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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio then released the Skydio 2 in 2019, its second drone, cutting off more than half the price while improving on it its autonomous tracking and video capabilities. The applications of Skydio’s technology for commercial, public sector and enterprise organizations are many and varied.

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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. It’s one way to get a combination of talent and technology, and in this case, also relationships.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Rami Essaid is co-founder and CEO at Finmark , a technology company that provides financial planning and modeling software for startups. June 4, 2019 should have been one of the happiest days of my life. He previously was co-founder and CEO at Distil Networks, a bot attack mitigation company acquired by Imperva. At 11:30 a.m.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that the new tranche concludes its Series B round, which it kickstarted in 2019 with a tranche of $12.7 And for all the ills that the virus has wrought, it did help accelerate the adoption of technology among these stores. One of them is India’s largest retail chain Reliance Retail, which serves more than 3.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

The growing compute power necessary to train sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT might eventually run up against a wall with mainstream chip technologies. Lightmatter , LightOn , Luminous Computing , Intel and NTT are among the companies developing photonic technologies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

As we all know, fintech is booming: Between Robinhood and Public and M1 Finance raising competing rounds, payment-tech startup Finix moving to diversify its cap table , and ideas that work in one market finding purchase and capital in others , it’s a damn good time to build financial technology. Big, bigger, small, fewer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Despite the elaborate smoke and mirrors that Google has put up, one fact remains: Google is an advertising company with ads representing 71% of its revenue sources in 2019. At the same time, trust is waning for technology, with 36% of consumers reportedly less comfortable sharing information now than a year ago, according to PwC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In survey after survey, this blatant sexism is continually proved evident in the technology industry, and a new survey has provided yet another dismal glimpse into how women are treated. In 2019 46.4 In 2019, just 44 percent of those surveyed said they felt pressure to prove their worth when compared with their male counterparts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

That said, the signs are all pointing to technology being New Zealand’s next export industry, as long as everyone keeps pushing in the same direction. USD $76 million) in 2019, due to a near doubling of transactions from 46 in 2019 to 92 in 2020. Technology startups are the pinnacle of that strategy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Coupang’s offering, coming amidst the public debut of a number of well-known technology brands , will be a massive affair. As a private company, Coupang has raised billions , including capital from American venture capital firm Sequoia and Japanese telecom giant SoftBank and its Vision Fund. billion (+43.7%). billion (+68.8%).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2019, female-led companies received less than 5 percent of the global venture capital. There are many stats to back up the underrepresentation of women in starting a company, raising money and general involvement in technology where the global tech workforce comprises 28.8%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Now, Sequoia Capital is placing another bet on a different kind of search engine, one for physical objects in three dimensions, just as the introduction of three-dimensional sensing technologies on consumer phones are poised to create a revolution in spatial computing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Subsequently, Exyn has established itself in a dominant position in the mining vertical with this technology and expanded into construction, warehouse, and government use cases including search & rescue and reconnaissance.” million in CY 2021, CY 2020 and CY 2019 respectively, the Indian firm added. .” million, $1.83

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised “$50 million-plus” in a funding round that doubles its valuation to $2 billion. In 2019, Side represented over $5 billion in annual home sales across all of its partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Blend’s white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks including Wells Fargo and U.S. million in 2019. million in 2019 to $74.6 Founded in 2012, the startup has steadily grown to be a leader in the mortgage tech industry. Meanwhile, its net loss narrowed from $81.5 million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

European technology M&A is having a good year. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. Good news for 2022 European exits. But not every tech exit fits into the venture capital model.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it last raised money , he said. “This makes technology platforms like Darwinbox, that focuses on workforces, incredibly important.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside founded the company in June 2019. The founders tell me that Accenture and Susa represent smart money investors aligned with Okra’s vision and technology infrastructure play.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lime will use the capital to invest in its decarbonization efforts, refresh a significant portion of its fleet with its Gen4 e-bikes and e-scooters, scale into more cities and develop new technologies that will help win additional city RFPs. Lime would not reveal the terms of the loan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

“The not so hidden secret about AI today is that in spite of all the technological and tooling advancements, roughly 80 to 90% of the cost and time for an average AI project goes into just manually labeling and collecting and relabeling this training data,” he said. Today, the startup has 40 employees.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, is the latest action by the German manufacturer to move away from robotaxis and shared mobility and instead focus on how automated vehicle technology can be applied to freight.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Purchasing Juniper Labs will help the unicorn boost its in-house data science team, and the smaller firm’s predictive analytics technology may be applied across the acquiring company’s portfolio of insurance products. Its Series C was detailed in October of 2019 and was also worth a quarter billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As the world’s population ages, more is being learned about brain health as startups leverage technology to find a way to slow down cognitive impairment. The latest funding gives the company roughly $21 million in total funding raised to date, which includes a $3 million seed round in 2016 and $8 million in Series A funding from 2019.

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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. billion, three times what it was worth back in 2019. Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disha was founded by Evans Akanno, Rufus Oyemade and Blessing Abeng in 2019. Oyemade will continue to lead the technology behind the product with a new role as software and architectural lead. And what’s more surprising is that the buy is outside payments or fintech. Why did Flutterwave make this acquisition?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2019, it released a B2C version of the Flourish app (c alled the Flourish Savings App) as a pilot for its banking platform, which can integrate with banks through an SDK or an API. It is also now licensing its engagement technology to banks, retailers and fintechs across the Americas. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019. Such metrics have been previously established for wider areas of technology, such as SaaS. Yoav Leitersdorf is the Silicon Valley-based managing partner at YL Ventures, where he accelerates cybersecurity startups in the U.S. More posts by this contributor.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Mastercard also said IfOnly’s team and technology are still part of its Priceless experience marketplace: “The IfOnly platform will continue to help advance our Priceless strategy and our combined team will be even better positioned and equipped to deliver exclusive experiences for cardholders globally.”. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. I believe it is a financial and a moral imperative to make climate technology, together with medicine, the main priority of humanity. Many promising technologies have matured and now have an easier path to entering the mainstream.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion. Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Founded by Henry Mascot and John Dada in 2019, Curacel is building the “rails to make insurance work for the next billion Africans and empowering businesses everywhere with the technology to embed insurance for their users.”

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