TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While retail investors grew more comfortable buying cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021, the decentralized application world still has a lot of work to do when it comes to onboarding a mainstream user base. ” Andreessen Horowitz triples down on blockchain startups with massive $2.2 Image via Phantom.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The future of digital retail has arrived in Paris, naturally. Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. Or in other words, no one wants to be the person listed on the blockchain who threw their turtleneck into the bin.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Enter Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform that wants to do the heavy lifting for companies eyeing more digital operations. BetterData : BetterData taps the blockchain to help create better synthetic data. The TechCrunch Top 3. Helping it along is $4 million in new capital from Base10 Partners, Tage reports.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Successful CIOs work hand-in-hand with their C-suite peers to ensure that IT initiatives reflect the company’s ambitions—enhancing operational efficiency, driving innovation, or expanding market presence. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Chainalysis , a blockchain analysis company, announced Friday it has closed on $100 million in Series D financing, doubling its valuation to over $2 billion. Chainalysis’ self-described mission is “to build trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain had a breakout year in 2021. ust look at the numbers: 80 million unique crypto wallets; Bitcoin and Ether grew 60% and 407%, respectively; El Salvador adopted bitcoin as official currency; the NFT market generated $2.5 Have we reached a point where crypto and blockchain reach mass adoption?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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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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Crunchbase News

MAY 14, 2024

That said, there is a growing category of investors that is still not considered by many founders as a potential source of funding — retail investors. However, attracting money from retail investors has its peculiarities. Therefore, you can digitize shares in your company using a blockchain protocol and offer them as tokens.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Iddris Sandu founded Spatial Labs in 2021, seeking to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Founded in 2021 by Arindam Roy, Rajath KM and Kartik Mishra, Pillow is focused on emerging markets like Africa and Southeast Asia. It also recently expanded into Nigeria, Ghana and Vietnam, among other markets. It focuses on retail investors, enabling them to start with investments as small as $5.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Now 10 months later, Pintu chief marketing officer Timothius Martin tells TechCrunch that it has added more tokens, making more a total of 66 available, with more added each month. The company will use its latest funding, which brings its total raised to about $156 million, to add more tokens and supported blockchains and new products.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

billion, and indicates that there is still ample capital in the market for self-driving tech. More signs of Africa’s startup market maturing : It wasn’t too long ago that a startup in Africa raising a $30 million round would have been big news. Faster blockchain transactions + privacy = Espresso ? million seed round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The startup announced today that it has raised $4 million to expand in markets like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Australia, South Africa and India, with plans to add more markets next month. The traditional approach is to collate and interpret the blockchain exchange ledgers manually.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

We believe that options can offer retail investors opportunities to generate returns in today’s more challenging market environment. Due to the current market conditions, we’re staying private,” Assia told TechCrunch. “ “The integration of Gatsby will allow us to provide U.S. Scaling our U.S. V in a massive $10.4

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

For instance, rather than employing human employees, the startup uses privacy computing and blockchain to manage the regulatory paperwork needed for cross-border transactions. The startup plans to tout its marketing tools and payments solutions to retailers in the U.K., It has set up a base in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Pintu is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to quickly raise a much larger follow-on round as interest in retail investing grows. It’s good momentum for us to launch new products and grab the market.”. Timothius Martin, the company’s chief marketing officer, was a first-time investor when he started using Pintu.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The commodities trading market is worth $200 billion and even today there’s still a lot of paper flying around, so digitization is continuing apace. Open Mineral plans to disrupt commodities trading with blockchain. The company says it will use the capital to solidify its physical supply chain merchant activities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. How big is the DeFi market today? Mike Giampapa , general partner, Galaxy Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

More startup goodies: A chain with a sack of cash at the end of it : Based in New York, Interplay is raising $10 million for a new blockchain fund, Anita reports. My coins jingle jingle : Mike makes a case for hardware wallets about to make a comeback as crypto markets are getting a little crumbly. too, Frederic reports. Big Tech Inc.

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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

MARCH 2, 2022

Given what a minute fraction of the company’s aggregate GMV we’re talking about here, this is not Earth-shaking news, but does matter for the larger set of DTC startups out there considering physical retail. Even more, recycling can be more mirage than reality in many markets. If Amazon can’t make it work, well, can you? Startups/VC.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One recent survey of sales and marketing professionals found that only half of respondents said they were likely to attend an event in H1 2022. The crypto market hasn’t had a good year so far, with Bitcoin losing nearly a fifth of its value, and other tokens seeing similar declines. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

” DeFi is quickly maturing, which means startups are spinning up new products left and right — many of which are just blockchain-based versions of products that already exist in the traditional financial system. A graphic depicting Ondo’s place in the DeFi ecosystem. Image Credits: Ondo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

It’s tough to assess exactly how many retail investors (aka regular people) started investing for the first time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one Schwab study estimates that 15% of investors who were participating in the market in 2021 got started for the first time in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 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.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Blockchain. The application of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry is constantly being explored, as the availability and integrity of information in medicine are crucial. Some industries, including finance and retail, already use chatbots, but healthcare is just getting started. It’s all about big data. .

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Web3 and blockchain innovation Web3 technologies, including blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital identity systems, will be key topics. Blockchain’s potential to create transparent, secure, and decentralized systems is gaining traction in sectors such as finance, supply chain, and governance.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Advani started Allocations in 2019 as a response to challenges he faced in trying to set up his own investment funds and realizing that none of the tools available to him at the time could help him spin up funds quickly enough to stay competitive in the increasingly fast-paced private markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For the unacquainted, chargebacks are defined as demands by a credit card provider for a retailer to make good the loss on a fraudulent or disputed transaction. The company plans to use its new capital to invest “ heavily” in product development, sales and marketing, including expanding its sales and marketing operations overseas to the U.S.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dynamic pricing Airlines, ride-sharing services, and online retailers have long used dynamic pricing to adjust to changing market conditions. For example, a retailer could adjust prices on its website based on the visitor’s identity, inventory levels, and competitor prices. AI makes this capability available to any business.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 27, 2019

However we can’t but agree with Sukhi Jutla, co-founder of MarketOrders blockchain platform, stating that “ in many cases, the logistics and transportation industry doesn’t have a full, end-to-end digital footprint.” Blockchain logistics: discussing opportunities and benefits. No records can be lost, destroyed or replaced.

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Cost : $490 Certified Generative AI Expert The Certified Generative AI Expert certification offered by Blockchain Council is aimed at anyone interested in gaining more expertise around generative AI. Upon completing the learning modules, you will need to pass a chartered exam to earn the CGAI designation.

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