TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

I learned about Yat in April, when a friend sent our group chat a link to a story about how the key emoji sold as an “internet identity” for $425,000. Like any URL on the internet, Yats can redirect to another website, or they can function like a more eye-catching Linktree. “I hate the universe,” she texted.

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IDC

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The evolving blockchain product offers more robust and capable application tools critical to patch existing vulnerabilities. Explore the evolving market with IDC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The voluntary carbon market for agriculture includes U.S. & blockchain-focused) and U.K./France-based We also believe Agreena can become the dominant internet marketplace for facilitating online B2B commerce within farming, a nut which no one has yet cracked.”. The startup has some competition in the space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Minor worked for Merrill Lynch during the rise of the internet in the early 1990s and, in the words of Wayne Gretzky, has been skating to where the puck is going ever since. Since his initial foray into media, Minor has taken to cryptocurrency and blockchain in a big way.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

We’re thrilled to have Gharegozlou joining us at Disrupt this September 21-23 , to discuss the future of NFTs, crypto gaming and the decentralized internet. Gharegozlou has his own vision for the future of the crypto web; Dapper’s big bet of late is on the proprietary Flow blockchain that underpins Top Shot.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That’s now been topped up with seed financing to get a prototype to market later this month. DFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWS. Kobeissi’s original concept for Capsule, meanwhile, was to create self-hosting microservices.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Here are the top five things that fell into the “learning and exploring” cohort, in ranked order: Blockchain. Internet of things/new sensors. By the time a technology is placed into the fourth category, which we dubbed “in-market or accelerating investment,” it may be too late for a startup to find a foothold.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

But in late 2020, Cent’s small, San Francisco-based team created Valuables , an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the small blockchain startup was thrown a serendipitous curveball. But for Cent, it was as if the small company had just been handed a free marketing campaign. and Zynga founder Mark Pincus.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

. “I think overall the messaging of what we delivered at TechCrunch Disrupt regarding an individual personal AI that is secured by blockchain to retain and recall [information] really set the stage for what the company is all about, both from a user standpoint as well as from an investor standpoint,” Kanuganti told me.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The investors behind virtual hack.summit() , the world’s largest blockchain programmer event, have launched a $200 million crypto seed fund under the Hack VC umbrella, fund partner Alex Pack told TechCrunch in an interview. The lab has also helped Hack source deals through analysis of on-chain data, he added. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been riding the wave with what it says are the lowest fees on the market, and a platform that is aimed at both newcomers and experienced traders. The logic behind blockchain always made sense to me and we can definitely see a future where people would demand a more transparent financial system.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In the latest development, a startup called thirdweb — which has created a development toolkit to make it easier to build and launch web3 products such as blockchain games, NFTs, DAOs, marketplaces and more — has raised $24 million, a Series A that values the startup at $160 million. Projects are collectively generating $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Data from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis says the region’s crypto usage grew 1,200% last year, making it the third-fastest growing cryptocurrency economy. his time there made him aware of the societal and financial challenges affecting Africans in remote places and theories of how bitcoin and blockchain technology could help.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

There has been a tremendous impact on the advancement and accessibility of healthcare technology through Internet of Things (IoT) devices, wearable gadgets, and real-time medical data monitoring. When a group of internet-connected medical devices creates an IoMT, they’re making a new subset of the Internet of Things (IoT).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The other half of the fund is going into what Jiang and Goldberg deem as “high potential collections” from artists with smaller existing markets. The NFT market is still raking in billions, but the pace of investment appears to be slowing in recent weeks. A nine-figure fund for JPGs?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? TechCrunch spoke to the company’s founder, Tom McLeod, to find out why we need a blockchain-powered museum. That’s the premise of Arkive , which just raised a $9.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Non-fungible tokens have been around for two years, but these NFTs, one-of-one digital items on the Ethereum and other blockchains, are suddenly becoming a more popular way to collect visual art, primarily, whether it’s an animated cat or an NBA clip or virtual furniture. The proof is in the blockchain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Nillion is a deep technology infrastructure project,” Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

