TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The tech behemoth originally entered the health sector after it acquired PillPack , an online pharmacy, in 2018 and later rebranded as Amazon Pharmacy. Shakir and Aoun both agree that Amazon’s expansion is providing new pressure for startups and investors to enter the space with stronger offerings. “At

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. Today’s startup boom, from a venture capital perspective, is a wide-ranging and incredibly expensive enterprise. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Venture capitalists went hard in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Groopit , an early stage startup from a 20-year Microsoft veteran, wants to help companies crowdsource data from information supplied by employees working in the field. The startup has raised $3.1 “What Groopit does is it combines data collection and real-time data sharing into one lightweight workflow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They started Searchlight in 2018 to develop technology that uses behavioral reference data and prescriptive analytics to give employers a more 360-degree view of a potential candidate’s strengths and weaknesses that might not appear on a resume or come out during an interview.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The idea of starting Healthie , a software company meant to help healthcare companies and startups handle back-office operations, came to founder Erica Jain after witnessing her parents struggle with weight loss but lack of access to a comprehensive care team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform? These panels involve consumer-facing apps like VPN clients and ad blockers, which users would download not necessarily understanding that they were agreeing to having their app usage data collected. But the practice continues and has not impacted the companies’ growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The startup announced today it has raised $1.2 million since it was founded in January 2018, including a $1 million seed round also led by Intudo. Its customers range in size from tech startups to multinational conglomerates. It says its data classification system can recognize over 73% of all items on invoices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

The startup will use its new funding to develop its super app, called The Pack, by increasing its platform offerings, including optimizing store operations, including funding access for businesses, and order management across the entire supply chain. It was founded in 2018, with an initial client base of five sari-sari store partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike. Is there a meaningful distinction between the tech used by startups focused on coastal regions and the tech built for the open ocean? But, she added, there’s still more room to grow. “We Answer is yes and no.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The financing brings San Francisco-based Sisu’s total raised since its 2018 inception to over $128 million. Peter Bailis , a former Stanford University professor, founded Sisu Data out of his lab, spending years on research at the school before leaving to focus on the endeavor full time. NEA led the company’s $52.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. In 2018, the company got its first big break while working on TraderMoni, a small loan scheme for micro traders pioneered by the Nigerian government. But CrowdForce employs a different approach.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Founded in 2018, Scythe Robotics is emerging from stealth today by announcing an $13.8 Naturally, all of those sensors also come with a wealth of data collection aimed at — among other things — increasing the robot’s efficiency. million Series A raise. million, including a $4 million seed, also led by True Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

New data collected by Crunchbase News indicates that the value of global unicorns has crested the $4 trillion mark. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. A year later, in mid-2018, the group smashed the $4 trillion mark. But 2018 wasn’t the peak, as you can imagine. Compared to what?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

The company began developing its modern data orchestration tools, powered by Apache Airflow, an open source platform for data engineering pipelines, that enables users to build, run and observe pipelines-as-code, and started driving that project in 2018. to make data analytics more accessible. Image Credits: Astonomer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Now, he’s back in New York City, launching Caden , a startup that allows consumers to share their data with companies and get paid for it in return. Roa wrote the business plan in the form of a thesis on the future of data privacy while he was working at Salesforce, right before he began his sabbatical, he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On August 12, Twitter launched a complete rebuild of its 2012 API, with new endpoints for data collection, new access levels and a new developer portal. Improvements for third-party developers, however, arrived with hints of irony leaving many startup CEOs in the ecosystem unconvinced. “You

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This is especially true at the earliest stages, where rounds are often unannounced and many startups are too small for anyone to notice. Many startups in Silicon Valley and other leading startup hubs have increasingly relied on unpriced rounds (SAFEs or convertible notes) for their first or even second rounds of financing.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. Jaia Robotics Inc. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As hiring remains challenging in an economy where jobs are plentiful (depending on the sector), venture capitalists continue to pump money into HR startups focused on assessing and onboarding candidates. A number of startups are competing for a slice of it, unsurprisingly, like Guide and Fletcher. billion by 2028.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There were two markets for insurtech startups in 2021: one welcoming and one dismissive. Private market investors poured capital into promising insurtech startups, while the public markets sent the value of recently public insurtech companies down — and then further down as the year progressed. per share after going public.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Still, the success of startups like Invisible AI , which uses AI systems to ostensibly optimize factory processes, suggests there’s some semblance of demand out there. “Everything done in manufacturing, from safety audits to continuous improvement cycles, is still based on manual data collection using stop watches and clipboards.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Move over basic customer surveys, EnquireLabs wants to bring speed and scale to zero-party data, which is just a fancy way of saying data that customers give directly to brands. Typeform recently took in $135 million in new funding for its “conversational data collection” approach.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Silversmith Capital Partners and returning investor PSG are leading the round: PSG, along with Greater Sum Ventures, led a leveraged buyout of the company in 2018. “Now we are not only focused on data collection, but document generation.” That is to say, he joined the company about five years after it was founded.

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