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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

million debt — in 2019. But in 2019, the company began to connect FMCGs and manufacturers with retailers in Kenya in a bid to increase revenue, thereby dipping its hands into a space with regional players such as Sokowatch and MarketForce. . This funding comes after the company’s $30 million Series B round — $23.75

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $1.5

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Chief executive officer Ruth Iselema founded the Africa-focused blockchain payments startup in 2019. Though Bitmama isn’t among the continent’s most funded blockchain platforms, Iselema boldly claims it is one of the most innovative blockchain companies around — and the new investment will allow it to be more tenacious on that front.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

According to a report from Canon Europe, IT job roles in 2025 will focus more on strategic innovation, supported by robust partnerships with the different business areas they serve. For example, in 2019 less than a fifth of ITDMs (19%) reported dedicating significant time to IT strategy, compared to almost half (46%) today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5 billion in size in 2019 and projected to reach $4.4 New Culture’s round was led by Ahren Innovation Capital and CPT Capital. Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S. cheese market alone was valued at $34.3 billion by 2027, per Allied’s findings.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation. Yaron has previously held leadership roles at Visa, SVB and Google, where he was instrumental in managing large-scale architecture and engineering organizations and driving digital transformation and innovation. Legacy infrastructure.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Founded in 2019, Enveda has raised $360 million, per Crunchbase. The company locked up a $125 million Series D led by new investors Qatar Investment Authority and World Innovation Lab. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $160 million, per Crunchbase. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $143 million, per Crunchbase.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The company has raised a number of private rounds, including a $126 million deal in August of 2019 that valued the company at $454.3 As Chamath tweeted this morning, Latch is merging with TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp , or $TSIA. from 2019 to 2020. million on a post-money basis, according to PitchBook data.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Cathay AfricInvest Innovation, FMO: Entrepreneurial Development Bank and Platform Investment Partners also participated. The company then raised a further $4 million in Series A funding in February 2019, led by Nedbank Capital and Paper Plane Ventures. million, according to Aerobotics.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. The platform include custom plug-ins to Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Octopus will now launch as a brand in Japan with its trademark 100% renewable electricity operation, which uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid. by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% Japanese renewables lag the U.K. of electricity versus 37.9% in the U.K.),

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Privacy data management innovations reduce risk, create new revenue channels. 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. Data breaches have become a part of life.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But with the region’s thirst for innovation, the market is expected to expand nearly tenfold over the next decade, with open banking through the use of APIs leading the way and acting as digital transformation facilitators. Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups.

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MARCH 26, 2025

In aggregate across 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2023, the data from these questions shows that legacy search engines that have not significantly advanced in the last five years have struggled to keep up with the increasing volume and variety of organizational data. The combination of keyword and vector search (a.k.a.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

“Red Hat adds StackRox’s Kubernetes-native capabilities to OpenShift’s layered security approach, furthering our mission to bring product-ready open innovation to every organization across the open hybrid cloud across IT footprints,” he said in a statement.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“But I learned to appreciate the benefits of not fitting in any box — that’s where innovation really lies.” Getaway plans to use the funding to expand to at least 17 Outposts this year, up from 12 in 2020 and nine in 2019. ” “For a while, I had this anxiety that we don’t fit in any box,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

iSTOX’s Series A round was first announced in September 2019 , when the company said it had raised an undisclosed amount from Thai investment bank Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group while participating in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) FinTech Regulatory Sandbox. Singapore’s government launches blockchain innovation program with $8.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. Indeed, the tailwinds we are referring to aren’t limited to the current macroeconomic climate. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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APRIL 13, 2022

Today social networks are more powerful than ever, and startups and corporations are innovating new commerce models that leverage the greater reach available to us. Image Credits: Kantar Global MONITOR 2019. Image Credits: Kantar Global MONITOR 2019. Addressing logistics issues in tier 2 and tier 3 cities.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. The platform include custom plug-ins to Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Being on Azure De vOps since its first incarnation as Visual Studio Team System ma de me at first a bit reluctant to move, but after talking with people such as Nat Friedman, who shared their vision and innovation going forward, we ma de a conscious de cision, we at the Xebia Microsoft Services will be a GitHub first company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On the other hand, the financing gap left by conventional banking institutions has presented an opportunity for innovation, leading to the birth of fintechs like Asilimia. In 2019, the startup won the Africa Cup at the 2019 SA Innovation Summit, securing a $350,000 investment from Unicorn Group, a pan-African investment firm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disha was founded by Evans Akanno, Rufus Oyemade and Blessing Abeng in 2019. We saw Disha as an opportunity to capture a new market of indie creators that need innovative tools to showcase their craft and get paid. And what’s more surprising is that the buy is outside payments or fintech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

“That’s the real innovation here: embedding it into mining operations and empowering mine staff with real time information,” said CEO and founder Andrew Job. The company first deployed its OreSense machines in 2019, and has been iterating on the product since, with feedback from major mining companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

First, it acquired the SocialRank product and business in 2019, allowing it to offer capabilities like showing brands their most valuable social media followers. Despite raising a relatively small amount of funding ($4.1 million total), Trufan has already made two notable acquisitions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach. The company’s largest and most recent round was a $35 million Series B at the end of 2019 led by Insight Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There are so many trailblazing innovations that we don’t talk about a lot about Nigeria, like the BVN and the NIP system. Nigeria has consistently been at the forefront of payments innovation for over a decade, and it was all possible because of the forward-looking CBN policies,” he said.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You may have seen the main features: Draghi states that productivity and thus GDP in the EU lags behind considerably and that the US and China have Usain Bolt–ran away from us when it comes to innovation. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. None are based in the EU.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Our last in-person mobility event took place back in 2019, so networking face-to-face might feel exhilarating — or awkward. Jens Lehmann, technical lead and product manager for SAP, attended TC Mobility in 2019 and had this to say about CrunchMatch: “The CrunchMatch platform, which is basically speed-dating for techies, was very helpful.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

They eventually left Peixe Urbano and started Tuna in 2019 to make their own payment product which enables merchants to use A/B testing of credit card processors and anti-fraud providers to optimize their payments processing with one integration and a no-code interface.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

World Innovation Lab (WiL) led the Series A, with new investors Uncorrelated Ventures and individual investor Jonathan Siegel also participating. Autify for web launched in October 2019 and has a large number of B2C and B2B SaaS customers including Unity, DeNA and ZOZO in Japan, the U.S., million, Chikazawa said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The new fund builds upon SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was first announced in March 2019 and was formerly called the Innovation Fund with an initial $2 billion in committed capital. “Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. billion as of June 30.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. Innovations around mobile money and digital payments have allowed for the processing of payments online and offline through USSD or STK commands, over apps or using NFC technology. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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JANUARY 12, 2023

And while the data is not consistently trending up and to the right — there was a huge outlier deal (Uber Advanced Technologies) in 2019 that spiked the yearly investment total to $1.3 billion — venture investors on the ground can feel the city’s potential. (I You can give it a listen here.).

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Neobanks have taken the world by storm and Africa is the last frontier for this brand of fintech innovation. Simon Ward founded FloatPays in 2019 as an on-demand wage access platform to help employees access, spend, save and manage their money. The company was founded by Stephen Igwue, Michael Adesanya and Sefa Ikyaator in 2019.

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