Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Rob Biederman As we turn the page into 2025, my colleagues and I at Asymmetric Capital Partners are optimistic for what the next year holds for growth and innovation. Simultaneously, we foresee the rise of vertical integration plays and those pursuing buy and build strategies for markets in need of technology streamlining.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Digital transformation technologies alone dont make digital transformation. AI and cloud are driving double-digit CAGR, but digital transformation isnt limited to technology investments. But the difference lies in its accompaniment to innovation. CIOs know this well, even when they increase their IT investments.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. In many cases, CIOs and other IT leaders have moved past the peak expectations about what gen AI can do for their organizations and are headed into more realistic ideas about the future of the technology, Lovelock adds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. These are the kinds of innovations that makes me optimistic about the VR category in general.

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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. In recent years, ADIB-Egypt has already made substantial strides in integrating technology into its operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The now-infamous ARK Innovation ETF is off 6.5% Valuations for public comps were strong in 2020. It is too soon to say that the market is repricing tech stocks, but the selloff has reached the point of materiality and is therefore something we need to note. As we write, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is off another 1.2%

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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

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

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

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. The “last time” was a $15 million Series D round in 2020, also led by Novator. The marketplace now has more than 30,000 items.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Warburg Pincus led the round, with previous backers Atomico, Forestay Capital, G2VP, GV, Kreos, NGP Capital, Schneider Electric, Sony Innovation Fund and Swisscom Ventures all also participating. Since last raising money in 2020 — an $80 million Series C — Scandit has been on a roll. The company has now raised $300 million.

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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. We believed then, as we do now, that fintech represents one of the most exciting major innovation cycles of this decade. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020. Jake Jolis. Contributor.

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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. Cost forecasting. Legacy infrastructure. Vendor lock-in.

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CIO

AUGUST 12, 2024

This event not only popularized Wi-Fi but also set it on a path to becoming the ubiquitous wireless networking technology it is today, seamlessly integrating into our homes, workplaces, schools, and public spaces around the world. In 1999, Wi-Fi was only capable of supporting up to 11 megabits per second based on the IEEE 802.11b standard.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. Both firms are led by women, Clara Brenner and Julie Lein at Urban Innovation Fund, and Brooke Kiley over at VMG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre. Tesla buys $1.5B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. It will also be doubling down on expanding its technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Yonit Wiseman , associate at YL Ventures, champions the Israeli cybersecurity community through technological due diligence and provides value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. Over the past decade, the Israeli cybersecurity industry has secured its place as a formidable wellspring of technological innovation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. We need more women in technology.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Modern leaders must be adept at balancing strategic initiatives with operational needs, fostering a culture of innovation, and executing business plans that align with the company’s broader goals. However, the value of technology does not supersede the human element—rather, it enhances it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

But many don’t know how common the technology is and may not realize that they are interacting with it regularly. Delivering this type of streamlined cancellation process with such high demand would have been extremely challenging, if not impossible, without RPA technology. billion in investments in the past two years alone.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. billion as of July 2021, already passing the total investment amount in 2020. Share on Twitter. Daniela Moreno. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Specifically, Visa said today it has expanded its Visa Fintech Partner Connect , a program designed to help financial institutions quickly connect with a “vetted and curated” set of technology providers. . As a result, a lot of innovation that is occurring in fintech is funded by venture dollars.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Modern medical technology is restoring agility with artificial joints and minimally invasive procedures so we can all heal faster and live our best lives. And, to get healthcare professionals the technology their patients’ needed in time, employees made noncompliant purchases through company and personal credit cards. IT Leadership

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

Matt McIlwain is an early-stage venture investor at Madrona Venture Group who has been investing in AI technologies for nearly a decade. The introduction of GPT-3 in 2020 was a tipping point for artificial intelligence. In 2021, this technology will power the launch of a thousand new startups and applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Early-stage companies are innovating new artificial intelligence-based solutions, but they often face questions as to whether such technology can be protected and the best strategy for doing so. The considerations below will be useful for companies trying to understand the opportunities to protect their innovation.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

With successful IPOs and exits ahead in the new year, shifting market dynamics, evolving priorities and continuous technological advancements especially around artificial intelligence new opportunities are opening for startup founders.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

The fresh cash comes almost exactly a year after the company locked up a $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull s US Innovative Technology Fund. Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a $250 million Series C1 round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co. at a reported $2.5 billion valuation.

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. The analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year and that it will deliver benefits in the next two to five years. Why has agentic AI become the latest rage?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

International Trade Commission ruled on January 6 that Google infringed Sonos’ patented innovations in wireless speaker technology. But it confirms a problem that threatens America’s innovation economy and its international economic competitiveness. But Google merely used this deal to gain access to Sonos’ technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Current began as a teen debit card controlled by parents, but expanded to offer personal checking accounts last year, using the same underlying banking technology. In August 2020, Current debuted a points rewards program in an effort to better differentiate its service from the competition, which as of this month now includes Google Pay.

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