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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?” ” This year, however, is like any other year in which I’ve tracked these and tried to single out one.

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‘Insane’ — UK tech reacts to government moves that might hand UK startups contract to Barclays Bank

TechCrunch

Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. and abroad.

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This serial founder is taking on Carta with cap table management software she says is better for founders

TechCrunch

Yin Wu has co-founded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years as a software engineer. YW: We’re a team of seven and have four people on the team who are former Y Combinator founders.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” Moreover, seed funding was scarcer in 2009, so startups that obtained seed funding at that time had passed a tougher screen to do so.

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What the midterm madness means for startups

TechCrunch

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. lost its perfect AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor in August 2011, prompting the stock market to plunge more than 5%.

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Nelo joins the BNPL rush, with $20M in new funding and the Mexican market in its sights

TechCrunch

“Our goal is to enable digital commerce throughout LatAm, and BNPL in Mexico is our first step towards that vision,” said CEO and co-founder Kyle Miller. They are amassing valuable repayment history on their platform that incumbents like Affirm and Afterpay and even local credit bureaus do not have on consumers in the region,” she said.

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Gusto: The People Platform for SMBs

Y Combinator

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. When Gusto founders Josh, Tomer, and Eddie came together in 2011, they saw an unmet need in small business payroll. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.