TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. But with the pandemic bringing in utter confusion and panic, companies downsized as investors re-strategized, and due diligence slowed during the first few months of the year. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 billion and $1.8 billion by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Yesterday’s earnings deluge made plain that tech shares are not rocketing higher as 2020 comes to a close. But in most other reports there were signs of weakness or underperformance compared to expectations that could undermine the relentlessly bullish attitude tech shares have enjoyed for several months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Essential (2017-2020).

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. A 2020 World Economic Forum report found that women make up a similar percentage (26%) of data and AI positions in the workforce.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Hey, all — welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Layoffs everywhere : Meanwhile, news of tech industry layoffs continues to pour in. And oof, what a week it was. Want this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Let’s just dive right in.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2023

Diverse teams perform better, hire better talent, have more engaged members, and retain workers better than those that do not focus on diversity and inclusion, according to a 2020 report from McKinsey. Despite this, women remain widely underrepresented in IT roles. And the numbers back up this assertion, often in stark ways.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. Europe and China, which in turn are shaping the future of technology. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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CodeSignal

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Recently, we conducted a survey asking technical recruiting professionals what trends they anticipated for 2020. We summarized the top three technical recruiting trends they suggested. That’s why it’s critical to start with a technical skill assessment rather than a resume review in your hiring process!).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Ever since the tech downturn began affecting startups, a question kept coming up: What if we are witnessing a correction? The question implied that the way deals were done in the past couple of years, mostly during late-2020 and nearly all of 2021, were the exception, not the rule, and venture investing was returning to normal.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Indeed it’s true that 2020 was a tough year for the whole world to handle. Employers started to use online management tech to efficiently manage their employees who were working remotely. Hiring top-tech talent is the highest priority of companies nowadays. Let’s understand what tech recruitment is and how to market it.

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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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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.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

The airports provide essential transport for Scottish residents to receive medical treatment and supplies, and MacLeod, working with accessibility technology leaders Jadu, has overseen an accessibility transformation of the airports’ digital services. But that requires technical demands at the systems and CRM level.”

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Spotify this morning announced it’s acquiring Dublin, Ireland-based content moderation tech company Kinzen, which had been working in partnership with the streamer since 2020. million in funding over 2 rounds, the last being a November 2020 seed round. Deal terms were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Kaiko Systems, which Fussek founded in 2020 with Eddy del Valle, the former CTO of freight-forwarding unicorn Sennder , provides a smartphone-based tool for front-line workers and inspectors to collect operational data onboard. “Shipping companies finally made their long-overdue investment in digitization,” said Fussek.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tech isn’t as collegial as it used to be. VCs want to fund the newest tech mafia startups before banks do , top MBA programs want laid off workers to join so badly that they’re waiving standardized test score requirements , and the tech companies that are in a position to hire really want you to know it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Bay Area company’s investment includes a $34 million Series A, co-led by ICONIQ and Madrona Venture Group with participation from Decibel and Mubadala Capital, and a previous undisclosed $7 million seed round from 2020, also from ICONIQ and Madrona and including 8VC and Global Founders Capital. Travel is a $1.4

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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CEO Insider

JULY 24, 2020

is expected in 2020 in global technology spending due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, however, technology costs around the globe are estimated to reach […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Global Technology Spending Will Fall By 7.3% A sharp decline of 7.3%

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their products, research, and technologies are changing the way the world works. The impact of space technology, on other industries, is wide and vast, and the innovation ripple of research has spurred many high-profile products, including Teflon and CAT scans, as well as many more developments from NASA.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The market for tech companies has shifted, as shown by a weak IPO market , a focus on profitability and pivots galore. Last year, per CB Insights data, venture investment reached $621 billion, which is up 111% from 2020 levels. Reverse due diligence, Boyce said, can show an investor that you’re “super serious” about your business. “I’m

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Over just the last year or so, we’ve seen: In February 2020, LendingClub announced plans to acquire Radius Bank in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $185 million. But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring. The deal closed in February 2021 , leading to a very quick and surprising second-quarter profit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support. The company initially got started in 2015 as a mobile phone repair service, and in 2020 underwent a management shift that pivoted the business model to memberships, Gabi Peles, Puls CEO, said via email. Puls Technologies app.

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CIO

MAY 29, 2024

And internally, the corporate journey for Sruti Patnaik came in early 2023 when she became the company’s CIO following a significant spike in sales resulting from the 2020 pandemic. How do those drivers translate into your technology strategy? Our potpourri of processes is also a potpourri of inherited technologies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Reach Capital, one of the first venture firms to focus exclusively on edtech, closed its last investment vehicle during an unprecedented boom within tech. Fast-forward two years, we’re now in a different world, socially, politically and technologically. billion last year, down 49% from the year prior.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Some technologies have helped deal with this menace; for instance, radio frequency identification, which works by assigning serial numbers to containers of each product. More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

I’m writing this from a newly locked-down chilly California; reflecting on 2020 and all that it has taught us. Nikola Tesla, whom many tech enthusiasts worship, is supposed to have said “ our virtues and failures are inseparable, like force and matter. For businesses, 2020’s learnings have mostly centered around ‘ our people ’.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a compelling pitch, one that enabled Made Renovation to raise at least $31 million across two rounds of funding between 2020 and 2021 from investors Felicis, Founders Fund, Insight Partners, and actress-entrepreneur Jessica Alba among some others who liked its tech-driven approach. to shut down. ” writes another.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Covering tech startup IPOs generally involves writing about companies that lose money. But in most cases, even the most valuable one-time venture-backed technology companies went public before turning profitable. The Toronto company went public in 2015 and looks to have posted its first profitable year in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. billion in 2022 from 2021, it was still up 52% compared to 2020 and made up 18% of all funding globally, proving that investors still have faith in fintech’s future.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. CIOs play a crucial role by providing opportunities for skill associates to participate in cross-functional learning, where people develop a common way of talking about the technology.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you’re forging new frontier technology — or ready to tackle the challenge — then join a growing, global community of startup visionaries at TC Sessions: Space 2020 , on December 16-17. Don’t worry about missing out due to schedule conflicts, because video on demand comes with the price of admission.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Jonathan "Yoni" Frenkel is a content strategist and founder of YKC Media , a digital marketing agency that works with the global tech/venture/startup community. The tech ecosystem is like a flywheel. That’s why Israel is pushing 100 unicorns — privately held companies (essentially all in tech) valued at a billion dollars or more.

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