TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company was created by Dr. Shannon Klingman, a board-certified OB-GYN, in 2017 to develop a line of aluminum-free deodorants to help patients dealing with below-the-belt body odor. to scale the business and accelerate D2C growth. , Haider said Harry’s had looked at over 100 companies, and “Lum? In addition, the entire Lum?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

MotoRefi, which was born out of QED Investors in 2017, developed an auto refinancing platform that handles the entire process, including finding the best rates, paying off the old lender and re-titling the vehicle. Liza Benson, a partner at Moderne Venture, will join the board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel. . Urmson thinks differently.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto. Last year, about $32 billion of capital pooled into the crypto world, and this year, $11.35

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Cresicor was a company name Whatley had come up with back in 2017 when he founded the company with his brother Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil. As part of the investment, 645 Ventures Managing Partner Nnamdi Okike will join Vividly’s board. million in seed funding. At the time, it had grown revenue by 2.5x

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The investment accelerates the commercialization and adoption of Pryon’s AI-enhanced knowledge management platform for private and public sectors. This funding allows Pryon to accelerate its growth, augment its team, expand into international markets, and scale strategic partnerships.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Back in September 2019, Reliable Robotics flew a Cessna 172 with no one on board in airspace just outside of San Jose, California. . The company was founded in 2017, and was operating in stealth mode until last year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

In 2017, Roberts was the speaker for his son’s class from Cardigan Mountain School in New Hampshire. Contributed by Robert Glazer , a former EO Boston member who is the founder and chairman of the board of Acceleration Partners , a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Nemrow and Will Bewley founded the San Francisco-based company in 2017. “In It will be deployed into accelerating product development, recruiting on the engineering team and developing new language considerations so the company can move into new markets. The new funding gives Woflow about $11 million in total funding to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

We saw a massive acceleration trend that was already going to happen. In 2017, the founding team (Sophinos, Kannah, Ryan Vanshur, Marc Barron, Michael Woo, and Fadi George) partnered with a large vocational education provider to build and launch what Sophinos describes as “the world’s first trade school management system.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Its Series A brings Macrometa’s total raised since its was founded in 2017 to $29 million. As part of the new round, Macrometa expanded its board of directors, adding Pelion general partner Chris Cooper as a director, and Pelion senior associate Zain Rizavi and DNX Ventures principal Eva Nahari as board observers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The company was co-founded in 2017 by Vivas, Peter Ombres, Alex Vauthey and Annabel Liu, who had previously worked together at LinkedIn. Interest from CapitalG introduced the Curated team to general partner Laela Sturdy, who is joining Curated’s board as part of the investment.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Gilling and Xing Wang founded Moesif in 2017 and went through the Alchemist Accelerator in 2018. As part of the investment, Craft Ventures’ Malekzadeh is joining Moesif’s board. Existing investor Merus Capital, which led Moesif’s $3.5 million, Moesif co-founder and CEO Derric Gilling told TechCrunch. Moesif raises $3.5M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Improved monetization, more than acceleration in user growth, was the pandemic’s effect on Duolingo. But not as impressive as the more than 100% revenue expansion that the company put on the board last year. What can we see in the company’s more recent results? From Q1 2020 to Q1 2021, Duolingo’s paid subscribers rose from 1.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and balanced hiring process. Demand has accelerated exponentially, and the San Francisco-based startup saw its revenue grow “3x” in 2020 compared to 2019, although execs declined to provide hard figures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. When the time came, he recognized that Canada was a missing geography for Eventbrite, and positioned the company to capture that market and accelerate an acquisition. Uplevel your board and exec team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Founded in 2017 by Chileans Jaime Arrieta, Santiago Lira, Teresita Morán, Felipe Sateler and Ricardo Sateler, Buk is building a cloud-based platform that it says allows companies to manage their human resources “ end to end” — from the payment of salaries to professional development. Today, the tool is used by 4,000 SMEs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Well, a report released today by data research organization Briter Bridges and global inclusive tech accelerator Catalyst Fund is punching above its weight to offer a holistic representation to the darling sector of these three markets: fintech. Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Such a task is Herculean.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Swaminathan and Daniel Mazzella co-founded TaskHuman in 2017, with the goal of connecting users with specialists on topics related to their personal and professional lives. Swaminathan was previously a program and logistics manager at Dell and VP of software solutions at SanDisk, while Mazzella was a system admin at Stamps.com.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

