TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports. It has raised a $6.2 they account for 90% of ANKA’s sales.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Lynk , a “knowledge-as-a-service” platform that connects clients with over 840,000 experts in a wide range of fields, announced today it has raised $24 million led by Brewer Lane Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. Lynk co-founder and chief executive officer Peggy Choi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Founded in 2018, ShopThing currently has 500,000 users across North America. Adhami-Boynton told TechCrunch in an interview that she got the idea for ShopThing after coming across a New York-based personal shopper on Instagram who would go into stores while live streaming and find items for her followers to purchase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While North America has been one of the strongest markets for the startup, it also serves clients in Singapore, Southeast Asia, Japan and India. It almost feels like a technology problem,” Manjita said in an interview with TechCrunch. Mason charges 1% of its customers’ total sales to offer its platform.

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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. In England, for example, some 76% of people order at least one takeaway a week, whereas it was 60% pre-pandemic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Conduit is building a set of APIs that developers can use to build platforms that provide access to DeFi products. You have Stripe, you have Marqeta if you want to issue cards – any use case you can come up with, you have somebody with an API that’s ready to give it to you,” Gertman told TechCrunch in an interview. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As with that last round, the startup is not disclosing its valuation, but co-founder and CEO Sam Pillar noted in an interview that it was “multiple times” the previous valuation, and described it as a “clean up round.” Billing integrates with accounting platforms made by third parties.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As something of a case in point, Vic.ai , which bills itself as an accounting automation platform, today announced that it raised $52 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and ICONIQ Growth with participation from Cowboy Ventures and Costanoa Ventures. Data on the platform is retained for seven years, but Vic.ai

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Microsoft has watched Google acquire YouTube and turn it into the world’s biggest video platform, Amazon buy Twitch and dominate streaming, Facebook acquire both Instagram and WhatsApp to control the way millions communicate and socialize online, and Apple rule mobile with its App Store. million active servers every single day.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

After interviewing several active investors in cannabis-related startups, we learned that the regulatory and functional landscape in Europe is just as fragmented as it is in North America. Does this mean that we’ll see recreational use of cannabis for adults becoming a common policy in Europe? It’s too soon to say.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This inaugural event brought together education changemakers across North America for a day full of learning, connection, and innovation. Cloud for Good was proud to serve as a Gold Sponsor for the landmark event, and we had the honor of participating in a rapid-fire 5-minute interview with our fellow sponsors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

million), Leipälä, Haltian’s CEO, says that it’ll be put toward supporting international expansion in Central Europe and North America, as well as Haltian’s recruiting efforts. Recently, a startup called Memfault raised $24 million for its platform designed to help companies manage their growing IoT device fleets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

“We will not expand into new industries or adjacent product areas,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

.” Tech firms from Foodpanda, Alibaba, Shopee, TikTok, Meituan to Lazada have all started to incorporate 3D elements into their logos, ads and landing pages over the past two years, the founder pointed out in an interview. “The trend is moving toward interaction,” the founder continued. France and Russia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Both Loughmiller and Collier worked at Tumbleweed Communications developing a messaging and file transfer platform for enterprise and government customers. But he claimed that the company currently has over 6,000 customers across North America, Europe and the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. billion in 2030. ”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Caliujnaia told TechCrunch in an interview that one of the ways that Sanlo differs from other fintech companies is its focus on gaming and app developers. We’re working with people primary in North America at this point, but we’re open to talented people in other places around the world.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Skuad has signed up more than 350 employers so far, mostly from North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. This funding round, which brings Skuad’s total raised to $19 million, was led by NMVM and two global payments platforms. Skuad also serves as a platform for workers to find employment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

“This round brings our total raised to $82 million,” Fabre told TechCrunch in an email interview. They sought to build a platform that could prevent bot-based threats, but in a unique way — one that eschewed static rules for machine learning that assesses every request to a website, mobile app or API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), an animal welfare organization in North America, was one of the nonprofits that participated in Giving Tuesday. The Giving Tuesday infographic offers an analysis issues discussed during Giving Tuesday. Included in the top five is the environment and animals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Below is my interview with Sokwoo Rhee, LG’s corporate SVP and head of the North America Innovation Center — LG Nova among friends. The interview is edited for clarity and length. “Are we a CVC? The answer is no. Hell no,” Rhee said. “CVC, as you know, is a venture capital play.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview. upr’s previous startups was a restaurant delivery business, acquired by Delivery Hero ) to build its platform. This round will give it significantly more fuel to grow than its balance sheet would, Tomáš ?upr,

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

. “[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview. ” Intranet platforms are hardly new — they’ve been around in some form for decades.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. noissue raises $10M Series A to expand its global sustainable packaging platform. The company raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

So it was just very obvious to us that it’s a huge problem for people,” Catheryn Li , product engineer at Y Combinator, said in an interview. “I So, the team began testing a co-founder matching platform with some early users in January this year and it went live in July. YC Startup School. and 60% from 145 countries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

They are also being hit the hardest by inflation right now, as a result,” says Danielle Forward, CEO and co-founder of Natives Rising in an interview with Mike. Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview? How can I ace the visa interview? Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview? It’s electric!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

and working closely with one of their top clients, Segev Hochberg,” Andrew told TechCrunch in an email interview. While Lunio is far from the first click fraud prevention tech vendor — others include CHEQ and Human Security — Andrew asserts that its platform has key technical advantages. Image Credits: Lunio.

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Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

This will obviously lead to better first-party games and upgraded Switch experiences, but more importantly it will mean multi-platform games that had to skip the original, underpowered Switch will be able to be ported over. With that said, the new and old Switch are much closer in hardware than that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

million in the bank, SpotDraft says that it’ll invest in product development and “aggressive growth” in North America, aiming to double its 170-person headcount within the next 18 months. ” SpotDraft’s platform is holistic, to be sure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Founder and CEO Shaunak Amin said in an interview that the plan will be to use the funding both to continue growing SnackMagic’s existing business, as well as extend into other kinds of gifting categories. Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. That characterization mostly comes from Hopper’s ability to offer customers financial flexibility around their travel bookings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Nonprofits can use Blab for interviews, discussions, and live workshops and then share replays after the live event is over. PicMonkey is an easy-to-use photo editing platform that enables nonprofits to embed text upon photos, apply watermarks, and create photo collages through a simple drag-and-drop process. Social Media Tools.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. CoreWeave currently operates five in North America. ” It’ll also be put toward expanding CoreWeave’s team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Increased demand for identity tools that help financial institutions land more “good” customers and weed out the “bad” ones has led to Alloy double its annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the past year, noted Tommy Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of Alloy, in an interview with TechCrunch. and abroad. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

To underscore the demand for solutions to address this, today a startup called Wayflyer — which has built a new kind of financing platform, using big data analytics and repayments based on a merchant’s revenue activity — is announcing a big round of funding, $150 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“We have maintained and continue to maintain a very conservative balance sheet profile,” Joshaghani told TechCrunch in an email interview. Via the platform’s workflows, businesses can engage with nearly-delinquent customers at points likeliest to drive turnaround. delinquent credit card).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. ” The Dakar-based platform is akin to PayPal (with mobile money accounts, not bank accounts) runs an agent network that uses their cash on hand to service Wave users.

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