TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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OurCrowd

JULY 2, 2020

The economic disruption caused by COVID-19 is the worst recession the world has seen in nearly a century. At the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference , Alec Ellison, Chairman of OurCrowd US, sat down with three world-class investors to discuss their perspective on the coronavirus recession, caused by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). More posts by this contributor.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. Innovation wasn’t a priority for those who were fat and happy at the top of the pile.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011. The Internet has been a powerful and disruptive technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He left for business school at Harvard University intending to make a career switch to investment banking. Moeller had spent half of that summer filming the reality TV show and the other half interning at an investment banking firm. The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and became a finalist in the competition.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In India , SMEs are identified on the basis of the investment. In the case of small enterprises: The manufacturing sector’s investment in plant & machinery should be more than 25 lakh rupees and less than 5 crore rupees. In Singapore , the Ministry of Trade and Industry re-defined the definition of SMEs in 2011. Come on!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education. in Johannesburg.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In 2011, I called Adam Neumann of WeWork and invited him to come to Austin for the very first GCUC conference. The real estate industry was ripe for a disruption that put the people’s needs before the landlords. Coworking is that disruption. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR INVESTMENT? Only time will tell. Coworking will thrive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. It drives perverse incentives.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. Invested Interests. Invested Interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, it’s announcing some funding to capitalize on that, a reminder of how disruption is always around the corner. Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6 “People have tried to apply fixes to that state rather than being innovative and finding a new approach.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The data revolution in partnerships Sarah Wang: That’s incredibly exciting and definitely part of our investment thesis in investing in Crossbeam. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up. Sarah Wang: Absolutely.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. Venture capital is just equity--and it's equity that isn't widely available to everyone and it gets invested in by a wide variety of investor types with different strategies.

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