Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

From Asias tech hubs to Europes historic towns, these 10 destinations are leading the remote work revolution and offering a chance to truly engage, not just pass through. Spain Spains Digital Nomad Visa officially launched in 2023, quickly becoming one of the most attractive remote work programs in Europe. 439,521 NOK).

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sgEngage

JUNE 25, 2024

In this article, we share insights from a white paper ‘The Importance of Charity Fundraising Technology’ to explore the significance of your technology vendor and internal team in digital transformation success. Building Your Team While your vendor and the technology solution play a key role, so does your internal team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Today a startup that has built a platform to make the business of fishing more efficient — and thus the process overall more traceable and less prone to waste — is announcing a round of funding to ride on that wave. Fishing business’s greatest problem, he said, is uncertainty.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Business owners always say that each company has to live through a real crisis before it becomes a real business. However, even before we did, I always told my team: “Every company has its time in the sun and a time of crisis.”. When the Russo-Ukrainian War began on February 24, all Ukrainian businesses faced a crisis.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Creating a course Image Credits : LMS365 From the end-user perspective, all this means that new-hires can be onboarded directly through Microsoft Teams, or receive ongoing training in all manner of disciplines from customer service to managing mental health. A little more than half of LMS365 users are based in 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). Sava highlights two specific pain points businesses confront around spend management and reconciliations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. million) in a Series B round of funding. First, Veo will be digging into expanding its U.S.

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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. cities safer, starting with New York, Haje writes. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Qonto is a challenger bank focused on business bank accounts. That’s quite a long list of investors and Qonto proves once again that private equity firms are actively looking for late-stage growth rounds in Europe. Qonto started out with business bank accounts because that’s the key financial component of European companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Tel Aviv-based firm aggregates crypto data across different wallets, accounts and platforms, so crypto entities’ financial teams can better understand what’s happening internally at their business without needing the crypto-native knowledge and experience to gather the information, Zackon said. Tres raises $7.6M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

The duo will be part of the team that will steer the startup’s new business as it works to disrupt traditional finance by leveraging blockchain technology for secondary debt markets. or in Europe have the opportunity to sell significant chunks of their debt portfolios to third parties. Lenders in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

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. “From startups to universities, we join forces to make Europe a world leader in the new wave of deep tech innovation!” Want it in your inbox every Saturday?

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

The company has built a modern tool to design, manage and optimize sales commission plans for your internal team. At any point in time, sales team members can connect to Palette and see how many deals they’ve closed this quarter and if they’re on track to hit their quota.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

and Europe continue to operate uninterrupted after making sure their teams and data are completely safe abroad or in the west of Ukraine. Having prepared emergency plans in advance, many tech companies quickly relocated their teams to safety during the first days of the war or even before the fighting broke out.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

creator economy and people doing “side-hustle” businesses. CEO Enzo Ottens said: “Many of us in the Earnr team started our own side hustles during the U.K.’s CEO Enzo Ottens said: “Many of us in the Earnr team started our own side hustles during the U.K.’s Earnr is a new finance and tax service aimed at the U.K.

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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. billion. . “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The proceeds will be used to propel its research and development in artificial intelligence and synthetic speech and grow the team. “We We plan on hiring heavily across all functions, from machine learning, artificial intelligence and product development to marketing and business development. Aflorithmic nabs $1.3M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

He and Friedland’s answer to that problem is a no-code platform for teams to create customized product demonstrations quickly, be able to integrate them into their sales and marketing processes and then generate insights from the demos. Walnut serves over 60 business-to-business clients, including Adobe, NetApp, Varonis and People AI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. In Paris, Laiye is slated to assemble a product and engineering force, building on top of Mindsay’s 30-people team. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang. Image Credits: Laiye.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spotify’s name will also appear on the jerseys of both the men’s and women’s teams for the next four seasons starting in the 2022/23 season. While viewers in Europe may see a message about one artist, TV viewers in India could be served a different and locally relevant message.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Ardoq is based out of Oslo and about 30% of its enterprise client base is in the Nordics; the rest is spread between Europe and the U.S. Erik Bakstad, the co-founder and CEO, said in an interview that the plan is to use the funding for more business development to expand that list of users, but also to invest in its product.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And today, a startup that’s helping companies connect with a wider range of designers and other creatives to meet that demand is announcing a round of funding to fuel its business growth. This helps downplay the words, which come off as matter-of-fact rather than boastful as a result.) Superside provides them.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

CodeSignal For helping new tech workers brush up on their technical and soft skills CodeSignal is a popular skills assessment platform to evaluate candidates used by recruiters and hiring teams at major companies like Meta and Uber. But theres a shortage of workers who can fill those positions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team. the company has been expanding rapidly across Europe.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

Amazon currently dominates online commerce in the US and parts of Europe, and serves as a backbone to much of the modern web thanks to Amazon Web Services. Bezos’ successor, Andy Jassy, joined the company shortly after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1997, and has led AWS since the team was founded in 2003.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

While founder and CEO Chatue-Diop studied and later held a couple of high executive roles in Europe in the space of 10 years, she had a nudge to come back to Francophone Africa to start a company. Two angel investors — Pascal Gauthier of Ledger and Jason Yanowitz of Blockworks — and a syndicate social fund also participated.

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The MatrixFiles

AUGUST 24, 2023

The friends are Peter Schwartz , who is my business coach, and Gordon Bernhardt , a member of my CEO peer group. He said, “Joanna, back in the day, if you were a pilgrim a couple of hundred years ago, your journey actually began when you walked out of your house in Germany or some other part of Europe, wherever you might have been.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. But as they scale up, even WhatsApp for Business might not be able to keep up with their needs. That’s where WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox) steps in. WATI founders Ken Yeung and Bianca Ho.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

SGE’s team has a long-term mindset that will allow Virtuous to continue building an enduring business and putting our customers first.” In addition to product development, Virtuous will invest in expanding its customer success and services teams to provide support and playbooks to its base of nonprofit users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

In addition, the fintech will bolster its sales and service teams. The product suite spans data aggregation technologies, personal and business finance management solutions, cash-back rewards and transaction-based carbon insights. US regulators need to catch up with Europe on fintech innovation .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Businesses can get approved in seconds and begin offering the installments.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

In Eastern Europe, for instance, Ukrainian neobank Monobank, in just the years of operations, has amassed over 4.5 According to him, Fintech Farm is responsible for the business side of things — the app and credit decision making processes. He is also a partner at co-lead investor Flyer One.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Snoop Dogg, rocked the stage at Sunday’s Super Bowl, and now his Casa Verde Capital team is pumping new funds into Frankfurt-based Cansativa Group , touted as the “largest medical cannabis distributor” in Germany. He also said the company was building the “Amazon” of cannabis in Europe. “We

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