TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

CTO Will Hanson (left) and CEO Matt Bivons (right). Critically, and for the finance nerds out there, Bivons told TechCrunch that its loan servicing technology does not require the company to take on any credit risk, and that it has gross margins of around 90%. from February to May of 2021. That would be good news for Canopy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Zomato said on Monday its co-founder and chief technology officer Gunjan Patidar has left the firm, the latest in a series of departures at the Indian food delivery firm whose shares have lost over 57% of its value in the past year. The company, which went public mid-2021, reported a net loss of $30.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Today, the company announced $14 million new funding from Greylock, with participation from Imaginary Ventures and a group of angel investors, including Everlane founder and CEO Michael Preysman, Hopin CTO Anthony Kennada and Datadog COO Adam Blitzer. It also brought in Angular founder Misko Hevery as its chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Alan Radford is regional CTO of One Identity and has a passion for helping organizations solve unique challenges in the identity and access management space. But many don’t know how common the technology is and may not realize that they are interacting with it regularly. Alan Radford. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Founded earlier this year, Nektar has been working in stealth mode with five companies, and has plans for an early adopter release before a public launch by the end of 2021. Singapore-based Nektar.ai , a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

The fintech went public in 2021, and while it’s trading considerably lower than its 52-week-high (which stock isn’t?), In the case of Affirm, one of the space’s largest players, co-founder Max Levchin (who also founded PayPal) has been vocal about what he describes as a “mission-based” approach.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

UnaBiz , the Massive Internet of Things service provider and owner of Sigfox’s technology , announced today it has raised another $25 million in Series B funding. This doubles the round’s total amount to $50 million, after the first tranche was announced in October 2021. Its goal is to consolidate its business more quickly.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. I had been at Google for so long that I stopped counting,” she says. Everything fell in place; every box was ticked,” she says. “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Last year, Seattle-based network security startup ExtraHop was riding high, quickly approaching $100 million in ARR and even making noises about a possible IPO in 2021. But there will be no IPO, at least for now, as the company announced this morning it has been acquired by a pair of private equity firms for $900 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

It grew its ARR by 5x in 2021, which means that it had reached $10 million in ARR by the end of last year, according to CEO and founder Rubens Zanelatto. Motto plans to use its new capital in part to hire more than 50 senior engineers, as well as a chief technology officer (CTO), adding to its current headcount of 400.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Nucleus was co-founded by Evis Drenova and Nick Zelei in 2021, after the two spent roughly seven years building infrastructure platforms both at large enterprise companies (e.g. Backed by Y Combinator, Nucleus has raised $2.1 million in VC money to date. IBM, Garmin) and startups (Skyflow, Newfront).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

In particular, Blade CTO Jean-Baptiste Kempf teamed up with other employees, while Octave Klaba submitted his own offer. — Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom) April 30, 2021. Cloud gaming platform Shadow gets a new CEO and CTO. Several companies and a group of people submitted takeover bids. pic.twitter.com/Yz3RlV02dy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Pod Foods secured a chief technology officer, Timothy Wee, who has a background from Google, Amazon and Walmart, and will also invest in data to build out new services and products, Lee said. Pod Foods 2021 from Blank Space Studio on Vimeo.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Investors include Flexport, Transmedia Capital, Signal Ventures, Motion Ventures, Rebel Ventures, Y Combinator (Greywing was part of its winter 2021 batch) and Entrepreneur First. Greywing was created in 2019 after founders Clarke and chief technology officer Hrishi Olickel met at Entrepreneurs First in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay, founded by Shaji and the startup’s chief technology officer Rajesh Raikwar , wants to disrupt traditional business banking and offer companies a control center for all their financial management needs without the hassle and limitation of a traditional bank. . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Its co-founders, Armen Abroyan (CEO) and Vardges Hovhannisyan (CTO) have spent more than 20 years in A.I. So far in 2021, PicsArt has seen more than 180 million videos edited in its app — a 70% increase year-over-year. and cloud technology evolves, it says. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It announced today that it has been accepted into Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 startup batch. Before launching Finantier, Rojas worked on products for peer-to-peer lending platforms Lending Club and Dianrong, and served as chief technology officer for several fintech startups in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The startup has been around since about 2014, originally as a spinout from Oxford University co-founded by academics Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner — Newman remains at the startup as its CTO, while Posner remains an AI professor at Oxford. But, as you would expect with autonomous car projects, not everything has panned out as expected.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

Honestly, we’re really eager for this quarter to end so we can drill down into the numbers to see just how much the funding landscape has changed compared to 2021. But notably, and perhaps even more startling, is the difference between these numbers compared to June 2021. billion across 272 deals from June 1-23, 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CEO Yarden Shaked founded Varos in 2021 with CTO Lior Chen and his father, Gil Shaked and was part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 batch. Varos , based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, is shedding some light on how companies compare to their peers in terms of key performance indicators, like customer acquisition costs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

from its opening price of $10 a share more than 470% since January 2021. The funding will be used to bring those two vehicles to market as well as to expand its factory in Arizona , Lucid CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson said Monday. Rawlinson will remain as CEO and CTO. Electric vehicle startup Canoo to go public via SPAC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Bhadange, a former product and UX designer, founded Peerlist in August 2021 with his wife, Yogini Bende. The Delaware-registered startup, with an office in Pune, said it has raised $1.1 million in a seed funding round led by HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah. Other participating investors include Plotch.ai

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 million seed round led by the Raba Partnership.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Promises include : beU delivery says it offers a “great selection of local restaurants and door-to-door food delivery” that allows customers to have their favorite food from the “comfort of their homes or offices.” Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Ashish Srimal founded Ratio in 2021 with CTO Mason Blake, and they have been heads down ever since working on the company’s concept, which is to help SaaS and technology companies tap into the $1.5 trillion subscription market for recurring revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

million grant) seed raise in September 2021, said the funding will support the launch of two new technologies: Kraken II and SITE. . The startup has used its supply chain technology to process more than 10 million kilograms of palm nuts since the launch of Kraken in 2021. million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal. The company says that revenues grew 75% in 2021, and between 2018 and 2021, it grew sales 300%, impressive numbers for a company that is more than a decade old, and has been bootstrapped.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

He and his team got things off the ground in 2021, raising $3.4 Individual investors include Attentive CEO Brian Long, Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre, Remote First Capital and former CTO of Product Hunt Andreas Klinger, Fast.co Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? million in a seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Recall that when Monte Carlo raised a $60 million Series C in August 2021 , we reported that it had “doubled its ARR in each of the last four quarters.” ” If you grow that quickly, yes, you can raise capital for your software business like it’s still 2021. .” How many unicorns meet that bar?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The fully remote company — with outposts in Austin, Texas and Jackson, Wyoming — was founded in 2021 by ex- AlienVault software engineers Russell Spitler and Jaime Blasco, who believe the only way to address the “people problem” is to make employees part of the solution.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The market for fresh produce in Mexico is expected to grow by $4 billion over the next four years, so Vizcayno and co-founder Blanca Espinosa started Alima in June 2021 to help solve these problems in anticipation of that growth.

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