TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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. Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

These companies will take the stage one more time on Thursday, September 23, the final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Since beta launching in April 2021, the company has onboarded around 5,000 customers who use its savings product. The judges and TechCrunch editors evaluated the companies and selected five finalists: Adventr.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We’re now ready to announce that the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2021 is …. Cellino , a company developing a platform to automate stem cell production, combines AI technology, machine learning, hardware, software — and yes, lasers! — Winner: Cellino. to democratize access to cell therapies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

of all venture deals that took place last year, “up only a hair over 2021’s 25.6%,” reports Rebecca Szkutak, who spoke to a few experts to find out how startups in fundraising mode can get on their radar. “If 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Thinking about pulling the plug on your startup?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. As a result, quantum hardware manufacturers develop their own cloud-based operating systems. Quantum startups map, as of October 2021. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based based manufacturer of ion-trapped quantum computers, for instance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Romain writes that after raising over $380 million in 2021 , in today’s dollars, Ledger brought in $108 million, raising at the same valuation and from a long list of investors. Daily Crunch: Ledger locks down another $108M to double down on hardware crypto wallets by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Dallas-based startup, which launched in 2021, plans to use the money to continue to advance its genetic engineering technologies, as well as grow its software and hardware solutions for applications involved with de-extinction, conservation and human health care.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

A self-driving pilot Oxbotica kicked off with London-based car service Addison Lee in 2018 projected that it would have its first cars on the road by 2021. Addison Lee and Oxbotica ink self-driving deal, will offer autonomous car services in London by 2021. Our point is to be agnostic, to make sure it works on any hardware platform.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Go back in time to the dot-com boom, and it was normal for startups to spend early capital on physical hardware. Let’s talk about it. Bootstrapping today. Servers weren’t something you could just call up Amazon and rent by the minute, which meant buying your own and paying co-location fees. That took capital.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Device spending, which will be more than double the size of data center spending, will largely be driven by replacements for the laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other hardware purchased during the work-from-home, study-from-home, entertain-at-home era of 2020 and 2021, Lovelock says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Designed by the company’s in-house hardware team, the new model focuses on safety. It plans to operate a scooter service in more than 100 cities in 2021. Let’s see if the company delivers on its ambitious 2021 roadmap. Bolt is better known for its ride-hailing service. Image Credits: Bolt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. The company’s business model was originally banked around selling hardware, which today is used by “hundreds of thousands” of active users. ” 2021. 303 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Quell’s hardware and games are initially being built to work with PC, Mac and mobile devices. It’s something the company says it has on its roadmap to hopefully tackle in the future, but the added cost/complexity of the console hardware approval process was a bit too much to take on at launch. Image Credits: Quell.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The company designs and manufactures so-called hardware wallets to secure crypto assets. In 2021, the company raised €356 million ($385 million at today’s exchange rate). Ledger’s main products are hardware crypto wallets that offer a high level of security. billion ($1.41 billion at today’s exchange rate).

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JUNE 8, 2023

percent since 2021, according to Dice. Average salary: US$120,653 Increase since 2021: 15.6% It’s a role that has grown in demand as companies push to implement new tools, technologies, and programs to manage day-to-day operations — with the average salary for a DevOps engineer having grown 14% since 2021, according to Dice.

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MARCH 20, 2025

The application lists various hardware such as AI-powered smart devices, augmented and virtual reality headsets, and even humanoid robots. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, confirmed to the media that the company is researching AI-powered consumer hardware and is working with several companies to do so.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As the enterprise device supply chain grows increasingly global and fragmented, it’s becoming more challenging for organizations to secure their hardware and software from suppliers. ” Eclypsium supports hardware, including PCs and Macs, servers, “enterprise-grade” networking equipment and Internet of Things devices.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Trym’s crop steering function utilizes third-party hardware. Other crop steering products traditionally require growers to use dedicated hardware with their platforms. These 5 VCs have high hopes for cannabis in 2021. And it does so while providing detailed data on its growth through crop steering. Trym raises $3.1M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

For fifty-four years, big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies. “The weeks following CES have traditionally been a desert for hardware news.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They dominated funding in 2021.) And companies in financial services, hardware and energy each raised funding at or above $4 billion. And not far off from a billion, Pacific Fusion , a nuclear fusion technology company, raised more than $900 million in a round led by General Catalyst. Early-stage funding totaled $10.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

