TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented,” Ray said in the filing. Maybe FTX was the real poster child for 2021’s startup excess.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The NASDAQ Biotechnology Index peaked in 2021. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) partner Chris Meier reported in the March 22 Issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery that 24 “AI native” drug discovery companies have a combined 160 disclosed discovery programs. How has due diligence in this space changed in 2022? Definitely.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: This is not the first time Crusoe has made this list. The San Francisco-based startup last raised a $300 million private equity round in 2021 led by One Equity Partners at a $3.4 In 2021, HR startups raised more than $10.5 billion valuation in the process. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. More than 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unbanked, according to World Bank estimates for 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Logi Analytics’ 2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better survey showed that knowledge workers spend more than five hours a day in analytics, and more than 99% consider analytics very to extremely valuable when making critical decisions. Because BI has failed businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Normally, I would use this space to spotlight an article we published in the last few days, but our content management system runneth over. As you review the summaries below, please note that there’s a video at the bottom of every Disrupt story that includes the panel and interview. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

According to a September 2021 survey from Bankrate.com, 42% of U.S. As Joshaghani explained to me, Symend works with a company’s existing systems to “optimize engagement” with customers falling behind on bills due to illness, job loss, family trouble and other foreseen and unforeseen circumstances.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Late-stage insurtech funding is now a lot more variable – everyone won’t get a trophy, as they did in 2021. Deals are taking longer in 2022 because investors are doing more thoughtful due diligence.

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CIO

AUGUST 5, 2022

Due to Nigeria’s fintech boom borne out of its open banking framework, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has published a much-awaited regulation draft to govern open banking procedures. According to the Africa Funding Startup 2021 report, Nigerian fintech has brought in more than half of the US$4.6 Securing customer data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them. Dash claimed to process over $300 million in TPV in January, up 300% monthly from Q4 2021. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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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!” A comprehensive report from Golden Gate Ventures also forecasted a record number of exits , due in part to an increase in B and C rounds. Both countries produced a fair amount of unicorns in 2021.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Over the last decade, our lives have changed exponentially due to the easy access to information via social media platforms, and the COVID-19 pandemic only added a feeling of perpetual uncertainty. It’s a 100% reactionary system. And in healthcare, of course, your customer is the patient.”. Image Credits: Kindbody. “It’s

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Enterprise tech and AI Cerebras Systems : Yes, this one is kind of cheating. national security review on UAE-based G42 ‘s minority investment in the AI chipmaker. based competitor Affirm went public in early 2021 and is valued at $21.6 billion in a $600 million Series E in 2021 led by Tiger Global and Coatue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

It achieved unicorn status in August 2021 and at the time was eyeing an IPO. Level was founded by Vladimir Korshin, Asa Schachar and Molly Hogan in 2021.” In September 2021, I covered Vouch’s announcement of $90 million in new funding. What happened to due diligence here???

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. Dozens of companies are using that software today, and Latitud’s goal is to make it the system of record for every VC-backed company in LatAm.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They can ask questions like “What wiper blades fit a 2021 Honda CR-V?” This allows the agent to provide context and general information about car parts and systems. Review and approve these if you’re comfortable with the permissions. In the application, you can ask questions like “What wiper blades fit a 2021 Honda CR-V?”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9 Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

One of them was Orca AI which was developing a collision-avoidance system for ships, and it was this company from a sea of samey startups that Playfair ended up investing in — both in its 2019 pre-seed funding round, and its follow-on Series A round two years later. “That’s where we like to look,” Smith said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s Cobbe’s assertion that companies give out too much access to systems. To his point, a 2021 survey by cloud infrastructure security startup Ermetic found that enterprises with over 20,000 employees experienced at least 38% cloud data breaches due to unauthorised access. Image Credits: Opal.

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

In the press coverage of aviation leasing company AerCaps 2021 acquisition of General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), there was much talk about how bold a move it was. You have to make decisions on your systems as early as possible, and not go down the route of paralysis by analysis, he says. He acted fast and decisively.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The retail landscape has undergone massive shifts in recent years to adopt self-checkout systems. Brands and retailers have been working diligently to create and roll-out standardized 2D barcodes on product packaging that’ll work seamlessly at check-out registers. But is this the beginning of the end for self-checkouts?

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Additionally, the cost of cyber disruption will increase next year as businesses experience downtime due to cyberattacks and scramble to implement defenses fit for the AI-enabled attacker era. In 2023, the MTTE data from an organization was two days (and in some cases hours), down from nine days in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

“In 2021, profitability — measured by free cash flow (FCF) margins — not revenue growth, had the higher correlation to positive stock returns in the software sector. Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence? Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. share of the CRM segment in 2021 (by one estimate ).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Welcome, friends, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the major events in tech over the past few days. Natasha, who reviewed it for TC, found it to be an improvement upon the original in several ways, including (very importantly) in the form-factor department. Not to worry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? US e-commerce on track for its first $1 trillion year by 2022, due to lasting pandemic impacts. The company was also part of the latest class at accelerator Y Combinator, and it recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by SMOK Ventures and Movens VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

On December 9, 2021, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Apache’s Log4j2 library, a Java-based logging utility, was disclosed to the world and broke the internet. Due to the ease of the exploit combined with the difficulty in uncovering the vulnerability within your organization, Log4Shell is the proverbial needle in a haystack.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

If you’ve heard of OPT Industries (and odds are you haven’t), it’s due to the MIT spinoff’s roll in printing a novel nasal swab. InstaSwab got some good ink in the design world due to its complex geometrical build constructed from ultra-thin polymer fibers measuring less than the width of a human hair.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll. . The company last raised $5 million in seed funding in early 2021, and the Series A brings its total amount raised to $20 million. Cohen added that the average operating margin for most major health systems in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Karakuri’s robotic system has been initially designed to make breakfast bowls. The post-COVID world is also highly likely to embrace this technology due to the robot’s inherent cleanliness and efficiency, compared to human-made food. It’s also revealing an $8.4 million (£6.3 s government-backed Future Fund. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Not gonna lie, there was a similar vibe in 2021, where companies with no revenue, no customers and in some cases, no revenue model even, were landing millions of dollars in funding. billion before that deal fell apart in early 2021 due to regulatory concerns. Here we are today. Recall that Visa almost bought Plaid for $5.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

It comes off the back of a 300% increase in revenue in 2020, with investors told to expect revenue to nearly triple again in 2021 based on the company’s booked pipeline. The round is led by Coatue and Tiger Global, and values 2015-founded Hinge at $3 billion post-money, people familiar with the investment tell me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

From what we understand, if required due to sanctions, Bosch would put funds into a holding account if needed. A year and a bit ago we thought we would probably build the entire thing and take it to market as a whole system,” co-founder and CEO Stan Boland told me back in 2020. That was a hard truth for Five, too. “A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

After watching them (Rutter) for a few years, it’s clear what they built is powerful: it’s the central nervous system of online commerce,” Xuezhao added. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? She added it reminded her of another team that successfully built a business from zero to over $7 billion.

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