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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

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.

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LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M

TechCrunch

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Holst joined LMS365 last year from secure messaging company Wire , where he previously served as chief revenue officer.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

An engineer by trade — Rangasaye was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 — he says that he was motivated to start Sima.ai .” Rangasaye spent most of his career in the semiconductor industry at Xilinx, where he was GM of the company’s overall business. ” Sima.ai

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Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, raises $13M

TechCrunch

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. ” Co-founded in 2015 by Terje Strand, Ryley MacKenzie and Brian Baird, with Anderson coming onboard in 2020, Expeto doesn’t sell cell service.

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Pinduoduo and The Rise of Social E-Commerce

Y Combinator

When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. This was strategic for two reasons: 1) incumbents were focused on non-perishable items, so competition was limited and 2) fruits and vegetables are lower order value, high frequency goods, which means users had a reason to use Pinduoduo regularly.

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Former Zillow execs raise $70M seed round for Tomo, which wants to simplify the mortgage process

TechCrunch

And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. billion in 2015. “We We were initially competitors and then deep collaborators after the Trulia/Zillow merger,” Flint said. While it’s early days yet, only time will tell if Tomo can live up to its lofty goals. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

In 2015, the State of Georgia’s Code Revision Committee sued Public.Resource.org, a non-profit that shares public domain materials, to stop it from publishing the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA), a compilation of all laws in the state. Public.Resource.org , which stemmed from another case involving copyright and the law.