TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Demand for talent continues to make tech recruitment a hotbed of startup activity. To wit: Madrid-based startup Circular.io , which is now expanding its “talent sharing platform” — initially focused on tech skills — into the U.K. opening to in-house tech recruiters in London from today).

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. One industry trade association estimates that 240 million 911 phone calls are made every year, ranging from the quotidian loud dog to the exceptional terrorist attack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Q&A , a startup developing tech for the music industry co-founded by industry insiders Troy Carter (Lady Gaga’s first manager) and Suzy Ryoo (Carter’s longtime collaborator), has launched a new suite of software products through a division called Venice Innovation Labs.

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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

JULY 21, 2021

It has also since completed “multiple” acquisitions of local brands operating across a variety of industries, such as beauty, fitness and home goods. California-based Presight Capita l and Kingsway Capital out of the United Kingdom co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers such as Kaszek, Upper90 and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

ZEBOX , an international accelerator network founded by shipping conglomerate CMA CGM to introduce more tech innovation into the supply chain industry, announced today the launch of its APAC headquarters. One is operational efficiency, or tech that helps minimize the physical movements of goods in everyday operations.

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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. Major IT company Qintess has come on board as a major sponsor to help Salvador become the leading Black tech hub in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Elvie , the women’s health tech pioneer behind a connected breast pump and smart pelvic floor exerciser, has topped up a Series C which it announced earlier this summer (July) — adding a further £12.7 Analysts now project the femtech industry will become a $50 billion market by 2025. The 2013-founded, U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

She cites that perhaps this is to focus more on the United Kingdom market where revenue there is increasing 30% month over month. Because it’s a nascent industry that’s largely unregulated, crypto companies are not generally skilled at crisis communications. Big Tech Inc. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Beyond the tech world, universities, businesses and NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) regularly use these platforms to hire translators, graphic designers or IT experts. Freelancer.com alone has more than 67 million workers registered, the equivalent of the population of the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution to aid data capture for industrial use-cases, to trial a concept for routine BVLOS operations — the first such authorization for a U.K. Under current U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Meanwhile, Amanda explores how everything is “Goncharov” as the meme-makers are going mainstream with a huge assist from AI tech. And we have five more for you: Yeah, but does it use outside-in compression : Deep Render lands $9 million for its AI-powered video compression tech, Kyle reports. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia. In particular, Rotman said the firm is bullish on the future of embedded finance and on backing companies that distribute financial products in a variety of industries such as cross-border trucking logistics (such as Nuvocargo), car sales (Kavak) and shrimp farming (XpertSea).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

Venture capital funding to the cultivated meat industry has largely followed other industries in fewer investments made this year; however, there’s still movement in this sector yet. Investors salivate over food tech companies perfecting precision fermentation Europe is heating up as well.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China’s e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors’ attitude is changing as China sets in motion its strictest-ever regulation on electronic cigarettes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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Our team presented at multiple sessions at the recent RightsCon Silicon Valley conference , which brought together human rights defenders, security experts, and tech executives. The next 10X opportunity is to go global, by ramping up Bookshare International to serve the millions of people with print disabilities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

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. Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech. “Tens of thousands of UK small and medium-size businesses will get a better deal from the big tech firms which they rely on to trade online. But the dominance of a few tech giants is crowding out competition and stifling innovation. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

SteadyPay CEO and co-founder John Downie, who had spent most of his career building tech solutions for banks, realized that existing lending solutions did not address the needs of workers with irregular income. The company underwrites users on the platform through an artificial intelligence-based model.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

The statistic is indicative of how in-home patient care is being radicalized by tech startups that either use remote monitoring, or employ carers to manually enter patient data into apps. Most healthcare tech is now graduating to healthcare in the home. More than 88% of hospitals and health orgs in the U.S. million) and Binah.ai ($13.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia.” Before QED Investors, Ajayi worked in different roles across Africa and global fintech/tech. TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While many of its clients are in the tech space, they “range in size and industry” and include private and public companies, according to Peng. Financial advice has been around for many years, yet most consumers do not have access to financial advisors at affordable rates and enabled by tech, creating a huge market,” he added. “As

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Many in the industry fear that the move in Paris, where free-floating scooters initially took off in 2018, will have ripple effects in other cities. Big Tech Inc. There’s more: Take a bite out of that : Apple came out on top of an appeals case in the United Kingdom over mobile market competition. Carly has more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation, and with nearly 2,500 startups, it has the highest number of budding tech companies outside London. However, the city’s tech scene is apparently lackluster when it comes to legal tech, blockchain and consumer-facing technology.

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. Both employ a lot of tech in their back-end to improve efficiencies. Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Sweetgreen in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Mass transit has made a rebound with the return of city life post-Covid 19, and today a startup that’s building tech to help it run more smoothly is announcing a big round of funding to meet the rush. billion, which the Israeli startup says makes it the first “unicorn” in the public transportation tech space.

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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. Seldon has been able to build an impressive open-source community and add immediate productivity value to some of the world’s leading companies.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Previous investors Cherry Ventures, FinTech Collective and tech entrepreneurs and senior executives from Klarna, Zalando, and SumUp also participated. Since October 2021, Mondu has signed merchant customers across industries such as beauty, cleaning and manufacturing. The company has now raised $57 million to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swedish food tech company N!CK’S Magnus Jakobson, investment director at Kinnevik, said he has been investing in the food space for a few years and says the industry is attractive due to the multiple tailwinds of sustainability and health happening at the moment, which is driving demand and the upstream ability to build brands.

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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. Today, a company called Fresha , which provides a software stack to help them run those operations, is announcing new funding of $52.5

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MAY 3, 2022

But for the tech press, the possibility creates a conundrum: We can do our best to pick favorites , but we can’t cover every single promising startup in its early days. This situation, it turns out, creates an opportunity for an emerging source of startup curation: deal-flow newsletters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

million in pre-seed funding in a bid to bring data-driven AI to the recycling industry to improve recovery rates and quality — with the overarching goal of transforming the economics of waste reuse to shrink demand for virgin materials. UK-based TrueCircle , a computer vision startup founded just last year, has nabbed $5.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Hadzic himself is already a success story — he eventually made it into the tech industry after arriving in Denmark as a child refugee from war-torn Bosnia during the Yugoslavian civil war. Tame has great potential to create a strong, global business for the benefit of growth and jobs in Denmark.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all witnessed the rise of disruptive tech-first businesses such as Airbnb and Uber and, if we can rent our houses and cars, why not our wardrobes.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Retail analytics unicorn Trax expects that this openness to tech innovation will continue even after the pandemic. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Trax also has offices in Brazil, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, Japan, Hungary, France, Russia and Australia.

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