TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months. We currently have five centers open. doctors for every 10,000 people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

We grew this initial interest to 400+ of our highest paying clients over the past eight years by making community — both virtual and in-person — central to our offering and our approach to relationship-building, all without having a dedicated presence in the county.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. Sirinoglu acknowledged that the round is an outsized one for the Turkish market. “They let people play together and compete together.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The team’s original idea was to help people who were missing out on social connections under Covid lockdowns find a way to meet others and chat online. And they saw the potential in online, which would sometimes deliver 4x or 5x the attendance of virtual, Coburn points out. This is the taxi market, pre-Uber.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Chepkemboi says this arrangement earns shoppers up to 60% in savings, even with the agents earning sales commissions.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Virtual Recruitment Events and Hackathons In 2025, virtual recruitment events will continue to grow in importance, especially with the evolution of remote work and hybrid education models. Virtual job fairs, webinars, and information sessions will become the norm, allowing employers to engage with students from universities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A lot of things are changing quickly with social media, which has become more toxic in some ways and less trustful about safety and security of its users, as well as taking away some of the controls that brands had to engage with their audience on their terms,” Myers said. “It How engaged are your employees?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

In the era before Zoom fatigue set in, the trio launched Mainstream Live, a website and newsletter that curated live virtual events across platforms and gave people text-based reminders to check them out. “We Early in the pandemic, Nick Gerard, Steven Layne, and Samantha Safer Valentine had a hit on their hands. Now, Norby has raised a $3.8

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In Italy specifically, more than 52% of companies, and CIOs in particular, continue to struggle finding the technical professionals they need, according to data by Unioncamere, the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies. million compared to about 3.6 Smart working is sometimes a must,” he says. “I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

million seed round and values the company at $95 million post-money, will be put toward go-to-market efforts in the U.S. In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service. The tranche, which comes after a previously unannounced $10.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This includes marketing tests on social media platforms that yielded a respectable return on investment, he added. Christian Rudder, co-founder of OkCupid, is the lead investor in the seed round. He said that he doesn’t typically invest at the seed stage, but was impressed with the progress Pancake has made in a short period of time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Startups and VC It’s always nice to have a lot of capital to invest, but managing a large new fund can be even more advantageous right now given that many later-stage companies that put off fundraising last year will likely be in the market come hell or high water in 2023, Connie reports. billion , up from the $1.3 Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After a challenging year for location-based virtual reality startups due to COVID-19, Sandbox VR , a location-based VR startup, is making a comeback with a plan to expand its operations further across the globe. Sandbox VR aims to be an immersive social experience through a combination of full-body motion capture and VR technologies.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ve all heard about how difficult the job market is on the applicant side, with candidates getting very little response from prospective employers. In fact, virtually everybody expects the pace to pick up. But the hiring side isn’t much easier. And there’s no end in sight. This has improved the morale and reduced burnout.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Platforms for dentists are booming right now as many governments gradually make it harder to access dentistry via social care, especially in the U.K. But the most lucrative market is cosmetic dentistry, and this is where startups are often playing, such as aggregating private clinics under a simple booking platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply to the metaverse lessons learned in the esports boom. We are just at the beginning of seeing what the metaverse market opportunity can be,” said Greenfield. million subscribers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” The market Includes messaging. Daniel Liss. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

We’re building a social+ world, but how will we moderate it? The pandemic accelerated the development of a global workforce by virtually eliminating geographic boundaries for businesses; remote work became the norm. More posts by this contributor. Leasing Creative Office Space? Don’t Get Screwed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been focused on building consumer-facing apps that would allow the company to test out new social features and gauge people’s reactions. Now, NPE will begin testing out a new thesis: that the next big idea may come from a market outside the U.S. based projects.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 22, 2025

They might highlight market dynamics, technical feasibility, or lessons theyve learned from similar ventures, which can be invaluable for shaping your strategy. In my case, I am building a virtual data room productivity tool from scratch. I may end up failing, but I have more certainty and optimism backed by real market feedback.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

Alta , a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 Alta’s next goal is to expand and build networks of virtual worlds across multiple platforms, incorporating elements of the metaverse, Anoshechkin said. The consumer virtual reality market is projected to reach more than $5 billion by 2023 from $2.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot is announcing a new $20 million funding round to build out an imagined virtual world populated with deranged-yet-cute cartoon influencers. “I’m more interested in connecting the real world, not just doing stuff that’s all virtual,” Budnitz said. Ello, Ello?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist , but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. This was followed by Social (70 apps), Entertainment (57 apps), Books (37 apps), Lifestyle (33 apps), Tools (26 apps), Business (25 apps).

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

When I talk with business leaders, I often hear metaverse as a marketing focus or an innovation one; usually, it’s not comprehensive and strategically integrated with the business. Watch for great augmented, virtual, and extended reality experiences that help us collaborate in meetings and consume entertainment in new ways.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

. “We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact. They will benefit from our scale, our talent, and our ability to help bring their innovations to the market faster.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. There are very few marketing channels as well rounded as email newsletters.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Twine , a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speed matching” platform designed for virtual events. intelligence.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Just a decade ago, the use of augmented and virtual reality in healthcare was deemed science fiction. Animal testing can be reduced, and human clinical trials can be expedited using AR and VR (Virtual Reality) technology, referred to as “virtual patients” or “organs-on-a-chip.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Big impact. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Every exhibiting startup gets a virtual booth where you can post a company video and links to your website and social media accounts. Hopin, the virtual platform, lets you get creative — and interactive. The Startup Alley+ experience begins July 9 with free attendance to TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

billion in annual revenue to the global cybercrime market. Phishing-as-a-Service Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms offer ready-made phishing kits, targeting email, social media, or other communication channels. This ecosystem has contributed over $1.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

In this new decade, it is possible to first out-market your competitor, and then raise lots of money, hire the best team and build, rather than the other way around (building first, then marketing). Mmhmm, the virtual camera app that adds TV-presenter flair to video meetings, launched with a viral video that hit over 1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. At the time, these integrations appeared to be the end goal that explained why Epic Games had bought the social startup in the first place.

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