AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

The acquisition will support businesses throughout the region in enhancing their innovation capabilities and successfully launching and expanding new ventures. Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Blue Line: Barclays Hedge-Fund Industry; 2017 . The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies. Sources: Blue Bar: Hedge-Fund Research Institute Weighted Composite Index (HFRI FWD). Green Bar: Bloomberg.

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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. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. What major trends do you expect to see in technology innovation over the next 5 years that excites you?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are at least eight companies across the globe using mycelium to make leather, per the 2021 Material Innovation Initiative report. These mycelium-based materials innovators have attracted investors to ramp up mushroom- and plant-derived leather. Mycel isn’t the only company using mycelium to make leather.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The region had seen “lots of innovation for patients through a proliferation of telemedicine apps and even innovations for doctors, but the pharmacy and its workforce were largely unaddressed,” SwipeRx CEO Farouk Meralli said. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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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. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

He added that the total cumulative value of NPP payment since its launch in November 2017 was about 2.6 “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. ” .

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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. CEO Wehmeyer describes the impact of their startup’s innovation. Eber completed his PhD in 2016 and Wehmeyer was a Research Associate for a year, 2016 to 2017.

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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. The company recorded a 130% CAGR between 2017 to 2021. billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. Presently, New York City-based Wellthy has about 350 employers, 90% of which are full-time.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally. Tech startups with innovative technologies got the edge over other startups in the KSGC program selection. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. Once the goals are set, leaders constantly think about new and innovative ideas to achieve them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

“AI is waiting in the wings right now to disrupt the multi-billion customer service market for good,” co-founder and CEO Malte Kosub told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” Parloa began as an internal effort at Future of Voice, a conversational AI agency that Kosub co-launched with Stefan Ostwald in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Startups will have five minutes to pitch their companies, business models and innovative ideas — followed by a Q&A with our superb panel of judges. The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. There is so much potential in the region, but it’s only through innovation that this can be fully unlocked,” commented Gajria on Google’s participation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

David Cancel, the CEO of Drift, said that famously in 2017. Broadly speaking, any startup is competing on innovation or messaging, and, ideally, on both. Usually, you want to start with innovation — do something new or something better. Staying ahead of your competition through innovation forever is very rare.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

The company has raised $9 billion in debt and equity since 2017, including $1.1 TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, taking place in San Francisco on September 19–21, is where you’ll get the inside scoop on the future of mobility. That cash will be used to build new factories in North America and Europe. billion in convertible notes last year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

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. . African countries need ‘startup acts’ more than ever to support innovation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium (2017-2020). Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Essential (2017-2020). Total Raised: $75 million. Total Raised: $330 million. Image Credits: Darrell Etherington. The Outline (2016-2020). Total Raised: $10.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Like “innovation,” machine learning and artificial intelligence are commonplace terms that provide very little context for what they actually signify. CEO Powell said that it’s been a long road since the company’s founding in mid-2017 when it first raised a $450,000 pre-seed round. Bessemer Venture Partners closes on $3.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Vin Lingathoti, a partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital, says entrepreneurs operating in this space face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing growth and risk. Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. “Often these founders with Ph.D.s ” says Lingathoti.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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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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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Cross Culture Ventures we take a thematic approach to investing that we have coined 'cultural investing' - the impact of the convergence of global popular culture and consumer behavior on technology and innovation. We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017. When did you start your current fund?

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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.

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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. Coinbase’s direct listing alters the landscape for fintech and crypto startups.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. In 2017, SafeBoda officially started operations in Kampala and almost immediately began to deal with the threat posed by new entrants at the time: uberBODA and Bolt boda.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The first post sketched the idea and the second filled in the details of one theory on how startups will disrupt their incumbents, and particularly the dominant systems of record. It’s been a wonderful 2016 and I’m looking forward to another exciting year in 2017.

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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. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. 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. In 2020, they raised $5.5

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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. OurCrowd portfolio company The Bouqs knows this to be true and has disrupted the $100B global floral industry by emphasizing sustainability and transparency. About the Author. Friederike Kaiser, Associate, Portfolio Management.

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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., Ikenna and Uzo are the perfect founders to disrupt this market in Nigeria and beyond. This allows them to get better processing yields and fewer logistics costs; in the end, the farmer has more money to work with.

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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., Overall, we are very optimistic about construction robotics and hope to see more companies attempt to solve the issues in productivity with breakthrough technologies, as well as innovative business models.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? Why bother with a cyberattack when a few well-placed uppercased words from apparently reputable sources can wound thousands of our most innovative companies? Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. That’s doubly the case with adoption.

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