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Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities

Revolution

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of work where we have been acutely interested in two data points: the acceleration of funding to early-stage startups outside of the Bay Area and the acceleration of remote work opportunities in tech. And we have since we started our efforts in 2014.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. Tang would walk away with a few important lessons. per package wholesale as of this year.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

TechCrunch

It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Places like India, Africa and Latin America could accelerate at the same time because they are mainly starting from zero. Karkal told TechCrunch that the idea for Sila was born out of frustration while starting another bank.

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Ushur, which aims to automate aspects of the customer experience, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Ushur, which Sadasiva co-founded in 2014 with ex-Lucent Technologies staffer Henry Peter, targets enterprises in heavily regulated industries such as insurance, healthcare, financial services and banking with tools designed to simplify the adoption of tech like conversational AI and intelligent document processing. After all, Jiffy.ai

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CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into e-commerce infrastructure startups

TechCrunch

The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. That’s why he believes now is the time to accelerate CommerceIQ. Incumbents are over 20 years old and built on aging infrastructure created before the smartphone and social media,” he added.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

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. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit. We are willing to bet on it.

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