TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. 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 First, Austin was the next biggest thing, then Atlanta and, more recently, Miami.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so. In 2018 and 2019, VCs invested around $140 billion into domestic startups, making last year’s $156 billion result a record, but not a shocking departure from previous years. But while the U.S. Boring, yeah?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? billion in 2019. billion and $1.8 Behind the numbers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A job listing alone can help a company build a potential talent base to draw on for the future, enable it to investigate market trends, or draw attention to the company as one experiencing growth. These are just a few of the reasons why the phenomenon of “ghost jobs” is growing rapidly.

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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

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

JANUARY 7, 2024

Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups, and employees to use its software to manage their cap tables and later aspiring to evolve into a “private stock market for companies,” as founder Henry Ward once told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

ai themselves filed to go public in what could be a rush to the public markets by richly valued startups. What changed from the first three quarters of 2019 to the first three quarters of 2020? billion in the first three quarters of 2019 to just $545.5 Yes, Airbnb’s third quarter was smaller than its Q3 2019, with $1.34

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

As we wrote at the time, Databricks was “an obvious IPO candidate” and a company with “broad private-market options.” Can we see Databricks making sense at more than $25 billion, more than four times its 2019-era private valuation of $6.2 That figure was up from $200 million in the year-ago period.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

More than half of last month’s $28 billion in global venture funding went to companies in the AI sector — with AI companies in everything from robotics to marketing to healthcare raking in more than $14 billion. Founded in 2019, Tractian has raised more than $180 million, per Crunchbase.

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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. At the same time, the IPO market is at a virtual standstill.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. In October 2019, Njoku hinted that the company was going public either on the London Stock Exchange or a local exchange on the continent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

We’re putting aside the IPO news cycle this morning to check in on the venture capital world and the fintech market in particular. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. For context, it’s more than 50% more such rounds in Q1 2020 and Q1 2019. Big, bigger, small, fewer.

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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. OPay plays in an extremely competitive fintech market. billion, three times what it was worth back in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019. Michael Cortez, vice president at YL Ventures, focuses on business development initiatives to grow the market leadership of the firm and its portfolio companies, with an emphasis on strategic and tactical support for early-stage go-to-market activities.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2021

“We plan on hiring heavily across all functions, from machine learning, artificial intelligence and product development to marketing and business development. LOVO, founded in November 2019, has 17 people including both co-founders, chief executive office Charlie Choi and COO Lee. The Global TTS market is projected to increase $5.61

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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

JULY 29, 2021

At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But inside the big numbers is a surprising picture of a startup market in the process of maturing while outside money hunts for breakout opportunities.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 8, 2025

The startup, founded in 2019, says more than $3 billion worth of items were sold on its platform last year. and Europe, and says it will use the new funds to develop new seller tools and expand into new markets and geographies. million total, per Crunchbase. The company currently operates in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Kenyan e-commerce and fintech platform for mass market consumers Copia Global has appointed John Lazar, the ex-CEO of Metaswitch, a Microsoft subsidiary, to its board off the back of $20 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Next Insurance , a startup that competes in the small business (SMB) insurance market, announced this morning that it has acquired its first company. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Its Series C was detailed in October of 2019 and was also worth a quarter billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.

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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. To get a better handle on the Indian startup market more broadly, The Exchange got ahold of Accel investors Arun Mathew (based in the United States), and Prayank Swaroop (based in India), for a bit of digging.

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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. funding market raised a greater proportion of global funding, up from 48% in 2023. Other large valuations to companies in AI went to CoreWeave ( $19 billion ), Anthropic ($18.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company’s impressive valuation comes after its most recent 2019 Series E in which it raised $268 million on a 2.75 Our most recent capital raise was in 2019 and contributed to an already healthy balance sheet. CNBC broke the story earlier today. billion valuation, an increase of $3.25 billion in under 18 months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

But as a sign of how the market is firming up, that changed last year and now the firm invests $25,000 for 7% equity. 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The new financing also comes two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and a $120 million Series B in November. In an emailed statement, OPay CEO Yahui Zhou said OPay “wants to be the power that helps emerging markets reach a faster economic development.”

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2021

for companies that grew 30%-50% since 2019, compared to just +2.9x Recent research shows that there are three key steps to becoming a “have”: Continued execution against large and growing market opportunities. The chart below demonstrates just how drastically the “haves” separated themselves from the rest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2019, Africa had fewer than 900,000 new vehicle sales. Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019. Although they make up a small part of Africans who need Moove’s services, Delano says the market for “mobility entrepreneurs” is enormous. sold more than 17 million new cars that same year.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The news follows years of declining stock market fortunes for Silicon Valley-based 23andMe, which is best known for test kits that offer people information about their ancestry and health risks. The company, which went public via SPAC in 2021 and raised over $1 billion in private funding, had a recent market cap of less than a 10th that sum.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Marketers are paying more per "eyeball" than ever. 2019 prediction: approaching a recession, VCs scrutinize & co's cut spend (which many should have done sooner). pic.twitter.com/hd5Mg9dLI6 — Brian Rothenberg (@bmrothenberg) January 3, 2019 My timing was off by three years, but we’re finally seeing this play out.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. The founders quickly realized that introducing electric vehicles would be the natural next step, and in 2019 MAX kickstarted their electric mobility journey.

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