TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. million in 2016. Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Enterprise IT struggles to keep up with siloed technologies while ensuring security, compliance, and cost management. In an era of global technology skills shortages, CIOs report that finding specialized skills is becoming harder and more expensive. He is reachable through his website: mtwriting.com.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As CIO of Avnet one of the largest technology distributors and supply chain solution providers Im responsible for the organizations IT stack and oversee digital transformation and strategy. Max Chan is a skilled, visionary technology executive serving as the CIO at Avnet. Dont just try everything. Avnet named him CIO in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Circle became a sort of Venmo clone with some blockchain technology under the hood. The media certainly classified us that way because we were involved with the technology. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Deepak Jain, 49, of Potomac, was the CEO of an information technology services company (referred to in the indictment as Company A) that provided data center services to customers, including the SEC,” the US DOJ said in a statement. From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

HubHaus (2016-2020). Mastercard also said IfOnly’s team and technology are still part of its Priceless experience marketplace: “The IfOnly platform will continue to help advance our Priceless strategy and our combined team will be even better positioned and equipped to deliver exclusive experiences for cardholders globally.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. Image Credits: Reliance Health.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

Founded in 2016, Apptronik had previously raised $28 million, per the company. tied) XOi Technologies , $230M, enterprise software: Nashville-based XOi, a provider of jobsite-focused technology solutions for the field service agents, raised a $230 million round from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. came from our neighbors to the north.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice’s financing follows an incredibly acquisitive 2020 for the company, which saw it acquiring music technology companies Audiaire and Superpowered. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Meanwhile, Splice continues to invest in new technology to make producers’ lives easier. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Crunchbase News

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. In the past two weeks, the firm led two large investments: a $130 million Series C for solar technology startup Terabase Energy and a $120 million late-stage financing for cybersecurity provider Cybereason.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Jake Jolis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead. Dana Stalder. Contributor.

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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. Oyemade will continue to lead the technology behind the product with a new role as software and architectural lead.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As the world’s population ages, more is being learned about brain health as startups leverage technology to find a way to slow down cognitive impairment. The latest funding gives the company roughly $21 million in total funding raised to date, which includes a $3 million seed round in 2016 and $8 million in Series A funding from 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

SPINN is doing for coffee what Dyson did for vacuums and what Nest did for homes, rethinking technology and connectivity for better results,” said Kevin Thau, general partner at Spark Capital, in a written statement. Spinn debuted its centrifugal brewing method at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Founded in 2016, navigation is at the heart of what London-based SLAMcore does. The company has developed technologies that can be deployed on a wide range of robotics systems, from vacuums to the more advanced autonomous systems being deployed in warehouses across the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Compare the payments market now with 2016, when Paystack and Flutterwave just started. The payments space in 2016 was very small and the number of people using cards online was very small,” said Hassan, who co-founded the company with Prakhar Singh. “The way I see it, our market is not that big.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

It brings the startup’s total raised since its 2016 inception to $35.5 Historically, only banks were able to access these payment rails directly, which left both domestic and international fintechs “with limited partner options, poor technology and slow implementations when it came to embedding high-value B2B payments,” says COO Dave Cahill.

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CIO

DECEMBER 24, 2024

And way back in 2016, Tay, an experimental AI chatbot Microsoft let loose on Twitter, voiced support for genocide and for Nazis. But the thing is this isnt the first Microsoft chatbot thats gone rogue. We sense a trend here. The February investigation into Copilot wasnt the only problem with Microsofts AI assistant this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

. “We started our journey at WaveOne, realizing that machine learning and deep learning video technology could potentially change the world. Apple saw this potential and took the opportunity to add it to their technology portfolio.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

”The technology we build, we integrate with management systems, and then we deploy our capabilities which are focused on the edge devices. The company has formed partnerships with a number of key device manufacturers including Microsoft, Convergint Technologies and Johnson Controls, among others. Image Credits: SecuriThings.

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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. “As with most adventures, they must come to an end,” wrote Jeff Hollowell, former VP of information technology at Local Motors. Former CEO Jay Rogers transitioned to an advisory role on the company’s board.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Headquartered in New York, Halla was founded in 2016 by Gabriel Nipote, Henry Michaelson and Spencer Price to develop “taste intelligence,” using human behavior to steer shoppers to food items they want while also discovering new ones as they shop online. Halla’s technology is now live in more than 1,100 e-commerce storefronts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. For example, fossil fuel companies in Saudi Arabia will utilize Terra Drone’s technology for inspection services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Ruthe Farmer is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund , and a global advocate and evangelist for equity and inclusion in technology and engineering. The result is a homogeneous tech sector creating critical technologies that don’t serve everyone equally. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Falck, a serial entrepreneur, decided against the route many autonomous trucking companies have taken — doggedly pursuing self-driving technology, even if it meant putting sensors and software stacks on diesel vehicles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, XM Cyber CEO and co-founder Noam Erez sees the advantages of being part of a large corporation, even if it lacks a technology focus. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. Time will tell on that front.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Loft Dynamics , a Swiss startup creating virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots, has raised $20 million in funding from U.S. Founded out of Zurich in 2016, Loft Dynamics has developed a slew of simulators for some of the most common helicopters, including the single turbine Airbus H125.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4 .” Image Credits: B12. So far more than 150,000 companies have signed up for B12 and the startup has “thousands” of paying customers. million funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

After investing more than $1 trillion in new technology from 2016 through 2019, the majority of banks globally have yet to see any financial boost from digital transformation programs, according to Accenture. Never before has this gap been more prevalent than amid the pandemic as customers migrated online en masse.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Other participants include the Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), which is wholly-owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the Malaysian government’s sovereign wealth fund; ZB Capital Limited; and angel investors. The company announced today it has raised a $4.29 Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

million in 2016 to a whopping $3.7 In September 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company had lost a number of senior level individuals over the previous eighteen months including its chief financial officer, chief marketing officer and chief technology officer. The company’s revenues have increased from $186.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Adam Fisher is a partner in Bessemer Venture Partners' Israel office, where he focuses on investments in Israel and Europe across multiple technology sectors, from early-stage startups to growth companies. Adam Fisher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Mapping Israel’s Cyber-Security Startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A group of former Microsoft executives and engineers — Anoop Gupta , Aravind Bala , John Tippett , Vikas Manocha — founded SeekOut in 2016. Overall, it had about 500 customers as of January across a range of industries from technology to pharmaceutical to aerospace and defense to banking.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are some of the most transformative technologies of our generation, and have been a main focus area for Amazon for more than 20 years….[we’re]

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