TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

These articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm interviewed three executives at cloud and SaaS companies to find out how well Q3 2020 has been treating them: Ping CFO Raj Dani.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 The 2020-founded startup has now raised a total of $39.5 Sylvera , a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt. That threw me into solving those problems with Float.”.

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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. Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

While general e-commerce activities between African shoppers and global brands have occurred informally via long-held relationships, several platforms have used tech to centralize these processes across various shopping brackets. So these customers don’t just want Orange Culture, they want to mix the Orange Culture with Versace.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to ActivTrak, 41% of organizations didn’t have a dedicated remote work policy in place as of May 2020. Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. Participants included Fifth Wall, Rahul Vohra and returning investors JBV Capital and Aleph VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Additional investors include 8VC and Mac VC. Not half shabby for a company that didn’t exist two years ago — it was founded in 2020. The company is putting itself in the mix in the intersection between the car’s radar and its self-driving tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

When we published our last low-code/no-code investor survey in August 2020, the former president had decided to ban TikTok, Epic was filing antitrust cases against Apple and Google, and movie theaters around the U.S. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Seems like a long time ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company, which is now fully owned by factory14, has kept the original founders on to lead the smaller company. Dmg Ventures (the VC arm of the Daily Mail Group) and DN Capital co-led the equity-based seed funding, with VentureFriends and unnamed individuals in the tech world also participating. That was a good surprise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. He looks at ideas that “failed to go mainstream and change financial services in the way the founders originally intended.” Super interesting read.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? In September 2020, Halifax-based fitness data management company Kinduct was acquired by mCube. In November 2020, Newfoundland-based Verafin was acquired by Nasdaq for $2.75 More posts by this contributor. billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Datto IPO was interesting for a few reasons, including its mix of slower growth and rising profitability , its place in the midst of the current Vista drama and how well it was priced. While 2020 has brought with it many venture-backed IPOs, the year has also brought a nearly commensurate number of complaints about the IPO process itself.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The round is led by Flashpoint Venture Capital, Uniqa Ventures, PKO VC, Black Pearls VC (an existing investor) and Adamed. Telemedico, which was founded back in 2014 — but only launched its current B2B model (which is primarily targeted at insurance firms) in 2017 — says 2020 was a record year for its business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

That’s why Ron Miller interviewed three entrepreneurs who have each built multiple companies to uncover some essential truths about achieving product-market fit: Pouyan Salehi, CEO and co-founder, Scratchpad. Rami Essaid, CEO and founder, Finmark. Melonee Wise, CEO and co-founder, Fetch Robotics. Have a great weekend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

One of my favorite details in the story that got left on the cutting room floor was Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn comparing his company to the elliptical. Literally moving us along: Can solid state batteries power up for the next generation of EVs? Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. on Sunday, Dec.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unit itself is not a labor union, but instead helps worker-organizers set up, affiliate and manage a union with a mix of software and human resources. Unit founder and CEO James White watched Occupy Wall Street unfold in real time while he was a graduate student. To scale, Unit will have to lean on VC, per White.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 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

JULY 13, 2021

Cadoo , a US-startup that’s gamifying fitness by turning it into a betting opportunity, using the prospect of winning (or losing) cold hard cash to motivate people to get off the couch, has collected $1.5 million in seed funds from Sam & Max Altman’s Apollo VC and the student-focused Dorm Room Fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. The rest is noise. compared to 1.4x

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Kard manages the relationships with each business looking to offer rewards to promote their brand, making it easy for a new issuer to mix-and-match from Kard’s offerings and integrate those rewards into the issuer’s own user interface, CEO and founder Ben Mackinnon told TechCrunch in an interview.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Pipedrive is an EU-based CRM company with offices in eight countries, but it has a Czech co-founder in VP of Product Martin Henk, one of several founders to emerge from the ecosystem. billion crowns ($114 million), making its seven Czech founders into multimillionaires. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. government.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

After PPP is finished, I don't think bankers in the US will ever again acknowledge the letter P as a letter in the alphabet. Please note, this page does not cover the basics of the CARES Act and we encourage founders to read What Startups Need to Know About PPP and The CARES Act for broader context. In select cases, banks (e.g.

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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). Domm Holland, co-founder and CEO of e-commerce startup Fast, appears to be living a founder’s dream. Thanks for reading!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The funding comes on the back of a strong year for the company, which hit a $20 million revenue run rate in eight months and turned profitable in December 2020. Other locations are given options of pre-packed boxes of snacks right now, but the plan is to slowly extend its pick-and-mix model to more geographies, starting with the U.K.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Leading the round, which included a first tranche of €4 million last year, is byFounders VC and private equity firm Finnish Industry Investment (Tesi). Revenue is also said to have grown by 80% in 2020, with the company putting a lot of marketing toward claims behind being more hygienic than many hotels.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In this morning’s edition of The Exchange , Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm compared Nubank’s savings to DoorDash, which didn’t set aside any shares for underwriters in its November 2020 IPO. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Max Haot, founder and CEO, Launcher.

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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. Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

“We operate in an extremely competitive and well-funded industry, and this round allows us to have a long-term mindset when it comes to doubling down on our different markets,” says co-founder and CEO Miki Kuusi in a statement. Former Atomico and SoftBank VC Carolina Brochado has joined EQT to help build its new growth fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 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. Public investors in 2020 also seem to have a deeper appreciation for the current revenue numbers and future growth opportunities for tech companies. The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Varo in 2020 became the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter. Developers can use Column to build apps that pull and push money to any bank account, for example, or maintain FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts. There are ways around this. While some $18.2

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Sequoia Capital , Stripes and Spark Capital co-led Fireblocks’ latest round, which also included participation from Coatue , DRW VC and SCB 10X – the venture arm of Thailand’s oldest bank – and Siam Commercial Bank. Its ARR (annual recurring revenue) is also up – by 350% so far in 2021 compared to 2020.

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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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