TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The social commerce market is already worth more than $13 billion in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Many sellers don’t have online storefronts and instead use social media and messaging apps, which means payment is made by switching to banking apps or wallets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. was a no-brainer since the market has so little variety in it at the moment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 Giraudie joined the team after Larroque and Martin put Walkie-talkie on the market and saw organic growth in several countries. Audio was coming back into fashion, especially with Gen Z and with the movement around anti-social networking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Seemingly, much of Maisonette’s traction owes to the trust it has built with customers, who see its offerings as high-end yet accessible relative to the many high-end fashion brands that are also increasingly focused on the children’s market, like Gucci and Burberry. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Launched in the Philippines, social commerce startup Resellee wants to recreate the success of Pinduoduo, one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce companies, in Southeast Asia. Like Pinduoduo, India’s Meesho and other social commerce platforms, Reselllee does not require sellers to carry their own inventory.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Perussault Diallo as a marketplace for Africa-based and -inspired fashion, clothing, accessories, arts and crafts. After some research, the founders noticed that these sellers also engaged with other channels, such as websites or social media. Afrikrea is now one of the features on the ANKA website.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I’m going to tell you the cold hard truth about social media…what you need to know that most people won’t tell you. While anyone can have a social media presence, not everyone possesses social media influence. It’s clear to those in the know that social media is a universe of the haves and have nots.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Very kind of the market to kick off Disrupt with some good news. Crypto is quieter, with prices not changing much and the general vibe of the market not evolving a whit. It is worth noting that West bought Parler after running into trouble with mainstream social services over his antisemitic posts.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

But while Afrikrea presents African merchants to showcase and sell their products to the world, it is just one of the many channels available, including personal websites and social media. “Every time they want to sell a product, they put it on social media, Afrikrea, and other websites. . trillion by 2025.

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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. Startups and VC. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Before TMV, Darabi managed digital partnerships and social media marketing at The New York Times. She also co-founded two companies: Zady, which helps with sustainable fashion manufacturing, and Foodspotting, a visual guide that helps diners find dishes near them (since acquired by OpenTable).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Yes, there is a way of doing it, it turns out, and that’s the market Artie is taking a leap into. I can either follow the game there and return (akin to Farmville back in the day and Facebook) and go back to social to play, or I can save a bookmark or a progressive web app to my phone screen and have a pseudo-app at my finger tips.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The company owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” — characters who live on social media and pop up everywhere else through partnerships with celebrities, iconic fashion brands and gaming platforms. New ‘No Ads’ Social Network Ello Is Blowing Up Right Now. Ello, Ello?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It delivers packages of all kinds for merchants and retailers — ranging from mom and pop stores and social media to fashion retailers who make thousands of shipments and international brands — to customers in Egypt. But Egypt is an entirely different market compared to these developed regions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services — The company envisions application developers embedding video in social, gaming or retail applications. Dobrik, meanwhile, has stepped down from the Dispo board and left the company. The tech giants. Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Upmesh was created to automate the checkout process and ultimately wants to create a platform similar to Whatnot where people can discover new live commerce sellers across different social media platforms. The way the software is structured has to be very customized to the individual markets,” Wong said. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

He closed a $4 million seed round to go after two macro trends he is seeing: buying physical products, like consumer-packaged goods, on a recurring basis, and new industries offering subscriptions, like car and fashion companies. The first wave could play the Facebook game, advertising on social media with super low acquisition and scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

There’s a lot going on: The venture capital market is redlining its engines while public markets remain sympathetic to growing, unprofitable companies. Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

She said the idea to make a better set of readers came to her because she found herself frustrated by the current options on the market. My friends were posting on social media these really depressing comments and posts like: ‘I’m old and turning into my parents, this is awful.’ “It all started a few years ago.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2021

James Nash is CEO and founder of inbeta , a tech-enabled talent specialist using data, social listening and human science to help corporations overcome bias. Today, the age of corporate social justice is dawning. And it’s not just the language that you use in your marketing that matters.

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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. We buy ideals of life more than the actual features.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The startup works with more than 200 brands and over 45,000 artisans from 47 countries, who sell to retailers like West Elm and The Citizenry, across major markets including in North America and Asia. We are providing these businesses with new visibility into the specialty retail market in North America. which is our primary market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Tel Aviv-based visual search and product discovery platform Syte , already used by brands like Farfetch and Fashion Nova, plans to expand in the United States and Asia-Pacific region after its latest funding. and Asia-Pacific markets. Syte says that its solutions can increase conversion by 177% on average.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year — nearly as large as the conventional art market by some estimates — and it’s expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week by blockchain analytics firm Nansen.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

More former than the latter, given the frozen IPO market. Kream rushes to a $742M valuation because fashion nerds like the circular economy In a world of abundance, some things are rare, which is why reseller platforms for luxury goods exist. This isn’t good news for the wider proptech market right now. billion just a year ago.

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DataRobot

JULY 6, 2021

Old-Fashioned Service. Shopping was a social experience. In this time of social distancing, we order supplies on the internet and have them delivered to our homes. confirmed that this cognitive limit on social relationships extends to social media. AI, Sales, and Marketing. Malls are commonplace.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

E-commerce sales typically account for 80% of Glossier’s revenue, the Business of Fashion reported last July. . Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

If Elon doesn’t buy Twitter, at least Snoop Dogg is ready to pounce : Early this morning, Elon Musk tweeted that his proposed purchase of Twitter was on hold while he figures out the percentage of fake accounts using the social media channel. His plan for it is not bad, actually. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

When Laura Wittig and Liza Moiseeva met as guests on a podcast about sustainable fashion, they jibed so well together that they began one of their own: Good Together. The startup has gone through Snap’s Yellow accelerator , an in-house effort from the social media company that began in 2018.

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