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. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1

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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. In the technology sector, this practice is mainly driven by the need to build a talent pool and test the availability of specialists.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In Deloitte’s 2019 report , the firm reveals that AI is transforming the financial ecosystem to reduce costs and make operations more efficient by providing automated insights and alternative data, analysis and risk management. Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending.

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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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso — who previously led Search ads machine learning teams at Google — co-launched Tecton in 2019 with Jeremy Hermann and Kevin Stumpf, two former Uber colleagues. The success of Michelangelo inspired Del Balso, Hermann and Stumpf to create a commercial version of the technology, which became Tecton.

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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., Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2024

Managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl is considering a bid for competitor DXC Technology, Reuters reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. back in the summer of 2019. “DXC will be cheap to buy and the Kyndryl CEO is a finance guy so he will be able to drive synergies. That is from a 5-year high of $56.64

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Technology leaders in the financial services sector constantly struggle with the daily challenges of balancing cost, performance, and security the constant demand for high availability means that even a minor system outage could lead to significant financial and reputational losses. Time to market. Cost forecasting.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The company is not disclosing valuation, but for some context PitchBook notes that in 2019 it was valued at $140 million. Notably, the Series D was closed in December and took six months to complete — a very different cadence to its $35 million Series C in 2019 , which closed in a flash, he said.

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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 has a colorful background.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Lekas began his career at Allstate, where he went on to hold roles in underwriting, technology and product management. Since it went to market in 2019, Branch claims to have saved its “members” an average of $548 a year. As a result of his experience, he was able to execute on the market opportunity very quickly.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. 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. Jake Jolis. Contributor. Dana Stalder.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Instacart, citing “market turbulence,” last month slashed its valuation by 40% and slowed hiring. “The good delivery companies can slow their spend in growth areas like hiring and marketing and become profitable almost immediately. ” But promotions and marketing are eating away at these margins.

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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

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. The applications of Skydio’s technology for commercial, public sector and enterprise organizations are many and varied.

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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

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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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

The combination of AI and search enables new levels of enterprise intelligence, with technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML)-based relevancy, vector/semantic search, and large language models (LLMs) helping organizations finally unlock the value of unanalyzed data. How did we get here?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Fast-forward to today, with millions of hours in aggregate clocked up on services like Zoom, Microsoft’s Teams, Google’s Meet, WebEx and the many other videoconferencing apps out there, and skeptics might argue that what we have on the market today has been good enough.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. The latest startup in the space to get a big chunk of cash is Beta Technologies, maker of electric vertical take-off and landing planes. billion, per Crunchbase.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel. Aurora plans to bring autonomous trucks to market first. Uber’s AV history.

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As CIO of Avnet one of the largest technology distributors and supply chain solution providers Im responsible for the organizations IT stack and oversee digital transformation and strategy. Max Chan is a skilled, visionary technology executive serving as the CIO at Avnet. Avnet named him CIO in 2019. Dont just try everything.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In some cases, new technologies and business processes are coming at employees faster than they can absorb them. Because when new technology and business processes fail to produce at the levels they are expected to produce, it is usually IT that gets the blame. I tell my colleagues that if I were still CIOing today, I wouldnt agree.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

startup market, has been on a tear in recent quarters and years. Akin to many startup markets around the world, Europe has seen its venture capital totals rise, its unicorn ranks swell, and even a few major public exits. How hot is the market for European startups this year? The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

We first covered Traptic back in 2019, when it appeared as a Battlefield finalist on stage at Disrupt SF. strawberry producer, began to deploy the technology in June, the system working in tandem with human pickers. strawberry producer, began to deploy the technology in June, the system working in tandem with human pickers.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

Then for the suppliers, it increases their sales and reaches more customers without necessarily spending on marketing. Ahmed Omar and Ahmed Nasser launched Odiggo in December 2019. Over 50,000 car owners across three markets — Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia — use Odiggo. million seed round before Demo Day.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Names like Bikayi (e-commerce tools), Decentro (consumer banking APIs), Farmako Healthcare (digital health records) and MedPiper Technologies (helping hire health professionals) joined our list of favorites from the batch. All told, 2019 was a huge year for the Indian startup market in venture capital terms, and 2020’s recovery is underway.

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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

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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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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