TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. Existing investors Durable Capital Partners LP and Vulcan Capital also participated in the round. Rowe Price Associates. The funding round — the largest of a U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million Series A2 funding round, led by climate tech fund ArcTern Ventures , joined by new investors Northvolt and Ecosystem Integrity Fund , and with continued support from Chrysalix Venture Capital , Good Growth Capital , University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners , Volta Energy Technologies , Impact Science Ventures , and Helios Climate Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. This funding capitalizes Bokksu at a level far beyond our bootstrapped early days, and it will facilitate a rapid increase of our product offerings and improvement of our delivery times, as well as allow us to grow our team,” Taing said. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Convenient Cards Convenient Cards, Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

million since its 2015 inception. Like any legacy industry being disrupted there are many players trying to ride the wave of ‘embedded’ by rebranding their 1.0 New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. As Globes reports , our co-investors include Accelmed Partners, Alpha Capital, Maverick Ventures Israel, Mivtach Shamir, Dr. Judith Richter and Dr. Kobi Richter, David and Daniel Arison, and Mark Siegel, an executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and XPRIZE Foundation.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ).

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. Access to capital through overdrafts and Monzo credit products. expectations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s the message from Quiq, an AI-powered conversational platform, which today revealed that it closed a $25 million series C financing round led by Baird Capital. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal. . Quiq’s total capital raised stands at $47.5 million.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. ” As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. Cowboy Ventures led a $2 million seed round in 2015 while the founders were just starting their entrepreneurial journey. “[We

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry. trillion in deposits.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Many may underestimate just how much the pandemic really pushed this acceleration in the financial services world and people are now kind of commenting, “Oh, there’s this slowdown and, like, look at how much decreased investment is in fintech.” And fintech is still taking almost a fifth of all venture capital dollars.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In a survey conducted long before the pandemic began (in 2015), large companies — those with revenues in the range of $500 to more than $1 billion — pegged variability as the top challenge that they faced. Forecasting, also known as demand variability, has long been a hurdle for businesses reliant on the global supply chain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Over the years, the accelerator has created a portfolio of biotech companies valued at over $3.2 Leaving the $3.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Stenn has been around since 2015 and has since then financed some $6 billion in loans from 74 countries, with $1 billion of that loaned out in 2022 alone, with an approach that brings technology to an area that had previously been largely untouched by lenders, said Stenn’s founder and CEO Greg Karpovsky in an interview.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Disruptive companies often start as gimmicks for hobbyists Most radical innovations initially appear like curiosities, only entertained by geeks and weirdos. With venture capital out of the equation, and only two business banks in his town, he couldn’t afford to lose one of them. “I Here are a few of them: 1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic. billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

billion blank-check deal with DPCM Capital. As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. The pandemic has also accelerated digital transformation, and deal-makers have embraced digital tools to help them execute effectively. As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

China’s efforts have been ongoing since around 2015, when the Edward Snowden revelations prompted anxiety over the extent of U.S. A disruptive technology like quantum computing will have massive industrial implications. Most promising European startups have a tendency not to grow on the continent due to inadequate venture capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He talks about his view that maybe democracy [and capitalism are just going to eat each other alive.

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