TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The new point of sale system serves the budtender and customer alike. Ross and Zach Lipson co-founded Dutchie in 2017 and have raised $603 million to date. “It’s intuitive and simple enough for SMBs and mid-market retailers, but can also flex up to the enterprise-level dispensaries and MSOs.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

On one side stand the greenfield folk, who insist that the best possible experience is one built from the ground up, with these automated systems at its core. Founder and CEO Simon Kalouche says that Nimble’s new model wasn’t the goal when the pick and pack robotic automation firm launched in 2017. “It

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. The new funding will enable the company to build both sales and market teams and add to the engineering team. “We’re

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. When you looked at e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing or P2P payment seven years ago, it was always a fragmented market. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2

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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

MARCH 8, 2022

Intel bought the computer vision company focused on the self-driving sector back in 2017, before which it had been a public concern. However, with today’s IPO market frozen like a glacier, any and all exit data is welcome. No single IPO will fix a bear market, but it would help. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

” Mitchell co-launched Valence, which is New York-based, in 2017 with Levi Goertz. “The challenges companies are facing scaling hybrid workplaces and managing retention in this market is accentuated because people aren’t getting the learning and development opportunities that they should.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. Due to the impact of COVID-19, there has been a change in the way people travel, such as avoiding congestion.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Africas IT landscape is experiencing accelerated digital transformation due to a young, tech-savvy population, aboost in thegross domestic product (GDP), and anincrease in demand for low-latency connectivity. Interconnection opens access to foreign markets, but it also encourages cross-continental trade.

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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. And as was hinted at back in 2017, automakers are looking to make the ‘in-cabin experience’ a real thing. ” Then there’s automotive.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

It also added employer reviews and a pay database that uses information gathered from the 1.7 million jobs that have come through its system. Founded in 2017, NurseFly was acquired by IAC in August 2019. Vivian Heath built a proprietary data set of healthcare industry information through the 1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

From what we understand, if required due to sanctions, Bosch would put funds into a holding account if needed. A year and a bit ago we thought we would probably build the entire thing and take it to market as a whole system,” co-founder and CEO Stan Boland told me back in 2020. That was a hard truth for Five, too. “A

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Despite the investor caution narrative permeating the startup world throughout the economic downturn, certain startup-types have been a little more impervious to market conditions. For its latest cash injection, Prewave has also attracted European VC heavyweight Creandum , which has previously backed the likes of Spotify, Klarna, and iZettle.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

The Bunch system also molds its out to a user’s style and leadership goals. Back in 2017, the company was building what we described as “Google Analytics for company culture.” Alomar said that community and peer-review features are coming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The funding, which brings TreeDots’ total raised to $15 million, will be used to grow its operations in Malaysia, where it expanded last year, enter other markets and continue optimizing its logistics and supply chain business, called TreeLogs. The startup says its gross merchandise volume (GMV) has grown more than 4x year-over-year.

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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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Honeycomb

APRIL 16, 2025

I also noted this was based on absolutely no data, only my own experiences and a bunch of anecdotes, heavily weighted towards startups and the mid-market tech sector. Or they have a very simple architecture, a system that does not change very often, and/or customer experience is not a priority or a differentiator for them. (If

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. While a relatively small space compared to, say, the market for customer relationship management ( $44.9 customer base by bolstering its go-to-market strategy in the country. and the Middle East.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

BrainQ aims to change that with a device that stimulates the damaged part of the brain and promotes self-repair, showing enough improvement in studies to warrant a Breakthrough Device certification from the FDA — and the company has just raised $40M to take it to market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. But according to Komoni, most tracking is done manually via loose systems of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2022

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. MIT Technology Review has chronicled a number of failures, most of which stem from errors in the way the tools were trained or tested. The refrain has been repeated ever since. In a statement on Oct.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Walther had previously spent three and a half years at Spotify, following its 2017 acquisition of the audio detection startup Sonalytic , which he had co-founded. This can be useful when reviewing the recordings later on, Walther says. The idea for Tape It comes from two friends and musicians, Thomas Walther and Jan Nash.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Firefly Aerospace’s roller coaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. And it was worth at least $101 million, as it triggered a regulatory review that kicks in at that amount. Air Force and other U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The 2016-founded computer vision startup launched a AI -powered photo classifier service called Pholio in 2017 — pitching the service as a way for smartphone users to reclaim agency over their digital memories without having to hand their data over to cloud giants like Google. faces, heads, bodies) within video content. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It was back in 2017 when he and David Gao got the idea for his company MaxRewards , a digital wallet app that manages credit cards and automatically activates benefits like rewards, cashback offers and monthly credits. He energized us and showed he could find a market with insanely high ‘super users.’ ”.

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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. In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Its team grew from about 100 employees 18 months ago to over 230 as of this month, Luke Stapley, a marketing director at Cocos, told TechCrunch. Since launching on WeChat in 2017, HTML5 games, or what the Tencent-owned messenger calls “mini games,” have become a hit in China. The mini game renaissance. and Russia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits. A 2018 GitHub analysis found that there were more than 2.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

He was previously CEO of Zen Finance, which was sold to Rappi in 2020, and Biva, which sold to PagSeguro in 2017, he said. We tested the market by inviting entrepreneurs to talk about their hurdles of administering business. BHub is Neto’s third company and his third in the financial sector.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

It also marks San Francisco-based SpotOn’s third funding event since March 2020, and brings the startup’s total funding to $328 million since its 2017 inception. million in fees (it’s a SaaS business, so for several months it waived its monthly fee, for example, for its integrated restaurant management system).

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models. ” AI21 Labs was co-founded in 2017 by Goshen, Shashua, and Stanford University professor Yoav Shoham. The company’s questionable recent marketing stunt doesn’t instill enormous confidence. and abroad.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

The capital raised will be used to onboard new customers, expand into new markets, and develop the company’s supply mesh technology as it accelerates growth globally, Patil told TechCrunch via email. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017. ” Building a supply chain backbone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required. Since 2012, he’s served as CEO, moving the company’s headquarters from Marseille to New York in 2017. billion in transactions daily.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Resilience is part of the policy of the Dutch National Bank for the Dutch financial market [ dnb01 , dnb02 , dnb03 ] and part of the Risk Management standard ISO 31.000 [ Hutchens-2018 ]. An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. These systems are to be called fragile.

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