TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Here’s a fashion rental startup with a twist: London, U.K.-based Curated Loop’s co-founders, Anna Caldana and Rachel Mcluckie, bring a background in (and passion for) fashion to what they hope will be badged as a fresh approach to designer rentals. So the promise is access to unique high-end designs. to rent the look).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.)

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Now in the opening weeks of the third quarter, The Exchange is taking a look back at the Q2 2021 venture capital market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. 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. Let’s find out.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Fyllo has acquired DataOwl , a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers. Cannabis marketing company Fyllo acquires CannaRegs for $10M. They’ve historically been excluded from the kinds of integrated marketing capabilities that other non-endemic [mainstream] brands get to use when go to market.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Because of the unpredictable nature of the fashion industry, fashion brands often have to “guestimate” demand for their products, and if they get that demand wrong, they have to deal with the wasted inventory. The startup claims it’s the only solution of its type available in the market. based Unusual Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

When you think of green, climate-aware industries, you’d be forgiven if fashion isn’t at the top of your list. Not a moment too soon, either — the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and shipping combined, representing around 10% of greenhouse gases every year, the BBC reports.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boston-based marketing automation firm Klaviyo wants to change the way marketers interact with data, giving them direct access to their data and their customers. “I think our success is because we are a hybrid customer data and marketing platform. Klaviyo raises $150M Series B after building company the old-fashioned way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

A few years ago Kathleen Chan , the CEO and founder of Calico , launched a couple of small fashion companies, but as those companies scaled quickly with the help of Shopify and Facebook ads, she noted a lack of tools to help her manage the back office of a business specifically geared to fashion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. There is a large underserved market for branded apparel in India currently.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

“Microinfluencers” are gaining clout among marketers. Influencers typically make about $35 to $40 USD for each campaign they participate in, and most of the brands the company works with focus on food (like restaurants), fashion, beauty or lifestyle services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., The Gurugram-based startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Also communicating clearly how the debt impacts business strategy and goals in an executive-friendly fashion is key. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Before a startup can achieve product-market fit, founders must first listen to their customers, build what they require and fashion a business plan that makes the whole enterprise worthwhile. First-time founders often try to build the product they think the market wants. Rami Essaid , CEO and founder, Finmark.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

The world’s largest smartwatch market is about to get two new smart rings. BoAt and Noise are entering the smart ring market after putting up a tough fight against Apple, Samsung and Huawei with affordable wearables. year-on-year growth in the overall wearable market, with 32.8 While the smart ring market in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

At the time, we noted that American startups raised an average of $428 million each day last year, a sum that helps illustrate how rapid the private markets moved during the odd period. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The private market is able to create more unicorns than it has been historically able to exit them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 million pre-seed to that end. billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Navigating the choppy e-commerce seas : As reporter Ingrid Lunden writes, “e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. In Africa, for instance, fashion has held the top spot in Jumia for the largest category of items sold over the years. markets representing the most affluent black and diasporan neighborhoods. and Europe to customers globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

While the announcement follows India’s decision to ban Sea’s popular title “Free Fire” in the country last month, TechCrunch reports that the company is insisting the reason is “global market uncertainties.” The Shopee site was not even a year old. Is the startup slowdown here ? It’s too soon to say. Big Tech Inc. Pinterest adds $1.2M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Zyod, an Indian startup offering apparel sourcing and manufacturing to fashion brands globally, has raised $3.5 However, fashion brands continue to grapple with the challenges of sourcing and producing garments in order to meet the fast-growing demands of the industry. million in a seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture India Partners.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our customers and prospects face a growing challenge of managing vast amounts of product data across multiple channels and markets, adds Fouache. The platform offers tailored solutions for different market segments. The biggest challenge retailers face isnt access to AI, but the quality and readiness of their product data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

With Affirm releasing an initial IPO price range last night and Poshmark repeating the feat this morning, private-market investor expectations are holding up thus far. Secondhand fashion marketplace Poshmark anticipates its IPO could price between $35 and $39 per share. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Regardless, a few companies stuck out in this batch as up-and-coming tools for fashion bloggers and Twitch streamers alike. Jamble is a secondhand clothing market that uses short-form video and livestreaming to help users make sales. “Live streaming is a game changer in secondhand fashion,” Jamble writes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants. Image Credits : Uncover Skincare.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But in areas like fashion or furniture, where shoppers are seeking a particular look or style rather than a branded product, it’s easy to get mired in search results. While still a ways from its public launch, Daydream’s website teases its planned offering with sample fashion searches that its tool will match with products.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. Almost 90% of Indonesians are Muslim, so “when you say we target the Muslim market, we are targeting almost all of Indonesia,” he added. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Augmented reality headsets have been around for years, but none of the market players has really expanded beyond the techy demographic and broken into the mainstream. An AR startup hopes to change that by partnering with an eyewear fashion brand. Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Germany.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

These layoffs are symptomatic of an increasingly fluid corporate talent market that is changing the way we think about work. This has become known as fractional working, a model in which expert advisers in finance, marketing, product and other verticals leverage their expertise in part-time advisory roles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market. Why the sudden recommerce resurgence?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. But amid pandemic-induced lockdown fears, consumer discretionary spending reduced in Nigeria and other African markets. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The most extreme version of this obvious truism was WeWork’s first run at the public markets. Both companies eventually did debut, with Box managing to do so via normal methods, while WeWork had to wait for a SPAC to chariot it to the public markets. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2021

While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets. Tabor explained that the e-commerce landscape in Latin America was consolidated, meaning few banks controlled more of the market. He has identified Mexico, Colombia and Argentina as potential new markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Today’s venture capital market feels strange because it isn’t uniform. While some companies are still able to raise mega-rounds , reach unicorn status , and even attract lots of new capital in sectors that have seen their exits struggle on the public markets, other startups are not having similar luck. Is that bad or good?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

A much-anticipated market downturn may finally be here, and investors have been preparing for it by diversifying their portfolios away from the traditional stock and bond holdings, and into alternative assets such as collectibles. million in pre-seed funding to prepare for its launch from investors including fashion entrepreneur Veronica M.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

After a turbulent week for the stock market and halts to the trading of certain speculative securities including GameStop (GME) and AMC, consumer investing app Robinhood has raised new capital. Robinhood told users that it would allow trading to begin in some fashion today in shares it had previously restricted.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Once a key point of discussion when the IPO market was alive , today we’re sifting through what is left of the micromobility sector, now freshly depopulated to a new local maximum. Renting fashion? Not every great product makes for a good business. Great idea, lovely product, fun service.

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