AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

This partnership combines Wavemaker Impact’s strong venture-building expertise and extensive founder networks with EDB’s access to sustainability-focused corporates and insights on climate needs. The venture builder is enabling business models in land use and deforestation, agriculture, mobility, industry, buildings, and energy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

CYE was founded in 2012 by Reuven Aronashvili to help companies shore up their security posture. It does this in large part by conducting offensive operations against their customers — with their explicit consent — to find weaknesses in their network defenses before malicious hackers do.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Founded out of London in 2012, FundamentalVR is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that combines VR with haptics to enable medical processionals to access training such as orthopedic joint / spine procedures; anterior total hip replacement (A-THR); posterior total hip replacement (P-THR); total knee replacement (TKA); facetectomies; and more.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The members surveyed said that being part of such a network had helped them to: Feel part of a larger community: 84%. Strengthen their motivation: 77%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Since launching in 2012, Savannah Fund — led by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel — has backed more than 30 startups. “Early-stage funding is vital to enable more of Africa’s emerging and growing tech founders to grow their business and fuel the transformation of Africa’s internet economy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Lallenia: My husband, Brad, and I started Big Birge Plumbing in 2012. In EO Accelerator, we learned basic principles about the critical aspects of running a business and put strategies into place that enabled us to grow at a rapid but sustainable pace?which Networking groups have a totally different vibe. Lallenia: Not at all.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it). Amazon has in many ways set the bar for how shipping and delivery work, and in terms of what customers expect.

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Feedough

APRIL 9, 2021

Honey had been operating under the radar since 2012, but this acquisition quickly turned the tables and exposed it to a glaring spotlight of both heightened interest and ethical scrutiny. The company was founded by entrepreneurs Ryan Hudson and George Ruan in November 2012. Affiliate Networks. But what makes Honey so unique?

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Berhens Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Shippo , which offers an API to connect eCommerce businesses and marketplaces to a network of different shipping providers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Near, originally founded in Singapore in 2012 and now based out of Pasadena, had raised around $134 million in funding, including a $100 million round in 2019 — which had been the company’s last big raise.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.

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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. The funding news comes just two months after Honor revealed it had acquired global home care provider Home Instead in a move that greatly expands its senior care network.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Document collaborating will be possible from anywhere in the future, not only (as now) via a local network: A major release slated for next month will add p2p collaboration that works via the Internet — but still without the privacy risk of having a remote server in the loop. There’s more coming down Collabio’s pipe too.

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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

JUNE 11, 2021

Toptal was co-founded by CEO Taso Du Val in 2010, and since then it has grown to become one of the world’s most popular on-demand talent networks. We thought, ‘What if we accelerated [the African remote network] and just enabled applicants from anywhere?’ In 2012, Toptal raised a $1.4 How did it pull this off?

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

If you are a problem insider, interview people from your personal network and ask these open questions among others: How much time and/or money are they are losing due to existing inefficiencies? These early adopters play a critical role, helping you sharpen your value proposition and spread the word. How to find them?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The platform, which has customers like Airtel, Ezee Money, Housing Finance Company of Kenya (HF Group), enables borderless banking and payments across apps and social media platforms. Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. “Imagine if we knew what drove consumer habits for businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Wakefield had just exited two startups he’d helped to co-launch, including Mailgun (which was acquired by Rackspace in 2012), while Kontsevoy — a fellow Mailgun co-founder — was coming off a tenure as director of product at Rackspace.

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StartupNation

MAY 17, 2021

Social networks existed a decade before Facebook, and companies had offered online storage before Dropbox. Instacart, the grocery delivery app, succeeded in 2012 by doing something similar to what Webvan — a startup with a similar idea that failed during the dotcom bust — tried to do in the year 2000.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Some vertical SaaS businesses employ network effects to engender winner-take-most dynamics. For example, CoStar, which sells data on commercial real estate transactions, employs data network effects. In 2012, CoStar acquired its key competitor Loopnet to consolidate these data network effects further.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. They are tech-enabled companies that provide high-yield investments for fund limited partners (LPs) that perform like bonds but generate returns on par with equity investments. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. When we started off, we were just enabling existing guys who were doing this, because we saw this behavior. Adora is a partner at YC.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 29, 2013

There’s a force in mobile app distribution that isn’t talked about much despite its magnitude: mobile social networks. Kakao Talk will pay out about $600M to developers this year - which is about 10% of iTunes global developer payout in 2012. In short, these networks are huge user funnels and money-making machines.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

As my colleague Christine Hall recently reported, BigPanda works to prevent corporate network outages by analyzing data from observability and monitoring services. BigPanda also provides analytics to track incident trends and metrics and to enable teams to measure progress toward company goals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

“By doing so, we are creating a network effect that each of our customers gets the benefits of a larger data set, which results in a more accurate model,” he added. Beyond the AI-driven features, Coho AI delivers a single source of truth that sales, product and customer success teams can pull data from on both users and accounts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

However, there are some that argue BNPL is just another form of debt, which could lead to a discussion on whether companies that enable it are doing it responsibly. Ukraine-born Levchin started Affirm in January 2012. The second pillar for us is building modern technology that enables us to do this.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Two-factor authentication vs. multi-factor authentication Benefits of two-factor authentication Types of two-factor authentication How to enable 2FA on popular apps What happens if you lose access to your 2FA device? How to enable 2FA on popular apps Setting up two-factor authentication varies depending on the system you're using.

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abovethecrowd.com

MARCH 10, 2014

But consider that as a result of my role I have access to more information that might enable a deeper perspective. Back in early 2012, Uber’s Boston team noticed a problem. I am an Uber investor and board member, and therefore expect that many will dismiss these thoughts as naked bias. Clarifying Certain Specifics Regarding Uber.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

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. The service relies solely on payment enabled through a smartphone application. There are multiple reasons why this is a flawed assumption.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. The 2012 New York startup community was very small, and it was very tight. And then, I think a lot about the product itself enabling distribution.

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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. Second, network effects that enable the business to grow faster as it scales. A student of the class, Blake Masters, copied all the class notes and I read every post, like thousands of other visitors to the site. Fourth, a brand.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface. Tipser’s technology enables consumers to purchase products natively from sites like online publications, mobile marketplaces, price comparison sites, social media platforms or search engines.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The function of the partner team becomes in a lot of ways somewhat akin to almost what RevOps has been in the predictable revenue era, which is this incredibly necessary enabling layer that holds these strategic keys to how you unlock the data, how you enable people on that data, and how you build the playbooks on top of that.

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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. Great global market access: EU networks, foreign investments, etc.

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