TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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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: 5: UK, NY e-scooter programs approved (spring 2020). 1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

This is quite an impressive figure for an offering only launched in November 2020 and goes to show how ubiquitous Pix has become in the country. “The open banking initiatives adopted by Brazil’s Central Bank are absolutely tailwinds for fintech innovation,” Costanoa’s Amy Cheetham said. Opportunities abound.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

With a surge in startups, increasing government support, and a unique geographical advantage, Tunisia is poised to become a key player in the continent’s innovation landscape. Tunisia sits at the early stage of the Innovation Ecosystem Life Cycle Curve, alongside thousands of other regional hubs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020. Much has been written about the success of fintech and how this wave of technological innovation has changed consumers’ lives. Over the last decade, many once-promising innovations failed and did not live up to expectations.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

AI is no longer just a tool for innovation, its a weapon, says Setareh. For example, attacks like the SolarWinds and Kaseya incidents that happened in 2020 and 2021 that impacted many entities across the globe show how hackers can inject malicious code into software updates, affecting thousands of organizations.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

But the difference lies in its accompaniment to innovation. Digital transformation means creating a two-way dialogue between IT and business, and with people, the end users of technologies, says Pablo Fernando Ambrosy Carrera, chief digital and innovation officer at law firm Portolano Cavallo.

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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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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. By focusing on innovation, the bank aims to provide its customers with an unparalleled banking experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before.

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CIO

AUGUST 12, 2024

Remarkable evolution Wi-Fi technology has evolved considerably over the past 25 years with each generation marked by significant innovation and improvements. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), chaired by Ajit Pai, made a monumental decision on April 23, 2020, to open up 1.2 GHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

billion at the time of its announcement , first broke cover on January 13, 2020, or nearly one year ago to the day. ” Given the fintech boom that 2020 saw , as consumers flocked to free stock trading apps and neobanks, that Plaid saw growth last year is not surprising. The deal, valued at $5.3

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And with his almost 200 IT employees, Thomas Reitz, the company’s group CIO, sees himself primarily as a driver of innovation and transformation, and a promoter of what he calls real ​​digitalization. IT experts also sit in innovation circles and support digitization projects on site. Be open and courageous,” he says.

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Xebia

APRIL 9, 2025

This appeal attracted many talented engineers and bright students, leading to innovations like Twitter, Akka, Spark, Flink, and Play, among others. The Long Journey Back to the Origins Since 2020, the community has embarked on a bold mission to reinvent the language. On the other, it was both safe and convenient.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I wrote a call to action for the tech community to dive deeper into the future of innovation this coming decade. Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s. There is so much more coming this decade, that we may look back at the 2010s as the dark ages of innovation. Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“But I learned to appreciate the benefits of not fitting in any box — that’s where innovation really lies.” 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. ” Image Credits: Getaway.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

billion set in 2020, according to Rock Health. But startups will continue to lead the way in innovation with the use of AI, IoT and data analytics, especially with data becoming the central currency of healthcare. Healthcare deals were hot in the first nine months in 2021. They brought in a total of $21.3

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

In 2020 alone, the company’s gross merchandise volume doubled to €1.2 million conversations with advisors in 2020. And the company is now well capitalized to innovate on this front and differentiate itself from other e-commerce platforms. In France in particular, the company has been profitable for a couple of years already.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September. 2020 highlighted the value that Sennder’s innovative digital offering brings to the freight industry.”. It says it will move over 1 million truckloads this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. billion as of July 2021, already passing the total investment amount in 2020. Global VCs have invested $268.7 How does it bring value?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There are so many trailblazing innovations that we don’t talk about a lot about Nigeria, like the BVN and the NIP system. Nigeria has consistently been at the forefront of payments innovation for over a decade, and it was all possible because of the forward-looking CBN policies,” he said. Maybe just a few.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3 billion in 2020. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. Paulina Symala. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Marcos Toledo, Canary’s managing partner, said via email that e-commerce in Latam is currently at an inflexion point: not only has the global pandemic driven more online purchases, but also fintech innovation that has occurred in recent years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

According to Nestlé’s press release, Freshly is now shipping more than 1 million meals per week across 48 states, with forecasted sales of $430 million for 2020. Freshly is an innovative, fast-growing, food-tech startup, and adding them to the portfolio accelerates our ability to capitalize on the new realities in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Gartner inquiries related to RPA increased over 1,000% during 2020 as companies continue to invest. Like we’ve seen with other innovations, the security aspect of RPA isn’t implemented in the early stages of development — leaving organizations vulnerable to cybercriminals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020. Neobanks have taken the world by storm and Africa is the last frontier for this brand of fintech innovation.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation. Putting serverless to the test In 2020, we made an architecture decision to leverage serverless architecture for implementing a fraud detection use case. Legacy infrastructure. Architecture complexity. Vendor lock-in.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. Innovations around mobile money and digital payments have allowed for the processing of payments online and offline through USSD or STK commands, over apps or using NFC technology. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s much potential for Orlando to be what Austin is to Texas, what Atlanta is to Georgia — a booming hub where startups flock from around the world to dream, innovate and grow. Q2 2022 saw $320 million invested, tracking higher than the $90 million and $30 million allocated in Q2 2021 and 2020, respectively.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company raised another $30 million in October of 2020, though its final private valuation is not known. As Chamath tweeted this morning, Latch is merging with TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp , or $TSIA. from 2019 to 2020. million on a post-money basis, according to PitchBook data. It has a history as an operating entity.

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