American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets. GingerBread Capital : founded by Linnea Conrad Roberts with an investment focus of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses.

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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. Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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. A couple of reasons are behind this sudden surge in unicorn numbers on the continent. Per the report, only 3% of the $1.7

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2020

265, for instance, was introduced in 2013, but years afterwards its predecessor, H.264, Content-aware encoding and decoding is probably the most versatile and easy to grasp advantage WaveOne claims to offer, but Bourdev also noted that the method is much more resistant to disruption from bandwidth issues.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . The firm has made 221 investments since 2013. Next Canada’s programs offer a world-class education, exclusive events, an expansive network, and more.

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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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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. There was a sense back in 2012 and 2013 that Bitcoin would also replace, like, Visa and MasterCard, sort of like the payment slayer. But that's really where it started back in 2012.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. We have been out since 2013 and knew the day would eventually come where the demand would meet what we knew for a while was a need.” Surbhi Martin, the VP of Marketing at Danone North America had this to say: “Consumers vote with their dollar. It shouldn’t be. Can you accept bitcoin?

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. ” Standing at ground zero in a healthcare industry primed for disruption After a decade of entrepreneurship, Deng candidly admits that although they are already helping diabetes patients globally, they have yet to achieve their initial goal.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. 2013 and Before Optasite Optasite is engaged in the acquisition and development of telecommunications tower sites in the United States.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Hear from: Claire Tomkins , PhD, founder and CEO of Future Family, startup veteran who was formerly an Investment Bank advisor and director of Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room accelerator, who will speak on the category potential and her startup’s disruptive solution. Angeline N. Exit proceeds in 2020 totaled $1.9 1,000 High-Tech Jobs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. The top 200 startups will be invited to exhibit at Disrupt in September. The winner snags the $100,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. We just weren’t a financial success. Do me proud.

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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

Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Founded in 2013, Koddi was built to innovate in the adtech space. Companies use BrandXR to help sell products, educate learners (like Wayne State med students during the pandemic) or entertain. Groundspeed.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. I felt deep down that there had to be a better way to do it. Learn More.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5 Fourth, to be a true tentpole, a company needs to reinvest in its home.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. I know it should go without saying that in 2013 you should be thinking about building a global business. Build a Global Business.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011. The Internet has been a powerful and disruptive technology.

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Onevest

APRIL 27, 2015

The South African native along with his brother Shaun, launched Bohemian Guitars on Kickstarter in June of 2013. Feeling the need to change up the musical instrument scene while also making an environmental impact, the brothers are definitely disrupting the industry with Bohemian Guitars.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

This is the “truly disruptive technology” that startups often claim. Late last year, Gartner released their Gartner’s Hype Cycle Special Report for 2013 , detailing some of the biggest trends in technology up to that time. Peak of inflated expectations. Investors love this stage.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

This is the “truly disruptive technology” that startups often claim. Late last year, Gartner released their Gartner’s Hype Cycle Special Report for 2013 , detailing some of the biggest trends in technology up to that time. Peak of inflated expectations. Investors love this stage.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. So, our message is, disrupt or be disrupted. Honestly, I prefer the latter. If this does not excite you even the slightest bit, I don’t know what will.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins and her team started working on Canva in 2012, and launched the product in 2013. Canva CEO Melanie Perkins will tell us about the journey to a $15B valuation at Disrupt. The premise behind it was relatively simple, but the technology itself… not so much. Canva allows anyone to design.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

JumpCloud , the cloud directory service that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2013, announced a $75 million Series E today. The round was led by BlackRock with participation from existing investor General Atlantic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More posts by this contributor Preparing for fintech’s second decade: 4 moves your firm must make now Over the last decade, fintech has evolved from a label for plucky startups into a sustained movement that has disrupted the traditionally stodgy financial services industry. Below is a picture of what this looked like.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . Last year was a challenging one for the company, as the pandemic disrupted some of its activities; excluding 2020, Tugende has doubled in team size year-on-year. Image Credits: Tugende.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) led Fundbox’s Series D financing, which brings the company’s total equity raised to $410 million since its 2013 inception. Since the company launched its first product in 2013, it has “connected with” over 325,000 small businesses and transacted over $2.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Abraaj bought Vine Pharmacy in 2013 when it was the largest pharmacy chain in Uganda. mPharma was originally founded in 2013, by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , to manage prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers. It’s a really exciting time for us and fortunately, Uganda is an exciting market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. It added: “At SoftBank we look to invest in entrepreneurs who are challenging the status quo through tech-focused or tech-enabled business models that are disrupting an industry – Mercado Bitcoin is doing just that. ”.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

BillionBricks was founded in 2013 as a non-profit by architect Prasoon Kumar and venture capitalist Anurag Srivastava to address the global climate and housing crises. Its current phase of evolution is focused on disrupting the present and future of housing and renewable energy by pioneering large-scale, net-zero homes and communities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

2013 Screenshot of a Financial Advisor Profile at Tippybob. Thus, the financial advisor business model has proven resilient to disruption by online product search and comparison services that have upended so many other industries. Image: Grant Easterbrook The second approach was to offer an online financial advisor matchmaking service.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 3, 2022

He’s the founder of both SwipeFiles and SwipeWell, he’s currently the Marketing Lead at SavvyCal, a disruptive calendar SaaS company. Learn how to earn from doing what you love How to build a million dollar crypto portfolio Tim Denning ’s crypto journey began in 2013 and it’s made him lots of money.

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