Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. This trifecta serves as a catalyst for accelerated growth and long-term viability.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Following a Covid-driven boost, the popular AllTrails resource for hikers, bikers, climbers, and anyone else who enjoys the outdoors, announced today it’s raised $150 million from the growth fund of global private equity firm Permira to further accelerate its business.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea.

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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. This network is a community full of talent, drive and a genuine commitment to radically transform the way we do business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way. Farmers Business Network just raked in a whopping $110 million in Series D funding.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. At the time of our initial investment, the company was already on its way with a network of more than 125 million players and hit titles, including “The Walking Dead: Road to Survival,” “Wheel of Fortune,” and “WWE Champions.”

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur. Who we took.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Founded in 2017 by Dr. Aneesh Sathe and Dr. Kaveh Taghipour, Qritive today has presence in Singapore, USA, and India. Qritive’s technology helps accelerate cancer diagnosis across multiple cancer types including colon, prostate, lymph node, breast and includes a robust set of tools for immunohistochemistry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Launched in 2017, Fuse connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels and partners to make insurance services accessible and affordable through its technology. The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation in the insurance industry, one of the most conservative sectors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Stephanie Strong, the company has a mission to address national overdose rates, particularly with opioid and alcohol use disorders. Analysis from the White House in 2017 shows the cost of the opioid epidemic was over half a billion dollars. Stephanie Strong, CEO of Boulder Care.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Solivan brings her keen insight as an early-stage investor who has invested in and helped many early-stage companies spanning consumer tech, marketplaces, hardware and retail — but also her eight years of experience leading TaskRabbit, the startup she founded and led to a successful exit when it was acquired by IKEA in 2017.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. . As an entrepreneur and angel investor, I’ve built a network that spans dozens of countries. Join an international accelerator or entrepreneur group. Leave Canada for a little while (and find other Canadians).

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

TTTech Auto — which came out of TTTech Group, a provider of safe networked computing platforms across automotive, aerospace, mobile machinery and automation industries — announced on Thursday its $285 million Series C raise, led by Aptiv and supported by existing investor Audi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

“Joining together with AMD will help accelerate growth in our core business and enable us to pursue a much larger customer base across more markets,” he said. Pensando CEO and co-founder Prem Jain framed the deal in terms of being able to grow faster inside the larger organization than it could on its own.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s not yet clear how Kakao Mobility intends to use Splyt’s tech: using it as a lever to work with a wider network of international partners or using it to extend Kakao Mobility’s own app, Kakao T, which currently has around 32 million registered users.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

San Francisco-based Treasury Prime, which has raised about $73 million since its 2017 inception, started out by building software tooling that helps banks automate and accelerate routine tasks. While he declined to reveal valuation, Dean confirmed that the fundraise was “an up round.”

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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. But having 20 to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community. And web3 is all about the community.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

. “Chipotle has aggressive goals of achieving 7,000 restaurants, along with a healthy balance sheet, which enables us to invest in in forward-thinking ventures that can help accelerate these growth plans,” Garner said. But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. Its Series A brings Macrometa’s total raised since its was founded in 2017 to $29 million. The company’s last round of funding, an $7 million seed, was announced just eight months ago.

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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. The company claims to have a network of over 1,000 “coaches” across nearly 50 countries, each specializing in distinctive areas. ”

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated the situation. In their Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017 , they found that, “Early-stage startups are highly dependent on their surrounding startup ecosystem, and so if we can create healthier startup ecosystems, we can generate more successful startups.”. Economies are hurting.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The financing brings the Bogota, Colombia-based startup’s total raised to $85 million since its 2017 inception. The pandemic accelerated the adoption of online grocery shopping in LatAm,” McAllister told TechCrunch. Dark stores are traditional retail stores that have been converted to local fulfillment centers.”

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

New York Private Equity Network. VCPlatform – for portfolio acceleration professionals. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs. International Climate Finance Accelerator – based in Luxembourg. Draper Venture Network. National Venture Capital Association. Gen Z Mafia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

million Series A led by new strategic investor EIT InnoEnergy, a major accelerator of sustainable energies in Europe that’s supported by the European Union. The company recently launched a battery-swapping network in China and has plans to do the same in India. Our role model is Gogoro,” Duscha told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

He claims that the startup acquired more than 200 new customers in 2021, accelerating Tive’s plans to expand its workforce of 120 people to 300 by the end of 2022. ” Tracking real-time shipments. Companies use visibility data to, among other things, prevent stock pile-ups in locations that don’t need inventory.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

This network of nurses now stretches to 40,000, CEO and founder Tony Braswell tells TechCrunch. . They have arguably the largest network of nurses in the United States for this type of platform,” Richard Liu, a partner at FTV Capital, tells TechCrunch. A 2017 report by the U.S. They’re in about 38 right now. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Lee had been convicted on bribery charges in 2017, and the pardon will erase it, Kate writes. Amazon launched AWS Private 5G so companies can build their own 4G networks…for now, Paul writes. This is something that has been in the works since late 2021 , and the company said eventually there will be capabilities for 5G networks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. That’s especially challenging for a foreigner who has less of an understanding of the local industry and lacks a network and people on the ground. investors remain shy.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. The short story now is that I believe we as a society and economy are not only underestimating the rate of acceleration in climate change, we are doing the same with respect to the severity and intensity of global trade wars. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017. This gives us an edge over them as we build the network, the channels and the trust that are all key ingredients for the adoption of payment services at large scale.”. Last year, it was part of Y Combinator’s winter batch as the first Algerian startup in the accelerator.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Eber completed his PhD in 2016 and Wehmeyer was a Research Associate for a year, 2016 to 2017. Next, they focused on finding the best resources to start Taktile which led to their acceptance into the Y Combinator accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

million raise in 2017. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program. She also became acquainted with the company through personal networks. TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6

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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. This fundraising was the right thing to do, even though it was unexpected, for the purposes of accelerating into more categories of high-consideration purchases.”. With the U.S.

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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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