A record number of companies went public in 2021, with many at huge valuations: 238 companies debuted on the public markets last year valued above $1 billion. Bigger, better capitalized and more global, the venture industry is poised to take advantage of the transformative technologies coming to market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The model is interesting, and Massive’s funding round is an indication that it has found some market traction. They have an obvious need for compute power, and the work they execute — running blockchain calculations — is monetized through block rewards and other fees, making them easy choices for partnerships.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And while scams continued to proliferate and hacker heists became a weekly occurrence, the space onboarded an onslaught of retail investors and fostered feverish excitement among young technologists eager to bet their careers on the blockchain. Building a Blockchain Behemoth. Keeping the Web3 Dream Funded. TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Indeed, in the case of SuperLayer, the tokens might all look a bit different, but they will all be tied to a blockchain network called Rally that SuperLayer’s founders created earlier and want to help popularize by creating more interesting apps atop it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Blockchain, DeFi and web3 technologies continue to evolve rapidly in a world of wild extremes. AR: Absolutely — lots of people use the word “crypto” as a synonym for everything related to blockchain technology, though it mainly captures the financial applications/tokens themselves. There’s never a dull moment in the cryptoverse.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A number of high-profile investors are chasing to invest in Slice, a fintech startup that is attempting to expand the market for credit cards in India. Last month, the startup launched a card with 2,000 Indian rupees ($27) as the default limit to tap the nation’s potential addressable market of 200 million individuals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s also worth noting that despite having a marketing slogan which paints itself as “your bank of things”, Twig is not actually a bank; rather a Twig account is an “e-money account” — so there are key regulatory differences (such as Twig accounts not being covered by the UK’s deposit guarantee scheme).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The price of bitcoin, the world’s best-known cryptocurrency, has historically proven a reasonable proxy for consumer interest in the cryptocurrency space, and for trading activity amongst blockchain-based assets. Cardano, one of the most highly-valued blockchain assets, is up around 27% in the last week according to CoinMarketCap.

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DXC

MAY 22, 2020

Any IT professional knows this – that it is interoperability that allows the internet, enterprise networks and the digital economy to function. So too will interoperability between disparate blockchains […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

When the wider popularity of NFTs as a speculative asset hit earlier this year, Saavedra saw a huge opportunity as internet users began discussing the future of digital art and digital scarcity. ” The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed? Sound familiar?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They also say companies like Nike, Disney, Bumble and Meta are already itching to begin building apps and products, like blockchain games, NFT platforms, DAOs and creator projects, for the metaverse, web3 and NFT spaces. They’ve been working with the early adopters on features, some of whom have been using Thirdweb for over a year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Even as the overall crypto market has plunged this week, Bitcoin remains the most valuable crypto asset in the world with a market capitalization of around $589 billion as of May 9. Its status stems, in part, from the advantage of having been the first cryptocurrency token on a public blockchain. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Storm clouds for late-stage startups : To close out a cheery week on a high note, TechCrunch dug into late-stage valuations in light of public market declines. Today, we have a story about hacking efforts that are impacting the Ukrainian defense and a piece discussing internet restrictions in Russia as they relate to U.S. Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Our streaming tech took us to various Internet platforms, and people came to Hopin and asked questions. Here’s the rundown: Funding rounds from Mos (edtech + fintech), Alchemy (blockchain infra), and Cooks Venture (patented chickens). It’s always a risk to do something new, so thank you for making it a win.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well. Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Blockchain, DeFi and web3 technologies continue to evolve rapidly in a world of wild extremes. AR: Absolutely — lots of people use the word “crypto” as a synonym for everything related to blockchain technology, though it mainly captures the financial applications/tokens themselves. There’s never a dull moment in the cryptoverse.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

The fund will look in Japan, as well as global markets like South Korea, the United States, China and Southeast Asia, for investment opportunities, with the aim of creating collaborations between startups and Z Holdings’ commerce, media and fintech services. SIP Global Partners announces first close of its $150M fund to bring U.S.

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