TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Israeli startup Tactile Mobility uses existing vehicle sensor data to enable cars to “feel” the road in a way that generates insights about both the vehicle and the road via its cloud platform. Mapping the roads by measuring tire grip enables Tactile to map things like potholes, cracks in the road, slipperiness, snowfall and more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. The startup’s approach has prompted some to draw comparisons between its model with that of the behemoth Shein.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Often, startups are extremely limited in resources and therefore have to be careful about how they allocate funds. When investing in security, you need to base it on the size of the business and the amount of risk. When investing in security, you need to base it on the size of the business and the amount of risk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patterson said that at its heart, the startup is a standards company that aims to spread the word on the power of data and analytics standardization via Apache Arrow. The open source tool has proved amazingly popular, with the company reporting more than 42 million downloads per month.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reported and validated. StartupOS’s stated mission is that it “aims to dramatically increase the overall number of startups and their probability of success for new, diverse generations of founders.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Shota Horii , his twin brother Yuta Horii and Jun Taketani co-founded SmartBank in 2019 after selling their previous startup Fablic, a Japanese online secondhand marketplace, to Rakuten in 2016. In addition, it will soon release services for parents and kids to manage finance together, the startup says. Another is through lending.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. based and Black-owned with registered users or downloads above 1 million. SoLo Funds has acquired over 1 million registered users and over 1.3

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2011

Let’s face it: Sales are the bastard stepchild of the startup world. Helping companies make money just isn’t a very interesting goal for a startup these days. First of all, their CrunchConnect product will make your pitches a lot easier, by not forcing your clients to download plugins to do over the web presentations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Instant delivery startup Getir has announced that it has closed a new $768 million Series E founding round. Mubadala Investment Company is leading the founding round with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Alpha Wave Global, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global also participating. Following this deal, the company has reached a valuation of $11.8

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Having accumulated more than 40 million app downloads and disbursing over $4 billion in loans, Atome Financial has demonstrated its impactful presence in the fintech sphere. Atome’s extensive network encompasses over 15,000 retail partners across ten Asian markets, enabling seamless and flexible payment options for consumers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Get ready for your close-up : PhotoRoom, a photo-editing app for e-commerce sellers that enables users to remove the background behind objects, has attracted 40 million app downloads and now raised $19 million, Romain reports. Startups and VC. We are nothing if not creatures of habit, after all. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The investment will also see VUZ scale its Los Angeles office and scale with creators and content in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The startup designed a web-based, real-time collaboration tool for electronics design and engineering. Today it’s announcing a $12 million seed raise, led by Outsiders Fund and featuring additional investments from Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC and Liquid2 VC. Image Credits: Flux.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Here’s what I mean.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Yummy’s app can be downloaded for free, and the company charges a delivery fee or merchant fee. He said this has protected the business against hyperinflation and ultimately created the opportunity for startups to begin operating in Venezuela.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument. Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or stocks, for instance. Users on Jar can invest in multiple ways and get started within seconds. s recurring payment support.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) can help customers shopping online preview products before making a purchase, and is a growing area of investment for e-commerce businesses. The startup also recently partnered with The Sandbox, a San Francisco-based game company, to develop a tool that will allow users to create 3D characters and items.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Tom Ferrier, the founder of Greener , an Australian cleantech startup, wants to help. For consumers, Greener offers an app that links to the user’s bank account, enabling customers to learn about their carbon impact and get suggestions to make better choices on shopping greener based on potential purchases for 250+ brands.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

South Korean startup Bucketplace , which operates a home decorating and interior app OHouse, is looking to continue capitalizing on that trend with its most recent $182 million Series D round, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Jay Lee said on Monday in an interview with TechCrunch. billion by 2028-end , up from $333.7

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

The manifesto’s six sections address policymaking, how to support and educate entrepreneurs to enable an innovation nation, the commercialisation of research, how to attract talented entrepreneurs, and how to enhance and expand our entrepreneurial ecosystem on the global stage. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Ultimately, the best solution would be to pay gig workers a fair wage for the time they spend doing their work, but barring that, technologically developed band-aids to help heal technologically enabled wounds seem like the only option. Download the Chrome extension to detect if UberEats has underpaid you. UberCheats is now live!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Depression and anxiety were taking a serious toll on peoples’ well-being even before COVID-19, and the pandemic prompted more interest (and venture capital) in mental health startups. In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. Morgan in Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

based cybersecurity startup, has secured a $12 million Series A investment to bring multi-factor authentication (MFA) to machine-to-machine API traffic. “With human MFA, as soon as you get your authenticator downloaded and set up, you’re pinning access to your trusted machine. The startup’s link to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Once users enable location access, they can explore nearby stories when traveling. Image Credits: Autio Sears says the new funding will go toward expanding the app’s content library, reaching new audiences, and growing the startup’s team. The extended seed round follows Autio’s $3.2 million pre-seed round in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. ” Among its other plans for merchants include introducing a new checkout platform and the launch of cards to enable B2B transactions. Existing investors from its $18.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below. Still reading?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Indian insurance platform InsuranceDekho has raised $150 million in a Series A funding round as the more than a decade old firm eyes merger and acquisition opportunities at a time when the market slump has engulfed most startups in the South Asian nation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration. Image Credits: John Coletti / Getty Images).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Boston-based startup built a platform, which provides tech-enabled caregiver support through employers and health plans. Previous backers, including Slow, Founder Collective, Indicator Venture, Entrée Capital and CueBall also made follow-on investments in the round. ianacare announced this morning it has raised a $12.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

One-click checkout continues to stretch out its moment, and Sleek is the latest startup to get in on the venture capital action, where similar companies like Ownit , Bolt , Checkout.com , OurPass and Rapyd have collectively raised over $3 billion in investments within the past 18 months. billion by 2026, up from $3.5 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. The company estimates that it represents a $200 million investment over the coming years. Voodoo is currently best known for its hyper-casual games, with 5 billion downloads and 300 million monthly active users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“SonarSource enables companies to improve the quality of their source code.” Gaudin says he launched SonarSource to enable developers to administer best code quality practices that, in theory, could help to fix problematic code. ” Detecting issues in source code. One of the code analysis dashboards in SonarQube.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Remote and hybrid working are the order of the day, and now a startup called AnyDesk that helps enable that to be pulled off smoothly — regardless of the architecture of a company’s network, or where a person happens to be working — is announcing a round of $70 million to fuel its growth. It poses certain risks.”

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