Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” I serve as a formal advisor to a small number of companies that have potential to disrupt their industries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

This is the “truly disruptive technology” that startups often claim. Late last year, Gartner released their Gartner’s Hype Cycle Special Report for 2013 , detailing some of the biggest trends in technology up to that time. Peak of inflated expectations. Investors love this stage.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

This is the “truly disruptive technology” that startups often claim. Late last year, Gartner released their Gartner’s Hype Cycle Special Report for 2013 , detailing some of the biggest trends in technology up to that time. Peak of inflated expectations. Investors love this stage.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

A key pandemic-driven trend is the acceleration of the fertility tech sector, including egg freezing and IVF, with a market predicted to be worth $37+ billion in less than 10 years. million, the second-highest year ever, after 2013, when Waze was sold to Google for some $1 billion. Angeline N. Exit proceeds in 2020 totaled $1.9

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. I found that I didn’t need an escape from work — work is an escape I love — but I needed a break from meetings, interactions, and events that would disrupt my flow state. In those five years, too, my career slowly changed.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Funds from this $5M SAFE at a 20% discount with a $20M cap will be used to set up operational centers in Mexico and Spain, accelerate production capabilities, and scale up sales and marketing. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Learn Mo re. Learn More. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.”

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. During Q4 negative trends accelerated, and by the end of Q4, venture dollars had fallen 59% compared to Q4 of 2021. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

JumpCloud , the cloud directory service that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2013, announced a $75 million Series E today. JumpCloud co-founder and CEO Rajat Bhargava says that the pandemic has only accelerated the need for his company’s kind of service as more companies move to the cloud.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles. Like Krisp.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Founded in 2013 by two brothers — Fabian and Felix Wunderlich (now respectively CFO and head of sales) — Lingoda had only raised around $15 million before now, a mark of the company being pretty capital efficient. The valuation is not being disclosed. New Jersey specifically) in an interview.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. billion and $2.8 Per the report, only 3% of the $1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Sydney-based Canva was started in 2013 and has raised over $570 million in venture capital funding over the years, most recently a $200 million venture round last September that valued the company at $40 billion. Cliff Obrecht, co-founder and COO of Canva, told TechCrunch that all of Flourish’s 44 employees would be joining the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A disruptive technology like quantum computing will have massive industrial implications. launched its National Quantum Technologies Program in 2013, well before the U.S. A final risk is economic. In fact, the U.K. As of 2021, Germany and France are just behind the U.S. billion, respectively.

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