TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Accord was co-founded in early 2020 by brothers Ross and Ryan Rich. Compounded with that fact, there is no system to reinforce a consistent, repeatable sales process, even if you have the ideal sales journey all figured out.” “Customers don’t want to talk to sellers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Butter ’s solution is an all-in-one management system that helps distributors run their businesses while serving as a system of record to help them comply with food safety rules. Butter was founded by Winston Chi and Shangyan Li in 2020, during the height of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Aquarium is a machine learning data management system that helps people improve model performance by improving the data that it’s trained on, which is usually the most important part of making the model work in production,” Gao told me. Aquarium aims to solve this issue. The Aquarium team. Image: Aquarium.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since. They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

adults with credit card debt increased their balances since the pandemic began in March 2020. As Joshaghani explained to me, Symend works with a company’s existing systems to “optimize engagement” with customers falling behind on bills due to illness, job loss, family trouble and other foreseen and unforeseen circumstances.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. from 2019 to 2020.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

An AI policy serves as a framework to ensure that AI systems align with ethical standards, legal requirements and business objectives. Algorithmic transparency and explainability AI systems often operate as ‘black boxes,’ making decisions that are difficult to interpret. Providing such clarity builds confidence in AI decision-making.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Openbase was a member of the YC 2020 cohort. From there, they can compare components and judge them based on user reviews and other detailed insights. That’s when he decided to apply to Y Combinator and got into the Summer 2020 class. Today, the company announced a $3.65 Image Credits: Openbase.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

As Vercel notes, the company saw strong growth in recent months, with traffic to all sites and apps on its network doubling since October 2020. “So instead of just spending all your time in code review, we’re shifting the equation to spending your time reviewing or experiencing your front end.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. I ended up taking 150 Zoom calls in the summer of 2020 and heard countless stories of founders’ great ideas and amazing businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 USD $76 million) in 2019, due to a near doubling of transactions from 46 in 2019 to 92 in 2020. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs. million (USD $86 million), up from NZD $112.2 (USD

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The address verification system merchants use to verify a purchaser is who they say they are, involves sending information to a bank that is returned to the merchant with a score of whether that match is legitimate. “In That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The pandemic has been the most animating force for startups and venture capital in 2020, discounting the slow movement of global business into the digital realm. Great business, even if Roblox warned that growth could slow sharply next year, when compared to its epic 2020 gains. Such is the rapid-fire news cycle of late 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. A robust market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

million Series A to strengthen its system integration with OTAs on the demand side, build a booking management system for transportation operators on the supply side and accelerate digital transformation in the pre-booking transportation industry. since December 2020, as per its statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

It does so by using what the company calls its “SideScanning” technology, which allows it to map out a company’s entire cloud environment and file systems. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. Definitely, they’ve done their own very deep due diligence as part of that.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Lemkin says the issue ties to the early days of the pandemic, when after a brief pause in the action in April 2020, startup investing — done virtually for the first time — shifted into overdrive. “Everyone cut diligence corners, deals got done in a day over Zoom. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. For instance, some papers argue, the manual review of samples doesn’t often add much to doctors’ diagnostic dataset. You can zoom around in one of the images here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

When R-Zero was founded in April 2020, the company primarily focused on developing hospital-grade UVC disinfection systems, or lights that can neutralize certain types of viruses (more on this later). Polling from 2020 suggests that cleaning procedures were top of mind for employees and customers alike. million valuation.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

Tooling supports and encourages code review of the contribution before accepting the request. Pull requests essentially provide convenient tooling for a development workflow that existed in many open-source projects, particularly those using a distributed source-control system (such as git).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

National and global companies like Ace Hardware, Anytime Fitness, The Hertz Corporation and Nekter Juice Bar use Soci (pronounced soh-shee) to coordinate individual stores as they promote themselves through search, social media, review platforms and ad campaigns. “It created a sort of bond that hopefully lasts forever.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Instead of bringing costs down by relying on underpaid freelancing partners, the company tries to optimize its processes and relies on a centralized system. According to Business Insider , Tier has been profitable on an EBITDA basis for the third quarter of 2020. But the company reported some losses during the first half of the year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

In its 10 year history, Playfair has invested in around 100 companies, including well-established unicorns such as Stripe, and Mapillary , a startup that exited to Facebook back in 2020. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. . Then going really deep to support the thesis.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Gathering more customer reviews data directly from consumers has been the first part of the puzzle with its product that helps brands manage and showcase customer ratings, reviews, user-generated media and product questions. “Most D2C brands are still very dependent on big tech,” CEO Matthew Goodman tells TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

All this started just a week after she applied for a small loan of around $100 that she needed due to a severe financial crisis earlier this year. Unemployment in the country hit 23.52% of its total labor force in April 2020, per data shared by the Mumbai-based economic think-tank Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

The Exchange has also covered Pico before , most recently during a mid-2020 dive into the world of indie pubs and subscription media. That’s Pico’s bet, and so it’s building what it considers to be an operating system for the creator market. How are VCs handling diligence in a world where deals open and close in days, not months?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Investors in Preply include Point Nine Capital, Hoxton Ventures, EduCapital, All Iron, Diligent Capital and Evli Growth Partners. The startup was eyeing United States expansion in 2020, and today, one-third of its revenue comes from the country, making it the largest market in which the company has customers. Fluent Forever raised $4.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

PeopleFund also will beef up its machine learning-powered credit scoring system, which is one of its key differentiators, that provides a quantitative scoring model (for credit valuation), a qualitative scoring model and a demand forecasting model (for near-primer borrowers). The FSC said it will continue to review other applicants.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. million seed round , led by Gradient Ventures, back in September 2020, and is now back with $14 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Launched in November 2020, MadEats currently has three ghost kitchens: one each in Makati, Quezon City and the City of Manila. At the beginning of the pandemic, we were asked to operationalize these restaurants to be delivery-forward due to stringent quarantine restrictions,” she said. The company announced today it has raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I’ve been writing about Human Interest since March 2020, covering each of its funding rounds since then ( here , here and here ), and following its impressive growth. billion on its platform solutions business that houses transaction banking and credit card and financial technology businesses since 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Back at CES 2020, Labrador Systems co-founder/CEO Mike Dooley told me, “I think there are fewer fake robots [at the show] this year.” At the time, the company had rented a suite where it was showing off an early version of the system it would come to call, fittingly, Retriever. Image Credits: Labrador Systems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Founded in February 2020 by Roenen Ben-Ami and Ofir Tahor, Justt says it fully automates chargeback disputes on behalf of online merchants. That built up on previous rounds, including a $15 million raise led by Zeev Ventures in February and a $5 million raise led by F2 Venture Capital in November 2020. Image Credits: Justt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The fintech’s revenue increased by “2.1x” in 2020 as financial institutions clamored to meet increased demand for digital offerings from consumers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. . How to fix) 5 common UX mistakes in online banking.

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