TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. Uppbeat believes its existing music industry connections with producers, composers and songwriters via Music Vine will help them to source higher-quality tracks than other free music services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Almost overnight, platforms that offer non-dilutive capital for recurring revenue businesses have become white-hot. Miguel Fernandez, co-founder, and CEO of Capchase said: “Our new expense financing solution is a first in the industry, and we believe it will be a game-changer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In April this year, Nuvocargo raised $12 million to digitize the freight logistics industry. In May, Zencargo, with a freight-forwarding platform, raised $42 million. And today, Vector.ai , which says it helps freight forwarders improve productivity via its AI platform, has raised $15 million in a Series A led by U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Put simply, Fireblocks aims to offer financial institutions an all-in-one platform to run a digital asset business, providing them with infrastructure to store, transfer and issue digital assets. Fireblocks’ issuance and tokenization platform allows for the creation of asset-backed tokens. “We said it agreed to buy BitGo Inc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

It now claims to be used by 6,000 companies in Singapore, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, giving it $9.5 The pandemic has caused the e-commerce industry to grow significantly faster and that was also a factor for us.”. The Singapore-based startup’s last funding round was $3 million announced in November.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2023

Big and small organizations across the economy increasingly rely on outsourced labor available to them via platforms like Scale AI, Freelancer.com, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Fiverr and Upwork. Recently, these platforms have become crucial for artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train their AI systems and ensure they operate correctly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There’s a personalized kind of environment pretty much in every industry, but insurance is struggling to catch up,” he said. With the new funding, Root intends to roll out a flexible low-code digital insurance platform as it expands to other markets, Europe in particular. It essentially integrates the whole industry.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

So Chen and Gaon set out to build a platform dedicated to data so that food and beverage companies can disrupt the $10 trillion industry with healthier foods, new flavors and plant-based varieties, and do it in a way that accelerates sales and acceptance of new products. It already doubled its employee count in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

They found that in order to provide cross-border payments on their platform, they had to first navigate a “super fragmented market” filled with payment providers relying on complex, inefficient platforms, Seal told TechCrunch in an interview. Banks and other financial services companies are really just risk companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The beauty and wellness industry, annually worth some $4 trillion , is underpinned by tens of thousands of businesses and millions of professionals carrying out haircuts, treatments and workouts. All of this presents a complex mix of new use cases, and customers, to sign on to a platform like Fresha’s, Miller noted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

“Much like how Microsoft Windows defined the operating system for personal computers decades ago, Clio has developed a software platform for law firms and their clients that is cloud-based and client-centric by design,” Newton said. Clio in particular is growing in the EMEA markets with a current focus on the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

And, coming in June, it will be launching an operations stack that will give its customers an end-to-end platform for people management, and to provide real-time data and services to their drivers and other employees. “Optibus combines innovation and public transportation expertise like no one else in the industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

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

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

He and his team couldn’t find anything in the market that fit their needs — a platform that let the company manage selling across different channels in a unified way — and so they built it. But given the size of the e-commerce industry — eMarketer estimates it will be worth $5.5 And thus Moot was born.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

We are now seeing a new wave of startups turn up to tackle this space by applying Apple’s age-old model of owning the experience end-to-end and running everything on a platform. Right now this care is antiquated and run by incumbents, many of which still run off paper and Excel. The latest to join this race is U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

“The world is only becoming more digital, not less, and the life insurance industry to-date has been slow to modernize,” said Don Butler, MD, Thomvest Ventures, in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero. Businesses, and the tech platforms that support their operations, had to adapt quickly to the pandemic. The capital will be used for expansion and growth in markets including New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

No delivery for you : Delivery platform Gopuff has only been in Europe since November 2021, but Natasha L writes it made the decision to discontinue its service in Spain. She cites that perhaps this is to focus more on the United Kingdom market where revenue there is increasing 30% month over month. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The fact that Amazon has invested in a LatAm infrastructure provider for the financial services industry is notable. Its “platform” handles more than 4 billion API calls monthly and hosts more than 30 million accounts, which combined result in over $3.5 With the latest raise, Pismo has now raised a total of $118 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

