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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. At Rise of the Rest, we see opportunity first through the lens of geography.

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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.”. The China opportunity. Tang would walk away with a few important lessons.

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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

TechCrunch

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. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents. “The opportunity in front of the company is massive.

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Citi backs Crowdz, a Pipe competitor that just raised $10M for its blockchain-powered invoice financing marketplace

TechCrunch

Payson Johnston and Steven Lee started Crowdz in 2014 after working as B2B supply-chain senior managers for global processes at Cisco. We quickly found that most incumbents focusing solely on the financing of SaaS receivables lacked reliable data and market traction to sufficiently validate their business models,” Chupryna said.

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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. In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walk

If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO.

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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