TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jscrambler said it will use the cash injection to “strengthen and accelerate” its product roadmap to meet its customers’ expanding requirements as threat actors increasingly turn to the web. The investment, which comes two years after the startup secured $2.3 health privacy rules HIPAA.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. Doshi was CEO from inception until 2018 when he moved to become chairman of the board. billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). She fills it in and shows it to her board of advisors. Her board help her reorganize her strategy and ToDo lists to focus obsessively on these milestones. Hopefully, so can you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s been a while since we checked in on BigPanda — nearly eight years to be exact, and much has changed since the company came out of stealth in 2014. The pipeline and market were accelerating beyond what we initially thought,” he added. More people trust automated workflow now, including for IT operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Kaiyo founder and CEO Alpay Koralturk said in an interview with TechCrunch that he was familiar with the hassle of buying and selling furniture after moving five times in five years in NYC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Other examples are the design of advanced therapeutics with silicon and routing components on a printed circuit board. Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

As a part of the investment, Piva partner and co-founder Adzmel Adznan will join Joywell’s board. The new investment brings Joywell’s total funding to $38 million since the California-based company’s inception in 2014 by Alan Perlstein and Jason Ryder.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. Wong previously worked at GGV and Qiming Ventures and has served on the boards of startups like Tudou and Mobike. Fund V has already made five investments, including SkorLife , IDEAL and Atma.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Cavins was a board member. In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. The money will be used in large part to accelerate the growth of Outdoorsy’s insurtech business, Roamly. Young was there on a marketing contract.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. He saw a need for financial application development, but was hindered by a banking system “still stuck in the 20th century.” “Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Series E was led by Insight Partners , the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth. Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asian and Western European markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh. As founders find themselves fielding ample investor interest, accelerators are changing how they invest, what they offer to their cohorts, and how they maximize value and attract top talent, reports Natasha Mascarenhas. Image Credits: z_wei / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Deuterium and Helium-3 are heated, then accelerated through magnets, compressed and captured as inductive current. million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years. It means we can accelerate the timelines. Image Credits: Helion Energy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Innovium founder and CEO Rajiv Khemani, who will remain as an advisor post-close, told a familiar tale from a startup CEO being acquired, seeing the sale as a way to accelerate more quickly as part of a larger organization than it could on its own. 2021 will be a calmer year for semiconductors and chips (except for Intel). .

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

billion in transactions since its 2014 inception. Overall, we saw a 91% subscriber growth in 2020 across the board in all categories of subscriptions,” O’Connor told TechCrunch. “We Customers include Harry’s, Oatly, Fiji Water, Billie and Native. ReCharge also has 328 employees, up from 140 in January of 2020. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day. It’s funny how things have changed since then.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

When the time came, he recognized that Canada was a missing geography for Eventbrite, and positioned the company to capture that market and accelerate an acquisition. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. One of the best ways to punch above your weight when it does come time to exit?

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then. Transactions have doubled over the past year, which means that usage is accelerating.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Demetri Themelis and Tom Petry co-founded Knock in 2014 after renting “in super competitive markets” such as New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. . After meeting with property management companies, it was eye-opening to learn about the total gap across their tech stacks,” Themelis recalled.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. Not only has the pandemic accelerated remote-first culture, it is now seen as a competitive edge to acquire top-notch global talent.”.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and We launched our jobs board a year ago with more than 1,500 jobs featured in cities outside of Silicon Valley. and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In 2014, Tala first launched its mobile application to offer credit and collateral-free loans to consumers in Kenya but has since expanded to the Philippines, Mexico and, more recently , India. “And And then the other side is really thinking about how do we accelerate this experience and leverage crypto with these platforms.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

But now, artists can accelerate the dissemination of their new releases by making them available for remixing and letting social media generate exposure, removing the need to rely on major record labels. ” Getting artists back on board with NFTs The first challenge for the startup was bringing musicians onboard to the Remix NFT model.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Series B funding proceeds will enable Scene to further accelerate its ability to serve Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations. This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Moerner developed techniques allowing us to “peer into the nanorealm” inside living cells — a feat that earned the team a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2014. Hell and William E. Betzig, specifically, was the first to develop super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, which allowed the movement of single molecules to be seen in detail. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

After closing this Series E round, Andela has raised a total of $381 million since being founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014, according to Crunchbase data. As part of the investment, Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Andela’s board.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 12, 2015

2014 20% 70% 10%. In 2014, his team spent 70% of their time on retention with the remaining 30% split between adoption and expansion. In 2015, the company prioritize on-boarding to mitigate short-term customer churn by investing more time at the beginning of a relationship. Year Adoption Retention Expansion. 2015 35% 55% 10%.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

Her company Evrnu took part in Impact Hub Seattle ’s Fledge accelerator back in 2014, and in 2016 partnered with Levi Strauss & Co to create the company’s first eco-friendly jeans, made from recycled cotton T-shirts, showing that even the big players in the fashion world are open to innovation if the right thing comes along.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. This will add fuel to the fire and accelerate the transformation. Do they respond?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. It was good to get a little bit of an accelerant to knowing each other because everything was happening so quickly.

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