TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The San Francisco-based company’s produce business-to-business marketplace provides a way for produce buyers and sellers to quickly close deals on surplus or imperfect crops in just a few clicks. The industry average stands at 10%, while the company’s rejection average is 1% to 2%, Moseley said. Food waste is a $2.6

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The company, which is jointly owned by Volvo and Volvo’s parent company Geely, recently started delivering the Polestar 2, its electric sedan with native Android Automotive, to customers in Europe and North America. Consumers want to see change from this industry – not just dreams,” Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The most innovative companies in agriculture for 2025 include forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits with at least one eye firmly on this future. McCain recruited ClimateAi in 2023, once the spud grower began worrying in earnest if it will have a viable potato business in 10 years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

An Indian startup that operates a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items is the latest to attain the coveted unicorn status in the South Asian market. The startup, which in recent years has expanded to Southeast Asia and North America, said its revenue grew approximately three times in 2020-21, to $128 million. “In

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This new growing affair between Israel and China is extremely important to the Israeli technology industry, which is always seeking new markets and lacks capital. On one of these flights I met Eden, the CEO of an Israeli next-gen hardware company focusing on the gaming consuls industry. billion people in 2009 to 4.9 billion in 2030.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Deal of the week The battery business keeps attracting capital. That cash will be used to build new factories in North America and Europe. Several Silicon Valley and freight tech industry angels also participated, according to the company. Just take a look at Swedish lithium-ion battery producer Northvolt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

As we have started to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, food delivery has shaped up to continue to be a major business. Today its biggest market is Europe, but it’s growing the fastest in North America, so it will also be investing to continue expanding there. (Xu

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“The cannabis space is the fastest growing industry, up 35% year over year. Dutchie is working with over 5,000 dispensaries in North America and processed $14 billion in annualized sales for those dispensaries. We’ve seen 100% year over year growth with dispensaries.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CK’S CEO North America, told TechCrunch. The company has been busy over the past two years. Its direct-to-consumer business launched in 2020 and has remained at the top of the DTC ice cream delivery space since July, Altschul said. Kinnevik, Ambrosia and Temasek co-led the round and were joined by Gullspang.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The future of AI is bright, yet its continuous evolution and an uncertain regulatory environment cloud its reality for many businesses. AI adapters: Fine-tuners of the creators models that embed them along with retrieval-augmented generation and similar technologies, adapting them for specific business application development.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

One thing that never gets old in business is knowing your customer – and that’s because of how often we get it wrong. You can create an improved business by avoiding the mistakes made by your competitor in the past, and also try to get ahead by offering features that users are requesting (but have not been developed yet).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

AskNicely is the latest company attracting capital for its app targeting shift or frontline worker success as more businesses rightly begin to see how valuable these employees are to their bottom line and how technology can ensure these key employees are empowered to help the company grow. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely. Image Credits: AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry. “Through this strategic partnership, we’re well-positioned to adapt to a rapidly changing travel environment and create industry-leading solutions for our customers along their travel journey.” Image Credits: Hopper. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. travel industry in particular taking its first steps toward recovery, Lalonde says behavior is not changing as much as his company had anticipated. Now, with the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The big industrial manufacturer is getting ready to launch their next charging product in North America. As more service providers get into the market, Lefevre sees the opportunity set for his business expanding exponentially. Electric moped startup Revel launches an EV charging business.

