TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. Now worth $3.8 billion, the company is a leader in bringing digital services to trucking and freight. Convoy launched at the right time, CEO Chris Howard told me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

As EO Accelerator graduates and business partners, they have unique insights on growing their revenue while maintaining a partnership. . Octane: EO Accelerator is EO’s program for first-stage entrepreneurs. How did you hear about EO Accelerator? Once you graduated from EO Accelerator, you both joined EO as full members.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

With the latest investment, Minneapolis-based Branch has brought in a total of $58 million in equity funding since its 2015 inception. It started off with earned wage access and then began accelerating payments for workers. Like many other fintechs, the startup monetizes primarily off of interchange fees.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. Dear Sophie, I run operations at an early-stage startup, and I’ve been tasked with hiring and other HR responsibilities. Accelerating AI adoption. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here!

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV this morning announced work on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey focused on growing industrial, healthcare and climate startups. Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels The year was 2014. I discovered this idea through a small startup. By March 2015, I had stopped attending college and had started going to other colleges and industries, asking them to install solar. Arrogance is the highway to Doom Back in 2015, we were working ourselves to the brim.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Meenta Instantly access the world’s scientific equipment & COVID-19 labs Launch413 Takes startups to their first $10 million in revenue while providing early returns to investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

About Funding Societies Founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya, Funding Societies empowers MSMEs in Southeast Asia. The post Online Lending Platform Funding Societies raises US$294 million to accelerate its expansion plans in Southeast Asia first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no easy fix, but an emerging cohort of startups is pitching software as a way to potentially anticipate — and respond to — market shocks. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. The six-year-old startup said it has averaged a 3.5x Image Credits: Reliance Health.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Seed, Series A, Series B and Later Stage startups employ 1M people, up from 650,000 just six months ago, according to Mattermark’s data sources. Mattermark’s employment statistics proxy the startup formation rate. 2015 will be an exciting year for Startupland. These seed-stage companies employ 450k.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I started the company in 2015 as a side-hustle with my old friend Mike Watts. Lindsey had recently attended the EO Accelerator Cash Day where she learned about profit first. The post Growing as a Couple and a Startup appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round. With this latest infusion, Olist has now raised more than $126 million since its 2015 inception. This round is reportedly its last before the company plans to go public, according to Bloomberg.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

ServiceNow became the latest company to take the robotic process automation (RPA) plunge when it announced it was acquiring Intellibot, an RPA startup based in Hyderabad, India. SAP announced a new RPA tool at the end of December and acquired process automation startup Signavio in January.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Founded in 2015, Offerpad started out as primarily an iBuyer (meaning it bought homes from sellers who signed up online) and has since evolved its platform in an effort to be a one-stop shop for people looking to buy or sell a home. The transaction is expected to close in the second, or early third, quarter of 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A Seoul-based proptech startup called Rsquare built a data-driven platform to digitize the process, enabling tenants to compare multiple properties and find an office. Rsquare has invested in a Vietnamese proptech startup Propzy in 2020 and an Indonesian proptech company Mamikos in 2019. It has 354 employees as of October.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

When you’re growing your startup, there’s something to be said for the old-fashioned meet and greet. However, hitting the streets of large cities to chat over coffee can be daunting and expensive for cash-strapped startups. This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Indian edtech giant Byju’s, the nation’s most valuable startup, is in talks to go public in the U.S. The startup, which was founded in 2011 and launched its online learning platform in India in 2015, is hoping to list in the U.S. This year itself it has spent $2 billion in cash and stock to acquire 10 startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

There is not a single case I’ve been involved with in any of the startups I’ve backed that has even a small bit of merit. This also happens out of “startup weekends” where it’s unclear who contributed to the IP and where many people don’t continue with the idea beyond the first 30 days.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that early-stage startups on the African continent are continuing to see some notable growth, both in terms of their business and from investors looking to back them. . Being entrepreneurs in the past, some of these investors know what it takes to build a startup in the U.S.

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HPA

AUGUST 17, 2021

Branch , a startup that helps businesses accelerate payments to empower working Americans , announced it has secured over $540 million to fuel its momentum in delivering flexible workforce payments. Hyde Park Angels is excited to announce our participation in Branch’s $48M Series B round, which was led by Addition Capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. Since Conversion Capital’s formation, the firm has backed more than 60 startups, and counts among its portfolio the likes of corporate spend giant Ramp, Vesta, Figure, Braid, Blend, Wisetack and Booster Fuels, among others.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. The new law enables the licensed P2P lending startup to operate as an authorized financial institution to lend, raise capital from international and domestic institutions, and provide loan referral services to its customers. PeopleFund built a credit scoring system (CSS) 4.0

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