TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The new social investment platform enables users to subscribe to a creator’s financial feed and set up an investment portfolio that mimics that particular person’s investment strategy. Social investing is not a new concept. The size of the market is huge,” he told TechCrunch. Our biggest competitor is inertia. equities to U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

We have only a few spots left to exhibit in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23). Every exhibiting startup gets a virtual booth where you can post a company video and links to your website and social media accounts. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at Disrupt 2021?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day. and other countries in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries. Throughout 2021, the company saw organic user growth of 40% month-over-month.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl , a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority. 6 reasons why reporters aren’t interested in your content marketing. Marketers seem to know this.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. ” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess? Fizz closed a $4.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We last wrote about Breakr — a platform that connects record labels, artists and brands with social media influencers to run mass campaigns in a programmatic way — when it closed a $4.2 million round in 2021. In the past two years, Breakr has onboarded over 30,000 influencers and managed more than $3.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. 5 growth marketing predictions for 2022. In 2021, more than $329.5 Organic refers to the overall management of non-paid mediums, such as social media and SEO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It also defines African startups as companies with their primary market, in terms of operations or revenues, in Africa — not based on HQ or incorporation. African tech took center stage in 2021. The number of deals in 2021 grew 73% year-on-year from 244 deals in 2020. In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. You gotta pay to play: Buy your pass to Disrupt 2021 here and open a door to opportunity. You gotta pay to play: Buy your pass to Disrupt 2021 here and open a door to opportunity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Metromile , the pay-per-mile auto insurer that earlier this year laid off a third of its staff due to economic uncertainties caused by COVID-19, is taking the SPAC path to the public markets. Social Capital’s Palihapitiya is equally bullish on the company, tweeting Tuesday “Buffett had Geico. I pick @Metromile.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. We are creating a new marketing category and generating the largest sustainable charitable giving platform in the process,” he told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. We followed up with a few marketers from our previous survey and reached out some more to see how they would spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022. Social can work well as a DR channel (and does for us) but is less certain than search.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Promoting everything from cosmetics to food, social media stars use Taobao, TikTok and other platforms to livestream products and take questions from the audience. This week, Miranda Halpern and Anna Heim interviewed experts on growth marketing: The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing and more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., The Gurugram-based startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

If you’re a software engineer who’s on the market, should you list yourself as OpenToWork? We also made sure to check their LinkedIns twice: once in early 2021, when there were practically no tech layoffs, and again in early 2023, in the wake of the worst round of tech layoffs since 2001. had the badge in 2021 compared to 4.2%

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

After another slow year in 2024 for new tech listings, there is an expectation that the IPO markets will pick up in 2025. I think there’s a lot of confidence in the market. Stock markets are trading at all-time highs, said Ran Ben-Tzur of legal advisory firm Fenwick & West. A year ago, the outlook was not bullish.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The World Bank estimates that some $589 billion will be sent this way 2021, according to research from the World Bank, up 7.3% Taptap Send believes that its unique place in the market is that it has built not just the easiest, but the most reliable system to initiate, manage and receive those transfers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Features include faster access to their Social Security check, 3% earnings on balances and no monthly fees or minimums. To help older adults adjust, Charlie will let customers withdraw t heir Social Security benefit up to four weeks early. Nori and Richard Kang in 2021 , Charlie was born. That can be scary and challenging.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

A tumultuous financial market, rising interest rates and an uncertain economic future are all infusing a certain flavor of pessimism into the market that is shifting the power dynamic back in favor of investors. At seed, you should show revenue, and at Series A, you should probably have evidence to show product-market fit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

The meme stock craze of 2021 highlighted a crucial trend — people want to invest with the conviction of a community behind them. Outperforming the market requires differentiated thinking, often a solitary pursuit. But humans are social creatures, and money and investing can be scary. Individualism is out.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

The funding will be used on Anfin’s product development, especially its social investment features, including one that lets users host and join live audio rooms. Like other investment apps aimed at Gen Z and millennial users (90% of Anfin’s users are 18 to 35 years old), Anfin has educational content about stock market fundamentals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Collect and leverage zero-party data to personalize marketing and drive growth. If 2020 was the year of the e-commerce boom, 2021 was the year the industry hit major challenges: Data privacy changes deeply impacted merchants’ social media ads, and supply chain issues forced merchants to get creative with their inventory.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Boasberg of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Tiger Global led the round and was joined by new investors, including DFJ Growth Fund, the social impact foundation, ZOMA Lab; athletes Lewis Hamilton and Roger Federer; and musician and DJ Questlove. Muchnick plans to allocate some of the new funding to establish markets in Mexico and Canada and add market share in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. With a focus on social , and a recent move away from generating payment for order flow (PFOF) revenues that have driven Robinhood’s business model, and attracted criticism, Public has laid its bets. Market Notes. Sign up here. . Tiger could lead.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

The company offers a hyperlocal social network app meant to connect people in the same residential building around common interests like hobbies and to even organize around a common goal. The pre-revenue company has grown up a lot since we profiled it in 2021 after OneRoof secured $1.25 million in funding. million in total funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. But Backdrop is quite different; the target market is a global one. Building a global product.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

At Early Stage 2021, design expert Scott Tong walked us through some of the ways founders should think about design. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Though we often think of a brand as a logo or a social media persona, a brand is the equivalent of a person’s reputation. Reputation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The cohort’s theses focused on market-driven DeFi, client-driven social protocols, tokens-as-coordination mechanisms, decentralization of all layers, consumer products unbundling, DAOs as risk-pooling mechanisms and so on. What it does: Exclusive social clubs on top of NFTs. Company name: fam. Stage: Seed round.

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