TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sensat , a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 Ultimately, it’s all about helping companies better plan and manage major infrastructure projects, assess risk, predict outcomes and optimize efficiency before building work even begins. Infrastructure as a service.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

trillion over the 10 years ended 2021, and advisers now routinely recommend allocating 10%-25% of portfolios in these asset classes. However, there is a problem in alternative assets: the lack of digital infrastructure. Modernizing the infrastructure for traditional alts. Private investments in alternative assets grew to $13.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Foxglove , a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7 ” Foxglove’s cloud suite.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ben Altshuler is a partner at Matrix Partners who focuses on fintech and infrastructure investments. More posts by this contributor. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. Ben Altshuler. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. In 2021, the e-commerce roll-up, or aggregator, scene was in full force. At the time, Wonder Brands raised $20 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

From Nigeria, Indicina facilitates lending for individuals and small businesses through AI-powered digital credit infrastructure. Power allows gig and salaried workers access to earned wages and other financial services, and contribute to savings via partner banks. .

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. This spending on AI infrastructure may be confusing to investors, who won’t see a direct line to increased sales because much of the hyperscaler AI investment will focus on internal uses, he says.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

In an exclusive interview with Abdul Ghaffar Setareh, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zain Group, he paints a stark picture of the regions cyber battleground: AI-powered ransomware, 300 Gbps DDoS attacks, and hackers exploiting supply chain loopholes to target critical infrastructure.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

1 - CISA: Hundreds of critical infrastructure orgs hit by Medusa ransomware Dont let the Medusa ransomware group turn your network into stone. government sent this week via an advisory to cybersecurity teams, especially those at critical infrastructure organizations. CIS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Benchmark v3.0.0

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They can ask questions like “What wiper blades fit a 2021 Honda CR-V?” It provides constructs to help developers build generative AI applications using pattern-based definitions for your infrastructure. This approach enables version-controlled, reproducible infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Funding to the AI sector in 2024 surpassed every year in the past decade, including the peak global funding year of 2021. Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Of those AI dollars, almost a third of all AI funding went to foundation model companies. Related reading OpenAI Raises $6.6B

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The San Francisco-based startup last raised a $300 million private equity round in 2021 led by One Equity Partners at a $3.4 Cyber companies help companies protect large assets like manufacturing facilities and energy infrastructure. The round boosts the company’s valuation nearly 25% to $4.2 billion valuation.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

While you might think the general fervor around all things artificial intelligence means 2024 is a new high for the intersection of AI and biotech/healthcare, both 2021 and 2022 were strong funding years for the space. In 2021 which was a record year for venture capital investment overall $12.5

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CIO

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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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Simply put, there is a direct link between economic progress and IT infrastructure, with robust trade dependent on a strong digital foundation. It launched a Regional Information Infrastructure Project, enabling access to the international internet backbone through undersea cables.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Insurance infrastructure startup Lula , which has raised $18 million in funding from the likes of NextView Ventures, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, is hiring 10 across engineering, product and sales. Another infrastructure startup, Unit, is also hiring — with nearly a dozen open roles across the U.S. and Israel.

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CIO

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For past IT mishaps of note, see our biggest IT failure roundups from 2023 and 2021. ] The incident prompted some CIOs to rethink their dependence on cloud infrastructure, and it caused Microsoft to focus more on kernel-level access for other software packages. The fallout after the outage was swift but continues even today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

ClicOH, a 2021 Y Combinator alum, operates in Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, and its proprietary technology enables sellers to track shipments in real time via a dashboard with key indicators and traceability. That was one of the big drivers for the company to go after additional funding, he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Anyhoo, I asked Mader about no-code trends in 2021, as I have my eyes on the space. Digital transformation is going to accelerate even more rapidly in 2021. Things like this are merely a first step.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. The opportunities for fintechs in 2023 lie in the “boring” areas like fraud, compliance, payment operations, taxes and infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun. The firm can then build teams and wider infrastructure around that traction. Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” Both countries produced a fair amount of unicorns in 2021. Here are a few sectors that took off in 2021, and are worth keeping an eye on in 2022: Investment apps. million people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. The service recently surpassed voice to become Safaricom’s top earner after the platform’s revenues hit $745 million for the financial year ending March 2021.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2025

While last year saw an uptick in new unicorn creation globally, the numbers remain well below the 300-plus billion-dollar startups that joined the board in 2022 and the more than 600 who galloped onto the board in 2021. Altogether, these companies are valued at north of $5 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Just a month into 2021, Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana raised a $1 million pre-seed investment led by VC firm Disruptech in a bid to drive expansion within the country. Startups building financial infrastructure got noticed. But the narrative as to how much an early-stage African startup can raise as pre-seed has changed. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Latin America boasts 26 unicorns as of August, according to Atlantico’s 2021 digital transformation report , a must-read that serves as a backdrop for today’s piece. As Vasconcellos clarified for us via email, the number reflects the fact that eight new unicorns were minted in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Check Point Research reports that global cyberattacks increased by 38% in 2022 compared to 2021, and nearly nine in ten company boards told Gartner in a recent survey that they view cybersecurity as a “business risk” rather than solely a technical or IT issue. billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Valtix should fit in with other security company acquisitions in recent years, including Duo Security in 2018 and Kenna Security in 2021. Valtix launched in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

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. Spoiler alert: B2B payments and infrastructure remain on fire and most investors expect to see more flat and down rounds this year. What do you feel might be overhyped?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

billion valuation in September 2021, when Whatnot raised $150 million. Growing demand led Whatnot to not only raise three rounds of capital in 2021 but see year-over-year sales grow over 20 times in 2021, with a more than tripling of its monthly sales so far in 2022, according to the company. billion, up from the $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Proceeds will be used to enable stablecoin transactions based on the Taro protocol, made possible by Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade in November 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. “The reality is that there was an unprecedented hype cycle in 2021, and what we have seen since the beginning of 2022, objectively, is a ‘reversion to the mean’ in line with long-term trends.”

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Its severity was underscored when Microsoft reported active exploitation less than two months after disclosure and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to patch the flaw.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The raise follows a year of strong growth, according to the company, which saw its revenue increase by “well over 20x” in 2021. The company last raised in June of 2021 – a $100 million Series B led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. It also claims that it is now the first proptech unicorn in Spanish-speaking LatAm.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

At least, that’s the assertion of Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen, the co-founders of infrastructure startup Exafunction. According to Run:AI, 38% of companies had an annual budget for AI infrastructure — including hardware, software and cloud fees — exceeding $1 million as of October 2021. The costs add up.

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