TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, Microsoft confirmed the acquisition but not the purchase price, saying that it plans to use Fungible’s tech and team to deliver “multiple DPU solutions, network innovation and hardware systems advancements.” But its DPU architecture was difficult to develop for, reportedly, which might’ve affected its momentum.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

“Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. We will be able to scale up operations and innovation faster.” .

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

The funding will build on customer momentum, accelerate market expansion, and continue the innovation of CyberSaint’s CyberStrong platform powered by its patented Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Since its launch in 2016, the company has been on a remarkable growth trajectory and achieved many industry milestones.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D. The Singapore -based startup’s electrochemical techniques have proven highly effective in treating industrial wastewater, enabling a remarkable reduction of up to 95% in pollutants. graduate in Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

The funds will be used to further develop its tech platform and expand in the U.S. Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries. CEO Wehmeyer describes the impact of their startup’s innovation. This is big!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document. Spurred by the trends (and the large addressable market), Dressler, Lasmaili, Mc Brearty and Weigandt developed software that let companies work with fully encrypted data without first needing to decrypt it. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The startup is also developing new verticals, including software for preschools and university programs. . Founded in September 2016, Gredu is now used by more than 400 schools, with a total of 400,000 users. Gredu Parents enables parents and guardians to keep track of their kids’ performance and talk to teachers.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Together, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Impact Hub are pleased to announce the international finalists for the Accelerate2030 programme. Accelerate2030, is an international programme that supports high-impact ventures tackling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 17 September 2019].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Founded in 2016, theDesk offers flexible and productive workspaces with a focus on building inclusive and collaborative communities that enable meaningful business connections. However, about two-thirds often struggle to find the right tool to facilitate and erode team engagement in hybrid settings.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

designed to equip entrepreneurs of color with tools and resources to enable them to accelerate growth and maximize impact. Funding: adidas awards each entrepreneur $100,000 to apply to the growth and development of their organization. . The workshops cover key topics meant to aid in business development. IG: @hood_health.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution to aid data capture for industrial use-cases, to trial a concept for routine BVLOS operations — the first such authorization for a U.K. Under current U.K.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

As a founding scientist at a medical diagnostics startup in Boston, Beattie’s job was to develop new rapid diagnostic tests. During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

based startup that offers a “headless” e-commerce platform to make it easier for developers to build better online shopping experiences, has raised $2.5 The idea is that the platform does the back-end heavy lifting so that developers can focus on the front end where most of the value is created for users.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Trends and Developments in Core Sectors Key Sectors for Pocket Sun: ○ AI, LLM and AI Agent will revolutionize how work is done.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. million in the bank, SpotDraft says that it’ll invest in product development and “aggressive growth” in North America, aiming to double its 170-person headcount within the next 18 months.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed exponentially since the monumental showdown between Alpha Go and Lee Se-dol in 2016. Enter Alchera: A tech-driven company spearheading innovation by weaving its proprietary AI technology into multiple sectors. In 2019, we made our foray into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

By way of using APIs, Root is helping businesses and developers launch insurance products faster than the traditional way. Root started off with the premise that many barriers, including compliance and capital, prevented software developers and businesses from building and innovating around insurance. Image Credits: Root.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in theory). ” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Prism Data essentially takes the cash flow underwriting technology the company initially developed for use at Petal, and makes it available to any lender, fintech or financial institution. It was joined by Story Ventures (which was a small investor in Petal’s seed round), Core Innovation Capital, RiverPark Ventures and others.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 5, 2021

In 2016, Dell Technologies commissioned our first Digital Transformation Index (DT Index) study to assess the digital maturity of businesses around the globe. We have since commissioned the study biennially to track businesses’ digital maturity. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter! The data paradox: Achieving breakthrough together.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. We are also continuing to develop products that deliver more value per acre. That could be new crops that enable customers to earn more money,” said Pollak, who co-founded Apollo with Benjamin Njenga and Earl St Sauver.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. One particularly key area of innovation is the steady adoption of secure, safe, and scalable standard Ethernet TCP/IP networking at increasingly capable speeds. And traditional software-defined storage systems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Hoag notes that Teampay is low-code and doesn’t require custom development. Image Credits: Teampay.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2022

Founded in April 2016 out of A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore’s (GIS) Innovation Fellow program, Nalagenetics develops end-to-end genetic testing solutions, enabling disease prevention. Register Nalagenetics , a leading provider of genetic testing solutions in Southeast Asia, today announced the closing of a US$12.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. Hardware is hard and if you don’t do it right, it can be expensive.”. Clerk’s team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

So Full Harvest got busy developing some technology that includes a spot marketplace with a matching algorithm and visibility so that buyers could see what suppliers had available. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. The company raised an additional $8.5

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive NIH SBIR program funds early-stage small businesses seeking to commercialize innovative biomedical technologies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

All merchants need to have is a bank account and a “smart-enabled device” to receive payments. And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”. Ozow is free for individual users.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2016, he started Seattle-based Zuper , a provider of productivity tools for intelligent field service management and customer engagement. Subbaraj plans to invest the new funding in product leadership innovation in workflows, location intelligence, dispatching, marketing and sales. Fuzey takes in $4.5M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

.” In a hardware landscape that is dominated by big tech companies — particularly in VR hardware — Varjo is notable for being an independent player, and not one that’s prone to gobbling lots of cash to stay that way: it’s only raised around $150 million since being founded in 2016.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. Among other products, OpenAI’s language-generating GPT-3 was developing using Transformer technology.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2016, Crowley moved to an executive chairman position. At the same time, the company started working on developer APIs and SDKs so that other companies could take advantage of Foursquare’s location data. With the company’s Pilgrim SDK , developers can build location-aware apps. That SDK enables many different possibilities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Agency banking upstarts are the main innovators in this space. When CEO Sahir Berry and his co-founder Mahesh Nair founded NowNow in 2016, they wanted to provide solutions to financial inclusion and job creation, two of the most significant pain points they thought were facing Nigeria and the rest of the continent.

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