TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While Flutterwave has been rumoured to acquire some startups in the past, this is its first public announcement of any acquisition since launching in 2016 to tackle Africa’s payments problems. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2016

billion people, combined with little or no environmental consciousness, spells a large opportunity in India. Jai Gupta is a member of EO New Delhi, and has started an environmental products company, Nirvana Being , to protect us from air and water pollution, and create awareness of a more sustainable path. Additionally, 1.25

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Burrow participated in the Y Combinator accelerator in 2016 with an initial aim of building sofas that, by virtue of being modular, were easier to move and adapt to a variety of living spaces. “The goal is to match the largest customer needs with the biggest market opportunities,” Kuhl said.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We Apollo uses the satellite imagery data of farms and AI to rate the credit-worthiness of farmers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White and Shawn Mendes are the new backers, who came in through a strategic round of funding alongside PLUS Capital to bring the Seattle-based company’s total funding to $60 million since the company’s inception in 2016. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. Disclosure: Verizon is TechCrunch’s parent company).

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

Fish Gods, located in Erie, PA , is an environmental company that engages outdoor enthusiasts to clean up and protect the sustainability of watersheds. The company’s innovation creates the opportunity for reduced core losses, improved efficiency, and an overall reduction in size. www.emergeedu.com. www.horizontechnology.biz.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One of the fastest-growing private companies links its’ success to furthering social causes In 2016 when David Berkal, CEO of Banyan Software, founded his company he envisioned it to be an alternative for fellow entrepreneurs when deciding upon their companies’ futures. based Merit America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Codecademy’s funding signals that investors aren’t just looking for exponential growth, they are looking for sustainable, historical growth. The startup has been cash-flow positive for years, and has $20 million of its $30 million Series C, closed in 2016, still in the bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. It’s also a great opportunity for startup founders.” But there’s some evidence to suggest the bank is turning a corner.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 9, 2019

But state funding shortfalls are starting to curtail the partners’ ability to fund companies appropriately, creating missed opportunities. billion between 2012 and 2016. It’s imperative to secure new opportunities that continue to nourish and grow our regional economies. in additional state taxes, the analysis found.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and we work hard to lower our emissions across the board. It’s a potentially huge opportunity in the $260 billion U.S. Any reduction in carbon emissions from the transport sector would be a huge step forward on the path toward a more environmentally sustainable future.

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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. According to him, a valuable company, sustained by growth and impact, naturally becomes an attractive acquisition or public offering candidate.

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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. Fika Ventures , co-founded by Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, raised a $160 million fund 3 and a $35 million opportunity fund.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. . Why are more US VCs investing in international startups?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As long as you are able to innovate for students and deliver value, nothing can prevent you from creating a long-term sustainable company. The startup is also exploring international expansion and eyeing some merger and acquisition opportunities, said Krishna. So our orientation has always been long-term,” he said. “As

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The app was founded based on Flashfood CEO Josh Domingues’s personal experience in 2016. Founded in March 2016, Flashfood has numerous grocery partners across Canada and the United States, including Giant, Loblaw, Giant Eagle, Tops, Family Fare, Stop & Shop, Tops, Price Rite Marketplace and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

As much as he had benefited from the rise of the mobile internet, he thought there was a far bigger opportunity building a consumer brand and applying the lessons he learned from programming to the manufacture of tangible products. By 2016, China was shipping 30 billion packages a year , already accounting for 44% of global shipments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed. 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. The average Kenyan only consumes about 10-20% of animal protein intake, most of which is red meat.

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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. Hoag believes it is, pointing to the Mastercard partnership. billion in 2021.

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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. She stated that Lori has been focusing on growth, sustainability and a path to profitability since its last funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more. Here’s what to know via Jet co-founder Nate Faust : He sold his business to Walmart for $3 billion in 2016, and now he’s back to compete with Amazon with a sustainable e-commerce play.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

TechCrunch first covered Funding Societies when it raised its Series A in 2016. The opportunity is huge because it’s a $300 billion U.S. It also received $150 million in debt lines from institutional investors, some of which have been drawn down since last year. . Teo and Wijaya say Funding Societies’ main competitors are not banks.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations. Notley Ventures.

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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. Don’t be fooled by short-lived trends and hype cycles.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2016, he found a gap in the market for solutions tailored to the needs of water and electricity distributors in Egypt and other emerging markets. It’s a massive opportunity to increase the aggregate revenues and top line of those utilities by 50%. Here’s how it works. Pylon grew its revenues by 3.5x

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack. But the company, which was founded in 2016, has raised $2.4 The event comes just weeks after Y Combinator had its bi-annual Demo Day , its first since moving operations back to in-person.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Tens of millions of workers don’t earn a living wage, and it’s not for a lack of job opportunities. Airspace Link is also a top Detroit startup because of its culture—great benefits, real work/life balance, and the opportunity to work with a high-growth, high-potential tech company. Back in June, Vroom went public with a great IPO.

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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. Sure, problems are also opportunities, but what if there are just too many hurdles to overcome in the near future?

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

is further closing the opportunity gap that exists for Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs by elevating, co-creating with and funding entrepreneurs creating change in their communities. To enable inclusive and sustainable innovation – at scale. . The first cohort kicked off in July 2022 and will graduate in March 2023. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2020

A boost in your industry credibility–which translates to better recruiting and sales opportunities. Countless partnership and networking opportunities. Previous honorees also point to these must-have ingredients for sustained growth: 1. Increased employee morale—which leads to increased productivity. To qualify for the 2020 Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Some compared this to the 2016 left-pad incident that briefly broke a large part of the internet after the project’s developer deleted his widely-used code in protest. Developer Azer Koçulu ran into a trademark dispute with messaging app Kik because his npm package was called “kik.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Founded by CEO Basha Rubin and CPO Mirra Levitt (who met while classmates at Yale Law School), Priori launched as a legal marketplace for small and medium businesses before finding its current model in 2016.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at ButcherBox , the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken space of meat production and distribution simply could not be ignored. The company went from revenue of $275,000 in 2015 to $5 million in 2016, then $31 million in 2017 and kept growing.

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