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

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The investment comes 18 months after a $2 million seed round and growth that had the company going from from 100 to 1,000 stores. Sturzenegger and her team launched Amara’s first products in Whole Foods in 2017 after three years of working on the technology. Amara founder and CEO Jessica Sturzenegger. Image Credits: Amara.

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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. We couldn’t be any more believers.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Verafin would appear to be following suit: in the press release announcing the acquisition , Nasdaq committed to keeping the company’s headquarters in Newfoundland, investing in the local university and contributing to the development of the local ecosystem.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. Finishing is the ripest for disruption.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

“Company disrupted an existing industry with a new business model, has been doing well for a while, and is now raising more money to do more of the same, except more” is hard to tell a compelling story around. Especially when that — albeit with slightly smaller numbers — was also the story back in 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. Simple crypto : Cryptocurrencies are still complex, or that’s the viewpoint of Solvo, a new app that is making crypto investment simpler, Romain reports. Making a static waterfall dynamic : Wait until you see what Adobe will enable you to do with your photos , Kyle writes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said. The company plans to use its new capital to further invest in its technology and expand it across the Home Instead network.

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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. The plan will be to continue investing in those markets, as well as expanding internationally. FintechOS is active today in the U.K. And it will be adding more services.

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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. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The company was among TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 startups at TC Disrupt in October, and TechCrunch interviewed Pulse co-founder and CEO Raj Singh at the event for a potential future startup profile piece. “Finding ways to use AI and machine learning to simplify tasks for users is our passion.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

increase) and at $505 million after an $80 million Series B investment (a 19.8x Vietnam-focused investment app Infina boosts its seed round to $6M. CEO William Sankey co-founded Northspyre in 2017 after spending six years as a New York City real estate developer and project lead. . seed to enable open finance across SE Asia .

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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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. They plan to use these investments to help grow their team and scale their product. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry.

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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. They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Makes sense.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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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. But to get there requires significant investment – and therefore risk – to develop and deploy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Mediahuis Ventures, the VC arm of European media group Mediahuis, led the round with participation also from Raine Ventures, the VC arm of Raine Group (the investment bank that’s overseeing the sale of Chelsea FC), and Evli Growth Partners. Image Credits: Perlego (opens in a new window). Perlego claims that in 2021, it intercepted 2.1

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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

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 Per Crunchbase , Swvl has raised over $170 million.

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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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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.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The company launched multi currency and foreign exchange services several months ago to UK customers, and plans for the investment will include expanding that to other currencies and facilitating interbank payments, both to provide the services to existing customers that have international footprints, and to work with customers in other markets.

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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. Monzo even invited customers to invest in the company, offering special benefits and investor cards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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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. Monzo even invited customers to invest in the company, offering special benefits and investor cards.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. Chicago and Africa-focused investment firm VestedWorld led the round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) It would be relatively trivial for Iran to disrupt the maritime flow of oil using anti-shipping mines and fast boats.

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