TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Sales engagement platforms (SEP) help sales teams automate and track the large number of tasks they need to do each day as they contact leads and home in on potential deals. Outplay’s platform. Atlanta’s SalesLoft raises $100M for its digital sales platform, now valued at $1.1B.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress. This June, Amira merged with 27-year-old digital learning company Istation, whose gamified educational content was being used in more than 1,000 school districts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. The startup is currently working with 30 credit institutions, including digital lenders, micro-finance institutions and banks. million, having realized $800,000 in a seed round last May.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

But as more companies increasingly move to digital, the need for BNPL for B2B online will grow immensely. We are on the verge of a “digitalization boom,” and Mondu wants to be part of that revolution and drive innovation within the B2B payments space. which is bigger than the global consumer BNPL market.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Maritime recruitment platform Seafair was created to solve these problems. Maritime intelligence platform Greywing raises seed funding from investors like Flexport. It also provides vessel operators with human resources software that helps them consolidate data that is otherwise siloed in different ERP platforms and spreadsheets.

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is meant to let small players compete with big ones. The EU’s newly agreed-upon Digital Markets Act could require messaging app developers to make their apps work together if it ends up being passed. To read more about the Digital Markets Act, you can check out our main article here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Launched in Estonia in March this year and currently expanding to Poland, Rendin operates a long-term rental platform that promises to smooth out the process between landlords and tenants. Tenants in the Rendin platform don’t have to pay the security deposit, but this is just a feature, not the core product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. Looking ahead, InstaCarro aims to become a “full-service” car trading platform after hearing from customers that they would be interested in buying a car directly through its platform as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day. and other countries in Europe. “Eight in 10 U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

This, the startup claims, allows companies to establish new revenue channels by increasing SaaS pricing bundles and charging processing fees for payments on their platform. Digitalizing finance workflows through existing SaaS players is a game-changer, and we allow our clients to become an all-in-one financial OS for their industry.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. The plan is to double down on more services serving the Nordics, which will include a launch into Finland, before spreading into more markets in Europe and farther afield.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

As developed-world populations increasingly get older, healthcare is being rapidly digitized and “platformized” in order to meet the huge scale of change heading our way. Marta’s solution is an AI-driven matching platform where carers can be found for live-in positions. I recently covered how Cera in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One such platform that is helping consumer brands leverage their data to grow is Gameball , a customer intelligence and marketing CRM platform, that was launched in 2020 by egyptian entrepreneurs Ahmed Khairy (CEO) Ahmed El Assy (CPO), and Omar Alfar (CTO). Gameball’s expansion drive is backed by a $3.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Today, a startup that has built a platform that helps them produce and monetize their work is announcing a big round of funding that underscores just how lucrative and big the creator economy has become. 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021. million people. million people.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

s biggest buy now, pay later startups, has been appointed to CEO of shift work management platform Deputy. Before joining Affirm in 2019, Martincevic led Groupon’s international business in Europe, Asia and Australia as chief operating officer and chief marketing officer. She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Shopware’s sweet spot up to now has been serving mid-market companies and brands that are not necessarily digitally-native businesses but very much have had to take on digital channels to keep up with the times and how consumers discover and shop for goods and services today. They will also stay on as co-CEOs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Juni , a Swedish pre-launch startup that’s building a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, has raised just over €2.1 making the need for singular platforms to support such e-commerce businesses all the more necessary,” says Cherry Ventures’ Bendz. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch , an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. However, Europe has an advantage here thanks to its many accessible cities. Europe has some of the most storied retail brands in the world — especially for apparel and footwear. Ilyes Kacher. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Ukio , a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. It’s worth noting that guests book initially for a set period of time, but they can extend their stay through Ukio’s online platform. The Ukio platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

FMCG distributors can onboard retailers in their network on the Duplo platform, collect payments digitally and access real-time insights into business performance. And then it becomes easier for us to digitize how payment moves between retailers and distributors,” he added. Those retailers can become Duplo customers as well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The deal is a sign of things to come for established markets like Europe and the U.S. It’s so deep-rooted that while running Namshi, Arab noticed that 80% of the transactions recorded by the company were cash-based, presenting unique challenges to scaling the e-commerce platform. Image Credits: Tabby.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth, it said Thursday. the UK and Europe. Sigmoid raises $12 million to scale its data engineering and analytics platform by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Villig said that even its most mature business, ride hailing, “is seeing double digit growth,” while the newer businesses, being smaller, are expanding even faster. “There is a massive lack of supply on these platforms, so we have focused on taking the most partner-friendly lowest commission,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Silkhaus , a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 But while platforms like Airbnb have fantastically aggregated demand to meet supply in the U.S. and Europe, it’s a different experience in emerging markets where supply isn’t sufficiently pooled together to meet Airbnb-pulled demand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Detectify , a security platform that employs ethical hackers to conduct attacks designed to highlight vulnerabilities in corporate systems, today announced that it raised $10 million in follow-on funding led by Insight Partners. “ To put it simply, the external attack surface has never been more complicated and harder to defend. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Product School provides certificates for individuals as well as team training, and says it has experienced an upwelling of business since COVID switched so many companies into digital ones. Its main competitor is MindTheProduct , a community and training platform, which has also boostrapped.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Singaporean insurtech company Surer , which automates the workflow and processes via a cloud-based platform, helps insurance intermediaries get rapid access to insurance quotations and insurers to distribute their products more efficiently. The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia.

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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. Adewale Opaleye founded Alerzo in 2018 as a last-mile distribution platform that helps retailers stock inventory directly from manufacturers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Now, as its customers chase human-level intelligence, its groundbreaking Blackwell processor and platform is ready. Instead, its actively building platforms for everything from drug discovery (Clara for Biopharma) to autonomous vehicles (Drive AGX) to video production (Holoscan) to digital twins (Omniverse).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

million ($5 million) seed round of funding, as the French startup prepares to expand its NFT fantasy sports platform beyond football (“soccer”) and into the basketball realm. Unagi takes a 5% commission from all financial transactions on the platform. Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

They are also targeting new demographics — for example Hedvig in Europe , which is focused on providing insurance services primarily to people under the age of 30. Others include the likes of Lemonade; Marshmallow in the U.K. I am so excited to see our original vision continue to materialize.”.

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