TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

It also deploys a customer-centric strategy driven by AI and technology to optimize operations, marketing, analytics, supply chains and working capital allocation. The company plans to double the amount of SKUs in the next year and enter into new product categories. It also reached profitability in 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

MoKo Home + Living , a Kenya-based home furniture manufacturer and omnichannel retailer, saw this gap and over several years set out to bridge it through quality and guarantees. The startup says it has grown five-fold over the last three years, and its products are currently in more than 370,000 homes in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the technology byproducts of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has raised the game for businesses to have better digital tools in place to interface with customers, and their own work, to get things done. The Canadian startup has picked up $60 million in funding. alone, contributing over $550 billion to the economy annually.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Meal delivery services can save time, and typically money, but imagine getting a Michelin-star meal delivered to your home. They both have software backgrounds, with Bell previously working at Netflix as a global product lead while Weingarten was building education-related software. Enter meal delivery startup Entrée.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million home service businesses just in North America, and some $600 billion is spent annually on home services — and so the opportunity that Jobber and its investors see is as clear as a new window pane. But the market is massive — there are around 6.2 It has 600 employees now and will be hiring more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The company was co-founded in 2017 by Vivas, Peter Ombres, Alex Vauthey and Annabel Liu, who had previously worked together at LinkedIn. The company is working with retail brands, including Callaway Golf, The North Face, Rossignol and Burton. With the U.S. With the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Workiz — which provides tools to home services teams to help with scheduling appointments, estimating costs, invoicing for work and more — has raised $40 million, funding that it will use to continue building out more features, and to continue expanding into more categories of home services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. Cajoo is part of a group of startups that try to create a whole new category of grocery deliveries. Cajoo is currently the only French company operating at this scale in this category.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Also in 2021, the company supported more than 3 million work orders and 15 million scheduled hours of work and facilitated over $20 million of transactions through the platform. With over 5 million technicians working in these kinds of service businesses, Subbaraj estimates there is a $1.1 This latest round gives Zuper $14.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Users can also search for, change or remove any breakdown element and add new categories. Another feature in the works is a script pitch deck where users can create a pitch in order to potentially get investments for their film. It can then be uploaded as a PDF file or into Final Draft. You have to be experienced to break the rules.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

million in seed funding, wants to give women a platform to start and grow their home-based businesses. The startup was co-founded by Lyn Johnson and Sara Sparhawk , who met when they both worked in finance. Johnson remained in finance, but Sparhawk later moved on to work at Amazon. However, there are some men on its platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

So far, companies like Floyd Home , Inside Weather , Outer and Feather (the furniture rental company) are using FloorFound’s services. The broken experience of oversized e-commerce has kept a multi-billion-dollar category offline. FloorFound will be the final push that moves the remaining offline categories, online. ” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic evolved into a genuine threat, offices closed to limit spread and people suddenly had to download Zoom and work from home. Launching today, wrkfrce will offer content, job postings and consulting services to help workers understand how to adapt and thrive in a remote-work environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

LG Nova is the pointiest tip of the spear for LG, the company’s experimental playground to work with startups to explore spaces where the corporation has spotted areas ripe for future growth. ” The latter is an extension of smart homes, home automation and living smarter through the power of tech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As people start to spend more time outside their homes, FunNow is prepping itself for expansion into more countries. million, and will be used to expand the number of categories in its app, adding night clubs, karaoke bars and catering, for example, and enter new countries, including Thailand, Singapore and Japan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The startup’s first plant, the Neo P1, works hand in hand with the company’s own microbiome located in the soil near the plant roots. That’s why Neoplants focuses on two categories of VOCs — formaldehyde (HCHO), and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX). It wants to start working on carbon capture and storage next year.

