TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Description: “Helix Technologies – enables precision GPS antennas, providing 10cm level accuracy. Helix Technologies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. And that presented an opportunity for companies like Skit. million Series A, in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. Meanwhile, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock led the Series E investment, with new investors Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, CreditEase and H.I.G. Checkout.com raises $1B round at $40B valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.” This presents a huge opportunity, and it is our mission to support that transition,” he added. This investment will be there to accelerate all three.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s according to Reveal CEO Simon Bouchez, who alongside Gautier Machelon, Perrine El Khoury, and Alex Sadones aims to build a platform that allows B2B companies to more easily identify sales opportunities with their partners. With customers including Qualtrics, Tealium, Contentsquare, and Vonage.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Real-time location awareness of patients, staff, and medical equipment combined with Rideshare-like intelligence of task allocation, current path of motion, and optimal route determination enables smart, automated orchestration of patient care. this year, as well as winning both commercial and academic awards.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”. trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Bolttech’s Series B is closed to new interest from the market, but we continue to engage with the investor community in case of future opportunities,” he told TechCrunch. For example, it enables JKOPay in Taiwan and Maya in the Philippines to offer insurance marketplaces through their apps.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. This is driven by two competing but incredibly important trends.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020. Gani later joined Hong as a co-founder to scale the business, as they realized there was a bigger opportunity for global e-commerce. It’s latest brand, Meridian, offering grooming products, launched in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

A 2020 survey from Technomic notes that 68% of restaurant operators believe that their technology spend will either somewhat or significantly increase over the next few years. But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“Most banks are looking for resources and infrastructure to accelerate their digital strategy and meet the demands of today’s consumer,” said Jade Mandel, a vice president in Goldman Sachs’ growth equity platform, GS Growth, who will be joining the board of directors at Amount, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Roberto Cebrián and David Villarreal both had experience working with restaurants in Mexico and recognized that many restaurants were not prepared to change their operations quickly, so they jumped on the opportunity to help them. There are a bunch of food tech solutions in Latin American and U.S., Image Credits: Parrot.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Korea has passed the first law in the world dedicated to digital lending, ‘The Marketplace Lending Act’, in August 2020 to regulate marketplace lenders, protecting P2P consumers. The number of marketplace lenders in Korea has fallen from 237 to 102, between August 2020 and May 2021, as per its annual report in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

As the pandemic took hold in 2020, companies accelerated their move to cloud services. “We enable companies to build securely in the cloud, and we span across multiple different categories of markets, which enable the customers to do that,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“The pandemic’s disruptive effects have accelerated the growth of the digital economy across Southeast Asia,” Itai Lemberger, founder and CEO of Bow Wave Capital Management said. Ascend Money provides a financial platform of opportunity for those financially excluded as well as SMEs around the region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Ken Babcock and his co-founders, Dan Giovacchini and Brian Shultz, were in the midst of Harvard Business School in March 2020 when they felt the call to start Tango , a Chrome extension that auto-captures workflow best practices so that teams can learn from their top performers. million seed round for its workflow intelligence platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Apollo Agriculture co-founder and CEO, Eli Pollak , while talking about their areas of priority told TechCrunch that, “We are continuing to invest in growing fast; serving more farmers, helping them grow their acreage and really hitting the acceleration on the business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jitterbit CEO George Gallegos would only say that he believes it’s “a great deal compared to the billion-dollar opportunity.” In part, these moves were made possible by private equity firm Audax’s 2020 investment in the company. I saw the opportunity and now we join forces around growing together.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

A recent Gallagher Re report found that quarterly insurtech funding for Q4 fell to the lowest level since Q1 2020, decreasing 57% quarter on quarter from $2.35 In 2018, in order to “accelerate growth” (as Romero puts it), Equisoft opened up to investors, securing around $17 million in its first round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. — Harsh Upadhyay (@upadhyay_harsh1) October 13, 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Notably, Santa Monica, California-based ReCharge was bootstrapped for several years before raising $50 million in a previously undisclosed Series A from Summit Partners in January of 2020. ReCharge also has 328 employees, up from 140 in January of 2020. “We And, it’s currently cash flow positive, according to company execs.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Eflex Intelligent digital energy for homes and small business 2020 Lumme Lumme Health is a digital behavioral health company with a radically superior approach to facilitating success with weight management and problematic eating patterns. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

But former Google AI tech leader Tomas Vykruta is taking a different tack with EvolutionIQ , which works with insurers to analyze claimant data and third-party information to identify “high-opportunity” claims — specifically those involving bodily injury. ” Accelerating insurance claims.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Coyote Ventures : Jessica Karr launched Coyote Ventures in 2021 to address the $1T opportunity in women’s health and wellness that has been historically marginalized. DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Since raising its seed round in the summer of 2020, New York-based Veho has grown 40 times in revenue, while also increasing its employee count from 15 to 400, Veho co-founder and CEO Itamar Zur told TechCrunch. The global last-mile delivery market was valued at around $108 billion in 2020 and is set to grow by $146.96

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Underneath the hype, a synthesis of trends has been brewing that could create opportunities. Goldman Sachs estimates the Metaverse to be an $8 trillion market opportunity. While online gaming experiences have been available for some time, the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated adoption , paving the way for the Metaverse.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation. We have been impressed by the team’s focus on setting the standard for coding education in the region. pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

As a later-stage company, Bucketplace will use the new injection of funding to accelerate its growth in South Korea and enter into new markets, such as Japan, Southeast Asia and the U.S., Last June, OHouse launched a next-day furniture delivery service, enabling users to choose the date and time they want to receive the furniture.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

In 2020 the wife and husband team of Sassie Duggleby , CEO, and Dr. Andrew Duggleby , CTO, launched its Houston-based hypersonic startup. Having been awarded contracts with NASA and US Defense Agencies, Venus is able to accelerate the development and transition of its RDRE technology that will be used to enhance existing government missions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Streamlining Patient & Provider Communication Via Voice-Enabled Applications Patient satisfaction impacts providers’ financial performance.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Proceeds of the round will go toward the expansion of the OurCrowd platform, building its investor base and accelerating the identification of high-potential, tech-enabled private companies. Startup of the Week: ByondXR’s virtual retail boosts sales. SoftBank to invest $25M in OurCrowd.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 15, 2022

In addition, developed features like the In-App Chat and Short Video features will be implemented to enable Chilibeli’s 10,000 group leaders to leverage technology to do more community sales and increase order density, according to an announcement. “We are excited about the opportunities given from this strategic acquisition.

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