The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Roku TV held 38 percent of market share in the US and 31 percent in Canada, based on available data from January 5th through December 26th, 2020, maintaining the lead spot in both regions,” the company said in a press release today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sleek , the corporate services platform that helps entrepreneurs launch and run new companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, has raised $4 million. “The market is wide enough for us to evolve on different positioning, and we’re only starting to see traditional firms looking at embracing the use of technology.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

A wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People , has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B online marketplace to reach international buyers. Orders on the platform average $1,200. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

While the partnership with ABB will certainly give ChargeLab the resources it needs to build out and scale its enterprise software, Lefevre noted that ABB’s interest in ChargeLab stems from the company’s need for a better out-of-the-box software in North America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Given that the last two weeks of the year are not famous for productivity, the dataset we have should prove representative for this critical slice of the venture capital market. For our look at the third-quarter fintech VC market, head here.).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Per the company’s data, it records more than 500,000 visits monthly, with the majority of its customers from Europe and North America recording over $15 million in transactions. ” Then last year, Afrikrea began testing an all-in-one SaaS e-commerce platform for these merchants. Today, it is announcing its launch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

.” So the Livestorm team is less focused on the core video technology and more on the experience around the video, with in-meeting features like screen sharing and virtual background, as well as a broader suite of marketing tools that allow customers to continue delivering targeted messages to event attendees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The platform offers parents of preschool children “gamified” educational content and structured lessons available on mobile devices. Kotlov said: “On the education scene, preschool education is becoming a highly vibrant market. based Allrise Capital and other investors, including Genesis Investments.

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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. Another important data point that connects both regions: the black market is a competitive factor. billion by 2026. Unlike the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Its database competes with a number of rivals in North America, including PitchBook , CB Insights , and my former employer Crunchbase. The startup collects data on private-market companies through public scraping and partnerships. In today’s market, that’s a modest round! million in early 2020.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our agenda delivers strategies you can put into practice immediately, along with the creative vision leaders need to succeed in digital markets. Our research resulted in two books dedicated to positioning executives for success in digital markets. A contemporary look can be fast-to-market and meet all of the essential needs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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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

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. In North America, it is popular among Indian expat and Indian American communities, and now it will target other customer segments, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The startup’s new wholesale business dubbed The Folklore Connect , will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to bulk retailers in North America, and later, in Europe. The Folklore Connect is a B2B wholesale platform that links African luxury brands to retailers in the US. Image Credits : The Folklore Group.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The Exchange previously explored the pace at which huge venture rounds were invested into the startup niche, noting that by mid-March the fintech market had already recorded a record number of $100 million rounds. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. We’ve now got the data, so today we’re digging in with both hands.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. market expansion through strategic partnerships with Gusto, Intuit and Thompson Reuters.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Polestar started out as the performance sub-brand of Volvo and now has emerged as one of the more interesting Chinese EV companies on the market. It may be based on the Volvo XC40 platform , but unlike the Audi E-tron or the Mercedes EQC, the Polestar is essentially a hatchback disguised as a sedan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

2014 Nonprofit Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends—North America. The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and Blackbaud have released the findings from a first-time study that shows how nonprofit professionals in North America approach content marketing. Download here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Noissue , a New Zealand-based global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes. intends to use the funds to grow its global team, invest in the technology that powers its platform and localize its supply chain, according to Josh Bowden, CEO and co-founder of noissue. Canada, the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Los Angeles-based Stacked , co-founded by serial entrepreneur Alex Lin , is making a video streaming platform for gaming content — basically Twitch for web3 users, the founder and CEO told TechCrunch. The platform, available on both mobile and desktop, will look similar to a conventional video streaming platform, Lin said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi — newly armed with nearly $9 million in venture capital — was preparing to bring its refinancing platform to the masses. “But the growth had been pretty noticeable from the investor standpoint in the market.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

That’s where Dovetail came into play, building out Afterpay’s tech platforms and helping launch its consumer-facing products. Before they started Dovetail, Frandsen and co-founder Ash Fogelberg’s startup, ticketing and payments platform 1-Night, was acquired by TicketDirect in 2013. Dovetail has a product agency that serves mostly U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

to create an active paseo, which hosts local farmers markets and other gatherings. A key element of the design is its green paseo, located on a former adjacent roadway, which hosts a weekly farmers market. The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The startup also announced today that it has become the first industrial commerce platform to “officially” operate on Alibaba.com. The financing brings BluePallet’s total raised to $10 million and included participation from chemical industry veterans Terry Hill, Barentz CEO of North America; Mathew Brainerd, CEO of Brainerd Chemical Co.;

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Hong Kong and Melbourne-based Airwallex has raised $100 million, capital that it will be using to continue building out its banking and payments businesses into more markets, and to invest expanding its products. To capitalize further on that opportunity, today the company is announcing growth funding. But it won’t be just two players.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

Companies across multiple industries had already been looking to realize significant gains with AI robotics and with COVID-19, market demands then increased by an order of magnitude,” president, chief scientist and co-founder Pieter Abbeel tells TechCrunch. Combining this with our last year of successes, our investors are keen to double down.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. That’s up from a valuation of just north of $100 million at the time of Jeeves’ Series A, which closed in May and was announced in early June.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Saltmine , which has developed a web-based workplace design platform, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Saltmine claims to have a 95% customer retention rate and in 2020 saw 350% year over year growth in monthly active users of its SaaS platform. That’s something one startup hopes to help companies figure out.

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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 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

MAY 11, 2021

Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform. Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global strategy officer to lead its growth in international markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Rather, they need an online presence and digital marketing to engage with customers, but their focus is being findable and having content that tells people why they should do business with them. Paystone provides the marketing through content, help with reviews and with loyalty and rewards programs. This year, Paystone entered the U.S.

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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. Mason charges 1% of its customers’ total sales to offer its platform. “People are stuck with having forced to sell on Amazon. Mason has raised a total of $7.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Superscript , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K.

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