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propel(x)

APRIL 17, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we work. Most people that could do so have now transitioned to work from home. Fund-raising falls into that category. As work-from-home becomes the norm, we realize these calls are even more important now. And, conversely, investing. One a week.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 5, 2022

won in the “Digital Health” category as an AI full-face skin diagnosis solution that analyzes skin using AI algorithm technology. This award serves as another milestone and we will continue to work diligently to achieve our corporate mission of providing the best products and services to our customers around the world.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Although Memomi’s website touts how its technology can be used across product categories beyond optical — including beauty, fashion, accessories, footwear, and more — Walmart declined to speak to its future plans for the service in these areas. The technology also powers the optical e-commerce experience on SamsClub.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The duo, who had previously worked on a number of projects, including a ride-hailing commute app for school kids, and dropped out of Stanford two years ago, took Zepto out of stealth mode in November last year. Zomato last month began a pilot of 10-minute delivery of food items in its home city of Gurugram. Image Credits: Zepto .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Miferia , a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic brands in categories like cosmetics, food and beverage and home décor. That’s where Miferia, founded this year, comes in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With more of us spending significant amounts of time at home because of COVID-19, our attention has turned increasingly to how and what we eat. A profusion of meal kit and food delivery businesses, which let you order things to eat at the tap of a finger, have changed how a lot of people think about food at home.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s difficult for individual sellers or micro-entrepreneurs to work with the old supply chain and categories like beauty,” she said. While forced to stay at home, people also began spending more time online , especially on the social media platforms that Raena resellers use.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 12, 2023

Highly accomplished Woman Executive teams with Founder to take Home Fitness Company forward The COVID-19 pandemic spawned a lot of change in people’s lives and routines. With almost all of America under lockdown, home fitness workouts replaced closed gyms, while also adding quality time to those no longer commuting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 29, 2020

Shift to new categories? The pandemic is accelerating the rate of cloud computing and remote working. How many of us have upgraded our home offices? Consumer spending in the US accounts for 68% of GDP The question is then: how do consumers change their spending habits over the next quarter? New brands?

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Startups are defined by velocity and growth, learning and adapting faster than your competitors on the path to dominance in your chosen category. Even in an era of remote work and Zoom-first investing, the Pacific Northwest remains as talent-rich and investment-poor as it was when we started. Here’s to the next fifteen years!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

He went home, turned his house into a commercial kitchen and began experimenting with recipes, sometimes using his three young children as taste-testers. When Struck found a recipe that worked, he started handing the pudding out to friends and family and ultimately started Noops. The plant-based foods market was valued at $29.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Zhang tells TechCrunch that the new cash will be put toward investments in data infrastructure, supply chain technology, new merchandise categories and international expansion. Xia was one of the first employees at e-scooter startup Lime and previously worked as an analyst at a16z (Andreessen Horowitz). ” Image Credits: Trendsi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But in Uganda, the industry had already taken off, albeit slowly, through Rocket Health , a startup working to transform the delivery of medical care using technology. We now do tests like PCR testing in addition to home-based care,” said Musinguzi.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

GoGet , a Malaysian on-demand work platform, announced today that it has raised a $2 million Series A led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. While Malaysia has other on-demand work platforms, including Supahands and Kaodim, each has its own niche. Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

“It’s a $200 billion market and it doesn’t have a strong online brand, nothing that is category-defining the way you might have with other verticals. “What I love about the brand is how it’s integrated with the home and with style,” said Nahu Ghebremichael of Singular.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Register Carousell Group , the multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia, has doubled down on driving electronics recommerce across the region since acquiring control of Laku6 , the leading AI-first end-to-end electronics recommerce platform in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Building and owning a home has been part of human life for as long as civilization itself. Momei Qu: We did not coin this term, but we like to use “built world” or “built environment” to capture both categories. What would you say is the difference between the two? And where do they overlap?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. immigration system and how it works so I can get the big picture and understand what I’m navigating? There are many visa and green card categories you can use to chart your course.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Incredibly, I was able to work out a sale price my wife and I were comfortable with, but we still purchased the car in a seller’s market. Worse, unlike homes and real estate, a car depreciates considerably the moment it drives off the lot and goes down every subsequent month. Why would they file a lawsuit?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

.” That should translate well to the home, they say, where there are actually fewer complicating variables. We’re working with he FDA to define the clinical proof needed to get this clear.” ” BrainQ raises $40M to transform stroke patient rehabilitation with its home therapy device.

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