Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

tech unicorns made it to market. footnote]since the companys March IPO , delivering a market cap around $26 billion. Gauzy , an Israeli maker of liquid crystal controllers and films, has also done poorly, with shares losing roughly half their value since debuting in June. Just a handful of U.S.

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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. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. But it’s quite different with IROKO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . The world will be a better place because of what Joro will bring to market.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Qiara wants to modernize the good old home security market with live agents. You can also enable a privacy shutter when you’re at home so that the security camera isn’t filming your family. So let’s see if Qiara can start from scratch and capture some market share in the home security market in France.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2025

This greatly accelerated its production workflows, enhancing collaboration across teams on production files, with 20 times performance gains in distributing production files and rapid pre-visualization of entire film sequences, as scenes can be loaded in 30 seconds as opposed to 10 minutes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 Founded in 2017 by Shemen and Jiameng Gao, Papercup offers an AI-powered dubbing solution that identities human voices in a target film or show and generates dubs in a new language.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The media licensing business is a massive market, but much of the work involved is still handled manually through emails and spreadsheets. “There’s always a timeframe that they follow — whether it’s a film release or game release,” Törmä says. A startup called Flowhaven is working to change that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. It’s been good for so long among the tech-and-money class that quoting a film about a corrupt financier is too boring to warrant even warmed-over ennui. There’s an old joke: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Enter WeWork.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

The company’s three co-founders, Velez, Edward Wible and Cristina Junqueira , had to make key strategic decisions about how to scale themselves to retain the company’s lead in the neobanking market. Like most Disney films, a fairy-tale ending seems in order, but it’ll take a few more rotations of the film wheel to get to the ending.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The company was also in discussions with Tom Cruise about filming at least part of an upcoming film aboard the ISS, and it’s in development with a production company on a forthcoming competition reality show that will see contestants vie for a spot on a private flight to the station.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2025

Under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works , which became the Paris Act in 1971, original works of authorship such as films, illustrations and designs are protected the moment they are created, requiring no formal registration.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2025

From farm to fork, the global food and beverage industry is undergoing a transformation one thats not being driven by chefs or marketers alone, but by AI-powered systems behind the scenes. Greg also founded the Internet of Things Consortium, leads the Emerging Tech Exchange and serves on the boards of Montclair Film and IRTS.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5 million in its first outside funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

When the market got a chance to examine the unicorn, they discovered it was really a one-trick pony with a cardboard horn. Film and TV critics weren’t surprised, and neither were those few consumers who’d heard of the company. For the most recent, and maybe most damning, example of this trend, look at WeWork.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

The seminal 1987 horror film “Zepotha” is back on TikTok. Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user feeds. It’s all part of a clever marketing campaign to promote a new song by the musical artist Emily Jeffri. If you don’t remember Zepotha, you’re not alone. Zepotha never existed. Her original video has 7.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Morgan’s head of digital investment banking and digital private markets, will join us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. 1 box office films that have grossed more than $4.23 Venture funding inequity remains a big issue. Just part of Kevin Hart’s impressive Hollywood CV includes eleven No.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In recent quarters, the Chinese market has seen its openings narrow. Films that might have found a release window in the country are failing to make it to market, for example. The news was first disclosed over the weekend, albeit to muted note and coverage.

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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

MARCH 12, 2022

Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software. Virtual reality is about to launch in series production cars this summer, starting with Audi sedans and SUVs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

.” In fact, the company said that annual recurring revenue has increased 12x over the past year as clients like Dell, HubSpot, ViacomCBS and TechCrunch’s parent company Verizon Media have used it to record things like marketing videos, internal communications, customer testimonials and more.

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CIO

AUGUST 10, 2023

When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began working with other leaders in the company to bring a new category of services to the market that complemented its physical products. We now have three services on the market and a fourth on its way.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Changes in the entertainment landscape driven by tech (streaming) have impacted how shows and films are monetized, meaning that the prior norms of the relationship between the entertainment business and the people doing the labor also need to change.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2021

I’m hopeful over the next five years we’re going to start seeing more unicorns and real successes coming out of the market, which I think will create a positive halo effect and that’ll create the next generation of founders. Elevate Acting CEO James Pinner.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Wang said they learned that less than 9% of all plastic is actually recycled — and many things put into the recycling bin don’t get recycled because there is a lack of market demand for contaminated, low-grade plastic waste. HDPE, which is used in milk jugs and laundry detergent and shampoo bottles, is the most recyclable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Pixar’s films don’t resolve pain directly, but they do reduce boredom and cause excitement and entertainment. Look at the adverts and the way Coca-Cola markets itself. Isn’t this just marketing? A lot of companies decide to leave their entire storytelling efforts with the marketing team. Advertising? Raising investment?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dominic-Madori and Natasha M wrote about the YC’s diversity data , and Anita and Natasha M observed that the accelerator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility. Online grocery company Misfits Market is to acquire Imperfect Foods , reports Christine. In startup land, it’s been a lot of Y Combinator goodness.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

In general, the results for a prompt like “Film still of a woman drinking coffee, walking to work, telephoto” will be much more consistent than “A woman walking.” It’s unknown how big the market will be, but I can see it being a key tech skill, if not the future of programming.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

. “They train their models on Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but the stuff that comes out of it is trash […] The critical breakthrough we realized is that computers cannot write music, the same way that AI can’t write a film and can’t write a book. But AI can reconstruct music in a way that the human ear responds to.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We’ve had phenomenal growth last year, some of it from our mid-market customers, but mostly from customers like Target and Kroger,” Kalb said. Meanwhile, Amanda Groves, partner at PLUS Capital, said her firm works with about 65 individuals who are in film, television, sports and culture, including the four new investors in Shelf Engine.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nomad’s grill looks like some kind of fancy protective case that you’d expect to see traveling with a film crew, crossed with maybe a modern Mac Pro. It has an anodized aluminum build that uses a unibody casting in manufacturing, with high external durability and internal heat retention. Bottom line.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

on the Hugh Jackman film “Reminiscence” that allowed fans to insert themselves into its trailer. D-ID CEO and co-founder Gil Perry told me that the company chose the new direction because it was apparent that there’s a very large addressable market when it comes to this kind of application.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

If you're into filming outdoor activities with one of the best action cameras on the market, the DJI Action 5 Pro is the way to go.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

This experience taught her a lot about launching new products built from scratch, and helping them to find product market fit, she says. Avatar-based social discovery apps have been popular in other markets in Asia and in Brazil, but have yet to make their way to the U.S. Image Credits: SwoonMe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Meanwhile, Superplastic’s relationships with LINE and Kakao are already helping the characters gain a foothold in Asian markets that Kidrobot never quite pulled off. With the new investment, Superplastic will run with its plans for an animated feature film slated for 2022 starring its disturbed cast of alt-Disney characters.

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