TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Berlin-based Choco , which has built ordering software for restaurants and their suppliers, is working to digitize the food supply chain and announced $100 million in Series B funding, led by Left Lane Capital, to give it a $600 million post-market valuation. The new round comes just over a year after Choco’s $63.7

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AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. The company plans to use the new capital toward that hiring, and to do some marketing of its own. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to its S-1, it produced net income of $21 million off revenue of $193 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2020, compared with a net loss of $34 million on revenue of $150 million during the same period in 2019. It has numerous things going for it. Resale can be more affordable.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability has emerged as a significant concern and a business imperative for organizations today. Sustainability Leaders Video Series In this APAC Network video series hosted by Equinix, meet Asia-Pacific’s most inspiring people and companies leading the green revolution and charting a sustainable future for our planet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. return on it, paying it pack in full plus earnings in 2020. Not a bad use of $750,000, right?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

So far it has concentrated on the lucrative European market. In June 2020 it merged with French competitor Everoad, and acquired Uber Freight’s European business last September. The European logistics and freight sector has a market size of $427 billion. The whole digital freight forwarding market is booming.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. To date, the app’s community of users have reduced nearly 6 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. In 2020, the company had plans to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) in Africa for its video-on-demand service, iROKOtv, from $7-8 to $20-25.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. ” It says it builds a self-sustainable “privacy-friendly alternative to very popular and widely used surveillance capitalism web analytics tools”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Uber and Lyft lost a lot of money in 2020. That’s not a surprise, as COVID-19 caused many ride-hailing markets to freeze, limiting demand for folks moving around. billion in 2020. billion in 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. billion in 2020 , an improvement from its 2019 loss of $8.51

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As the infant formula market, poised to be a $103 billion market by 2026 , grows, there continues to be shame and stigma around how to feed children in their early years, and Helaina aims to provide parents with a choice of foods that are priced to be accessible to all, but also support as they examine their choices, she said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

At the Permissionless conference in sunny West Palm Beach, conversations around mergers and acquisitions in crypto were heating up as market players were starting to discuss this trend growing at the protocol level for decentralized finance (DeFi). DeFi protocols consolidating as market conditions worsen.

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JULY 13, 2023

We recently held our annual corporate conference addressing many subjects top of mind with IT leaders and it came as no surprise that a session on sustainability was one of the most attended. Let’s dive into the three pillars of ESG in the context of sustainable IT. Environment.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Duncan Grierson, CEO of Clim8, said in a statement: “We are launching at an exciting time for sustainable investing. 2020 was an exceptional year for environmentally-focused investment offerings, as investors looked harder at climate-related opportunities. What’s behind this year’s boom in climate tech SPACs?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business. From now on, it wants to focus on features and integrations that help creators easily schedule meetings and exhibitions, build sustainable income through subscriptions and leverage emerging technologies in the creator space. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. We will use this money for sustainable growth and only sustainable growth. Jordan and U.S.-based

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JANUARY 4, 2021

This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even more expansion to help put in place key health infrastructure systems across the U.S. billion post-money, the company announced today.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Interconnection opens access to foreign markets, but it also encourages cross-continental trade. But for the continent to expand to international markets, it needs strong and dependable access to interconnection hubs. Other examples are the efforts of Orange to link markets in West Africa or cross-border fiber routes by Yafibr.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

“What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We Reebelo’s last funding was a $1 million seed round announced in June 2020. Back Market reaches $5.7B The company was founded in 2019 by Franta and Fabien Rastouil.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, when the Costa Rican-born entrepreneur, now living in the Bay Area, saw how climate change was affecting coffee growers around the world — coffee is the fifth-most polluting crop in the value chain — she wanted to create a coffee product that tasted good, but was also sustainable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

capital markets by storm led, in part, by startups focused on the electrification of mobility. Oatly began using Einride’s electric trucks on its delivery routes from each of its Swedish production sites in October 2020. Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and we work hard to lower our emissions across the board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Forward Foods, Starday , a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents. Chaz Flexman, co-founder and CEO, started the remote first company in late 2020 after leaving Pattern Brands. The global food and beverages market is expected to reach $7.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2021

After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. But 2020 was a different animal: After months of shelter-in-place orders, widespread shutdowns and physical distancing, outdoors became the only location for safe socializing. billion market size by 2027, a 6.3%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

“We operate in an extremely competitive and well-funded industry, and this round allows us to have a long-term mindset when it comes to doubling down on our different markets,” says co-founder and CEO Miki Kuusi in a statement. We simply had no other choice than to do it this way was we came from such a difficult home market”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The lack of options in sustainable and scalable protective packaging led to them re-discovering wool — an unused resource that is elastic and regulates temperatures and humidity. Woola opened a production facility in Estonia and launched its first product in December 2020. Wool envelopes were the first products to hit the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The company claims that in 2020, it grew by 3x and reached more than €100 million in GMV. Riku Asikainen at Evli Growth Partners said: “We see the huge potential behind the way Refurbed contributes to a sustainable, circular economy.”. Other players in this space include Back Market (raised €48 million), Swappa (U.S.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Most problematic right now: the exit market is all but frozen. billion for its fifth growth-investment strategy as of April, and it’s reportedly in the market for a $500 million early-stage fund at the moment. And it was the beginning of the crazy VC funding acceleration period that gets started in the second half of 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Growth and a path to profitability has been a winning duo in 2020 as a number of unicorns with similar metrics have seen strong pricing in their debuts, and winsome early trading. Affirm joins DoorDash and Airbnb in pursuing an exit before 2020 comes to a close. million in fiscal 2020, up 93% from the year-ago period.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

billion valuation figure is up “5x” since May of 2020. “They’re a very reputable sophisticated crossover investor that invests in high-growth, high-potential private market companies and ultimately work with them to go public,” Walsh told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The cryptocurrency-focused consumer trading concern is set to become a public company on the back of a strong 2020, and a particularly strong final quarter. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. And transaction fee-based incomes are the vast majority of Coinbase’s revenues — 96% in calendar 2020, for example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Swile provides a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal vouchers, gift cards and sustainable mobility vouchers. million (€30 million) in 2019 and a Series C round of $81 million (€70 million) in 2020. Just four years after launch, Swile has captured a 13% market share on meal vouchers in France.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion such companies picked up in 2020 and 2019, respectively. It wasn’t sustainable and economic correction was needed. It created an opportunity to exit the hype cycle, clearing the way for development that will ensure the growth of the ecosystem in a sustainable way, adding value.” By 2022, that number dipped to $21.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The importance of building more sustainable businesses has never been more evident, especially for those in the food and beverage space,” said Surbhi Martin, vice president of Greek yogurt and functional nutrition for Danone North America. “By Imperfect Foods brought in $95 million in Series D funding for its sustainable grocery delivery.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Spacefund research conducted earlier this year found that there is almost no correlation between the global economy and the space industry, said Crawford, a managing partner at the VC firm, last Thursday at TC Sessions: Space 2020. Moran said this unabashed growth period will continue for a few years before narrowing.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Much of this is driven by consumer behavior to reduce waste and have more sustainable consumption of goods. Singapore-based Reebelo , a marketplace for affordable and sustainable consumer electronics, has had a passion for keeping electronics out of landfills since it was started by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil in 2019. “In

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JANUARY 15, 2025

This bodes well for growth in market size, GDP, and a population of digitally fluent consumers. The foreign direct investment (FDI) sector financed $30 billion in sustainability projects, often referred to as global greenfield megaprojects, according to the UNs latest World Investment Report. For instance, the U.S.,

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