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France’s Singular Unicorn BlaBlaCar’s Secret To Scaling Fast Globally
BlaBlaCar pulled in $200 million and spread its ride-sharing platform to 20 countries this year. It now claims 25 million members worldwide. Co-founder and COO Nicolas Brusson told the TechCrunch Disrupt London audience in an onstage interview today at least 50 percent of that growth is from emerging markets like as Russia and India. Read More
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Fast-Growing Online Auction Site Catawiki On How It’s Spending Its $82 Million
Catawiki may not yet be a household name outside of Europe, but the Accel-backed online auction house is one of the region’s fastest growing startups. In fact, according to founder and CTO Marco Jansen, speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt London conference this afternoon, the company has seen 45,000% growth in revenue over the past four years. No, that’s not a typo. But… Read More
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Talkdesk Call Center Software “Growing Like Crazy”
Talkdesk co-founder Cristina Fonseca spoke at Disrupt London on Tuesday. In an interview with TechCrunch’s Matt Lynley, Fonseca explained how the Portugal-based startup has helped businesses improve their customer service experience.
Founded in 2011, in an effort to win a Macbook Air contest, Talkdesk has quickly scaled its call center business. Its software is used by companies like… Read More
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Why Wallapop CEO Agustin Gomez Doesn’t Want To Talk About Fundraising
Wallapop, so far, has reportedly raised a ton of money. But despite that, Wallapop CEO Agustin Gomez doesn’t want to talk about it because he thinks it’s a distraction. Gomez spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. “A long time ago we thought there was no upside to talking about fundraising, we never comment, we keep a very low profile,” Gomez said.… Read More
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Airbnb Confirms Its Massive $1.5 Billion Raise
Back in June, the WSJ reported that Airbnb had raised a massive $1.5 billion round of funding. Today, the company confirmed those reports by way of SEC filing. The total offering and sold amount is $1,499,937,904.00 for those keeping score. Airbnb’s valuation is now at or above $25 billion, which is just staggering. It sounds like Airbnb is going to focus on strengthening itself… Read More
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The Disrupt London 2015 Battlefield Finalists Are Jukedeck, Lystable, MAX, And Yoobic
Disrupt London Day One was a smashing success, and included speaking appearances from Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, former Arsenal footballer and sports broadcaster Thierry Henry (yep, there was plenty of football on our stage), Postmates’ Bastian Lehmann, and a host of investors from Sonali De Rycker to Andy McLoughlin to David Hornik. But the magic truly begins when the… Read More
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EnergyElephant Wants To Help Every Business Save Money On Their Energy Bill
Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt London Startup Battlefield, EnergyElephant presented its “energy analysis” service to a crowded hall of investors, developers and entrepreneurs.
The startup, bootstrapped to date, takes in a company’s energy use information — a bill, in other words — and then provides analysis that it expects the customer to leverage into savings. Read More
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Emotech Is Building Olly, A Robot Assistant With Personality
A robot with a unique personality might sound like an oxymoron. Or science fiction. But that’s the goal of London-based startup Emotech, launching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 today, with a plan to crowdfund its first product, a voice-controlled robot assistant called Olly, early next year. Read More
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Qwertycards Is A Wallet-Sized Card That Generates Secure Passwords
Do you still use one generic password to login across multiple websites? Even though it’s a pretty awful habit, you’re probably not alone. Most of of us now have hundreds of accounts for different sites across the internet. That means unless you use a password manager, its practically impossible to remember a unique password for each site. Here’s another solution for… Read More
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Bounty Is An App That Connects Smartphone Users With Nearby Gigs
An Istanbul-based startup called Twentify took the stage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 to talk about their gig-finding app Bounty, which helps people find nearby small jobs they can do for extra cash. As the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley Wild Card position, the co-founders only had a few hours notice to prepare their presentation before today’s… Read More
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