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. . raised $20 million. And this is not a comprehensive list.). ” Rohlik, ?

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The 55-inch model is $3,455, the 65-inch is $4,999, and the 75-inch display is $6,499. That’s a substantial increase over what you’d pay for the company’s regular QLED 4K TVs and even some 8K models. The Terrace is launching today in the US and Canada and will come to Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and other regions later this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million seed round of funding to fuel planned rapid expansion — both within Germany and across Europe. “Paris, Amsterdan, Brussels, London,” says co-founder Ralph Hage, reeling off the list of likely first-candidate cities for its service outside Germany. “This is how the business model will evolve.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Germany and the UK came out first and second, respectively). While they can withdraw those funds from the business the next day, local founders must still secure decent backing to even begin the work. How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of them consistently draw larger audiences on Audiomack than on Spotify or Apple Music , largely due to the platforms strong presence in local markets. Betting on Africas music boom Cirisano cautions, however, that business models that work in the West may not easily translate to emerging markets. We’re No. she says.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

Tesla cars in front of its new factory in Germany. As part of the opening ceremony, Tesla is handing over the first production cars made at the factory to customers: 30 Model Y compact SUVs. Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Tesla was recently granted tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks from both the county in Texas where the factory will be built and from a local school district. In addition to the Cybertruck, Tesla will also build Model Ys and Model 3s destined for the East Coast, as well as the Tesla Semi, Musk said.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The move comes at a time when Gorillas riders in Germany are reportedly organising to unionise. “In contrast to established gig economy models, we employ more than a thousand riders directly,” says Sümer. “Therefore, we invest in a strong career development program, rider security and a healthy working environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

and Germany, which are prominent hubs for global talent. OfferZen doesn’t employ income-sharing agreements, a revenue model adopted by tech talent companies such as Bloom Institute of Technology (formerly Lambda School), or hourly rate charges, like Andela and Toptal. The first is a pay-per-placement model with a one-off 12.5%

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2021

Of all the cars that Tesla produced during the quarter, the vast majority — 204,081 — were Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. On top of that, Tesla also produced 2,340 Model S and Model X vehicles — though the company did not break out how many Model S sedans were the high-end Plaid variant that just started reaching customers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

and Germany. That’s what Decagon hopes for by training and connecting engineers to work remotely with both local and international companies. Then, the company employs an income-sharing model when the engineers find work and start earning upon graduation. Canada, the U.K., So the issue really is supply.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The company will then launch a further 20 local fulfilment hubs across the U.K. This will see it offer a variety of fruits and vegetables, meats, meals, and household essentials from popular brands and local suppliers, with a total product range “exceeding” 2,000 SKUs per store.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand to Germany with a new office in early 2022. But Swan also plans to let developers start using the company’s APIs directly with a self-service model. Swan will compete with Berlin-based banking-as-a-service company Solarisbank. co-founder and CEO Nicolas Benady said in a statement.

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TechNode

JANUARY 30, 2024

Volkswagen has appointed Thomas Ulbrich, a veteran of more than 30 years at Germanys biggest automaker, as the new chief technology officer in China, hoping to foster the local development of new models to meet the growing demand for intelligent, connected electric vehicles.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2022

billion in revenue and did it while its average sales price continued to drop due to the increasing popularity of the more affordable Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV. The company said its first Model Y vehicles to be made at its new Austin, Texas factory were nearing completion. Tesla turned that profit on just over $17.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

It currently operates in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. You can sign up from a computer and get a local IBAN a few minutes later. What makes the business model even more lucrative is that a lot of customers just sign up on their own. Qonto is a challenger bank focused on business bank accounts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

last year , Lightyear has entered a space that includes local incumbents such as the well-funded Freetrade , not to mention long-established players on the other side of the Atlantic such as Robinhood , which canned its U.K. Launching out of stealth initially in the U.K. launch plans back in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

health (Vienna, Austria) — hi.health provides zero friction financing for out-of-pocket health expenses, currently in Germany. By combining genetic, clinical and behavioral data from patients, Nalagenetics builds localized risk-prediction models for minorities, starting with Asian populations.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

The startup launched only four months ago and is currently active in just four cities in Germany — Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt — although now the idea will be to use the investment to expand further across the country and to start considering which other markets to tackle next.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

