TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

So I got on the phone with Liana Herrera , the company’s co-founder, to chat about the startup, which is part coffee-sourcing engine, part subscription/e-commerce play and part hardware effort. Before and even after Bottomless went through Y Combinator back in 2019, the company hand-built its coffee-weighing scales.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The round, led by Chuck Murphy of Longview Asset Management, follows a $7 million Series A raised back in 2019. The second-gen version of the product brings some key hardware improvements to the pet tracking device, including battery optimization that gives up to three months of life on a charge (with an average of around 1.5,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s been a hot minute since a publicly traded hardware company experienced a valuation correction as dramatic as Peloton’s. As a former hardware founder and investor, I can’t help but feel sorry for the no-mercy hill climb the company finds itself in. In 2019, Peloton endured lots of bad press — deservedly so.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Though, like many companies primarily known for hardware solutions, Latch says it’s more, offering a connected security software platform for owners of apartment buildings. And the company has seen solid growth over the past year — not something every hardware or hardware adjacent company can say about the pandemic.

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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. Microsoft is reportedly facing an internal shortage of the server hardware needed to run its AI, and the scarcity is driving prices up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. Spark, which led a $15 million investment into the company in 2019 (when it had sold a mere 100,000 devices), remains a shareholder in the company, Wanberg added. ” 2021. 303 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Also participating is HCVC (Hardware Club), alongside existing investor Change Ventures. Subscriptions grew 800% in 2019 and will be even higher in 2020. It has now raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform.

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The vulnerabilities, discovered by Ilja van Sprundel and Joseph Tartaro at security research company IOActive , and by Andrea Barisani at antivirus company F-Secure , affect a wide range of bootloaders, including Das U-Boot , Coreboot , Grub , Seabios , CFE , iPXE , and TianoCore , they disclosed at PacSec 2019 here in November.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. The Sydney-based company creates hardware and software solutions designed to bring solar-based power to developing markets. million new round (it’s a nice photo; we used it on this post , too).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It has raised north of $136 million thus far, including an $82 million round back in 2019. Hardware makers haven’t been a huge player thus far (with a few exceptions like smart lock mater, Latch ), though that looks like it may be changing. Last year, it pulled in around $70 million in revenue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Since announcing its seed raise in May of 2021, AcuityMD claims that medtech hardware companies have identified more than 40,000 new opportunities using its software, which translates to over $2 billion worth of leads added to the sales pipeline. . “Instead we got 140 instruments in a surgical tray.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Houston-headquartered Paladin is a startup building a custom drone hardware and software solution for cities to be able to respond to emergencies faster and with better data. The public launch is a huge step forward for the company, which TechCrunch last profiled in 2019 as it was emerging from Y Combinator with a $1.3

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Not really a surprise, since the price of hardware trends to zero over time. Reliable connectivity, plus a nice low monthly price for extremely fast hardware? I like it so much I put together a new 2019 iteration: 2017 — $670 2019 — $820. 2019 Mini-PC 5,671. 2019 Mini-PC 14,604. i7-7500u 2.7-3.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. The company will focus more on large enterprises next year, he added. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. “And then kind of dispassionately looking at what is the technology that accelerates our first product to market and then amplifying that — whether it’s from the existing Aurora team or to the new Aurora team — and pushing that forward, whether it’s ideas or code or bits of hardware together to accelerate our time to market.”

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MARCH 12, 2025

parameters) in 2019 to models like GPT-4 (1+ trillion parameters) and DeepSeek-V3 (671B parameters, using Mixture-of-Experts). As AI models continue to scale and evolve, they require massive parallel computing, specialized hardware (GPUs, TPUs), and crucially, optimized networking to ensure efficient training and inference.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

PalmPay came into Nigeria’s payments scene in June 2019. Five months later, it launched with a $40 million seed round –the largest of its kind on the continent–from Chinese investors such as Chinese phone-maker Transsion via its Tecno subsidiary, NetEase and wireless communications hardware firm Mediatek.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

