TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Quick Sprout

JANUARY 23, 2023

SRFax Health and Stability SRFax was launched in 2004 in British Columbia, Canada. After its creation in 2004, SRFax gained considerable attention from businesses of all sizes from different industries and in multiple locations in Canada and the US. Its selling point was its commitment to providing cyber security.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 9, 2021

He founded Digital Surgeons in 2004 with only $5000 and it’s now an 8-figure organization with over 50 employees. Image courtesy of Pete Sena Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Pete Sena, a brand experience expert.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. Freestyle led the seed rounds in Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, Narvar and Snapdocs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Khosla and his firm, founded in 2004, is raising about $3 billion across three new funds , according to regulatory filings. (If only the founder is talking to the startup’s venture backers, that means everyone else is out of the loop, essentially.) The outfit plans to raise $1.5

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In our 2004 fund it was five companies, but that is why that fund was so good. We know that venture investments result in a power-law distribution of outcomes. And so one or two companies will determine the returns in a given fund. Sometimes that is not the case.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Individual investors also contributed to the funding, including Five9 executive vice president Anand Chandrasekaran; Airtel chief executive of enterprise business Ganesh Lakshminarayanan; Vinod Muthukrishnan, the chief growth officer of Cisco’s Contact Center Business Unit; Venkat Tadanki, who sold his former startup Daksh to IBM in 2004; and Capillary (..)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. The company’s Alibaba spin-out came seven years later in 2011, with its former parent company buying 33% of its value in 2018 ahead of its planned IPO.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. VCs need to invest to make their returns—and eventually, they’ll want to raise the next fund to layer more fees upon more fees.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. An article in NPR describes a recent study that linked high-deductible health plans to delayed diagnosis and treatment. months longer for diagnostic breast imaging, 2.7 months for first biopsy, 6.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He joined EO in 2004. In addition to introducing sustainability to the industry, his efforts in refurbishing ATMs to extend their service life helps lower the costs of banking for corporations as well as citizens. This #EOImpact story is a true win-win-win! James Kilkelly is a member of the EO Atlanta chapter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. To find out if leadership experience significantly impacts startups’ success, we analyzed nearly 800 executives at more than 200 companies that reached a sizable exit (greater than or equal to a $500 million valuation) via an IPO on a U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

In June 2004, eight months later, Salesforce went public. The EV/revenue multiple of IGV — a measurement that shows how much every $1 of revenue translated into valuation — dropped by 57%. The IPO market stayed shut for about 15 months. The first company to go public was Callidus in October, 2003, though it wasn’t the most successful exit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A recent report from OpenView makes this point well, noting that since Salesforce’s 2004 IPO, it has grown its valuation 210x. Shopify is an obvious example of how money can be made holding through a public offering, to pick one. Shopify, the venture group noted, is up 143x from its IPO price. ServiceNow is up 60x.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Probably not, since that''s not exactly what happened the first time around.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The real focus should be on smart planning, finding ways to launch and build the business with smart but frugal use of money. More of my stories. Let me tell you two stories that are linked.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Among other things, I asked it to create a list of top 10 essential heavy metal songs, great music to work to, and most nostalgic songs from 2004. That made me curious, and I spent most of the morning using ChatGPT-4 to make playlists.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. Case in point, Procore just went public and is trading at an $11 billion valuation. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million?

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Continuations

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is the second complete overhaul of the site since USV launched with a blog in 2004 (modulo some smaller experiments with tagging in between). Today we have launched a new website for USV. The new site is up to modern standards in terms of speed and rendering on mobile.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Homeownership is one of the key components to building intergenerational wealth, and Landis is working to make that a reality for renters. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista. The rate reached its peak of 69.2% The rate reached 63.7%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Founded in 2004, London-based HICX serves a SaaS-based low-code platform that gives companies a single channel for onboarding new suppliers, replete with tools for capturing all the information that the various departments and systems within a company need. private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. Knox co-founder and CEO David Friedman is no stranger to startups. He sold that company (now under the name Propertybase) to Providence Equity for an undisclosed amount in 2016.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 30, 2020

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

Megan is a pioneer in the IT security industry and founded CoinX, a fintech company that specializes in domestic and international payment processing and transfer services (money transmission), in 2004. As the CEO and founder, Megan is known for her ability to push the envelope in security and risk management technology.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 7, 2017

I have been an EO member since 2004. Supporting the dreams of the doers also drives Netsurit’s approach to understanding client business goals. Once the deeper dreams and goals of our customers are clear, we can work together to meet those objectives.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. Say what you will about either company, they got up to huge userbases and had audaciously big aspirations.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2023

plot revenue by year on a line chart with the caption tomtunguz.com and the the line color red with a size of 2 ggplot(revenue_long, aes(x = year, y = revenue/1e3, group = 1)) + geom_line(color = "red", size = 2) + labs(title = "Nvidia Revenue Grew 2.5x row$value),] row = row[!

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And while the company itself is only a couple of years old now, Directus CEO and cofounder Ben Haynes actually started toying with the ideas that led to launching Directus as early as 2004 after leaving the Air Force and starting a web consultancy business. Image Credits: Directus.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Tory Burch company launched in 2004 with a concept and turned that into a collection. Proposed use of education grant: value of education, quality of courses selected, and understanding opportunities to grow. About Tory Burch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. . Glucose monitoring aside, another big picture element to consider when it comes to GraphWear is the material the sensor is made of: graphene. . Still, the U.K.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2004, I left the firm to join Intuit as their in-house GM. I grew up in Southern California and graduated from Pepperdine University with a JD. Shortly after graduating from law school, I began working as a lawyer at a local law firm.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

His eBay business took off and he voluntarily left his job in 2004 and never looked back. John got into e-commerce a little differently — he was going bankrupt about 20 yrs ago and started selling stuff on eBay to make some money. He started teaching e-commerce and helping others with it in 2009 and has been a staple in the industry.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

We were founded in 2004 by David Rose, Founder & Executive Chairman, Gust. We are one of the world’s largest and most active single-chapter angel groups. We have over 140 members who have invested over $145m personally, in 317 companies, with 58 exits. Q: Can you please share your major tech needs (e.g.,

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. One day in September 2004, I realized that I had learned enough and had confidence enough to make my vision a reality. Obviously, I couldn’t do that by myself, slicing up tons of fruit and filling up my fridge with pitchers of water.

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