TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

While Salesforce bought Quip for $750 million in 2016 , which gave it a kind of document sharing and collaboration, Salesforce Chatter has been the only social tool in the company’s arsenal. TechCrunch reached out to Salesforce, Slack and Slack’s CEO for comment on the deal’s possibility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Darabi co-founded TMV (formerly Trail Mix Ventures) in 2016 and has built a portfolio that is majority women- and minority-owned, including employee wellness platform Bravely, holistic healthcare company Parsley Health and waste reduction upstart Ridwell. TMV is often the first institutional check a company might raise.

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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

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe. As companies signed up for viAct to monitor sites while complying with COVID-19 social distancing measures, the company provided training over Zoom to help teams onboard more quickly. trillion-dollar industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports. After some research, the founders noticed that these sellers also engaged with other channels, such as websites or social media. It has raised a $6.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The List joins the social commerce movement with a new app connecting consumers with global luxury brands and retailers to offer a personalized discovery and shopping experience. The List, with offices in Dubai and Lisbon, was founded in 2016 as an e-commerce marketplace and works with authorized, professional sellers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

“We started back in 2016 with a really clear use case to solve this problem for musicians and artists that needed a better way to link out of socials to all their different revenue streams, and we really needed to unify that experience for them to help drive monetization,” Zaccaria told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. Then they can search through athletes, teams and events, including filtering down to those that fit a need, like social media, logo placement or appearances.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2016, Ivorian e-commerce startup Afrikrea started as a marketplace for African-based and inspired clothing, accessories, arts, and crafts. But while Afrikrea presents African merchants to showcase and sell their products to the world, it is just one of the many channels available, including personal websites and social media.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

” ‘Link-in-bio’ company Linktree raises $45M Series B for its social commerce features. Founded in 2016, Linktree now competes with several “link in bio” platforms, including Shorby, Linkin.bio and Beacons. In March, Linktree announced it raised $45 million in Series B funding.

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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 7, 2022

Pendulum helps companies, governments and other organizations track harmful narratives on social media platforms and elsewhere on the web. “By dissecting and categorizing the narratives in text, video and audio content on social media platforms, companies are better prepared and able to engage with communities as they choose. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

It was launched in 2016, when its founding team saw an opportunity to create a Web3 gaming community on Discord, increasing user retention, acquisition and interaction. Tatsumeeko’s goal is to expand to other social platforms like QQ, WeChat, and Telegram, as well as Ethereum and Solana communities. million in two rounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It might be ambitious to think that you can go from zero to a world-class social media site in a matter of months. Whether the team chooses to reboot or revive Vine, they must answer questions about sustaining a business in the world the app abandoned in 2016.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In 2016, when the world felt like an entirely different place, Jordan Hewson launched a platform called Speakable. “We were founded before the 2016 election,” said Hewson. It was meant to let news readers take action on a cause or issue in the very moment they cared most: while reading a news article about it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Russo, who had been investing in crypto as a hobby since 2016, said she started her own NFT project in 2021 while she was still working at JPMorgan. It also allows creators to reward their communities for engagement with the project on social media, drumming up hype around spreading the word on Twitter or Discord.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2016

Growing Justice Institute says that diversity is needed to bring together the brightest minds to create solutions to business, economic and social challenges of the 21st century and beyond. Artika Tyner of the Planting People. Follow Artika.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” Troops was founded in 2016 by Reich, Scott Britton and Greg Ratner, who sought to streamline the process of by pulling and pushing customer relationship management data in Salesforce by using Slack as a conduit.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

She is also a major advocate for diversity within the tech industry, launching Project Include in 2016. Now, she’s the founder and CEO of Block Party , a platform aimed at making people feel safer on social media platforms. She interned at RocketFuel, Google and Facebook before becoming a software engineer at Quora and Pinterest.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Though ubiquitous on social media, videos are still rare on job platforms, even though it’s difficult to capture your personality in a resume. MyInterview was founded in 2016 by Guy Abelsohn and Ben Gillman, after they became frustrated by how difficult it was to make their resumes stand out while job hunting.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Kristian Ranta founded the San Mateo, California-based company in 2016 after his brother, Peter, committed suicide. And today, the startup is announcing that it has secured $38 million in a Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised since its 2016 inception to $51.3 Industry Ventures led the $30 million equity round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

It sounds daunting, but we already know that social finance is big, as shown by apps like Venmo and Splitwise, and phenomena like the GameStop saga from just a few weeks ago. Other startups have taken notice too, entering the world of multiplayer fintech, a term that categorizes socially focused and consumer-friendly financial services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

And with society under siege, many more businesses, including social media, are scrambling to seem like good corporate citizens. Since the 2016 presidential election in the U.S., But shareholder value-maximization ideology has become cemented in far too much corporate practice at the expense of societal well-being. They have no choice.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Darabi founded TMV, formerly Trail Mix Ventures, in 2016, and has built a portfolio that is majority women and minority-owned, including employee wellness platform Bravely, holistic healthcare company Parsley Health and waste reduction upstart Ridwell. TMV is often the first institutional check that a company might raise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Through all of the last year’s lockdowns, venue closures and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed to slow the spread of COVID-19, shopping — and specifically e-commerce — has remained a consistent and hugely important service. market (with more capital in tow).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For one, it gathers user feedback from public sources like app reviews and social media and from private sources such as support tickets, support chats and surveys. That Andreessen Horowitz-backed social app had over 50 million app installations before being acquired by MeetMe for $28.5 million common shares in 2016. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. At first, ESG (environmental, social, governance) investing felt like a supplemental action at many investment firms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2016 by Anoshechkin, Joel van de Vorstenbosch and Boramy Unn, the Sydney and San Francisco-based startup started out as a virtual reality game developer creating A Township Tale , a VR open-world RPG in which every user has their own medieval fantasy virtual world that is shareable with other users, Anoshechkin said. “The

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is a thing, mostly in social media and personal endeavors. In 2016, SAP delivered its last enhancement pack (EHP 8) for ECC6 (its successor to R/3) and announced there will be no more enhancement packs for ECC. They havent been coming since 2016. Stay with me and Ill explain. FOMO or forgo?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Taylor spent four years at Google starting in March 2003 before undertaking an entrepreneurial journey, founding early social network FriendFeed in 2007, right after leaving Google. He would later found Quip, an enterprise document collaboration company, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 for $750 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Shan Hanif to help social media influencers develop their brands and extract revenue from their audiences, Genflow combines aspects of a traditional branding agency — such as strategy, design and planning — and a tech company with its own software stack. Leading the round is U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

billion in Q2, the lowest quarterly tally since 2016. Well, according to a survey of Gen Z VCs , their top three focuses are the creator economy, edtech and social gaming. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. But data via KPMG and PitchBook make it plain that Q3 was a rebound , with $3.6

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

And social media and other personal-data sources can be used to profile and manipulate people, including voters.As Even “tough” passwords can be hacked, or the account recovery protocol can be exploited and social-engineered away from the account owner. election security experts grab the attention of influencers in D.C.

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