TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

powered online fashion marketplace, Shoptrue, is launching its website into beta today with plans for a public release early next year. The site offers a “One Stop Personal Shop” for the user, which gives fashion suggestions based on their style preferences. The company expects to raise additional funding in 2023.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Bearing the brunt of the impact is the fashion industry, which employs millions of workers at retail stores, suppliers, and manufacturing factories around the world. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Walkie-talkie, a social audio platform developed by Picslo Corp, has raised a $3.25 Audio was coming back into fashion, especially with Gen Z and with the movement around anti-social networking. The company’s seed round comes as social audio apps and features have gained popularity amid the pandemic.

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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. General Catalyst — one of the group of VCs out of the U.S. ” .

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How should the fashion company scale its adaptive fashion line?

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Large organizations and enterprises always talk about "operating in a lean-startup" like fashion. The post Agile For Social Good first appeared on Agile Alliance. Do you ever wonder how does a lean-startup operate? What does it take to make a lean start up successful? Where do you start when you don't have … Continued.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Our relationship with fashion has changed, and not just because of the pandemic. Months in lockdown means people are probably more aware of their fashion purchases and how they consume, given its been such a long time without socializing. As well as this, LBD itself also curates a feed of fashion/lifestyle news and surveys.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random. (Or,

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

It had once worked with Rebecca Minkoff during Fashion Week to help women shop the show’s looks. Shoppers will also be able to share their virtual outfits with friends for a second opinion, via the new integration, adding the social element back into online shopping. EVP of Apparel and Private Brands, in an announcement.

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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

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

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. . billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Kanye West , also known as Ye, is buying niche social network Parler in a deal that will see the musician, fashion mogul, and controversy generator buy the service — but not the infrastructure that powers it. That’s our show. We will see you tomorrow morning at Disrupt!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. On Cosmos you sit on the screen and consume one video call after another as you move around the space, so it is mimicking serendipity, after a fashion. It has now raised $2.6m

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 29, 2024

A recent 60 Minutes segment was a great primer on what the cybersecurity community knows all too well—that good old-fashioned social engineering (a hustle or a con—like some of the stunts Sinatra and the gang pulled in the original Ocean's 11) remains the main point of entry for most large-scale ransomware attacks.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

” A colloquial term for the men who regularly reply to women’s posts in an overly familiar fashion, often to “mansplain,” tone police, offer unsolicited advice or gaslight the original poster, reply guys have been a longtime […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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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. The individual we surfaced had no fashion experience and limited retail experience.

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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

MARCH 31, 2023

“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.” TikTok and Instagram are now the equivalents of an old-fashioned arcade. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

While there are plenty of other places to record short-form video these days, most of these exist in the social media space, which isn’t appropriate for a work environment. ” Instead of just blasting them a message on LinkedIn, you could also paste in the Popcorn URL to introduce yourself in a more natural, friendly fashion.

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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

JULY 8, 2021

Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago. Now, the company is looking at food, beauty, fashion, and sports.

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QBurst

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Customer interest in fashion is at its peak thanks to social media and the growing interest in cultivating distinct personal styles. Consumption isn’t just about the lowest price anymore, but also about curating a lifestyle and expressing a certain fashion sensibility.

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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

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. Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands. Niche local brands are also emerging to offer tailored beauty and skin care products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of founders from the Ohio region. ” SureImpact – “Equips the social-service ecosystem with a user-friendly case management platform that enables organizations to seamlessly measure and communicate their unique social impact”

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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. If we look at an interesting comparison to the U.S., Upmesh’s dashboard for live commerce sellers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

In recent years, there has been a shift to the active use of social media and online shopping, meaning the Middle East embodies great potential for adtech startups. Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features. Social+ products are seeing mass adoption because they marry community with functionality.

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