Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  If anybody told you that they had a linear innovation process, you should likely throw them out of the room.” — Josh Hix, Plated You don’t wake up one day with an idea. We first met at Harvard Business School as young students in 1989.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options. At the core of CompAsia’s mission lies implementing innovative trade-in and resell programs. million second-hand mobile devices. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The funding round was led by HDI International, the international retail insurance division of the German Talanx Group, and included participation from existing investors such as the International Finance Corporation. The round comprised a $32 million direct injection into Roojai and a $10 million secondary share transaction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

We believed then, as we do now, that fintech represents one of the most exciting major innovation cycles of this decade. 2020 performance of individual fintech companies vs. SPX Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Fintech Index, 2016 -2020 Image Credits: CapiQ, Yahoo Finance. Matrix U.S.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

Listed below are brief descriptions of the companies and the innovations they are developing: AccountAbility Tech, located in Franklin County , offers a platform for people who are responsible for the management of finances and medical care for the elderly or the impaired. www.accountabilitytech.com. www.cpnet.io. www.emergeedu.com.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

According to a Small Business Credit Survey conducted by the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, Black and Latino-owned firms are less than half as likely as white-owned firms to be approved for financing. This is especially impactful for the self-care industry, where, according to the latest Annual Business Survey from the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. I started doing SnapStorms, which are short burst of video around a certain startup or financing topic. Sometimes they take off and they reward the early innovators. David Tirazona (@TirazonaD) March 7, 2016. By now I’m used to the haters. D7elVkC4XR.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. “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.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Register Indonesian open finance platform Ayoconnect has raised an additional $13 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount it raised to date to $43 million. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Open Finance API platform.

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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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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since 2016, the Accelerate2030 programme has been implemented across 24 countries, covering 16 developing countries in this year’s edition. This year’s cohort of Accelerate2030 ventures are developing innovative solutions to important Sustainable Development Goals. notes Artak Melkonyan, UNDP. About Accelerate2030.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. in-kind support”) instead of financing. She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact.

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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. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. He said the startup still has to spend about half of the $100 million that it raised in its previous financing round last year. Vedantu co-founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Specifically, Petal offers what it describes as “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. ” And today, the company is announcing it has raised an additional $35 million in what Rosen is describing as “strategic financing.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Image Credits : Einride Pods Founded out of Sweden in 2016, Einride garnered attention in the European mobility space for its cabless self-driving cargo truck that can be controlled remotely by human operators when needed. Einride’s planned transport network grid. Einride in action. ” Einride’s PepsiCo (Walkers) Truck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Rockset , a cloud-native analytics company, announced a $40 million Series B investment today led by Sequoia with help from Greylock, the same two firms that financed its Series A. “We’re building out our service with innovative architecture and unique capabilities that allows full-featured fast SQL directly on raw data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

Synaptic combines the best of technology, machine learning, and finance to bring sophisticated alternative data insights to decision-makers. Born out of the Vy team’s frustration with existing tools and processes, Synaptic was spun out as an independent company in 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Founded in September 2016, Gredu is now used by more than 400 schools, with a total of 400,000 users. Gredu is part of a crop of Indonesian edtech startups that have recently raised funding, including tuition platform InfraDigital ; homework help and tutoring app CoLearn ; and ErudiFi for education financing. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The São Paulo-based startup was founded in 2016 by a trio that includes former Citi investment banker Gustavo Müller, Bruno Oliveira (who worked in strategic planning for Telefonica) and Felipe Adorno, an ex-senior developer for Netshoes and Infracommerce. Typically these have been relationships between one bank and a buyer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

and Nigerian-based company is announcing a financing round of $3.15 RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge , Amy Kao and Wei Lui. Despite the company’s innovation, funding has been few and far between, as with many deep tech platforms with a significant focus on Africa. Today, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The 21st Century Cures Act, which passed in 2016 and will begin to be enforced this year, outlines information sharing guidelines, API standardization and national infrastructure for sharing this type of information. An increase in healthcare innovation is listed as one of the act’s goals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Tiger Global and CRV also participated in its latest financing, which brings Zip’s total funding raised to $81 million. Zip co-founder and CEO Rujul Zaparde previously co-founded another startup, a car-sharing company called FlightCar, which shuttered and sold its technology to Mercedes-Benz in 2016.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Founded out of London in 2016, Jiminny offers companies the technology to gain insights into how well their sales or customer support teams are engaging with their clients across voice, video, email, and messaging. recently securing $125 million in financing , while Gong hit a $7.25 million in a series A round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

The extension round comes over two years after the company announced its initial Series B investment, a $51 million financing led by VMG Partners. The Pill Club launched in 2016 with an at-home delivery service of birth control. Between 2016 and January 2021, it launched in 43 states plus the District of Columbia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2016, San Francisco-based Zero Financial has raised $147 million in debt and equity , according to Crunchbase. With this acquisition, that lens will be expanded with data, such as a deposit customer’s cash flow, how they manage their finances and whether they pay their bills on time. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lemann and Saggioro met in 2016 when Lemann was an angel investor and Saggioro was testing different business models at Harvard. What united them was the realization that not only was technology going to be a disruptor and innovator in Latin America, but also that there was not much capital committed to finance companies in the early stages.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Varjo describes the latter two as strategic: It’s not clear how the Swiss finance and banking giant is working with Varjo, but Foxconn is a potential manufacturing partner for its devices, CEO Timo Toikkanen said in an interview. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. One particularly key area of innovation is the steady adoption of secure, safe, and scalable standard Ethernet TCP/IP networking at increasingly capable speeds. And traditional software-defined storage systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. The company has made significant strides since launching in 2016. The CEO who studied finance and investment banking in the U.S. .” It doesn’t end there. for law school. ”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

“The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. Promoting Disruption.

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