TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. The five-year-old firm is targeting $100 million for its second seed-stage fund, and it’s doing so smack in the middle of a climate-tech dealmaking boom. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Managing an online distributed global team takes different set of skills, a different set of tools, it takes a different level of discipline. million jobs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ” While Fatmap is incorporated in the U.K.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

This week, TechSoup Global/Guidestar International's Keisha Taylor has been participating in the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania. A beautiful rendition of "What a Wonderful World" opened this year's IGF in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

That collective shift was also pushed along by a second trend, which was a tightening in the global economy, which has compelled consumers to consider spending less on some discretionary items. And it’s a movement that is playing out in other categories, too, with Vinted (out of Lithuania) now valued at $4.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. In addition, the oppressive regime in nearby Belarus has provided an influx of significant tech companies, such as Wargaming, as well as the associated talent. What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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