TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Sila announced Monday it raised $13 million in Series A funding for its banking and payment platform that gives software teams tools to build the next generation of financial products and services. CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. RSVP: [link] 12PM Networked News Gatherers: Defining the Social Media Editor Role, hosted by Time Inc. Usually these discussions focus on Marketing, PR, Customer Service or an Agency. So which is it? The Suxorz occurs in four rounds. RSVP: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. A recent example would be Compuware’s $295 million acquisition of Gomez , a networking monitoring company.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

The company received the support of Ennoconn Corporation, a global leader in integrated cloud management services, industrial internet of things (IoT) and embedded technology, in the funding round. The investment will also help an ongoing drive to transform funP into a cloud services company.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Business networking is a fun time — mingling, eating, chatting about business. Many business owners attend networking events but don’t utilize the time or crowd as well as they can. This networking community provides members with different benefits and advantages, all with one goal in mind: increased business profits and relationships.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

SP+) now offers this service to over 4,000 SP+ locations through its AI-driven platform. The company now has North America’s largest parking network having also purchased Premier Parking’s 500+ locations in 2022. He also co-founded ParkMe in 2009 achieving the world’s most comprehensive parking database.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Register Indonesia-based cybersecurity-as-a-service startup Peris.ai offers its solution as a subscription-based service with different pricing tiers based on the organization’s needs. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Financial details were not disclosed.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

6:30PM New York Video January Meetup A new decade is in front of us and as we tip our hats to 5min for winning our top honor of 2009, we're looking forward to big things from all our members in the year ahead. Craig Swann, presenting ClubCreate * Thomas Tracey, presenting Thumbplay Music service. RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has built out its online sales platform, pre- and post-purchase customer support teams, retail showrooms, service van and a local service partner network. The company has largely been bootstrapped, although it did raise a private round of a few million dollars in 2009 and a $20 million injection of capital in 2020.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. UPI has since become the world’s fifth largest payment network by volume, and a model for the rest of the globe.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. It began with an effort to extract “sponsorship” dollars from local service providers: the lawyers, accountants, recruiters and PR firms that cater to startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? Why Build a Services Business in the First Place?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Lumu , co-founded and headed by Colombian native Ricardo Villadiego, offers a cloud-based service that helps companies continually scan and react to data compromises in real time. He founded his first cybersecurity company, Easy Solutions, in Miami in 2009, focused on preventing fraud.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

By way of example, back in 2009, a neurosurgeon in Canada used a VR-based simulator to carry out a dry-run of a real brain tumor surgery in what was thought to be a world’s first at the time. and Sana Kliniken, a teaching hospital network in Germany. Other clients include Mayo Clinic, NYU Langone, and UCLA in the U.S.;

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The second, and less discussed, requirement is for the two parties that should trade to be aware of one another’s goods or services. These transactions, and the profits realized by the sellers, were truly “unlocked” by eBay’s matching and auction services. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

That’s why third-party companies can join the Iziwork network. You can then leverage Iziwork’s app, service and pool of candidates. Founded in 2009 and based in Madrid, it has generated €500 million in revenue last year. Jobandtalent tops up with $108M for its ‘workforce as a service’ platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today, Africa’s largest digital payments network MFS Africa joins the fray. He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. It also covers a broad range of financial services around bank accounts, prepaid cards and virtual debit cards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Jamf provides IT at large organizations with a set of management services for Apple devices. Zero trust, as the name implies, is an approach to security where you don’t trust anybody regardless of whether they are inside or outside your network. Today’s purchase is the largest in the company’s history.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Robotire is an automation startup that uses robots to replace tires in under 15 minutes during vehicle service appointments, in order to reduce wait times. DeepHow is using this technology to bridge the skilled labor gap in the manufacturing, construction and service industries. PlainSight is a new networking app. PlainSight.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” banking system is the Automated Clearing House network, broadly known as ACH. This supposedly “electronic” network enables people to transfer funds from one bank account to another.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. Tens of thousands of these scooters are still in use today, and every month of continued service reduces their already low per-mile lifetime carbon emissions even further.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“We were spending more time-fighting politics than doing design,” said Alastair Curtis, Nokia’s chief designer from 2006 to 2009. Nokia focused on network equipment through Nokia Networks, after the sale of its mobile phone division in 2014. Had Internal Issues.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive. During his time at CBSi, Lanzone led the creation, launch and growth of streaming services CBS All Access, CBSN and CBS Sports HQ.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. The World According to Waymo. with Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo. Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, was there from the beginning.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a guest post, Martinez explains how to structure offers that will maximize conversions and keep your representatives motivated to promote your products and services. Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. The World According to Waymo. with Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo. Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, was there from the beginning.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In contrast, the number of independent bookstores in the US increased 49% from 1,600 stores in 2009 to 2,500 stores in 2018 6. Faire is able to offer this service due to their visibility into product sales data and ability to predict return rates—something that would have been nearly impossible five years ago, when most brands were offline.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Whether it is product-led growth, community-led, customer-led or what have you,” Bajaj said, “modern go-to-market playbooks have caused a fundamental shift in the software-as-a-service market by creating 10x+ as many buying/retention signals. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. The World According to Waymo. with Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo. Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, was there from the beginning.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

the first networked database in the U.S. He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. We launched the first networked database and QR-coded pet ID tags in the United States in 2010. Our digital ID tags have replaced traditional stamped metal tags used by most animal services organizations.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In “The Social Network,” it’s when this coding, viral platform genius that we’ve been introduced to, gets presented with the Harvard Connect idea by the Winklevii and decides to steal it. Is it a product or a service? Using a SaaS (Software as a Service) example, your market is not THE SaaS Market.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 17, 2023

USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. With the arrival of Bitcoin back in January 2009, we got a protocol that had monetization built in. In the Ethereum protocol, that is staking to secure the network.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2023

This is the dream of any true Bitcoiner — and if we are successful, many will earn Bitcoin by working, and thus remove the need to use banking services. Remember that, fundamentally, the whole goal of the righteous followers of Lord Satoshi is to create a parallel financial system that does not require the services of banks.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. The combination of new technologies, data availability, information transparency, shifts in insurance coverage, regulatory reform, and consumer frustration has set the stage for a new era of healthcare service in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Founded in 2009 in Menlo Park, California, the firm — also known as a16z — has for years been a symbol of Silicon Valley investing. . That just had never happened before because of the network effects component. Its new philosophy in this post-COVID era of remote work is that there is no longer a need for a centralized HQ.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

After assisting in founding four angel groups - the Frontier Angel Fund (2006), Vegas Valley Angels (2003), Tech Coast Angels (San Diego - 2000), and Aztec Venture Network (1999) – it was clear to Bill that angels needed comprehensive education, no matter where they were in their investing journey.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

The financial services industry, including asset management, has disproportionate power to create systemic economic risk, which in turn can create a risk of social instability. This negative externality is unique to financial services and was particularly obvious in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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