TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Your last chance to save $100 or more and attend both TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 bootcamps expires tonight! That’s exactly what you’ll get at TC Early Stage 2021 ( Operations & Fundraising: April 1-2 and Marketing & Fundraising: July 8-9 ). Don’t let qualms about virtual event quality hold you back.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Luckily, Eghosa Omoigui, the founder and managing general partner of EchoVC Partners , a seed and early-stage technology venture capital firm serving underrepresented founders and underserved markets, is coming to Early Stage 2021 to give early-stage founders the tools they need to develop their own All-22 tape.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

If there’s one thing every early founder needs it’s information, and you’ll find it in abundance at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. We’re talking everything from legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. I recommend going to Early Stage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September. Disrupt 2021 goes down from September 21 to 23 and is virtual. Grayson has more than proven that she has a keen eye for transformational technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

A startup called Soona , now backed by an additional $35 million in Series B funding, has been tapping into this market with its platform that allows brands to create content for their e-commerce websites and marketing through “virtual” photo and video shoots.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

To date, twine’s events customers have included names like Microsoft, Amazon, Forrester, and others, and the service is on track to do $1 million in bookings in 2021, the company says. By January 2021, the new events-focused version of twine was up-and-running, offering a set of professional networking tools for event owners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

American Sports Exchange (ASX Sports), just signed a deal with New Zealand digital media company RugbyPass to use its data to allow fans to participate in ASX’s virtual stock market for rugby games. ASX Sports launched in May 2021 and took its exchange live on the Apple and Android app stores earlier this month.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One recent survey of sales and marketing professionals found that only half of respondents said they were likely to attend an event in H1 2022. Hybrid events won’t give teams a chance to bond over karaoke, but with a tight agenda and a compelling theme, you can create a virtual or hybrid SKO that people will actually want to attend.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

AR/VR still not a hitmaker Apple’s suboptimal foray into mixed reality computing follows a long line of startup flops in the augmented reality, virtual reality and metaverse space. Most of the startups that raised the biggest financings during the peak funding of 2021 have not closed new equity rounds since then.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business. It can also work off 3D images.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2022

We determined that event marketing is kind of this massive team-wide sport,” Reynolds told TechCrunch. “It It involves executives, the sales team, all the different marketing teams, operations and procurement, but there’s no platform or system of record to help with that collaboration, accountability and visibility.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market, estimated to be worth $120 billion in 2021 , has grown significantly over the last few years. But for most of its rise to virtual checkout prominence, BNPL largely targeted everyday consumer goods like clothes from Urban Outfitters or a Peloton.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Indications of a hot market abound as Freshworks, Toast price IPOs. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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Crunchbase News

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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CIO

MARCH 17, 2025

The Munich-based startup accuses SAP of abusing its market power and harming competition, and thereby negatively impacting customers, according to the 61-page indictment filed by Celonis in San Francisco District Court on March 13. German process mining specialist Celonis has filed a lawsuit against ERP giant SAP.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russia is invading Ukraine as we write, and global markets are in freefall. Last week, this column took a look at the European technology market’s deep tech expertise. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Writing about Europe is hard today. This is the continent’s political and military backdrop.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

The application lists various hardware such as AI-powered smart devices, augmented and virtual reality headsets, and even humanoid robots. The company closed its own robotics division in 2021 and then invested in companies like Figure and 1X.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The deal, announced ahead of the virtual 2021 CES tech trade show, follows Envisics’ $50 million Series B funding round and news that its tech will be integrated in the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq electric vehicle. . The Panasonic HUDs, as they’re often called, will use Envisics holographic technology.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The latest infusion brings the company’s total raised to $35 million, which CEO Ravi Swaminathan said is being put toward product development, marketing and sales efforts. ” Certainly, TaskHuman has benefited from the pandemic, which spurred coaches of all types to move online.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 — our flagship global event — takes over the internet on September 21-23. The heart of every Disrupt — even our virtual incarnations — is Startup Alley. A person we connected with at Disrupt is currently helping us with marketing, which is fantastic. It’s coming down to the wire folks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form of SPACs. If you’ve been following Near or the SPAC market, you might recall that there were rumors of KludeIn talking to Near back in December. billion with the listing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The virtual state of corporate venture capital today. It’s an entrepreneur’s market in digital health today, with startups raising record-breaking funding at soaring valuations and debuting on public markets to eager investors. billion in digital health market value MGHIF has exited over the last two years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. Next year, Fajt plans to scale up creator payments estimating that by the end of 2021 they’ll have paid out $1 million to their network. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

trillion won in June 2021, when it raised $410 million in pre-Series G funding at a $7.4 Chief operating officer of Viva Republica Hyunwoo Seo told TechCrunch “profitability” is key now and is as significant as growth, particularly in these extremely tough market conditions. million since its December 2021 launch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Occasionally, it’s easy for startups to achieve so-called product-market fit, but more often, it’s a struggle. The idea: to save other founders from having to undergo the same anguishing twists and turns by sharing what he learned along his own path.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Semiconductors, which have become a valued asset, are used in virtually almost every industry, including 5G networks, automation, the Internet of Things, financials, smart homes, smart cities, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality and self-driving cars. billion in early 2021. by the end of this year, Park continued. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. Case in point, on August 24, Dan Olsen will lead a master class called “How to Create Product-Market Fit.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alta , a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 It first gained traction in mid-2021 when its first VR game launched on the Oculus Quest 2. Alta’s next goal is to expand and build networks of virtual worlds across multiple platforms, incorporating elements of the metaverse, Anoshechkin said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

But with rising interest in the savings and investing space – some data here — and Robinhood’s revenues growing to a run rate of more than $800 million in Q4 2020 and looking even better at the start of 2021 , it’s not hard to see why investors are backing Public.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the key features of Payhawk is that customers can issue virtual and physical cards for employees with different rules. The company has been growing nicely as revenue doubled in Q1 2021. but it already plans to expand beyond those markets. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Similar to other industries embracing contract work, Lawtrades is giving legal professionals a way to become independent and run their own virtual law practices. In 2019, the company pivoted to working with mid-market and enterprise-level companies by selling into legal departments, and that’s when growth took off, Ahmed told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

LA-born startup TRIPP doesn’t want the metaverse to be a mere “shopping mall for virtual consumers,” its founder Nanea Reeves told TechCrunch. ” TRIPP’s vision for a mindful metaverse is already a (virtual) reality: Its wellness-centered experience can be accessed through multiple platforms and devices.

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