TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia. Founded in 2019, the startup is operational in Vietnam and has applied for a license to launch in Indonesia. Jeff was created to develop alternative data scoring models for financial services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Returning investors in the round include CLSA Lending Ark Asia and 500 Global. The Series C will support hiring AI engineers and secure alternative data to advance its credit-scoring algorithm further. South Korea-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund announced today it has closed a $63.4 million (75.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie: How to maneuver the latest travel bans, H-1B alternatives. In Silicon Valley, we’d have to wait a few months to get a marriage license.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Disheartened by the non-customer-centric banking experiences, Telda was launched to provide an alternative. Like any digital bank globally, Telda enables customers to create a free account to send and receive money. In essence, Egypt is heav ily cash reliant, and card usage in the country is very much in its infancy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. T he partner bank holds local knowledge, license and capital as both parties co-invest in the business equally. Right now, the company says it has gotten a “co-operative license.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Alternatively, companies try to build their own solutions using Elasticsearch. Peak’s investments include global auction marketplace Catawiki, headless content management system GraphCMS and omnichannel communications platform Trengo. The main platforms used at this point include Neo4j, Senzing or Neptune from AWS.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The company’s A2 round was led by aerospace venture firm Airbus Ventures, with participation from Kickstart Ventures, Genesis Alternative Ventures, Wavemaker, Cap Vista and Seeds Capital. Some of its previous backers include EDBI, Entrepreneur First, 500 Global, SparkLabs Global Ventures and Michael Seibel.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s not clear to us that current digital library lending models fairly balance the interests of authors and library patrons,” Mikyla Bruder, the global marketing chief at Amazon Publishing, told The Washington Post ’s Geoffrey Fowler in an emailed statement. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Greycroft and Global Founders Capital co-led the $75 million in equity financing, which is notable for a few reasons. It also gives vacation homeowners an alternative option to renting out their property. It eventually plans to also expand globally — in Europe and potentially in Mexico and the Caribbean. For one, the team.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

As Western markets reach saturation, most future streaming growth will come from Global South regions, of which Africa is an important part, she argues. Even though Africas impact on global music culture and consumption continues to grow, its impact on global music revenue is not matching that growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

4 investors discuss the next big wave for alternative seafood startups Image of WildType’s sushi-grade, lab-grown salmon. Image Credits: Arye Elfenbein/WildType There’s a lot of hype around plant-based burgers and nuggets, but alternative seafood products are attracting more attention — and funding — from investors these days.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

But there’s far more to Ecovative’s mushrooms than that, and the company’s new investors — including Viking Global Investors, with support from Senator Investment Group, AiiM Partners, Trousdale Ventures and other undisclosed backers — want to see just how far the company can go. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. “Some people are speculating that when the PPI licenses were given, RBI was clear that they are not given as credit instruments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Or put more simply, she wanted to build a new kind of cloud storage that would serve as an alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive “built by, and for, creatives.”. Since we last covered the company, Ko says it has grown to more than 50,000 users, including freelance designers and creative agency customers globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Payday , a neobank issuing global (USD, EUR and GBP) accounts to Africans, has raised $3 million to fuel its “future of work” initiative through borderless payment alternatives in major currencies. Ori told TechCrunch during an interview about Payday’s place in Africa’s remittance and global neobanking space. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“We believe that generative models are a consequential technology for society and open and decentralized alternatives to closed systems are going to be critical to enable the best outcomes for AI and society,” Prakash told TechCrunch in an email interview. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). ” It’s a lofty goal, to be sure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

It has a major deal with Huawei to let global developers build games that run on the phone maker’s in-house chips and HarmonyOS, billed as an alternative to Android. The company also supports Chinese search giant Baidu’s metaverse platform Xirang, though it declined to share how exactly they work together.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Africa has the lowest insurance penetrations globally. Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. Fingo is providing an alternative brand of banking to African millennials, starting from Kenya.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Voicy’s pre-seed raise is led by Oliver Samwer’s Global Founders Capital, with a number of tech senior execs also participating from companies including Twitch, Spotify, Deezer, Snapchat, Booking, Uber, Reddit, Acast and Tesla. Voicy is not licensing any audio content currently but the founders suggest they may do in future.

