TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Vessel Capital , a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. Crypto has become more global, so it’s not the same circle and group you might have seen in 2018-2020, and we want to be able to help more people.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. And even though investment activity decreased this year, it still remains well above where it was in 2019 and 2020. Identifying and addressing pain points.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. A McKinsey and Co.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

ADIB-Egypt has announced plans to invest 1 billion EGP in technological infrastructure and digital transformation by 2025. 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.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

CIOs are responsible for much more than IT infrastructure; they must drive the adoption of innovative technology and partner closely with their data scientists and engineers to make AI a reality–all while keeping costs down and being cyber-resilient. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

During their time at Blend — a 10-year-old publicly traded company whose white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks — Mike Yu and Devon Yang realized that current mortgage infrastructure has not kept up with the pace of change in more digitally native industries.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Orsini notes that it has never been more important for enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT infrastructure. It’s another way that Orsini believes a VMware-based infrastructure supports success in the cloud.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Simply put, there is a direct link between economic progress and IT infrastructure, with robust trade dependent on a strong digital foundation. It launched a Regional Information Infrastructure Project, enabling access to the international internet backbone through undersea cables.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. This spending on AI infrastructure may be confusing to investors, who won’t see a direct line to increased sales because much of the hyperscaler AI investment will focus on internal uses, he says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ben Altshuler is a partner at Matrix Partners who focuses on fintech and infrastructure investments. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Second, liquidity.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

The new Riyadh cloud region will help public and private sector organizations migrate all types of workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving them access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications and innovate with data, analytics, and AI.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

Peak demand for developers from early 2019 to early 2020 was driven in part by hype cycles catered to their strengths, as many companies gobbled up programmers to work on applications in support of clouding computing, mobile, and IoT strategies.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. Still, she sees more work to be done and is partnering with the companys infrastructure and innovation teams to build on this momentum. Heres what they resolve to do in the upcoming 12 months.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

In an exclusive interview with Abdul Ghaffar Setareh, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zain Group, he paints a stark picture of the regions cyber battleground: AI-powered ransomware, 300 Gbps DDoS attacks, and hackers exploiting supply chain loopholes to target critical infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure partner in your product. Checkout.com had 440 employees in January 2020. It finished 2020 with 940 employees. The company already tripled its payment processing volume in 2020 compared to 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases. Image Credits: Opsera.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With serverless components, there is no need to manage infrastructure, and the inbuilt tracing, logging, monitoring and debugging make it easy to run these workloads in production and maintain service levels. Legacy infrastructure. Scalability. Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In filing its S-1 on June 21, Blend revealed that its revenue had climbed to $96 million in 2020 from $50.7 million in 2020. In 2020, the San Francisco-based startup significantly expanded its digital consumer lending platform. Blend also revealed that in 2020, its top five customers accounted for 34% of its revenue.

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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. Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Of those AI dollars, almost a third of all AI funding went to foundation model companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

In 2020 alone, the company’s gross merchandise volume doubled to €1.2 The startup will also invest more heavily in its product and build a better logistics infrastructure. million conversations with advisors in 2020. In France in particular, the company has been profitable for a couple of years already. billion ($1.42

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In 2020, Insight Partners bought a large stake in the startup. Cyber companies help companies protect large assets like manufacturing facilities and energy infrastructure. The company is targeting an IPO in 2026, per Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

As a certified financial planner, Kirkpatrick says she saw firsthand what she describes as “deep cracks” in this country’s financial infrastructure. Orum’s first embeddable product, Foresight, launched in September of 2020. Orum is tackling financial infrastructure from its foundation,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Reliance on cloud infrastructure will only continue to grow as organizations adjust to the hybrid work model. Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s a solution aimed directly at infrastructure and heavy industry, which often involve lots of legacy equipment located in hard-to-reach places: roofs, underground (but not too deep or the signal can’t penetrate), in labyrinthine factories and warehouses, etc. The data goes out via LTE or Bluetooth. Image Credits: LiLz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. The B2B e-commerce industry has broad reach, encompassing everything from commerce infrastructure and payments technology to procurement and supply-chain solutions. Even before the pandemic, B2B marketplaces were expected to generate $3.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. PayPal later acquired Braintree and Venmo — Jhawar stuck around until early 2020 to scale Venmo to the huge fintech consumer app that 52 million people use in the U.S. And 2020 has been a busy year for Lydia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Since 2020, Runa has operated what it calls the Runa Open Source Startup ( ROSS ) Index, ranking the top 20 fastest-growing open source startups. The report emanates from Runa Capital , a formerly Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that recently moved its HQ to Luxembourg.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is less true than it was in early 2020, as digital education and work is now so commonplace that it’s possible to build a billion-dollar edtech in a single, larger European market. The firm can then build teams and wider infrastructure around that traction.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Instead of developing and embedding the entire self-driving system, including sensors into a vehicle, Seoul is turning to surrounding infrastructure to do some of the heavy lifting. The company, headquartered in Seoul with offices in Munich, California, and Raleigh, raised $6 million in Series A in 2020. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

From vehicle design and data to safety reporting and infrastructure, these five innovative moments have helped fuel the global growth of shared e-scooters and are helping lead cities into a healthier, more sustainable future. #1: Responsible data-sharing standards and practices to help cities build new infrastructure for bikes and scooters.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

“We want to be the easiest way for startups to get up and running on their data stack and data infrastructure,” he said. As Fishman explained to me at the time of the company’s seed round in 2020 , this involves everything except data visualization. “We We do all of the parts before the BI tool.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The Chicago-based company, which launched in April 2020, raised a $1 million seed round in September 2020. I just think that you will see more of that in the crypto ecosystem — exchanges acting as the infrastructure rails,” Birch said.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

BPM as a driver of IT success Making a significant contribution to Norma’s digital transformation, a BPM team was initiated in 2020 and its managers support all business areas to improve and harmonize the understanding of applications and processes, as well as data quality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Valtix launched in 2020. Cisco announced over the weekend that it intends to acquire Valtix , a startup that helps companies secure their environments across multiple clouds.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

million in 2020 to $62.6 SentinelOne raised $276 million in a funding round in November last year , tripling its $1 billion valuation from February 2020 to $3 billion. In an S-1 filing on Thursday , the security company revealed that for the three months ending April 30, its revenues increased by 108% year-on-year to $37.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The latest financing, which confirms a Bloomberg scoop from October, brings Flutterwave’s total raise since its inception six years ago to $475 million (it raised a $35 million Series B in 2020 and a $20 million Series A in 2018). The Flutterwave Store, launched in April 2020, was revamped last November to Flutterwave Market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

.” While its website shows an active presence in 11 African countries, Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola , also known as GB, told TechCrunch the company is live in 20 African countries with an infrastructure reach in over 33 countries on the continent. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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