Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. Founded in 2019, the company previously tried to go public through the special-purpose acquisition company Newbury Street Acquisition, but the deal was canceled in December. billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2019, Whatnot has raised approximately $746 million, per the company. The round was co-led by Avra , DST Global and Greycroft. billion.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Two critical areas that underpin our digital approach are cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). Avnet named him CIO in 2019. As CIO of Avnet one of the largest technology distributors and supply chain solution providers Im responsible for the organizations IT stack and oversee digital transformation and strategy.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Priya Saiprasad It’s no surprise that the AI market has skyrocketed in recent years, with venture capital investments in artificial intelligence totaling $332 billion since 2019, per Crunchbase data. However, as AI booms, exit value in the United States is plummeting.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa is using artificial intelligence to help farmers manage their farms, trees and fruits.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively. Close to a third of all global venture funding went to companies in AI-related fields, making artificial intelligence the leading sector for funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Then in 2019, the state of technology was such that Li and co-founders Daniel Chen and Jeremy Huang could create data extraction capabilities through the use of artificial intelligence-driven software. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. Forrester, in their Predictions 2025: Artificial Intelligence report, predicted that three-quarters of companies that try to build AI agents in-house will fail. Don’t let that scare you off.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020. Intel acquired Israeli AI chipmaker Habana Labs for about $2 billion in 2019 while Qualcomm picked up Nuvia for approximately $1.4

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

At the heart of this shift are AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), IoT, and other cloud-based technologies. There are also significant cost savings linked with artificial intelligence in health care. The first 5G data cards and 5G smartphones hit the market in 2019 and have been available since then. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

When the three founders of Faros AI were working at Salesforce , they helped develop the company’s artificial intelligence, known as Einstein. The three founders — Gordon, in addition to Salesforce Einstein alums Matthew Tovbin and Shubha Nabar — left the company in 2019 to build Faros AI to solve the problem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll. . The artificial intelligence technology underlying the platform allows hospitals to leverage patient data to determine payment plans specific to each patient while keeping administrative costs low.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Like other edtech companies , Varsity Tutors uses artificial intelligence and data analytics to better match experts to learners. That growth rate is slower than what it managed in 2019, some 26% growth, and is around half of what it anticipates for 2021, namely 31% growth. The learning platform covers more than 3,000 subjects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In November 2019 it unveiled its artificial intelligence product that lets producers match samples from different genres using machine learning techniques to find the matches. Meanwhile, Splice continues to invest in new technology to make producers’ lives easier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The wealth technology company was co-founded in 2019 by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, who say Farther is “a new kind of financial institution” catering to high-net-worth professionals building generational wealth but want the freedom of both an automated system and a professional. Advisors set the costs for using the platform.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Dean Wampler, head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, talks about moving AI and machine learning into real-time production environments. “What I’ve learned is there are a lot of little ways and big ways that add up when we’re working on stuff like this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. “I would say that money trickled in a lot more strongly in 2019 when I raised Fund I,” Winfield said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resistant AI , which uses artificial intelligence to help financial services companies combat fraud and financial crime — selling tools to protect credit risk scoring models, payment systems, customer onboarding and more — has closed $16.6 million in Series A funding.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Sierra , $175M, artificial intelligence: If you want to have your company’s valuation skyrocket in the blink of an eye, start an AI startup. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $130 million, per Crunchbase. billion valuation. Big global deals The biggest deal of the week came from China.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ricardo Weder , former president of Cabify (a large ridesharing company operating in Latin America, Spain and Portugal) founded Jüsto in 2019 with a mission to “disrupt the Latin American grocery industry.” It also uses artificial intelligence to forecast demand and to try to reduce food waste at its micro-fulfillment centers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The funding proceeds from the new round will be used for further global expansion, business diversification, R&D, investment in advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technology and recruiting team talent. in November 2019, currently operates the Karrot app in 72 local communities in four countries: the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

.” For example, summer reservation volume in the United States is 282% higher than in summer 2020, and even 32% higher than summer 2019. summer reservations are up 180% from last year (though down 19% from 2019). In the U.K., Soto added that the money will allow Guesty to continue investing in both growth and technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Using artificial intelligence, the company recommends products and can predict the order a retailer can make with promotions and pricing based on factors like locations. Dinardo and his co-founders, Ed Butterworth and Nick Eales, started the company in 2019. Aforza is Dinardo’s first time leading a company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. However, in 2019, the company realized that the challenge was a bit bigger than the founders previously anticipated. The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s also keen to invest in startups building intelligence analysis toolsets that make use of technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as intelligence-driven applications that can be integrated into its own Intelligence Platform and ecosystem. intelligence community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the time of the company’s last raise, Agrawal said Jerry saw its revenue surge by “10x” in 2020 compared to 2019. The Palo Alto-based startup launched its car insurance comparison service using artificial intelligence and machine learning in January 2019. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

digital identity market is projected to increase to over $30 billion by 2023 from just under $15 billion in 2019, according to One World Identity. Given how much of our lives have shifted online, it’s no surprise that the U.S. This has led to skyrocketing demand for the services provided by identity verification companies. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Despite the elaborate smoke and mirrors that Google has put up, one fact remains: Google is an advertising company with ads representing 71% of its revenue sources in 2019. But there’s a catch. What happens when an advertising company now wants to be our bank? Doing so will give them a leg up on collecting data over Big Tech in the long term.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The growth signals that Preply is finding traction despite heavyweight competitors such as Duolingo, which plans to IPO this year , and Babbel, which crossed $150 million in recognized revenue in 2019. Fluent Forever raised $4.9 Bigai sees a big opportunity for Preply in the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence-powered voice and video technologies have been gaining steady popularity in recent years. Over the last two years, its revenue has grown by approximately 18% per month since its launch in November 2019. Today, Neosapience announced it has raised $21.5 The company has 41 employees as of January. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Edtech M&A activity is buzzier than usual: In the last week, Course Hero, a startup that sells Netflix-like subscriptions to students looking for learning and teaching content, bought Symbolab, an artificial intelligence-powered calculator. The deal was made as big companies get in the Q&A game too, he noted.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S., For instance, the application of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) tools across a wide variety of sectors risks amplifying existing societal biases and discrimination.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clockwise uses artificial intelligence to help teams free up their workdays and avoid the challenges associated with remote and hybrid workplaces, such as burnout. The company announced its $11 million Series A investment, which was co-led led by Greylock and Accel, in June 2019. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence is taking over almost every industry. In Deloitte’s 2019 report , the firm reveals that AI is transforming the financial ecosystem to reduce costs and make operations more efficient by providing automated insights and alternative data, analysis and risk management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The company says it employs artificial intelligence to create new processes and experiences for its customers. This investment is Naspers’ seventh since launching its Foundry arm back in 2019. Africa’s insurance sector is worth more than $68 billion in annual gross written premiums.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lumachain was founded in 2018 to use computer vision-based artificial intelligence to transform meat plant operations. million seed round in July 2019 to give it $22 million in total funding to date. “We That’s why she believes AI should be helping employees be the best they can be. She even did a TED Talk about it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a nutshell, Tipalti uses artificial intelligence to help businesses manage suppliers, invoices, purchase orders, tax compliance, payments and billing and other accounting services from a single cloud platform. That’s up from a $2 billion valuation at the time of its $150 million Series E round in October of 2020. In the U.S.

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