TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse in 2020, we received the news on the SolarWinds hack and its impact on more than 18,000 businesses and potentially dozens of U.S. and in Europe, led by the United Kingdom. government agencies — including the departments of Commerce , Energy and Treasury.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Because of the unpredictable nature of the fashion industry, fashion brands often have to “guestimate” demand for their products, and if they get that demand wrong, they have to deal with the wasted inventory. All too often clothes end up being incinerated unnecessarily, adding to their environmental impact.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

computer vision startup that’s sharpened its business pitch to sell an AI service for quickly anonymizing video — automating the blurring of faces or licence plates, along with a suite of other visual search services — has grabbed another chunk of seed funding: announcing a raise of $7.5 Pimloc , a U.K. Pimloc , a U.K.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Put simply, Fireblocks aims to offer financial institutions an all-in-one platform to run a digital asset business, providing them with infrastructure to store, transfer and issue digital assets. Basically all the complicated stuff you need to do as a business when you want to start working with this new technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It has also since completed “multiple” acquisitions of local brands operating across a variety of industries, such as beauty, fitness and home goods. California-based Presight Capita l and Kingsway Capital out of the United Kingdom co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers such as Kaszek, Upper90 and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. One industry trade association estimates that 240 million 911 phone calls are made every year, ranging from the quotidian loud dog to the exceptional terrorist attack.

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DataRobot

APRIL 29, 2022

With the big data revolution of recent years, predictive models are being rapidly integrated into more and more business processes. When business decisions are made based on bad models, the consequences can be severe. The regulators have provided a universal definition that has been adopted across the financial industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

ZEBOX , an international accelerator network founded by shipping conglomerate CMA CGM to introduce more tech innovation into the supply chain industry, announced today the launch of its APAC headquarters. Based in Singapore, ZEBOX Asia will also look at markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

But as two outsiders kind of coming into the industry, there were so many hurdles around how to partner with a bank and how to get compliance [approval],” Seal said. They’re not payments companies, and that’s not necessarily their fault — that could be because of regulation or whatever else.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Founder and CEO Jack Newton says he and Rian Gauvreau launched Clio during the 2008 recession after seeing the struggles solo lawyers and small firms faced when running a business. Historically, legal practice management software was limited to server-based solutions designed for enterprise businesses — not small law firms, Newton said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

market and scale up its commercial subscription service business. . The company already works with Domino’s in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as well as a range of other national clients, like the New Zealand Post, the Defense Force, the Department of Conservation and P?mu,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Compared with countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, the racial funding gap is even more stark as more than 50% of Brazil’s population is classified as Afro-Brazilian. There is a clear recognition of the business case for Afro-Brazilian businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The startup plans to use its new capital to expand its suite of products, keep adding to its 60-person team and provide carbon reduction analysis for the architecture, engineering and construction industries. . Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the EU. Robert Downey Jr.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Businesses, and the tech platforms that support their operations, had to adapt quickly to the pandemic. The capital will be used for expansion and growth in markets including New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia. After 14 years… it remains our cornerstone, even though fintech has evolved from the lending and credit businesses of the early years that was a core part of our Capital One DNA,” said Morris, who serves as QED’s managing partner. Most fintech companies will fail.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Beyond the tech world, universities, businesses and NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) regularly use these platforms to hire translators, graphic designers or IT experts. Freelancer.com alone has more than 67 million workers registered, the equivalent of the population of the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Founded in Melbourne, Mr Yum now has offices across Australia and in the United States and United Kingdom, too. Mr Yum began pitching its mobile ordering platform to businesses before the pandemic, but the pandemic has accelerated adoption. Its clients include E.P.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Business trip booking platform TravelPerk has bagged another rival — picking up UK-based Click Travel. Business trip platform TravelPerk buys YC-backed rival NexTravel. The UK company handles some £300M in business travel for its client base, which will bolster TravelPerk’s revenues going forward.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

What are some of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cannabis industry right now? Key challenges include (1) lack of education and buy-in from industry stakeholders such as physicians, research institutes, insurance companies, politicians, etc.; We also like ancillary businesses. will.i.am , investor, Sanity Group.

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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. Since October 2021, Mondu has signed merchant customers across industries such as beauty, cleaning and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China’s e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors’ attitude is changing as China sets in motion its strictest-ever regulation on electronic cigarettes.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anomaly will use the funds to grow the team (the company currently has 12 employees), and scale up their business by partnering with more insurance companies and healthcare systems. . and 11 other high-income countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The startup announced today that it has raised $4 million to expand in markets like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Binocs’ founders point to figures from the Coin Market Cap that say the total market cap of the crypto industry rose from about $325 billion in in September 2020 to $1 trillion in September 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Tracksuit’s tool now tracks insights for more than 1,300 brands across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and, most recently, the United States. “The magic of Tracksuit is giving companies across every industry a common language for measuring, talking about and investing in brand health.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

“If you take a look at the European Union, even Germany itself, there’s a strong focus on the automotive industry. The space industry] is a huge opportunity at the same time to build up another economical pillar that can be extremely profitable,” he said. Metzler’s hunch is that the competition will be steep. That would be my guess.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Filed in an international business arbitration court, the case represents the largest investor action ever brought against a cryptocurrency platform, and a major test of the rights of investors speculating in digital currency markets. Without a national body of law, arbitrators rely on international standards for business practice.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The company has over 9,000 active users on the platform across a variety of industries, most of whom are between 22 and 40 years old, Downie said. Downie described SteadyPay’s model as “Netflix for credit,” explaining that early conversations with customers illustrated their desire for a simple, interest-free product.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution to aid data capture for industrial use-cases, to trial a concept for routine BVLOS operations — the first such authorization for a U.K. So while (another) U.K.

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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. “We are preparing to scale to meet all of the digital opportunities in the food hospitality industry.” Today Deliverect’s business is split roughly 50-50 between the two categories.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company has been busy over the past two years. CK’S entered the United States with ice cream and is now leading in velocity per store in that category, he added. 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. At the end of 2019, N!CK’S

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The fact that this latest SoftBank-led round is coming just eight months later is a mark of how rapidly Plume’s business has been growing. Indeed, COVID-19 and the impact it had on how we use our broadband at home has probably been the biggest driver of Plume’s business in the last year. Industrial is also in our scope.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Many in the industry fear that the move in Paris, where free-floating scooters initially took off in 2018, will have ripple effects in other cities. 5 growth lessons I learned while scaling from $0 to $1M ARR Annual recurring revenue is a critical health metric for every subscription-based business. Carly has more. Natasha L has more.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 8, 2023

FGVCon transcends borders and platforms, assembling industry leaders, top influencers, brands, sellers, agencies, and platform officials in the dynamic world of short-form video content. Confirmed guests include Yuki Yuan (Google’s YouTube Shorts), Vivian (Shopee), Liu Na (Kwai for Business) and more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A Canadian startup called Nuula that is aiming to build a super app to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses has closed $120 million of funding, money that it will use to fuel the launch of its app and first product, a line of credit for its users. and then expanding to Canada and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The startup says its engine’s thrust and efficiency are a “generational leap” ahead of any other electrical thrusters, opening up the space industry to completely new types of missions that were not possible before, without resorting to much larger, expensive and heavier chemical thrusters. Magdrive prototype render.

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