TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

In 2018 and 2019, VCs invested around $140 billion into domestic startups, making last year’s $156 billion result a record, but not a shocking departure from previous years. Inside those numbers are the whole year’s ups-and-downs: the fact that the seed data is so close to 2018 and 2019 levels is almost silly. Boring, yeah?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Even after it transitioned from a nonprofit to a “capped-profit” company in 2019, OpenAI retained an unusual structure that […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Its governance structure is unique and what ultimately led to the abrupt ousting of CEO Sam Altman on Friday. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Founded in January 2019 by Amanda Peyton and Todd Berman (who left in 2020), San Francisco-based Braid set out to offer friends and family an FDIC-insured, multi-user account that was designed to make it easy “to pool, manage […]

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

The fundraising is coming two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and $120 million Series B in November. billion, three times what it was worth back in 2019. Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The company launched in 2019, won — and lost — an innovation award at CES 2020, and this week started […] Keep Labs built a lockable storage container for medicine, and it doesn’t matter if the meds come in bottles, boxes or dime bags. The Keep is designed to hold them safely and track their use.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5 This time there was a representative outside Nigeria — Ghanaian fintech startup, Bitsika. million in seed and $15 million Series A investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The automaker said on Tuesday that it will now let other companies buy its commercial electric vans, ending an exclusivity deal that Amazon secured when it pumped more than a billion dollars into Rivian in 2019. Both companies’ stock prices rose following the announcement, which they timed […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The case, which was being tried in the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, was filed by two passengers who survived a 2019 crash and alleged that Tesla […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Enza Capital, the Pan-African VC firm that Lazar co-founded in 2019, was among the large participants in the Series C extension […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As analyst John Koetsier noted in Forbes back in 2019 , there were already 250 million Discord users sending 315 million messages a day. Until mid-2019, white nationalists were comfortable enough using the service to warrant a shoutout from Daily Stormer founder, Andrew Anglin, who urged his fellow travelers to stop using the service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on X Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that the new tranche concludes its Series B round, which it kickstarted in 2019 with a tranche of $12.7 In late 2019, it entered the e-commerce space with JioMart through a joint venture with sister subsidiary telecom giant Jio Platforms.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over a year ago, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg — whose company acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019 — posted on Twitter that the site would “soon” add support […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

For context, it’s more than 50% more such rounds in Q1 2020 and Q1 2019. Big, bigger, small, fewer. Per the interim CB Insights dataset, there have been some 33 fintech mega-rounds so far in 2021. Via the preliminary report, here’s the data:

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on X Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In fact, I’ve been back to my 2019 levels of travel, which has been a breath of fresh air after being pandemic-grounded for a couple of years. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been traveling a lot this year. I like to return to this list every time TechCrunch does a gift guide. It’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

In early 2019 after realising he was “doing too much and not enjoying it,” Blomfield began talking to Monzo investor Eileen Burbidge of Passion Capital, and Monzo Chair Gary Hoffman, about changing roles and how he needed more help. million in 2019. To that end, Monzo now has almost 5 million customers, up from 1.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

USD $76 million) in 2019, due to a near doubling of transactions from 46 in 2019 to 92 in 2020. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 million (USD $86 million), up from NZD $112.2 (USD billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

June 4, 2019 should have been one of the happiest days of my life. He previously was co-founder and CEO at Distil Networks, a bot attack mitigation company acquired by Imperva. More posts by this contributor. Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation. At 11:30 a.m.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In October 2019, Njoku hinted that the company was going public either on the London Stock Exchange or a local exchange on the continent. ” When IROKO sold ROK Studios to Vivendi-owned Canal+ in July 2019, the terms of the deal remained undisclosed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

By February 2019, my co-founders departed. When Kolide was spinning out of control, the vast majority of the advice I received was to cut our losses and sell the company or return the money to the investors. Despite this tell-tale sign of imminent demise, I was ultimately able to recover and put us on track for a great fundraise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. All told, 2019 was a huge year for the Indian startup market in venture capital terms, and 2020’s recovery is underway. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. Let’s see what gets built.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found that from 1959 to 2012, the amount of power used to train AI models doubled every two years, and that the power usage began rising seven times faster after 2012.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019. Yoav Leitersdorf is the Silicon Valley-based managing partner at YL Ventures, where he accelerates cybersecurity startups in the U.S. More posts by this contributor. A look back at the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2018. Michael Cortez. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Yet, Cybertruck’s initial debut predates that moment; Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off an early version of the pickup at a memorable 2019 event, when […] © 2023 TechCrunch. The boxy vehicle is Tesla’s first new model since 2020, when it started delivering the Model Y. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If unicorns are not able to raise as much this year as they did in, say, 2019, how many of the billion-dollar-plus startups are going to survive? Not that we’re going to forecast a unicorn culling this early in the week, but the data is troubling.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on X Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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JULY 1, 2021

In healthcare alone, 2020 saw 640 breaches , exposing 30 million personal records, a 25% increase over 2019 that equates to roughly two breaches per day, according to the U.S. They impact hospitals, universities, government agencies, charitable organizations and commercial enterprises. Department of Health and Human Services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The shutdown was part of a broader layoffs at Bustle Digital Group, which acquired the publication in 2019. In 2019, our truck became the first fully-unmanned truck to drive on a live highway,” Starsky Robotics co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher wrote in a Medium post in March. Remembering the startups we lost in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Maybe a little, but I doubt that anyone views the 2014-2019 era as conservative when it came to startup spending. Did the startup market listen to the 2014 venture warnings concerning high burn rates and the potential, to summarize the a16z co-founder, for startups losing too much money to vaporize?

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