TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. Laiye’s Series C financing came in three tranches, with the last one to have recently closed at $70 million, an oversubscribed round led by influential Chinese private equity firm Hopu Magnolia. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang. Image Credits: Laiye.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Whurley has successfully co-founded and sold two Austin-based companies: Chaotic Moon Studios to Accenture in 2015 and Honest Dollar to Goldman Sachs in 2016. Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. Image source: Errich Petersen.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Angel investors like Warren Hogarth, co-founder of Empower Finance; Jon Williams, co-founder of Culture Amp and Pyn; Jason Smale, senior vice president of engineering at Zendesk; and Robbie Allan, former group product manager at Intercom also participated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Beauty and wellness is seen as a women’s segment, but what is happening with the cultural transformation being applied to every industry, this segment is ripe for that.”. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

As Afterpay’s only institutional venture investor, I wanted to share some perspective on how we got here and what this merger means for the future of consumer finance and the payments industry. The last major transition was the shift to NFC-based mobile payments, which I wrote about in 2015. Critical innovations in fintech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , co-founder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

With a 98% client-retention rate since our founding and the successful resolution of more than 20,000 IT support requests in 2015 alone, we’ve discovered the core to building a winning customer-service promise is to start with your team, particularly through employee recognition and staff-training programs. Results through Rapport.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. This did not happen by magic. trillion in deposits. expectations.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Yogishi Chandra, CEO of Teknobuilt, said, “Even in an environment with a different language or business culture, we could participate in the K-Startup Grand Challenge, hold business meetings with domestic companies, and promote business smoothly through Korean interns.” ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The massive “oversubscribed” financing comes nearly seven months after the fintech startup raised $63 million in a round led by NBA star Russell Westbrook, who also joined the startup as an advisor focused on the direction of Varo Bank’s programs aimed at underserved communities, including communities of color. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2016

In the workplace, insensitive interactions can and do occur, even in organizations that value a positive culture. Talya Meyerowitz (pictured) has spoken at multiple EO events, including the 2015 Global Leadership Conference. What are the most common causes for miscommunication between co-workers? “If

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015. Until then, the overwhelming majority of Haystack investments were in the Bay Area. You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016. Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Since launching the venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, from a duo taking on auto insurance to a team rethinking how we virtually learn. As a result of its latest financing event , Flutterwave is now the highest valued startup in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Here’s what a spokesperson told me: “Utility Bidder [is] a price comparison site for energy and utility rates, so they have a focus on business finances as well as energy as a whole.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

He joined EO in 2015. Jeff Carruthers founded Resonate in 2001, and has steered the business with a focus on what makes organizations relevant to contemporary customers as well as a keen eye for technical innovation. The post Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We chose the word “upfront” to represent our culture. A great leader knows when there are team rivalries that need to be settled and when some team members need to be let go because they are breeding a bad culture internally. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo !

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt. Telda has done a remarkable job of embedding their culture and values in the product, in both functionality and design. ”.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. This did not happen by magic. trillion in deposits.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.”

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing. This narrative was laced through the event, especially with the founder of Thumbtack, Marco Zappacosta, recounting his company’s financing story. Um… wow. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Wrecked by war and disrupted by dictators, the ancient Silk and Spice Route between East and West that served for centuries as the world’s thoroughfare had been blocked for decades by a Sand Shutter, barred by politics and a culture of distrust. and Asia spanning from the sands of Tel Aviv to the shores of the Gulf. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Cowboy Ventures led a $2 million seed round in 2015 while the founders were just starting their entrepreneurial journey. “[We Managing Editor Eric Eldon interviewed Libin and Wendy Nice Barnes, chief people officer at Gitlab, to learn more about how to foster company culture, manage individuals and hire efficiently in a distributed workplace.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology. 4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

BHAGs serve as a rallying cry for the company culture, an ambitious target for the future, and a focusing tool for corporate decision-making. As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. UberPool is the natural evolution of this journey, and obvious BHAG candidate for 2015 and beyond. Jeff Bezos.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

Instead, three nuclear superpowers (USA, Russia, and China) are sparring against each other on the physical battlefield through proxies (Ukraine), in cyberspace , in finance via sanctions , in semiconductors via virtual embargos, in space via satellites , and in mental health (largely via social media). Norway, the US, and the UK).

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, in first quarter 2015, 55% of all American venture rounds were either seed or Series A, split almost evenly, while 19% of all rounds were Series B (the third round of financing), according to data from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2015, Dorsey returned to the role after Dick Costolo’s stint, even though he was simultaneously serving as CEO of fintech platform Square. Personally, I’m hoping it starts a trend where mature tech companies do a better job of recognizing and rewarding employees who innately understand their culture, products and services.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. Let’s just say something, a stylized Medicare plan.

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