TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

“We saw this as an opportunity to leverage our pharmacies as virtual doctor offices so that patients could get examined remotely during a virtual consultation. Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, are set to benefit from the virtual consultations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The startup’s Mutti pharmacies are essentially mini-hospitals offering a wide-range of services including medical consultation, diagnostic and telehealth services. We are also investing in other skilled talent like doctors and nurses, professionals that are critical in the work we do,” Rockson told TechCrunch. “??Bloom

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

” Contentstack, which was founded in 2018, was created on the back of fifteen-year-old consulting firm Raw Engineering and Built.io, an app development platform that Raw Engineering launched in 2013. An interesting data point: VCs have invested over $118 million in CMS startups in the last year alone.)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Grant Easterbrook Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. 2013 Screenshot of a Financial Advisor Profile at Tippybob. There are potentially massive negative consequences if a consumer chooses the wrong financial advisor and they receive bad investment advice.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The fresh funding was led by JMI Equity , marking JMI’s first investment in Australia, with participation from previous backers including Tiger Global and EVP, as well as several strategic investors and family office groups. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged members of her community.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

SignalFire, based in San Francisco, led the Series A2 investment with additional participation from Ten Eleven Ventures. We’re 100 percent focused on creating surprisingly simple customer sign-in journeys and this new investment will accelerate our strategy and the opportunity ahead of us.” That’s why we built Strivacity. With over $1.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The roots of the idea go back to work that Haldane was doing as a grad student in 2013. The $12 million investment closed last year. As the idea of code-based circuit design grew, he connected with his co-founders and started the company in 2017. Image Credits: Jitx. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

He began creating cyclone reports on his own as a consultant after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, also known as Super Typhoon Yolanda, which killed at least 6,300 people in the Philippines. Its new investment will be used to build a scalable platform. The reports were meant to help businesses respond more quickly to natural disasters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

We understand from sources that the investment — led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Eurazeo — values Malt at €400 million ($489 million). Altogether the company has handled some €300 million in business since being founded in 2013. Now that people are working on projects, employers are more open to consultants.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The products are currently under development, however, the plan is to also lend to bigger businesses in the agri-value chain, as the company expands its reach from micro-sellers, who have been their target market since launch in 2013. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. We’re making $50k investments in idea/R&D-stage teams that want to work outside of school in the fall.”. The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The best use of our resources isn’t to fight someone (in our head or on the market) but rather to invest in growth, creation, and development. Companies from the same market can share technologies, like Ford and GM did in 2013 with the transmission , consult each other, or lend a hand when there’s a supply shortage.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It’s a big combined investment for a company that has been bootstrapping since birth — and the deal could help us see where online education is heading. With the new money, Sketchy plans to build an in-house animation studio and hire more artists and doctors, some of whom are currently consultants. The story.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Ruggeds make the leap toward success in a way that separates them from the millions who fall short because they have invested the time and effort to develop and hone a specific set of powerful skills. A Rugged Entrepreneur must believe in their plan and in themselves enough to invest their resources of time, money, and passion.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Even sophisticated investors like Warren Buffett ask questions about the value of active investing. . Alternative investment funds earn on average two-thirds of their compensation from management fees, not carry or performance fees. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years. Green Bar: Bloomberg.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking. And they were all run by talented people we respected.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The funding is being led by a strategic investor, Accenture Ventures — the investment arm of the systems integrator and consultancy behemoth — with Alexander Capital Ventures, Saatchi Invest, Ronald Lauder and other unnamed investors also participating.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 24, 2016

We sold this company in 2012 with a eight-times return over our initial investment. I had already started a consulting company, Kisgen Group, Inc. Doug is also an EMP graduate, Class of 2013. In seven years, our debt was gone, and we had built a two-year Inc. 5000-listed company.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

On season 11 of “Shark Tank,” she won a $750,000 investment from Lori Greiner and Mark Cuban. Founded in 2013 in Detroit , LaunchGood is a crowdfunding platform that’s built to empower Muslims and raise money for their campaigns around the world. Amany Killawi, Co-Founder and COO. LaunchGood (Detroit).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. He did not provide further details, saying only the company would provide the affected “with generous packages, engage in consultation where required, and support them with their transitions.” billion to $3 billion investment in Stripe , at a $55 billion to $60 billion valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. By now everybody has a big stake in your success and would like to feel consulted on the major decisions you’re making with their money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Grant Easterbrook Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. Algorithm-based buy/sell/hold advice for investment portfolios Fintech must remember that the average consumer doesn’t like thinking about money and often wants someone else to take care of it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Erik Bakstad, the co-founder and CEO, said in an interview that the plan is to use the funding for more business development to expand that list of users, but also to invest in its product. This is a significant round for Ardoq, which had up to now raised less than $40 million since being founded in 2013. IT wasn’t succeeding.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

So, we go on about May of 2013, we’re up to $5,000 every month, people are buying stuff from us. So, now we had more money to invest back into the business. In July we do our back to school sale, big launch, we make $15,000 in July of 2013. August of 2013 we make $36,000. You invest time and effort and money.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I talked about creating a sale-ready business on a handful of podcasts , shared my story and booked one-off consulting calls with founders ready for a new challenge. I co-wrote a series of children’s storybooks in 2013 and a book on raising entrepreneurial kids in 2018 to give entrepreneurial role models to people without any.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Anu started her career as a software engineer for Qualcomm, before joining BCG’s Private Equity Practice in New York City, and finally becoming an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she worked with portfolio companies like Airbnb, Instacard, Udacity, and Medium. This was 2013, 2014. Probably not.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, but now in consultation with my Haystack colleagues Ian and Aashay — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. This was not the case just a decade ago.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 7, 2016

But it’s not a compelling if it’s a single data point, because the market reached this level in Q2 2013 and Q1 2012. Quick glossary on what those terms mean (Consult your attorney before signing terms sheets!): Series B down rounds haven’t increased as a total share. Accruing means this amount compounds annually.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects. Last year, only $115 million was invested in digital media startups in the U.S. Tomiwa Aladekomo , the company’s CEO, took over from Taylor in 2018.

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