Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Decisiveness towards survival, and later investing, will move the needle forward. Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive. Disruptive innovation is what most people mean when they say innovation. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014. Cash Is Everything.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Wave , a U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We basically just chased the opportunity wherever it was,” he tells TechCrunch, summing up how Bounce tackled the last two years of pandemic disruption. We’re also investing far more in local marketing,” says Candee of this program. Now almost half (45%) of its revenue comes from outside the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

One investor in the company that caught our eye for its Latin American investments is QED. As it turns out, its first investment in the region was Nubank, a deal that is set to pay off handsomely. Since then, the fintech-focused fund has made more investments in the region. Lauren Morton. QED recently closed $1.05

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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. “Outside the Big Four, investments ballooned to $1.4 How to take the BS out of your TAM.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Having learned that over 770 million people around the world suffer from some form of malnutrition, Brandee McHale, President of the Citi Foundation and Head of Citi Community Investing and Development, expresses Citi’s commitment to lessen food insecurity and to positively impact millions of lives. million meals on behalf of U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

” Standing at ground zero in a healthcare industry primed for disruption After a decade of entrepreneurship, Deng candidly admits that although they are already helping diabetes patients globally, they have yet to achieve their initial goal. ” Ed sees the healthtech market as primed for disruption.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 billion. Secondly, it’s further proof that mortgage – a traditionally “unsexy” industry that has long been in need of disruption – is officially hot. The financing is notable for a few reasons.

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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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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

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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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. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The funding is being led by a strategic backer, Koch Disruptive Technologies , the investment arm of industrial giant Koch Industries (which has interests in energy, minerals, chemicals and related areas), with participation also from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US.

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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. Erik previously worked on Wall Street as a VP for AIG investments and was a co-founder and consultant of other startups.

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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. We are excited to invest in Tailor Brands — and its team — as we believe in their vision.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. A sound investment process analyzes both macro trends and fundamental data to assess the probability of various potential outcomes. Shachi Shah. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. So we see it as a significant milestone and also sort of a vote of confidence in our capabilities and products that they are investing having worked very closely with us on difficult problems for years.”. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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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. Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk.

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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

MAY 20, 2021

Workrise was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. The shift to clean energy and a redoubling of investment in infrastructure are opening up jobs that are desperately in need of filling,” said Workrise co-founder and CEO (and former energy investor) Xuan Yong in a statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry. billion this year. Hopper differentiates itself from rival travel services (e.g.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Toolio was co-founded by ex-Walmart employees Eytan Daniyalzade and Berk Atikoglu, who previously built the fashion app Stylr and sold it to Walmart in 2014 after growing to hundreds of thousands of users. They wanted to make it data-driven and were investing in resources internally. The latest funding gives Toolio a total of $10.3

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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

MAY 15, 2023

Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, and Natixis Investment Managers also participating. Founded out of London in 2014, Smart emerged in the wake of the U.K. It also claims to have £5.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment.

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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. She invested because of Duolingo’s growth and engagement numbers, but confronted von Ahn with some direct advice. Ahn or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the revenue(s).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Launched in 2014, YouCam Makeup now counts about 40 million to 50 million monthly active users and has expanded from augmented selfies to include live-streams and tutorials from beauty influencers, social features and a “Skin Score” feature. But beauty companies are investing more heavily in e-commerce now, and Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

The Doppler Labs founder , who first came into the spotlight in 2014 with the launch of a wireless earbuds company, is teaming up with his brother to start something brand new. Well, for clarity’s sake, the brother duo are actually disrupting something relatively ancient.

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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. Sony’s VC fund invested an undisclosed amount in MagicCube in late May 2020).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S. Part of the investment will be used to hire more staff in South Africa and support the commercial expansion to the U.S. “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Ed Maslaveckas, the CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch the investment, a Series B, will be used both for R&D — specifically to further build out its artificial intelligence-based tools — and for international expansion. Others in this round include SEI investments Outward VC and others.

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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.

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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

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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