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Givinga

MAY 25, 2021

million global charities, automate tax incentives and rewards of charitable giving, and deliver donations fast and transparently. Givinga brings a more modern, proactive approach to global charity vetting and faster payment processing. Our Philantech cloud is available to partners through a SaaS licensing structure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Berlin-based Target Global led the pre-seed round, with foreign VCs and angel investors such as Entrée Capital, Oliver Jung, Tom Blomfield, Ed Robinson and Brandon Krieg participating. Casava works with reinsurance partners who guarantee a refund when claims are paid as a licensed microinsurance underwriter. 250 (~$0.5) – ?300($0.6)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In the middle of a global pandemic, Salesforce.org and Cirrico have enabled us to revolutionise our approach to managing safeguarding to a really efficient, instant process,” said Butcher. It’s hugely cost effective when you consider the alternatives,” explained Butcher. Salesforce.org has saved us a huge amount of money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The funding was led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from Fuel Capital, Broadhaven Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Liquid 2 and TransRe. At launch, Goodcover was operational in California, which CEO and cofounder Chris Lotz says is one of the more difficult states to get licensed in. million Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New backers Fifth Wall and Gaingels also participated in the financing, along with existing backers Greycroft, Global Founders Capital, Crosscut and 75 & Sunny Ventures. It also gives vacation homeowners an alternative option to renting out their property. Sunny Ventures is Pacaso co-founder Spencer Rascoff’s venture firm).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Others participating include VNV Global, Balderton, Creandum, Project A, Inbox, and “sustainability-focused investor” Stena Sessan, along with individual backers with links to tech companies such as Delivery Hero, Klarna, iZettle, Zillow, Kry/Livi and Amazon. With major new markets, including the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Less than a month after announcing a partnership with India’s largest two-wheeled vehicle maker , Gogoro is taking another big step in its global expansion plans. Gogoro’s new deals in India and China are the biggest steps it has taken for its global strategy since launching the first Gogoro Smartscooter in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

.” The company, which currently offers mobile-first banking services in Nigeria, has picked up $25 million in a Series A being led by Valar Ventures, the firm co-founded and backed by Peter Thiel, with Target Global and other unnamed investors participating.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But despite being one of the largest alternative financial infrastructures known globally, this represents only a fraction of the overall market. . The YC-backed company became a WorldRemit subsidiary last year when the global fintech paid up to $500 million in cash and stock for Sendwave. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

LG’s innovation center — LG Nova among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. XRHealth Virtual Clinic – Integrates VR/AR, licensed clinicians and real-time data analytics. The Metaverse. Energizing Mobility.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

Great alternative: [link] 2. Most nonprofits only ever need the ArcView license, available heavily discounted from TechSoup. ESRI makes their global coverage basemaps available for free to layer beneath your own map. If exact location is critical in your work, you’ll have to learn about quality and precision issues.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. Drivers talked about their dream to somehow run their own app as an alternative to Uber. although this cooperative fizzled due to the lack of a contract with hospitals for workers.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Or maybe the first lineage changed the global environment so dramatically that other lineages lost the opportunity to evolve the same innovation. If these alternative mechanisms explain the uniqueness of these proposed hard steps, then none of them would actually qualify as hard steps. Read the original article.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

TouchPal X Keyboard is an alternative to pre-installed keyboards on Android smartphones. China is dominated by Android devices, and although Google Play is available globally, hundreds of other Android app stores flood the market — from the larger players including Qihoo and 91 Wireless to smaller ones such as Wandoujia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the start of this year, Sono announced that it would license its solar body panel technology to other companies and named electric autonomous shuttle company EasyMile as its first customer. ” Solar technology integration and licensing. Sono is also working with companies to integrate its solar technologies into other vehicles.

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Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

LMS Security and Compliance: Steps for Protection and Adherence Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Internal threats are a growing security concern for LMS platforms, as highlighted by the 2022 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats Global Report. million per incident.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

A publisher-focused alt to Twitter: Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media, has opened its doors to the public. A glum Q1: Alex writes about how the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023 — and would’ve been even worse were it not for a few mega deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

That’s why today’s news from Bitpanda is an important signal for the Austrian unicorn company, which has received a crypto license from Germany’s financial regulator, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), reports Romain. All eyes are currently on the collapse of FTX in the crypto industry.

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