TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. Recently, some startups such as Lami , Ctrl and Naked have sought to take on each regional market by storm, armed with the necessary capital to scale. This YC Summer batch features the largest group of African startups yet.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Hypefeast: How Hype Fuels The Economy And The Unique Opportunity Startups Have To Take Advantage. Starting Early: The How-Tos Of Investing In Student Founders. Startup Exits: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. with Sam Wong (Fundable Startups). Why Nine Out Of Ten Startups Fail. with Alain Sylvain (SYLVIAN).

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Doing more with less: This is what marketers get asked for when they join an early-stage startup. British consultant Lucy Heskins knows firsthand how overwhelming that can be, which is why her services can both replace and complement early in-house marketing staff. Typically I will work with startups in two ways.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The startup was founded by Tanya Van Court who had her own struggles with financial literacy after losing more than $1 million in stock during the bubble burst of 2001. The startup’s app allows kids to get allowance or monetary gifts from friends, parents, and relatives, or spend money through a Goalsetter debit card.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Oktopost’s schtick is that it is an enterprise-grade platform for B2B marketers to curate content, organize, and manage campaigns for corporate social media accounts, employee advocacy and social selling. It can also handle social listening and analytics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Coming off an $8 million seed round announced last November, company founders Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata say the biggest thing that has happened is growth. He was also head of capital markets at SoFi and began his career at Deutsche Bank in 2003. The new investment gives the company total funding of $32 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“Deskless” workers have become a big focus for tech companies looking for new opportunities in the B2B market, and today a startup targeting this segment with e-learning tools is announcing a round of funding to fuel its own growth. LinkedIn also has a sizeable interest in this space.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Europe has no shortage of buy now, pay later startups and a quick search is revealing. Berlin-based fintech startup Mondu has taken in €39.9 million to expand its B2B BNPL solution. is launching BNPL to a B2B market with €4 million. Right now, there are very few B2B purchases happening online.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We reached out to 10 growth marketing experts to find how they were preparing for 2022 and to ask they had any New Year’s resolutions to share. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Here’s the full list of who we spoke to: Jonathan Martinez , founder, JMStrategy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

OK, startup fans, check out these roundtables designed to help you — and your startup — grow. Why Nine Out of Ten Startups Fail , with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO and co-founder at DevRev. Rewiring Founders to Hire for Tomorrow , with Anna Auerbach, Kristen Burke, Karena Man, consultants at Egon Zehnder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

After raising nearly $20 million a few months ago, Berlin-based startup Dance is expanding its electric bike subscription service to a handful of new cities. The startup doesn’t plan to stop at e-bikes though. Rollich’s founder Felix Schaar is joining Dance, as well as Rollich’s mopeds.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2020

This time, I connected with 15 startup and SME leaders from my network to discover how they are tackling the current crisis, and what advice they had to offer to others in the same boat. Jerry DiMaso , CEO and co-founder, Knarr Analytics . “In Related: 3 Core Objectives to Help You Lead Your Startup Through the Pandemic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. The US presidential election of 2020 has been the most technologically sophisticated ever, but I’m gonna skip because there are relatively few startup angles for us here. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 kicks off in just four days, startup fans. Startup Battlefield 200. The TechCrunch team combed through thousands of applicants to select a final class of 200 , exemplary startups to feature on this year’s show floor at TechCrunch Disrupt. How to Achieve Product Market Fit (PMF) , with DevRev.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The case is particularly problematic in emerging markets like Africa, where local currencies are less liquid than those in developed markets. . Meanwhile, the B2B market, accounting for 30% of the world’s global imports and 45% of total employment in emerging markets — is largely untouched.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

in March to build technology that connects databases and distribution channels so they talk to each other and to address what they believe will be the future of marketing — “building with you” — versus the “talking at you” approach the founders believe traditional digital marketing is doing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

But at the same time, there’s been a growing trend for building more for the B2B market, and today one of the newer hopefuls in that space is announcing funding ahead of a public launch in Q4 this year. In any case, at the time, the funding had yet to close and ultimately ended up with more investors and at a larger size.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 29, 2022

. “We see a notable shift in the growing demands and servicing strategy in the B2B market with the rise of the digital economy,” stated Ruchi Kalra, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oxyzo.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. 3) Raise capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Typewise won a spot in YC (and its standard $500,000 backing) after pivoting to fully focus on the B2B market — aiming to serve demand for typing productivity gains in areas like customer service and sales, per co-founder David Eberle. “Last year we realized where this makes most sense,” he tells TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Capria leads the “largest network of collaborating fund managers in emerging markets” Their product Edge enables you to benchmark your internal processes against other investors. 2) Market . 3) Raise capital. Betterfront.io

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Oware co-founders Raza Kazmi and Adil Nisar. million pre-seed funding from investors including Flexport Fund, Ratio Ventures, Seedstars International Ventures, Sketchnote Partners, The Osiris Group, Swiss Founders Fund, Reflect Ventures, +92 Ventures and Walled City Co. Today the company announced it has raised $3.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Meet Fintecture , a French startup that wants to upgrade B2B payments. While many payment companies have focused on B2C payments with Stripe leading the way, B2B payments haven’t changed much over the years. “In In Europe, it’s mostly transfers and manual reconciliation,” Fintecture co-founder and CEO Faysal Oudmine told me.

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StartupNation

MARCH 21, 2021

This gives you an advantage as a startup founder—you have a great story, and now is the time to share it through your subject matter expertise with your potential customers! Now it’s time to determine where your target market is when it comes to various social media platforms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

He led the platform from its launch in 2006 until he passed the torch to co-founder Ev Williams two years later. There’s a lot of talk about the importance of a company being ‘founder-led,’” he wrote in a letter to employees. I’ve worked hard to ensure this company can break away from its founding and founders.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Startups and VC. Swiss startup Typewise is showing the power of sticking at it: The team behind patented text prediction technology is now part of Y Combinator’s S22 cohort. Like HR, but automagic : HR startup HiBob’s valuation surges 50% to $2.5 billion as it raises an additional $150 million, Paul reports. Big Tech Inc.

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