Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. 2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” will be “What are your unit economics?”

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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. While searching for remote locks that would enable him to unlock it after someone bought the grill, he came up short.

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 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. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed exponentially since the monumental showdown between Alpha Go and Lee Se-dol in 2016. was grappling with forest fires leading to power disruptions and water scarcity. In several instances, AI has even outperformed human capabilities. At that juncture, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip, which intends to be the most customer-centric financial technology company in the world, enables users to do fair financial transactions from anywhere to anyone. Flip hopes to change that by helping individuals and businesses to eliminate complexity and execute their money transfer at a low cost.

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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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chikazawa and co-founder Sam Yamashita started Autify in 2016 in San Francisco to develop software testing automation, enabling software developers to expedite the delivery of quality software to their customers in a rapidly changing marketplace. Autify can win in the testing market because lack of developers is not a Japan-only issue.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sure launched its first (enterprise SaaS) product in early 2016, and today counts traditional financial services and fintech companies alike among its customers. Like any legacy industry being disrupted there are many players trying to ride the wave of ‘embedded’ by rebranding their 1.0 Berkley and Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

One of those was Grip , previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). Founded in 2016, Grip counts some large event organizers as clients, including Reed Exhibitions and Messe Frankfurt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Socher previously founded MetaMind , an AI startup that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Unsurprisingly given Socher’s data science background, You sprinkles AI-enabled features liberally throughout the search experience. ”

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

designed to equip entrepreneurs of color with tools and resources to enable them to accelerate growth and maximize impact. This portfolio of partners will enable adidas to continue strengthening the diversity of our partnership network, increase our reach within key markets and deepen our relationships over time. IG: @hood_health.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said. In 2016, the startup shifted its model so that the people providing the care were actual employees, and not just contractors, with benefits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That is really representative of this shift in consumer health behavior that will continue in a big way in many different verticals that include testing, and making things more convenient, digitally-enabled, and in the home.” The startup has now raised over $250 million to date.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

BJ Jenkins is CEO of Barracuda , a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions. Because of digital disruption, businesses must move at an unprecedented pace to stay competitive. of all board seats in the Russell 3000 were occupied by women, up from 15% at the end of 2016. BJ Jenkins. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. FOMO is real.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But this age of disruption has also created numerous opportunities for hackers and cybercriminals. million back in 2016. Cymulate Founded in 2016, this Israel-based startup recently closed a $7.5 As the name suggests, Cymulate enables companies to simulate attacks on their own systems without compromising current operations.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Headquartered in California with offices in Ann Arbor, KLA is a global tech company that makes process-control and process-enabling solutions that help manufacture tech devices like our computers, smartphones, smart watches, autonomous vehicles, LCD screens and more. Voxel51 uses computer vision to create insights from video. Groundspeed.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Wave Ventures has invested in 23 startups since 2016. Next Canada’s programs offer a world-class education, exclusive events, an expansive network, and more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Speaking of the disorganization that rules many startups, one may ask why the large slew of HR tech startups haven’t sought to disrupt the disability accommodation side of operations. Steve O’Hear, a former TechCrunch reporter, wrote about tech companies’ lack of disability reporting in 2016. “At

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. Smartwatches are enabling people and their doctors to track their health and fitness. Virtual reality has moved beyond gaming and into the office.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2016 by Google and Uber vets, the Pittsburgh-based firm managed to drum up $1 billion in funding over its half-dozen-year existence. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Image Credits: Argo AI. It wasn’t from lack of interest — or money. Kitty Hawk. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. Danielle Vaz (2016) is with Deloitte Digital as a Technical Business Analyst. Kaitlyn Sapier (2016) co-founded OrbMaps and is also with Accenture as a Digital Business Integration Analyst. It’s not all startups! What walls do we need to move?

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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. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. yourprotagonist. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

When you are a coffee lover, taste matters, and Spinn is brewing up some fresh funding in the way of a $20 million funding round, led by Spark Capital, to bring connected coffee to new customers through its hardware-enabled coffee marketplace. Spinn debuted its centrifugal brewing method at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. And in 2016 and even in 2015, we just started missing numbers. We sold RJMetrics in 2016 to Magento, which quickly got folded into Adobe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The biggest benefit is that remote work has enabled people in Big Tech to work outside of Silicon Valley, and it appears Miami and South Florida, more broadly, are enjoying the benefits of that decentralization. Access to capital has been a significant problem for Florida-based founders since before we started our first fund back in 2016.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

million follow-on award, launching the startup into its first phase of product development in 2016, they received another $3 million award from ARPA-E to achieve commercialization and product launch of their unique natural gas compression technology. Jeff Witwer, and together, they founded Onboard Dynamics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When Parker Conrad founded Rippling in 2016, the HR company initially focused on the process of onboarding employees. Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Rippling unveiled what Conrad describes as the “biggest launch” of his career — its new global payroll product. I swear this is the world’s first global payroll system.”

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

with software that enables forklifts to be operated remotely from thousands of miles away, Bloomberg reports. ThetaRay enables the acceleration of cross-border payments between banks while protecting financial institutions from financial crime. Earned wage access provider DailyPay raises $500M.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. This characteristic enables investment at the riskiest stage of business formation and growth. According to Indie.VC By comparison, traditional VC has a bankruptcy rate of 30-40%. Collab Capital.

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