TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard. Image Credits: Olive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion , will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or speakers — on the platform. — edwin (@edwinwee) April 5, 2021. — Patrick Collison (@patrickc) April 5, 2021. — Patrick Collison (@patrickc) April 5, 2021.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

We recently held our annual corporate conference addressing many subjects top of mind with IT leaders and it came as no surprise that a session on sustainability was one of the most attended. Let’s dive into the three pillars of ESG in the context of sustainable IT. Environment.

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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. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green. billion valuation. over the next three years. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month after eliminating more than 100 roles. “Keeping these factors in mind, we need to prepare the company to sustain through these headwinds.

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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 18, 2023

In 2021, JPMorgan said it would lend and underwrite $2.5 trillion by the end of the decade “to advance long-term solutions that address climate change and contribute to sustainable development.” At first, ESG (environmental, social, governance) investing felt like a supplemental action at many investment firms. Just in the U.S.,

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

Fink’s 2019 letter spelled out a new vision for corporate purpose ; the subsequent 2020 and 2021 letters focused on business’ responsibility around climate change, particularly in light of the pandemic. And with society under siege, many more businesses, including social media, are scrambling to seem like good corporate citizens.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Building an engaged, genuine online community that supports and sustains your business requires authenticity. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The importance of building more sustainable businesses has never been more evident, especially for those in the food and beverage space,” said Surbhi Martin, vice president of Greek yogurt and functional nutrition for Danone North America. “By Imperfect Foods brought in $95 million in Series D funding for its sustainable grocery delivery.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2021, I believe that we will see more of this world breaking out of its box into the larger consumer consciousness. . And bets on social token outfits like Zora are also focused on community as the glue that holds together a user base. . Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The round was led by Go-Ventures, with participation from MDI Arise, MDI Centauri, Mercy Corps Social Venture Fund and angel investors. AgriAku’s marketplace launched in May 2021 and the company says it has seen average month-on-month growth of 200% in gross merchandise value over the past four months.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 25, 2021

Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy by Andy Headworth. This is where social media steps in. Leveraging social media to improve your hiring efforts is a useful tactic to have in your corner, believes Andy Headworth. Get your copy here. Find the book here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, instead of developing an MVP, companies should develop and roll out an ethically viable product (EVP) based on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI), an approach that considers the ethical, moral, legal, cultural, sustainable and social-economic considerations during the development, deployment and use of AI/ML systems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

He then started Social West , a Calgary-based digital marketing conference that, before long, expanded to three cities. Then, in 2021, Morrison left Calgary for Halifax, Nova Scotia, back east. Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem. billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

We are creating a new marketing category and generating the largest sustainable charitable giving platform in the process,” he told TechCrunch. . Eniac partner Vic Singh said that there’s been a trend of brands experimenting with different ways to target the socially conscious consumer. . “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

as of Q1 2021. Wright-Gladstein has also teamed up with sustainable investing veteran Jason Britton of Reflection Asset Management and BITA custom indexes. To do that it’s offering financial products that make it easier — it says — for employers to offer fossil-free investment options in their 401(k) plans.

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Tenable

MARCH 11, 2022

The 2021 Threat Landscape Retrospective explored the top five vulnerabilities of the year. When putting together the Threat Landscape Retrospective (TLR) for 2021 , the Security Response Team had a particularly difficult challenge picking the top five vulnerabilities for the year out of the many candidates. How we chose the 2021 Top 5.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Through all of the last year’s lockdowns, venue closures and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed to slow the spread of COVID-19, shopping — and specifically e-commerce — has remained a consistent and hugely important service. He said it has continued into 2021 so far.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. from a year earlier, and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, the retail environment changed dramatically in the following months, as the pandemic forced stores to close and/or adopt social distancing measures. Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Advertisements hit us all over the place, from our social media feeds to our custom emails that hit our inbox seconds after looking around on a website. From an annual recurring revenue standpoint, Bloomreach grew 63% year over year and ended 2021 with $117 million in ARR. In 2019, worldwide e-commerce sales were $3.3 trillion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It felt like something of a coming-of-age party for the Chicago startup scene, a city that has long held a leading position in the larger Midwest market, when Sprout Social went public. billion raised through Q3 2021, per CB Insights, compared to $3.1 Sprout has put together a $6.6 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Fast forward to 2021: Climate change looks like a misnomer and we are in a true climate crisis. While certainly major advancements have been made in compute power and interconnectedness, I call the obsession with the social media world of Facebook and Twitter a colossal waste of brainpower given the challenges around health and climate.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Canary’s ambient listening tools can not only assess a patient’s health, but also simultaneously evaluate physicians’ health — something more important than ever with the American Medical Association reporting that at the end of 2021 nearly 63% of physicians experienced symptoms of burnout. Butterflies.AI locked up a $4.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

At our TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 event, I sat down with Revel CEO and co-founder Frank Reig, Remix CEO and co-founder Tiffany Chu, and community organizer, transportation consultant and lawyer Tamika L. Is it still possible to achieve those goals while remaining profitable? What does equity mean?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports. New companies in this sector raised around $600 million last year, a steep decline from $800 million in 2021.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

With environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations coming into force and reputations at stake, organisations are under mounting pressure to make credible progress towards sustainability goals. The company’s flagship HP Elite Dragonfly laptop, for example, is among the world’s most sustainable devices.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

There was a lot of discussion about influencer marketing in 2021, but is it a fad or a requirement? Let’s rethink how we approach growth models; maybe we don’t have to include a trial or free version of our products — especially when not every company is able to sustain the investment and resources required for trial products.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. For global venture capital, 2021 was an outlier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In April 2021 , Oda (known then as Kolonial) was valued at around $900 million when it raised $265 million from investors that included SoftBank’s Vision Fund. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many online grocers came into their own as consumers turned away from shopping in person to reduce social contact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries. to $5B in 2021. Startups in Africa raised nearly $5 billion in funding last year but the amount remains meager when compared to the rest of the world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum’s team as of April 2021. To become a market leader in a category and sustain this long term requires a lot of firepower,” she added.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In May of 2021 VMware unveiled VMware Zero Carbon Committed , an initiative to encourage partners to power their data centers with renewable energy sources by 2030. director of sustainability innovation at VMware. What does sustainability mean to you and why is it important? Recently we had the opportunity to connect with E.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The cloud storage and services market is nowhere near maturity, according to Battery Ventures’ 2021 State of the OpenCloud report. But govtech and civic tech has a greater social impact than burger-flipping robots. Thus far in 2021, the backsliding has more than stopped,” report Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 19, 2022

What is sustainable travel? Sustainable or eco-travel is a way of managing travel activities so that the natural environment is preserved and supported. Three pillars of sustainability. The concept of sustainability encompasses three interrelated categories: social, economic, and environmental.

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