American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Hunger since 2017. Citi and Citi Foundation have a solid track record of supporting communities around the world. Since 2014 their funding supported No Kid Hungry providing 300 million meals for kids facing hunger and Citi volunteers have packed over 1.7 million meals on behalf of U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Beta Boom : founded in 2017 by two veteran Silicon Valley innovators, Kimmy and Sergio Paluch the firm invests in pre-seed software startups that are building the future for womxn, Black, Latinx and other ethnic minority consumers. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking. Chari (Morocco). Mecho Autotech (Nigeria).

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

“When we launched FintechOS in 2017, we could already see existing solutions to digital transformation would struggle to deliver tangible results. This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros. Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries. As a result, client decision making is more proactive, enabling them to deal with a constantly changing environment. Both attended Harvard University.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2017, after working for 1.5 There are no toolkits, no (strict) design guidelines, no single way of doing the job, and no bureaucracy… enabling decision-making simple. years in India’s top service-based org- Infosys, I had realized that I wanted to do something different with my career. I love this aspect the most.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. This is one of the insights that Laura Behrens Wu drew out of Mittal during a FundersClub Facebook Live discussion on March 30, 2017. Everything that will go wrong, will in fact go wrong.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC This characteristic enables investment at the riskiest stage of business formation and growth. . —– Tech Tour/Results Junkies is led by the husband and wife duo of Paul Singh and Dana Duncan. V2 structure. . Compensation-Based Flexible VCs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC This characteristic enables investment at the riskiest stage of business formation and growth. . —– Tech Tour/Results Junkies is led by the husband and wife duo of Paul Singh and Dana Duncan. V2 structure. . Compensation-Based Flexible VCs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. In 2017, Bird and the former CEO of Q1 Labs founded a new cybersecurity company, this one focused on public clouds, called Sonrai Security , which has since raised nearly $40 million in venture capital. More posts by this contributor.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

The year 2020 threw online education into the spotlight, but this Ann Arbor tech company has known the value of it since it was founded in 2017. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Just last month they raised $11.8 In 2020, they raised $5.5 Groundspeed.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. How is your offering disrupting the industry? Welcome, Uizard. Three years and $3.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. Prior to founding AppMap, she founded DevOps security startup Conjur, which was acquired by CyberArk in 2017, and served as chief data officer for Generation Health, later acquired by CVS.

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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. Kosoy originally coming up with the idea for the dolls in 2017 while she was working at MIT in an AI lab that was mostly made up of men.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Our vision is to become the platform that enables any company to embed financial services within their products. He says they looked at various fintech verticals in 2017, but decided to go for an across-the-board API approach. In a statement, Nawaz said: “Embedded finance is no longer the exclusive privilege of large technology firms.

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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

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.” In recent years, a number of tech-enabled home builders have emerged to help address the nation’s housing shortage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

SwipeRX’s community-driven commerce model enables small pharmacies in particular to benefit from the power of that broad network by accessing the best prices and better ensuring that medicines are available to them and their patients, he said. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017, according to rating agency ICRA. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. A range of startups in India are trying to disrupt this market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The pivot to using technology in 2013 allowed Tugende to move fully to digital payments, build its own interoperable payment gateway in 2017 and launch an in-house credit score in 2019 to allow clients to see how they are performing. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company. billion fish deficit.

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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 funding will enable Amara to grow fast to meet the demand as it invests in hiring, product development and brand awareness. Existing investors from the seed round also participated, including Pharmapacks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Gauthier Van Malderen and Matthew Davis founded the company in 2017, when, as newly minted university grads, they were inspired to build a platform to address what they felt was an acute financial issue for students: the very high cost of textbooks. Image Credits: Perlego (opens in a new window). Perlego claims that in 2021, it intercepted 2.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Koch Disruptive Technologies led the tranche, with participation from SK Hynix and Walden International’s Lip-Bu Tan, bringing Pliops’ total capital raised to date to more than $200 million. “In short, Pliops enables getting more out of existing infrastructure investments.” ” Accelerating data processing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This simple decision enabled Monzo to quickly launch spend categories, round up transactions, pots (sub accounts), trends (where you can see all your accounts in one place), and other first-of-its-kind features. 2) Tone of voice guide: In 2017, Monzo published a Tone of Voice guide to maintain its clear, concise, positive voice as it scaled.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This simple decision enabled Monzo to quickly launch spend categories, round up transactions, pots (sub accounts), trends (where you can see all your accounts in one place), and other first-of-its-kind features. 2) Tone of voice guide: In 2017, Monzo published a Tone of Voice guide to maintain its clear, concise, positive voice as it scaled.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” It’s not uncommon for caregivers to feel overwhelmed as they navigate the administrative and logistical complexities of caring for a parent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

InfoTrust has enjoyed a successful November: first by organizing its international Basket Brigade to benefit 435-plus families in need, and by being named to Ad Age’s 2017 Best Place to Work list, which includes 50 U.S. He is also an EO Cincinnati member. companies in the advertising, marketing and media space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Swvl was founded by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Sabbah in 2017. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. The deal will see Swvl valued at roughly $1.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children. The new financing gives Little Spoon $73 million in total funding since it was founded in 2017 by Lisa Barnett, Ben Lewis, Michelle Muller and Angela Vranich.

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