Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Oh, I go to most things….

communities

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. “[The latest investment] is primarily going to be used for land-grab and expansion opportunities,” Komoni said.

development

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. Job opportunities. . Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. This is a trillion-dollar opportunity.” Virgin Hyperloop gathers speed. Introductions.

investing

TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

That leaves a wide opportunity for cybersecurity specialists to build tools aimed at smaller organizations that still face the same security issues — and as some have argued , perhaps even more — as their larger counterparts but don’t have the same resources to fight them.

SaaS

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Liberum: CEO Aiden Tinafar is working to disrupt what they think could be a $400 billion market opportunity: recombinant proteins.

pitching

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Cowboy Ventures led a $2 million seed round in 2015 while the founders were just starting their entrepreneurial journey. “[We Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt. We tried to fake it a little bit.

education

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Liminal was founded in 2015 by top technologists from Princeton University, who were part of the Cyclotron Road entrepreneurial fellowship program (now part of Activate ). Visit liminalinsights.com for more information.

energy

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. It's that kind of thing that we see as a unique opportunity. We look at the resonance between the founding team and the opportunity. I only learned that yesterday.

VC

TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

For our latest Extra Crunch market map, we sized up the general market opportunity before creating a roster of major players and reaching out to investors to see where they’re placing bets. 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.

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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. They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity, including Flexible 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. They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity. . Collab Capital.

investment

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Periscope (2015-2020). Starsky Robotics (2015-2020).

startup

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.” More posts by this contributor. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America?

venture capital

Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Precision Ventures Precision Ventures identifies market opportunities and delivers complete concept solutions to brand-name global manufacturers.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. The global impact ecosystem is starting to take shape.

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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. It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.”

health

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic. Just as TripActions continues to disrupt the corporate travel market, TripActions Liquid is set to replace traditional spend management solutions,” he said. “No With the latest round, the company has raised a total of $1.3

financing

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see. Lauren Morton: QED is incredibly bullish about the fintech opportunities in LatAm. There’s also real generational change happening across the region.

venture capital

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year , he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty. In the United States and beyond, such extraordinary wastefulness is an opportunity of epic proportions. In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6

sustainability

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. 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.

disruption

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.

energy

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.

disruption

TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Neobrokers are defined as startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investment options and modern and easy mobile-based interfaces to manage their money.

education

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. In 2015, Monzo founders Tom Blomfield, Jonas Templestein, Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, and Paul Rippon launched a digital finance platform with the slogan “Make Money Work For Everyone.” trillion in deposits. expectations. Their profit models.

peer-to-peer

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.

networking

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Stenn has been around since 2015 and has since then financed some $6 billion in loans from 74 countries, with $1 billion of that loaned out in 2022 alone, with an approach that brings technology to an area that had previously been largely untouched by lenders, said Stenn’s founder and CEO Greg Karpovsky in an interview.

financing

TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

card networks — American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa — and no longer relies on a third-party processor, Finix says it’s able to offer businesses “instant onboarding, improved economics and opportunities for lowering interchange fees.” Now that it directly connects to all major U.S.

health

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

incumbents

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

These memos often integrate the traditional components of a founder’s pitch, and blend it together with a deal champion’s observations on the opportunity of investing into the company — as well as the risks that come with it. The data is for Slush 100 2015–2017. Most pitches are repetitive. You need a real story to stand out.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When Monzo launched in 2015, the big six banks in the UK had more than 85% market share. In 2015, Monzo founders Tom Blomfield, Jonas Templestein, Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, and Paul Rippon launched a digital finance platform with the slogan “Make Money Work For Everyone. trillion in deposits.

peer-to-peer

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. See some opportunities below: Product Marketing Manager for Honeybook (USA).

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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.

SaaS

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In January of 2015, Uber partnered with Alan Krueger , a professor at Princeton University, to conduct the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data. .” These observations hold regardless of gender, age, education level, or household income.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

ventures

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2017

I also invest in a really wide range of opportunities, so many of them don't look like you're typical venture deals. At the end of 2015, I backed a husband and wife team expecting their third kid to build a network of outdoor kids classes--not an Uber for kids classes, Classpass for kids classes or Airbnb for kids classes.

disruption

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. Many Seed Investors Have Solved the Cash Problem with Opportunity Funds.

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