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. However , the CEO kept mute about the whole process the following year due to how tumultuous it was for the company. IROKO instead focused on its international market, primarily the U.S

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

It was just a matter of time until an intrepid Chinese entrepreneur with a tech background decided to take on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems. The tech revolution hasn’t yet affected the bottled beverage industry quite as much as it has others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

TryNow — which provides technology to online retailers that use Shopify Plus to let their customers receive and try out apparel, return what they don’t want and pay only for what they keep — has raised $12 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its business. As-a-service, at your service.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Deals are developing beyond core business growth, encompassing new digital opportunities and emerging technologies as drivers of strategic acceleration. Resource planning : Digital investments by definition address people, process, and technology in the business case. What technology would amplify or leverage differentiation?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Investor and entrepreneur Anshu Sharma — formerly a partner at Storm Ventures, now CEO of privacy-focused SkyFlow — asked on Twitter today about the connection between interest rates and technology valuations: Ignore the compliments; Sharma was merely trying to bait Jeff and me into engaging with his question. billion to $2.0

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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. I’ll update if I hear back.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As history often reminds us, due diligence matters — and vetting an investment beyond its ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. Then the layoffs came as a response to hiring freezes from tech startups waiting out the economic downturn.

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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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CTOvision

MARCH 26, 2015

With e-readers, e-ink multi-cards, the Pebble smartwatch, and more devices on the market, e-ink can be used in a variety of ways due to its flexibility. Now, e-ink is transitioning to the fashion world. Currently, iShüu Technologies is seeking funding on Indiegogo. Chic Ways to Wear Gingham This Spring (verilymag.com).

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Some industry experts believe the pull-back is only temporary, and the future for self-checkout is bright — as soon as new technologies begin to be deployed on a large scale. When combined and supported by industry standards, the technologies may be the secret sauce to the next generation of self-check.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

However, as is common with young tech companies raising rapid-fire rounds of capital these days, Monte Carlo did not need the money. She said that Monte Carlo is perceived as a market leader in its category and that she wants to build the biggest company that she can. Databricks’ latest valuation underscores that fact.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As we wrote last week , Lerman is not just another public company CEO: His company, Yext, has some old-fashioned history with TechCrunch, having pitched at one of our events back in 2009. 2020 IPO report card: Are tech’s newest public companies meeting expectations? Make sure you’re signed up so you can jump right in.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 As inflationary pressures and service disruptions due to monsoon ease across the country we expect improvement in volumes, revenue and service margins going forward,” it said in its quarterly report published on the local stock exchanges. Indian rupees in July.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

The move could affect as much as 30% of UK tech startups, with potentially 10%, industry sources estimate. ” UK investors’joint statement on SVB-UK shut-down It’s understood the UK Prime Minister’s office, Number 10 Downing Street, is working the weekend to assess the impact on its tech industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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. Are they just giving a presentation, or are they using these tools in an open-ended fashion to spur dynamic conversation?

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CircleCI

MAY 27, 2022

Our vast technological landscape has made powerful digital tools available to businesses of all sizes, making starting (and scaling) an organization easier than ever before. In an era where technology is a fundamental building block of almost every business, methodologies like DevOps have become ubiquitous across many industries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020. The Australian tech scene is driving innovation globally. “The The Australian tech scene is driving innovation globally.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Bolt , the Estonian mobility tech company that recently closed a huge round , is planning to onboard an additional 200,000 drivers in Africa this year, as it kicks-off expansion to more cities within its existing markets while keeping up with the growing demand for e-hailing services across the continent. Image Credits: Bolt.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Most CEOs (72%) continue to prioritize digital investments, according to the 2022 CEO Outlook report from KPMG, in part due to concerns about emerging and disruptive technology, a top three risk to organizational growth. Digital transformation is the integration of digital technologies into all aspects of business operations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

market, and it’s doing so with $13 million in funding co-led by VCs General Catalyst and Aleph. each year — a number that has seen some spikes more recently due to COVID-19. In very typical startup fashion, this spells opportunity, of course. It’s not because of technology or even a regulatory barrier.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The strategist, the technical expert, the business savvy leader—those with all three commonly called unicorns, or rock stars—is a person not easy to find. This is a leader who thinks of technical features in one conversation and business strategy in the next. Say you’re a technology executive at a biopharma company.

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Honeycomb

DECEMBER 17, 2024

All the conditions necessary to alter the career paths of brand new software engineers coalescedextreme layoffs and hiring freezes in tech danced with the irreversible introduction of ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Imposter syndrome Unlike a bootcamper, AI doesnt suffer from imposter syndrome in the face of an inhospitable job market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Fashion layoffs : Secondhand apparel marketplace Poshmark is now laying off employees just two months after being acquired by Naver, Kate reports. In the face of conscripted co-founders and blacked-out bunkers, Ukraine’s tech industry marches on. Big Tech Inc. Discovery revealed that it lost another $2.1 Lorenzo has more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For those who want to design a custom product, like a tech-free children’s entertainment system , it costs $1000 to get the product designed through Cobalt. ” With the funding, Cobalt hopes to get the product to market and continue building out creator tools. In Cobalt’s $2.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. Rokas Tamoši?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

This week, I’ve been looking at the evolution of tech startups. If the company exits for a billion dollars, that means that short-sighted VCs who refuse to invest unless there’s a technical person on the founding team are effectively pushing startups into putting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equity in incompetent hands.

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BrainStation Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019: Toronto Year in Review. After years of unprecedented progress in Toronto’s tech scene, 2019 brought Canada’s biggest city yet another year of breakneck growth, big-money deals, and major-league startup success. Here are some of the most important trends and stories from a busy 2019 in Toronto tech.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This accelerated feedback loop leads to higher engagement levels, increased productivity and job satisfaction, and improved work quality, as well as deliverables that reach the market faster. At the Team Level, an organization may have a number of teams working in an agile fashion toward a particular goal or solution.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What China’s new data privacy law means for US tech firms. If you don’t have a good story to share, it doesn’t matter how big your marketing budget is. “Paid marketing can be a useful tool in your toolkit to accelerate an already humming flywheel. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion. Manara: A marketplace to connect Middle East talent to tech jobs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The startup launched only four months ago and is currently active in just four cities in Germany — Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt — although now the idea will be to use the investment to expand further across the country and to start considering which other markets to tackle next.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. What are the tech investors like? Where do you see your city’s tech scene in five years?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Investors include 500 Startups, Kingsway Capital, 468 Capital, Presight Capital, Global Founders Capital and Maximilian Bitner, the former CEO of Lazada who currently holds the same role at secondhand fashion platform Vestiaire Collective. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

The company, which has referred to itself as the “Shopify for mobile apps,” today powers the shopping apps for top brands , including Fashion Nova, Pier One Imports, The Hundreds, Patta, Culture Kings, and thousands more. Beyond the mobile app creation aspect to its business, Tapcart also helps merchants automate their marketing.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 16, 2022

And this market for attention is absolutely huge, with global ad spend weighing in at $763 billion in 2021 revenues. Credit where it’s due: I originally found this in Les Echos , which may be paywalled. But it at least looks like Disney+ can run its ad platform in a fairly low-tech fashion while also preserving privacy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

WTF is a DAO : Often when a new tech term comes into being it has a narrow scope. 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. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.5.

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