TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Mikal is an early-stage investor at Wavemaker Partners investing in startups across North America, MENA and Asia and author of the newsletter Emergent , analyzing one fast-growing startup in an emerging market every week. Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, has been slow to adapt to the internet economy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. The plan is to host a three-week takeover with Crypto.com, showing consumers how digitized fashion could lay the path toward a zero-waste and more sustainable future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Purplle, an e-commerce platform for beauty products in India, said on Monday it has raised $45 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? million in a round co-led by Amazon. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 The company counts SoftBank, Tiger Global, Times Internet, The Carlyle Group, Steadview Capital and Addition among its backers. apiece to as low as 382 Indian rupees ($4.62) before slight recovery.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It remains at a relatively nascent phase expansion in the technology industry but is at the same time developed enough to have a 400-million-strong internet user base. Sea is the 65 th most valuable company in the world with a market cap of $187 billion, while Bukalapak was Indonesia’s largest-ever IPO at $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lily began life as an app for retailers to help understand women shoppers’ personal preferences around fashion. Lily now retains a team of “experts” in fashion, home and beauty who help to refine product taxonomies, which are then used to train algorithms for product search and recommendations. For example, Depict.ai

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The universe of Indian firms attempting to replicate Thrasio’s success in the world’s second-largest internet market just got bigger. Supam and I have been talking about this for several years, trying to find ways to disrupt this market. We think there’s an opportunity to create a new house of brands that is digital-native.”.

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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 24, 2021

Unlike other social e-commerce apps, including ChiliBeli and Woobiz in Indonesia, that build networks of resellers or agents who market items through their social media profiles and take a cut of sales, KitaBeli’s buyers place orders directly through its app, participating in group deals for lower prices.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use. “The visibility gap and the resulting risk was greatest for those unmanaged IoT, internet of medical things, and operational technology devices that could not be secured like traditional IT infrastructure.” In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 hospitals today. . ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

. “We saw the trend of Pinduoduo, learned how the model worked, built it and sent it out to the market a little over a year ago,” he told me matter-of-factly in an interview the other day. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S. off a sale.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. Physically, the Chinese market also differs greatly from much of the developed West.

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DataRobot

JULY 6, 2021

Old-Fashioned Service. In this time of social distancing, we order supplies on the internet and have them delivered to our homes. We’ve traded old-fashioned, personalized service for scale and convenience. AI, Sales, and Marketing. In the twenty-first century, we’ve seen the rise of the internet and AI.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The funding is being led by Balderton Capital, with Global Founders Capital (the firm connected to Rocket Internet’s Samwer family), Burda Principal Investments, La Famiglia and 468 Capital also participating. (La The reason for the vote of confidence is that so far, the numbers look promising.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. “The demand in the secondary market has been growing and growing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Instant grocery delivery continues to be a very frothy market, but today comes news of a major funding round for one player in it that investors believe will still be standing after the hype has died down. billion ($2.85 billion post-money). TechCrunch has confirmed the above details with executives across the companies.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As internet creators and influencers grow their followings, it’s not always intuitive what the best way to monetize might be. These products go beyond an influencer moneygrab — Cobalt is deliberately not developing apparel products, since Black is concerned about the environmental impact of fast fashion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Co-founder Kiren Tanna, former chief executive officer of Rocket Internet Asia, said the startup is “platform agnostic,” searching across marketplaces (and platforms like Shopify, Magento or WooCommerce) for potential acquisitions. That is where Una Brands comes in. Una announced today that it has raised a $40 million equity and debt round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In an earlier interview, he recalled the struggle he faced raising money for a direct-to-consumer brand, which were not as popular in the world’s second-largest internet market just five years ago. Tuesday’s announcement is a major turnaround for Sanghvi, who started MyGlamm in 2017 after pivoting his previous venture.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

