 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

It is currently used by over 10,000 merchants in Singapore and Malaysia, with plans to expand into more Southeast Asian markets, including Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. As its team began to understand the needs of SMEs more, it started to develop the other tools on the platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

It brings the startup’s total raised since its 2016 inception to $35.5 The pair worked together previously at SolidFire, a flash storage startup that Wright founded and sold to NetApp for $870 million in 2016. million in secondary shares. What does that mean exactly? And that’s why we’re so excited about this business.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

. “It was a conscious decision to make this cohort more inclusive for women given the gap in funding and support to women founders, particularly in emerging markets,” Carraro said to TechCrunch. For example, founders in our previous cohort were all male.

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TechCrunch

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. We saw Disha as an opportunity to capture a new market of indie creators that need innovative tools to showcase their craft and get paid.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The autonomous vehicle space is an exciting emerging market with plenty of opportunity. The first generation of the shuttle debuted in 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland at a mixed-use development. . “I was only there a few months, but loved every minute of it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The startup was founded in 2016 by Raghavendran Viswanathan as a freight marketplace before pivoting into an automated rate management system, in a move he compares to Shopify’s evolution from an online snowboard store to e-commerce ecosystem.

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