TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

” WaveOne was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel, who set out to take the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and make them AI-powered. It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Building Legacies Out of Movements), an accelerator program for social entrepreneurs of color. Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. Time will tell on that front.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

The company moves to the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data, building a path to artificial general intelligence. Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo who since left to launch Passes. The funding enables the company to move into the next phase of accelerating the abundance of frontier data.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. And last but not least, InvestNext launched in 2016, a Detroit-based fintech startup whose mission is to transform the process in which investment firms raise and manage capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. Make serious headway with accelerators. Accelerators allow ventures to define their products or services, quickly build networks and, most importantly, sit at tables they wouldn’t be able to on their own.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

Sunrate offers a smart global payment and treasury management platform, enabling businesses to streamline their B2B payments and financial operations. The regulatory approval enables Sunrate to provide regulated financial services within Singapore, further bolstering its credibility and positioning in the industry.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

The funding will build on customer momentum, accelerate market expansion, and continue the innovation of CyberSaint’s CyberStrong platform powered by its patented Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Since its launch in 2016, the company has been on a remarkable growth trajectory and achieved many industry milestones.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D. The Singapore -based startup’s electrochemical techniques have proven highly effective in treating industrial wastewater, enabling a remarkable reduction of up to 95% in pollutants. graduate in Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 2, 2023

The investment will accelerate the growth of Fresh Factory’s end-to-end hyperlocal cold chain fulfilment and logistics service, and will also be used to invest in hiring talent, improving existing service offerings and expanding its fulfilments for cold chain and fresh products. from 2016 to 2021 and is forecast to grow at 12.9%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“At a time of macroeconomic challenges, companies need a solution that accelerates key business processes,” Sangha told TechCrunch in an email interview. “I founded LexCheck to increase revenue by simplifying and accelerating commercial contracting processes across an entire organization.”

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. But the models are actually very different.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. That could be new crops that enable customers to earn more money,” said Pollak, who co-founded Apollo with Benjamin Njenga and Earl St Sauver. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

. “Speak has the potential to revolutionize not just language learning, but education broadly, and this aligns with the OpenAI Startup Fund’s goal of accelerating the impact of powerful AI to improve people’s lives.”. Speak was founded in 2016 by Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu, both of whom had an acute interest in AI from an early age.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The startup plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate its business expansion further, strengthen its operations in Indonesia, advance technology and expand its engineering and product teams. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Jessica Kim , chief executive officer of ianacare , understands these statistics deeply as she made the difficult choice to leave her job in 2016 to care for her mom full time, as do nearly a third of working caregivers. Kim co-founded ianacare in 2018 after spending more than seven years caring for her mom during a cancer battle. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By 2016, Shanbhag says that hundreds of schools were using Namecoach’s software and services. Shanbhag hinted at capabilities beyond pronunciation guidance coming down the pipeline, including prompts to enable warm interactions in sales scenarios and feedback to help users improve their conversations more generally.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers. Both stores have pivoted to enable online delivery orders or in-store pickup in response to COVID-19. (2)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. It can scale NVMe data transfer queues to many parallel connections, Kirzner claims, enabling them to achieve access latency of 100 to 120 microseconds or around 200 microseconds on commodity servers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains. million for its marketplace enabling customers to buy food right before it goes to waste.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document. “Third-party apps [are] able to work on encrypted ‘Vaultree’d’ data as if it’s decrypted, enabling unlimited, easy collaboration,” Lasmaili said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. The Series C funding enables Clarifai to scale its global team of 100 employees with plans to double that by next year. Clarifai product pipeline.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

By 2016, the product had grown from something Mencel and Zawadzki’s agency used internally into a platform used by developers around the world. “We could have stopped there, but saw brands pressing for more revolutionary front-end experiences,” Mencel says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. Startups who got accepted participated in cohorts for three months and received up to $30,000 in funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

. “In the past two years, we have been laser focused on building a very deep customer service automation platform — one that goes beyond simple FAQ answers in chat — and enables brands to design complex, personalized workflows that can be deployed across all digital support channels. Now ultimate.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The London-based startup was actually founded back in 2015, launching the first version of its product in 2016 — so years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and triggered a temporary shuttering of physical offices everywhere, followed by a slow and (still) partial reopening. 15% in the EU; 15% in APAC and 10% elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. ” Teampay’s platform provides workflows for employees to submit and approve spending.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in theory). ” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar. ” Some research bears this out.

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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. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

” Axio was co-founded in 2016 by Kannry and Dave White, who say they were inspired by the difficulty companies often have making decisions around cybersecurity investments. “[We’ll] be using funds partly to accelerate investments in our AI, machine learning and data science teams to add deeper automation capabilities.”

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