TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. according to Wells Fargo, which estimated its apparel and footwear sales grew 15% in 2020 to over $41 billion, or 20-25% higher than Walmart.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Previous investors include Gaocheng Capital, an investment firm founded by a former Hillhouse partner, and HTC, the Taiwanese electronics giant that has pushed into virtual reality in recent years. EventX declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. Virtual reality. We asked survey respondents to assess a list of 16 technologies, from advanced analytics to quantum computing, and put each one into one of these four buckets. ” The top technology there was quantum computing. Augmented reality/mixed reality. Wearable devices.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Since its launch, Virtual Internships has increased its revenue from $100,000 in fiscal year 2019/2020 to $4.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve initiated the final countdown, and we’re just hours away from the deadline for early bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17). CrunchMatch, our free, AI-powered platform makes it much easier to find and connect with people across a virtual environment. Let’s talk about the opportunities at TC Sessions: Space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

After operating in beta for a year, Nooks, a virtual workspace space targeting distributed teams, has attracted thousands of users and millions of dollars in venture capital. This is Kevin Hartz’s second investment in a virtual HQ, with his first in Gather. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But everyone’s already gotten a taste of virtual events, and their many ups and downs. The tech side of things can get remarkably complicated, and it’s hard to make a virtual show more compelling/interactive/engaging than a YouTube video would be. Zuddl , a virtual events platform, has raised a $13.35 No flights!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

In March 2020, Tame had a digital event suite for offline corporate events. But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events. The result is that it has now raised a seed round of $5.5 and grow revenues. No marketing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

“I founded Switchboard in June 2020, and it actually came out of a frustration with remote guitar lessons that I was taking. Switchboard allows users to run multiple web-based apps including Google Docs, Figma, Trello and Jira in a single “virtual room.” ” Ashkenazi said in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to ActivTrak, 41% of organizations didn’t have a dedicated remote work policy in place as of May 2020. Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The first iteration of MEW launched in mid-2020, and its reach today is still limited.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

students Kedan Li, Jeffrey Zhang and Min Jin Chong, is creating what they consider to be the first tool using existing catalog images to process at a scale of over a million garments weekly, something previous versions of virtual dressing rooms had difficulty doing, Li told TechCrunch. co-founders Jeffrey Zhang, Min Jin Chong and Kedan Li.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Folx Health is leveraging the explosion of virtual care services to offer greater access to healthcare focused on the needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, and has raised $25 million in new funding to help it grow. And it’s all made possible by virtual interactions. Breitenstein, the founder and chief executive of Folx Health.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The company provides their customers with templates they can customize to fit their needs all while allowing companies to provide users with virtual engagements. For the fiscal years of 2020 and 2021 they operated with FCF, EBITDA, aEBITDA and GAAP net income. Healthie also said they have been profitable for the past few years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer new ways for consumers to collect, wear and trade fashion online, and now that most fashion shows have scaled back or gone virtual , they may become an important tool for the industry. In December 2020, NFT startup Enjin partnered with Netherlands-based fashion house The Fabricant on a virtual collection.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

A startup called Soona , now backed by an additional $35 million in Series B funding, has been tapping into this market with its platform that allows brands to create content for their e-commerce websites and marketing through “virtual” photo and video shoots. “We invite you to join your photo shoot in the browser.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Maria Jose Castro and Roberto Meza, both from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own experience of transitioning to work-from-home and needing to outfit a space. However, design services can be expensive, and therefore not accessible to everyone.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It doesn’t mean that they’ll have a positive bottom line at the end of 2020. Overall, Lydia grew its user base by 50% in 2020 compared to 2019. In 2020, we’ve had very good growth numbers overall — but it should have been amazingly good during a normal year, without the month of March, April, May, November.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020. Q3 2020 is primed to be an intense shopping season for VCs. Now we are staring down the end of 2020 and looking toward what we all hope is a better, safer 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The virtual state of corporate venture capital today. billion set in 2020, according to Rock Health. The pandemic showed how telemedicine could change how we think about care interactions, with virtual visits increasing almost 40 times, according to data from McKinsey. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

That’s mostly because it wasn’t until 2020 that telemedicine, in its myriad forms, debuted into the mainstream consciousness. with challenges such as meeting HIPPA compliance requirements and insurance companies unwilling to pay for virtual visits. Telemedicine has faced an uphill battle to become more relevant in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Miami-based company (with locations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Paris and São Paulo) said it will use the money to build out more virtual offerings to complement the company’s campuses. Lambda School raises $74M for its virtual coding school where you pay tuition only after you get a job.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

In healthcare alone, 2020 saw 640 breaches , exposing 30 million personal records, a 25% increase over 2019 that equates to roughly two breaches per day, according to the U.S. Data breaches have become a part of life. They impact hospitals, universities, government agencies, charitable organizations and commercial enterprises.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Hopin raised a $40 million Series A in late June of 2020 , and a $125 million Series B last November at a valuation of $2.125 billion. TechCrunch used Hopin’s service to host several of its events in 2020.). The acquired company, which bootstrapped itself to material revenue scale, will retain its brand and in-market product.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alta , a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 Alta’s next goal is to expand and build networks of virtual worlds across multiple platforms, incorporating elements of the metaverse, Anoshechkin said. The consumer virtual reality market is projected to reach more than $5 billion by 2023 from $2.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While Meta tries to convince users to attend virtual work meetings in its metaverse , ForeVR Games , a VR gaming startup with casual games like bowling, darts and cornhole, is a reminder that virtual reality is supposed to be fun. Much like Wii Sports, ForeVR games are designed to be easy to play.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s. Mental health treatment itself is getting a makeover as startups reinvigorate the in-person therapist and psychiatrist visit as well as think about new models of delivering mental health services virtually. Then there’s the health system in general.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The property industry now requires high-quality photographs, floor plans and virtual tours, so the industry for software providers in the space is booming. The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

For YC Summer 2021 Demo Day, the accelerator’s fourth virtual gathering, Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm, Devin Coldewey, Lucas Matney and Greg Kumparak selected 14 favorites from the first day of one of the world’s top pitch competitions. Virtual events startups have high hopes for after the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Adding to the myriad unicorn layoffs we have seen recently is now Carbon Health , a healthcare company offering virtual care, which said in a letter Thursday that it laid off 250 people, or 8% of its workforce. We covered its $100 million Series C round in November 2020. Any company would be lucky to have them. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In April, NextView launched a virtual accelerator for startups to build a more robust pipeline for deal flow. In fact, according to PitchBook data, Boston-area startups raised more private capital during summer 2020 than they did in summer 2019, suggesting that the pandemic has been a boon to startups in aggregate. venture dollars.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. Existing investors, including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG, also participated in the round. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

. “We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact. ” Active Replica was founded in 2020 by Jacob Ervin and Valerian Denis. Prior to the acquisition, Active Replica hadn’t publicly announced outside funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The announcement, which took place from a virtual event, was also detailed in the company’s blog post. A virtual affair, this cohort will be a continuation of how the previous cohort panned out. . Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first virtual class of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa was launched.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. PayPal later acquired Braintree and Venmo — Jhawar stuck around until early 2020 to scale Venmo to the huge fintech consumer app that 52 million people use in the U.S. And 2020 has been a busy year for Lydia.

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