TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

The only data that seemingly didn’t come back in superlative fashion was round counts, which failed to set all-time highs in some cases. Instead, according to NEA’s Larco, “there are more than enough venture-ready startups to fund,” adding that “the pace of innovation across all industries and geographies has been astounding.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Although both Shein and Forever 21 are known for affordable fast fashion, they cater to customers in different ways. “We are excited for the partnership with Shein as it reflects our shared vision of providing customers with unparalleled access to fashion at affordable prices,” said Sparc Group CEO Marc Miller in a statement.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

This enables companies to connect processes and experience-based data and drive optimization and innovation. Furthermore, the S/4HANA Cloud Edition promises faster access to innovations, as SAP has established a quarterly innovation cycle for this, compared to a one-year innovation cycle for the on-premises version.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

For example, in the fashion retail industry, an assistant powered by agents and multimodal models can provide customers with a personalized and immersive experience. In this post, we implement a fashion assistant agent using Amazon Bedrock Agents and the Amazon Titan family models.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Other participants included IFC, MDI Ventures, Telkomsel Mitra Innovation (TMI) and Future Shape, along with returning investors Jungle Ventures and Shunwei Capital. On the supply side, Evermos works with more than 500 brands, primarily small Indonesian businesses, and sells fashion, halal health and beauty products, and food and beverages.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 22, 2024

To solve this problem, this post shows you how to predict domain-specific product attributes from product images by fine-tuning a VLM on a fashion dataset using Amazon SageMaker , and then using Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions using the predicted attributes as input.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Indeed, the California-based company, founded in 2013 by Philip Ross and Sophia Wang, is among a hot trend of companies working with fungus and other plant-based materials to make fabrics for fashion. In addition to using plant-based materials for fashion, other companies are finding success with fungi-based technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Co-founder and CEO of Mycel Sungjin Sah told TechCrunch that the company uses mycelium, a root-like structure of mushroom, to make leather substitutes that can be used in car seats and luxury cosmetic products, and fashion products like shoes, clothes and bags. Mycel isn’t the only company using mycelium to make leather. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Brian Schwarzbach Contributor Brian Schwarzbach is an SF-based investor with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Industry analysts estimate that the global fashion industry contributes up to 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year. We can do better.

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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. AudioMob – AudioMob provides non-intrusive audio ads within mobile games.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The company also aims to create a national cannabis loyalty platform, allowing a marijuana retailer in one state to easily expand its marketing capabilities into other states in a compliant fashion. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. 2020 was a defining year for cannabis: What comes next?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is hosting TC Spotlight: Austin — a virtual event highlighting the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of of founders from the Texas region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

It boasts a customer list that includes the large Brazilian fashion chain Riachuelo, and its platform integrates with others including VTEX, Magento and WooCommerce. Over the past year, the company added 12 customers and saw its revenue increase 15%. The share of e-commerce in overall retail is less than 10 percent in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone. We’re not innovating for the whole dictionary — it’s a constrained model, it’s a menu.” “We’re doing a very closed domain,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Fashion has been a primary focus for “try before you buy” services online, but the model is not limited to it. “Prime Wardrobe has solidified the power of that model for fashion, but we believe it’s much larger. . We think that any purchase that is discretionary should be tried before it is bought.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This is the model of Purple Dot , which bills itself as a “worth-the-wait” payment option for fashion brands. The advantage for retailers is that they can then decide whether or not to release a fashion product mid-season at a slightly reduced rate in order to secure the sale. It’s now raised a seed round of £1.35

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

LG’s innovation center — LG Nova among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If there is one universal truth, it’s that fashion is fickle. In the apparel industry, what’s in fashion one day may be out of fashion the next. So, if you’re an apparel manufacturer, you need the most efficient, responsive, and innovative operation possible. It’s also a social and environmental leader. Data Management

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Mayank Kukreja said that the proceeds will be put toward “aggressively expand[ing] in North America via product innovation, sales and marketing and partnership development.” “The massive dissonance between personal and business travel processes presented an interesting opportunity. .”

