TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. Dash’s alternative payment network brings together this mobile money and traditional banks and facilitates transactions for consumers and businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.

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MARCH 4, 2025

However, the need has only increased as many people work outside an office and with a variety of networks and devices. Founded in 2016, Apptronik had previously raised $28 million, per the company. While the focus is often on things such as network or application security, the physical world still needs securing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Founded in 2016 by Sandra Nolasco and Carmen Marin Romano, Twinco Capital offers a supply chain finance solution that includes purchase order funding. We believe there is a strong network effect”. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed angels.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Kevin Bennett started his auto financing company in 2016. This event opens on May 4 at 11:30 am PT / 2:30 pm ET with networking and pitch practice submissions. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in early 2022 to Caribou. But the mission remains: Transforming consumers’ financial relationship with their cars.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While working on streamup (a music video streaming app) at Y Combinator 2016, he found himself struggling to fit in his medical appointments. We covered Getlab’s origin story in detail here. But in short, the company is informed by founder Kyle Michelson’s own experience.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Founded in 2016 in Singapore, AnyMind expanded into Southeast Asia, East Asia, India and the Middle East through aggressive acquisitions. Most of the acquired companies’ founders have remained in their positions in AnyMind to support the continued growth, co-founder and CEO of AnyMind Kosuke Sogo told TechCrunch. ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

According to the Orlando Business Sentinel, the proposed facility — a takeoff and landing area that would be part of Lilium’s first transportation network in the U.S. We sat down with Atomico founder Niklas Zennström in late 2016 when the firm had just led a €10 million Series A in Lilium.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Second, Tetelman recommends that campaigns invest in end-point monitoring , which means keeping an eye on devices connected to the campaign’s network. Even if hackers succeed in accessing a network through phishing attacks, end-point monitoring can help catch their activity before they can steal much data. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The first generation of the shuttle debuted in 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland at a mixed-use development.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

CEO Damilola Olokesusi founded Shuttlers in 2016 to address the issue of inefficient transportation costs in Nigeria’s most renowned urban city, Lagos. 3 million (~$6,000) from friends and family and grants since 2016, Shuttlers’ growth has been staggering. Image Credits: Shuttlers. Despite raising just ?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Loughlin then “came back home” to Accel in 2016, and has led investments in companies like Airkit, Ascend.io, Clockwise, Ironclad, Monte Carlo, Nines, Productiv, Split.io, and Vivun. Extra Crunch Live has left room for you to network (you gotta network to get work, amirite?). Make a friend!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million. Palo Alto Networks to acquire Expanse in deal worth $800M. The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. The deal has closed, according to the company. . per share,” the company explained in a statement. The stock closed at $14.24

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Meta, known as Facebook at the time, introduced Messenger Lite for Android in 2016 for users with less-powerful Android devices. The company notified users that they “will no longer be able to use Messenger to send and receive SMS messages sent by your cellular network when you update your app after September 28, 2023.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 Alerzo claims to have built up a network of up to 100,000 small businesses, 90% of which are women-led. FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Security and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Crowdfunding guidelines were adopted under Title III of the JOBS Act back in 2016, but because many entrepreneurs were unfamiliar with how to participate, many of the startups that have taken advantage of it haven’t been the highest quality.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The new capital will be used for expansion into new store formats, building a logistics and fulfillment network and hiring for GrowSari’s operations, technology and data science teams. . Founded in 2016, GrowSari’s tools for small businesses now include inventory management, pricing tools, a logistics network and working capital loans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Today, that means designing electric trucks and an underlying operating system to help overland shippers make the transition to electric.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. Time will tell on that front.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Needless to say, the world’s network engineers deserve a load of #HugOps in 2021. In early June, content delivery network Fastly experienced a major outage because of a faulty configuration push causing thousands of high-profile websites to become unreachable. In this post, I run through 10 of the top outages that we covered in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Any company that relies on programmatic advertising networks, which automatically buy and sell ads, is at risk, unless the network is a protected advertising ecosystem, Dan Lowden, the chief marketing officer of bot network and ad fraud prevention company White Ops, said in an email.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Roy Dagan, company CEO and co-founder says that he sees organizations with many different connected devices running on a network and it’s difficult to manage. The company has raised a total of $17 million, according to Crunchbase data. He says that SecuiThings is pulling that all together for its customers.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. Let’s be clear: The venture capital industry has lacked diversity. Assessing inclusion remains a challenge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. This event opens on May 4 at 11:30 am PT / 2:30 pm ET with networking and pitch practice submissions. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Afterpay and Square have the potential to build one of the world’s most important payments networks. Square has built a very significant merchant payment network, and, via Cash App, a thriving high-growth consumer payment service. Afterpay and Square have the potential to build one of the world’s most important payments networks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Think: How could you make money without an institutional investor, friends, family or internal networks? Accelerators allow ventures to define their products or services, quickly build networks and, most importantly, sit at tables they wouldn’t be able to on their own. The need to diversify the VC industry internally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. First, the company says it created the world’s first decentralised payment processing network. In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Christina Cacioppo started Vanta in 2016 and has raised $202.95 If you take a few seconds to register , you can ask questions, network with other attendees and apply to pitch your startup to Christina and Andrew during Pitch Practice. million to date including a $150 million Series B it closed in October 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Going forward, Toyota says it’ll give Pony an unspecified number of its EVs, while Pony will outfit them with autonomous-driving tech and the firm’s “robotaxi network platform.” ” Without context, $139 million may sound like a lot, but Pony has raised more than a billion dollars since its founding in 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Pray.com, for example, an LA-based app for daily prayer and bedtime Bible stories that was founded in 2016, has raised at least $34 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins. TC: Is the plan to evolve this into a full-fledged social network? EB: When we talk about it being a social network, 100%.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Prior to Acorns, Fernando was founder and CEO at Vault, which was acquired by Acorns and was a Disrupt Battlefield company in 2016. To do that, the company is using the credit facility to fund the receivables of the credit card programs and using the seed funding on building its team, financial infrastructure and bank network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

million Series E funding round co-led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund CapitalG, which also led the company’s $50 million Series D round in 2020 , and Paladin Capital Group, which led Expel’s Series A round in 2016. With this, the company has now raised a total of $257.9 million and its valuation is now north of $1 billion.

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