Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. And all the while a small AI lab in China was quietly developing new AI models, including reasoning models, that would begin sending shockwaves through the AI industry by the end of 2024. The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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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. Even with some (very much not all) countries in Europe relaxing parts of their orders, grocery has remained a very-much used online category in markets where it is available.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Almost overnight, platforms that offer non-dilutive capital for recurring revenue businesses have become white-hot. This fever is now reaching Europe, where today Capchase raised an additional $280 million in new debt and equity funding, led by i80 Group, following a $125 million round in June. Right now it’s live in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Maritime recruitment platform Seafair was created to solve these problems. Greece is one of the global superpowers in shipping, so when I was working in consulting, I became close to the industry and really fell in love with it.”. Maritime intelligence platform Greywing raises seed funding from investors like Flexport.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

In the construction industry, managers can become disconnected from what’s happening on-site — particularly when dealing with pandemic-related disruptions. “The construction industry has been going through major transformation over the past few years,” Danon told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa is using artificial intelligence to help farmers manage their farms, trees and fruits. million, according to Aerobotics. Within that, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today, a Berlin-based startup called LiveEO , which has built a satellite analytics platform to do just that, has raised €19 million ($19.5 Relatively speaking, though, the sums are still modest compared with other areas of tech: LiveEO says that this €19 million round is one of the largest in earth observation tech in Europe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

The fishing market globally was worth $253 billion in 2021, and despite the controversy that swirls around the industry, that figure continues to grow. Buyers on the platform can source seafood from 13 different countries, although Iceland, Watt said, is the biggest sourcing country at the moment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial work back to its own shores. Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 annually on average.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the industry grapples with the larger questions of how to create viable solid-state batteries or commercialize robotaxi service , the companies listed here are focused on the incremental steps toward a fully autonomous future. The year also saw the companys rapid expansion across Asia and into Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. Singapore as well as Europe, according to Chikizawa.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For context, there are no shortage of vehicle management systems out there already, from Automile and Fleetcheck to Webfleet , but Papaya is hoping to set itself apart with its specific industry focus on smaller EVs that are likely to be used by last-mile delivery companies and such like.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. The new funding will be used to recruit more primary packaging suppliers to Impacked’s marketplace across North America and Europe, and also enhance its existing sustainability scoring system. The company raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

One Impression, an Indian influencer marketing platform that does business in markets including Indonesia, Dubai, Europe and the U.S., The Gurugram-based startup is building an Amazon-like platform to help brands quickly find relevant influencers for their marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In particular, Doctolib acts as a booking platform that connects doctors with patients; 300,000 health professionals pay for the service and 60 million people have used it in Europe. Doctolib is a French unicorn that develops a software-as-a-service product to help doctors and medical workers with admin tasks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

HR tech platform Darwinbox has more than tripled its valuation to become a unicorn in a new $72 million funding round as the Indian startup leads what an investor calls the “SaaSification of Asia” trend. Darwinbox operates a cloud-based human resource management platform. You may ask why SaaS for Asia needs to even exist as a category.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Philipp Povel, co-founder and co-CEO of Mondu, said there is a “$200 billion opportunity just in Europe and the U.S., Since October 2021, Mondu has signed merchant customers across industries such as beauty, cleaning and manufacturing. which is bigger than the global consumer BNPL market.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

million seed round, and while that may be the kind of funding a younger company takes, the livestream shopping platform is actually a “veteran” in this emerging way of shopping. In fact, that is how buywith started out with Walmart, enabling the retail giant to get up and running with the platform and go live immediately, Ronen Almagor said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Depending on a customer’s risk profile, Bfree either directs them to a self-service platform, where borrowers set new payment plans using their phone number, or follows up on debt balance through automated communication (chatbots, callbots or IVR technology) or direct calls. Flosbach anticipates that the startup will be handling 1.4

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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 We aim to be the financial companion for all companies in our space” “We all know e-commerce is a rapid moving industry (10 years growth in three months time this year!)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The startup will use the funds to hire more than 50 engineers, data scientists, business development, insurance and compliance specialists, as well as scale into new industry verticals and across into Europe. While insurance is certainly on offer here, it’s the screening tech that makes DigiSure’s product unique.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 million for its free travel itinerary platform. million for its free travel itinerary platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

in 2019, AeroCloud says that it’s already working with Manchester and Eindhoven airports in Europe, while in the U.S. The AeroCloud platform The company also says that it taps machine learning smarts to serve its customers with forecasts using historical data, such as estimating passenger numbers for a specific time of year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

In case you’re not familiar with Doctolib, the company’s main product is a software-as-a-service platform for doctors and medical workers. In particular, Doctolib acts as a booking platform that connects doctors with patients; 60 million people have used it in France, Germany and Italy. Doctolib acquired Tanker, as I first reported.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

From its start as a survey platform, Culture Amp has grown to encompass analytics for managers, like turnover prediction and team goal tracking. It is also growing in Europe, so some of its new funding will be used on its dual data centers. eqtble, a platform that uses data analytics to create healthier workplaces, raises $2.7M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

and Europe, Middle East and Africa. A survey by Matrix Partners general partner David Skok found that demo close rates range between 20% and 50% for most business-to-business SaaS companies, higher than the typical close rate range in the software industry ( about 26% to 30%).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The startup’s new wholesale business dubbed The Folklore Connect , will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to bulk retailers in North America, and later, in Europe. The Folklore Connect is a B2B wholesale platform that links African luxury brands to retailers in the US. Image Credits : The Folklore Group.

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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

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. million people. 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021. million people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

The growth funding for the company comes after bootstrapping since 2014, in large part because product managers (PMs) are no longer needed just inside tech companies but have become sought after across almost virtually all industries. Its main competitor is MindTheProduct , a community and training platform, which has also boostrapped.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The question is does it matter and why,” Paul Stavropoulos, CEO of credit-focused platform bridging the Web 2.0 Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) maintained a consistent share of around 29% during the five years from 2017 to 2022. According to the report, the U.S.’ and web3 worlds Archie Finance, told TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Companies from across the industrial spectrum often rely on a migrant workforce, with data from the International Labour Organization indicating that some 169 million workers travel abroad for employment. However, cofounder Sasha Makarovych noted that the shipping industry primarily pays in those two currencies. How it works.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

If you’re working for an advertising agency or you’re in charge of a brand, editing and exporting a video ad that works across all social and web platforms can be a lengthy and time consuming task. But the advertising industry has changed — 30-second TV spots are no longer as relevant as they used to be. Image Credits: Aive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry. Visa backs open banking and compliance platform Railsbank.

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