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. The new funding, which brings its total raised to $50 million, was led by Edison Partners and included participation from returning backers Moderne Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Max Ventures. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

New investor Franklin Templeton joined existing backers — including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners — in putting money in the round. With this latest financing, Workrise has now raised more than $750 million. billion.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2015

Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. As a result of both the disruptive nature of open source distribution, and the changes in buyer preferences, the number of open source financings has increased nearly monotonically since the genesis of the movement, and it shows no signs of slowing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In fact, venture capitalists poured an estimated $6.2 SoftBank describes Baer as one of the pioneers of Brazil’s venture capital industry. He joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014. He also served as the CEO of Adianta, a Brazilian B2B invoice financing company.

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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. “We use artificial intelligence to deliver financial products that small business owners use to better run and grow their businesses,” CEO Prashant Fuloria told TechCrunch.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook.

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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. On the other side of the table are somewhat naive views that argue InstaDeep’s “Africanity.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Founder Sara Blakely, an EO member , received a White House invitation in 2014, was named the youngest self-made female billionaire in 2012 and continues to sell Spanx in 50 countries around the globe, serving the company’s core mission: To help women feel great about themselves and their potential. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

million in a funding round led by Matrix Partners with participation from PayPal Ventures and GoldenTree Asset Management. GoldenTree also said that it would form a joint venture with Concerto to fund a minimum of $2 billion in credit card receivables. Concerto today announced that it has raised $21.2 Nearly 53% of all U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Both were Series C rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. As a result, they lost the market to brands like Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and Samsung.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The consumer installment lending service joins DoorDash and Airbnb in filing recently, as a number of highly valued, venture-backed private companies look to float while the public markets are more interested in growth than profits. Last night Affirm filed to go public, herding yet another unicorn into the end-of-year IPO corral.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2016

Just like any new business venture, begin with a basic SWOT analysis measuring strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Disruption sends ripples through social, financial, and bureaucratic fabrics, so expect red tape waiting for you around every corner. Uber learned this lesson when it launched in Las Vegas in October 2014.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd portfolio company Sight Diagnostics raised $71M for Its OLO Blood Analyzer with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures and OurCrowd. OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. $71M Round for Sight Diagnostics. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd portfolio company Sight Diagnostics raised $71M for Its OLO Blood Analyzer with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures and OurCrowd. OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. $71M Round for Sight Diagnostics. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do. So what we want to do is help connect the different incubators and accelerators and venture builders that we have in Spain. Meaning that the political administration, it’s more agile.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. 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.” Different Economics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups. million across 19 African companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Other investors include V8 Capital , Constant Capital and Itanna Capital Ventures. Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment. Four years later, it raised $2.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Not every entrepreneur who builds a business from the ground up plans to “sell out” to venture capitalists and walk away. Nowhere is this truer than in the IT security industry, especially in the aftermath of 2014’s endless string of high-profile network security breaches at the tech security company, Blue Coat, for example.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

million seed round , led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from Whitecap Venture Partners, DVP, Grand Ventures and ID Ventures. Revenue has tripled year over year since the company’s 2014 founding. Automotive e-commerce startup Vroom is disrupting the entire automotive sales industry.

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