TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

Register Lumotive , the developer of Light Control Metasurface (LCM ) beam steering chips that enables the next generation of 3D sensors, has announced that it secured additional investments of $13 million from its recent funding round. The additional cash came from USAA, Uniquest, and Samsung Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. So they kept their focus trained on meeting more people in more places — through digital innovation and geographic expansion — with food that fuels and connects. Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity. So what might Apple want with an AI-powered video codec?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It may be a hobby or something of personal interest that enables you to develop a level of expertise that other people value. This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models. Separate innovative startups from those are based on proven business models such as retail stores, computer repair etc.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption across many domains. “We To ensure that we get the world back on track, there is now an urgent need for innovation to help us overcome many of the problems resulting from the crisis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

With this investment, Croptix will accelerate the development and use of its patented in-field sensing technology. This disruptive platform enables the detection of crop health faster and easier than legacy practices, resulting in improved crop quality and yield providing better financial returns for farmers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Register Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, has publicly announced that it entered into a definitive agreement, through its wholly owned international subsidiary Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V., Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Remember Me. No account yet?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. The demand for CADDi’s services has seen significant acceleration. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

.” Just as virtualization and then container technology transformed CPU-based workloads over the last decades, Run:AI is bringing orchestration and virtualization technology to AI chipsets such as GPUs, dramatically accelerating both AI training and inference. ” Run.AI raises $13M for its distributed machine learning platform.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Our Chameleon platform solves the AI training challenge, freeing the industry to focus on higher-value tasks like AI network innovation. This round will enable us to accelerate our growth, enabling a new generation of AI solutions that better understand the way humans interact with each other and the world around them.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries. As a result, client decision making is more proactive, enabling them to deal with a constantly changing environment.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Businesses are transforming their ways of working to keep pace with disruption. Founded in 2016, theDesk offers flexible and productive workspaces with a focus on building inclusive and collaborative communities that enable meaningful business connections.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 2, 2022

Register ScaleUp Malaysia , an accelerator that focuses exclusively on growth-stage companies in Malaysia , in partnership with Quest Ventures, Indelible Ventures, and Mranti signalled the culmination of its third cohort with the unveiling of its selection of top startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes. “Local businesses [in Indonesia] have accelerated their adoption of digital technology due to innovation in the e-commerce ecosystem and dynamic changes in consumer behavior,” Bang said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. In a short period of time, the Bokksu team has built an authentic and purpose-driven brand. Bokksu’s subscription fee costs $49.95/month,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The startup plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate its business expansion further, strengthen its operations in Indonesia, advance technology and expand its engineering and product teams. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Funding will support platform roll out to accelerate the loan origination process for lenders and borrowers NEW YORK, March 29, 2023 – Presta , an end-to-end digital lending platform that modernizes and accelerates the loan origination process, announced its launch today after raising $3.3 million in oversubscribed pre-seed fundraise.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. And this is a challenge that the metaverse and immersive reality innovators are stepping up to address. The results from metaverse-enabled L&D are likely to exceed your traditional in-person training.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Being properly enable today’s diverse workforce is important for SMBS in order to work productively in their preferred modality. Digital acceleration allows smarter and flexible workspaces for employees. How technological innovation drives better business recovery and continuity. Therefore SMBs should be adaptable and attentive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

” “The legacy videoconferencing players are struggling to innovate across the disruptive shift from client-based messaging architectures to low-latency, hardware-accelerated, cloud-based real-time AI on real-time communication streams,” Green said via email.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Other backers in the company include A zure Capital Partners, Epic Ventures, NTT Data, Silicon Valley Bank and the Sony Innovation Fund, among others. The company’s first product, i-Accept, was designed in an effort to disrupt the more than the $70 billion per year spent by banks and merchants everywhere on point-of-sale card readers.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 20, 2020

Our current work supports the presence of a critical developmental window when disruption of the normal infant microbiome in babies born to obese mothers may predispose the infant to a number of immune diseases,” said Friedman, director of Harold Hamm Diabetes Center. About Presbyterian Health Foundation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We believe BNPL adoption at the point of sale will accelerate rapidly given consumer familiarity. Frances Schwiep: BNPL, though crowded in established markets, is still ripe for innovation in new geographies like Latin America. Which products or services are innovating? Jonathan Whittle. billion in revenue last year.

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