Remove 2021 Remove Blockchain Remove Virtualization
article thumbnail

Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. To watch the pitches, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 here. With just over a 1.5% acceptance rate, the startups in this year’s cohort are phenomenal.

Company 250
article thumbnail

Makers Fund-backed virtual social app MEW woos comic fans in the US

TechCrunch

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. In 2021, when “metaverse” became all the rage in both the U.S.

Social 224
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Avalanche raises $230 million from private sale of AVAX tokens

TechCrunch

Avalanche , a relatively new blockchain with a focus on speed and low transactions costs, has completed a $230 million private sale of AVAX tokens to some well-known crypto funds. The Avalanche Foundation completed the private sale back in June 2021 and is disclosing it today. Everyone wants to fund the next Coinbase.

article thumbnail

Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana. channels like Twitter or Discord onto blockchains. It won the Fall 2021 Chainlink DeFi Hackathon competition. Stage: Seed round.

article thumbnail

TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

TechCrunch

Hybrid events won’t give teams a chance to bond over karaoke, but with a tight agenda and a compelling theme, you can create a virtual or hybrid SKO that people will actually want to attend. billion in revenue for Q4 2021, but “that was the good news,” reported Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm. This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5

article thumbnail

Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

TechCrunch

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Iddris Sandu founded Spatial Labs in 2021, seeking to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality.

Hardware 290
article thumbnail

10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

Still, in 2021, a new set of problems has emerged, including more potent COVID-19 variations and overflowing hospitals attempting to treat both people with and without the virus. Just a decade ago, the use of augmented and virtual reality in healthcare was deemed science fiction. Blockchain.