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.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Prior to joining HPA, Bess was the co-founder of Learning to Fly Ventures and served on the Student Executive Board at David Axelrod’s Institute of Politics. She’s a 2017 graduate of University of Chicago. Stephen has worked at HPA since July 2016 after spending a couple of years working for a Chicago startup.

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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

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. Macrometa, an edge computing service for app developers, lands $7 million seed round led by DNX.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

. “This stickiness is manifesting itself in terms of app usage and frequency, and across the board improvements in sign up rates, user-generated content contribution rates, freemium conversion rates, and subscriber retention rates,” he adds. The company had previously raised $75 million from Spectrum Equity in October 2018.

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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. With the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If I buy one share of a public company stock, I can vote in the shareholder decisions and receive dividends if the board elects to issue one. It functions like a board and shareholder base. A company’s board can create more stock simply by passing a motion. A DAO is the governance organization of a crypto company.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Under the terms of the agreement Nitin Chopra, managing director at Shasta Ventures, will be joining the company board. “Once we get this telemetry, whether it’s networks, endpoints, servers or third-party partners, we then help the customer build a picture of what those applications are doing and what’s normal behavior.

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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. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. But when you take the time to surround yourself with the right people, you’ll always have the network behind you to build again.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Their average size, especially for seed rounds, has grown from $750,000 in 2017 to $1 million in 2020. He added that what makes India a better market at this stage is because it isn’t a continent like the other markets and operations are uniform across board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Husband and wife Drew and Ashley Rose founded Living Security out of their house in June 2017 with the mission of making cybersecurity training less boring and more effective via gamified learning with live action immersive storylines, role-based micro modules and reporting. I wanted to gamify how I presented training,” she recalls.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Existing investors NFX, Galaxy Digital, Seedcamp and Firstminute Capital also participated, alongside angel investors including Taavet Hinrikus (Wise) and Francesco Simoneschi (TrueLayer), and the investment will see Balderton’s General Partner Rana Yared join the Ramp board. The startup has now raised a total of $63 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. Goodwater’s S-1 teardown of Coupang, released today, is based on a combination of proprietary consumer research and information from Coupang’s S-1 filing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Its platform kicks out hackers that could shut down manufacturing lines or control energy supply systems, while its research arm keeps tabs on the hackers that can break into these highly complex and segmented industrial networks in the first place.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by The year 2017 was filled with promises?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

So in 2017, we launched the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , a $150M fund backed by an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, investors, and executives that are publicly standing behind the idea that great companies can start and scale anywhere. Talent : As we build out our portfolio support platform, we are laser-focused on talent?—?helping

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Halamka and Shail Jain, Global Managing Director, Data & AI from Accenture, are both joining as board observers with this round. “These novel privacy-protected solutions promise to usher a new era of collaboration.” Mayo Clinic also invested an undisclosed amount in an extension to TripleBlind’s $8.2 million seed round.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

New York Private Equity Network. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. Draper Venture Network. Diversity in general: Investors of Color Network , Left Tackle Capital , National Association of Investment Companies , NewtoVC , Newton Venture Program , VC Include , Techfundingequity , Vencapital , Diversity.vc (UK focus).

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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.” The companies’ combined valuation stands at over $147 million according to the firm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Founded in 2017, Zypp Electric operates as an OEM-agnostic firm, working with local EV manufacturers such as Hero and Kinetic to acquire e-bikes — mostly on lease. The startup has partnered with Sun Mobility and Battery Smart to that end, and recently partnered with Gogoro to pilot Taiwanese company’s battery-swapping network in Delhi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The upshot was that, in 2017, Polyakov gained control of a new version of Firefly, including its intellectual property and many of its engineers, through his investment company Noosphere Venture Partners. ” Space SPACs were market darlings in 2020 and 2021, with companies like Virgin Galactic and Rocket Lab seeing their stock soar.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The International Monetary Fund says that as of 2017, only 43% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa were “banked” by way of a traditional bank or mobile money account. And this has investors, especially foreign ones, excited and looking to get on board. From Sendwave to Wave. Both were Series C rounds.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Closing this round was a real team effort.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. Successful pitches help your confidence snowball.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. On how the startup still in stealth managed to get these investors on board, Pillay says it’s down to the company’s network in the US and the belief each investor has in the product.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Inevitably, his side hustles flowed from curiosity and generosity, and from his network, especially his co-working hub. “I In 2017, a furniture retailer he’d been advising for a few years grew rapidly, and rewarded him for his dedication. The network effect. Chris Castiglione, image courtesy of Noa Griffel).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. How many dating networks can the public market support? Customer advisory boards are a gold mine for startup brand champions. “So the TAM is massive.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2017, Cars45 raised $5 million from Frontier Car Group (FCG) , the Berlin-based company that builds used-car marketplaces focusing on emerging markets. In a call with TechCrunch, co-founder and board member Vladimir Mnogoletniy noted that vehicles listing is the second most popular category on Jiji.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We’ve all heard this one, for example: “[Name] bought this meme coin in 2017, and is now worth $100M” Stories like this appeal more to the economically weaker section of society, making them even more susceptible to losing more money in crypto by gambling on random meme coins, falling prey to pump and dumps, or trading call groups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cliff is headed over to the California Air Resources Board. It has sat vacant since 2017. million in total revenue from direct sales of its EV chargers and charging service revenues, network fees and ride-sharing service revenues. and Ares Electronics , a provider of circuit boards. . Blink Charging brought in $11.5

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StartupNation

JANUARY 13, 2021

As of 2017, 5.6% (322,076) of all U.S. Across the board, minority small business owners reported being significantly impacted by the new requirement to work remotely, COVID-19 infection of family or staff, and lack of childcare. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. As an i2E Board member for almost a decade, what has been your favorite i2E accomplishment? Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

has seen a blossoming in fashion rental startups in recent years, with the likes of Hurr (founded 2017), Hirestreet (2018), My Wardrobe HQ (2019), By Rotation (2019) and Rotaro (2019) popping up to offer fashion-conscious consumers a more sustainable way to stay on trend by renting high end.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A consistent sector has been in cybersecurity; public names companies like CrowdStrike and Sentinel One and Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks have performed really well and that kind of feeds down into the private space where there are a lot of well-capitalized private companies that are solving a cybersecurity solution.

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