TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Breinify is a startup working to apply data science to personalization, and do it in a way that makes it accessible to nontechnical marketing employees to build more meaningful customer experiences. Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional. Today the company announced a funding round totaling $11 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Founded out of London in 2016, Butternut Box serves a handful of European markets with myriad culinary products spanning the meat and vegetable fray, […]

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. There were an average of 35 “megadeals” (with over $100 million raised) per month from 2016 to 2019, according to Crunchbase. In fact, the venture bull market affects different stages very differently.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

startups last year totaled only $705 million — marking the first time since 2016 that the figure failed to even reach $1 billion, Crunchbase data shows. marks the lowest amount since such startups raised only $582 million in 2016. market for underrepresented minorities, namely Black-/African-American-founded companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

WeGift , the London-based startup that has built an “incentive marketing” platform that lets businesses easily issue e-gift cards and other digital rewards to customers, has raised $8 million in new funding. This is combined with analytics, making it easier to track ROI on incentive marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. The San Francisco-based company previously raised $18 million in a Series B round in March.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Walk through Branch’s virtual HQ and there are all the normal details you’d find in an office on Market Street: There are meeting rooms, lunch tables, a literal watercooler and, yes, succulents on your co-worker’s desk. The total addressable market for professional, social gaming is murky. So far, it has raised $1.5

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 2, 2024

The September public debuts of Arm , Klaviyo and Instacart signaled the public markets could be opening up again. markets have listed above a billion dollars. Arm, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016 and then taken public, is by contrast 40% above its IPO price. “I 31, 2023, around three months since going public. Close more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Ayeni has a similar function at Helios Digital Ventures: to spot and back disruptive startups in frontier markets, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. . What we’re trying to do from a strategy perspective is to say what sectors are large enough from an addressable market point of view and affect or impact the mass market.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Billie has been around since 2016 and has actually been working in the concept of “BNPL” targeting businesses long before that became an established concept and term, as part of a bigger suite of products to service businesses and their incoming and outgoing payments needs.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Our conversation reminded me of an old startup adage that still rings true: First-time founders worry about the product, second-time founders worry about go-to-market. However, thinking about go-to-market right at the beginning of your SaaS journey can help you avoid some of the costliest mistakes I and many other startup founders made.

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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

MAY 26, 2022

million in 2016. And that’s what the Zimbabwean government sought to accomplish when it introduced a financial inclusion scheme from 2016 to 2020. These are issues that affect Africa and emerging markets, not just Zimbabwe. The number of bank accounts in the country stood at 1.5 million in 2020.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Lazarev now urges clients to use AI for analytics and decision-making and believes AI can bridge the gap between companies and customers, creating better market understanding and boosting profits. “It was a lightbulb moment for me, seeing AI … as a bridge to deeper customer insights,” he said.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Per the Bessemer Cloud Index , back in 2016, the median revenue multiple for public SaaS companies was around 5x. Every dollar of recurring revenue they sold was worth $5 in market cap in mid-2016. The free ride could be ending. And today it has shot to just under 18x.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Considering that the VR market will be worth $30 billion by 2020 , Veeso has the potential to capitalize on social VR in a big way, and the startup has already found a manufacturer and a distributor for its hardware. Where do you think face-tracking technology will go towards the end of 2016? Leave a comment below!

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Desde su nacimiento en el año 2016, l a marca ha apostado por crear zapatos made in Spain bajo la tecnología del confort, uniendo las mejores materias primas y pieles con una plantilla y la gota de confort gel, dos sistemas propios que, según la propia compañía “aportan un extra de comodidad”.

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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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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Founded in 2016, Malaysian startup Agritix offers a plantation workforce management solution, dubbed Agritix Workforce. In the US, Aggio, founded in 2016, offers a cloud-based sales and market-intelligence platform. The global farm management software market is projected to reach $1.9 billion by 2028, from $921.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you thought that the recent venture capital market was tough, let me tell you about 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. With the first week of December under our belts, we’re not too far away from the end of the year. Startups raised lots of capital this year.

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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

MAY 24, 2021

While it appears to have figured out product-market fit, CEO Abdul Hassan is quick to remind everyone that the burgeoning API fintech space is just an entry point to its pursuit of being a data company — a case he also made in February. “The way I see it, our market is not that big. Image Credits: Mono.

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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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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

per share, a premium of around 60% over the market price. May 2016: HPE sells its IT services business to CSC, forming DXC Technologies. September 2016: HPE sells software assets including remnants of the Autonomy business to Micro Focus, IDOL among them. August 2011: HP agrees to acquire Autonomy for $42.11 billion or $11.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

That compares to revenue of $100 million in 2016. Offerpad also says it has had “positive per-home contribution margins” since 2016. . It is currently active in 16 markets, recently adding Denver and Nashville to the list. The company projects it will generate revenue of $1.4 billion in 2020. billion in 2022 and $3.9

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. It wasn’t enough, though, and by 2016, Taneja was out. ” Micromax was challenged also due to a state-level move.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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CIO

JULY 31, 2024

The company has been bundling various forms of automation into its Einstein brand since 2016. This is where marketing teams will probably spend much of their time, as finding the right prompt to generate the optimal messaging to customers is very much a combination of art and science. This isn’t a new push for Salesforce.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Salesforce first launched Einstein in 2016 , but the AI platform has evolved and expanded to address many common business tasks for specific audiences in the years since, including sales and marketing, e-commerce, and other routine but vital corporate functions.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

She wanted to do something sporty for a career and “fell in love” with sponsorship marketing. Combining both of her passions, in 2016, she started OpenSponsorship , a sports sponsorship company, with Ron Nesbitt, and today, announced a $4 million growth round. Anand plans for expansion into new verticals, sales and marketing.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This enables workers to adapt to the changing landscape and remain competitive in the job market. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016. This helps build trust and ease fears among employees. Reimagining job design and creating opportunities for upskilling and retraining.

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