Tag: Startups
11 months ago
legitimate.net

To like or not to like?!

I've been thinking a bit about how people interact online and I wanted to put this out there to hear some different p...

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12 months ago
theinformation.com

Venture Capital Firms Struggle to Raise Funds in China

When CMC Capital, a Shanghai-based venture capital and private equity firm, started raising a new fund from global in...

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about 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Inside TikTok CEO’s Plan to Play Offense

When the public face of TikTok’s management in the U.S.—V Pappas, TikTok’s chief operating officer—announced their de...

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about 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Sequoia Capital China in Talks for New $2.8 Billion Fund, Defying Malaise

Sequoia Capital’s Chinese affiliate, which is preparing to split from the Silicon Valley venture firm, is in talks to...

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about 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Sequoia’s China and India Arms Court Global Backers After Split

Sequoia Capital’s Chinese and Indian arms are accelerating efforts to ensure that investors around the world back the...

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about 1 year ago
theinformation.com

U.S. Investors Are Bailing Out of China Funds

Sequoia Capital’s decision this week to split off its China operations showed the impact of growing tensions between ...

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about 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Five Startups Vying to Be the OpenAI of China

As OpenAI and Google battle for artificial intelligence supremacy in the West, a parallel contest is happening in Chi...

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about 1 year ago
tech.eu

Hello Tomorrow is bridging the gap between deep tech and entrepreneurship to foster world changin...

The last few years have brought a strong increase in scientific startups. They typically come with some distinct adva...

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about 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Apple’s Siri Chief Struggles as New AI Era Begins

Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the ty...

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over 1 year ago
theinformation.com

ByteDance and TikTok Executives to Watch this Year

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, thanks to his televised five-hour grilling by Congress last month and accompanying brush wit...

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over 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge

After placing an early bet on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal: its...

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over 1 year ago
tech.eu

Tech startup tackles Ireland's housing crisis by connecting buyers with vacant properties

Homebuyer's Hero is a start-up co-founded by Colm Casey and Dr Constantin Gurdgiev, committed to solving the Irish ho...

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over 1 year ago
tech.eu

How the European Champions Alliance is helping scaleups maintain and foster innovation in Europe

The European Investment Bank estimates that around 75% of European high-tech companies in their late-stage developmen...

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over 1 year ago
tech.eu

Calling all European tech startups! Apply now for a chance to shine at Tech.eu Summit 2023

This year, we're dedicating space at the Brussels Expo venue to shine a light on Europe's top startups during the nex...

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over 1 year ago
theinformation.com

U.S. Officials Demand ByteDance Sell TikTok

The Biden administration in recent days demanded that Chinese internet giant ByteDance sell TikTok despite the compan...

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over 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Inside Apple’s War for Chip Talent

For more than a decade, Apple’s silicon engineering group has helped give Apple a competitive edge in smartphones and...

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over 1 year ago
theinformation.com

Sequoia Capital China Backs E-Bike Maker at $590 Million Valuation

E-bike and scooter rental businesses are struggling, but it’s boom times for companies with Chinese roots that make t...

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almost 2 years ago
businessinsider.com

Gold rush: Lawyers are flocking to Arizona to take advantage of new rules resulting in a flood of...

Trial lawyers are setting up shop in Arizona, where private-equity firms and other non-lawyers can now buy stakes in ...

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almost 2 years ago
theinformation.com

From Apps to Dumplings: China’s Tech Workers Switch Careers, Countries As Layoffs Mount

Early this year, Mars Zhao was full of optimism about the future. He had just landed a new job in Shanghai at Chinese...

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almost 2 years ago
politico.eu

Nokia’s shadow looms large in Finnish industrial heartland

Located 2 hours north of Helsinki, Tampere was once the R&D hub for the Finnish telecoms giant.

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almost 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Delivery Startup Snags Unexpected Gain From Didi’s Pain: A $13 Billion Valuation

Beijing’s sweeping regulatory assault on the domestic tech sector hurt a lot of companies. But for some startups, the...

