TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

With over 1 billion Facebook Marketplace users per month , Nymbull founder Jackson Wegelin doesn’t think that’s necessary for peer-to-peer transactions. The idea for the company came to Wegelin in 2016 when he had a grill that he wanted to sell. He refers to it as “lock it, list it, leave it.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

Chandran Nair, GIFT Founder, and GIFT.ed CEO Janet Teo oversees operations from GIFT’s regional office in Kuala Lumpur, which opened in 2016. Chris Yap, AITIA Institute’s Executive Director, said their goal is based on three pillars: research and education, consulting, and organization transformation enablement.

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

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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. Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It gives us the resources we need to fuel and accelerate our mission to build innovative solutions that simplify money movement in Indonesia,” said Rafi Putra Arriyan , co-founder and CEO of Flip. . Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia.

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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. Also, CEO and co-founder Wayne Slavin says its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown “by more than 3X every year over the past several years.”. 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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. For example, even in the U.S., million ,” Kubota said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Socher previously founded MetaMind , an AI startup that was acquired by Salesforce in 2016. While at Salesforce, Socher helped to build the company’s sprawling Einstein AI platform and worked with Bryan McCann, You’s second co-founder, on natural language processing research. . ”

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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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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. Bob’s founder history Sarah Wang: Yeah, I could not agree more. And in 2016 and even in 2015, we just started missing numbers.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Prosus Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Thrive Capital, FMZ Ventures, Rock Springs Capital, Lighthouse Capital Markets and TriplePoint Capital also put money in Honor’s latest funding round in addition to Home Instead founders Paul and Lori Hogan. Rowe Price Associates Inc., Image credit: Honor Technology, Inc. Image Credits: Honor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth Image credits: [link] You’re a tech founder with a vision of building a product that will establish and dominate a brand-new category. WhatsApp is a good example of such approach: as a text messaging company, its founders homed in on consumers who were paying the highest rates to text?—?immigrant

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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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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. million to date.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

CPO Liran Raizer is the former VP engineering of Galileo Mobility and co-founder of tactical dronemaker Bluebird Aero Systems. with software that enables forklifts to be operated remotely from thousands of miles away, Bloomberg reports. We have a very big vision and have so far only scratched the surface.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded by two of the top female founders in the Midwest , Workit Health is a health startup that’s providing digital tools for people recovering from addiction. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience. Workit Health. In 2020, they raised $5.5 Groundspeed.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Disclo CEO and co-founder Hannah Olson was diagnosed with Lyme disease when she was in college. 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.

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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. and announced that CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried had resigned from his role. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Image Credits: Argo AI. Kitty Hawk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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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. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. “ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6

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