Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

MNT-Halan, a microfinance and payments startup out of Egypt, is on a consolidation march. The company has raised $157.5 million in funding and is using the money in part to fund the acquisition of another fintech, Tam Finans, to expand into Turkey. Tam Finans provides financing to micro-enterprises and SMEs. It currently operates 39 branches […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The energy transition is a marathon, not a sprint. But opportunities for acceleration are growing. Swedish startup Greenely* has just spotted one. It’s closing an €8 million Series A funding round to expand its energy management platform into neighbouring Nordic countries (so around $8.7M at current exchange rates). The energy tech startup is serving around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Floorr offers tools for conducting sales, hosting tailored styling sessions, creating mood boards, and engaging in text or voice chats with clients, all in one place.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Autonomous vehicle software startup Applied Intuition has raised $300 million just four months after closing a $250 million Series E round, yet another sign of how white-hot the investment scene is for artificial intelligence companies. The secondary round adds Fidelity Management & Research Company to an already-stacked lineup of investors in the automotive AI startup, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Until a year ago, Arjun Pillai had the comfortable yet important role of chief data officer at ZoomInfo, a B2B database company. But the serial entrepreneur was getting antsy. He had already founded and sold two startups, including Insent, which ZoomInfo bought in 2021. “Once you start a startup, you always have that bug,” he […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Don Burnette, CEO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics, had an “a-ha” moment when the company started working with the U.S. Department of Defense. Kodiak’s mission has always been to pursue long-haul autonomous trucking, but two years ago, the startup won a $50 million contract from the DoD to help the Army automate […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The startup has developed a way to create copper and aluminum foils that are laced with tiny holes and riddled with undulating peaks and valleys. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

CRED, an Indian fintech startup, has rolled out a new feature that will help its customers manage and gain deeper insights into their cash flow, as startup seeks to drive engagement by providing much-needed personal finance tools.  Known primarily for its credit card bill payment and consumer lending service, the Bengaluru-based startup is venturing into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Our growth as a civilization is tightly coupled to our ability to sufficiently generate ever-increasing amounts of electricity. Could the same be true in space? Star Catcher Industries, a startup just emerging from stealth today, is betting that might be the case. The company is developing a space-based energy grid that could enable more power-intensive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Lakera, a Swiss startup that’s building technology to protect generative AI applications from malicious prompts and other threats, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by European venture capital firm, Atomico. Generative AI has emerged as the poster child of the burgeoning AI movement, driven by popular apps such as ChatGPT. But […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Farmers have got to do something about pests. But nobody really likes the idea of using more chemical pesticides. Thomas Laurent’s company, Micropep, thinks the answer might already be in the plants themselves. Micropep is exploring how naturally occurring compounds, known as micropeptides, might work as an entirely new class of pesticides. If the startup […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Cybersecurity has become a white-hot topic in the world of technology. Not only are data breaches continuing unabated; but security companies themselves are very much in the spotlight as a result – with one of the fastest-growing, Wiz, the object of a (now abandoned) $23 billion acquisition bid from Google. Now, another cyber startup – […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Со вчерашнего дня в украинских чатах сдержанная буря — американский финансовый стартап Mercury, которым многие пользовались как заменой банковскому счету, направил всем украинским клиентам, что перестает их обслуживать в связи с изменениями в политике банка. Изменения заключаются в том, что компания включила Украину в список подсанкционных стран наравне с РФ, Венесуэлой, Ираном, Северной Кореей и так далее. Общение с саппортом приводит к детализации — мол, часть территории Украины находится под санкциями (и... →

Exoticca’s platform connects flights, hotels, meals, transfers, transportation and more, plus the local companies at the destinations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture fund. The tranche, which also had participation from heavy-hitting angels and VCs OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil and SV Angel, brings Harvey’s total raised to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Digital banking startup Mercury informed some founders that it is no longer serving customers in certain countries, including Ukraine. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The transaction values Cyabra at $70 million, and the company expects the merger to close by the end of the year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Mesa, Arizona-based Rosotics has kept a low profile. From the startup’s website, one would think they are solely focused on selling large metal 3D printers to aerospace and defense customers. For the past three years, the company’s been quietly architecting plans that involve launching multiple massive spacecraft, each containing dozens of smaller spacecraft, that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Hustle culture is embedded into the Silicon Valley startup ethos, but the expectation to grind all the time can be detrimental to a founder’s mental health. We’re pleased to welcome Bonobos co-founder and former CEO Andy Dunn to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 for a fireside chat to discuss how founders can live up to the VC […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Platforms like TikTok and Spotify have experimented with events on their platforms. But rather than concentrating on concerts and large gatherings, event startup Posh is focusing on intimate gatherings of up to a few hundred people where you might know a friend, a friend of a friend, and a person you met at some party. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →