TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

There is a paradox when it comes to retail investors: Many startup-related deals are out of their reach (in part for their own sake). And when we consider the period of hype surrounding their public debuts, it’s difficult to not wonder how many retail traders got burned. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The “native retail” startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Accel. What a time to take a leap and start a company at the intersection of hospitality and physical retail, two industries that were getting decimated,” he said. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail Rocket , a retention management platform for brands, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Cyprus-based private equity fund Flintera. “The complexity of digital marketing tools is booming too — just several years ago we couldn’t imagine the technologies we use today.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies ’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. We can bring dignity back to the technology world, while also understanding users’ needs.

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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. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

While these factors are largely out of retailers’ control, we’re seeing a few emerging companies that have adapted by entrenching with existing customers and building their organic brand. The new retail challenge. The new retail challenge. retail sales in Q4 of 2021, down from 13.6% of total U.S. in the previous year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With Grab’s announcement of its imminent Nasdaq listing and GoJek merging with Tokopedia to form tech giant GoTo , casual international observers could be forgiven for believing that Southeast Asia’s tech universe only comprises similar companies. Unsurprisingly, tech startup growth is booming as well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 In ten months, we succeeded in plugging a massive hole in Uber’s profit and loss using pricing tech. ” Mann describes Luca as a “pricing co-pilot for enterprise retailers.” That got us thinking.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Almost every team in their business needs access to analytics and other information that can be gleaned from their data warehouses, but only a few have technical backgrounds. It is also hard for non-technical users to adopt, a problem that Redbird was created to solve. Data engineers have a big problem.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] AI in action The benefits of this approach are clear to see.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. Online retail, as a share of total retail sales , grew to 19.6% Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 Retailers using Terraa will benefit from consistent prices and supplies of high-quality goods. “In Morocco is our priority at the moment, and we are building the playbook in terms of operations, building our tech and expanding in cities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Earlier this month, blockchain-based lender Figure Technologies agreed to merge with mortgage firm Homebridge Financial Services, which has 180 retail branches and funded more than $25 billion in home loans in 2020.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They don’t continue beyond resume reviews and interviews to evaluate a candidate’s capabilities. Skills Tests : Assess various role-specific abilities, such as technical or communication skills. Technology Role in Talent Assessments Talent assessments have become more efficient and accessible with modern technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. Reducing waste is key to meeting environmental milestones, and some retail firms have narrowed in on a unique approach to minimize what their customers throw away: personalization. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. It will also be doubling down on expanding its technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.

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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. Technology and data analysis can help you here, providing robust insights on the messages you’re sending. Technology and training in tandem can help with that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So while the company, of course, wants to be robust for developers, Vo says it is even more focused on brands that lack technical resources or domain expertise. Aligning our technology roadmap with the Productfy platform enables both companies to succeed by making banking products more accessible and scalable for the entire ecosystem.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Following nearly four years in the prototype phase, Cana Technology is unveiling what it calls the “world’s first molecular beverage printer” after securing $30 million in funding from venture foundry The Production Board. The new funding is being heavily invested into the supply chain and continued technology development, Mahar said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code, Paul reports. million of funding for its AI-powered customer video review tool , Kate reports. Today, wind power and wave action are just two technologies leading investors to take a closer look at ocean conservation technology, reports Tim De Chant.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” OTI raises $55 million for technology to remove screen obstructions. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time. RFID has several other beneficial uses in clothing retail. RFID tags have been around for decades and now cost just pennies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. without the outsized market of South Africa.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Bob Ma is an investor at WIND Ventures , where he invests in energy, retail and mobility startups. Most major retailers are scrambling to catch up to Amazon by partnering with last-mile delivery startups. This results in inefficiencies due to a lack of technologies such as route optimization as well as a lack of operating scale.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company. “We billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The technology for online shopping is not up to snuff — when you click on something, everything has to reload compared to an app like Instagram.”. More people shopping on their mobile devices creates friction due to downloading an app for each brand. 4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

NTT DATA’s landmark Global GenAI Report underscores how the technology is gaining momentum. Furthermore, nearly two-thirds of C-suite respondents, specifically, expect GenAI to be a game changer over the next two years and plan to invest significantly in the technology. There is no going back.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Last month, the firm slashed its Q2 and yearly profit guidance and said people are spending less on items like electronics due to inflation. The retail giant employs over 1.6 While the company said it’s creating new roles in e-commerce and technology, it didn’t specify how many roles will be created.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The goal is to provide a similar experience to trying on clothing when shopping online as you would otherwise have had when in a retail store.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Another publication stated the founders had not been reporting to the board, its representatives and shareholders during on-site in-person due diligence for a potential merger. .

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

NTT DATAs landmark Global GenAI Report underscores how the technology is gaining momentum. Furthermore, nearly two-thirds of C-suite respondents, specifically, expect GenAI to be a game changer over the next two years and plan to invest significantly in the technology. There is no going back.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

That process involves manual analysis and constant adjusting due to fraud. The share of e-commerce in overall retail is less than 10 percent in Latin America. “In the U.S., that score is used to determine if the purchaser is legit, but they didn’t implement that in Latin America,” he added.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

“The outcome of the review may still be the same decision but necessary to review,” Gupta said, adding that DishTV is already re-evaluating its cloud strategy in a phased manner after the Crowdstrike incident. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged.

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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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