Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

While launching a startup is difficult, successfully scaling requires an entirely different skillset, strategy framework, and operational systems. Start-up Distinction Before implementing scaling strategies, understand where your company sits on the scale-up vs. start-up spectrum. What Does Scaling a Startup Really Mean?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This expanded attack surface has made OT systems a prime target for cyber threats, underscoring the need for a robust security framework tailored to remote OT environments. Without strong security foundations across these access points, organizations face increased risks of operational disruptions, safety incidents and financial losses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company has additionally raised a $2 million round of seed funding for its product, led by Bedrock Capital. The system integrates with a company’s existing tools, like GitHub, JIRA, Trello, Bitrise, CircleCI and others, to automatically update teams as to what’s been done and what action items still remain.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports raised its initial seed round in 2019 after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch with a mission to innovate the freight forwarding industry by helping companies — with an emphasis on SMEs — improve the import process. The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 28, 2017

That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. Tech companies often have extensive privacy policies written in dense legalese, but that doesn’t mean you should do your due diligence about a new product before buying it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

When a founder joins Pariti, they run their company through an assessment tool. Pariti then assesses each company across more than 70 information points ranging from the team and market to product and economics. After this is done , Pariti benchmarks each company against its peers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Peled — who co-founded the company with Daniel Sirota and Michael Vainshtein — said that the company typically has a detection rate of 73% in the first week for average users, where it has been able to identify activity that might be susceptible to data leakage, malicious extensions and other nefarious activity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

million funding round and described it as “a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies make money and manage their customer data.” That’s Pico’s bet, and so it’s building what it considers to be an operating system for the creator market. The latter company was eventually bought by Quantum Retail.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2022

In the mix were anticipated improvements to its various operating systems and computers — and plans to expand its fintech footprint. Apple has been growing as a consumer finance company for some time, most famously thanks to its Apple Pay service and the launch of a branded credit card in recent years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. The latest funding gives the company $17.4 million in total funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. I’ll update if I hear back.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. Thus, companies like PepsiCo and Lego are already using Ultraleap’s technology in public interfaces. It’s really now time to scale out-of-home.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“Instagram is like an operating system for pictures. ” Ajiboye came up with the name Backdrop and reached out to two friends, Damilola Odufuwa and Odunayo Eweniyi , to build the platform and turn it into a company. . The company has a photo research team that finds these places across 26 cities globally.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LambdaTest mainly addresses this challenge by offering a strong and user-friendly platform that enables developers to test their web applications and websites on real browsers and operating systems, allowing them to deliver a smooth user experience to their audience. What is LambdaTest?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. It also has reached about $1.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The program included fintech startups because of the pandemic’s economic impact, focusing on three companies that “are helping aging populations better manage finances and budgets, and effectively plan for the future.” Its “Housing” section included three companies focused on personal mobility.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. For example, close to 60% of respondents are using OSS for Database and 53% for Operating Systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015. Josh Sharkey, CEO of Meez. Image Credits: Evan Sung.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 Alloy was founded primarily to fix a “broken” onboarding process that has historically involved manual review when people applied for bank accounts online. billion valuation. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. The company is not disclosing its valuation. This is something that other companies in the industry have been unable to accomplish, Lee argues.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

CEO Tunde Kara , in an interview with TechCrunch, said Vendease plans to use the investment to deepen operations, consolidate its presence in eight cities across Nigeria and Ghana (the company recently expanded to the latter), move into new markets and build new products to increase customers’ efficiency. Vendease founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The company today works with close to 100 customers — large networking service providers like AT&T that in turn collectively provide services to millions of others — and in the last year has seen network traffic over its cloud-based architecture grow 1,000%. While it first made its name in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Justo’s Ricardo Weder also participated in this round and Plaid co-founder William Hockey put money in the $5 million seed funding that closed in 2020 after the company completed the YC Summer 2020 batch. Indeed, the company has seen rapid early growth. And then someone’s got to reconcile that system at the end of the month.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026, nearly one-third of enterprises will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable due to AI-generated deepfakes. First, you’ll need to understand exactly how bad actors use AI deepfakes to attack your systems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The company just launched its product and raised $3.9 The idea is that if your co-workers can see (but not hear or interact with) you, you’re less likely to futz on your phone or saunter off for your sixth cup of coffee when you’re meant to be reviewing code. The company today announced that it raised $3.9

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Tenable

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The suspects worked as remote IT professionals for front companies controlled by the North Korean government. should serve as a warning to companies around the globe be on alert for this malicious activity by the DPRK regime, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement. The indictment . state and local governments.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Although companies are allowed to give volume discounts and to offer other pricing differences for different customers, compliance issues kick in when the company controls an especially high percentage of the market. Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world. The law firm that filed it declined to provide a copy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . The company has raised $3.4 The company has raised $3.4 The plan for the company is to provide merchants with access to accounts, cards, local payment networks and lending.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So, in a nutshell, least privilege says that every object in a system – whether a user, a process, or an application – must be able to access only the information and resources that it needs, and no more. The result was that it was straightforward, at times elementary, for malicious software to own the entire system.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

This is not shocking due to the amount of venture capital being pumped into the sector. Helping CFOs manage high growth : Mary Ann’s other story was about a couple of Palantir alums out to provide tools for CFOs of high-growth companies. The TechCrunch Top 3. When you are growing, knowing your financial status is certainly important.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As more and more companies expand or shift their manufacturing to India — in part due to import duties imposed by India and geo-political tension with China, the global hub for manufacturing — this opportunity has only grown bigger in recent years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

“Our vision is to become the ‘operating system for quality’ that companies use to improve the holistic quality of their applications, beginning with automated end-to-end testing.” Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

At KOBO360, the company had achieved product-market fit and business was growing fast off the back of its $30 million equity and debt investment from Goldman Sachs and other investors. He also detailed how the company faced them and its current state of stable growth and sustainability. The year 2019 was good for such businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Based in Warsaw, Poland, Intent assists a wide variety of companies with everything from product design and UX to development and deployment of connected devices. It caters to diverse sectors, with customers such as sleep tracker ?URA, URA, trivia game HQ, Tomorrow Health, Samsung, Mercedes-Benz and Nike.

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

But outsourcing operational risk is untenable, given the criticality of data-first modernization to overall enterprise success. Intellectual property is key to a company’s success,” notes Simon Leech, operational security lead for HPE GreenLake Cloud Services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 2. The company’s central sell is that for remote teams, there needs to be a better alternative to Slack or email for catching up with co-workers across time zones. We selected PingPong as one of our favorite startups that debuted last week.

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