TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed. “There are great benefits to independence.

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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. billion valuation.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ambition should get rewarded if you’re trying hard to innovate in difficult areas—and gender equality is certainly one of the most difficult problems we have. It always made more sense as a way to mix it up away from another workspace you were more anchored to—the “third place”. The Wing wasn’t alone. Did any company?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, another YC-backed startup, Afriex — but from the Summer 2020 batch — is raising a $1.2 This is in contrast to better-known platforms like Western Union and Wise that use traditional banking systems. This is due to Alabi’s upbringing as an immigrant child who has had a mix of both worlds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In late 2020, the company had raised $25 million in Series B funding on a $305 million valuation. At the time of the Series B, it was supporting more than 4,500 stores with its technology that brings all of the channels that shoppers use to contact online stores into one feed for each company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

In the meantime, Acorns has raised money to continue to explore more acquisitions — it acquired two companies in the first half of last year — as well as to fund “growth and innovation,” Kerner said. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step. They may seem outlandish or politically unacceptable, but experience shows that the optimal choice is often drawn from out of the box and innovative elements. Determine your goals and envision the desired outcome.

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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. Earlier raises included a $2.5

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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. Image Credits: Orb Orb can be used to schedule future price changes for customer cohorts or contract renewals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The last estimate PitchBook gives for it is $150 million, but that was back in August 2020 and the company has grown since then — 2.5x “Hundreds of people are coming to us,” Kovetz said. Silverfort is used alongside all of them, however many there may be. year on year, with 3.5x growth for the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. Cruttenden founded Ant Money , a micro-income startup, with Mike Gleason in March of 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

The approvals made at this month’s Board meeting make critical investments in New Jersey’s entrepreneurs of color, affordable housing, child care facilities, our innovation economy, and our life sciences industry,” said NJEDA Chief Executive Officer Tim Sullivan. The QVFs will be able to apply and access up to $12.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

A prominent figure in life sciences innovation, Imran has founded over 20 medical device companies and helped develop the world’s first implantable cardiac defibrillator. The needles and other components are instead made of injectable-grade polymers, that Imran said has been used in other medical devices as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

million seed in 2020 as VastBiome, in case the tech sounds familiar. Countless bacteria and other microfauna pervade us, covering every surface inside and out. Might be a good idea to isolate molecule C and see if it can be used to help others use therapy A, right?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. Most Popular: The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. You can use social media as one tool to make those connections , but it doesn’t stop there. An email list.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Using the service’s tools, developers can easily turn any SQL database into an API to power their apps — or use the service’s no-code tools to build apps that way, too. ” And while business users can use the service, too, the core audience — even for the no-code/low-code tool, is developers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. The round is coming from an interesting mix of strategic and financial investors. Placer has confirmed that the round values it at $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

New Zealand has the right mix of deep tech-focused capital and resources, strong engineering schools and major success stories that are helping create technologically sophisticated, globally scalable startups. Last October, Elevate allocated $20 million to a fund managed by deep tech VC firm Pacific Channel.

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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

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. ” Celus has built a platform that provides engineers with component data from electronics manufacturers, while adding its own special automation sauce to the mix. Celus in action.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Consider that Databricks just raised a bushel of capital from a mix of cloud companies it works with, public investors it wants as shareholders when it goes public and some private money that is enjoying a stiff markup from their last check into the company. Other prior investors including a16z, T.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Walmart says customers will be able to use the Zeekit technology to virtually try on items from brands including Free People, Champion, Levi Strauss, ELOQUII Elements, Free Assembly, Scoop, Sofia Jeans by Sofia Vergara, plus its own private label brands, like Time and Tru, Terra & Sky, Wonder Nation and George. Image Credits: Walmart.

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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

MAY 4, 2021

So Lami adopted a B2B2C approach to leverage the trust already built by platforms that converse with customers daily and innovate around it. The product can also be used by partner businesses to manage their own insurance needs. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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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.” It’s an acute problem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Innovative materials and solutions coming from recycling and the circular economy.

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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

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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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. Switzerland has always been at the forefront of technological innovation in areas such as precision engineering or life sciences. Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Subscribe here.

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

billion (in 2020), up 32.4% The podcast interview revealed how they used Facebook groups to grow their business from $80K to $500K in monthly revenue. Use this story, and the many others out there, to inspire you to build an engaged and active community of your own. Increase organic traffic using Pinterest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

And finally, its investors in the round include a high-profile mix of institutions and individuals such as DFJ Growth, K5 Global, the Chainsmokers, actor Jared Leto and the Glazer family (owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United). Every time you open DoorDash, you’re using Amazon’s infrastructure,” Lau said.

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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. The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020. Details here.

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