American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. I published in 2013 a much earlier version of this in Forbes , and in December 2020 published the final version in Techcrunch. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” I serve as a formal advisor to a small number of companies that have potential to disrupt their industries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. billion and $2.8 Per the report, only 3% of the $1.7

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Joshua Politis, Deputy Managing Partner of Transport Capital and Chief Investment Officer of TC Ventures, commented: “We believe that transportation by sea and air is at a multi-generational inflection point, with the need to decarbonise and digitalise dramatically accelerating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Founded in 2013 by two brothers — Fabian and Felix Wunderlich (now respectively CFO and head of sales) — Lingoda had only raised around $15 million before now, a mark of the company being pretty capital efficient. The valuation is not being disclosed. New Jersey specifically) in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2013, Nico Jaspers, who previously founded market research firm Dalia Research, began noticing a shift in consumer behavior: More people were easily reachable via their smartphones. We want to accelerate our go-to-market.”

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. I found that I didn’t need an escape from work — work is an escape I love — but I needed a break from meetings, interactions, and events that would disrupt my flow state. In those five years, too, my career slowly changed.

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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. During Q4 negative trends accelerated, and by the end of Q4, venture dollars had fallen 59% compared to Q4 of 2021. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.”

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

A key pandemic-driven trend is the acceleration of the fertility tech sector, including egg freezing and IVF, with a market predicted to be worth $37+ billion in less than 10 years. million, the second-highest year ever, after 2013, when Waze was sold to Google for some $1 billion. Angeline N. Exit proceeds in 2020 totaled $1.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.”

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Ripple Science is building software solutions that help accelerate clinical trials and research. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Funds from this $5M SAFE at a 20% discount with a $20M cap will be used to set up operational centers in Mexico and Spain, accelerate production capabilities, and scale up sales and marketing. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Learn Mo re. Learn More. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A disruptive technology like quantum computing will have massive industrial implications. launched its National Quantum Technologies Program in 2013, well before the U.S. A final risk is economic. In fact, the U.K. As of 2021, Germany and France are just behind the U.S. billion, respectively.

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