“This is a nascent industry and so there is a lot of both market and user education involved in introducing people to this technology and ensuring brands can capitalize on its potential,” Dogadkina said. internet users were expected to shop in VR ahead of the 2022 holiday season. A separate poll of over 2,000 U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The fresh cash brings the company’s total raised to $20 million, and CEO Shinji Kim tells me that it’ll be put toward product engineering, go-to-market and customer success efforts. For example, a business might want to look at sales data, marketing data and product usage data together to get a complete profile of a customer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Zededa’s success in securing cash during a downturn, too, suggests that the edge computing market is robust. It also guides users through the deployment steps, leveraging open source projects designed for Internet of Things orchestration and cyber defense. As the edge computing market evolves and matures,” Ouissal said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It will be using the funds to expand to more markets — both to grow its business in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands (where it’s already operating) and to launch in Spain and the U.S. We’re still just scratching the surface of a €1 trillion global market.”. It’s also not alone in trying to tackle the market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

A startup called Soona , now backed by an additional $35 million in Series B funding, has been tapping into this market with its platform that allows brands to create content for their e-commerce websites and marketing through “virtual” photo and video shoots. “We invite you to join your photo shoot in the browser.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Payments for consumers have made a huge shift to the online world in the last year, a time when they have moved more of their purchasing to the internet to minimize in-person transactions in the midst of a virus-based health pandemic. “Every dollar in this round is going towards R&D and sales and marketing. It takes a 2.9%

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Do it right—now In 1995, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sent an internal company memo calling the internet a “tidal wave” that would be crucial to every part of the company’s business. Like the internet, AI was born in a digital-first world, using data as its food for artificial thought. What might a new playbook look like?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, but instead bots that ran automated routines with ill intent. ThreatX develops bot defense tech for APIs and web apps, while PerimeterX uses machine learning to help understand normal behavior and shut down anomalous, bot-driven behavior in an automated fashion.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you reflect on the emerging-tech landscape, you see the following killer apps: Early-day internet: E-commerce. Hence, my usual crack that machine learning is just linear algebra with better marketing. Based on my research, I suspect web3’s killer apps will come out of two unlikely fields: fashion and loyalty programs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

.” Growth projections are nice, but showing investors concrete plans for onboarding and retention, fighting churn and addressing other growth factors will help demonstrate how well you understand your market. She settled on “6 extremely online books to gift your most internet-obsessed friends.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Like the internet. The startup said it works with creators and fashion brands — customers include Adidas, New Balance, Dior, Pull&Bear, and Warner Brothers — to help them build cross-game avatar “assets” across the metaverse. We’re trying to push the world towards that metaverse.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The gap in the market that thirdweb is addressing is one that Bartlett said he discovered with his co-founder Furqan Rydhan when they were working on building a blockchain application themselves. And as of this week, some 150,000 smart contracts have been deployed across six blockchains. “Our data showed that we had bucked the trend.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I celebrated the first day of the month by having my internet cut out right as I started to prepare this newsletter for you. And, just as often, the term gets diluted down to meaninglessness in rapid fashion. There’s no better signal of having a product in-market that people need than the fact that they pay you for it.

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Or simply forget to read bookmarked posts because…there is just too much content on the internet. As described by marketing consultant Mark Schaefer, the situation when humans can no longer consume an ever-growing amount of content is the content shock. This changes the game for marketers. Source: Deloitte.

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Since its origins in the early 1970s, LexisNexis and its portfolio of legal and business data and analytics services have faced competitive threats heralded by the rise of the Internet, Google Search, and open source software — and now perhaps its most formidable adversary yet: generative AI, Reihl notes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

market, pitched as “authentic, real-time AI search.” The new AI-infused Bing search engine in action Image Credits : Microsoft And this, effectively, is what Neeva is now bringing to international markets, a month on from its U.S. “In our upcoming upgrades, Neeva can.” But we will be fixing that soon.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

It’s a phenomenon that happens surprisingly often, and it’s time that VCs get as savvy about the tech as they are about the market and financial side of company building. Such as: Creators gonna create : The “creator economy” is receiving its fair share of side-eye harrumphs, but it seems like VCs are still bullish on the market.

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