TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

While several tech companies are opting to delay their IPOs in the face of less-than-enthusiastic market demand for their shares, real estate tech company Compass forged ahead and went public today. Reffkin did confirm to TechCrunch what we’ve been reporting lately, namely that the IPO market has changed for the worse in recent weeks.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The $2-per-conversation approach can include many back-and-forth interactions between a customer and Agentforce, says Ryan Shellack, senior director of AI product marketing at Salesforce. In comparison, current large language model pricing is a form of outcome-based pricing, with users paying for tokens processed or generated, he notes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. ” It doesn’t end there.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Since it went to market in 2019, Branch claims to have saved its “members” an average of $548 a year. It has also backed The Zebra, an Austin-based company that operates an insurance comparison site that achieved unicorn status last year. As a result of his experience, he was able to execute on the market opportunity very quickly.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There were other funding events and product launches, but that’s enough of a sample for us to understand that private-market investors around the world are investing in the consumer checkout-and-credit capability, even after industry incumbents Affirm went public and Klarna has grown to massive scale with global reach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

markets is welcome news. Sadly, while Triller is an interesting business, it may prove too small an offering to fully unlock the domestic IPO market for technology companies. Still, as with the Cava listing , a strong showing could further thaw the IPO market for private companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. But quality will always beat quantity when it comes to content marketing; Googlebot may be hungry for new links, but potential customers demand expertise and insights. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. By comparison, investors flowed $4.8B

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2025

According to Precedence Research, the global gen AI market was over $25 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach a staggering $803 billion by 2033. Gen AI has entered the enterprise in a big way since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

When the public market dislocation started causing a broad venture funding pullback, it appeared seed investing would be safe for a while. But checking in halfway through the year, some markets are faring better than others. Yes, the Canadian market is not very big; for comparison, total U.S. Meanwhile, U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Thursday, a dramatic end for a company that dominated the e-cigarette market and was valued at $38 billion at the top of its game. Juul, the e-cig maker started at Stanford, watches its US market share get vaporized. The FDA ordered the company to stop selling and distributing its ubiquitous vaping devices in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s not perfect as far as comparisons go, but we hope that it helps all the same. It’s a 13-month time frame; in that period, the company will have a full year’s log data for customers, along with one more month to allow for year-over-year comparisons. Same foundation (broth), different focus (soup flavor).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal , an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. Market opportunity. The private equity markets are predicted to grow to $12.5

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We have found that it’s much easier to have a conversation on cost when it is viewed through the lens of product/service or customer profitability than it is to explain why your AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance cost has risen with only the prior months spending as a comparison. It is therefore not advisable to seek 100% accuracy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

While venture capital gains in markets like India, Latin America and the larger African startup ecosystem have proved impressive, Europe has posted strong results of its own. New data indicates that France’s startup market is posting record totals in terms of dollars raised. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports. Up is good, right?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Deep tech companies are usually built around a novel technology that offers significant advances over existing solutions in the market; often they create new markets that don’t yet exist. By comparison, if a company is building a marketplace for used cars, for example, the technology risk is almost zero.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The comparison between the five most valuable U.S. In contrast, the Next Generation of Tech Leaders is, well, raising lots of money and building private-market value. Naturally, there are huge caveats with any such comparison. tech firms that everyone can name.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

That includes: a market intelligence product with information about what consumers are searching for and what’s popular on media and e-commerce platforms. That includes: a market intelligence product with information about what consumers are searching for and what’s popular on media and e-commerce platforms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The last year taught us that the connection between the stock market and the economy is imprecise at best. Amazon, for comparison, is worth 4.6x I am certainly not arguing that Tesla is worthless, or that the group of companies like those that comprise the ARK Innovation ETF, are all overpriced.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

It will also launch on price-comparison site uSwitch. In a statement, Alexander Fitzgerald, founder and CEO at Cuckoo, said: “The broadband market is broken and consumers are being ripped off every day. Gareth Jefferies, partner at RTP Global, said: “Consumer broadband is one of the largest markets yet one of the most poorly served.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It has long been a worry that, as the venture market slows, the most marginalized groups would be pushed aside as investors retreat to old networks and deals that feel most familiar to them from the founders they don’t hesitate to trust. When the overall number for all-female teams was 2.4% All-female teams raised $3.6 figure of $194.9

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

What factored into the current valuation is our annual recurring revenue, growing customer base and total addressable market,” he told TechCrunch, declining to be more specific about ARR other than to say it is growing “at a very fast rate.” auto insurance industry is an at least $250 billion market,” he added. “The U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Stock buyers were essentially flying blind while buying into companies, which some investors were more than willing to do, but that blindness limited the market demand for secondary shares significantly. Ward says that is up from the $3.1 billion valuation of the company’s Series F round from last year. Carta was just valued at $1.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Keen to put something of a spin on the announcement, Klarna highlights the “worst stock downturn in 50 years” in its press release, while it also tries to paint a prettier picture by showing how its valuation today looks against 2018 — and it uses well-known publicly traded fintechs for comparison. Image Credits: Klarna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

I noticed that traditional methods of solving the problem for small businesses had high setup costs — eliminating most of the market.” is the closest comparison. Small businesses did not and were largely ignored. We will get to £1 million per week by the end of the quarter.”. In the U.K. Internationally, Melio in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Back in 2020, we saw the startup market crumble in what felt like days; the current downturn, in contrast, has been building since late 2021. But don’t let those comparisons save you from worry — the trends aren’t looking good. From hot to not.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

cheese market alone was valued at $34.3 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.25%, according to Allied Market Research. By comparison, the vegan cheese industry is tiny, measuring around $1.2 Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S. billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among all the buzzwords startups use when pitching investors and in their marketing, “data-driven” is nearly at the top of the pile. Previously trending tech startups in fields like BNPL, crypto and the delivery market are struggling to show the growth and returns they promised in their initial funding rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

With a small team, he could only build what he called a “miniature” solution in comparison to the web scale counterparts. The market for synthetic data is bigger than you think. “We We built a sort of mini Graft at Slack for driving semantic search and recommendations throughout the product.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supermom , a parenting platform with 20 million users in six Southeast Asian countries, offers parents price comparisons, communities and the chance to earn money by completing surveys. For brands, it gives them a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 13, 2025

While its not a founder’s job to be a publicist or marketer they already wear 10 other hats having the story down is the starting point to being successful in every single other area (recruiting, fundraising, customer targeting, etc.). but public relations and marketing are rarely given the spotlight thats warranted.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined Runa Capital almost a year ago, my task was to help our portfolio companies enter the Chinese market, find the right partners and raise funding from Chinese investors. 1 — Comparison of investment from different countries in 2020, $bn. This figure puts Chinese VC investments only 30% lower than investments by U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The business publication’s news follows BuzzFeed’s journey to the public markets through a blank-check company. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Our notes on BuzzFeed’s are here , in case you want to run comparisons. And Forbes announced that it is going public via a SPAC. Something like that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. China issue. Rising totals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

But Ethan Choi, a partner at Accel, said his firm saw in Nuvemshop the potential to be the market leader, or the “de facto” e-commerce platform, in Latin America. On top of that, the $85 billion e-commerce market in Latin America is growing rapidly with projections of it reaching $116.2 Separate markets require distinct knowledge.

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