TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. 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 are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support. Puls Technologies app. Image Credits: Puls Technologies. It saw some of that demand related to the global pandemic, when the need for home repairs increased due to people spending more time at home.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on deal sourcing, technological due diligence and providing value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. After closing the book on 2022 this week, it is safe to say that this optimism was somewhat misguided. Image Credits: YL Ventures (opens in a new window).

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

New Zealand online marketplace TradeMe, has unveiled an ambitious plan to double the number of women in technical leadership roles, to address the persistent gender imbalance in the tech industry, where women remain underrepresented, especially in senior positions. Eliminate the gender pay gap across the organisation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While leagues behind fintech as a whole, insurtech startups have still attracted a significant amount of investment over the last few years — $43 billion between 2016 and 2022, according to a recent report. Insurtech IPOs don’t seem to be on the cards for 2022. How much have early-stage insurtech deals slowed in 2022?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s not a huge stretch to say that today, as tech increasingly permeates property development and housing, few except those operating in the sector can truly pinpoint what’s happening in the fast-developing world of proptech. TC: There’s a lot of overlap between construction tech and proptech. And where do they overlap?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Technology innovation often comes in waves, but the restaurant industry saw its surf get bigger and stronger due in part to the pandemic. As startups whip up a restaurant tech frenzy, is anyone close to Toast? Toast also said it is on track to generate revenues of $2.6 billion this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

We spend a lot of time praising tech investors and entrepreneurs for their risk appetite. Considering how central equity is to attracting tech talent, “underwater stock options have the potential to negatively impact hiring and retention across the startup ecosystem,” he writes. Thanks for reading, Walter Thompson.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as a global hub for technology and innovation. According to IDC, there has been a cybersecurity spending growth in the UAE that surpassed projections with a CAGR of 11.2 % in 2022 and 2027 and is forecasted to cross 4 billion AED in 2024. How do we CISOs adapt our strategies today?

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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. Katie Vasquez is an investor at Calibrate Ventures , where she invests in early-stage deep-tech startups.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Operating profit gains from AI doubled to nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023, with the figure expected to reach 10% by 2025, she adds. In the enterprise, huge expectations have been partly driven by the major consumer reaction following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, Stephenson suggests. What comes up must come down.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So to get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today. VCs are also increasingly looking for what biotech startups can do with AI beyond just R&D and are wary of companies that use the technology as a marketing tool. billion deals with Sanofi.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Women remain underrepresented in technology roles and have, in fact, lost ground in recent decades. According to the US Department of Labor, women held 24% of positions in the computer occupations sector at the end of 2022, down from a high of 44% in 1990. Worse, a significant percentage of women in tech want to leave.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The deal caught our eye not for a lack of synergy, then, but more due to the relative youth of Queenly itself. If her name sounds familiar, recall that Bantigue came on the Equity podcast to chat about remote accelerators in early 2021 and wrote an essay about the mental health impacts of building a startup for Fortune in 2022.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Venture funding for defense tech startups grew last year, but despite some large and notable funding rounds the total amount invested was lower than some might have anticipated. Upswing for defense Still, defense tech had a good year in 2024, with an increase in both dollars and deals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. between 2021 and 2022, and we expect that trend to continue or improve in 2023. These are inextricably linked.

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Some investors still scoff at the idea that their portfolio companies may be asked to review what it’s like to work with them; similarly, founders are surprised when stories, not Cultureamp surveys, are where honest feedback truly lives. Wordle is tech born of love that asks nothing in return.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Factor in today’s soaring construction costs , material and labor shortages and supply chain constrain ts , and there is more demand than ever from contractors for technology that will help them operate more efficiently and less expensively. He believes the construction industry has been “underserved” by technology “for far too long.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reviewing repetitive documents is, well, repetitive, but Klarity believes people don’t have to do all of that and is building an artificial intelligence tool, targeting finance and accounting departments, that turns documents into structured data. Document automation is not a new concept. In August 2020, the product was launched.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space. Due to the pandemic, many contech workers were unable to freely visit their job sites and realized they had less visibility than they’d like into what was happening onsite. “Due

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

In fact, it took $200 million or more to make the list last month, as defense tech and cybersecurity led the way. Founded in 2022, the company has raised $845 million, per Crunchbase. million Series B financing from nearly 20 different investors back in 2022. Founded in 2022, the company has raised $506 million, per Crunchbase.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

German software giant SAP is under investigation by US officials for allegedly conspiring to overcharge the US government for its technology products over the course of a decade. Federal agents have searched Carahsoft’s offices in Washington, DC, and the DOJ is reviewing court records filed in Baltimore.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Modern medical technology is restoring agility with artificial joints and minimally invasive procedures so we can all heal faster and live our best lives. And, to get healthcare professionals the technology their patients’ needed in time, employees made noncompliant purchases through company and personal credit cards.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Delays due to too much traffic The description suggests it may have been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Vendor technology issue The airline blamed the problems on a vendor technology issue in a message sent from its official X/Twitter account. The advisory was lifted an hour later.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Spotify this morning announced it’s acquiring Dublin, Ireland-based content moderation tech company Kinzen, which had been working in partnership with the streamer since 2020. Developing… Spotify acquires content moderation tech company Kinzen to address platform safety issues by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. IoT companies raising funds in 2022 pulled in $15.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 kicks off in just four days, startup fans. How to Activate Your Profile: Look for an email in your inbox titled “Time to log into TechCrunch Disrupt 2022” and follow the directions. How to Disrupt Any Industry with Longevity Science: No PhD Required , with FOXO Technologies. 21 online).

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 And only then does the technology kick in, with all the usual mobile apps and online dashboards for registering and filing claims. ” Customer acquisition. .”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ivan writes that BeReal won “app of the year” for 2022 in Apple’s annual App Store Awards. Nigerian restaurant tech company Orda gobbled up $3.4 The folks behind the initiative told Catherine that “Seedstars’ mission is to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.”. Big Tech Inc.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

According to Reitz, the effects of technology on people must also always be top of mind. Central to this over the last two years has been the NEMo365 Program, which implements a globally valid process template and ERP system, and 33 of 42 locations have already been converted since 2022. Be open and courageous,” he says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Of those, 75% were non-sanctioned, not reviewed or may not have been compliant with the company’s security policies. The majority of the workforce uses technology, but we know that 40% of them will leave their job if the technology is substandard.”. He expects to grow to 200 people by the end of 2022.

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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. In late 2022, Snyk raised a $196.5 billion in a July 2022 funding, though that shaved 86% off the $45.5 Cerebras should likely already be public.

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