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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 He referenced his time at Microtraction, an early-stage investment firm he founded in 2017 to back African startups.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Kafka itself emerged from a LinkedIn internal project in 2011.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

million seed round led by Indico Capital Partners , alongside the Social Innovation Fund in Portugal (SIF) and previous investors. With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” The market Includes messaging. Daniel Liss. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company is focused on creating a vertically integrated supply chain with a B2B marketplace and a social commerce feature for group buying by consumers. TreeDots was founded in 2017 as a surplus food marketplace for F&B businesses, before it expanded its business to include social commerce, too.

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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 Last year, Firework was working with some 600 companies, including Albertsons Companies, The Fresh Market and Omnicom Media Group. The company says it is now valued at $750 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers. TipTip founded in October 2021 by Albert Lucius, whose previous startup Kudo was acquired by Grab in 2017. The latest round was led by East Ventures, with participation from returning investors Vertex, SMDV and B.I.G.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The startup itself was founded in 2017 by CEO Kelly Nyland and COO Rhenee Bartlett , both previously of Snap. Nyland had headed up the consumer products and marketing division of the company, where she created the go-to-market strategy for Snap’s Spectacles. which formed the basis for Snapchat’s Snapcode. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“They’re a very reputable sophisticated crossover investor that invests in high-growth, high-potential private market companies and ultimately work with them to go public,” Walsh told TechCrunch. Neobanks’ moves toward profitability could be the path to public markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The mobile magazine publishing toolkit they developed was sold to Mic in 2017, but it was only the most recent success in a string of collaborations dating back nearly a decade. Finally it offers a social sharing feature so that other would-be climate warriors can join the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch. Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019. Ever since Climate Corp.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When Countable pivoted in 2017, Canaan Partners invested in the seed round and assisted the company’s transition into an enterprise SaaS organization. “A Instead, Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

It currently has operations in in five markets: Singapore, Malayasia, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, and is preparing to launch in Thailand. Since StashAway launched its app in 2017, more robo-advisors have emerged in the same markets it serves. The company says it has outperformed benchmarks since launching in 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed. We are locals and we have our winning playbook.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Starling, founded in 2017, has now passed 2 million accounts, with 300,000 business accounts among them. — the market where Starling is active — for the last several years has been a gradual shift to online and mobile banking. In updated financials posted today, Starling said it generated revenue of £12 million ($16.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round. It offers over 30 learning tracks ranging from web development to digital marketing and data science to artificial intelligence. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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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. After Rocket Internet, the two started HotelQuickly, an on-demand booking app they sold in 2017. In Deskimo’s current markets, other on-demand coworking space apps include Switch, Flydesk, WorkBuddy and Booqed.

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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. I believe that the luxury fashion houses of tomorrow are being built today.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Cardiomatics said it will use the seed funding to invest in product development, expand its business activities in existing markets and gear up to launch into new markets. We prepare the product to launch into new markets too. We are working on this method of assessing effectiveness.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The last year and a half has been a bumper one for the world of e-commerce — with more traffic, transactions and retailers moving online in the wake of social distancing measures impacting in-person, physical shopping. Fraga is joining Constructor’s board with this round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Bosta was launched in 2017 by Mohamed Ezzat and Ahmed Gaber. ” E-commerce is a fragmented sector where 80% of transactions come from small businesses selling on Facebook, Instagram and social media in general. And to be a market leader when it comes to e-commerce on the continent and be profitable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” The companies’ combined valuation stands at over $147 million according to the firm.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

million in a seed round in June 2020 and followed it with $10 million in debt from emerging markets-focused venture debt fund Lendable in December. Planet42, though based in South Africa, has Estonian roots due to the founders’ heritage: Oja and CFO Marten Orgna founded the company in 2017. However , the main reason is market size.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . Doximity is a social network that allows doctors to speak to each other while complying with HIPAA, a federal law that promotes medical privacy. In 2017, Doximity claimed that it reached 70% of all U.S. The list of deals in the market is straight fire.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Alex Hofmann once served as Musical.ly’s president, overseeing the North and South American markets for the TikTok precursor, then leaving shortly after the app exited to Chinese tech giant ByteDance in 2017. He says some Wink users were asking for a way to use the social app for dating purposes.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Alex Hofmann once served as Musical.ly’s president, overseeing the North and South American markets for the TikTok precursor, then leaving shortly after the app exited to Chinese tech giant ByteDance in 2017. “[Summer is retaining users] better than the top apps, especially in our strongest markets,” Hofmann says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Jive focused on enterprise social networking, went public in 2011 and later sold itself in 2017 for an all-cash deal worth $462 million. In marketing-speak, the startup wants to widen the top of its funnel. The OKR-focused startup competes in a somewhat crowded space. Growth plans. That would mean more revenue for Koan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Mina Shahid , Catherine Denis and Ben Best founded Numida in 2017 and capitalized on the opportunity to build one of East Africa’s first digital fintechs targeting semi-formal micro and small businesses. ” With this new financing, Numida plans to expand aggressively in Uganda and pilot in a new market, preferably in West Africa.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Founded in 2017, Armenia-based DeepCraft specialized in video and image processing and was the country’s first unicorn. The team will also help to complement Picsart’s A.I. research and development arm, PAIR (Picsart AI Research) with additional senior resources, the company says.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before joining Affirm in 2019, Martincevic led Groupon’s international business in Europe, Asia and Australia as chief operating officer and chief marketing officer. Between its formation in 2008 and 2017, Deputy didn’t have a CEO, until Ahmed stepped into the position after the startup’s first funding round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I want to know at what stage did Howard begin to consciously prep Yext for an IPO — the company went public in 2017 — and how long until he felt the company was ready? We’ll also get Howard’s take on the public markets in 2020 and whether he was happy with Yext’s IPO timing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Back in 2017, S?kr’s After meeting through social media, where they had become micro-influencers in the van life space, the co-founders decided to build a mobile app for people in the same position. filter them by amenities and services, save favorites and network with others through social features. Image Credits: S?kr

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Alex Wilhelm uses his weekday column The Exchange to keep a close eye on “private companies, public markets and the gray space in between,” but one effort stood out: An overview of six API-based startups that were “raising capital in rapid-fire fashion” when many companies were trying to find their COVID-19 footing. .

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys).

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JANUARY 20, 2021

“We are seeing strong traction from industries like eCommerce, Financial Services and Marketing Agencies,” CEO & co-founder Jiaqi Pan tells TechCrunch. The startup, which launched its “no code” flavor of chatbot builder back in 2017, previously relocated HQ from Valencia to Barcelona to help with recruitment.

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