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Betting Beyond the Bowl: Investing in Sweetgreen Was Always About More Than Salad

Revolution

In 2013, Sweetgreen had 22 locations in D.C., When Revolution Growth first invested in Sweetgreen in 2013, the whisperings of food and wellness were present but sparse, and the bulk of lunchtime options focused more on convenience than ingredients. an industry I deemed “ ripe for disruption ”?—?in So, what’s next for Sweetgreen?

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Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins and her team started working on Canva in 2012, and launched the product in 2013. We really want to focus on that collaboration piece.” Canva CEO Melanie Perkins will tell us about the journey to a $15B valuation at Disrupt. Canva allows anyone to design.

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Industrial drone maker Percepto raises $45M and integrates with Boston Dynamics’ Spot

TechCrunch

The funding is being led by a strategic backer, Koch Disruptive Technologies , the investment arm of industrial giant Koch Industries (which has interests in energy, minerals, chemicals and related areas), with participation also from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US. .”

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Box offers a 90-day free subscription with unlimited storage, 50,000 API calls, and more for their secure file sharing and collaboration platform. The firm has made 221 investments since 2013.

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Asset Management Is a Peculiar Industry Ripe for Disruption

David Teten VC

Continue reading… This is part of a series on disruption of investment management that I co-wrote with Katina Stefanova, CIO and CEO of Marto Capital , a multi-strategy asset manager, which creates customizable investment solutions for institutional clients. Contributors. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

TechCrunch

Emulate was founded in 2013 and has, so far, raised about $255 million in funding. A lot of that growth will depend on the potential for an organ-on-a-chip to disrupt the preclinical side of the drug testing process. FDA collaboration aside there’s also been regulatory movement that could favor companies pursuing organ chips.