TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fuzey , a London-based company providing what it calls a “digital one-stop shop” for small businesses and independent contractors, raised $4.5 CEO Lysgaard Jensen and COO Boyce met each other about two years ago and bonded over helping small businesses digitize. Other startups are also calling attention to these types of businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Does this mean that we’ll see recreational use of cannabis for adults becoming a common policy in Europe? After interviewing several active investors in cannabis-related startups, we learned that the regulatory and functional landscape in Europe is just as fragmented as it is in North America. It’s too soon to say. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Talking to TechCrunch, MOSTLY AI CEO Tobias Hann said that the company plans to use the proceeds to push the boundaries of what its product can do, grow its team, and gain more customers both in Europe and in the U.S., For instance, demand in Europe is also driven by a wider cultural context; while in the U.S., ” Seeing more U.S.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Apple is gradually adapting to the new business rules enforced by Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA). While still risking a fine amounting to 10 percent of its global revenue due to restrictions on third-party app developers, Cupertino appears willing to comply with the DMA's requirements regarding browser choice and default.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. . billion ($8.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

The fishing market globally was worth $253 billion in 2021, and despite the controversy that swirls around the industry, that figure continues to grow. In nearly 10 years of operations, he scaled that business to 50 people and £10 million in turnover, “and it was then that we started to see just how inefficient it was,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Neeva , an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business , is about to land in Europe. market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

SumUp , a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up in a big way. Over the years, SumUp has picked up a number of other startups to expand the services that it offers, as well as its markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. In Eastern Europe, for instance, Ukrainian neobank Monobank, in just the years of operations, has amassed over 4.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove, which deals with new cars, is a flexible option for these drivers who want to get into the business of ride-hailing without having to borrow from car owners or taking bank loans to finance cars bought from dealerships. So we’re still a young business. It is a problem faced across many emerging markets.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Founded in 2013 by Leonid Shangin and Yakov Filippenko, the company offered services to collect customer data and leverage it to create games, texts, and tasks designed to encourage repeat business. But the promise of software that predictably drives repeat business is alluring. SMS) to make personalized offers.

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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 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. “The difference is that we purchase from the seller at a discount from the market price. . and the U.K., While the U.S.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

The business eventually grew to a point where it offered over $1 million in loans to customers monthly. Still, Haile noticed a bigger underserved opportunity on the other side of the spectrum: small and medium businesses (SMBs). That said, there are still many lending services that SMBs can access in the market.

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TechSpot

MARCH 31, 2023

Google is officially accusing Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior in the cloud computing business as the Redmond corporation is striking specific agreements with several cloud vendors in Europe. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Internal combustion engines still rule the roost when it comes to powering automobiles, but there are signs that they’re trundling into oblivion, at least in some markets. ” Papaya is already live in five markets, including the U.K. The likes of Sweden , Denmark , and the U.K. Spain, France, Germany and Estonia.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A first tranche of Tesla’s Model 3 sedans will be available to rent from Hertz in major US and European markets from early November, said the company in a press statement. percent on the news in pre-market trading. Hertz went into bankruptcy in May last year after the car rental market was hit hard by the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone : Dronamics raised $40 million in a pre-Series A round (or really big seed round if you’d rather look at it that way) to start an autonomous cargo drone airline in Europe, Mike writes. The tech jobs market might not be as shaky as it feels , writes Ron.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., The Gurugram-based startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

We plan on hiring heavily across all functions, from machine learning, artificial intelligence and product development to marketing and business development. The company plans to double down on improving LOVO’s AI model, enhance its AI voices and develop a better product that surpasses any that exists in the current market, Lee said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth funding to navigate the choppy waters of the current fintech market, waters that have tipped and swayed SumUp itself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Deep tech has become a hot topic in Europe, with hopes that the region can have an edge over the rest of the world for innovation rooted in fundamental research. . That deep tech raises high hopes in Europe wasn’t exactly a surprise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth, and plans to open its platform to a wider stream of assets. “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks. Our growth goes hand in hand with that.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

On one side, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries and other food businesses contribute surplus food items. It’s a win for everybody as businesses can generate a bit of revenue from surplus food, customers can buy food at great prices and it reduces unnecessary waste. 65,000 businesses have sold something on Too Good To Go so far.

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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. But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Initiatives like Open Banking and the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) were being proposed as a way to promote competition in the banking industry — allowing smaller challenger firms to break into a market that has long been dominated by corporate titans. Open banking and data freedom. SMEs are underserved in a number of ways.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers. With this new financing, Credable plans to launch four more products this year and partner with businesses in these countries. If you think of a market, like the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. Alerzo claims to have built up a network of up to 100,000 small businesses, 90% of which are women-led. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. But I’m not sure anyone expected it to be hovering at a share price that gave Better.com a market cap of just $19.14 To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

A phone repair store at a technology market in Shenzhen, China. The Chinese company captured 17 percent of global market share, according to the research firm, just behind Samsung’s 19 percent but ahead of Apple’s 14 percent. Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. So far, Xiaomi appears to be the biggest beneficiary.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Scalable Capital, a Munich startup that aims to make investing in financial markets accessible to a wider range of consumers, is putting more fuel in its tank to drive deeper into Europe. It will be using to build out its business in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The startup’s offering was live in Mexico and Canada and today launched in Colombia, the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole. . Mexico is its largest market. Jeeves is currently beta testing in Brazil and Chile and Thazhmon expects that by year’s end, it will be live in all of North America and Europe. and Europe.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Overall, Disney’s direct-to-consumer streaming business is up 73 percent year over year, with revenue of $3.5 per subscriber, in part because it’s now factoring in Disney Plus Hotstar (available in India and Indonesia), which charges considerably less than the service in other markets. per month or $79.99 per year (up from $6.99

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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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