TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech gathered applications, processed the numbers and ranked the 120 top-performing startups in France right now, with a special category for the top 40 ones. The result is two rankings that are based on objective criteria — the Next40 and French Tech 120.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

For the 2024 Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth will accept proposals in the following categories: Hardware Accelerated AI, Generative AI, Tech Led Innovations, Mobile Health Apps, Healthcare Accessibility, and Social Change Solutions. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

Founded in 2018 the audio entertainment platform is filling a gap, creating a new entertainment category in the form of audio series. They are not just building a new category but democratizing the entertainment landscape with a tech-driven approach,” said Harsha Kumar, Partner at Lightspeed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

But the declines were not the worst we found: Biotech showed a more modest year-over-year decline in investment volume (21%) than many other sectors including fintech (37.7%), consumer tech (53%) and enterprise tech (33%). Comparing any sector’s results to 2021 is slightly specious, as that year was the peak of the last startup boom.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Dear Targeting, With the ongoing and intensifying competition for tech talent in the wake of the Great Resignation, I find myself addressing questions like yours quite frequently. That’s no surprise: Turnover in tech last year was remarkably higher than in health care, according to the Harvard Business Review.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants. This investment is directed toward seeding corporate venture capital (VC) funds that, in turn, invest in Singapore-based early-stage high-tech companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

We featured generative AI companies five years before the popular investors took notice and climate tech 2.0 We’re seeing input/output startups that want to rewrite the rules of recycling and purification with new tech. It’s deep tech but actionable. Silver tech – Life expectancy is on the rise and the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Their portfolio spans a wide spectrum of categories, encompassing home care, ambulatory care, insure-tech, data sciences, and brain health. Instead, it focuses on strategic funding, targeting entrepreneurs with aspirations to lead on a national or global scale, thereby fostering the creation of category leaders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it. When we came out with this, with the vector database category, nobody knew what the hell we’re talking about. And so it’s very easy to bet on the leader of a category that is already formed,” Liberty told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Register Hypd , the Indian tech platform that enables content creators to monetize their influence, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Orios Venture Partners. The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate creator acquisition, expand into more categories, and grow its team and product.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

So we’re hooking up with Extreme Tech Challenge (‘XTC’) to present the Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals , a startup competition focused on powering a more sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and healthy world. The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. Literally months in the making, TechCrunch editorial staff read, vetted and debated every application.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Zoom investing , it seems, is working just fine for cash-rich firms looking to double down on bets in categories from edtech to climate. The first filing shows that the firm has closed $151 million for USV Climate 2021, which one can assume is focused on climate-tech investments. The other, more nebulous filing , is the firm’s $22.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Now, we also went into gaming and then ‘close by’ categories, while some markets went a little bit outside of consumer electronics to become a good place for sustainable consumption.” The company will also test some new categories as it grows in the electronics space. “We Beyond this, we are testing a few related categories.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

This year, we’re rethinking TC Sessions, the standalone industry events series, and merging them into the big annual tech event — which will once again this year be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt , the premier event for startup investors and founders, is coming back in 2023 with an enhanced new format.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

Part of that vision includes building a tech stack that leans on artificial intelligence and API to provide better manufacturing, supply chain, design and customer acquisition capabilities. Further, one of Kite’s board members is Delta Dental president and CEO Mark Mitchke, who was previously general manager of Fulfillment by Amazon.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

About Greycroft Greycroft is a seed-to-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to build category-defining companies. Greycroft manages over $3 billion in capital raised and has made over 400 investments since inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This is certainly a theme of late — as other categories of robotics have struggled to raise, those operating in construction appear relatively unimpacted. But two things are true: 1) The lull is temporary; and 2) While robotics isn’t recession-proof, construction might as well be.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

As tech companies large and small shed staff in hopes of better aligning their income statements to a new market reality, it’s clear that cutting costs to delight investors is the new norm. That’s where UiPath and the larger automation market — robotic process automation, or RPA — may have an edge on other software categories.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s the rub: If we want to successfully address malnutrition in Latin America, agritech and food tech solutions need to come from within. One category of innovation that can reduce food waste: tools to help farmers improve field productivity. A related category: innovation that helps reduce food loss through pest control.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This project is part of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ initiative, which selects 50 outstanding companies in four categories based on technology development success, support from the ministry over the past five years, performance verification, and expert evaluation. We’re here to facilitate valuable partnerships.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

In an IDC poll earlier this year, 62% of corporate tech managers in the U.S. said that tech spending at their companies would be the same or increase compared with 2022. But while the overall work software market remains strong, not every category is performing equally well. There’s truth to that second point.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

” Rather than writing a small check into companies across a range of categories, the firm’s looking at the “evolution” of technology and betting on a cohort that’s creating or defining a new category. The program isn’t quite an accelerator; Betaworks describes it like a “camp.”

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

The product, called Kitty Medi Check, was recently voted third in the cat category at the Global Pet Expo 2023 held in Orlando, Florida. With more than 1,000 new pet products introduced at the event, Kitty Medi Check stood out as one of the top products in the cat category, as voted by participating buyers.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 9, 2022

Otipy that offers a community group buying platform for daily essentials and fresh produce will be using the fresh funding to expand to new regions in the country, strengthen its supply chain, invest in technology, and add new product categories.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Instead, Love launches first as a wellness marketplace that features an initial 200 curated products, like supplements, health testing kits and essential oils, among categories including reducing stress and gut health. New products and categories will be added in stages and will also be accompanied by educational content, Breslow said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. A typical VC thesis: “We invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage.” and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. any mention of a focus on tech companies). Top Visible Heuristics (in dataset of 36 U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

More than 10,000 people will attend to learn about the latest tech and investment trends from iconic leaders, founders and VCs. It’s where investors look for portfolio potential, founders find new customers, tech journalists hunt for stories and everyone finds inspiration. It’s coming down to the wire folks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Its various products include a software layer that bridges the gap between a bank’s legacy tech infrastructure and a modern API, making it easier to build consumer-friendly digital banking experiences. Last month, Íslandsbanki became the first Nordic bank to implement Meniga’s Carbon Insight solution into its own digital banking offering.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

edikinabioo and the National Institute of Medical Research in Mongolia (Image courtesy of Medikinabio) Medikinabio (CEO: Choi Woo-sung) is the first startup registered for the DEEP Tech TIPS , a private investment-oriented tech startup support program led by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and Creative Economy Innovation Center.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. That applies to the groupings of new tech companies that were among the hottest before the recent downturn, too. Things have slowed in the intervening quarters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 Like many sectors, creator-focused startups had an easy time of attracting funding in 2020 and 2021. million in Q3 2022.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The 3rd Annual Startup302 competition, Delaware’s premier funding contest for technology and tech-enabled startups led by underrepresented founders, is holding its finals tomorrow, April 27th.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

More Adobe news in Big Tech. SaaS is still open for business, but it’s going to take longer to buy and sell Image Credits: Ruslan Malysh/EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images More than 225,000 tech workers have been laid off in the last year, which is having a direct effect on SaaS renewal and purchase cycles.

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