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. While this may not trouble U.S. per month).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9 Rocket often followed the Blitzscaling model popularized by Reid Hoffman — earning them an appearance in his book of the same name. billion market cap), Lazada ($1 billion exit to Alibaba), Jumia ($3.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The funding, which brings Finn’s valuation to “more than $500 million,” comes at a time when consumers are starting to shift away from traditional car ownership models like leasing or financing. and Germany and invest in its technology platform.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Our customers realize a 29% increase in business user productivity and a 29%* faster delivery of business-driving reports. To keep up with the ever-changing business environment, use Data Stories. Meet all your business needs in one place with Tableau External Actions. Switching between applications is costly.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Our customers realize a 29% increase in business user productivity and a 29%* faster delivery of business-driving reports. To keep up with the ever-changing business environment, use Data Stories. Meet all your business needs in one place with Tableau External Actions. Switching between applications is costly.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

Tesla pulled this off despite taking a loss of $23 million on its big Bitcoin bet ( something that had helped it to a profit last quarter ), a delayed rollout of the revamped Model S sedan and Model X SUV, and the global semiconductor shortage. All told, Tesla generated $11.9 billion in revenue in the quarter. Same with China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. We understand from sources it is around $600 million. raised $20 million.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

Hepster , an insurtech platform from Germany, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Element Ventures. It allows businesses to build insurance policies from scratch, matched specifically to the needs of their individual service or industry. So there is huge market potential in Germany I think.”

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Chinese manufacturer Changan Automobile said on Tuesday it had opened a new European office in Germany, facilitating the companys entry into the worlds third largest regional market where peers such as BYD and Chery are also forging ahead. billion deal for Changan to take a 10% stake in Huaweis automotive business unit.

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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. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. Sennder directly connects enterprise shippers with trucking companies, thus disintermediating the traditional freight model. It says it will move over 1 million truckloads this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Comatch originally started in Germany, which means that Malt is also doubling down on the German market with this acquisition. Originally limited to the French market, Malt has expanded to Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland over the past few years. Malt hasn’t specifically targeted business consultants so far.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Unlike gig economy models, it employs riders directly and is emphasising its ability to get fresh groceries, along with other household items, to shoppers at very short notice and at “retail prices”. Taking into account the solid basket sizes and procurement margins we are able to build a long-term sustainable business”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. StudentFinance’s competitors include (in the USA) Blair, Leif, Vemo Education, Chancen (Germany-based) and EdAid (U.K.-based). This makes it a “success-based model”, says StudentFinance, which shifts the risk away from the students.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As the European startup ecosystem matures, you would expect young entrepreneurs to enjoy ever-increasing access to useful advice from mentors, business leaders, experienced entrepreneurs, legal advisors and investors. For any founder, this type of structure should ring all kinds of alarm bells. Be thoughtful about the first money you raise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Berlin-based Yababa only started its same-day grocery delivery business this summer, selling products geared towards the tastes of the capital’s sizeable Turkish and Arabic communities shortly afterwards, but in a few short months it’s closed a $15.5 And a much more expansive inventory is on the way. Oja bags $3.4M

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Tesla shipped 180,667 vehicles total in the fourth quarter, and 161,701 of those were Model 3s and Model Ys. Tesla also said that it expects to start deliveries of vehicles made at its new factories in Berlin, Germany, and outside Austin, Texas — which are still under construction — by the end of 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

It also uses a 100% electric fleet serving big cities and suburbs, and its model is to have zero food waste. Tom Peeters, CEO and co-founder of Crisp, told me via online interview that “the differentiation on our model is that we offer quality and convenience. He said: “Food in Holland is €40 billion, in Germany it is 200 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021. Based out of the U.S.,

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2021

Klaus Zellmer, Volkswagen’s board member for sales, told the newspaper that the company would “exit the business with internal combustion engine cars in Europe between 2033 and 2035.” In the US, California plans to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035, with several other states adopting California’s model.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The automaker said it will spend $1 billion to convert its factory in Cologne, Germany, into its first EV production line on the continent. Ford aims to deliver more than 600,000 European vehicles using the MEB architecture over six years, with a second all-new Ford model for European customers under discussion.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

The main hub for starting a tech business is currently San Francisco. It’s an amazing city, full of people working at tech businesses, and ready to start the next big thing. The costs of living are incredibly high and you will compete with the world’s most successful tech businesses for talent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Part of Cledara’s revenue comes from interchange fees via said card spend, along with employing a SaaS model itself with paid subscriptions. Counting over 100 customers overall, other businesses using Cledara include Florence.co.uk, Unmind.com, and Butternut Box. France, Ireland, Germany and Spain. Image Credits: Cledara.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K. Germany’s Wefox last year raised $400 million at $4.5 and across the European Economic Area (EEA). ” The company had previously raised around $24.4

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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. ” According to Khlebinsky, Retail Rocket uses a mathematical model to segment first-time buyers of a company’s product. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

and Germany, which are prominent hubs for global talent. OfferZen doesn’t employ income-sharing agreements, a revenue model adopted by tech talent companies such as Bloom Institute of Technology (formerly Lambda School), or hourly rate charges, like Andela and Toptal. The first is a pay-per-placement model with a one-off 12.5%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

As a serial founder, Nwobi ran a couple of tech businesses, most notably mobile internet company MTech in the early 2000s. and Germany. Then, the company employs an income-sharing model when the engineers find work and start earning upon graduation. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5 Canada, the U.K., also took part.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

The company is looking for ways to “create more of a direct funnel for brands,” like bringing people to their website with a promo code automatically inserted, Jay Richman, head of ads business and platform at Spotify, tells The Verge. “I So, it is one step in a larger innovation path to productize the coupon code.”. “So, GIF: Spotify.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to the 2015-founded startup it’s matched over 1M jobs across Germany and the Netherlands to date. We are also growing our operations in Germany and the Netherlands as well,” it tells us, adding: “We are growing our tech team and will heavily invest in the scaling and new automation features on our platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

” In Germany, where Mayd is starting out, the country is in the process of gearing up for an e-prescription system that’s due to go live in January — as part of wider moves to digitize healthcare services (such as by bringing in electronic patient records). “In general we could have done this model two years ago.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Betting on Africas music boom Cirisano cautions, however, that business models that work in the West may not easily translate to emerging markets. Thriving alongside giants like Spotify Scaling a business works for streaming giants like Spotify, which recently reported its first full year of profitability.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Production ready (pre-trained) NLP models for English are readily available ‘out of the box’ There are also dedicated open source frameworks offering help with training models. But businesses wanting to tap into NLP still need to have the DevOps resource and chops to implement NLP models. NLPCloud.io

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Instant purchase and delivery of food and other essentials was one of the big bubbles of opportunity in the world of e-commerce in the last year, with dozens of startups big and small emerging and scooping up funding to build out businesses to bring items like groceries, toilet paper and Tylenol to people’s doors in 30 minutes or less.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

in pocket money given out in Germany every year, just for children aged six to 13 years, along with the €35B spent in the home market in Germany alone (German census).
. The business model for Bling is direct subscription, transactions and fees from financial products, partnerships (first mobile phone plans, insurance etc).

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

This model has scaled extremely well as Wefox now has 4,000 distribution partners. Wefox’s most important source of revenue remains its distribution business. “On The majority of the revenue comes from our distribution business. by acquiring a promising insurance distribution business, integrating it and developing it.

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