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. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. Jeshua Soh’s journey offers a refreshing perspective on entrepreneurship and venture capital in a world driven by innovation and disruption.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. 2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. Time will tell on that front.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in 2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

” “We sold out,” said Lore — who co-founded both Quidsi.com and Jet.com — at Disrupt 2022. “With Walmart, we were happy to sell; we saw that as a way to accelerate our vision,” said the billionaire of the 2016 sale of Jet.com to Walmart. The “Amazon situation was different. It was a forced situation.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 10, 2023

Founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Sparsh Khandelwal, Stylework has established a strong foothold in India’s flexible workspace market, partnering with over 250 coworking and managed office operator brands and having a presence in over 80 tier I, tier II, tier III, and tier IV cities.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. From 2016 to 2022 In its inception year itself, KSGC received an overwhelming response.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries. Eber completed his PhD in 2016 and Wehmeyer was a Research Associate for a year, 2016 to 2017. Both attended Harvard University.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

MyCarrier was co-founded in 2016 by freight and freight tech veterans Bookout and Chris Scheid, who previously worked at GlobalTranz, a logistics company based in Phoenix, Arizona. And it’s absolutely needed given global supply chain disruptions and chaos.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Christine is in an airport lounge and Haje is perched on the corner of a cafe bench, as the TechCrunch team is in transit post-Disrupt today. When Parker Conrad founded Rippling in 2016, the HR company initially focused on the process of onboarding employees. PDT, subscribe here. Enjoy Daily Crunch, and see y’all next week!

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

My journey into start-up ecosystems commenced with scouting bleeding edge technologies in the automotive industry back in 2016/2017. I started educating myself about investing back in 2016 and joined a VC in the web3 vertical to manage deal flow from sourcing to deploying. Not sure if I mentioned AI. Is the hype warranted?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

There are ways to disrupt this timeline: VC firms can sometimes back a relatively early-stage company and exit the investment within 12 months. The report found that the rolling one-year IRR was 2.8%, the lowest it has been since Q4 2016, a not particularly bad year for venture. But 2021 wasn’t normal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. The Brazilian finance and banking market has been ripe for disruption, as it has traditionally favored the rich. . It has raised a total of $22.85

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Businesses are transforming their ways of working to keep pace with disruption. Founded in 2016, theDesk offers flexible and productive workspaces with a focus on building inclusive and collaborative communities that enable meaningful business connections.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

since being founded back in 2016. ” The startup has focused on disrupting the use of legacy tools like Word and PDFs for contracts — offering a dedicated, browser-based contract builder platform, rather than merely creating a cloud-based work flow for moving files around. In total the startup has raised $31.5M

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This article was written for the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. … Read the rest of this amazing story in the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine. Request a free copy by emailing us

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

NXgenPort, which presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, is building an implantable chemo port that features added sensors and remote connectivity functions. In 2016, she was working with a breast cancer patient and noticed that her condition had worsened from the last time Skinner saw her.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. HubHaus (2016-2020). The service had its roots in the software giant’s acquisition of Beam Interactive shortly after the startup won TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital wrote on Twitter: The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions.” of venture capital deals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The idea for the company came to Wegelin in 2016 when he had a grill that he wanted to sell. And he estimates that between interacting with potential buyers and dealing with no-shows, each sale takes about a week to complete. We have pizza companies using lockers as do people for dropping keys for Airbnbs, as well as Amazon pick-up lockers.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

“The pandemic has brought existential threats and societal challenges to the fore and generated a fresh impetus for change,” Nair added saying the company is committed to solving these challenges through disruptive e-learning, which empowers users with insights and understanding to redesign society.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In 2016, Interswitch disclosed its intention to go public for the first time. Interswitch, a pioneer in the African payments ecosystem, has been disrupting the cash economy, driving digital payments and promoting equitable financial inclusion in Nigeria for two decades.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million Seed round in 2016 and a $1.54 Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. parent company of iMCI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

That company sold to Germany’s WireCard in 2016 (with a 3 million customer base) and after three years the founders were able to strike out again. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

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. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The startup obtained a license from Bank Indonesia (BI) in 2016 to provide financial services, including interbank transfers to more than 100 domestic banks, international remittances, e-wallet top-ups, salary transfers and business solution products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S. In a short period of time, the Bokksu team has built an authentic and purpose-driven brand. Bokksu’s subscription fee costs $49.95/month,

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Prior to joining ViralGains in 2016, Mulderrig was National Sales Manager for OwnerIQ (acquired by Inmar) and Regional Sales Manager, Northeast for Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) What motivated you to launch your startup? The concept was both powerful and incredibly disruptive. When I joined in 2016, we were way ahead of our time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. ” Alexa is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and an inaugural member of President Obama’s Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. Einride’s business is threefold. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo. It’s not my thing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall. In 2016, Leah transitioned into the role of executive chairwoman and in 2017, TaskRabbit was acquired by IKEA. Shardul Shah, Index Ventures. Image Credits: Index Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori, in a statement, said it has helped thousands of shippers and carriers move over $10 billion worth of cargo across the continent since launching in 2016. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

You can read more about Starry’s origins in a 2016 interview with Kanojia. It touts its internet plan, which runs at about $50 a month, as one that doesn’t involve a long-term contract or hidden fees, a free WiFi router and unlimited data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Frayman has been involved with multiple startups including Cujo.ai , a consumer firewall startup that participated in TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York in 2016. And a lot of us came from organizations where this was very visible and we took a lot of those processes [and lessons] and brought them here,” Frayman said.

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