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. By some estimates, it takes 1 million pounds of raw material to support the lifestyle of an average American in a year. Of that material, 99% is no longer in use after 6 months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . Pula is one of the few African startups disrupting the farming industry with technology. The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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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. Rad Power has added more than just bikes.

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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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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

JULY 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. Tailor Brands has now raised a total of $70 million since its inception in 2015.

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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. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

Founded in 2015, CloudApp aims to help teams share information faster through instantly shareable videos, gifs and screenshots. CloudApp sees itself as a visual voicemail that can be read at any time without disrupting workflows. The tool supports dozens of integrations including Slack, Atlassian, Trello, Zendesk and Asana.

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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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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.” Monzo also cracked world-class customer support via in-app chat.

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are excited to partner with TravelPerk and support the next stage of growth,” stated Stephen Thorne, Investment Director for SoftBank Investment Advisers. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team.

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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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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

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. In early 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting food supply chains across the planet, it was time to double down on the Feeding the City mission.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Interestingly, prior to joining Index, Fiorentino helped build and lead business strategy and finance at Stripe from 2015 to 2019. with support from Dwyane Wade and Baron Davis Black-owned tech firm Greenwood acquires digital banking rival. TechCrunch covered Greenwood’s last raise in March of 2021 here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

My fintech partner in crime, the oh-so-talented Natasha Mascarenhas , ended the week with a scoop about Stripe laying off some of the employees that support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year. The company said originations grew at a 152% CAGR from 2015 to 2021. Weekly News. Have a wonderful week ahead.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“Quiq was founded in 2015 to solve the huge gap between the way consumers were forced to communicate with their favorite brands and how they preferred to communicate with family and friends,” Myer told TechCrunch via email. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million Series A2 funding round, led by climate tech fund ArcTern Ventures , joined by new investors Northvolt and Ecosystem Integrity Fund , and with continued support from Chrysalix Venture Capital , Good Growth Capital , University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners , Volta Energy Technologies , Impact Science Ventures , and Helios Climate Ventures.

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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.

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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. We want to arm these people with capital, to help grow their businesses but we also want to support them. Like most VCs, our goal is to discover the world's best founders.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Dixa , the Danish customer support platform promising more personalised customer support, has acquired Melbourne-based “knowledge management” SaaS Elevio to bolster its product and technology offerings. Meanwhile, Elevio is described as bridging the gap between customer support and knowledge management.

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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC Collab Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2022

Register Fintech platform Airwallex announced plans to provide further support for Hong Kong ‘s SME and startup community, following the successful launch of its Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) initiative earlier this year. Airwallex said it will commit an additional HK$2.25 million this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Today, the company is announcing a $100 million Series C financing round, bringing the total amount raised since its founding in 2015 to $130 million. In an interview with TechCrunch, he says that this was a bet the company made in 2015 that the future of e-commerce is not a marketplace, but the complete digitization of all commerces.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc According to Indie.VC Collab Capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Enter HomeLister , a digital brokerage and real estate site that gives homeowners a way to list and sell their properties online, with support. CEO Lindsay McLean started the Santa Monica, California-based company in 2015 with attorney and real estate broker Jennifer Stein, after her own home-selling experience. “

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The documents, which include 83,000 emails and 1,000 other files including conversations, reveal for the first time Uber’s $90 million-a-year lobbying and public relations campaigns to gain the support of world leaders, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, in order to disrupt Europe’s taxi industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. We were doing it obviously, but we needed support from India,” the former executive said.

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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. To support its continued growth, Wellthy just raised $25.5 million in funding.

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

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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. Spending on medical care reached an astounding $3.5 Thus, OurCrowd’s sharpened focused on Impact.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Then there’s obviously a lot of companies like the ZoomInfos of the world that popped up with data to support that sales motion. 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

He’s supporting a family and wanted a job with flexible hours that could accommodate his class schedule and his familial responsibilities. Reasons for partnering with Uber: “to earn more income to better support myself or my family” (91%). “to Two-thirds of these individuals reported that they had a full-time job.

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