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

supplies global insurers, such as Zurich, with a product that applies NLP and OCR to insurance claims (which might involve such things as handwritten doctors’ notes, for instance) to enable them to be resolved faster, in not a dissimilar fashion to Omni:us and Shift. says it now has deployments in Europe, South America and APAC. raises $2.5M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

This is because diversity increases revenue, boosts innovation, sparks creativity and leads to better decision-making. The individual we surfaced had no fashion experience and limited retail experience. But the truth is, the more diversity you have, the more challenging it can be.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

.” Investors agree, with Reebelo announcing a $20 million Series A today, led by Cathay Innovation and June Fund. Other participants include FJ Labs, Naver affiliate KREAM, Moore Strategic Ventures, French Partners and Gandel Invest. It is also expanding its verticals.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2024

Choose the overall experience At the same time, e-commerce is moving more toward ultra fast fashion, a development led by Chinese fashion retailer Shein. We believe in the range, to create a holistic experience for customers where we offer the best combination between fashion, quality, price, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

What’s more, Kubernetes is designed to automate the management of containers, taking humans out of the loop and making it even more imperative that the security protocols are applied in an automated fashion as well. Today’s purchase builds on the company’s acquisition of DivvyCloud last April for $145 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is virtually hosting TC City Spotlight: Columbus — an event shining a spotlight on the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of founders from the Ohio region. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The startup, led by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, describes itself as having “created a payments-led super app, through which we offer our consumers innovative and intuitive digital products and services.” The startup says it has amassed more than 330 million users across its services, more than a third of whom transact annually.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. The fashion industry alone dumps 2.1 Allbirds is not alone in this vision or innovation — Tesla’s job is far greater than simply getting a driver from one place to another; Impossible Meats’ job is more than just feeding a hungry customer.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 16, 2018

When design principles are adapted to innovation and strategy, the odds of developing something worthwhile increases dramatically. In short, every industry would do well to take advantage of this fashion of thinking and enjoy the following benefits: Design Thinking Prioritizes the User. This is where Design Thinking comes into play.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Mencarelli: I will maybe slightly disagree and say that there is a point where you can get too data driven, where you’re not seeing what I call the edges of the innovation bell curve. It identifies things that human curation or manual processing wouldn’t uncover.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

In Asia, one such sector appears to be the luxury fashion resale market, particularly for platforms that are seeing an uptick in users and sales. The funding environment for startups across the globe has been challenging for the past year, but some sectors are still attracting checks as if it was 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

His search yielded thousands of companies that were working on industries ranging from telecommunications and fashion to video games and food. AngelList is a great resource to find the newest, most innovative companies that are going after these spaces. It was an answer to the question: How to come up with a startup idea.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This innovation not only ensures product freshness and authenticity, but boosts confidence among stakeholders in critical sectors like pharmaceuticals and food, where traceability is crucial for regulatory compliance. Empowering retail with RAIN RFID innovation Another technology that’s increasingly being leveraged is RAIN RFID.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 12, 2025

Fashion photography A model with sharp cheekbones and platinum pixie cut in a distressed leather bomber jacket stands amid red smoke in an abandoned subway tunnel. Shot from a low angle with a tilt-shift lens, blurring the background for a dreamy fashion magazine aesthetic. The lighting is contrasty, enhancing the cinematic mood.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“Generally, tools are built in a linear fashion,” said Agrawal. Bansal co-founded Zenskar along with Saurabh Agrawal in March — after surveying more than 120 customers to understand their challenges related to billing. Zenskar plans to use its fund to expand the team of its engineers.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

In today’s dynamic and ever-changing business landscape, fostering a culture of innovation within an organization is imperative. Companies, in turn, benefit from the innovative solutions and fresh perspectives that these young advisors bring, driving forward-thinking strategies and fostering a culture of inclusivity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

One thing you can definitely say about Astropad: they didn’t let a good old-fashioned Sherlocking keep them down. Initially, that meant leveraging the Luna Display technology on a variety of different platforms , while adding some innovative use cases, like teleprompter functionality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies become industry leaders because of sparks: Ideas that lead to innovation, which shakes up a category. In the modern economy, “eureka” moments are rare , and product-market fit like the iPhone, PayPal, and so many others are the outcome of sparks of innovation, yes — but more importantly, rigorous research.

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