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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. So they offered the same kind of crappy software that they tried to impose in the wired Internet era and because you had to get your phone subsidized and purchased through one of their stores and because you had to use a wireless network they had leverage to force customers to use their software.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Back in 2015, the members and team co-created the ‘Food Talks’ quarterly event series, in which leading industry thinkers explore the major issues affecting the food system. Networks for change. The post Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities appeared first on Impact Hub. Photo: Kina Mama.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If selected, you’ll have the chance to not only recruit, but also network with the other companies at the event. Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. China doesn’t need any more good platforms,” Tang told his team in an internal email in 2015, “but it does need good products.” In China, that distribution network was present across the digital and physical worlds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. I believe that these global accelerators look for these same things.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

But today comes news of funding for a startup building a social network for what is probably one of the least digital business sectors of all: independent, small-hold farmers in the developing world. Wefarm has raised $32 million since being founded in 2015. million users. million members.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 The challenge was the driving force behind Ordr, a startup focused on network-level device security. “The company revenue has been accelerating,” Murphy said somewhat vaguely, adding that Ordr has more than 500 customers including federal, state, and local governments.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The program supports startups financially and gives them multiple opportunities to network with top tech companies, VCs, mentors, etc. Besides the 3.5-month

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Founded in 2015, Lynk has raised a total of $30 million in funding, including a $24 million round announced in January that was led by Brewer Lane Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. As COVID-19 era drags on, VCs look beyond Zoom calls for due diligence and sourcing.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako. Learn more at www.een.com.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

After record growth, ShipBob now operates a global logistics network with 24 fulfillment centers across five countries, including the United States, Canada, England, Ireland and Australia. That mission has not only remained, but has become even more important with the accelerated digital shifts happening across all industries today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. She says she is bringing a unique lens, viewpoint and network to finding companies, especially those that are like she described herself — not a typical VC-backed company. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Beyond the social networks we already know and use, we are finding new ways to integrate social into our online lives. When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. But unlike Daily Check-In, Price Chop incentivizes users to share Pinduoduo with their social network. Card Program.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Doubling down on that niche has allowed it to build what it claims is “the industry’s largest network of supplier intelligence.” While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S. It’s an enormous market.”.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Expert Networks. Expert Network firms source subject matter experts from various domains and pair them with clients seeking topical or industry insights. I founded Circle of Experts, an expert network which I sold to Evalueserve.). The expert network industry has grown an average 4.5%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Its new funding will be used to expand KitaBeli’s operations in Java, growing its logistics network and developing its mobile app. ” While it doesn’t have a reseller network, KitaBeli works with delivery partners for last-mile deliveries, presenting the gig as an opportunity to earn extra money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. To date, the company has raised almost $1 billion to scale its platform, which connects the fragmented network of shippers, carriers and brokers across the United States. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The new capital will help also Toss accelerate growth for the challenger bank Toss Bank — launched last year by Viva Republica — and a Robinhood-like retail investment app, Toss Securities , which both look to turn a profit next year, according to Seo. billion in 2018. Toss Payments’ monthly trading volume surpassed $ 2.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There’s Outdoorsy , a peer-to-peer RV rental company that was founded in 2015; bootstrapped by its founders for a couple of years, it has more recently attracted $88 million in venture funding. Vacationers just don’t have many other options, given travel restrictions and risk.

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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. This continued even as Aboyeji joined and left Flutterwave, the fintech company he co-founded.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That changed in 2015, after Rad Power founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh teamed up with friend Ty Collins and relaunched as a direct-to-consumer business. The company has built out its online sales platform, pre- and post-purchase customer support teams, retail showrooms, service van and a local service partner network.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The 2015-founded startup ‘s existing investors OpenOcean, Episode 1 and Entrepreneur First also participated in the round. London-based PassFort , a SaaS provider that helps business meet compliance requirements such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) reporting, has closed a $16.2 over the past 12 months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The round is the first sizable funding that Oslo-based, but very distributed, Superside has raised — it was founded as Konsus back in 2015 and had picked up only $5.5 The plan will be to expand that network in earnest in the coming months.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

He claims that the startup acquired more than 200 new customers in 2021, accelerating Tive’s plans to expand its workforce of 120 people to 300 by the end of 2022. ” Tracking real-time shipments. Companies use visibility data to, among other things, prevent stock pile-ups in locations that don’t need inventory. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Co-founder Chaitanya Peddi told TechCrunch in an interview that the pandemic accelerated Darwinbox’s growth as firms across the globe scrambled to find tools to coordinate with — and serve — their employees. Chaitanya Peddi, Jayant Paleti and Rohit Chennamaneni (l-r) co-founded Darwinbox in late 2015.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Founded in 2015, Long Game has built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I While Tan’s new gig is set to begin in January 2023, he sat down with TechCrunch to talk about his vision for the accelerator, its batches and his goals going forward.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Since its founding in 2015, Moderne Ventures has built a successful investment track record yielding top-tier returns on its 35+ investments, backing over 150 Passport companies across three funds. They are a global resource for connections and talent that accelerate startups and early-stage companies. “MV

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market plans to focus on accelerating further overseas market expansion for the next two years after closing Series D funding, and in South Korea, we will diversify our business, aiming to be a super app,” co-founder and co-CEO Gary Kim said in an exclusive conversation with TechCrunch.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. We sat down with Tatiana to learn more about her as a human, her ambitions for the network – and her own entrepreneurial action. And what really inspires you in our network?

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

If you’re wondering where you’ve heard Meyer’s name, you may remember him from 2015 when he was building Fresco News , a crowdsourced network for breaking news, or as co-founder of Homebound , where he is still an advisor. Fresco News Aims To Build A Crowdsourced Network For Breaking News.

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