TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

His startup, Terraform Industries , aims to operate at these ambitious scales. Terraform Industries has developed a system that captures carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the air and creates hydrogen from water, all using cheap solar power. In this case, it’s the business plan. Trillions of acres.

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TechSpot

JUNE 22, 2023

After recently doing the same in Europe, Google has now publicly accused Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior over the US cloud market. Mountain View singled out Microsoft in a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was seeking industry comments about the business practices of cloud computing providers that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

In the latest development, Viva Wallet , a Greek startup building banking services aimed at small and medium merchants, has picked up financing of $80 million, money that it will be using to expand its footprint and the services it offers to users, in particular expanding its Merchant Advance loans business. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 annually on average.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. And all the while a small AI lab in China was quietly developing new AI models, including reasoning models, that would begin sending shockwaves through the AI industry by the end of 2024. The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the autonomous vehicle industry captured the imagination of the startup community and the public. and Europe increased by nearly 2.5x, eventually peaking at close to $10 billion in 2021. Image Credits: F-Prime Capital VC excitement for hardware businesses is higher than ever In the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, the company expanded beyond just helping employers with interviews and assessments by introducing a new platform, CodeSignal Learn, which gives tech workers the ability to acquire new technical skills and keep up with industry needs. But theres a shortage of workers who can fill those positions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. has the third most WhatsApp users in Europe with 40.41

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

As a German startup, LiveEO is one of a small but growing group of startups in Europe capitalizing on increasing interest in space among investors in recent years, despite the wider pressures on tech finance. LiveEO’s platform addresses a specific gap between space tech and enterprise data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Heroes , a European e-commerce business operating a similar model to unicorn Thrasio in the U.S. — with a strategy of acquiring and scaling high performing Amazon businesses — has raised $65 million in funding round. In most cases, the startups end up spending too much money to convince customers to buy their product.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Its focus is on developing DAC kit that can be installed (retrofitted) inside working cooling towers in the industrial sector — thereby, its pitch runs, slashing the cost of drawing down carbon emissions. Or indeed the really tiny units you might find on a shopping center or office building.)

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. The fund’s LPs include family offices, asset managers, enterprises and small businesses, along with existing portfolio startup founders. The firm led the $9.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. The new funding will be used to recruit more primary packaging suppliers to Impacked’s marketplace across North America and Europe, and also enhance its existing sustainability scoring system. The company raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There are multiple messaging apps active in Southeast Asia and most consumers prefer to use them over email when they contact a business. Respond.io’s dashboard, which processes over 140 million messages per month, consolidates all the messages a business gets, so the right person can see them. Respond.io Respond.io When Respond.io

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. Europe’s energy crisis bites. Russia being a major but unreliable supplier of gas to Europe.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Part of this process will have to involve making it easier for consumers and businesses alike to transition to electrification, for example through extending access to electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as the U.S. ” Papaya wants to help electrify last-mile logistics in Europe by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

In preparation for its next stage of growth, Bfree has secured the services of leading industry professionals, including CTO Konrad Pawlus, formerly of SALESmanago, and Yohan Theatre, who previously worked at investment management firm PIMCO. Theatre takes over as the head of data decision-making and financial engineering. Lenders in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

But it might come as a surprise to learn that many in the industry believe that the story is just beginning and the sector is poised to achieve much more, with fintech’s next decade expected to be radically different from the last 10 years. Long before the pandemic, the way in which banks were regulated was changing. Serving SMEs. If the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. It especially wants to reduce waste and CO2 emissions. ”

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about the three major categories your association — and really any business — can optimize to make a kick-ass workplace. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? Early business magnates like the Rothschilds and the Barings lived and worked out of their giant manors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. aggregation platform OpenWrks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CK’S got started in 2017 in Europe when founder and head of R&D Niclas Luthman’s mother was diagnosed as a diabetic, and Luthman diagnosed as pre-diabetic, according to Altschul. “He In Europe, the company makes ice cream, snack bars and confectionery products. The company has been busy over the past two years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Over the years, the event has become a relatively low-tech, low-budget showcase for a group of tech investors and billionaire industry insiders to take a look at early stage businesses that could be their next billion-dollar opportunity. the raw materials are products of the current agricultural industry.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Philipp Povel, co-founder and co-CEO of Mondu, said there is a “$200 billion opportunity just in Europe and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 YouTravel.Me

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the industry grapples with the larger questions of how to create viable solid-state batteries or commercialize robotaxi service , the companies listed here are focused on the incremental steps toward a fully autonomous future. The year also saw the companys rapid expansion across Asia and into Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

creator economy and people doing “side-hustle” businesses. Earnr is a new finance and tax service aimed at the U.K. It’s now secured £650,000 to launch an app aimed at “solopreneurs” The round was led by 7percent Ventures , and was joined by Antler and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch , a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. As for Comatch, the company roughly follows the same model, but with a specific focus on management consultants and industry experts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Furthermore, she has earned the Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI) Designation, the most highly respected educational designation in the auction industry provided by the National Auctioneers Association. Dan is a member and ambassador for the state of Alaska for the National Auctioneers Association. Dan is bilingual in English and Spanish.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. TripActions is also planning a broader expansion in Europe, which has grown to represent 30% of its business. And, new add-on businesses like Liquid are scaling nicely.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. It will also double down on existing markets such as the U.K./Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

billion European payments giant, has made another acquisition, this time to dig deeper into financial services for small and medium businesses in the region. Ironically, now it’s become part of a company that will realistically represent an even bigger rival to Toast in Europe (and potentially elsewhere).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

There is no more blaming or cutting corners because the system validates that and also makes construction a healthier industry to work in.”. To meet demand, Buildots will use the new funding to continue that expansion; double the size of its global team with a focus on sales, marketing and R&D; and grow on the business side.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

At the time, he also realized traditional industries were well underserved compared to the attention that internet platforms like short videos and news apps received from AI entrepreneurs. Wang also saw a strong “cultural alignment” between his business and the French startup led by a team of young founders.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

If all goes well, TuSimple claims it will eventually expand operations to Europe and China. Autonomous trucking is starting to emerge from the shadow of the much larger robotaxi industry, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast doubt on the efficacy of shared ride-hailing. But it hasn’t been smooth hauling for everyone.

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