On August 3rd, we boarded our new “home”: a 25 foot Jayco RV. It was also great to be back in Ann Arbor, MI, where we had lunch at Zingerman’s Roadhouse, where we kicked off our Rise of the Rest visit in 2017. Slowing of the brain drain is critical for cities looking to accelerate the growth of a robust startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Predictably, they’re mostly focused on the how and why: How do I get into an accelerator? Solivan has ample experience on both sides of the fence, as she founded TaskRabbit and led it to exit through an acquisition by Ikea in 2017. How to get into a startup accelerator. When should I hire a sales team?

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

VCPlatform – for portfolio acceleration professionals. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs. No-cost accelerators: Afore Capital Angel to Fund Manager (AFM), Founder Institute VC Lab , Recast Capital Enablement Program – Accelerators with tuition: Oper8r , OnConduit ‘s Emerging Fund Managers Initiative.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

With three tech IPOs in 2018 alone, our market is adding new anchor tenants at an accelerating rate. Amazon has added more than 20,000 new hires here in Seattle, bringing their total local headcount to more than 40,000, and has transformed Seattle’s downtown with a new headquarters campus coming to life on on those Denny Triangle blocks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Since it launched its debit cards for kids in 2017, the company has managed to set up accounts for more than 3 million parents and children, who have saved more than $120 million through the app. That’s up from 2 million parents and kids having saved $50 million at the time of its September 2020 raise. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

With the round, YC Continuity Partner Anu Hariharan is joining RevenueCat’s board, which today includes Index’s Mark Fiorentino in addition to the founders. When Eiting and Guisado sat down to work on on RevenueCat in 2017, no one else was even building anything like this. ” Image Credits: RevenueCat.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Because the more cities we visited, the more we became convinced that there were amazing companies scaling in these cities led by dedicated and diverse founders who, despite the viability of their ideas, were struggling to raise the necessary capital to accelerate their businesses.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

In 2017, Instagram began allowing sellers to transform their profiles into shops. . In that same announcement, Pinterest shared that customers would have new ways to shop directly from Pins, on boards, through search, and from home decor recommendations: . Promoted Pins are another way merchants can increase sales through Pinterest.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

The 2017 Startup Catalyst Europe Mission cohort?—?Will They’re also really exciting to work with because maybe they’re getting into their first big commercial contracts, they’ve maybe got their first few employees on board, and they’re starting to get a bit more serious. Get on a board. Meet William McCullough.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. No board seats or personal guarantees. Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP) runs a 5-step process: Attend the Appropriate Pre-Funding Accelerator Program. Alternative Capital. “ For RBI, return caps of 1.2x-1.8x

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Battery Ventures has backed Databricks since 2017, so Alex Wilhelm interviewed General Partner Dharmesh Thakker to understand why he thinks the company may be undervalued. Customer advisory boards are a gold mine for startup brand champions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cliff is headed over to the California Air Resources Board. It has sat vacant since 2017. and Ares Electronics , a provider of circuit boards. . Steven Cliff, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , plans to leave the agency in September after three months in the top job. Electric vehicles.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Mid-year, the 2017-founded startup reports that it had reached €14.7 If you take a look at Barcelona-based Heura the picture seems rosy — with the alt-protein startup claiming “non-stop” momentum and a near doubling of revenue from sales of its faux chicken, beef and pork products in the first half of 2022.

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