TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Breef , a platform that allows brands to manage and service marketing agency projects, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round (an undisclosed portion of which was debt) led by Greycroft with participation from BDMI, UTA.VC, Afterpay’s Touch Ventures and UC Berkeley’s The House Fund.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

A true transformation journey for Heineken started in 2019, when Ralph Ostertag, director of digital and technology for Asia Pacific , joined after coming from Mercedes Benz, and years before that in other industries. So based on that, a lot of things have happened since 2019. This very a big topic for us.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. We believed then, as we do now, that fintech represents one of the most exciting major innovation cycles of this decade. More posts by this contributor. Dana Stalder.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., million debt — in 2019. Most of the investors from Twiga’s Series B round in 2019 took part in this recent fundraise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food scientist Laura Katz, who also teaches food science at New York University, founded the company in 2019, and touts it as “the first company making functional human proteins for food.”. million combined round of pre-seed and seed investments from 2019 and 2020, respectively, Katz said. It gives the company $24.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Founded in July 2019, Mexico City-based Flat.mx The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. The founders believe that rather than just try to tackle one aspect of the homebuying process, it makes more sense in emerging markets to address them all. “We Previously, Flat.mx pre-seed led by ALLVP.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it last raised money , he said.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Innovation is a double-edged sword: It is critical to growth — but that’s also what makes it risky. “It

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CIO ASEAN is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 CIO100 Awards – recognising the top technology leaders and teams across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong who are driving innovation and influencing rapid change.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation. We had a legacy solution that was built on-prem using.NET and monolith patterns with many components reaching end-of-life, with the concomitant high maintenance costs and slow time-to-market for introducing business features. Time to market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

There’s no escaping SPACs for a bit, so if you are tired of watching blind pools rip private companies into the public markets, you are not going to have a very good next few months. There are nearly 300 SPACs in the market today looking for deals, and many will find one. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Since its launch, Jam City has raised upwards of $300 million, including a $145 million round in 2019. Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

cheese market alone was valued at $34.3 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.25%, according to Allied Market Research. billion in size in 2019 and projected to reach $4.4 Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S.

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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. Octopus has a 5% share of the energy supply market and counts 1.8 by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The company was widely reported to be on an upswing from its COVID-doldrums , the public markets were hot for growth and tech shares , and the pandemic’s caseload in the United States was coming down from its summer highs. Market Notes. When Airbnb filed to go public in August , it seemed like a solid plan. On to the S-1!

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Cathay AfricInvest Innovation, FMO: Entrepreneurial Development Bank and Platform Investment Partners also participated. is the company’s primary market, and Aerobotics says it has two provisional patents pending in the country, one for systems and methods for estimating tree age and another for systems and methods for predicting yield. .

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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 9, 2021

Contentstack , a startup that offers a headless content management system (or a “content experience platform” in marketing-speak), today announced that it has raised a $57.5 million Series A round in October 2019. Even startups on tight budgets can maximize their marketing impact. million Series B round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets. Tabor explained that the e-commerce landscape in Latin America was consolidated, meaning few banks controlled more of the market. He has identified Mexico, Colombia and Argentina as potential new markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public markets. At the end of 2020, Marqeta says it had issued 270 million cards through its platform, up from 140 million at the end of 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Trufan , a startup selling tools helping marketers analyze their social followings and collect audience data, announced today that it has raised a $2.3 First, it acquired the SocialRank product and business in 2019, allowing it to offer capabilities like showing brands their most valuable social media followers. million seed round.

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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. Low-code solutions may work for tech-savvy companies, but no-code is able to capture an even bigger mass market across the globe,” Kubota told TechCrunch. million, Chikazawa said.

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CIO

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. Get the IDC Infobrief.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The financing brings the two-year-old company’s total raised since its 2019 inception to $50 million. Cardless is attempting to shake up a massive market. Consume r credit cards yielded an estimated $150 billion in revenue for traditional banks in 2019, but startups only captured a small fraction of the value.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Brands are always looking for new ways to get in front of potential customers, but though influencer marketing has grown, it’s still not so easy for brands to find the right person. That has now changed: the global influencer marketing market has more than doubled since 2019 and is poised to be valued at $13.8

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The IT infrastructure company will use the fresh cash for M&A activities and entering new markets globally. 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.

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TechCrunch

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. The $2 billion to $3 billion social commerce market in India today is estimated to hit $70 billion in value by 2030, empowering around 40 million small entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Founded in 2019 by Mohd Wassem, Rhythm Gupta and Abdul Khalid, Easy Eat AI currently has operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into other Southeast Asian markets. Based on that information, it created marketing campaigns to draw back people who hadn’t returned in 20 days. A menu created with Easy Eat AI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

TechCrunch last visited with Mackay in 2019, about a year after the company was founded and it had received a $10 million investment from Rastelli Foods Group. The company saw 900% growth over the past 12 months and will be using the new funding to support that growth and new innovation. In addition, the company grew to 60 employees.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2019 and counts Colgate and PepsiCo among its customers, currently focuses on e-commerce, retail and financial services, but it notes that it will use the new funding to power its product development and expand into new industries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The company’s 2019 failed IPO was the corporate debacle of the decade; few businesses since Enron have fallen so far so quickly. When the market got a chance to examine the unicorn, they discovered it was really a one-trick pony with a cardboard horn. For the most recent, and maybe most damning, example of this trend, look at WeWork.

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