TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.” million grant from the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, bringing the round a bit shy of an even $10 million. million Series A led by AM Ventures and a $2.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . When Taing moved back to NYC, he brought a suitcase full of his favorite Japanese snacks and shared it with his friends. Bokksu’s subscription fee costs $49.95/month,

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Cross Culture Ventures we take a thematic approach to investing that we have coined 'cultural investing' - the impact of the convergence of global popular culture and consumer behavior on technology and innovation. We started to invest out of our inaugural fund, Cross Culture Ventures I in April 2015.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market. 3/ Looming Ecosystem Wars – I use my Apple Watch every day.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. by the gap he saw in the machine learning market for edge devices. . “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Seadronix says some smart ports across the globe have adopted innovative technologies ; for example, Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Port of Hamburg in Germany and Port of Singapore, but that generally, the traditional shipping industry is conservative and resistant to change, meaning it’s therefore ripe for disruption.

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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

JULY 14, 2021

Smoke and heat can quickly damage hardware, and interference from fires will disrupt most forms of wireless communications, rendering software all but useless. The company, which was founded in 2015, just raised about $5.5 When it comes to tough environments to build new technology, firefighting has to be among the most difficult.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

We are excited to partner with Coro’s innovative team and participate in their journey to make non-disruptive security a mainstay of growing businesses across industries.”. The company — based out of Israel but with a substantial operation in the U.S., based out of New York and Chicago — has been around for a while.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. George Rzepecki, its founder, in a statement, likened Thepeer’s move to unify Africa’s wallet ecosystem to how Flutterwave entered the fragmented card and mobile money payments space in 2015. Last year, the number of African fintechs increased 17.3%

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

TravelPerk continues to innovate, integrating AI across the product stack to deliver a world-class experience for customers and travelers. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. Within the enormous global business travel market, SMBs have remained a largely underserved segment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It gives us the resources we need to fuel and accelerate our mission to build innovative solutions that simplify money movement in Indonesia,” said Rafi Putra Arriyan , co-founder and CEO of Flip. . Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. Led by charismatic chairman Dr Kira Radinsky, the company is described by the Israel Innovation Authority as “the most prominent company in the Israeli healthcare ecosystem.” Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. “We Introductions. Top Tech News.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. 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. trillion USD by 2030.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 2, 2021

Named “Innovator of the Year” in 2019, Beyond Meat CFO Mark Nelson will retire from the plant-based company on May 5, 2021, after joining the company in December 2015. He will then enter into a consulting agreement with Beyond Meat beginning May 6, 2021, until May 5, 2023. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

But ClearBank’s existence underscores one of the untold truths amid all of that innovation: many of these new services have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most battery innovation to date has focused on material science,” Inbar said. However, the industry needs a larger focus on process and manufacturing innovations to ensure both affordability and safety. Ensuring high-quality cells through cost-competitive technology innovation is what this investment is about.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. The London-based company, founded in 2015, joined the ranks of EV companies going public via SPAC, merging with blank-check company CIIG Merger Corp. Image Credits: Hiroshi Watanabe / Getty Images.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. Silicon Valley has no monopoly on innovation; it happens everywhere. I mentioned earlier that we don't think that Silicon Valley has a monopoly on innovation and great startups.

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OkDork

JULY 23, 2022

2015: Quest bars are sold in 40,000 store locations (like GNC and Vitamin Shop) around the world. That kind of resource control is essential for innovative businesses that impact future generations. Tom and his co-founders didn’t have any experience in the food industry and yet they were still able to majorly disrupt it.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Wrecked by war and disrupted by dictators, the ancient Silk and Spice Route between East and West that served for centuries as the world’s thoroughfare had been blocked for decades by a Sand Shutter, barred by politics and a culture of distrust. Ancient maps portrayed the Middle East as the center of the world. Top Tech News.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Macy’s, its better-faring competitor, is moving away from physical storefronts, cutting its square footage by 13% between 2015 and 2018. OurCrowd portfolio company The Bouqs knows this to be true and has disrupted the $100B global floral industry by emphasizing sustainability and transparency. buyout by Dollar Tree. About the Author.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. According to Managing Partner Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital, based in Atlanta, is “setting out to disrupt the wealth gap by investing in Black founders building innovative, high growth companies.” . —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. According to Managing Partner Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital, based in Atlanta, is “setting out to disrupt the wealth gap by investing in Black founders building innovative, high growth companies.” . —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). More posts by this contributor.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. During that time, she also held a full-time job as a marketing manager at Microsoft.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. Furthermore, the disruptions the world faces, whether social, economic, health or education- related, affect us all. There is no end of problems for our innovation ecosystem to solve and we are just getting started. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. From late 2011 until maybe 2015, RJMetrics was… the leads were flying in and falling off of our desk more days than not. They’re expensive.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

This week, MedRhythms was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Life Sciences, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) The company is now advancing its hardware and software solution through the FDA approval process. “As

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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. Their growth naturally slowed down with scale but maintained a remarkable consistency over time: $3bn of revenues in 91, $9.5bn in 2001, $21bn in 2010 and $32bn in 2015.

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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. We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. The other thing that’s pretty obvious, I think, for any entrepreneur, you say, “Wow, look, there’s a lot of room for disruption.”

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