TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Other participants included Juroku Bank and Mobile Internet Capital, along with returning investors Singapore Exchange, Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings and Hanwha Asset Management. iSTOX also plans to add new investment products, including private issuances that investors can subscribe to in “bite-size portions.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The funding lands amid increased focus on the less-secure elements in an organizations’ supply chain, such as Internet of Things devices and embedded systems. The startup says it plans to use the funds to scale to meet the demands of the market. million Series A round. million Series A round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been riding the wave with what it says are the lowest fees on the market, and a platform that is aimed at both newcomers and experienced traders. In 2017 and 2018, crypto was not this big but we saw a huge opportunity there. Reku’s team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent. In 2017, Africa generated $16.5 But at the same time, it solidifies Flutterwave’s position in the eyes of multinationals looking to enter the African market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For the unacquainted, Web3 refers to a set of protocols led by blockchain, that intends to reinvent how the Internet is wired in the backend). Put simply, Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and Web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. ?? In June, the firm revealed its $2.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way. It also built smart farming software and hardware for farmers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As going to stores became more risky over time, many shoppers turned to buying more goods from the Internet, bolstering ecommerce players like Shopify, BigCommerce, as well as companies that facilitate online payments, like Square and PayPal. From 2017 to 2018, for example, when Wish saw revenues of $1.10 billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

We’re thrilled to have Gharegozlou joining us at Disrupt this September 21-23 , to discuss the future of NFTs, crypto gaming and the decentralized internet. With the larger NFT market’s sales volume sliding significantly in recent months, can it make a comeback?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

South African consumer internet giant Naspers led the round through its investment arm, Naspers Foundry , investing $5.6 is the company’s primary market, and Aerobotics says it has two provisional patents pending in the country, one for systems and methods for estimating tree age and another for systems and methods for predicting yield. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. In 2020, it increased its market share to 24.6%, up from 18.1% Coupang market share. Later cohorts have already improved on that.

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OverOps

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It included SpaceX successfully launching Falcon Heavy, their partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle (Yup, this happened in 2018), continued with Apple becoming the world’s first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, and we even created embryo-like structures from stem cells alone, without using egg or sperm cells.

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The Parallax

MAY 9, 2018

It’s just one example of how “Internet of Things” connected devices, from personal assistants like Google Home and Amazon Echo , to smart locks like August and Ring , can seemingly give your home powerful technological upgrades. Internet-connected home devices appear to be at the beginning stages of a massive upward adoption rate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. We were surfing the internet like any good venture capital group, and we ran across the video that Agility released,” says Leak. “We From lab to launch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Wuxiaworld expects to launch more content in its platform with Kakao Entertainment’s broad access to the best original stories and intellectual properties in Korea’s fast-growing online serial fiction market and Radish’s strong marketing team (in the U.S.), market, according to its statement. . .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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The Parallax

JULY 2, 2019

Consumers face security and privacy risks from smart TVs, they say, just like any other device connected to the Internet. Even with potential risks, smart TVs are rapidly taking over the market. Zion Market Research expects the smart-TV market to jump in value from $158 billion in 2018 to nearly $300 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. Like the internet, it is a reality we will interact with, in all parts of life: at home, in the office, in cars, or out in public.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use. “The visibility gap and the resulting risk was greatest for those unmanaged IoT, internet of medical things, and operational technology devices that could not be secured like traditional IT infrastructure.” In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 hospitals today. . ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But a chance encounter encouraged them to pivot in 2017 to become Benivo , a B2B SaaS HR platform solution for mobile or moving workforces. The so-called ‘global mobility’ market is pretty large but many processes are still manual and often require the use of several platforms by staff or their companies. So they went ahead with us.

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The Parallax

JUNE 13, 2018

And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble. DDoS attacks have been around since the Stone Age of the Internet: The first recorded denial-of-service attack dates back to 1974.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. With this investment, KaiOS can expand into new markets in Sub-Saharan Africa,” said Codeville in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. But for Cent, it was as if the small company had just been handed a free marketing campaign. and Zynga founder Mark Pincus.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And put simply, Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. Existing backer Lightspeed Venture Partners and new investor private equity firm Silver Lake co-led Alchemy’s latest investment, which brings the company’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $545.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

After a day full of righteous online backlash, Prosecraft creator Benji Smith took down the website, which had existed since 2017. But tools like ChatGPT are basically trained on the sum total of the internet, so this means that real travel writers or children’s books authors could be getting inadvertently plagiarized.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. without the outsized market of South Africa. The opportunity is massive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry.

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The Parallax

MAY 21, 2019

As the Internet of Things continues to balloon , Internet-connected video cameras have become the driving force behind the growth of the video camera marketplace. Research and strategy company Global Market Insights estimates that the industry will reach $20 billion by 2024, an estimated bump of more than 20 percent from 2017.

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The Parallax

MAY 21, 2019

As the Internet of Things continues to balloon , Internet-connected video cameras have become the driving force behind the growth of the video camera marketplace. Research and strategy company Global Market Insights estimates that the industry will reach $20 billion by 2024, an estimated bump of more than 20 percent from 2017.

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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. Before now, Appzone lacked the resources to push into these markets aggressively even though they showed promise. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Turtlemint, an Indian startup that is helping consumers identify and purchase the most appropriate insurance policies for them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to reach more users in small cities and towns in the world’s second largest internet market.

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CTOvision

JUNE 1, 2017

Her yearly report on the state of the Internet (available at Internet Trends Report and embedded below) provides context relevant to just about every enterprise decision-maker. Growth in Internet connectivity is also slowing. Same with Internet connectivity. billion gamers in 2017. For the U.S., So analyze that!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As I am writing this, Uber has a $69 billion market cap ( nice ) and it’s a global superstar startup. The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while; we shared it as a gallery back in 2017 , and these days it isn’t really seen as a good example of how to do a pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. ZOKO is helping businesses do sales, marketing, and customer support on WhatsApp. billion market, which consists of over 400,000 private schools.

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