TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Israeli-based company developed artificial intelligence-driven data analytics that help food brands make smarter decisions around product development, marketing and retail sales for their next healthy, sustainable and delicious product. Disruptive led the round and joined existing investors PeakBridge and PICO Venture Partners.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. The problem of housing affordability and supply is largely a political problem, and those policies (that prevent developers from building multi-family properties) are largely popular. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

That’s why we’re excited to announce that Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO at Front, Deidre Paknad, co-founder and CEO at WorkBoard and Adriana Roche, chief people officer at Mural, will tackle this topic onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. Early action equals bigger savings.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. But finding a market which is large, out-dated, has zero tech and is ripe for disruption can lead to very large outcomes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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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. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I Promoting Disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. An Unreasonable Idea.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., Its last funding announcement was a $25 million Series A in October 2017. The Series B will be used to further develop Perfect Corp.’s will play an important role in this shift to digital. The new funding brings Perfect Corp.’s ” Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One of the best parts of TechCrunch Disrupt is the Startup Battlefield competition, and one of the most important pieces of the Startup Battlefield is our lineup of expert judges — they’re the ones the founders are trying to impress. And then, of course, they choose the winner who gets to take home $100k and the Disrupt Cup.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Great entrepreneurs invest countless hours reinventing, reimagining and disrupting products and services of all kinds. He loved developing the product, and he also enjoyed speaking about the product to potential clients, because he truly believed in it. Reinvention is the key to successful entrepreneurship. Originally published Feb.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a result of the efforts of Sam, Rahul, Ted, Nicolas, Chang and the entire MakeSpace team our revenue grew 150% between the months of January and October of 2017, having served more than 20,000 customers and stored more than a million individual items for our customers. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Joining us onstage as a judge for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 ‘s Startup Battlefield will be Yasmin Razavi, general partner at Spark Capital. Razavi invests in growth-stage enterprise, fintech and developer companies, but her background is until fairly recently an engineering-focused one.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The funding is being led by a strategic backer, Koch Disruptive Technologies , the investment arm of industrial giant Koch Industries (which has interests in energy, minerals, chemicals and related areas), with participation also from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It commenced as a services firm to provide commercial banks with custom software development services. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

The company developed an AI-powered design assistant for non-designers to build interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without hiring designers or learning complex tools like Adobe Suite, Sketch, Figma, etc. How is your offering disrupting the industry? Uizard started as a machine learning research project back in 2017.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. And as was hinted at back in 2017, automakers are looking to make the ‘in-cabin experience’ a real thing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Mycel is in talks with global cosmetic brands to co-develop the mycelium-based leather products as well as cosmetics ingredients, Sah said, adding that it aims to commercialize its mushroom leather in 2023. Mycel is also competing in the alternative protein space with fungi-based food developers like Mycorena and Quorn.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. It also has a number of other revenue streams it’s developing, such as language proficiency tests. It has to be an exit of some sorts, and a big one at that.

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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. market might not reflect developments in Latin America. Only disrupt when it adds value. investors remain shy. However, much of this investment comes from local and regional investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi was founded by CEO Yushiro Kato and CTO Aki Kobashi in November 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S., Releaf will use the seed investment to develop technology and deploy it to smallholder farmers, Nzewi tells me. Ikenna and Uzo are the perfect founders to disrupt this market in Nigeria and beyond. Then the $1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Colton Gardner , Joseph Woodbury and Preston Alder co-founded Neighbor.com in 2017 with the mission of giving people a more accessible and personal alternative to store their belongings. . Interestingly, before leading the round for Neighbor, Fifth Wall approached the company about business development opportunities.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants. The grant facilitates advancing innovative technology solutions, driving startups toward market disruption or creating entirely new markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, builds dolls that include programmable computers that girls can code through an app. The startup was founded in 2021 by Eliza Kosoy, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, who is focused on the intersection of child development and artificial intelligence.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Magnify is a full-service sales agency sales strategy + sales process, CRM set up (HubSpot), sales training + coaching, outsourced sales + business development, trade shows, trade fairs, expos + events. B2B outsourced sales – Contract sales + business development, part-time fractional expertise. And yes, you can do this!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. . Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

He says they looked at various fintech verticals in 2017, but decided to go for an across-the-board API approach. Katzenberg, Walt Disney Studios’ former chairman, and WndrCo co-founder said: “Embedded finance is going to disrupt banking in every single vertical market, from retail, mobility, to logistics and insurance.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Foundation’s goal is to help scale the role of nonprofits around the world to support their efforts of developing innovative solutions to improve food security. Hunger since 2017. Upon learning the import of the study, the Citi Foundation announced its first-ever Global Innovation Challenge to address food security.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Adam Hibble (2015) co-founded Popgun with Stephen Mawson (formerly of We Are Hunted) under Mawson Ventures where Meg White (2017) works as an AI engineer as she finishes her studies. Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots has raised a healthy sum in the years since it appeared on our Disrupt Berlin stage, way back in 2017. This latest funding finds the company working to build a developer community around its robotic instructing software. The following year, the no-code robotic software firm raised $6.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Co-founded by Joseph Nelson (CEO) and Brad Dwyer (CTO), Roboflow is the result of the team members’ previous work on AR and AI apps, including Magic Sudoku from 2017. “And in the process of building this company, of trying to make software features for real-world objects, realize that developers didn’t need inspiration.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

What began as Kendra Scott’s project in a spare bedroom has become Kendra Scott’s billion dollar jewelry empire— placing her ahead of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Beyonce on the Forbes’ 2017 list of the richest self-made women. A self-professed “accidental entrepreneur,” Bush Lauren founded FEED.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

” Cherki started to develop the technology that would become Contentsquare as a college student. Since 2012, he’s served as CEO, moving the company’s headquarters from Marseille to New York in 2017. Ultimately, I want to help create a world where every digital interaction improves our lives.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Sturzenegger and her team launched Amara’s first products in Whole Foods in 2017 after three years of working on the technology. The company developed proprietary technology that locks in the taste, texture and nutrients into a shelf-stable pouch of fresh baby food meals. As such, the global baby food market was valued at $67.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The news also comes off the back of the launch of Google’s first product development center on the continent, in Nairobi, Kenya, the city where Lori Systems first launched. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

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