TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. We need to make sure all of our people are in place in all functions from customer support to product engineering,” Khusid said. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’re thrilled to partner with SGE to support our rapid growth and continue to define the role of PRM in the SaaS ecosystem,” said Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, in a statement. Elser and Scott Feldman of SGE will be joining the board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. “At

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Founded in 2011, Pusher aimed to lower the barriers for developers who want to build real-time features into their websites and apps. The idea is to easily enable enterprises and medium and smaller-sized companies to communicate with customers on any channel of their choosing.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We build organizing software for unions and labor orgs — a customizable and private platform for Organizers to support workers all the way from interest / onboarding through to submitting union authorization cards. LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space. Next question.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!” ” When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be!

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To that end, backing Regal , now a leader in AI Powered Calls for your businesses’ sales, support and operations, was quick to mutual agreement. When I came across Marc Andreessens article, “ Why Software is Eating the World in 2011, it felt like a vindication of the direction I had chosen, but I was already down that path.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

The round follows $25 million in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking last September, and brings Vena’s total raised since its 2011 inception to over $363 million. The company plans to use its new funds to build out and enable its go-to-market efforts as well as invest in its product development roadmap.

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Revolution

APRIL 4, 2019

By Ted Leonsis, Founder and Partner, Revolution Growth I joined the Revolution team as a cofounder of the Revolution Growth fund in 2011 and our goal was, and still is, to make investments in great businesses that give customers more choice, convenience and control in their lives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem. long-term support at the earliest stages).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And as pressure mounts to find new crop land to support the growth, the world’s eyes are increasingly turning to the African continent as the next potential global bread basket. Ibrahim, who graduated from New York University in 2011, had long been drawn to the African continent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

It brings the total funding raised by the startup to $7 million, having previously received support from a number of investors, including the Founders Factory Africa, Mercy Corps and the Mastercard Foundation. We are extending them the financing to enable them to scale up their businesses,” she said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. market share and supporting product development, according to King. It brings the company’s total raised to $18.5 ” .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Our mission is to scale and support businesses, nonprofits, individuals, and programs making positive change in the world.”.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. On the other side of the marketplace, Faire enables brands to find new customers, manage their existing customer base, and reduce their risk of non-payment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

. “The ability to be at the right place at the right time, supporting consumers and merchants alike, where they want it, how they want it and when they want it — cannot be understated,” says Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation. ” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

We had to build our own vehicles, our own retail chain and now we support 400,000 customers and 2,000 stations. That proof case enabled us to work with these larger partners, so when they asked us to pull up data, we could show them the unit economics, durability, stations and how it works.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Even if investors have dry powder, they may need to focus on the portfolio as some companies may need more support for fund raises than they have required in the past.”. Since its founding in 2011, the Israeli firm has invested in dozens of companies and had 12 exits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Vitruvian is a new backer for MPB; the rest were already invested in the startup, which has raised around $91 million since 2011. The Series D is being led by Vitruvian Partners, with significant participation from Acton Capital; Mobeus Equity Partners, Beringea and FJ Labs also participating.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt , which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group. from last year’s $1.3

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2015

The typical SaaS company going public in the last three years has a 77% smaller average revenue per customer than companies in 2010 – 2011. In contrast, 2011 companies logged a median customer value of $96,000.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Zendesk is a 700 person company that builds customer support software. The company has achieved a 114% CAGR from 2011 through 2013, an impressive growth rate. But here’s the kicker: the investments in both R&D and S&M which are substantial enable spectacular sales efficiency. Zendesk went public earlier this year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In 2011, the year of the IPO, services still accounted for 33% of revenues. The chart above shows these trends and compares it to the Subscription gross margin which has increased by 50%, reaching 75% in 2011, in the same time period. In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Congratulations! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them!

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

When Gusto founders Josh, Tomer, and Eddie came together in 2011, they saw an unmet need in small business payroll. After onboarding, Gusto enables time tracking, employee surveys, and distribution of the employee’s documents. Gusto also enables customers to access government programs and benefits as they arise in real time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

As the CEO and founder of a fundraising and event management firm, EO New York member Darren Port leveraged his own desire to give back by developing a successful business and enabling others to make an impact. Being a board member is a great leadership opportunity that enables you to put your expertise to good use.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In the middle of 2011, I started following the Four Hour Body diet and exercise routine. If you want to be a sloppy entrepreneur that makes a ton of mistakes, doesn't know how to delegate responsibility, and can't build a team around them that enables everyone to share enough work to live with some semblance of balance, go ahead.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Fred Wilson wrote a post in 2011 : “I’m not a fan of venture debt for early stage companies. The predictability of a well-understood SaaS business enables the founding team to project how much, if any debt, the startup can support. Not all investors advocate for venture debt. A good startup attorney can help.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Prior to Replicant, Abraham — who joined eBay in 2011 via the company’s acquisition of Milo.com — did stints as a software engineer at Atomic and smart device company Leeo. He also helped to launch Magneto, a calendaring system, and was COO at Talkdesk for nearly four years. “Automation is now part of the.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Zenly was founded out of Paris in 2011, going on to raise $35 million in funding before Snap (then called Snapchat) swooped in with its mega-million-dollar bid. In a nutshell, Zenly develops an app that enables users to see where friends are on a map and navigate their way to each other. There’s a map for that.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Then there’s obviously a lot of companies like the ZoomInfos of the world that popped up with data to support that sales motion. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up. There was a time when everything was field sales.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Equity crowdfunding platforms democratize investment by enabling smaller investors to pool resources but might not have the expertise or resources to conduct in-depth due diligence. Our SPV limited partners have a direct stake in the companies they support, fostering alignment and robust backing.

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