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Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this time backed by SoftBank – TechCrunch
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Coming off of a year where monthly active users grew 150% year over year, ethnic e-grocer Weee! secured $425 million in Series E funding toward its goal to be “the primary source for food at home,” Larry Liu, Weee!’s founder and CEO, told me.
It’s been a few years...
Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding.
The U.K.-based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation. We...
Cococart sweetens the process for e-commerce companies to take orders immediately – TechCrunch
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Two years ago, entrepreneur Derek Low lost his hotel in Bali and began selling homemade cheesecakes online to make ends meet. However, he found it difficult to find an easy e-commerce tool that enabled him to quickly get up and running to take orders.
Low noticed that 200 million...
We were stuck inside for so long over the past two years that now when we go anywhere, we want it to be an experience. AnyRoad, an eight-year-old San Francisco-based company, wants to help brands make sure we have them, while also building stronger relationships with customers.
You might...
Bloomreach, now valued at $2.2B, continues to plant seeds of customer personalization – TechCrunch
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As more consumers find ease buying online and using digital channels to find what they need and discover new products, Bloomreach is helping online retailers provide that commerce experience.
In 2019, worldwide e-commerce sales were $3.3 trillion; two years later, sales were $4.9 trillion and are now expected to...
Coatue backs Kubercost’s goal of supply data to millions of Kubernetes developers – TechCrunch
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In the past year, Kubernetes adoption exploded, with over 5.6 million developers using the cloud-native tools — an increase of 67% from the year prior.
For those who need a refresher on Kubernetes, it is an open source container project created by Google in 2014 to automate, monitor and...
Still managing engineers remotely? Okay has a performance dashboard for that – TechCrunch
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As employers try to manage the loss of workers to “The Great Resignation” and engage employees working from home, Okay co-founder and CEO Antoine Boulanger says the company is seeing its quantitative and empathetic management approach become more in demand as “the distinction between productivity and employee satisfaction...
Tropic takes in more capital as demand for software procurement savings continues – TechCrunch
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Global spend on enterprise software was expected to reach $599 billion by the end of 2021, and new forecasts say it is now projected to grow 11.5% year over year to nearly $700 billion in 2022.
The average company can have more than 100 software contracts, and Tropic’s technology...
Depending on your age, getting from point A to point B might have involved paper maps — what we called an “atlas,” the giant book that lived in the pocket behind the passenger seat of the car.
As maps went digital, you might have relied on MapQuest to help...
Agot AI gives restaurants computer vision to see where food orders go wrong – TechCrunch
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Artificial intelligence has infiltrated a number of industries, and the restaurant industry was one of the latest to embrace this technology, driven in main part by the global pandemic and the need to shift to online orders.
That need continues to grow. In 2021, some 60% of Americans ordered...