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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Those centers will need new innovation — especially when it comes to tackling the energy consumption problem — and it is likely Big Tech and VCs will be there to provide the cash necessary to nurture those new technologies. Founded in 2018, Path has raised $170 million, per the company.

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JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Startups are experiments in the marketplace, and this is a way for us to understand and get comfortable with where innovations are coming from.” . It not only seeks to bring emerging tech to market, but it also wants to bring new innovations onboard, whether as a customer or an acquisition, according to Adler. . “I

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MARCH 17, 2025

In 2018, SAP revised the regulations governing the indirect use of its software , thus bringing an end to a years-long dispute. With this innovative model, SAP has taken an important step toward regaining customer trust, which seemed to have been somewhat lost recently, the German-speaking SAP user group (DSUG) stated at the time.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Madrid-based Repsol, a repeat finalist at the 2024 CIO 100 Awards in Spain,has been immersed for years in a process of digital transformationwith the aim to become more multi-energy focused, more customer oriented, and better committed to digitalization, innovation, and talent management.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

IBM purchased the company in 2018 for a hefty $34 billion and has been leveraging that acquisition as part of a shift to a hybrid cloud strategy under CEO Arvind Krishna. The companies did not share the purchase price. RedHat, which is perhaps best known for its enterprise Linux products has been making the shift to the cloud in recent years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

The round was led by Insight Partners and Entrée Capital, with participation from Amdocs, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, as well as existing investors Vertex Ventures Israel, Oryzn Capital, and Slow Ventures. Fraud prevention is big business, which is slated to be worth $145 billion by 2026, ballooning by eightfold in size compared to 2018.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The idea behind Portside, which was founded in 2018, is that it lets business aviation companies and flight departments manage everything from flight operations to maintenance, crew and staff scheduling, expense management for crew members and staff, and financial data to help them operate more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Yesterday, Amazon announced that Agility Robotics is one of the five initial startups benefitting from the company’s $1 billion innovation fund. This morning, however, the company raised a massive $150 million Series B , including funds from the aforementioned Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

. “Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post. They will benefit from our scale, our talent, and our ability to help bring their innovations to the market faster.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

John Flavin is founder and CEO of Portal Innovations, LLC. billion invested across 1,073 deals — the market for new innovations remains strong. What’s more, these innovations are increasingly coming to market by way of early-stage startups and/or their scientific founders from academia. In 2018, for instance, U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

That has now grown to 8%, said Elaine Russell, Greycroft principal and co-lead of the Albertsons Fund, a $50 million fund started by Greycroft and the grocery chain in 2018 to invest in the future of retail and next-generation retailers. Prior to the pandemic, about 3% of that trillion dollars came from online sales.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Africa’s insurance market stands at a 3% penetration rate, per a McKinsey study in 2018 comparing six insurance regions on the continent. From the McKinsey report in 2018, the total gross written premiums (GWP) in Eastern Africa was $3.3 If the South African market is excluded , this number drops to a measly 1.12%.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . Existing backer World Innovation Lab (WiL) and new investor Mobile Internet Capital co-led the Series B, with participation from other new investors Mercuria Investment, Carta Ventures and Kiraboshi Capital. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach. billion in 2018. Folding that capability into the Workday platform expands their capabilities with an offering that customers will need in the future. billion in 2013 and Cisco buying Ann Arbor, MI-based Duo for $2.35

