TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group.

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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

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

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. It’s not only a social platform, it is the best post-purchase experience — shipping, rewards, returns — everything people love and in a two-click process,” he added.

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

4 ways startups will drive GPT-3 adoption in 2021. In 2021, this technology will power the launch of a thousand new startups and applications. In 2021, this technology will power the launch of a thousand new startups and applications. More posts by this contributor.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2021

We expect capital flows to pick up massively from pent-up demand, good public markets bringing more IPOs, lots of M&A and new innovative startups coming on scene. We see opportunity with social equity for the first time, driven by private markets rather than poorly constructed regulations. It’s going to be fun!”

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. While competing services to Public also sport zero-cost trading, Public’s model hinges on a social focus (TechCrunch covered an element of Public’s social platform here , for example).

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2021, we expect to see the digital landscape continue to change as our ways of communication and connection settle back into a new normal. For that reason, we can expect social media to take an even more central role in nonprofits' ability to build, engage, and leverage their communities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Mark Spera is the head of growth marketing at Minted. He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. 5 companies doing growth marketing right. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Mark Spera. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. tapped the equity crowdfunding market, a noodle or two on the a16z media game, Talkspace’s SPAC, VC and founder predictions for 2021, and where’s the right place to found a company. How VCs and founders see 2021 differently. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

This morning, Public , an investment app for the American market, announced the appointment of two new board members. Public has added Jessica Neal , former chief talent officer at Netflix and present-day venture partner at TCV to its board, along with Dr. TechCrunch spilled much ink covering the 2020 and 2021 savings and investing boom.

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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

JUNE 25, 2021

Mark Spera is the head of growth marketing at Minted. He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. The good news is you can quickly learn which growth marketing strategies work by studying other companies’ success and adapting it to your own business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This is a quiet period for marketing: End-of-year campaigns are already underway, teams are on holiday vacations and there’s little to do until after the new year. Growth marketers have a wide variety of tools available, but which ones do the pros use? Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups.

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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

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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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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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2021, we expect to see the digital landscape continue to change as our ways of communication and connection settle back into a new normal. For that reason, we can expect social media to take an even more central role in nonprofits' ability to build, engage, and leverage their communities.

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Kaseya

JANUARY 27, 2023

Managed service providers (MSPs) are increasingly investing in social media as part of their digital marketing strategies and for good reason. Between 2021 and 2022, social media users increased by more than 10%, with users spending an average of 2 hours and 27 minutes between messaging apps and social media platforms.

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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

MARCH 22, 2021

Chums is a social shopping service that helps friends suggest products to their pals. It made its way to market three weeks ago, or as Elion explained, right before his company went out fundraising. It wants to reach product-market fit with a half-dozen staff. The list includes Runway , Mono , Pangea and Flux.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to grab people’s attention, but there’s one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn’t talked about as often: maintaining their attention. Based in Romania, Katai is known for his podcasts and speeches covering the gamut of content marketing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. We already know that the venture market was hot during the period.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today at TechCrunch’s crypto-focused event in Miami , OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business and the future market for non-fungible tokens. The digital assets, better known by the acronym “NFTs,” saw their stock rise during the 2021-era crypto boom. Can gaming resurrect the NFT market?

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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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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 18, 2021

As the world continues to change, organizations can benefit from adapting their marketing strategies. Michael Stahl shares ten ways to make the most of your marketing efforts in 2021. The year 2020 brought both challenges and opportunities to marketing professionals. In fact, that’s probably an understatement.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

TechCrunch is trying to help you find the best growth marketer to work with through founder recommendations that we get in this survey. This week we talked to Kathleen Estreich and Emily Kramer of new growth advising firm MKT1 and veteran designer Scott Tong, and published a pair of articles by growth marketing agency Demand Curve.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

He called the deal “a remarkable turnaround” for Zelto, a company that has stared down a few near-death experiences, including cash flow and product market fit problems, during its 10-year-old life. Daily Crunch: Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee acquires Zelto for $70M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. In growth marketing, creative is the critical X factor. So what exactly is “signal” in growth marketing? More posts by this contributor. iOS 14 signal.

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