TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts. But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Brodmann17, an Israeli computer vision technology startup that developed a novel approach to take on a marketplace dominated by Mobileye, shut down this week. The trio focused their efforts on developing a new approach to computer vision technology designed to support advanced driver assistance systems.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. This technology already exists.” The technology exists, but it’s very nascent,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs. According to the company over 15,000 merchants use its POS terminals and mobile application.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Factor in today’s soaring construction costs , material and labor shortages and supply chain constrain ts , and there is more demand than ever from contractors for technology that will help them operate more efficiently and less expensively. He believes the construction industry has been “underserved” by technology “for far too long.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

When young (or youngish) people think of age-tech, they may picture mostly clinical solutions—telemedicine platforms, for instance. A tabletop console gaming system, Gameboard , also lets family members enjoy fun time, instead of just chat time, with one another. Growing older, however, doesn’t just have a physical component.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Patients are able to receive frequent medical reviews, 24/7 nursing, intravenous therapies, blood tests and in-person visits. ” ‘Move fast and break things’ is a bad idea for health tech startups.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By Samara Hernandez and Grisel Hernandez The continuing surge in food delivery culture has not only transformed the way we enjoy our meals, it has also paved the way for groundbreaking advancements in restaurant operations technology. The addressable opportunity The global food market represents a substantial one. In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Atrium (2017-2020).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

‘High conviction, low volume’ Playfair, for its part, seeks out founders “outside of dominant tech hubs,” as well as founders working on projects that may run more tangential to where the main hype and “buzzy-ness” exists. ” A large chunk of early-stage deals fall apart in the due diligence phase. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Setting aside traditional media and marketing tactics, Bitrise hired a manga artist to create a comic featuring a mobile developer, developed “Japan-first” swag to hand out, and even crafted a full-sized mascot costume for conferences. Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Byteboard , a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. A group of experienced engineers review and rate the interviews.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In the wake of the bank’s collapse, founders in Africa have been forced to review their banking options to cushion their startups from such eventualities. We don’t have (in Africa) a financial system that is remotely mature enough to deal with startup financing. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. Nala, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The address verification system merchants use to verify a purchaser is who they say they are, involves sending information to a bank that is returned to the merchant with a score of whether that match is legitimate. “In That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Most of the time no one has to think about how the mobile networks we all rely on work. But it won’t surprise many to hear that, as is often the case with infrastructure, some pieces are the latest tech and others haven’t changed in decades. Size of a standard pole-based cell and one using Eridan’s tech.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles. The healthcare business has embraced numerous technology-based solutions to increase productivity and streamline clinical procedures. Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Emerging Patterns.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2022

Welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we do a quick rundown of the most-read TechCrunch stories from the past week. The idea: When you’ve had a busy few days, you should be able to skim Week in Review and still have a good idea of what’s up lately in tech. Hello hello! Want it in your inbox?

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

Siemens Mobility has been on a robotic process automation (RPA) journey for years, growing from five automated processes in 2017 to more than 700 now, transforming the company in the process. There was just one book [on RPA] on the market back in 2017, where today you have hundreds,” says Benjamin Bock, head of RPA at Siemens Mobility. “By

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Deci , a startup company with 50 employees who are developing a platform to build and optimize AI-powered systems, today announced that it closed a $25 million Series B financing round led by Insight Partners with participation from Square Peg, Emerge, Jibe Ventures, Fort Ross Ventures, and ICON that brings the company’s total raised to $55.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. ” BeamUP’s building portfolio dashboard for mobile. Image Credits: BeamUP.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

and millions of those end up in shelters where they aren’t always reunited with their owners, due to their lack of identification or a microchip. A new mobile app, Shadow , aims to tackle this problem by leveraging a combination of a volunteer network and A.I. technology to help dog owners, in particular. It then uses A.I.

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CIO

APRIL 7, 2023

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Tech investors must make sure that Israel is part of their portfolio.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

In the startup’s view, a new generation of creative-focused tooling will bring the market to an era in which content management systems, or CMSs — say, Substack or WordPress — will not own the center of tooling. That’s Pico’s bet, and so it’s building what it considers to be an operating system for the creator market.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

From internal training materials to formal, technical communications to regulatory agencies, Lilly is translating information often,” says Timothy F. That married up well with an opportunity to explore and learn emerging technologies,” he says. “It Passion project pays off.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

As reported by Life Insurance International: “Level has created a tech-driven underwriting process for early-stage fintech startups that is claimed to have brought new efficiency and speed to the debt-raising process. He told me: “The question I have is who will capitalize on this bear market to scoop up valuable technology or talent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. I nvestors can run extremely lean operations with access to proprietary deal flow, automated deal filtering and on-demand experts to support due diligence, research and portfolio support.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Israeli startup TriEye has raised $74 million to commercialize a type of sensing technology that can be used to help autonomous and driver-assistance systems to see better in adverse conditions. The technology uses short-wave infrared (SWIR), which refers to a wavelength range that is outside the visible spectrum.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Founded in 2013 by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Standard Energy expects one of its main customers to be the energy storage systems (ESS) sector, which the company says is expected to grow from $8 billion to $35 billion in the next five years. “A

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

” “But then we thought, what can we do with the tech we’ve got from R&D? We realized we needed to do an education solution, because for education our technology is definitely good enough,” he continued. Currently it’s for desktop browsers only but the team is planning a mobile app as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users. ” Image Credits: Yubo. .

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“We haven’t changed our forecast in three quarters,” he says, noting that the US gross domestic product (GDP) is, technically, already in recession territory and has been for the past six months. That’s certainly the case in the corporate technology group at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a $14.5

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. Exceptions are sometimes made for the largest enterprises — think Walmart, Exxon Mobil, CVS, Berkshire Hathaway, and the like — but not usually for many others. That’s where the contract comes into play.

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