TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

One is S3 Ventures , a venture capital firm that’s been around since 2005, which raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.” She recalls over a decade ago talking to tech-enabled consumer lenders about how technology would affect financial services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Back in 2005, that meant working on ringtones for mobile phones, and even trying, and failing, to stream Indian concerts to mobile phones in the U.S. Naik followed her passion for Bollywood music and built her first company, Saavn, a successful distribution and streaming service for Indian and Bollywood music and content.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Five to Nine , which makes event management software, has closed a $4.5 After moving to the U.S.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

YC was founded in 2005 as an antidote to the classic venture capital firm. PG, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert decided to fund hackers and thereby enable the next generation of startup founders who would understand technology and its capabilities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

Risk is what enables you to innovate yourself—to get better and grow. A former professional athlete, Nagtegaal speed-skated with the North Holland Region/Utrecht KNSB from 2005 to 2008. It is what makes you pivot when a solution doesn’t address a need the way you want it to.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Five to Nine , which makes event management software, has closed a $4.25 After moving to the U.S.

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Impact Hub

MAY 20, 2021

Annual food inflation in Nigeria reached 22.95% in March 2021 – the highest reading since October 2005 – according to a recent report by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. The good news is that local entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to address this challenge.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006. What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2023

” How much might US GDP grow assuming large-language models enable US workers to do more? But given the pace of Microsoft, Salesforce, & Adobe launching LLM-enabled products, the speed with which these productivity gains accrue to GDP may be rapid. The BEA estimates US GDP is $26.2t.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Presuming the trend continues, and computational power becomes free, or near free, what new technologies are enabled by it? When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 9, 2016

In 2005, an economist named Benjamin Jones published a paper called The Burden of Knowledge and the ‘Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder? Remarkably, the Eastgate maintains an ambient temperature between 73-78°F despite variances in external temperatures from 58° to 88°.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Larger seed rounds enable a seed stage company to achieve more - more growth, more revenue, more hiring. In addition, these larger seed rounds enable successful startups to raises larger series As, and the data supports it. What does this imply for early stage founders? First, it implies greater competition at the Series A.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Using Crunchbase data from 2005 to 2012, I’ve plotted the follow-on rates by size of seed investment quintiles across 2906 companies in that period. Second, the additional capital enables seed stage startups to be more aggressive ramping the business either through marketing efforts, recruiting efforts or other tactics.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Each chart shows the number of rounds raised bucketed by size from $0 to $5M and up to $150M to $200M from 2005 to 2013. The chart above breaks down fund-raising activity in US tech companies using Crunchbase data. Each bucket has grown over the past 8 years and most of them steadily. But there are a few outliers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 25, 2013

In 2005, I started as a customer support rep in the AdSense team at Google. My training focused on using a customer service tool called Trakken that Google had acquired and heavily modified to enable AdWords and AdSense teams to manage the torrent of inbound support emails from customers. Emails didn’t get lost.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders. DropBox is one of those Ycombinator Cambridge winners that most investors missed, including me. None of the local VC firms invested.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 4, 2011

I feel like some kind of a social media-enabled product wiki should be able to help with this, but until then, I’ll do this here. About a year and a half ago, I bought a used Trek 1000 for like $250. I would say that it was about two or three years old at the time. I used it in my triathlon and 4-5 days a week as my commuter bike.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2005, Daniil and David co-founded Sibilant Interactive, which developed massively multiplayer RPG games. “By replacing manual instrumentation and embedding right into the build processes, Product Science enables anyone to identify causes of app performance issues.” ” The Liberman siblings have long been close.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. To do this, it played to its structural strengths: The UK was an early adopter of fintech infrastructure. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. But honestly Twitter never evolved and built tools to enable that to progress. Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter. It was my public square.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Publicly-traded SaaS companies founded from 2008 through 2014 needed 50% less time to reach $50M than their counterparts founded between 1998 and 2005. SaaS startups are growing faster than ever before. These faster revenue growth rates are the most important contributor to the increasing valuations in the fundraising market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Launched by startup SmartLabs in 2005, Insteon at one point had an agreement with Microsoft to sell its kits at Microsoft Store locations and was one of the two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit platform, with the HomeKit-enabled Insteon Hub Pro.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. . Hurt cofounded Austin, Texas-based Data.World in 2015 alongside Bryon Jacob, Jon Loyens and Matt Laessig. Image Credits: Data.World.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Today, U.K. consumers use contactless payments for nearly 90% of in-person transactions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 14, 2014

This is the question Best Buy store managers posed each time a potential customer walked into one of its stores when the company decided to segment its customer base in 2005. They identify the company’s core customer, define personas, and enable the business focus on these customers’ needs first. Jills are soccer moms.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. annual GMV.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. This has spawned growth in related VC-backed businesses like Burstly, TapJoy and Flurry who help enable real-time transactions in mobile apps. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005. “Our ability to serve mission-critical needs in complex environments for large customers enables us to grow our base of large customers and expand within each of them.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2011

I had a flip screen Toshiba at USV back in 2005, where I found myself to be as equally poor at note taking as I am now. It has some downloadable plugins that really improve the functionality around browsing, including Readability, which enabled me to grab text. This isn't my first time with a tablet.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded.

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