TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. More recently, Unreal Engine has been used for different use cases beyond video games, such as special effects, 3D explorations of virtual worlds, mixed reality projects and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

With her new startup, Granitt — with Sandvik as its principal — aims to help at-risk people, like journalists and activists but also politicians, lawyers, refugees and human rights defenders, from threats they face doing their work. Tribune Publishing in 2018 got ransomware, also because of phishing or outdated systems.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. They came from eight countries in four continents.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 7, 2022

Daniel is an immigrant New Yorker who defines himself as a rare mix of a producer and a serial entrepreneur with a variety of experience and success within the startup scene, including music, tech and video content. In 2018, Daniel fell in love with a mix of video and new technologies like AR and VR.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A 2020 UCLA study found that approximately 15% of couples will have trouble getting pregnant, but Kindbody, which has spun up a network of fertility clinics since its founding in 2018 , has taken a holistic approach to the issue. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Editor, TechCrunch+.

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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. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Africa’s insurance market stands at a 3% penetration rate, per a McKinsey study in 2018 comparing six insurance regions on the continent. Lami Technologies , a startup out of Kenya armed with $1.8 From the McKinsey report in 2018, the total gross written premiums (GWP) in Eastern Africa was $3.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Today a startup that has built what it believes comes next is making some news with a large funding round, its first outside money. ” As a bootstrapped startup, Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which was founded in 2018, has already amassed 1 million users for the extension, which is one reason why it was able to raise so much so early on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

In February, the New York-based startup raised $133 million in a Series C round at a $700 million valuation. The latest financing brings Fireblocks’ total raised since its 2018 inception to $489 million. Siam Commercial bank, for example, is using the company’s infrastructure to transform into a blockchain-based bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. where it had expanded to in 2018. million paid subscribers. as well as in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

As the next Y Combinator demo day approaches, more startups from the current Winter 2021 batch are showing up in our inboxes. One of the most interesting from the mix is BrioHR , which is building human resources (HR) software for Southeast Asia. Early Stage is the premiere ‘how-to’ event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. If you’re also using it for the optional Kegal exercises that would take a bit longer.). It’s a new era for fertility tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. Ireland, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. could bring into that mix a sweetener for would-be customers, in the form of intelligence that can be applied to voice-only interactions and those taking place over chat. Observe.ai Observe.ai Observe.AI

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. There’s also the option to create polls to prompt the listener with questions at a specific time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Summer International co-founder and CEO Xiaoski Kuik said the company’s goal is to create an ecosystem to help influencers and creators launch and sell beauty brands using consumer data and analytics. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to Seoul Robotics CEO Hanbin Lee, the LV5 CTRL TWR uses an automatic transmission and connectivity built into vehicles to maneuver them autonomously without requiring hardware. It is also not possible to mix and match sensor, which we come in.”. Image Credits: Seoul Robotics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Everywhere else, Brainly is currently free to use. (In Brainly up to now has been mainly focused on how to build out more tools for the students — and now parents — that use it, and has so far been about organic growth for those communities. That C round was raised specifically to help Brainly grow in the U.S. In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Today, a startup is announcing some funding as it looks to make a similar impact in the world of music. Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms. It is also notable for being Atom’s first outside funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The startup plans to deploy over $330 million to repay its debt. The startup — which counts SoftBank, Airbnb, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India and Microsoft among its investors and was most recently valued at $9.6 Its aggressive expansion bet has had a mixed success rate. Oyo’s offerings.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Grand prize is $25,000.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

This has dampened investors’ enthusiasm in travel and expense (T&E) startups, predictably, whose expertise lies in creating software for travel and other forms of expensing. “Today, with most systems, companies have to choose between an easy-to-use system or the one with controls.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

A slew of startups in the United States are focused on streamlining that process for people. A mix of new and existing investors also participated in the round, including Advent, Altimeter, DST, Silver Lake, Soros, Tarsadia, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Caffeinated, Fifth Wall, Monashees, QED and Vulcan, among others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. It’s not disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Mantra Health , a digital mental health startup focused on young adults, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by VMG Partners. The startup was founded in 2018 by Ed Gaussen, Matt Kennedy and Dr. Ravi Shah. The round includes new investors New Market Venture Partners, Elements Health Ventures, 14W and Alumni Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards — getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout. ” However, at this same conference, there were four companies doing something completely different.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company has been a longtime leader in the lost item finder space, offering consumers small devices they can attach to items — like handbags, luggage, bikes, wallets, keys, and more — which can then be tracked using the Tile smartphone app for iOS or Android. “We felt this was the right mix of capital choice for us.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Despite ethnicity usually being a self-determined categorisation, we believe this is justified because the data we collect is subsequently anonymised and is being used to improve access to capital,” they note, adding: “Ethnic or gender prejudice is dependent on the perception of the person holding the purse strings to funds.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

” Celus has built a platform that provides engineers with component data from electronics manufacturers, while adding its own special automation sauce to the mix. ” Founded out of Munich in 2018, Celus had only raised around €5.4 Celus in action. million in seed funding in its four-year history.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Given a large number of startups will not generate a profit near and are cash-flow negative in the near term, they will have to raise more capital in a difficult environment.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The common thread linking all three experiences is that, chances are, you used an app that relies on workers in the gig economy. Instead of hiring full- and part-time workers exclusively, you will probably hire a mix of core employees and gig economy workers as your business grows. Scaling no longer depends on more employees.

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