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. Field’s background is in finance, most recently as COO of Acorns and the CEO of Acorns’ regulated entities. “I

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. TechCrunch first covered Mio at the time of its $1 million seed funding in May 2021. TechCrunch first covered Mio at the time of its $1 million seed funding in May 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 Brimore connects both worlds via an app as an omnichannel social commerce platform. African tech took center stage in 2021. billion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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, fintech startups got 63% of the continent’s total investments. Completing the top five is logistics at 7%, edtech at 6%, e- and social commerce at 5%, and enterprise at 5%. The Big Deal : $4.33

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2021, co-founder and CEO Diana […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Maka, an African fashion and beauty e-commerce platform, has raised a $2.65 million pre-seed round led by Pan-African venture capital firms 4DX Ventures and Janngo Capital. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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. Social commerce. million people.

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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

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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APRIL 17, 2025

Meta AI Meta AI is Metas multimodal AI virtual assistant for the companys messaging and social media applications, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. OpenAI launched the original DALL-E model in 2021, and the DALL-E 3 deep learning model leverages computer vision and natural language processing to create visuals.

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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. Social media platforms are known to be hyper-focused on user growth before making revenue or profits.

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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. But humans are social creatures, and money and investing can be scary. Individualism is out. Collectivism is in vogue. The game (doesn’t) stop.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Now, for one last time in 2021, let’s jump into the rest of this newsletter. Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, has made X Pro — which was previously known as TweetDeck — a subscriber-only product. Like a lot of Musk promised timelines, the social network got delayed in implementing the new rule by a few days. welp tweetdeck finally went bye-bye for me and this popped up and lmao no.

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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. Anfin was launched in October 2021 by Hiep Nguyen, Phuoc Tran, Chi Pham and Michael Do. Anfin’s social investment product allows users to communicate with one another.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The world let out a collective sigh of relief when 2021 arrived. Let’s look at the three growth trends we saw in 2021 and how they will shape marketing in 2022. In April 2021, Apple rolled out iOS 14.5, Simon Lejeune. Contributor. Share on Twitter. What worked yesterday may not work today and likely won’t work tomorrow.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The times, meanwhile, have introduced a new layer of communication in the form of social media, which sits alongside, or often above, that of publications when it comes to mass communication and how people learn news, opinions, about new products, or whatever it is that is being broadcast.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Nearly every social media experience today is built on the same premise: Humans identify with individuality. So she’s in the process of reinventing how social media looks and feels, and with community and people of color at the core. MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Unlike Mastodon , Hive Social , or other existing social networks being flooded with dissatisfied Twitter users, Post News emerged two weeks ago. Bardin previously served as the CEO of Waze between 2009 and 2021. If it seems like Post News launched overnight, that’s because it kind of did. A profile on Post News.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

“We started back in 2016 with a really clear use case to solve this problem for musicians and artists that needed a better way to link out of socials to all their different revenue streams, and we really needed to unify that experience for them to help drive monetization,” Zaccaria told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Unlike the others, Canva focused on democratization of design, creating a UI that allowed anyone to make just about anything, from slide decks to t-shirts to social media assets. The company is on track to do $1 billion in annualized revenue for 2021 with over 500,000 teams using the paid product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

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. Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. Tiger could lead.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. remained steady and Shopify stores increased their 2021 Black Friday sales by 21%.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

KitaBeli is on a mission to change that, with its own distribution network and a direct-to-consumer social commerce app. TechCrunch covered KitaBeli’s last raise, a $10 million Series A , in March 2021. It now has more than 400 employees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

billion valuation in September 2021, when Whatnot raised $150 million. Whatnot intends to use the capital infusion to continue developing its in-app live and social commerce marketplace and roll out additional categories for collectors, including diecast cars, stamps and action figures. billion, up from the $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

(Previously, ChatGPT’s knowledge was limited to dates, events and people prior to around September 2021.) Google has been found to prioritize its own services in Search by, for example, answering a travel query with data from Google Places instead of a richer, more social source like TripAdvisor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This worthy art-meets-social-science endeavor can deliver results in a big way, which is why we’re thrilled to have two experts ready to tackle the topic at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. Building an engaged, genuine online community that supports and sustains your business requires authenticity. His new focus?

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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. It won the Fall 2021 Chainlink DeFi Hackathon competition.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 12, 2021. Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks ‘welcome to join’ if project succeeds. It appears a misconfiguration on @NotionHQ ’s domain is causing a site-wide outage. The [link] domain currently resolves to nothing pic.twitter.com/VLn8GBHe52.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

He also shared in December 2021 that Deel had scaled to $50 million in ARR, indicating that the company had started the year with around $4 million worth of ARR. . It is also reportedly operating with a very low burn rate; in 2021, sources shared that Deel burned “right under $10 million.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Glow Labs , which launched in November 2021, is the brainchild of co-founders Annie Reardon and Renee Russo , two engineers in their twenties who first met at JPMorgan, where they worked together on the developer team for the Chase site and mobile app. Reardon and Russo now serve as co-CEOs of Glow Labs, Russo told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Now with other big social apps rushing to clone some of its no-frills ethos, it’s put together a war chest to work on its next chapter. The app’s appeal attracted a range of investors, culminating in a $30 million Series A , co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel in June 2021. million users as of July of this year.

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