TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million. The end goal is to “enable financial freedom for everyone.” Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

Above, the line chart shows the astounding growth in the number of Adobe Creative Suite subscribers from the launch of CreativeSuite 6 in mid-2012 through March 2014 growing at 31% per quarter to 3.97M in their last quarter. And in 2012, the company decided to disrupt its own businesses. in revenue in 2011 at 97% gross margin.

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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). Onboard Dynamics developed that missing piece with its first product to market – the GoFlo CNG80.

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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. When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. Ambitious and promising startups abound, but none managed to scale as fast or as large as those in neighboring countries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

“Equisoft’s offerings enable companies to undergo much-needed digital transformation,” Romero said, citing a McKinsey study that predicts automation will influence 25% of the insurance sector by 2025. billion from 2012 to 2021. According to a recent report from BCG, insurtech companies raised $14.4

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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. I remember in 2012, Brian Armstrong, the founder of Coinbase, which we're now backers of, sent me a Bitcoin. But that's really where it started back in 2012. Digital cash.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

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. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt. Second, network effects that enable the business to grow faster as it scales. Idea 2: Disruption is the wrong mind-set. Over the past day or so, I’ve read it in its entirety.

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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.” When you materially improve an offering, and create new features, functions, experiences, price points, and even enable new use cases, you can materially expand the market in the process.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. The solution enables podcasters to edit their recordings with the click of a button, as a sort of digital audio technician in your pocket. We are really excited about the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

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