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Series C round comes a year after Flutterwave closed its $35 million Series B and $20 million Series A in 2018. It also contributed to its compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 226% from 2018. . There are so many trailblazing innovations that we don’t talk about a lot about Nigeria, like the BVN and the NIP system.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It was four years after several iterations of Insidify, an aggregator site for job seekers and a review site for companies that they started SeamlessHR in 2018. In Africa, the innovation that allows people to access credit from their jobs doesn’t happen. CEO Emmanuel Okeleji and CTO Deji Lana didn’t build SeamlessHR from the get-go.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months. This allowed him to see how product innovation is done for many types of consumer products, ranging from snacks and fast food to packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Other investors in the funding round include existing investors Cathay Innovation, Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, Draper Esprit, DCG, Korelya Capital and Wicklow Capital. After the crypto boom of 2018, interests for hardware wallets faded away. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Founded in 2018 in Brisbane, Australia, Plotlogic makes a multispectral-plus-lidar imaging setup that looks at a pile of rubble extracted from a mine and says, “there’s some lithium, there’s a bit of silver, there’s some sulfur.” The latter category is obviously where Plotlogic is aiming.

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MARCH 24, 2025

We enabled HDR10+ on Netflix using the AV1 video codec that was standardized by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) in 2018. The commitment to innovation and quality underscores our dedication to delivering an immersive and authentic viewing experience for all ourmembers. AV1 is one of the most efficient codecs available today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD. Those that innovate now to introduce adjacent services will emerge as winners in the next few years, with some inevitably becoming billion-dollar companies.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Primarily, his thought leadership is focused on leveraging Big Data, Machine Learning, and Data Science to drive and enhance an organization’s business, address business challenges, and lead innovation. Along with Yoshua Bengio and Yan LeCun, he has been termed as one of the Godfathers of AI, and co-received the 2018 ACM A.M.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Primarily, his thought leadership is focused on leveraging Big Data, Machine Learning, and Data Science to drive and enhance an organization’s business, address business challenges, and lead innovation. Along with Yoshua Bengio and Yan LeCun, he has been termed as one of the Godfathers of AI, and co-received the 2018 ACM A.M.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

My story is that of the average American, and yet feels light years apart from what people perceive as the “innovation economy.” And, at the helm of such innovations needs to be the people closest to these market opportunities, in full alignment with their customers and the nuances to best serve them. And yet, here we are.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The round is led by Central and Eastern European VC Kaya, with Nina Capital, Nova Capital and Innovation Nest also participating. Asked about the regulatory landscape it said: “When we launched in 2018 we were one of the first AI-based solutions approved as medical device in Europe.

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APRIL 23, 2021

According to CB Insights, life-extension startups raised a record total of $800 million in 2018 alone. Then Alexey Ryazanov proposed the innovative idea of large-scale screening of all known pharmacological substances on long-lived mice in order to find those that prolong life.”. And there are some high-profile investors in the space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Jeff Myers and Ryan Belanger-Saleh co-founded Gatsby, a commission-free options and stock-trading app aimed at younger traders, in 2018. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3 The company first filed for regulatory approval in December of 2021. E Toro has grown impressively in recent years. million at the end of 2019, 17.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. million pre-seed round in 2018. The company presented its product at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising, where it beat out nine other companies, winning the pitch-off.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2018, three co-founders of Refract, Chong Geng Ng, Michael Chng and Eugene Koh, worked on a gaming-related project and encountered a problem statement: How would one bridge the gap between gaming and physical activity? “We are pleased to support their growth and the development of the overall innovation ecosystem in Singapore.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

That’s why the company recently bought early-stage startup OneGraph , a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort , which built a solution based on GraphQL to connect these different APIs together on the back end. ” The company boasts more than 2 million developers using the platform, although many are using the free tier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Less than a year after most CIOs and business leaders even heard the expression “generative artificial intelligence,” for the first time, this technology has set off a wave of innovation that will dramatically change how businesses are run. Agility is at the heart of reinventing business processes and successful innovation is the prize.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

CEO Bryan Moore founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018. ” “From the moment we met the talkshoplive team, we were impressed with their focus on enabling SMB’s with a new, creative, innovative way to build their businesses,” Mahesh said in a statement.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Murphy’s strategy overall for the economy is to build a stronger and fairer New Jersey and a stronger and fairer economy,” Sullivan said, adding that the state is also focused on “reclaiming New Jersey’s heritage of leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship.”. billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019.

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