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. Another important data point that connects both regions: the black market is a competitive factor. billion by 2026. Unlike the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Its database competes with a number of rivals in North America, including PitchBook , CB Insights , and my former employer Crunchbase. Dealroom’s business. The startup collects data on private-market companies through public scraping and partnerships. In today’s market, that’s a modest round!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own business bounce back. Peek also took to the offensive, thinking of how it could work differently with its customers on both sides of the business.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The new charger uses a standard J1772 connector, not Tesla’s proprietary one, meaning it should work fine with other electric vehicles in North America. While it probably won’t make Tesla a ton of money like its main automotive business, there could be good opportunity here.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Kotlov said: “On the education scene, preschool education is becoming a highly vibrant market. IntellectoKids says it has more than 2 million installs across North America and Central and Northern Europe. The pandemic showed that preschool kids can effectively consume educational content online and autonomously.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. We’re still just scratching the surface of a €1 trillion global market.”. Kreos Capital issued the debt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. “We want to be like the Apple of business finance.” That involves two parts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Speaking about the equity investment, Powered by People co-founder and CEO Ella Peinovich said, “We are going to continue building up our technology…we have new vendor tools we are launching this quarter that will help streamline and automate things to help these businesses take on bigger orders and grow. which is our primary market.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

to create an active paseo, which hosts local farmers markets and other gatherings. A key element of the design is its green paseo, located on a former adjacent roadway, which hosts a weekly farmers market. The projects ground floor retail, reserved for local businesses, is designed to further activate the area.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Peeba says the lack of B2B-focused online wholesale solutions and tech infrastructure hampered Asia’s antiquated B2B retail, wholesale market in business growth and new market entries during the pandemic. The platform brings both emerging and traditional brands to the world of local retail in Asia.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

China is looking beyond natural resources; in Israel, Chinese companies are finding the technological advantage and innovative spirit that can help them compete in their domestic market and ultimately become dominant global players. Understanding the Chinese market relevant to your company is the most important factor. billion in 2030.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. That vacuum, however, also led to some very interesting pivots and efforts to find business in completely new places. investments at Alibaba. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The economy may be showing many signs of contraction right now, but many companies still need to do business internationally. Jack Zhang — Airwallex’s CEO who co-founded the company with Xijing Dai, Lucy Liu and Max Li — told TechCrunch that business has been on the up in the last year.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But for retail businesses, it’s the most critical time of the year. The key to succeed this year will be flexibility, responsiveness and endurance: Companies will have to be ready to respond to the market and the consumer throughout the season. Guru Hariharan is CEO and founder of CommerceIQ, an e-commerce management company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Panasonic Automotive Systems is a Tier 1 automotive supplier and a division of Panasonic Corporation of North America. “This is very much about part of our business plan, you know the Series B funding round we undertook was about scaling the business and enabling us to move forward as we enter the market,” Christmas said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. In North America, it is popular among Indian expat and Indian American communities, and now it will target other customer segments, too.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Polestar started out as the performance sub-brand of Volvo and now has emerged as one of the more interesting Chinese EV companies on the market. We are committed to reducing the environmental impact of our cars and our business. Its next car was supposed to be an SUV, the Polestar 3. Now, Precept becomes an even stronger 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. market expansion through strategic partnerships with Gusto, Intuit and Thompson Reuters.

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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. Full Harvest’s business model is to take a percentage of every transaction made on its marketplace. Food waste is a $2.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Over the years, the company’s SaaS platform has evolved from a subscription billing/payments platform to include a broader set of offerings aimed at helping e-commerce businesses boost revenues and cut operating costs. All B2B startups are in the payments business.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Mayank Kukreja said that the proceeds will be put toward “aggressively expand[ing] in North America via product innovation, sales and marketing and partnership development.” IDC recently estimated that, as of 2018, Concur held onto over half of the overall T&E market.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This means that BluePallet’s network of chemical manufacturers and distributors will be exposed to millions of business buyers from around the world who source supply on the e-commerce site. Asia Pacific is the largest region in the global chemicals market, accounting for 49% of the $3.34 Image Credits: CEO Scott Barrows / BluePallet.

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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. Unless you’ve entered a “blue ocean market,” it’s likely that there are at least 10 other more successful companies doing what you are trying to do right now. You just need to know where to look. But that’s OK!

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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 plans to deploy the fresh capital to broaden its technology stack and expand to more international markets.

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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. The vehicle, which launched in China and will hit global markets in 2024, comes standard with Mobileye’s SuperVision advanced driver assistance system. The company raised around $1.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from the explosion in capital, other regions with more nascent startup scenes also saw big gains in their ability to attract funding. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Latin American as well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Also by 2025, GM will launch 30 new electric vehicles around the world, more than two-thirds of which will be available in North America. But the auto giant has been criticized for bringing vehicles to market too late, while other automakers are racing to get their EVs to customers much sooner.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global strategy officer to lead its growth in international markets. Radish will retain management autonomy and continue operating as its own brand. Serialized fiction startup Radish raises $63.2M

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi — newly armed with nearly $9 million in venture capital — was preparing to bring its refinancing platform to the masses. “But the growth had been pretty noticeable from the investor standpoint in the market.”

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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. While Superscript is limited to the European market, it has longer term ambitions to become a global player. and across the European Economic Area (EEA).

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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. upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Mikal is an early-stage investor at Wavemaker Partners investing in startups across North America, MENA and Asia and author of the newsletter Emergent , analyzing one fast-growing startup in an emerging market every week. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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