Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Expect a disruption of normal terms (expect to get paid slower, but you may have to pay faster). During economic disruption, customers will take longer to pay and vendors will need to be paid faster.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event. Meanwhile, DocSend participated in 2014 at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. PandaDoc is another competitor in this space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

On Wednesday, October 19, I’m moderating “How to take the BS out of your TAM,” a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt. The subscription pie is getting bigger: How to leverage usage-based billing. How to take the BS out of your TAM.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ricardo Weder , former president of Cabify (a large ridesharing company operating in Latin America, Spain and Portugal) founded Jüsto in 2019 with a mission to “disrupt the Latin American grocery industry.” Jüsto marks General Atlantic’s fifth investment in Mexico since 2014.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. When Tailor Brands, which launched at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2014 , raised its last round, a $15.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. It most recently raised $125 million in January and has raised more than $400 million to date.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014. ”

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StartupNation

MAY 2, 2021

The company has come a long way since its 2014 Kickstarter campaign. Set out to disrupt the $64 billion U.S. This brings Floyd’s total funding to $25 million. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Related: Top Ann Arbor Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO). Advancing its computing infrastructure, expanding into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Secondly, it’s further proof that mortgage – a traditionally “unsexy” industry that has long been in need of disruption – is officially hot. The investment brings Better.com’s total funding raised to over $900 million since its 2014 inception. For all its controversy, when SoftBank invests, people pay attention.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

” Kumesh Aroomoogan, a former research analyst for Wall Street firms including Citigroup, cofounded Accern with Anshul Vikram Pandey in 2014. The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Singapore-based CSP, that was founded in 2014, is a private equity firm that invests in technology and business services across Southeast Asia and India. Basil, that was founded in 2008, is a private equity firm that invests in niche technologies disrupting the IT services space.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

As Oddle continues to disrupt and revolutionise the food technology industry in the Asia Pacific, funds from this bridge round will power product development and regional market expansion in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, according to the announcement. ” says Jonathan Lim, Oddle’s founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But after Hopper’s public debut in 2014, the company’s leadership decided to pivot to mobile and devote engineering resources to flight prediction, building a tool that continuously monitors airline prices and sends price change alerts via push notification. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The 2014-founded startup operates a marketplace model where lenders compete to offer the most suitable credit line to consumers to grease purchases — partnering with businesses such as banks, retailers and payment partners so they can offer “buy now, pay later” to their users at the point of sale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. In these instances, starting from the ground up is what is really required to deliver an optimal consumer experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Workrise was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. Dave Bujnowski, investment manager at Baillie Gifford, points out that Workrise’s online management platform is “disrupting a sector that’s so far been slow to adopt new technologies.”. billion. “Our wind industry. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

He joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014. According to Crunchbase, he co-founded Warehouse Investimentos in 2010, where he led deal-sourcing efforts. He is also active with Endeavor and multiple angel groups. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. Free may not have paid the bills, but it did come with a valuable upside: growth. Today, Duolingo has a simple freemium business model that is remarkably unconventional.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“The founding team at Grip Security brings deep technical acumen to disrupt the SaaS security market,” said Ofer Schreiber, partner at YL Ventures. ” Most of the popular CASBs today were founded around 2013 and 2014 and then later acquired by other major players like Microsoft, Cisco and Proofpoint.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“We are on a mission to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing… This is a $62 trillion global sector in the early stages of being disrupted, and we are uniquely positioned to take advantage of that. Founded out of London in 2014, Smart emerged in the wake of the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

CEO Greg Chen founded the company in 2014 came from his 15-year span in the mobile industry, noticing how enterprises in South Africa struggled to target and engage their customers via SMS efficiently. “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Disruption in the industry. When SpaceX filed its suit back in 2014, NBC News noted , “Musk emphasized that the suit wasn’t asking the federal government to award the launches to SpaceX rather than ULA. It is difficult for tech companies to work with USAID because commercial business models do not fit how USAID operates.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Khosla led Fundbox’s Series A in 2014 and founding partner and managing director David Weiden said his firm was initially — and remains — impressed with Fundbox’s founders’ ability to recognize there were “dramatic increases in the availability of relevant data in the small business market.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim founded the startup in Tunis in 2014 with “two laptops, $2,000, and a lot of enthusiasm,” CEO Beguir told TechCrunch last year. Ultimately, this helps companies optimize the decision-making process and improve efficiency.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). ScaleFactor (2014-2020). The shutdown comes after the platform had pivoted just months earlier, laying off in-house lawyers and turning into a clearer SaaS play.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Register There are generally two camps when it comes to Web3 – one believes that Web3 services must be blockchain-native and fully decentralized in order to be innovative enough to disrupt the previous generation of services, while the other argues that Web3 and Web2 are not opposing forces and must complement each other. Paul sees “Web2.5”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 20, 2020

A major funder of research programs at the Oklahoma Health Center, PHF has awarded more than $25 million to support biomedical research in Oklahoma since 2014. “The proposals presented this round were enthusiastically received by our Scientific Advisory Committee, in particular the collaborative and team science projects.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Introduced by machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow in 2014, GANs consist of a “generator” that produces images and a “discriminator” that detects whether the image is fake or real. “Fundamentally, I think [synthetic media] provides a disruptive infrastructure. Uncharted territory.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

The ones above are the ones I’ve prioritized this year (other than Disrupt – I never seem to get invited to that one). Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. And there’s conferences. Web Summit.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Founded in 2014, Zebra now has eight medical imaging algorithms cleared in the United States and will now go by the name “Nanox.AI.”. The post [Zebra in Radiology Business] Imaging disrupter Nanox closes $200M-plus in deals to purchase AI firm, teleradiology outfit appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Once heralded as disruptive marketplaces, classifieds are giving way to transactional marketplaces. Since its inception in 2014, Jiji is for the first time exploring a business outside its usual classifieds model, which has brought it profitability according to the company. Jiji raises $21M for its Africa online classifieds business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

“For that reason, cards remain one of the largest untapped opportunities … The Concerto platform disrupts all of this to give businesses the tools and the credit they need, along with the power to easily create and deploy highly customized, remarkably innovative loyalty programs people will love.” Nearly 53% of all U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Valuations there fell from their highs in 2014. The first post sketched the idea and the second filled in the details of one theory on how startups will disrupt their incumbents, and particularly the dominant systems of record. Time for some quantitative analysis of the content that readers liked the best this year.

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