TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or offer insurance as a standalone service. And so we built the system for them,” said Mascot.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr. Shravan Verma and Serene Cai.

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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 3, 2022

” Mitchell co-launched Valence, which is New York-based, in 2017 with Levi Goertz. But, as with rival performance management systems (e.g., But the top 1% of employees receive 90% of this investment … We believe that technology will change that,” Mitchell said. billion last year.

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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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The Parallax

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Did you get hacked in 2017? That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. Tech companies often have extensive privacy policies written in dense legalese, but that doesn’t mean you should do your due diligence about a new product before buying it.

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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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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 18, 2020

Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: “InSecurity: Why a Failure to Attract and Retain Women in Cybersecurity is Making Us All Less Safe,” by Jane Frankland (Published October 20, 2017). Book Reviewed by: Greg Day, CSO EMEA. Are you missing out on hiring top talent due to unconscious biases?

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company. billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Founders Eric Yu and Peter Zhou met in school and started working on Rutter, which Zhou called “Plaid for commerce,” in 2017 before going through the summer 2019 Y Combinator cohort. They stumbled upon the e-commerce API idea while working in education technology last year.

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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. If Mobileye manages a smooth IPO at an attractive price, the company could help shake loose the exit market for tech companies. No single IPO will fix a bear market, but it would help. chip giant Intel.

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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 most basic task is connecting to the database, writing the query, then getting the results,” he added. PopSQL raised a $3.4

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Enterprise tech and AI Cerebras Systems : Yes, this one is kind of cheating. national security review on UAE-based G42 ‘s minority investment in the AI chipmaker. SymphonyAI was founded by Romesh Wadhwani , PhD, in 2017. Cerebras should likely already be public. It filed to go public openly in September.

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The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This could be due to the “male geek” concept. Many women could feel unwanted and discouraged due to a lack of senior responsibilities. Stephanie Shirley developed programs studying the impact of technology on social issues. Megan Smith served in the White House until 2017. Few women pursue careers in CS.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants. Austin is also home to secondary offices of many of the largest tech companies in the world, including Google, Apple, Oracle, Amazon, Facebook and SpaceX. And the numbers are there to back it up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play. Scale matters in building automated driving technology. Headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

And in fact when I spoke with BrainQ’s founder Yotam Drechsler, he reminded me of the last time we’d talked — back in 2017, at which time I “expressed strong skepticism.” The resulting system could be the biggest improvement to stroke therapy in decades or more. Image Credits: BrainQ.

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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? Given that we just came off one of the most active quarters in recent history for technology companies going public , it’s a good time to dig into the matter.

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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. The underlying technology was based on post-graduate research from inventor – and still CEO – Tom Carter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them.

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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. Gartner predicts that legal tech spending — which includes CLM — will increase threefold by 2025. billion in 2023), contract lifecycle management, or CLM, is growing at a rapid clip.

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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

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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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

APRIL 14, 2022

Backbone today announced that it raised $14 million in seed funding from Nautilus Ventures, 12/12 Ventures, and individual investors to prove out its technology. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017. Patil stayed on at Heighten after it was acquired by LinkedIn in 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. The mini game renaissance. For the past few years, Cocos has emerged as one of the main tools for building WeChat games.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

It speaks to the speed with which genetics has permeated our lives, but despite massive improvements to the technology, the process can still be a bit clunky in the lab. What I noticed was that the existing technologies for moving, mixing and heating fluids were archaic,” he said. “I And that sample has to get prepped the right way.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

TreeDots was founded in 2017 as a surplus food marketplace for F&B businesses, before it expanded its business to include social commerce, too. It improves on traditional cold-chain logistics by “being tech-driven and striving for higher utilization, heavier delivery density and best practices,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

If they didn’t use much technology before, they were suddenly being forced to, as so many things shifted to digital last year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. The autonomous vehicle startup raised $1 billion after launching in 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

“We’ve heard about RPA and other workflow automation, and that is important too but what that has also established is that there are certain things that humans should not have to do that is very structural, but those systems can’t actually address a lot of other work that is unstructured.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. Vehicle intelligence systems capable of running and reporting millions of autonomous fault checks per day. IP67 or IP68 waterproofing on batteries.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

At Strata 2017 , I premiered a new diagram to help teams understand why teams fail and when: Early on in projects, management and developers are responsible for the success of a project. If this dirty data proliferates and propagates to other systems, we open Pandora’s box of unintended consequences. Then there's real time.

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