TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

billion, figures provided to us by CEO and co-founder Markus Villig. Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios. billion, based on a 1.5x

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Alpha is a zero-sum game ”, according to Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. Funke Opeke is one of the very few founders to have come this far: running an African tech company to the point of exit.

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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. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

” The funding is being led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Conny Boersch, founder of Mountain Partners. . “That is our vision.” The valuation is not being disclosed. “We only run classes that are profitable,” said Shangkuan (who is from the U.S.,

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. What's the insight there?

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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. Mondays were for my Venture Partner role on Sand Hill Road; from Tuesday – Thursday, I was out meeting new founders, helping existing companies, meeting friends in the ecosystem. Fridays, I tried to keep free from meetings.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Just ask Westward Whiskey founder Richard Black: “When the pandemic hit, our business halted. We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. I spoke with my friend Eran Lobel, Founder of Element Productions: “When the Pandemic hit, we were not caught on our heels. Trillion in dry powder ( Harvard Law Forum ). pandemics).

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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

For Health2Sync Founder Ed Deng, keeping diabetes patients with other chronic diseases alive is not enough. In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. ” Ed sees the healthtech market as primed for disruption.

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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. Founders: Sameer Kapur (CPO), Vishnu Chakroborty (CTO), Gautam Ajjarapu (CEO).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. At very least, this is going to be a new hurdle. Will we see more closures?

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. We use this sensory fingerprint in combination with complex AI and cupping data to discern ‘taste,’” Felipe Ayerbe, CEO and co-founder of Demetria, tells Daily Coffee News. Learn More. Elon Musk’s genius is battery powered.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded by two of the top female founders in the Midwest , Workit Health is a health startup that’s providing digital tools for people recovering from addiction. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience. Workit Health. In 2020, they raised $5.5 Groundspeed.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Featuring: Maya Ashkenazi Otmazgin, CEO & Co-Founder, Maolac ; Daniel Einhorn, CEO and Co-Founder, Mermade Seafoods ; Matthew Lumsden, CEO, Connected Energy ; Host: Amy Stoken , VP Investor Relations, OurCrowd. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Register Now.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. Put another way: If founders don’t have to be in Silicon Valley, New York City, or Boston — if they can choose to start and scale in a much broader range of places — where does it make the most sense to put down roots?

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Onevest

APRIL 27, 2015

Just ask Adam Lee, co-founder of Bohemian Guitars. The South African native along with his brother Shaun, launched Bohemian Guitars on Kickstarter in June of 2013. Adam sat down with us recently and gave us his personal insight and takeaways as a founder to his experience with Onevest and raising money in general.

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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

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

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. (It

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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. JumpCloud co-founder and CEO Rajat Bhargava says that the pandemic has only accelerated the need for his company’s kind of service as more companies move to the cloud.

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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

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 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. We are buying out the stake that Abraaj held,” mPharma co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson told TechCrunch. It may be like five years behind Kenya, but we think it is ripe for innovation and disruption,” he added.

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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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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. 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?”

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2013, Dr. Hagen joined with two more brilliant minds, Rita Hansen and Dr. Jeff Witwer, and together, they founded Onboard Dynamics. Since the company’s founding in 2013, it has leveraged over $6M of nondilutive funding from ARPA-E and other gap funding programs to develop and launch a unique product into the marketplace.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

How is your offering disrupting the industry? Uizard’s Co-founder and CEO, Tony Beltramelli, worked as a part-time front-end developer for a digital agency when he realised that the design workflow is completely broken. He then got together with his co-founders Henrik Haugbølle, Ioannis Sintos, Florian van Schreven.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “Composable architectures ensure that enterprises can innovate swiftly, deploy new features rapidly, and remain agile in the face of digital disruption. Nobody gets ‘stuck’ with monolithic systems that don’t grow with the business or the world.” Image Credits: Contentstack.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

As a Co-founder & CEO of Phenikaa MaaS (formerly BusMap), Le Yen Thanh is one of the prominent and inspirational names in the Vietnamese startup community. In 2013, Thanh founded the BusMap Project, a free public transportation app for urban bus passengers.

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OkDork

JULY 23, 2022

You might think of Tom as just the founder of Quest Nutrition —but he’s a lot more than that. Tom and his co-founders didn’t let that hold them back. 2013: Quest has 200 employees and $82.6 After all that growth, Tom and his co-founders sold Quest to Simply Good Foods Co. The man knows how to sell. million in revenue.

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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. dollars sought by startups, a rapid reversal of the 2021 ratio of capital supply to capital demand, a funding gap not seen since the “Series A Crunch” of 2013.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. Like Google, Amazon, ebay, and Facebook, the leading Internet companies in China are interested in disrupting payments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

We’re excited to announce that we’ll all learn the answer to that question when Vlad Tenev, the company’s co-founder and CEO, joins us on the Fintech Stage for a session called “What’s Robinhood’s Next Chapter?” on September 19 during TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. The company has been busy expanding its product portfolio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

We’re excited to announce that CEO Everette Taylor will join us on the Hardware Stage , September 21, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. He is deeply experienced in building and growing successful businesses as a founder, CEO and chief marketing officer. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place in San Francisco on September 19–21.

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