TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia. The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

With the new funding, Apeel has now raised over $635 million since the company was founded in 2012. Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah and Katy Perry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. When a small cancer research startup attracts investors like Facebook’s Sean Parker and Peter Thiel’s Thiel Capital, people start to take notice. Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin. Katrina Lake / Stitch Fix. Leah Sibener / 3T Biosciences.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

That’s why the unicorns and megadeals should come as no surprise: They’re the natural evolution of the ecosystem, of more capital generating more success after years of hard work. Most Latin American companies reaching unicorn status and going public now were started around 2012. Only disrupt when it adds value.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. And I’m excited to enter this new phase of scaling operations with my fellow board members Mark Lotke at Harmony and Kimmy Scotti and 8VC as we work with this very talented executive team to continue to disrupt this $34 billion market.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., Tridge plans to use the newly secured capital to launch new services, invest in its technology, and further expand its overseas business, focusing on the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. “Some clients sell the fully owned motorcycle and use that lump sum of capital to make other investments while coming back to Tugende for a new lease, which is affordable from their daily cash flow.”

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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. The company, based out of Madrid, has picked up $8 million in a round led by Decibel out of the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. She joined Pinterest in 2012 as one of the company’s first 35 employees after co-leading the Series A investment while at Bessemer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

He actually started out as a site reliability engineer at Dropbox back in 2012, climbing the ranks to engineering director, and then senior director of Engineering – head of Infrastructure before becoming to vice president. In total, Vise has raised $63 million since launching on the TC Disrupt stage in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

To help them along, one construction tech-focused venture capital firm is eager to fund a new generation of startups in the space. Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. million in committed capital with backing from 12 construction-related companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

With early venture capital in its pocket, Duolingo could afford to focus on product over profits. Duolingo Skill Tree UX in 2012. Duolingo, for example, has taken this model and found ways to embed engagement hooks, pockets of joy and addictive education features within its core app. Image Credits: Duolingo. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. He returned to Argentina and explained the idea to a few of his colleagues, who also were fascinated and became his co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. For this reason one of the most important companies for me at TC Disrupt was Datasift. Seems kinda obvious or am I missing somethign? provides you.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. ” In the end, venture capital is driven by capitalism. I had either the fortune or misfortune of raising a lot of venture capital for myself. I think we can do way better.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Spire Global debuted in 2012, and has raised more than $220 million to date. Existing investors in Spire Global include RRE Ventures, Promus Ventures, Seraphim Capital, Mitsui Global Investment and more, with its most recent round being a raise of debt financing. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2012, Dr. Chris Hagen was working in the engineering group at Oregon State University and received a seedling award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE). convertible note of private capital and had started on a Series A raise prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

a startup focused on in-home care for older adults, after selling chat service Meebo to Google for about $100 million in 2012. “We chose to take on more debt as growth capital rather than equity,” Sternberg said. “We chose to take on more debt as growth capital rather than equity,” Sternberg said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You have an initial product, and maybe even raised capital. Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. The startup was founded in 2012 in London. So you need to be well-capitalized for regulators.”. That’s why raising capital can be helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. I sat on panels.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

New investors Whale Rock Capital Management, TI Platform Management and Alpha Square Group came on board for this round and were joined by existing investors Amity Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Top Tier Capital Partners, Viking Global Investors and Willoughby Capital. Prior to that, Talkdesk brought in $100 million in 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

founded in May 2012 with Shen Hui as its legal representative and registered capital of 6 billion yuan (approximately $0.8 to launch electric motorcycles GGV Capital Follows Sequoia’s Lead, Splits in Response to U.S. to launch electric motorcycles GGV Capital Follows Sequoia’s Lead, Splits in Response to U.S.-China

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

In 2012, he co-founded a company called YourMechanic (and won TechCrunch’s Disrupt that year) that provides on-demand automotive mobile maintenance and repair services. And now today, Jerry is announcing that it has raised more than $57 million in funding, including a new $28 million Series B round led by Goodwater Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

If you’re still on the fence about whether you want to come along to Disrupt, we’ve got you covered: There’s a Disrupt pass for every role and budget. Swimming upstream : Sturgeon Capital launches $35 million fund aimed at emerging startups in Central Asia, Mike reports. Thursday is here — how in the world did that happen?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” android ecommerce Internet iphone IPO marketplaces Mobile Payment Regulation Twitter Uber Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Analysis Errors Sharing Economy TAM UberX'

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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. The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. IfOnly (2012-2020). Total Raised: $51.4 Photo: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The California-based company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, is designed for Latinos and offers in-culture financial content, products and experiences to help them gain control of their economic power and build wealth. Beatriz Acevedo, co-founder and CEO of Suma Wealth (Image credit: Suma Wealth).

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? . trillion in 2018 alone — with spending rising every year since 1970 — but obesity is worse than ever, and four million more people got cancer in 2018 than in 2012. . Going all in .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

If SVB rises from the ashes (seems like there is a glimmer of hope thanks to folks like Ro Khanna) — and we act to mitigate the weaponization of concentrated digital media — money may not become impossibly expensive for capital intensive technologies like robotics. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017.

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