TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 The publication, launched in 2016, creates and curates content around African youth culture for Gen Zs and millennials within and outside Africa.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

" Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz discusses why you should never begin with the sales channel itself when designing a distribution strategy in " Distribution. What does an ideal board look like? " Connor Murphy of SAP.iO " Ali Rowghani of YC Continuity answers the questions: How do you retain executives?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“We don’t just add tasks to a Trello board for them to complete, we discuss the goals, why and how best to achieve them with cost/benefit analysis in mind.” More specifically, Solwey provides consulting in all stages of software design and development strategy and execution. And why do you believe in the latter?

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Since joining OurCrowd in 2016, he’s been putting that expertise to work to cultivate the innovation leaders of tomorrow. Ellison, 58, took on the role in May 2019 after three years on OurCrowd’s advisory board. Howard Edelstein, the current Chairman and CEO, began as an OurCrowd investor who we put on BioCatch’s board.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The 2016-founded startup says its network is being used by over 25,000 organisations across 130+ countries to access and share information to support decision-making related to ESG goals — such vis-a-vis CO 2 emissions reductions or for responding to human rights concerns. Image Credits: Worldfavor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

During his two years at the firm, Salisbury went on to back the likes of now-decacorn Deel and Tally , two companies he had gotten to know through the Cambrian community he’s built up since 2016. Tim’s just been brought on board to build out the infrastructure so the company can scale.”. Why should we care? Funding and M&A.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

Since its launch in 2016, the company has been on a remarkable growth trajectory and achieved many industry milestones. Translating cyber risk into financial terms is a game-changer for C-suites and Boards, and CyberSaint has cracked the code on rapid time to value and scalability for enterprise cyber risk quantification.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. “For Hope is not a strategy.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

Aiming to disrupt the ‘take-make-waste’ strategy of fast fashion, their Innovation Platform shines a light on technologies and business models that have the greatest potential to transform the industry by being regenerative by design. Emma Watson announced as ambassador for Good On You.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016): “There is a statistically significant positive correlation between female leadership (C-Suite and board) and net margin and gross margin company profitability”, among a global dataset of 22,000 publicly traded companies. “For Hope is not a strategy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I was fortunate enough to have Amy Smith, the Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, share her perspective on this topic: “The start of the pandemic was a challenging time that provided many with the opportunity to pause, reflect and gain perspective, and this was no different for TOMS. That’s my modus operandi. It shouldn’t be. Future proof.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. Prerequisite: Commitment to steward-ownership and clear path or strategy towards profitability”. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. According to Indie.VC

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. Prerequisite: Commitment to steward-ownership and clear path or strategy towards profitability”. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs. According to Indie.VC

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift. Still, diversification and flight to quality will be top of mind, even at the expense of the best rate.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Two days after that article ran, which contained a number of interesting and troubling details including that the company’s 2016 “our cars are fully driverless” video was faked, another NYT article reported that Tesla owners can play video games while driving. Gareth Joyce will succeed Jack Allen as CEO of Proterra.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Saswat Panigrahi , who joined Waymo in 2016 and was most recently vice president of strategy, product management and data science, is taking the CPO spot. It appears that Waymo already has a replacement in mind.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. Let’s be clear: The venture capital industry has lacked diversity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

“Instead of us investing individually because obviously , we have somewhat limited capacity in terms of how much time we have as founders because of our respective companies, why don’t we collaborate on a strategy together and co-invest together ?” Some MAGIC portfolio companies. Here’s a scenario.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 8, 2016

As an entrepreneur making bold moves, I began to get recruited to strategy sessions for other companies – and even strategic planning retreats at my kids’ school. My transition to entrepreneurship, involvement in strategy sessions for various organizations, and the development of strategic plans for these organizations got me thinking.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price. The company started in 2016 when Montani met her co-founder, Matthew Honnibal in Berlin where he was working on the spaCy open source machine learning library.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The 2019 Business Roundtable CEO statement said that corporate strategy should benefit all stakeholders – including shareholders, yes, but equally customers, employees, suppliers, and the communities in which companies operate. Since the 2016 presidential election in the U.S., But Facebook and its brethren remain fragile.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rangel added that its choice to build was partly done out of necessity, since in 2016 there weren’t many banking-as-a-service platforms to provide those APIs. Kulkarni is joining Novo’s board with this round. (Middlesex Federal Savings handles the banking license, FDIC insurance, and access to rails for Novo.)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As part of the investment, Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Andela’s board. In 2016, Africa minted its first unicorn in e-commerce company Jumia (now a publicly traded company) and waited three years later to get another, Interswitch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

“We’ve been working on this speaker technology since 2016. The company also made the shrewd move of stacking its advisory board with strategically powerful folks who can add a tremendous amount of leverage, and may just be the key to building this type of company going forward. Image Credits: Mayht.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

We believed that cash flow underwriting had the potential to change the way consumer finance works across the board — not only in credit cards, but everywhere that creditworthiness is evaluated, from personal and Buy-Now-Pay-Later loans to auto loans, mortgages and more, offered by anyone from the biggest banks to the smallest fintechs,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

I don’t want to get into the due diligence conversation yet again, and investors leaning on data to dictate their investment decisions is anything but a new strategy. Lucky for Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, the co-founders of Lawtrades, defining the term has been a conversation that’s been in the works since 2016. Around TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

In 2019, the Malaysian government also issued its Shared Prosperity Vision 2030, a 10-year framework for restructuring its economy that includes building an Islamic fintech hub as a key part of its strategy. The MUI has published at least two fatwas on fintech.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. For 2023, we can expect longer deal cycles due to more extensive diligence, deals with more balanced founder/investor terms and more protective provisions, including higher liquidation preferences and stronger Board governance. 2022 was a correction, not a collapse.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

He also talked about the work he enjoyed doing: coming up with our strategy, working with our largest customers (like Allstate, DirecTV), working with VCs (Accel, Upfront, Rincon, Salesforce.com) and talking with future investors. So we as a board kicked off a search for the next CEO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s been like having my own board of directors, for both my business and personal life. She joined EO Minnesota in 2016. It has directly led to some of my biggest ideas, like implementing a profit-sharing plan for employees and running on EOS. It has also shown me my gaps as a leader, wife and mother—and helped me close them.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Thereafter a news article on the dying industry of the famed Kolhapuri Chappal (hand-crafted leather slippers) was published in The Times of India in February 2016, and my communication with the Minister of Industries, Maharashtra, started. My basic strategy to take MSKVIB forward is the 3 S Agenda: skilling, scaling and selling.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. Investors — The typical 2016 VC investor is also subject to emotional bias.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Thornton, former president of Goldman Sachs, executive chairman of Barrick Gold, and board member of Ford, has joined Divergent’s board. He launched in 2013 a flexible rideshare financing company called Breeze that was purchased by Ford in 2016. FreeWire Technologies , the EV charging company, raised $125 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

A group of former Microsoft executives and engineers — Anoop Gupta , Aravind Bala , John Tippett and Vikas Manocha — came up with the foundation of what would eventually become SeekOut in 2016 when they began building a messaging platform that provided a deep level of information about people that others might be emailing.

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