TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. Magdrive says its engine can deliver both high thrust and high efficiency in one system. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4 Magdrive prototype render. Image: Magdrive .

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: This is not the first time Crusoe has made this list. tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. In 2020, Insight Partners bought a large stake in the startup.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

“Most D2C brands are still very dependent on big tech,” CEO Matthew Goodman tells TechCrunch. “Most D2C brands are still very dependent on big tech,” CEO Matthew Goodman tells TechCrunch. via Okendo. “Merchants have goals and want to better understand their customers,” Goodman says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

You may be unfamiliar with the name, but Norma Group products are used wherever pipes are connected and liquids are conveyed, from water supply and irrigation systems in vehicles, trains and aircraft, to agricultural machinery and buildings. According to Reitz, the effects of technology on people must also always be top of mind.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Since Kojo brought its product to market in early 2020, it has powered the construction of nearly 10,000 projects, including hospitals, schools, stadiums, office buildings and multifamily housing developments. “The truth is construction was considered an unsexy market by people building tech companies for far too long.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

NASA has issued a new request for proposals from partners that would be able to help it supplement its own storytelling in new and innovative ways, including potentially through use of robotic camera systems, high-resolution and 360-degree video capture, immersive VR content and more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. That said, the signs are all pointing to technology being New Zealand’s next export industry, as long as everyone keeps pushing in the same direction. billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Returning investor Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, which led Speedoc’s $5 million Series A in 2020, also participated. ” ‘Move fast and break things’ is a bad idea for health tech startups.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?. Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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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. ” It wasn’t that long ago when autonomous automobile technology was all the rage , dominating just about every trade show and tech conference.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Byteboard , a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. A group of experienced engineers review and rate the interviews. The business took off following its 2019 debut.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. And that’s what the Zimbabwean government sought to accomplish when it introduced a financial inclusion scheme from 2016 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The company saw 10x sales growth in 2020, Uknes told TechCrunch. Due to its safer formula, Howler can be used as the last spray in the program, and its differentiator is a shorter re-entry period — farmers can spray in the morning and be able to go back out in the field in the afternoon.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

ConstellR , a space tech startup with a technology that can monitor land surface temperatures from space, has raised a €1 million pre-seed round led by FTTF, with the participation of strategic investor OHB Venture Capital, Baden-Württemberg’s state bank L-Bank and an undisclosed investor.

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Tech investors must make sure that Israel is part of their portfolio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community.

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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. Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products.

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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

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

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. “Construction and property management are among the last major industries to digitize.

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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

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. ” Image Credits: Yubo. .

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CIO

JULY 15, 2022

Over the years, DTN has bought up several niche data service providers, each with its own IT systems — an environment that challenged DTN IT’s ability to innovate. “We Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”. The merger playbook.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

adults with credit card debt increased their balances since the pandemic began in March 2020. “This latest injection of growth capital allows us to meet the growing demand for our behavioral engagement technology around the world. . According to a September 2021 survey from Bankrate.com, 42% of U.S. trillion, $2.36

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

HackerEarth’s CEO, Sachin Gupta, made the announcement today at Hire10(1) , HackerEarth’s flagship virtual conference to help recruiters and engineering leaders hire top developers and build great tech teams. Customizability : Recruiters can customize the development environment and the task based on their specific technology stack.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

million seed round led by Zeev Ventures with participation from Y Combinator and 20 individual tech industry investors. 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. Today, the company announced a $3.65

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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. Image Credits: Scopio.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub. billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants. And the numbers are there to back it up. VCs invested over $5.5 Register 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

There are more than 4,000 annual marine incidents, largely due to human error. The company was founded by naval technology experts Yarden Gross and Dor Raviv. On the raise, Yarden Gross, CEO and co-founder said: “The maritime industry… is still far behind aviation with technological innovations.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. It says that its tech is already leading to more than 20,000 enforcements weekly.

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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. Older solutions, Rauch argues, were built in isolation from the cloud platforms and serverless technologies, leaving it up to the developers to deploy and scale their solutions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015. million to continue developing its tools to help chefs manage their recipes.

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