So the Slice Register is a combined software and hardware (including an iPad) solution. ” Slice Register is available to pizzerias at no initial charge for the hardware or software. The only fee in 2021 will be for payment processing, with additional pricing announced coming next year. Image Credits: Slice.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Grab a red Sharpie, circle September 20 on your calendar (ooh, how old-school) and get ready to jumpstart your TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 networking experience. Pro Tip 2: You still have time to buy your Disrupt 2021 pass for less than $100. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at Disrupt 2021? Yeah, you did.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Tive , a Boston-based startup, is building a hardware and software platform to help track the conditions of a shipment like say food or medicine to make sure it is stored under the proper conditions as it moves from farm or factory to market. Tive hardware tracker and data tracking software. Image Credit: Tive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. and Europe increased by nearly 2.5x, eventually peaking at close to $10 billion in 2021. Image Credits: F-Prime Capital VC excitement for hardware businesses is higher than ever In the U.S. F-Prime State of Robotics Report.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

For instance, even though quantum computing suddenly became popular in the public markets as D-Wave, Rigetti and IonQ listed in the last year, private investment declined significantly — the sector received just over $600 million in venture capital in 2022, down from $800 million in 2021, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He also said that the company plans to build a wireless technology to remove the VR hardware backpack that weighs down the players. Sandbox VR uses hardware like head-mounted VR headsets, backpack computers, motion capture sensors and haptic vests for players. from 2021 to 2028, based on a report by Verified Market Research. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

The company operates a cloud-based service that lets you access your crypto wallets without any hardware device. Terms of the deal are undisclosed and the transaction should close at some point during the first half of 2021. Curv is a cryptocurrency security company that helps you store your crypto assets securely.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

The global FPGA market size could reach $14 billion by 2028, according to one estimate, up from $6 billion in 2021. Launched in 2021, the goal with Rapid Silicon is to promote, adopt and implement open source tech to address the low- to mid-range FPGA market, according to CEO and co-founder Naveed Sherwani.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

The startup helps customers onboard remote staff, ensuring that new hires receive required hardware when they need it. Firstbase still helps customers’ new workers pick hardware, handling shipment and retrieval and management. Firstbase is a neat combination of software, hardware and financial tech. Growth in a hybrid era.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But the competition, while fierce, hasn’t scared away firms like NeuReality , which occupy the AI chip inferencing market but aim to differentiate themselves by offering a suite of software and services to support their hardware. NeuReality has been shipping prototypes to partners since May 2021, Tanach says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. million Series A in February 2021. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For the most part, highly capable systems are relegated to the cloud because they’re too complex to run on edge devices with weaker hardware and limited connectivity. He’s the CEO of Femtosense , a startup developing edge hardware designed to make AI processing viable for low-cost consumer electronics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

CEO of Neubility Sangmin Lee told TechCrunch that it’s been focused on developing hardware and software for its latest effort, delivery robots, since late 2019. billion in 2021, per a recent report. The outfit also recently raised another 2.6 million (3 billion KRW), its second close of Series A, from Samsung Venture Investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Smoke and heat can quickly damage hardware, and interference from fires will disrupt most forms of wireless communications, rendering software all but useless. Qwake Technologies , a startup based in San Francisco, is looking to upgrade the firefighting game with a hardware augmented reality headset named C-THRU. It secured a $1.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even more, the software-and-payments company combines subscription incomes, transaction fees, hardware revenues and lending earnings. Here’s Toast’s top-line performance for 2019, 2020, and the first half of both 2020 and 2021, taken from its S-1 filing : Image Credits: Toast S-1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Small businesses might soon be able to accept payments using their iPhones without the need for extra hardware, according to this piece , which cites Bloomberg. That company’s software-based tech gives merchants a way to accept card payments on any consumer device with no reader or extra hardware required. Image Credits: MagicCube.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Further checks in Crunchbase and Tracxn--platforms that track funding rounds in startups and private companies globally–reveal that the company closed the round in August 2021. According to some sources, PalmPay monthly transaction volume stood at over $100 million as of June 2021. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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