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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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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2022

With the continued growth and expansion of Airwallex, Kai will play a pivotal role in increasing the company’s revenue growth in a scalable and sustainable manner. Airwallex continues to scale to new heights.

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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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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

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges. Krupa Srinivas is the co-founder of Owned Outcomes, a software company that enables data-driven decision making for healthcare providers and payers as they seek financial sustainability alongside clinical outcomes in patient care.

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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

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

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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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 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

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

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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Noteworthy, Gophr’s co-founder and CEO, Seb Robert, tells me the 2015-founded company reached monthly net profitability around 3 years ago and was net profitable for the whole of last year. The company had previously raised £1 million in two rounds, including £500,000 from publicly-listed Auctus Alternative Investments.

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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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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

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

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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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

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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2015

Withthe two venture backed IPOs though August 1, 2015, the trend shows no signs of abatement. First, the acquisition channels startups use to acquire customers address many more potential customers and enable far more cost effective marketing than twenty years ago. In 2014, a startup needed $54M.

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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

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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

So by the time people started using Facebook for more business purposes or general “social networking” in 2010-2015 I really didn’t have any interest. But honestly Twitter never evolved and built tools to enable that to progress. So I guess I realized what else might happen to others on Facebook.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

On the contrary, burn would be absent from the 2015 list, replaced by unicorn. Starting in the end of 2015, Public companies have markedly shifted the way they manage their businesses pushing toward cash flow positive and net income positive. But it also enables the management team to grow revenues aggressively in a logical way.

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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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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

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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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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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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