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. In 2018, Opera, popularly known for its internet search engine and browser, launched the OPay mobile money platform in Lagos. billion, three times what it was worth back in 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Best Silicon Valley Startups of 2019. is the blockchain of food that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain technology in the food supply chain. The post The 5 Best Silicon Valley Startups of 2019 appeared first on The Crazy Programmer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation. June 4, 2019 should have been one of the happiest days of my life. Rami Essaid is co-founder and CEO at Finmark , a technology company that provides financial planning and modeling software for startups. More posts by this contributor. At 11:30 a.m.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. Africa’s digital opportunity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

If that sounds familiar to some of the internet’s earliest users, that’s because it is. As analyst John Koetsier noted in Forbes back in 2019 , there were already 250 million Discord users sending 315 million messages a day.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

million as the Bangalore-based startup chases the opportunity to digitize neighborhood stores in the world’s second-largest internet market. The startup told TechCrunch that the new tranche concludes its Series B round, which it kickstarted in 2019 with a tranche of $12.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Latch’s hardware works with doors, sensors and internet connectivity. 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 from 2019 to 2020. million on a post-money basis, according to PitchBook data. It has a history as an operating entity.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When telehealth first started, doctors were concerned about losing firsthand touch with patients, patients were skeptical about meeting with doctors over the internet, and IT and ISPs were experiencing growing pains because the quality of video transmissions was inconsistent. Telehealth is a great example.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Other participants included Juroku Bank and Mobile Internet Capital, along with returning investors Singapore Exchange, Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings and Hanwha Asset Management. It also serves accredited investors outside of Singapore, as long as they meet the country’s standards by holding the equivalent amount in assets and income.)

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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 7, 2021

Volterra emerged in 2019 with a $50 million investment from multiple sources, including Khosla Ventures and Mayfield, along with strategic investors like M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm) and Samsung Ventures. Applications networking company F5 announced today that it is acquiring Volterra , a multi-cloud management startup, for $500 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Pieter de Villiers , the company’s founder and chief executive officer, told TechCrunch he started the company for the internet, the fastest-growing commerce platform to communicate with the mobile phone, the fast-growing communications platform. In 2019, the California-based company sought funds to go public in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. following shortly after in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

ShareChat, an Indian social network that added Twitter as an investor in 2019 , may soon receive the backing of two more American firms. Twitter and Snap, on the other hand, are struggling to gain users beyond urban cities in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Ring doorbell spent much of 2019 getting buzzed by perceived security and privacy issues, from secret agreements with law enforcement agencies to cybersecurity practices that put its users at risk. READ MORE ON SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things?

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Deftly sliding from desktop browsers to mobile devices to smart TVs and other Internet of Things devices, ad fraud is a multibillion-dollar business problem that has been running rampant across the Internet for years. billion and $19 billion in 2019, and Juniper Research concluded that it would cost $42 billion by the end of 2019.

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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

APRIL 13, 2022

The popularity of social commerce in Southeast Asia has been accelerated by high rates of mobile internet penetration, a mobile-first generation that spends a lot of time on social media, and high engagement. Image Credits: Kantar Global MONITOR 2019. Image Credits: Kantar Global MONITOR 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

South African consumer internet giant Naspers led the round through its investment arm, Naspers Foundry , investing $5.6 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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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. Historically, falling bandwidth and smartphone costs along with improved Internet reliability helped lay the foundation for the recent Indian startup wave, according to Swaroop. Let’s see what gets built.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The funding lands amid increased focus on the less-secure elements in an organizations’ supply chain, such as Internet of Things devices and embedded systems. Columbus, Ohio-based Finite State, a startup that provides supply chain security for connected devices and critical infrastructure, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Semiconductors, which have become a valued asset, are used in virtually almost every industry, including 5G networks, automation, the Internet of Things, financials, smart homes, smart cities, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality and self-driving cars. billion by 2027, up from $56 billion in 2018, per a 2019 report by Insight Partners. .

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Coding Horror

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

We were OK with that, because we were building in Ruby for the next decade of the Internet. 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. 2019 Mini-PC 1200 / 17919 / 3115 MB/sec. 2019 Mini-PC 1200 / 17919 / 3115 MB/sec.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The round, led by returning investors Accel and Silversmith, comes after the startup raised $72 million in an August, 2019 Series A. Webflow’s product fits into a category of companies arguing that building software for the Internet should get easier over time, not harder. The new funding values Webflow at more than $2.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. Decades later, Google has metamorphosed into an internet giant playing in a plethora of sectors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We’re calling it the internet of production.”. This allows product developers to review and discuss 3D models in more than 30 file formats in real time. The idea is to democratize access to normally expensive product lifecycle management (PLM) software. Online collaboration and distributed production is becoming mainstream.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. Since the company’s Series A raise of $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. And, given the incremental funding for fintechs in Africa over the years, capital injected into these startups is only likely to increase with deepening mobile phone usage and internet penetration. . This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Recorded Future was itself acquired by private equity firm Insight Partners back in 2019 for $780 million. Recorded Future told TechCrunch that future investments could also be made with an eye to acquiring, but added that funding could also be given purely on the basis that the startup would make a good business or technology partner.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

ParcelLab last raised an undisclosed Series B in October 2019. Philipp Schroeder, partner at Endeit commented: “ParcelLab’s team is the perfect example of internet entrepreneurs that we want to support – entrepreneurs who can drive the change to make Europe more competitive and who have the ambition to become global market leaders.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This is the company’s Series E round of financing, and it comes hot on the heels of renewed public attention on the site that has dubbed itself ‘the front page of the Internet,’ owing to the role the subreddit r/WallStreetBets played in the recent meteoric rise (and subsequent steep fall) of the value of GameStop stock.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, complaints of suspected internet crime surged by 61%, to 791,790, according to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. Last year, the San Francisco-based company assessed risk on more than $250 billion in transactions, double from what it did in 2019.

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