TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A look back at some of the promises made by companies and investors following the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

” The document reads like a follow-up course to its infamously ill-timed “Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020” memo of March 2020. Most recently, Sequoia created a 52-slide deck, first reported by The Information , titled “Adapting to Endure.”

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 22, 2025

When analyzed by range, rounds below $1 million totaled $700 million to $1 billion per year between 2020 and 2024 and accounted for less than 10% of seed amounts, but north of 40% of deals. Deals at this size slid back to closer to 2020 levels for both counts and amounts in 2023 and 2024.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Since then, DeepMind has improved on the system, releasing an updated and more capable version of AlphaFold — AlphaFold 2 — in 2020. And […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In 2020, Insight Partners bought a large stake in the startup. Founded in 2020, the company has raised nearly $130 million, per Crunchbase. Founded in 2020, the company has raised $268 million, per Crunchbase. The company is targeting an IPO in 2026, per Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

But overall, while total fintech funding globally was down markedly last year compared to 2021, numbers were still higher than 2020. billion in 2022, down 46% compared with 2021, but up 52% compared to 2020. However, on the positive side, 2022 numbers were higher than 2020. Specifically, global fintech funding amounted to $75.2

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

She returned to Salesforce in 2020, first leading its Service Cloud team and then Salesforce AI, culminating in the launch of the company’s Agentforce autonomous bot platform. That experience led her to create Hearsay Systems, a software developer combining social networks, CRM, and AI to help sales staff at financial services companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Back in 2020, Apple announced a new feature in iOS 14 that would prevent nearby wireless routers and access points from gathering an Apple device’s unique MAC address. Apple has fixed a years-old vulnerability in its iPhone and iPad software that undermined a privacy feature since it first debuted.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Founded in January 2019 by Amanda Peyton and Todd Berman (who left in 2020), San Francisco-based Braid set out to offer friends and family an FDIC-insured, multi-user account that was designed to make it easy “to pool, manage […]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And the Getaway approach seemed to resonate in 2020, with bookings increasing 150% year-over-year and the startup’s Outposts operating at nearly 100% occupancy. Getaway plans to use the funding to expand to at least 17 Outposts this year, up from 12 in 2020 and nine in 2019. ” Image Credits: Getaway.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The company launched in 2019, won — and lost — an innovation award at CES 2020, and this week started […] Keep Labs built a lockable storage container for medicine, and it doesn’t matter if the meds come in bottles, boxes or dime bags. The Keep is designed to hold them safely and track their use.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Vicente Zavarce, Yummy’s founder and CEO, launched the company in 2020 and is currently part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. This appears to be a contrarian bet, but Yummy has quickly become the No. Born in Venezuela, Zavarce came to the U.S.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 16, 2025

One that stood out was construction tech company Procore , which initially filed to go public in early 2020 and made its NYSE debut over a year later. Airbnb for example, put off plans for a 2020 IPO when the pandemic hit. Crunchbase research also provided few examples. Theres also an unsuccessful famous example: WeWork.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

And that’s what the Zimbabwean government sought to accomplish when it introduced a financial inclusion scheme from 2016 to 2020. million in 2020. The effort achieved some success: The percentage of the Zimbabwean adult population with access to financial services increased to 55% while the number of bank accounts rose to 8.5

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

African Union, The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (2020-2030) , May, 2020. African Union, The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (2020-2030) , May, 2020. Empower Africa, Internet Infrastructure in Africa , Leah Ngari and Shira Aliza Petrack, 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Fawry was launched in 2007, but didn’t become a billion-dollar company until 2020, a year after going public. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. How African startups raised investments in 2020. Maybe just a few.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

From the launch of its mobile banking app in 2020 to the enhancement of its internet banking services, ADIB-Egypt has consistently focused on providing convenient, secure, and user-friendly digital banking solutions. In recent years, ADIB-Egypt has already made substantial strides in integrating technology into its operations.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

You can verify the output by cross-referencing the PDF, which has a target as $12 million for the in-store sales channel in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Perhaps this is best exemplified by the fact that the capital raised by Black founders this Q3 is roughly on par with the $180 million allocated to the cohort in Q3 2020. However, Black founders were able to raise that $187 million from just 32 deals, compared to 2020, when it took 93 deals to hit $180 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

growth of new customers from 2020 to 2021. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID, M-KOPA had an active seller base of 2,500. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID, M-KOPA had an active seller base of 2,500. That doubled in 2020 to 5,000. Its on-the-ground team, which M-KOPA calls its sales force, has also doubled.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Notably, it had 25 million users in June of 2020 and 6 million in 2018 — so its pace of growth and acquiring customers is quite remarkable. Though the fact that Chime was EBITDA positive in late 2020 implies that we’re not going to see every neobank file with yawning losses on its books.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Device spending, which will be more than double the size of data center spending, will largely be driven by replacements for the laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other hardware purchased during the work-from-home, study-from-home, entertain-at-home era of 2020 and 2021, Lovelock says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

” During the height of the lockdowns in South Africa, sentiment across SMEs owners on a scale of -100 to 100 dropped to an all-time low of -12 in Q2 2020, according to Yoco’s small business pulse monitor. According to the company, the number of small businesses that were fully cashless jumped 300% from March to July 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 BCM said revenue last year was 4x what the company recorded in 2020 while maintaining a CAGR of 225% over the previous four years. . “We TC Events is also a significant revenue driver for the company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. Since its launch in January 2020, Okra has aggressively pushed by connecting to all banks in Nigeria and even claims to have a 99.9% In total, Okra has raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Launched in August 2020, t he company streamlines various financial data in a single API for companies and third-party developers. ” How African startups raised investments in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. 2021 was when African tech reached an inflection point and took center stage as companies raised over $4 billion (more than they got in 2019 and 2020 combined).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. TripActions presently has 1,500 employees compared to about 800 when it conducted layoffs in March of 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Year-to-date capital invested in all-female-founded companies in the United States is slightly higher than what was disbursed in all of 2020. In all of 2020, all-female teams raised $3.3 Last year was a record-breaking year , and given the current market conditions, it’s not shocking that present-day numbers are meager in comparison).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Big public exits aren’t necessarily an appealing exit strategy in this climate, but M&A activity has already surpassed 2020 levels. Notably, Byju’s, edtech’s most valuable company, has bought 11 edtech startups since 2020 in an acquisition spree.

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