TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Cruise doesn’t have infrastructure or operations in Austin and has not mapped the city, Vogt said. The executive also said Cruise and GM would start ramping up manufacturing of Cruise’s purpose-built AV, the Origin, in order to supply new markets. and 5:30 a.m., will allow it to expand to new cities more quickly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Erik Bradley brings more than two decades of experience in creating research platforms to his role as chief strategist at ETR, a market research firm specializing in enterprise technology data. Our latest research report offers some insight into where companies are allocating their IT spend in 2022. Erik Bradley. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Gartner predicts that while the RPA market will reach $2.9 growth between the years 2021 and 2022. Is the RPA market in trouble? . “We’re using AI and intelligent automation to design tech that’s accessible to everyone — all kinds of business leaders, managers and citizen developers.” compared to the year prior.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

GDP, the market opportunity is huge, especially as spending climbs — the U.S. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes only $100 million for digital construction technologies, but if new tech is used in public infrastructure projects, it could prove a boon for the industry. of the U.S. Its recently enacted $1.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 We also have a very wide top funnel such that in 2022, we made initial contact with over 2,500 startups and ideas, and eventually only partnered with less than 1% of that top of the funnel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. A McKinsey and Co.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

As a consequence, Wonder Brands stood out due to its strong brand development capabilities in the rapidly growing Latin American e-commerce market,” he said. Wonder Brands then shifted its focus to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure, rather than existing brands, and developing its own digital brands.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce Swyft Cities won the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off and is fast-tracked into the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. The judges said Swyft is approaching a growing problem with a novel solution and a competent go-to-market strategy. Beyond Aero is runner-up.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

trillion in loan originations in 2022. During their time at Blend — a 10-year-old publicly traded company whose white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks — Mike Yu and Devon Yang realized that current mortgage infrastructure has not kept up with the pace of change in more digitally native industries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso says it’ll be used to scale Tecton’s engineering and go-to-market teams. “We “While machine learning makes this possible, it remains far from reality as the enabling infrastructure is prohibitively difficult to build for all but the most advanced companies. . ” Tecton’s monitoring dashboard.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Q4 push The higher total in 2024 was due to a big push in Q4 which saw the highest funding total since the downturn in Q3 2022. funding market raised a greater proportion of global funding, up from 48% in 2023. billion ) and Perplexity ($9 billion). Of all U.S.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Simply put, there is a direct link between economic progress and IT infrastructure, with robust trade dependent on a strong digital foundation. Interconnection opens access to foreign markets, but it also encourages cross-continental trade. The first challenge Africa must tackle is increasing interconnection throughout the continent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Breef , a platform that allows brands to manage and service marketing agency projects, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round (an undisclosed portion of which was debt) led by Greycroft with participation from BDMI, UTA.VC, Afterpay’s Touch Ventures and UC Berkeley’s The House Fund.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Between 2020 and 2022, investors poured more than $5.5 The boom continued into early 2022, with startups like Getir , Zapp , and Zepto raising mammoth rounds. Instacart, citing “market turbulence,” last month slashed its valuation by 40% and slowed hiring. . billion in 2021. But there’s signs of a correction.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure. Implications for CIOs : Besides avoiding cost and complexity, deploying an off-the-shelf ERP solution also helps in accelerating time to market and making the business agile. ERP Systems

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation. New York-based Clear Street raised the first tranche of the round in May of 2022 at a $1.7 billion valuation. The public U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

The co-founders collectively have backgrounds in cloud infrastructure, building large-scale distributed systems and security, and have worked at places like IBM, Google and Microsoft. “We Its ideal client base ranges from asset managers, hedge funds, traders and market makers interacting with crypto to blockchains and protocols, he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

billion in 2023, a significant decrease from 2022. While you might think the general fervor around all things artificial intelligence means 2024 is a new high for the intersection of AI and biotech/healthcare, both 2021 and 2022 were strong funding years for the space. billion through early December, per Crunchbase data.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

Ever since Steve Jobs stood on stage to unveil the first iPhone in 2007, the focus of the global technology industry has been on innovation in the software, mobile and cloud markets. That was until the launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, which heralded the start of the latest AI explosion. on average.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

billion in all of 2022 , down 46% compared with a staggering $131.5 From the numbers for the first quarter, it’s clear that the market is working on a correction. billion, or a 12% drop in funding from the fourth quarter of 2022. A bright spot in the market was “megarounds,” which are deals valued at $100 million or more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company, which is best known for its electric Smartscooters and swappable battery infrastructure, announced today it will list on Nasdaq through a merger with Poema Global , a SPAC affiliated with Princeville Capital. billion and is targeted to close in the first quarter of 2022. The deal sets Gogoro’s enterprise valuation at $2.35

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The 2021 Matrix Fintech Index reported that public fintech companies outperformed the market by 3x, driven in large part by favorable IPO debuts, SPACs, and increased adoption of digital payments and e-commerce, BNPL in particular. What markets (in and/or outside of the U.S.) We’ve only just begun.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

That’s up slightly from 2023, when 15% of total venture funding came from rounds of $1 billion or more, and markedly higher than 2022, when only 5% of VC investment was in rounds of that size. Through the downturn in 2023 and into 2024, seed funding was the most robust stage.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

AI/ML in defense The rising interest in aerospace and defense is driven by labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and the sector’s critical infrastructure value. The commercial SSA market is a growing focus for investment, combining systems in space and on Earth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

After the challenging year that was 2022, one might think that the coming months are not looking great for VCs or founders. And why does the current market environment offer an unprecedented opportunity for investors? trillion in market value — that is 1.4 But last year’s downturn also affected private-market startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech companies. Lenders have to manage three big tailwinds in today’s market: Rising delinquency rates and charge-offs. Share on Twitter. Online lenders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber. Check Point Research reports that global cyberattacks increased by 38% in 2022 compared to 2021, and nearly nine in ten company boards told Gartner in a recent survey that they view cybersecurity as a “business risk” rather than solely a technical or IT issue.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the past, the focus was on keeping the lights on, managing infrastructure, ensuring stability of systems, or just ensuring that integration is happening. There was a survey done by DataRobot in 2022, and algorithmic bias actually caused a loss in revenue of 62%, and a 61% loss in customers. I think about lost markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Via this partnership, African businesses can connect with the more than 377 million PayPal accounts globally and overcome the challenges presented by the highly fragmented and complex payment and banking infrastructure on the continent. billion in revenue, and by 2022, it is expected to reach $29 billion. In 2017, Africa generated $16.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

When Acorns last raised funding, $300 million in March 2022, it was valued at $2 billion; GoHenry has not disclosed its valuation but was believed to be valued at between $250 million and $500 million in October 2022, when it raised $55 million. In March of 2022, CEO Noah Kerner told TechCrunch that the company had more than 4.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Arjun Thyagarajan, co-founder and CEO at Solid, told TechCrunch that the company spent the last 18 months working with early customers on product-market fit. We understood what they were looking for — that demand for modern infrastructure. 8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

He has helped build a multibillion dollar SaaS business, scale new product businesses and delivered go-to-market and demand-gen strategies at Box and Microsoft. And, digital infrastructure has provided a wide range of opportunities to innovate. But in 2022, the conversation has shifted. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

With rich resources like a growing physical infrastructure and subsea cable network, Africa is uniquely positioned to emerge as a leader among todays developing economies. This bodes well for growth in market size, GDP, and a population of digitally fluent consumers. billion inhabitants making up 15% of the global population.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. billion to more than 18 million customers across these markets, granting up to 120 million individual loans.

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