One one hand, neobanking services among consumers and businesses have been rising in popularity (and credibility); on the other, we’ve seen an ever-expanding range of non-fintech businesses (such as telcos and retailers) that are tapping the concept of embedded finance to add new features and revenue streams into their own platforms.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

A group of disgruntled investors is pursuing a formal claim against the cryptocurrency platform Binance for allegedly causing millions in damages through an unanticipated outage earlier this year. The platform claims to process more than a million trades each second , generating billions of dollars in user fees. But it never worked.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The company has over 9,000 active users on the platform across a variety of industries, most of whom are between 22 and 40 years old, Downie said. The company underwrites users on the platform through an artificial intelligence-based model. government’s Future Fund, and some angel investors, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

In the latest development, Bud Financial, a provider of an AI-based open banking platform that is used by large banks and others to help power lending and other personalized products, has raised $80 million. Take those with a grain of salt however, in the absence of any hard names and numbers.). “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s not a secret that the restaurant industry was a late adopter of technology, a move that unfortunately left many restaurants unprepared when online ordering and delivery became the norm during the global pandemic. Canada and the United Kingdom. We’re going to continue seeing so much innovation in the restaurant space.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anomaly’s platform is designed to detect irregularities in medical bills. We felt that Anomaly’s approach from day one to partner with payers and providers to pay the right amount the first time stood out from the industry standard.” . Anomaly is a young company — it was only founded in 2020. healthcare system. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company already works with Domino’s in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as well as a range of other national clients, like the New Zealand Post, the Defense Force, the Department of Conservation and P?mu, mu, or Landcorp Farming Limited and other local restaurants and stores. Ubco expects revenue to climb from $2.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Since last year, valuations are down 70%-80% , deal activity is down 67% and layoffs have plagued many former industry favorites. We’ve all seen the headlines: Fintech is struggling.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Compared with countries like the United States or the United Kingdom, the racial funding gap is even more stark as more than 50% of Brazil’s population is classified as Afro-Brazilian. Not to mention, they make up less than 5% of the top level of the top 500 companies. Bahia could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

What are some of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cannabis industry right now? Key challenges include (1) lack of education and buy-in from industry stakeholders such as physicians, research institutes, insurance companies, politicians, etc.; Leah Fletcher , founder and director, Arbutus Innovation Centre. Unlike the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Fintech-focused Gilgamesh Ventures has named Paula You as its newest (and third) partner and chief operating officer, overseeing platform growth. SBM Bank India, building BaaS platform, seeks funding at $200 million valuation. Hotel payment software platform Selfbook announces a strategic investment from Amex Ventures.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 8, 2023

FGVCon transcends borders and platforms, assembling industry leaders, top influencers, brands, sellers, agencies, and platform officials in the dynamic world of short-form video content. More mystery guests and platform representatives are confirmed, with detailed information to be gradually revealed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Farming accounts for 24% of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, and this is largely due to the intensive, “industrial” farming methods employed in the last few decades, together with the rise in the consumption of meat. Buyers then track their sponsored CO2 reductions at a field level via Agreena’s platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. “We might segment the market into residential, business and industrial IoT,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

More accurately, Seldon is a cloud-agnostic machine learning (ML) deployment specialist which works in partnership with industry leaders such as Google, Red Hat, IBM and Amazon Web Services. And in our case we’re focusing on deployment. ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Now, a startup called Deliverect that has built a platform to integrate the many moving parts that go into ordering and delivery for the average restaurant is announcing a big round of funding to pursue the opportunity. “We are preparing to scale to meet all of the digital opportunities in the food hospitality industry.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform. Todor Breshkov, partner at LAUNCHub Ventures, said: “We’re always keeping an eye on proptech trends and we’re impressed with the potential their product has to modernize the real estate industry.”. The 3D rendering or virtual tour also usually requires professional help.

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