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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. customers including SMEs, sole traders, and landlords, and an advised broking service called SuperscriptQ that’s available in the U.K. The underwriting factor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

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. What are some of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cannabis industry right now? We also like ancillary businesses. As in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They present sessions on a range of topics that help new founders gain the confidence they need to move forward and build a solid business foundation. and Leyonna Barba, managing director of middle market banking and specialized industries business at J.P. Sponsored by Moneygram. Sponsored by CDK Global. Sponsored by J.P.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

But while the industry hails the rise of the region’s ecosystem and its growing fleet of unicorns , Latin America’s startup story has a far longer past. In fact, the evolution of business shares far more similarities across countries than we might expect. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Ibex Investors led the Series B with Vertex Growth Fund , Strides International Business , Magma Venture Partners , Vertex Ventures Israel , and GlenRock Israel. Cylus will use the current funding to fuel its growth globally in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company did not disclose its post-money valuation. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Bridgit , a “workforce intelligence” technology company that is focused on the construction industry, announced today that it has raised CAD$24 million, or about US$19.4 This is not shocking considering the widespread labor shortage the industry has been experiencing. million, in Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Fidel API is industry agnostic, with customers ranging in the “hundreds,” from startups to giants such as Google, Royal Bank of Canada and British Airways. Since launching its offering in 2018, Fidel API says it has entered markets across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Solving for expense management.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It slates the likes of Spain’s Typeform , Cabify and Ebury among its sign-ups, for example, and while Abacum’s business is based in New York its co-founders are Spanish, and it has an office in Barcelona, so has evidently been leveraging links to the local ecosystem to drive uptake).

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TechNode

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to TikTok’s global marketing platform, TikTok for Business , the popularity of micro drama has surged since 2023. According to industry researcher DataEye , Chinas micro drama market is projected to grow by nearly 35 percent in 2024, reaching RMB 50.44

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Doosan also notes in a release that its robotics systems have hit 1,000 units annually, while sales outside of Korea (primarily North America and Western Europe) now account for roughly 70% of that total figure. The company is also in the process of eyeing an IPO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Data intelligence company Near is announcing the acquisition of another company in the data business — UM. The addition of UM’s 60-person team brings Near’s total headcount to around 200, with UM CEO Gladys Kong becoming CEO of Near North America. Near acquires Teemo to expand its data business into Europe.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

Snap’s revenue also soared 116 percent to $982 million, making it a faster growing business than Twitter or Facebook. Most of Snap’s user growth in the second quarter came from outside its core markets of North America and Europe, where advertisers pay more to reach people.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

Recent IDC research, sponsored by Tableau, found that 83% of CEOs want a data-driven organization, but only 33% of executives are comfortable questioning business KPIs and metrics1, revealing disparities between what executives “want” and “have.”(1) July 23, 2021 - 9:59pm. July 26, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

That experience got Subbaraj, who spent 14 years at Microsoft helping larger organizations improve their businesses, thinking on how he could apply that to help global brands offer better customer experiences. to charge up its management tools for service-based businesses. Fuzey takes in $4.5M Most recently, Fuzey raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the previous two or three years we’ve seen an explosion of new debit and credit card products come to market from consumer and B2B fintech startups, as well as companies that we might not traditionally think of as players in the financial services industry. The reason why this is happening is because the ‘fintech 1.0

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2020

Tesla quietly reopened the New York facility on May 19th after the state gave the region the green light, according to a new letter to local officials first reported on Friday by Buffalo Business First. All three Detroit automakers have had workers test positive , as have many companies in the food industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. upr’s previous startups was a restaurant delivery business, acquired by Delivery Hero ) to build its platform. We understand from sources it is around $600 million. That is the direction of travel.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Robotaxis may still be a few years out, but there are other industries that can be transformed by autonomous vehicles as they are today. Shipping yards are the buffer zone of the logistics industry. ” Aurora and Volvo partner to bring autonomous long-haul trucks to North America. ” Image Credits: ISEE.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There are few businesses, after all, that don’t have dozens and dozens of repetitive workflows that are currently done manually that could be automated. But the idea behind the tool is to offer a highly flexible no-code workflow tool to automate virtually any repetitive business process. ” said Martin. ” said Martin.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In the past two years, VendorPM has scaled its business to cover more than 5,000 buildings, 30,000 vendors and 100 property management firms, including notable relationships with BentallGreenOak, Cushman & Wakefield | Stevenson, and Avison Young. ” Image Credits: VendorPM. ” Image Credits: VendorPM.

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