Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. aggregation platform OpenWrks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). The company plans to expand further in major cities and tourist destinations, including Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Dominican Republic, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today it has closed $250 million in a Series E round that values the company at $2 billion. and Australia, plans to expand further into Europe, including Germany, France, Spain and others, Livne said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

The funding will be used to further develop 011h’s platform, building system and team, initially focusing on Spain, then internationally. Construction is both one of the most unsustainable industries and one of the least digital and the 011h vision is exactly what we were looking to support.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Nutrium , a digital health startup which links dietitians and their patients via an app, has raised a €4.25 With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S. and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In the latest spark from its fast evolving tech ecosystem, Spain’s scale-ups are banding together to lobby lawmakers and press the economic case for their high-tech, high-growth business model more broadly. Adigital expects Spain to have 20 unicorns by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The company currently has 15 million users — about half of Spain’s internet population, CEO Rob Cassedy pointed out to us in an interview earlier today, and has maintained a decent No. 4 ranking among Spain’s shopping apps, according to figures from App Annie. market (with more capital in tow).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Bitpanda says it is the first European retail investment platform that meets these requirements. This principle is firmly embedded in our DNA as a fully regulated investment platform and, in my opinion, critical to the long-term success of our industry. Coinbase is the other well-known company in the database. based company.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Ricard Espelt to learn more about the various projects he’s working on in Spain leveraging new technologies for public engagement, government transparency and community building. Learn more in the interview below. With two friends Gemma Urgell and Jordi Mas.&#. copòns.net. as a backdrop.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

StudentFinance launched in Spain first, followed by Germany and Finland, with the U.K. It also works with upskilling platforms including Ironhack and Le Wagon. They are likely to be popular as workers need to reskill with the onset of digitization and the pandemic’s effects. million (€4.5 It’s now raised $6.6 planned this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat. And this key piece of the digital transformation puzzle is fully focused on entrepreneurs and investors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When we started Fondeadora in 2011 (the first creative crowdfunding platform in Mexico, renamed to Donadora in 2016), processing online payments was very difficult. Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico. How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

As regulation, platform dynamics and consumer choice continue to eat into the adtech stalwart known as cookies, it’s leaving a gap in the market for advertising solutions that can work well without relying on cookie functionality. Subsequently, they’re now getting phased out of usage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Sherpa , a startup from Bilbao, Spain that was an early mover in building a voice-based digital assistant and predictive search for Spanish-speaking audiences, has raised some more funding to double down on a newer focus for the startup: building out privacy-first AI services for enterprise customers. The company has closed $8.5

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail Rocket , a retention management platform for brands, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Cyprus-based private equity fund Flintera. “The digital marketing world is growing very fast and the demand for highly-skilled professionals is constantly increasing,” CEO Khlebinsky said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Berlin-based Choco , which has built ordering software for restaurants and their suppliers, is working to digitize the food supply chain and announced $100 million in Series B funding, led by Left Lane Capital, to give it a $600 million post-market valuation. The United States estimates of the food produced here approximately 40% is wasted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

More money for casual job-matching in Europe: Zenjob , a marketplace platform that targets students looking for side jobs in sectors like retail, logistics and hospitality and promises to connect them with employers in need of temporary labor, has closed a $50 million Series D round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aldagram’s flagship product is a cloud-based project management platform called KANNA, designed for professionals in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries who use it to source and record on-site data for projects, and share that data with other partners on the projects.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. It uses tech and data to optimize the production and delivery of its product via all the major food delivery platforms such as Uber Eats, etc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

If you look at the total volume of the insurance premiums on the platform, it’s around €2 billion. It plans to expand to new markets — such as France, Spain or the U.K. — Essentially, Wefox wants to become the Amazon Web Services of insurance with this platform play. Every insurer will need to become digital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform. Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. million (€6.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Billing itself as “AWS for financial services” the startup — which emerged from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain — has now raised a $10 million seed funding round co-led by WndrCo and Runa Capital. Our vision is to become the platform that enables any company to embed financial services within their products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The SaaS platform provides care workers a suite of digital tools to support their work by streamlining admin and patient management while enabling real-time visibility into care events — helping keep family members informed of important details around their loved one’s care. In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Localyze’s SaaS is designed to simplify and support staff relocations or cross-border hiring, offering digital tools to automate admin and case tracking, helping companies and employees navigate what can be complex, bureaucratic and even stressful immigration requirements. nationality, family status or education).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The office shut-down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year spurred huge investment in digital transformation and a wave of tech companies helping with that, but there were some distinct losers in the shift, too — specifically those whose business models were predicated on serving the very offices that disappeared overnight.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Jeff ’s loan brokerage platform was created to make it easier for financial service providers to integrate alternative data scoring, allowing them reach more potential borrowers. “We provide both clients, as well as deeper insights about them for banks and other partners using our platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Currently it offers a temporary labor service in nine markets globally: Spain, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia and the US — matching workers looking for temp roles with employers in need of casual labor in (with a focus on sectors like manufacturing and logistics).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Still, agriculture is one of the industries that hasn’t been digitized with too many intermediates,” he added. On the marketplace side of things, the company focuses on Mediterranean countries first, starting with Greece, Italy, Spain and France. “We [Petros] started by writing a lot of content.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

France, Italy and Spain. It began servicing France and Spain when it acquired French startup Pixpay last July and it also opened up for business in Italy in January of this year. Prior to GoHenry, Acorns had also acquired Vault, Harvest Platform and Pillar. Until last summer, GoHenry operated in the U.K. as well as in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Barcelona, Spain-based company was founded early last year and has grown to more than 100 apartments between that city and Madrid while maintaining a 95% occupancy rate. The idea originated from his time at Airbnb, where user demand for long-term rentals never really fit with the company’s platform model.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. MarketForce, a retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. The startup emerged from Spain. ” Funding across the globe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Barcelona-based Landbot , a “no-code” chatbot builder, has bagged an $8 million Series A led by the Spanish-Israeli VC firm Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. Previous investors Nauta Capital, Encomenda and Bankinter also participated in the round. Landbot gets $2.2M

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