American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Since its founding in 2015, Moderne Ventures has built a successful investment track record yielding top-tier returns on its 35+ investments, backing over 150 Passport companies across three funds. The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

HearstLab : led by Eve Burton, Chairwoman of HearstLab and Executive Vice President of Hearst, the firm provides cash investment and services to early-stage women-led tech-enabled startups in North America and Europe. Inspired Capital Partners , founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel, sole founder of LearnVest, and Penny Pritzker, the former U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”. We did our first investment in January 2015.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A: It is an honour to step into this role and have the opportunity to build on the legacy of our past decade and help forge the next one – given the urgent need we now have in the world for sustainable solutions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The firm invests in companies working on issues of livability, sustainability or economic vitality and often have a lot of regulatory and political challenges. Average check size for previous funds was around $1 million, and the new fund will enable that to grow to $1.5 billion since its founding in 2015. in half a year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In total, it has raised $409 million since being founded back in 2015. “TravelPerk Events enables remote and hybrid teams to connect in real life,” runs its marketing spiel for the tool. “As The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

That pricing and the resulting ~9x multiple reflects the fact that the market now considers tech-enabled businesses like Sweetgreen, Allbirds and Rent the Runway to be around the same value as software businesses in 2015, writes Alex Wilhelm. How can we call it anything but a win?”. 4 strategies for setting marketplace take rates.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

From the early days of the network, we have always held a belief that we must focus on codifying and sharing our practices to enable replication and improvement beyond existing approaches. In 2015 we had already become more than 60 Impact Hubs. First Unlikely Allies Event, Cluj-Napoca 2015. HUB Practice Academy. Unlikely Allies.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2015, I spearheaded the development of ‘Vantage Fit,’ a platform designed to promote holistic employee wellness on a global scale. As we continue to expand, we prioritize creating a supportive and sustainable work environment for our employees. This event challenged me to complete 1.9

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. This is amazing when you consider that back in 2005 Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, iPhone, and many of the successful product platforms that enabled startup innovation didn’t exist or were not well known. They got their initial funding of $1.2M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

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. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. All in all, from the $20,000 of revenues in 1965 to the $32bn in 2015, Nike “only” grew 33% each year. That was no longer enough to sustain me, or my company.

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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.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

The fund will invest in businesses in sustainable agriculture, energy, clean mobility, logistics, and waste management sectors, which produce basic goods and services that represent a huge proportion of household spending for lower-income communities. Pepea’s long-term plan is to improve the quality and affordability of these necessities.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

As we strive to offer more value to our farmers and fishers, customers, employees and investors, our focus is on profitability and sustainable value creation,” he added. 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. For manufacturers in particular, managing intricate supply chains can be particularly challenging.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The startup will also be using the fresh capital to drive technological innovation with a focus on enhancing sustainability outcomes in the global logistics industry and their platform’s AI, blockchain, and machine learning capabilities. “We About Shipsy Shipsy was founded in 2015 by Soham Chokshi, Dhruv Agrawal, and Himanshu Gupta.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The platform enables retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Company founder and CEO Peter Sobotta founded ReturnLogic in 2015 after a long career in reverse logistics. In addition, “customers have also been conditioned by the e-commerce giants to expect a fast, simple and free return process, regardless of who the seller is.”.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Adora Cheung [02:13] – Most of these people, before Meesho existed, did they even have a business or most of them you have enabled them to even have a business in the first place? You make more money.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. In EO Accelerator, we learned basic principles about the critical aspects of running a business and put strategies into place that enabled us to grow at a rapid but sustainable pace?which Lallenia: Not at all.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K. Superscript has focused on sustainable growth and quality underwriting from day one to give us more favourable loss ratios. and across the European Economic Area (EEA).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Since launching with 10 restaurants in its home city in 2015, five years on Wolt has expanded to 23 countries and 120 cities, mostly in Europe but also including Japan and Israel. However, this was especially difficult to do efficiently and sustainably in small and difficult home market in the Nordics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. A great leader has a strong sense for when the troops can do a big push and work hard for a sustained period of time and when the team needs a break. Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Through an on-demand mobile app that enables users to place an order to pick up and drop off their laundry and dry cleaning within 24 hours. Cho previously founded Baemin Fresh, a subscription-based fresh-food delivery service platform that was acquired by Woowa Brothers, an operator of the food delivery app Baedal Minjok, in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2015, the company has produced two versions of its 145-pound utility bike: The Work Bike, the original off-road vehicle, and the Adventure Bike, the newer version that’s made for city riding but can handle itself off-road. . Ubco expects revenue to climb from $2.1 million in 2020 to $8.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Gogoro’s new deals in India and China are the biggest steps it has taken for its global strategy since launching the first Gogoro Smartscooter in 2015. That proof case enabled us to work with these larger partners, so when they asked us to pull up data, we could show them the unit economics, durability, stations and how it works.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When quizzed on whether Pulse was more like a feature that the big tech platforms could just build themselves, rather than a sustainable business in its own right, Singh was adamant that Pulse could thrive as a standalone product. For starters, there is the fact that Pulse had been focused exclusively on Slack status updates.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

And once that got up and running in 2015, that’s when I decided to spin out. TC: How do you think about its valuation and whether it’s sustainable? And it is true that we were quite successful. And we were asked to stop doing that, and we did. And that’s when I helped raise YC Continuity. It was in super great shape.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They started on the construction of a solar electric vehicle pre-prototype to prove that renewable energies can help solve the transportation emissions problem, and by 2015, they had a working model. This feature, along with ride-sharing and car-sharing, will be enabled by the Sono app, which also acts as a digital key.

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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. Allbirds flotation should help the market sort the value of tech-enabled IPOs.

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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. CB4 , for example, has developed machine learning software that enables retail chains to solve operational issues that hamper sales. Sustainability and Transparency. buyout by Dollar Tree.

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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. They enable agents to serve multiple customers at the same time, boosting productivity.

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