TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. billion in 2018.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Northvolt’s intention is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and electrified society. Ensuring high-quality cells through cost-competitive technology innovation is what this investment is about. Visit liminalinsights.com for more information.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Bronson was immediately put to the test.

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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.” Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The company was among TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 startups at TC Disrupt in October, and TechCrunch interviewed Pulse co-founder and CEO Raj Singh at the event for a potential future startup profile piece. For starters, there is the fact that Pulse had been focused exclusively on Slack status updates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In a four-part series, he explores the origins and operations of Bowery Farming, a profitable startup that has raised almost $500 million since 2015 to create new tech and facilities that raise leafy greens sold in nearly 900 markets. Now that remote work has become the norm, remote investment in the area has dialed up as well.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash. In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business? Image Credits: Eoneren / Getty Images.

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