TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Africa is the world’s third fastest-growing crypto market, with crypto adoption increasing by more than 1,200% over the last two years. But as time passed, we saw a couple of use cases we could employ this technology to solve,” CEO Iselema told TechCrunch on a call. Even when we launched the crypto cards, we were the first to do that.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. W e’ll be using those to light up many more markets and to start to generate meaningful revenue in those markets.” Operations will scale next year, he added.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, the organizations have brought Spanish-based IT learning courses to the Latino community through IBM’s SkillsBuild platform, creating new pathways to careers in technology. Additionally, by 2022, 10% of these technical roles were held by Latino workers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

While the public market correction has been widespread, tech and fintech stocks have seen the largest declines, according to a recent report. trillion in late 2021, the F-Prime Fintech Index slid to $397 billion by the end of 2022. After hitting a peak of $1.3 In other words, the bigger the exit, the larger the decline.

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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? PitchBook notes that shares of UiPath — Automation Anywhere’s main rival, which went public in April 2021 — plummeted 71% this year. compared to the year prior. Assuming the $2.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The latest developments in technology make it clear that we are on the precipice of a monumental shift in how artificial intelligence (AI) is employed in our lives and businesses. This misconception exists because of marketing. First, let me address the misconception that AI is synonymous with algorithms and automation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. Great companies like Nubank, Inter, Gympass, Quinto Andar and several others were in their early innings at the time, but the market dislocation did not last long. Morgan and give it a shot.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. Startups in the city raised more than $534 million through December 12, 2022, according to PitchBook, which, while not a lot of capital, is better than 2021, when they raised $336 million. First, Austin was the next biggest thing, then Atlanta and, more recently, Miami.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There’s a big factor working in the favor of tech professionals looking for work: They’re sought after in both the technology industry and across other industries that also require workers with the same technical skills. In fact, over the last year, rates ballooned from 1.68% in July 2022 to over 5% today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Project Eaden , a Berlin-based food technology company, believes it has cracked the code for producing whole cuts of plant-based meat alternatives using a proprietary fiber spinning technology. Schmelzeisen says this type of technology yields a better-tasting product that looks and acts like traditional meat; for example, it is juicy.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. How do we expand the benefits of this technology to what we’re trying to achieve as a business?

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Roughly 75% of that value will emanate from productivity gains across customer operations, sales and marketing, software engineering, and R&D. Bob Ma of Copec Wind Ventures AI’s eye-popping potential has given rise to numerous enterprise generative AI startups focused on applying large language model technology to the enterprise context.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 18, 2024

of tech jobs in 2022, and a separate study showed that women identifying as Asian or Pacific Islander make up just 7% of the IT workforce and Black and Hispanic women account for 3% and 2%, respectively. To amplify and support women’s voices, Cloudera has introduced the Women Leaders in Technology Initiative.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

— Andy Bromberg (@andy_bromberg) May 23, 2022. He also alleges that Phadnis asked detailed questions about Eco’s backend under the guise of looking for employment and that multiple aspects of Pebble’s product and marketing language are essentially copy-pasted from Eco. They stole our marketing copy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By Katie Vasquez The aerospace and defense sectors face a pivotal moment as geopolitical tensions rise, labor shortages increase and technological innovation accelerates, driving demand for modernizing military and aerospace operations. The commercial SSA market is a growing focus for investment, combining systems in space and on Earth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. New Q2 2022 data from CB Insights and PitchBook lay bare fintech’s retreat. Nor that as the boom faded, fintech did as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

It is indeed a tough market out there, even for those building groundbreaking tech in currently trendy areas like digital twinning technology. Forward’s robust and scalable platform solution addresses this large and growing market need unlike anything else we’ve seen.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

billion similar startups received in 2022 if the last two-and-a-half months of the year are strong. Those centers will need new innovation — especially when it comes to tackling the energy consumption problem — and it is likely Big Tech and VCs will be there to provide the cash necessary to nurture those new technologies.

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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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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Back in 2022, the Denver-based company was helping power Bitcoin mining by harnessing natural gas that is typically burned during oil extraction and putting it toward powering the data centers needed for mining — raising a $350 million Series C equity round led by G2 Venture Partners , at a $1.75 billion valuation in the process.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

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. Technology growth is a private-equity round raised by a company that has previously raised a venture round. (So

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In Q1 2022, investors consummated nearly 1,200 funding deals for Web3, marking the peak of the sector. Bellevue, Washington-based Story Protocol , a blockchain technology to protect intellectual property rights for content creators, raised an $80 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the startup at $2.25

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Yesterday’s tech stock rout was not evenly distributed ; some companies and technology sectors fared better than others. The same can be said about tech sectors in 2022 more generally. Cybersecurity stocks have given back some gains this year; they are not immune from market repricing.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In 2022, McKinsey published a report called, The data-driven enterprise of 2025. In some cases, new technologies and business processes are coming at employees faster than they can absorb them. And as any IT chief knows, such gaps create challenges for translating data and digital solutions into business value.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In areas from humanoid coworker bots to AI robot brains, startups developing some of the most scifi-esque applications of the technology scored the years largest rounds. Thats slightly above year-ago levels, but still well below the 2021 market peak, as charted below. Altogether, robotics-related startups secured around $7.2

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The news follows years of declining stock market fortunes for Silicon Valley-based 23andMe, which is best known for test kits that offer people information about their ancestry and health risks. The company, which went public via SPAC in 2021 and raised over $1 billion in private funding, had a recent market cap of less than a 10th that sum.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. It is another milestone in our journey to make mobility safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable by deploying high-performance technologies and operators.

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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. Technology growth is a private-equity round raised by a company that has previously raised a “venture” round. (So

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

At the end of 2022, like many, I made some predictions about what 2023 would bring to the technology investing ecosystem. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Combining his experience as an operator and institutional investor, Abelson runs Irving as a multistrategy platform making long-term durable investments in both the public and private markets. Jacob Sonnenberg is a portfolio manager at Irving Investors and runs Irving's Technology and Consumer Crossover Fund. What am I worth now?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The continent’s retail markets are highly fragmented and mostly made up of small and informal retailers and intermediaries, which is why a ton of tomatoes that costs around $100 in the U.S., Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sandbox VR aims to be an immersive social experience through a combination of full-body motion capture and VR technologies. Sandbox VR will use the proceeds to open 10 new retail locations across the globe, including Paramus, London and Toronto in 2022, as well as two corporate and two franchise locations. . Canada and Asia. .

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CIO ASEAN is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 CIO100 Awards – recognising the top technology leaders and teams across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong who are driving innovation and influencing rapid change. These are in addition to CIO100 awards in the US, UK, and the Middle East. …

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rebecca Mitchem is a partner at Neotribe Ventures , which invests in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. She co-manages Ignite, a $90 million fund focused on growth-stage companies across industries including computational biology, enterprise security, blockchain technologies, clean tech and more.

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