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. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment. While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Some public tech companies sustain growth through internal efforts, but many use their cash reserves to acquire fast-growing startups. These public market cash reserves total $430B or so across the top 250 or so public tech companies, a massive war chest that will fuel startup M&A in 2015. The public market prizes growth.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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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. This funding will allow the Kenyan-based company to expand its business into Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“We think it will be the best place to invest,” said Shleifer of India at his rare appearance. “We were able to purchase 16 or 17% of Flipkart for $8 million in 2010,” he said of the investment in the e-commerce giant, which is currently valued at over $37 billion. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. The company, which was formerly known as Allied Control Limited, restructured as a commercial operating company headquartered in the Netherlands with commercial operations in the U.S.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And her husband’s $200 investment turned into a debt-free business that ships all around the United States. I created withSimplicity in January 2015, creating products for people who are looking for safe, sustainable, and effective alternatives for their beauty and skincare routines. [.] Well, she sold them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets. Since its founding in 2015 by David Nothacker, Julius Köhler and Nicolaus Schefenacker, the company has grown to 800 employees and seven international offices. Digital freight forwarder Forto raises another $50M in round led by Inven Capital.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Selency raises $3.3

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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. He is now tasked to spearhead the implementation of the company’s growth plans in the region and drive greater efficiency across the markets where Airwallex operates.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. Image Credits: Helion Energy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Drugstoc was founded in 2015 by Opara and Yehia, but its history dates back to 2010 when the duo founded Integra Health, a hospital management company based on Yehia’s master’s degree project. In response, the co-founders created and piloted a tech-based platform in 2015 linking manufacturers with distributors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Northvolt’s intention is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and electrified society. Ensuring high-quality cells through cost-competitive technology innovation is what this investment is about. Visit liminalinsights.com for more information.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with an idea for how to do things differently, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, which drew the attention of its first thousand customers. He hired an intern and launched a Kickstarter campaign in September of 2015, a decision made out of a desperation to never raise money again.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However, in 2018, the veteran player participated in the government-backed Future Fifty scale-up program — and also took in a “ multi-million pound ” investment from the UK-based Business Growth Fund. Flexibility and sustainability. Back in April, for example, it raised a $160M Series D round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The fintech, which claims to be the region’s largest SME digital financing platform, uses alternative forms of credit-scoring and has disbursed more than $2 billion in financing to MSMEs since it launched in 2015. The company was founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya after they met in Harvard Business School.

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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. “Historically, many investors have mirrored the tech-investment models and focused on acquisition,” Shearer added.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

About Funding Societies Founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya, Funding Societies empowers MSMEs in Southeast Asia. We are delighted to partner with Funding Societies to support their mission to improve societies in Southeast Asia by funding worthy and underserved SMEs.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. ” Reuveni founded Gloat in 2015 alongside Amichai Schreiber and Danny Shteinberg. Vice President Al Gore.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Companies like John Deere are investing a lot in homegrown solutions and acquisitions. Chanje (2015-2021). The company announced plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles from Chanje Energy, a California-based and China-backed startup founded in 2015. Katerra (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje. Image Credits: Katerra.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

In entrepreneurial circles throughout the world, there is a lot of chatter about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) —17 goals to address some of the world’s most challenging socioeconomic, environmental and lifestyle issues.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

“Enterprises invest in Salesforce because it can so easily be adapted to meet exact business requirements … [b]ut their teams building on the platform find it hard to deliver business-critical applications and improvements in a way that’s timely, secure, or sustainable,” Boyle told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 So we repositioned the business to continue to invest and build products that customers are going to love and are going to fulfill the mission but scaled back a little bit on other areas of expense. consumer bank. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million. She invested because of Duolingo’s growth and engagement numbers, but confronted von Ahn with some direct advice. It has to be an exit of some sorts, and a big one at that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. But InMotion Ventures, the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover, said in a statement its participation in the round as a “significant investment.”. Battery Resourcers was founded in 2015 after being spun out from Massachusetts’ Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). The head of product will be Paloma Strelitz , formerly co-founder of Assemble, a design studio that won the 2015 Turner Prize. It’s now raised a $1.1 million seed funding round from a number of leading U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

DCJ and Yadea will jointly invest $50 million in an operating company to develop new two-wheel vehicles with their own branding that use the Gogoro Network, including its batteries, drivetrains, controllers and other components. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Company founder and CEO Peter Sobotta founded ReturnLogic in 2015 after a long career in reverse logistics. This is why increased investment for technical upgrades is flowing into this area of the supply chain,” Saran said. The trends we’re seeing right now are retailers are taking returns much more seriously.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Please note that these are for entertainment purposes only, as “we’re not offering investing advice or recommending anyone join or back a startup.” Since Etsy went public in 2015, companies like Poshmark, The RealReal and thredUP followed suit, attracting even more investors to the sector. Have a great weekend!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

New investors such as KB Securities, Hanwha Securities, Badgers Investment and Pebbles Investment and strategic investor Musinsa, a Korean fashion platform, also participated in the round. Laundrygo said today it has closed a $37 million (49.5 He said the inspiration from the company came from an unlikely place.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, fortunately, it has pushed many to question our way of life’s sustainability and viability. These entrepreneurs are rigorously working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, Tika Oktorinad collaborated with Firly Savitri to create Ilmuwan Muda Indonesia. Emploi et Moi . Ilmuwan Muda Indonesia .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Over the past 20 years, Network Alliance has been “Making IT Simple” for our clients—we simplify, streamline, and take the worry and guesswork out of keeping technology systems up to date, managing infrastructures, and maximizing technological investment at all levels of a company’s growth trajectory.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In total, it has raised $409 million since being founded back in 2015. Another investor in this slice of the Series D, Gillian Tans, ex-chairwoman and CEO of Booking.com — who is investing in a personal capacity — is joining the board of directors alongside Joel Cutler, an early investor in Stripe, Airbnb and Kayak.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? The chart above contrasts the pace of investment across the two markets by sector measured by % of total dollars invested anually. of the series A market in 2015.

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