That work has accelerated since spring 2019 when Daimler took a majority stake in Torc Robotics, an autonomous trucking startup that had been working with Luminar the past two years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Last time we checked in on the Boston-based company was in late-2019, when it raised $55 million. That was likely driven, in part, by the decision in 2019 to make the $500 wearable free, while focusing on a subscription service that starts at $18 a month for an 18-month membership (the shorter the membership, the more the monthly fee).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But the competition, while fierce, hasn’t scared away firms like NeuReality , which occupy the AI chip inferencing market but aim to differentiate themselves by offering a suite of software and services to support their hardware. NeuReality will bring AI tech to anyone who wants to deploy easily and affordably.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

These are companies like hardware maker Native Instruments, which launched the Sounds.com marketplace last year, and there’s also Arcade by Output that’s pitching a similar service. . Splice’s beefed up balance sheet comes as new entrants have started vying for a slice of Splice’s music-making market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Founded out of London in 2019, WeWalk has developed a GPS-enabled smart cane and smartphone app, helping users navigate their surrounding environment. Time named the WeWalk Smart Cane one of the “best inventions” of 2019. “Imperial College is supporting the underlying sensing algorithms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

CEO of Neubility Sangmin Lee told TechCrunch that it’s been focused on developing hardware and software for its latest effort, delivery robots, since late 2019. Fittingly for a startup now focused on mobility, Neubility has come a long way from its original product, a haptic glove device for video games.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Alternatively, many people use a phone-based authentication app that generates a passcode, or a physical hardware key that uses Bluetooth, NFC, or USB. . To set up your iPhone as a second-factor hardware key for your Google account, you can follow these four steps. 2FA is gradually becoming more widely available and adopted.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This included both the hardware cost, the operational staff required to support the solution and the cost of building the features. Add to this the escalating costs of maintaining legacy systems, which often act as bottlenecks for scalability. Time to market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Back in 2019, Tandem was the hottest company coming out of Y Combinator. In short, the service works with video-ready hardware inside of office spaces like conference rooms and general-use areas, allowing remote staff to connect to different parts of the office, listen in or actively participate. Either way, it’s well timed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

We first wrote about Built Robotics back in 2019 , when the company was in the early stages of firing up its autonomous excavators. We stopped by Built Robotics’ SF headquarters back in 2019 for a look at their hardware. This round brings Built’s total funding to $112 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Cost is an outsize one — training a single model on commercial hardware can cost tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. In 2019, Geifman co-founded Deci alongside Ran El-Yaniv and entrepreneur Jonathan Elial. But Geifman argues that Deci’s platform offers access to NAS capabilities at a lower cost. ” .

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He also co-founded Altius Space Machines, which was eventually purchased by Voyager Space in 2019. Private station operators “are going to need an easy LEGO brick to build in space,” he told TechCrunch in a recent interview: versatile, modular hardware to let humanity build in space at scale.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

This will be combined with a shift to a licensing model for its chip hardware, so that they can be produced by multiple third parties. This is just the tip of the iceberg,” CEO and co-founder Tal Tamir told me back in 2019 (he wasn’t available for an interview this time around, unfortunately). “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even more, the software-and-payments company combines subscription incomes, transaction fees, hardware revenues and lending earnings. Here’s Toast’s top-line performance for 2019, 2020, and the first half of both 2020 and 2021, taken from its S-1 filing : Image Credits: Toast S-1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The funding — an extension to the $32 million round that Vdoo announced in April 2019 — is coming from two investors, Israel’s Qumra Capital and Verizon Ventures (the investing arm of Verizon, which — by way of its acquisition of Aol many years ago — also owns TechCrunch).

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JANUARY 28, 2022

By combining Zigbang’s residential contents with Samsung [SDS]’ home IoT hardware, we will revolutionize the smart home market,” CEO of Zigbang Sung-woo Ahn said in a statement. The startup acquired HogangNoNo , a Korean proptech startup, in 2018, WooZoo , a co-living platform, and Sugarhill , a commercial brokerage platform, in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The company’s last big raise was $140M in late 2019 , which helped it build out a new Long Beach headquarters and finalize its Terran-1 rocket. These can be revised and tested right up to a couple months before launch, unlike an ordinary building process which might require the hardware to be locked in a year or more before.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When we last talked with Automata in 2019 , the company had just raised a $7.4M “We’ve had to build an entirely new hardware stack that allows for this kind of automation,” ElSayed said. But it couldn’t be done with a handful of robotic arms. The Automata Labs enclosure with Eva robotic arm next to it.

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