TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At We created the Autism Impact Fund with the ambition of becoming the investment and innovation arm of the autism community,” said Male.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Seattle-based startup also today launched its app, which it claims allows “anyone” to invest in the global private real estate market for as little as $1. . Concreit’s first private REIT fund, focused on passive income, consists of lower-risk fixed-income private market residential and commercial real estate first-lien mortgages.

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2025

The Munich-based startup accuses SAP of abusing its market power and harming competition, and thereby negatively impacting customers, according to the 61-page indictment filed by Celonis in San Francisco District Court on March 13. German process mining specialist Celonis has filed a lawsuit against ERP giant SAP.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Contact centers play a key part in call a company engages with customers, amounting to what is a $400 billion market globally. Recall that Zoom has had some big ambitions to crack into the contact center market for a while. Gong.ai , Google , Talkdesk , and more are among those playing in this space.). Observe.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas. Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, was one of the first travel aggregation platforms on the market.

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TechCrunch

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. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Other backers include SeaX, XA Network and SG Innovate, and angel investors Yoh-Chie Lu, Jean-Luc Butel and Steve Blank. Bot MD was also part of Y Combinator’s summer 2018 batch. The startup announced today it has raised a $5 million Series A led by Monk’s Hill Venture.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

billion worth of bitcoin, thus massively boosting the mainstream markets for crypto assets. Biggs is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and served as Head Tutor for their Blockchain Strategy Programme from 2018 to 2020. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5

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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. It’s a typical salary structure in markets such as the U.S. but rarely used in markets like Nigeria. “In

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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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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

Rohit Badlaney, General Manager of IBM Cloud Product and Industry Platforms, brings more than two decades of experience in his role leading strategy, product management, design, and go-to-market for IBM Cloud. The IBM and VMware relationship goes back two decades and includes our jointly funded innovation lab.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

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

APRIL 24, 2024

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. Early in this process, I concluded that the previous go-to-market model was too complex and costly for VMware and its customers.

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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. Its funding will be used to expand into more markets and fill engineering and data science roles. million Series A co-led by pi Ventures and Exfinity Venture Partners.

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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

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 plans to bring autonomous trucks to market first.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup also plans to expand its team in preparation for the commercialization of AXIS later this year to cater to the rapidly growing market of gamers, tech adopters, content creators and fitness enthusiasts. Refract will continue delivering immersive and engaging XR and VR experiences to a growing market of 2.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

CEO Brian Spears has a chemical engineering background and co-founded the company, which makes meat from animal cells, in 2018 after spending 12 years developing research laboratory and industry automation. “We He expects to be able to go to market in 2022, pending approval from the U.S. Image Credits: New Age Meats.

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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

MAY 5, 2021

It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. startup aims to do something similar, but this time it will be coming out of the key market of the U.K., It has now gone on to raise $44.1 where the insurance industry is enormous.

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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. . The company says it plans to use the funds to speed up customer acquisition in its present markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In short, there’s a bet to be made that this new market — which is just getting started but expected to be huge in the coming years — needs a focused chip for it. Putting all of that into a single chip requires a lot of integration and lots of architectural innovation which, which is what EdgeQ has been able to do,” Ravuri said.

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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. We believe that options can offer retail investors opportunities to generate returns in today’s more challenging market environment. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Mayank Kukreja said that the proceeds will be put toward “aggressively expand[ing] in North America via product innovation, sales and marketing and partnership development.” IDC recently estimated that, as of 2018, Concur held onto over half of the overall T&E market.)

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Machine Learning market is ever-growing, predicted to scale up at a CAGR of 43.8% 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. He is also one of the 2018 ACM A.M.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Machine Learning market is ever-growing, predicted to scale up at a CAGR of 43.8% 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. He is also one of the 2018 ACM A.M.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The mobile money market in sub-Saharan Africa is growing exponentially. But despite being one of the largest alternative financial infrastructures known globally, this represents only a fraction of the overall market. . ” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Taeillo , a Lagos-based startup innovating around these issues relating to time, quality and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 Then there’s its augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) tech (powering virtual showrooms), which the startup intends to double down on marketing-wise. .

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TechCrunch

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

He has had a hand in a number of high-profile investments, including Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool. His accolades include the MVMT50 SXSW 2018 Innovator of the Year and Digital Diversity’s Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent awards.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

The company also said: Loft appreciates the dedication of the employees who have left the company, is committed to help them in whatever is possible to relocate to the market and regrets the loss of these professionals. Loft aims to serve as a “one-stop shop” for Brazilians to help them manage the home buying and selling process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

However, data from 2022 is showing that these innovation hubs may have some serious competition as the investment landscape in Europe is starting to outstrip robotics’ biggest players. Over the years, we’ve only seen this investment tug-of-war intensify as both economies have vied for dominion to become an innovation superpower.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Southeast Asia has become an attractive market for U.S. Alibaba has backed Akulaku, M-Pay (eMonkey), DANA, Wave Money and Mynt (GCash), while Tencent has invested in Voyager Innovations (PayMaya), SHAREit, iflix, Ookbee and Sanook. Southeast Asia also has many opportunities for VC investment relative to its market size.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually.

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CIO

JULY 17, 2023

In this conversation with Foundry, he talks about IT’s evolution, the tenets of leadership that he espouses within his team, fostering innovation in Havmor, and the growing value of IT in business. Could you tell us how digital innovation works in the backend of a customer-facing business like Havmor? When did you career begin?

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