TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. The concept of Geopagos was actually born in 2012 on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, when one of its founders went into the Apple Store and found out that he could pay for the purchase with his card through a small device.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. Bechtel individually and Brick & Mortar combined have invested in 40 construction-related tech startups over the past 10 years, beginning with Bechtel’s 2012 investment into PlanGrid’s seed round of funding.

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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

JULY 20, 2022

Since 2012, he’s served as CEO, moving the company’s headquarters from Marseille to New York in 2017. Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6 .” Cherki started to develop the technology that would become Contentsquare as a college student.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

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. . Furthermore, the disruptions the world faces, whether social, economic, health or education- related, affect us all. Spending on medical care reached an astounding $3.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Kelly Chen, DCVC: Robotics startups have an additional layer to their banking relationship, typically tying equipment financing and other debt structures to banking. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. The top 200 startups will be invited to exhibit at Disrupt in September.

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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. We will see a lot of new opportunities from decentralized finance and a shift to a truly global economy where borders and barriers will be surpassed with smart technology. and the cryptocurrency exchange MiraiEx.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. June 5th, 2012. It had eight gigabytes of storage. It connected via firewire, not USB. And it made Apple tons of money. Invested Interests. Power Pitches.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. Development Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch. million since its 2019 inception.

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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., The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 Tridge said Thursday it has secured $37.2

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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). The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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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. FIGURE 17: NUMBER OF COMPANIES ANNOUNCING NEW FINANCING ROUNDS Source: Crunchbase In 2022 the demand for capital outstripped the supply and this gap worsened as the year progressed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Finally, after many “could have beens,” they end up at her apartment, but the whole romance fell through because she’s constantly disrupted by phone calls from her mentally ill brother, Michael. I have been a member since 2012 and applying to join was one of the best business decisions that I have made.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

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. Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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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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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. And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies such as E*TRADE, Rocket Mortgage, and TurboTax began to disrupt the established financial services sector well before 2012, but that year marked the turning point when fintech morphed into a sustained movement that would drastically change how most people manage their money.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Goodwater, Greycroft and other unnamed investors also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to nearly $180 million. Other backers in that early financing included Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), NEA and Greylock. The funding actually closed earlier this year, but is only being announced today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Supply chain disruptions caused — or exacerbated — by the pandemic continue to affect businesses in a range of industries. Keelvar is headed by Alan Holland, who left his position as a lecturer in AI at the University of College Cork to found the startup in 2012. For example, 36% of small businesses responding to a U.S.

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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. When he moved to the U.S. and bought his first car, he was shocked by how much it cost and how difficult it was to maintain a car.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. 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.” Different Economics.

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