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

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

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” Going after very large markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Federal Reserve leading a global trend of interest rate hikes; an evolving European energy crisis; the first land war in Europe in 70 years; various supply chain disruptions; an ongoing global pandemic; growing global trade tensions, and, to top-off the sundae, a slowly collapsing Chinese credit bubble.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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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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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

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

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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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. Our contributions are enabling researchers to achieve important progress for public health.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

Timely has racked up 500,000 users since 2014, including more than 5,000 paying businesses in 160 countries. It is, in a sense, a timely disruption. Aimed not just at people who are quantified self geeks, but those who need to track time for practical reasons, such as consultants or others who work on the concept of billable hours.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6 Onboard Dynamics has developed a way to compress natural gas by enabling any low-pressure natural gas line or renewable natural gas source to become a refueling location. Onboard Dynamics developed that missing piece with its first product to market – the GoFlo CNG80.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

Above, the line chart shows the astounding growth in the number of Adobe Creative Suite subscribers from the launch of CreativeSuite 6 in mid-2012 through March 2014 growing at 31% per quarter to 3.97M in their last quarter. And in 2012, the company decided to disrupt its own businesses. in revenue in 2011 at 97% gross margin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

A strong balance sheet and business model enables us to select a period that works best for realizing our long-term goals.” Sijbrandij told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm at a TechCrunch Disrupt panel in September that he believes that transparency helps attract and keep employees. . ’

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Of those who had a QUT supported place: Alex Ghiculescu (2014) founded Tanda, a workforce success company that continues to go from strength to strength with over 120 staff across the globe. From Beer and Pitch nights to Startup Hatch to Disrupting Law, student-led events have shown that students are really hungry for this stuff.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. More money raised for less dilution.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Headquartered in California with offices in Ann Arbor, KLA is a global tech company that makes process-control and process-enabling solutions that help manufacture tech devices like our computers, smartphones, smart watches, autonomous vehicles, LCD screens and more. Groundspeed.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Casper is a directto-consumer sleep brand that broke onto the scene in 2014 with a re-designed, high quality mattress that shipped directly to consumers’ doors. CB4 , for example, has developed machine learning software that enables retail chains to solve operational issues that hamper sales.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

A strong balance sheet and business model enables us to select a period that works best for realizing our long-term goals.” Sijbrandij told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm at a TechCrunch Disrupt panel in September that he believes that transparency helps attract and keep employees. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In November of 2014, the Morgan Stanley sell-side research team that focuses on the auto industry, headed by Adam Jonas, made a trip to Detroit to visit the big three automakers. They are unlikely to enable “instant payment” either. In their own words, “the highlight of the trip, however, was three Uber trips we took between meetings.”

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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. 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?’ So that resilience is very important.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” When you materially improve an offering, and create new features, functions, experiences, price points, and even enable new use cases, you can materially expand the market in the process.

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