Category: Enterprise
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‘Hospital at home’ startup Doccla raises $46 million for its European expansion
Hospitals around the world regularly face bed shortages — an issue that can get exacerbated to breaking point when a health scare or other large-scale disaster occurs. A startup called Doccla is bringing technology to bear to address the issue: it’s building “virtual bed” tech to help doctors remotely manage patients who have either been…
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Payroll startup Cercli inks $4M to build the ‘Rippling for the Middle East and North Africa’
The potential of Cercli’s payroll platform has attracted investor interest, leading to $4 million in seed funding. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. While scaling and managing teams at two of the largest unicorns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Akeed Azmi and David Reche stumbled on what they believed was…
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Ziina banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses
The Dubai-based startup, which now counts 50,000 retail and business customers in the UAE, has netted $22 million led by Altos Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. In June 2021, Ziina, fresh from completing YC’s first cohort that year and securing a $7.5 million seed, launched its fintech app…
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Laptop-leasing startup Fleet wants to become the IT companion for small companies
Fleet is launching several software services on top of its hardware-as-a-service proposition, from device management to cybersecurity and insurance. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Bootstrapped companies don’t come up in startup news as often as those backed by venture capital, as the former don’t have shiny funding rounds to…
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X lets you edit DMs — here is how to use the feature
X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, is finally rolling out one of the most sought-after features for direct messages: the ability to edit the message. Over the weekend, X made the edit message feature available to iOS users. One of the engineers at the company posted about the roll-out and said the edit…
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Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable
The Netherlands’ data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Clearview AI, the controversial U.S.-based, facial recognition startup that built a searchable database of 30 million images populated by scraping the internet for people’s selfies without their…
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Xavier Niel replaces Coatue’s Laffont on board of TikTok parent ByteDance
French billionaire Xavier Niel is joining the board of directors of TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, the company told the South China Morning Post. It’s an interesting move as Niel isn’t a name that comes up very often for high-profile board positions. He is replacing Philippe Laffont, the founder of the New York-based investment firm Coatue Management,…
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Want to branch out beyond Google? Here are some search engines worth checking out
If you have never considered a search engine beyond Google, you might be surprised to see what else is out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Google has dominated the search space for so long that a U.S. District Court judge recently found that it has acted illegally to…
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CrowdStrike faces onslaught of legal action from faulty software update
Even before Delta came forward, shareholders were looking for their pound of flesh, filing a class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. When the now infamous CrowdStrike software update took down companies all over the world in July, it was inevitable that lawsuits would follow —…
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A16z’s Joshua Lu says AI is already radically changing video games and Discord is the future
After joining the firm as an investor in 2022, Lu has seen how AI and new distribution platforms are changing the industry for the better. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Andreessen Horowitz’s partner Joshua Lu knows that, in the video game industry, you can never get too comfortable. When…