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

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

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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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

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. Then in May, news emerged that Pulse had acquired team communication startup Lounge.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. The other, called Opportunities, focuses on smaller, under-the-radar companies. Eventually, we can enable them to build their own investment products on Titan.”

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. The pitch takes 90 seconds and participants have the opportunity to win prizes totaling $10,000.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Built as a decentralized app, it enables people to “build better hometowns on the internet” to “truly own their town squares.” “Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant.

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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. Because they’re quickly growing, working at Blumira offers the opportunity for high growth and a fast-paced work environment. Just last month they raised $11.8 In 2020, they raised $5.5

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

JC Penney closed 139 stores in 2017, despite aggressive efforts to woo Sephora customers and Sears refugees. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A Even stores that have weathered the storm thus far are showing bleak numbers.

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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. I only learned that yesterday.

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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. Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker. It’s not all startups!

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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

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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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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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand. Today, the average user has 30 friends on Monzo and 83% of active customers enable P2P payments within their first year.

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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

In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand. In comparison, most incumbents were pushing updates on a quarterly or annual basis.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2017, after working for 1.5 There was always something or the other going around, and such opportunities only made me a better person with a stronger experience. I am a firm believer in finding opportunities to learn new things whenever and wherever possible. And, startups can certainly facilitate such experiences.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity, including Flexible VC. As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity. . As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC V2 structure. .

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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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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

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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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. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

Given that we are in a global conflict, the question is, if there were some major disruption in the availability of hydrocarbons that caused their global price to double or triple overnight, how would the major powers wield their weapons of monetary policy in response? That knocks out another ~15% of the EU’s imports.

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