So it’ll be interesting to see whether investors feel moved to plough similarly heady sums into more specialist on-demand startups, as founders work to slice and dice opportunities around app-based ordering and speedy local delivery. For e-prescription orders it has said the model will either entail a delivery fee or listing fee.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Weather forecasting is a complicated industry as it requires a ton of data to create an accurate forecasting model. Germany, Spain and Italy. But they can also move around the map, set up alerts and select between multiple forecasting models to prepare for the next few days and anticipate agronomic risks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

France and Germany. And this highlights one of the major selling points of Neeva’s business model. “I just felt like it was an exploitative model, and I saw that the ad platforms [like] Google, Facebook and Amazon were increasingly reaping the benefits of scale,” Ramaswamy said. Image Credits: Neeva.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

Facebook is planning to expand its dedicated news section and says it is “considering” the UK, Germany, France, India, and Brazil as possible recipients, it announced Tuesday. Its News Feed algorithm and ad business have proven devastating for the industry, particularly for local news publishers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Germany, Japan and Singapore. . In January at CES 2022, Morai unveiled the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model of its Morai SIM, also known as Morai SIM Cloud, which allows users to perform simulation tests in the cloud without the process of installing any software onto their local computers.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Even after spending months in a new country, they struggle to get a credit card from local banks, and end up paying a premium to access a range of other financial services. Other than a credit card, you also get a local bank account and a debit card. The startup now plans to replicate this model for customers from other nations.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Chat to local founders and there’s a litany of administrative, tax-based and fundraising pain-points they’ll quickly point to as frustrations. France and Germany. “That’s why at the basis of the model we have also designed inclusion policies. So it will be something of a milestone.

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APRIL 21, 2022

” “When you look at the graphs between what we predict in terms of sales and what actually happens it almost tracks it perfectly,” adds co-founder Carmine Paolino — who, when asked about the model’s accuracy, tells us the “mean absolute error” for its predictions so far is <1. million tonnes.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Shangkuan said that its revenue run rate is at 10x that of a year ago, and its customer base in that time grew 200% with students across 200 countries, so it is not a stranger to scaling as it doubles down on the model. This format makes it fall into more standardized language learning labor models. “That is our vision.”

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MAY 30, 2022

Others include developing its proprietary technology stack and growing its three models — where it makes $5 million in MRR — across existing and new markets, it said in a statement. SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan.

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MAY 8, 2023

Some investors limit their activities to a specific region: Some might invest only in Silicon Valley, others may focus only on Germany, and some accelerators will be based in a specific region or city. Of course, an increasing number of companies are going fully remote, which makes it harder to argue that you have a local affinity.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The BMW iX will go into production at the company’s Dingolfing factory, located in Southern Bavaria, Germany, in the second half of 2021 and is scheduled to arrive on US shores in early 2022. The brain of this car will also be a significant improvement over past models, BMW says. scheduled to arrive on US shores in early 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Telemedico, which was founded back in 2014 — but only launched its current B2B model (which is primarily targeted at insurance firms) in 2017 — says 2020 was a record year for its business. They represent a B2C approach, with a strong local presence. It also offers consultations via a fee-for-service model.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amazon includes far-field microphones in each model of the Omni series, which comes in 43, 50, 55, 65, and 75 inches. Only the 65- and 75-inch models have Dolby Vision, but the others at least get HDR10.). Amazon also isn’t really going into specifics about whether they’ve got full-array local dimming or other display tech details.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Based out of Bremen, Germany, Profishop is now active in 13 markets with its German storefront currently its biggest; earlier this year it also spearheaded efforts to break into the U.S. Profishop’s whole business model is predicated on manufacturing happening locally to fit its logistics and fulfillment model.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Back in December, Neeva co-founder and CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy , who previously spearheaded Google’s advertising tech business , teased new “cutting edge AI” and large language models (LLMs), positioning itself against the ChatGPT hype train. Germany, France, and Spain. “In our upcoming upgrades, Neeva can.”

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TechNode

JUNE 14, 2024

Although Bernstein analysts expect the provisional tariffs to be a serious turn-off to smaller Chinese brands, prompting them to focus on other export markets, bigger Chinese players are likely to step up their localization efforts. A similar scenario could unfold for Xpeng Motors and its European ally Volkswagen.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To compare, a Tesla Model Y starts at 42,900 with a driving range of 244 miles in Germany. Meanwhile, the Chinese automaker is looking at the possibility of making EVs locally to avoid EU tariffs, an executive told Reuters. Chinese EV imports will face additional duties in the 17-35.3%

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