TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ” While Fatmap is incorporated in the U.K.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. But managing someone online is entirely different than working with someone in person.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Grover doubled subscriptions and business in the last year, and it currently has half a million items in its catalogue available for subscription, 2 million registered users and 250,000 active customers (some are subscribing to use more than one gadget). That growth has been riding on several concurrent market trends.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. I think local tech investors are taking more risks and becoming global scene players. Lithuania is now fourth in the global fintech ranking after the U,S,, the U,K, and Singapore. What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

This includes international companies that are establishing a presence for the first time, and those that are expanding an existing footprint (this may include M&A activity). Proton , the Swiss company behind encrypted email service ProtonMail , already has hubs across its native Switzerland, Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Taiwan.

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