Tag: TechCrunch

TechInnovation – ShipBob nabs $200M at a $1B+ valuation to help e-commerce companies run logistics like Amazon’s (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

E-commerce saw a massive surge of activity and growth in 2020; and while we may hear a lot about how big companies like Amazon...

TechInnovation – Ghana’s Jetstream lands $3M to build the digital infrastructure for Africa’s trade corridors (Tage Kene-Okafor, TechCrunch)

The share of exports from Africa to the rest of the world ranged from 80% to 90% between 2000 and 2017. This has created a...

TechInnovation – Harness Wealth raises $15 million to democratize the power of family offices (Connie Loizos, TechCrunch)

Family offices have existed since the 1800s, but they’ve never been so manifold as in recent years. According to a 2019 Global Family Office Report by...

TechInnovation – Korean court sides against Netflix, opening door for streaming bandwidth fees from ISPs (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

A court case in South Korea has ended in a loss for Netflix and a victory for ISPs in the country, which may now...

TechInnovation – Demand Curve: Email marketing tactics that convert subscribers into customers (Stewart Hillhouse, TechCrunch)

Email has the highest return on investment of any other marketing channel. On average, email earns you $40 for every $1 spent. And the...

TechInnovation – Discord acquires augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

After raising tens of millions from investors and executing a pretty substantial pivot earlier this year, augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 and its team have...

TechInnovation – Facebook to target Nigerian learners with educational app Sabee, created by its R&D team (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Last fall, Facebook announced it was opening an office in Lagos, Nigeria, which would provide the company with a hub in the region and the first...

TechInnovation – Fleet software startup LocoNav raises $37 million to expand in developing markets (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

LocoNav, an India-based startup that is helping drivers and fleet owners in over two-dozen nations run their vehicles more efficiently and save money, said...

TechInnovation – Consumer spending on apps hit record $64.9B in first half of 2021, but install growth slowed to 1.7% (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Consumer spending in mobile apps hit a record $64.9 billion during the first half of 2021, according to preliminary data from app store intelligence firm Sensor...

TechInnovation – Vietnamese investment app Infina lands $2M seed round (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world, especially ones geared toward newer investors. In Southeast Asia, startups in this...

TechInnovation – BreezoMeter, the iPhone tool that measures air quality, raises a $30M Series C (Marcella McCarthy, TechCrunch)

Ran Korber and his asthmatic and pregnant wife were looking to buy a house in Israel. As an environmental engineer, he knows that air...

TechInnovation – Robotic beverage maker Botrista raises $10M (Brian Heater, TechCrunch)

Drink making probably isn’t at the top of your list of jobs most likely to be fully automated. The past year-and-a-half have, however, brought...

TechInnovation – PayMaya owner Voyager Innovation raises $167M from KKR, Tencent and IFC, to launch digital bank in the Philippines (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

Voyager Innovations, the Manila-based owner of PayMaya, one of the Philippines’ most popular payment and financial services apps, announced today it has raised $167 million...

TechInnovation – Vietnamese investment app Infina lands $2M seed round (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world, especially ones geared toward newer investors. In Southeast Asia, startups in this...

TechInnovation – Egypt’s Minly raises $3.6M to connect celebrities and fans through personalized experiences (Tage Kene-Okafor, TechCrunch)

In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a growing trend of creators adopting digital and social media, not just as a supplement to their media...

TechInnovation – 8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

The U.K. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on...