TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Founded in 2009, Strava has emerged as one of the preeminent activity tracking services, proving particularly popular in the cycling and running fraternities which use the Strava app to plot routes, converse with fellow athletes, and record all their action for posterity via GPS. . Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2009 by top scientists in the fields of aging, genetics and biology from Harvard, MIT and Tufts, InsideTracker is a truly personalized nutrition and performance system, aiming to help people optimize their bodies from the inside out. Read my latest LinkedIn column on the limits of ESG. Laly David: Excited about FoodTech.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Do they respond?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.

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HPA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

” Wilkins went on to thank HPA Members and YCharts board members, Bob Giammanco and Jeff Kleban for all their guidance and support to the company over the years. Founded in 2009, YCharts has become a powerful, customizable tool that helps analyze securities, build portfolios and communicate investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Series A is the first outside capital Zonos has raised since it was founded in 2009, Clint Reid, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. Businesses can choose which one or multiple shipping carriers they want to work with and even enable customers to choose at the time of purchase. Our mission is to create trust in global trade.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. In 2009, Foursquare was better known for its location-based social network. That SDK enables many different possibilities. He’s also been running the Foursquare Labs R&D group since then. Foursquare merges with Factual.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

banks consumer checking offerings have become less favorable across the board. This supposedly “electronic” network enables people to transfer funds from one bank account to another. In July of 2009, the UK instituted a new network known as Faster Payment Service with same day settlement to replace their equivalent of ACH.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

The best chat apps all have end-to-end encryption enabled by default, or at a stretch, they allow you to quickly turn it on. Launched in 2009 as a way to send messages over a data connection rather than SMS, WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook (now Meta) in 2014. month Telegram Logging in from multiple devices Free; premium from $4.99/month

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. If you’ve always wanted to travel find a way to make this happen through your work or find work that will enable this. It was not a touristy experience.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Amichai Steimberg as Chairman of the Board. Amichai retired in March 2020 as the Chief Executive Officer of Orbotech, a leading global supplier of yield-enhancing and process-enabling solutions for the manufacture of electronics products. From February 2019 until his retirement, Amichai led Orbotech through its acquisition by KLA.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs. Brex’s digital approach enabled them to instantly onboard customers with 10-20x higher credit limits than incumbents were able to offer. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g.,

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. The service relies solely on payment enabled through a smartphone application. And as you would expect, his answer is critically dependent on these two assumptions.

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