TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Before the acquisition, Smile Identity had just crossed over 60 million verifications.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors. Its Gross Merchandise Value was slightly over $30 million in 2022.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2022

Register Vietnam-based e-commerce enabler OnPoint secured a $50 million Series B funding in a round led by SeaTown Private Capital Master Fund. This is considered the largest private fundraising round in Southeast Asia’s e-commerce enabler sector in the previous five years, according to a news statement.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. billion Indians, over 90% of the population. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Like LinkedIn, the app also invites users who aren’t necessarily on the cusp of changing jobs to expand their network by connecting to their pharmacy peers. According to the company, SwipeRX will use the fresh capital to scale its growth across Southeast Asia, expand its logistics network for B2B e-commerce and increase its team.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be! Here’s her story.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

The challenge was the driving force behind Ordr, a startup focused on network-level device security. Pandian Gnanaprakasam and Sheausong Yang — who between them had tenures at Cisco, Aruba Networks, and AT&T Bell Labs — co-founded Ordr in 2015 to address what they call the “visibility gap” in enterprise networks.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

collaboration with Impact Hub, world’s leading network focused on building entrepreneurial communities. They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. for impact at scale. Delhi-NCR event.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Today, Simpplr sells what’s essentially an internal social network for companies — one that enables employees to create profiles, share content, follow users and engage in polls or surveys via a tailored intranet. ” That second bit raises questions about which “trends,” exactly, Simpplr is monitoring.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 28, 2022

We could run apps other than the official Twitter client for interacting with Twitter, which would enable, among other things, a proliferation of different timeline algorithms. Fixing the blue check mark mess is something I first wrote about in 2017.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As a women-led venture capital firm, SoGal Ventures’s investment philosophy revolves around identifying and supporting world-class women and diverse entrepreneurs to build billion-dollar businesses. She created the SoGal community in LA, one of the largest global networks for women entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” DeMers co-founded Cinchy with Karanjot Jaswal in 2017 with the ambitious goal of abstracting away data integration processes. DeMers was previously the director of prime finance and futures technology at Citi, where he built and managed a tech delivery and support services group for brokerage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Car sensors like cameras and radar capture data, translate it and send it the powertrain to enable features like emergency braking. In 2017, Aptiv, formerly Delphi, purchased autonomous vehicle technology company nuTonomy, which it later spun off into a separate joint venture with Hyundai, called Motional.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

The inaugural cohort marks an important milestone in the NJEDA’s commitment to fostering innovation and supporting business ventures in their critical early stages. By supporting these 10 new, cutting-edge companies, New Jersey is firmly cementing itself as a national leader in innovation.” million in bonus grant funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot. ” Image Credits: Appzone. .

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 14, 2023

Launching Out of Stealth, TARA Mind Will Tackle Health Equity Barriers That Have Traditionally Prevented Individuals Struggling With Mental Health From Accessing Safe, Effective Support TYSONS, Va. – In 2017, he turned to PAT as a last resort. “I Capone spent years undergoing traditional mental health treatments but nothing worked.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

MOSTLY AI was founded in Vienna in 2017, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented across the EU one year later. ” This will be supported by growing demand for responsible AI, articulated around key concepts such as AI fairness and explainability. where it already has offices in New York City.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. We could see that there was value in supporting students across the university to participate in this event. David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker. Where are they now?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. In addition to independent distribution lists, Hejazi wants to move away from the ad-supported internet.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

.” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. Before joining Antler, she worked for a couple of VCs and entrepreneurship support organizations. Selam Kebede is the firm’s director and leads operations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. It is based in Brooklyn, NY. ?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Store owners can use the platform to purchase goods, request delivery or logistics to move the goods, and access a customer support team. That business model got WaystoCap into Y Combinator’s Winter batch in 2017, making it the first company accepted from Morocco. The company subsequently raised a $3 million seed round.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Capital infusion supports strategic acquisition of competitor GigaMonster’s assets, more than doubling the platform’s footprint TYSONS CORNER, VA. April 10, 2023) — Gigstreem , a leading national provider of high-quality residential and commercial broadband networks, today announced that it has raised $59 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. ” Technical support. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“Chipotle has aggressive goals of achieving 7,000 restaurants, along with a healthy balance sheet, which enables us to invest in in forward-thinking ventures that can help accelerate these growth plans,” Garner said. The restaurant chain also recently backed Nuro, a self-driving delivery service with an extensive partner network.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 10, 2021

Launchpad is revolutionizing the low-volume manufacture of small electronics and other products with a tech-enabled, highly-automated robotic and AI-driven manufacturing platform that slashes costs and cuts the time from completion of design to production from up to 6 months down to weeks or even days. Register Now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In January 2021, Prince Edward Island-based ScreenScape Networks was acquired by Spectrio for an undisclosed fee, then Halifax-based storytelling platform Wattpad was acquired by Naver in a deal worth $600 million. Past innovation hubs have relied on physical proximity in order to build networks of human and social capital.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since March 2018, Impact Hub alongside other partners has been supporting Oxfam Italia in an EU-funded initiative called MedUP! The aim of this 4-year program is to promote an enabling environment all over the targeted region for the development of the entrepreneurial sector as a driver for inclusive growth and job creation. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

And in fact when I spoke with BrainQ’s founder Yotam Drechsler, he reminded me of the last time we’d talked — back in 2017, at which time I “expressed strong skepticism.” But medical science has no method for directly rebuilding those networks — the brain must do so on its own, in its own time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

It also has a “pro lab” tier that takes on typical network configurations, such as Active Directory or fully patched environments, to test and train people on different attacks and approaches around common enterprise tools and scenarios. HTB is actually one of the US Cyber Games’ sponsors and supporters.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift. Expanding supported languages is part of that plan. “The potential is enormous and telemedi.co telemedi.co

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Backbone wants to make package delivery more like Wi-Fi mesh networks in what sounds to me like a recipe for utter chaos. PenguinFaceplant.gif : Club Penguin was shut down in 2017 , but fans rebooted it — without authorization from Disney. The beauty is that you can link an existing group instead of starting over.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. On the other side of the marketplace, Faire enables brands to find new customers, manage their existing customer base, and reduce their risk of non-payment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

: Samsung wants you to have that crystal-clear smartphone communication in places where there is no cellular network connectivity, so it developed its own satellite-based solution, Ivan writes. Walmart sold Moosejaw to Dick’s Sporting Goods after acquiring the e-commerce outdoor retailer in 2017, Aisha reports. Amanda has more.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo believed that it could solve a major concern that incumbents couldn’t: Traditional banking infrastructure does not support the convenience and modern experience that customers have come to expect in the digital age. Monzo also cracked world-class customer support via in-app chat.

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