TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Parsing the latest data on the startup fundraising market in Q2, TechCrunch has explored the global perspective , taken a closer look at fintech , asked how much dry powder VCs have and brought the latest from unicorn land. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But we are not yet done.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. In the company’s more established markets, Kenya and Uganda, customers can access the full suite of M-KOPA’s offerings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Africa is the world’s third fastest-growing crypto market, with crypto adoption increasing by more than 1,200% over the last two years. But as time passed, we saw a couple of use cases we could employ this technology to solve,” CEO Iselema told TechCrunch on a call. Even when we launched the crypto cards, we were the first to do that.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. In many cases, CIOs and other IT leaders have moved past the peak expectations about what gen AI can do for their organizations and are headed into more realistic ideas about the future of the technology, Lovelock adds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. Great companies like Nubank, Inter, Gympass, Quinto Andar and several others were in their early innings at the time, but the market dislocation did not last long. Morgan and give it a shot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. Market trends are the best indicators we have to judge the maturity of the quantum industry. Quantum startups map, as of October 2021. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. Plus, it has seen a homegrown success story in language learning app Duolingo , which went public at a nearly $4 billion valuation in 2021. Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Technology such as AI has digitized the finance sector, ranging from payments and remittances to lending. However, asset management is still in the nascent stage of digitization, according to the chief strategy officer and co-founder of Akros Technologies , Jin Chung. Image Credits: Akros Technologies. Akros just raised $2.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded companies in the U.S.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. The latest startup in the space to get a big chunk of cash is Beta Technologies, maker of electric vertical take-off and landing planes. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

James Coates is the Health and Human Performance principal at Decisive Point , a venture capital and advisory firm that invests in and supports startups with emerging defense technologies. Inflationary market dynamics and ongoing fiscal tightening continue to pose significant risks to capital commitments.

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MARCH 20, 2025

In addition, OpenAI is reportedly developing its own semiconductor technology to support these AI initiatives. The company closed its own robotics division in 2021 and then invested in companies like Figure and 1X. The company closed its own robotics division in 2021 and then invested in companies like Figure and 1X.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity. Globally, the venture capital world is afire , pushing record sums into upstart technology companies. A 2021 comeback.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But inside the big numbers is a surprising picture of a startup market in the process of maturing while outside money hunts for breakout opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. This has resulted in a difficult environment from a capital availability perspective in India and other emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. 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.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For context, the United Kingdom’s entire GDP in 2021 was $3.1 Roughly 75% of that value will emanate from productivity gains across customer operations, sales and marketing, software engineering, and R&D. First, LLM technology is readily accessible via APIs from large AI research companies such as OpenAI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

We’re putting aside the IPO news cycle this morning to check in on the venture capital world and the fintech market in particular. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But, to date, Q1 2021 is ahead and is thus guaranteed to set a new record, having already bested the preceding all-time high.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To amplify and support women’s voices, Cloudera has introduced the Women Leaders in Technology Initiative. Ive been fortunate to work with some of the most transformative brands in the technology industry. Having launched similar initiatives at HPE and ASG Technologies, Ive seen firsthand the transformative power they can have.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There’s a big factor working in the favor of tech professionals looking for work: They’re sought after in both the technology industry and across other industries that also require workers with the same technical skills.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, attacks like the SolarWinds and Kaseya incidents that happened in 2020 and 2021 that impacted many entities across the globe show how hackers can inject malicious code into software updates, affecting thousands of organizations. In this context, collaboration and continuous vigilance are essential.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

Given that the field of AI is a relatively new and emerging area, skills are in short supply, and anyone with skills can command a market premium. While the technology has existed for some years, a change of attitude is required for its adoption across the environment to be impactful.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. Our digital program is about driving value, not implementing fancy technology like robots, twins, and drones.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Jamieson Christmas launched the startup three years ago to “revolutionize” the in-car experience with its holographic technology. The Panasonic HUDs, as they’re often called, will use Envisics holographic technology. Mass production of vehicles using its technology is slated for 2023, according to the companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

NotCo , a food technology company making plant-based milk and meat replacements, wrapped up another funding round this year, a $235 million Series D round that gives it a $1.5 NotCo’s proprietary artificial intelligence technology, Giuseppe, matches animal proteins to their ideal replacements among thousands of plant-based ingredients. “Our

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In September 2021, Philips Domestic Appliances became a stand-alone company called Versuni. As part of the carve-out, Versuni made the decision to transform its entire technology landscape. To do that, Versuni would have to build what it called “a new and stronger entity,” developing a technology model built for the future.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2025

While global venture investment rebounded last year , the Asia funding market cratered, totaling only $65.8 billion in 2024 the exact same low the market hit in 2014. In 2021, total funding was $194 billion. However, early-stage and late-stage/technology funding both took a hit. The fourth quarter saw a total of $7.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

One of the biggest factors driving billion-dollar B2Bs is a simple but important shift in how organizations buy enterprise technology today. Note that market data is current as of April 3, 2021. I call this new paradigm “billion-dollar B2B.” Image Credits: Battery Ventures via FactSet.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

It is indeed a tough market out there, even for those building groundbreaking tech in currently trendy areas like digital twinning technology. Forward’s robust and scalable platform solution addresses this large and growing market need unlike anything else we’ve seen.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

But overall, while total fintech funding globally was down markedly last year compared to 2021, numbers were still higher than 2020. billion in 2022, down 46% compared with 2021, but up 52% compared to 2020. billion in 2022, marking a 35% drop from a record 2021. In fact, the three-month period marked the lowest quarter for U.S.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The news follows years of declining stock market fortunes for Silicon Valley-based 23andMe, which is best known for test kits that offer people information about their ancestry and health risks. The company, which went public via SPAC in 2021 and raised over $1 billion in private funding, had a recent market cap of less than a 10th that sum.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. More than 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unbanked, according to World Bank estimates for 2021. million in 2016.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Priya Saiprasad It’s no surprise that the AI market has skyrocketed in recent years, with venture capital investments in artificial intelligence totaling $332 billion since 2019, per Crunchbase data. M&A for venture-backed companies totals just $47 billion so far in 2024, down from $148 billion in 2021, Crunchbase data shows.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Even so, investment remains below the heights scaled during the 2021 market peak. Yet even amid the hottest period ever for AI funding , investment in AI-enabled health startups has remained below 2021 levels. Its stock has performed well, with shares up several-fold and a recent market cap around $11 billion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Shares of major technology companies in the country have fallen sharply in recent days, with Bloomberg calculating that Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and Meituan have lost around $200 billion in value during a handful of trading sessions. Bloomberg has a good synopsis of the state of the market right now. drop today.

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