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about 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Welcome to the E-Commerce Winter

Every tech downturn has a locus of weakness—the companies that fall first and spread the carnage. But few in Silicon ...

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about 2 years ago
legitimate.net

First Ever Founders Night For NI Entrepreneurs And Startups

Founders Night Belfast will bring together founders, investors, thought leaders and businesses in one place, for a ni...

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about 2 years ago
theinformation.com

How to Celebrate Pride Month Better; Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit Leads to Shakeup

Let’s start by wishing you all a Happy Pride Month! We’ve come a long way from rainbow-framed Facebook profile pictur...

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about 2 years ago
theinformation.com

A Top China VC Firm Struggles to Raise Funds After 10% Return, U.S. Investor Fears

Despite a difficult climate for raising money, at least four top-tier Chinese venture capital firms set ambitious goa...

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about 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Sequoia Warns Founders of ‘Crucible Moment,’ Advises How to ‘Avoid the Death Spiral’

Sand Hill Road’s doomsayer-in-chief—Sequoia Capital—is back with a warning to its startup founders: Don’t expect a re...

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about 2 years ago
theinformation.com

TikTok Parent Aims to Double E-Commerce Volume on China App to $240 Billion

TikTok has taken on Facebook and YouTube. Now it hopes to compete with Amazon as well. In China, TikTok’s parent comp...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

War as Impact Investment: Under Bombardment, Startup Pitches Investors’ Social Conscience

In late-February, Kyiv-based All Right, an online language-tutoring startup geared toward kids and teens, was just ab...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Sequoia-Backed Chinese Robot Maker Valued at $2 Billion Amid U.S. Expansion

Venture capitalists are betting Chinese robots can go global. Shenzhen-based Hai Robotics, a maker of robots for ware...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Gopuff, Like Instacart, Is Dreaming of an Amazon-Like Ad Business

Amazon built a $24 billion U.S. ad business by selling ad spots on its marketplace to merchants. Gopuff hopes to foll...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Startup Powering China’s Consumer Export Blitz in Talks to Raise $800 Million

Xingyun Group, a seven-year-old startup that helps Chinese makers of everything from Bluetooth speakers to laundry de...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Inside Gopuff’s Ambitious and Costly Bid to Dominate European Instant Delivery

Executives at Gopuff, a U.S. instant-delivery company that has planned to go public this year, recently told investor...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

China’s Venture Investors See 65% Drop in Fundraising for Startups

There will be a lot less money sloshing around China’s tech startups next year—at just the time when they’re going to...

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over 2 years ago
theinformation.com

Can TikTok Owner ByteDance Challenge Spotify, Apple in Music Streaming?

ByteDance may have built the blockbuster TikTok—the first Chinese-owned app to really threaten Facebook and YouTube—b...

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almost 3 years ago
theinformation.com

Atomico Values Customer Engagement Startup Commsor at $450 Million

Commsor, a two-year-old startup that sells software to help companies track user engagement, is raising $50 million a...

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almost 3 years ago
theinformation.com

Instacart Raids Another Tech Giant for Ad Talent: Amazon

Much has been written about the “Facebookification” of Instacart, after the grocery-delivery firm recruited a string ...

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almost 3 years ago
theinformation.com

Could Didi List in Hong Kong to Stop Bleeding for Shareholders?

Could the path to relief for Didi Global’s beleaguered shareholders run through Hong Kong? It’s a pressing question a...

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almost 3 years ago
theinformation.com

Former Ant Executive’s Fintech Startup in Funding Talks at $1 Billion Valuation

XTransfer, a Chinese cross-border payment startup headed by a former Ant Group executive, is in advanced talks with D...

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almost 3 years ago
theinformation.com

Facebook Develops New Machine Learning Chip

Google, Amazon and Microsoft have all been hiring and spending millions of dollars to design their own computer chips...

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