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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. In its S-1 filings , Datto highlighted a COVID-19 tailwind stemming from companies accelerating their digital transformation efforts. Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Thus, the global PCB market is big business, expected to grow from a $60 billion industry in 2020 to $75 billion by 2027. To accelerate its mission to “automate electronics design,” Celus today announced it has raised €25 million ($25.6 million) in a series A round of funding. . Celus in action.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Breadfast employed a mix of improved customer experience (from what customers expected from traditional players) and a native supply chain process to gain entry into the market, said Amin. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Since its founding in June 2020 , Gorillas has scaled to operate more than 180 warehouses across its nine international markets, and says its last-mile couriers (who are employed on fixed-term contracts , rather than gig workers) delivered more than 4.5 million orders in the past six months alone.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

But as a point of reference, when it closed its Series B (as Shedul; the company rebranded in February 2020), it was valued at $105 million. We wanted to consolidate the supply side of the software, gather data about the businesses, how they use what they use.” Chances are that figure is significantly higher now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients. Despite the company’s innovation, funding has been few and far between, as with many deep tech platforms with a significant focus on Africa. Today, the U.S.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

billion (in 2020), up 32.4% To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. Increase organic traffic using Pinterest. I use a plugin called Grow , which does all that for you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. My one thought: perhaps, it’s time for us all to put our grown-up pants on and stop normalizing this kind of behavior. The pairing has been something of a mixed bag.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

One estimate puts the number of third-party sellers at 5 million, with more than 1 million sellers joining the platform in 2020 alone. But in the process of planning out how factory14 might differentiate itself in that mix, Steinbruch said it found some distinct differences. The Marketplace on Amazon is a massive business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. Chris McClelland, MD of Ignite NI: He’s a mentor on the city’s top accelerator program. We have a mix of angel and institutional investors in Belfast.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

. “Bootstrapping Klaviyo, it came out of this: ‘Hey, if we are super disciplined about finding a problem that someone will pay us to solve, we have a real company,'” said Hallen. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. ” Bonfire. ” Parthean.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. Innovative. I miss a more innovative approach.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

.” To achieve this flexibility (or at least try), Morales and Grover co-founded Orb , a pricing platform that helps companies automate a range of different billing types — usage-based, subscriptions or a mix of both. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it. .”

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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. was valued at $304 million in July 2020. 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. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased. More time is spent on innovation and solving difficult problems for the organization.” ” Accelerating momentum.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

CEO and cofounder, talks to a16z’s Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI’s first use case: AI friends. [00:39] There are a few options, coding looks super useful, but just also dialogue—it’s the world’s number one pastime.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

After a record 2020, the Pittsburgh-based company also opened up about its plans for the future, including a focus on speaking a new language (in addition to listening, reading and writing). Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Zoomin Software.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polo: One of the main things that makes this law pretty solid is that it comes from a dialogue that we held with the different sectors of innovative entrepreneurship. So it’s a very solid law and everything that went in it really reflects the long conversations that we held with innovative entrepreneurship in Spain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Pandemic or not, the Israeli tech industry continued its rapid growth in 2020,” says Gil Press in Forbes , noting that the number of open positions listed by OurCrowd’s portfolio companies rose from 350 in June 2020 to 912 in December 2020. To read the full OurCrowd Jobs Index Q4 2020, click here. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Miami has everything in place to accelerate its rise to be cemented as a significant tech/startup ecosystem. Offices were created for a time when technology used to be limited and the fastest way to communicate was in person.

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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. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps. So it was with OKR-focused startups toward the start of 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. We have a decade behind us of incremental innovations. and Nomono.

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