Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., Founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ted Xenohristos grew up together.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. More than half of the portfolio companies have women founders or women in the C-suite. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Fusion will also enable Carro to easily embed and control insurance journeys for customers. We truly want to power and transform the way consumers learn and buy insurance online,” said Carro’s CEO and co-founder Aaron Tan. Founded in 2015, Carro is Southeast Asia’s largest used car marketplace.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shan Kadavil, CEO & Co-founder, FreshToHome, said that they are very excited to have Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund lead Series D. Since its launch in 2015, FreshToHome currently operates in 160+ cities in India and the UAE as it offers more than 2,000 certified fresh and chemical-free products.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2015, Dremio started in our offices. About seven years ago, Dremio’s founder Tomer envisioned a product that would enable customers to manage data and compute separately. Today, the company announced its Series E at $2 billion valuation. Today, we call this idea the data lakehouse and a query engine.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services. “It Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

“This latest funding round, following a year of record growth for FourKites, validates our vision of breaking down the barriers across today’s supply chains — between transportation, warehouses, stores and siloed technology systems,” said Mathew Elenjicka l, founder and CEO of FourKites. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

“We are proud to be officially bringing our payment infrastructure and ecosystem to the Malaysian market – boosting the growth trajectory of local start-ups through our secure and easy-to-integrate payment system,” said Moses Lo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xendit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Started in 2015, FreshToHome is one of the largest players battling for a slice of the $100 billion Indian fish and meat market. Shan Kadavil , co-founder and chief executive of FreshToHome, told TechCrunch in an interview that it took the startup about seven years to establish the competitive moat that it has today. “My

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

Founded in 2015, MindX has graduated over 35,000 students of all ages, many now with successful technology careers in nearly 20 countries. It’s not just a physical space to unleash creativity; it’s a state of mind,” said Nguyen Thanh Tung, co-founder and CEO of MindX.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

It was first acquired by Bitfury in 2015 after building a two-phase immersion cooling 500kW data center in Hong Kong, that purportedly cut energy consumption by 95% versus traditional air cooling technologies. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

Founded in 2014 out of Chicago, ShipBob was launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati , two entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. “We Congrats to co-founders Dhruv and Divey as well as the entire ShipBob team for achieving unicorn status!

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networking accelerator financing finance 91

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. Ben Stanway, founder and co-CEO of Moneybox says this “acted like an extension of our own team.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

The founders of Speckle , an early-stage startup based in London, are both trained architects and engineers, probably a rare combination. It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech works with partner companies such as Twiga and MarketForce, which integrate its credit scoring APIs in their platforms to enable their customers to get real-time loan offers. Pezesha said it is currently working with more than 20 partner companies that have enabled it to extend loans to over 100,000 businesses to date.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. “Our model is unique in the insurtech space, since all others go direct to consumer.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Bisu is in discussions with other companies in the fitness, pet care and bathroom sectors for additional partnerships, co-founder and CEO Daniel Maggs told TechCrunch. . Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program.

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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.” The 80 × 115 micrometer picture of clownfish was a great talking point for a firm in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch. He believes there is still a big part of the market that is untapped, and the new funding will enable the company to accelerate marketing, engineering and product development.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sendy , a Kenyan logistics startup that enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, among other services, is shutting down its operations and exploring a sale of its assets, TechCrunch has learned. Sendy was co-founded in 2015 by Alloys, Evanson Biwott, Don Okoth and Malaika Judd. It has raised $26.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., the free YC Startup School courses). Flyover Tech ) have played a significant role in this shift.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Moreover, AI combined with robotics can automate experiments, enabling scientists to iterate through experimental conditions at a speed beyond human capacity. Encouragingly, an AI-enabled research infrastructure is on the horizon. AI propels research by analyzing extensive datasets and suggesting promising leads.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 ” Image Credits: B12.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Their continued support strengthens our mission of enabling customers to achieve sustainable business and logistics excellence. Shipsy’s technology offering enables them to be the single partner of choice for enterprises who are transforming their logistics operations. The company claims to have recorded a growth of 2.5x

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SaaS sustainability enablement accelerator 64

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

JANUARY 19, 2021

Kneron declined to disclose the dollar amount of the investment from Foxconn and Winbond due to investor requests but said it was an “eight figures” deal, founder and CEO Albert Liu told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. million since its inception in 2015. Its fulfillment solution serves as a middleman for more than 15,000 agricultural products, enabling buyers to source and get delivered on time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

This enables L’Oréal to identify and utilize the best user-generated videos for the company’s marketing purposes. According to Vyrill, this system is the secret sauce, enabling brands to discover the best videos quickly. Bam and co-founder and CTO Dr. Barbara Rosario started the company in 2015 and raised a $2.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Jack Zhang, the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex, said that their investment in building a senior leadership team demonstrates their continued confidence and commitment to grow their business in APAC and globally. Airwallex continues to scale to new heights.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. ” In 2015, Kentico started to explore the emerging trend of “headless CMSes,” trying to rethink some of the core concepts of content management and sell it as a software-as-a-service solution. . “Kontent.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

HelloHero is the brainchild of founder Syed Mohammed, who struggled with dyslexia as a child, but wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood. That platform was initially called Enable My Child (founded in 2018). This round of funding follows a rebrand for the company, and plans to dive deep into data-driven teletherapy. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

I am sure many of you recall Facebook shutting down its API access back in 2015, or the uproar Apple caused when it decided to change the commission it was charging app developers in 2020. Put simply, founders can no longer avoid the decision around platform dependency. Shopify powers over 1 million businesses across the globe.

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