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. ” Disrupt 2021 runs September 21-23 and will be 100% virtual this year.

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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? If you buy that Amazon is a tech startup then essentially you’ve already answered the question. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

We first covered Traptic back in 2019, when it appeared as a Battlefield finalist on stage at Disrupt SF. Today, the South Bay robotics startup is announcing some major progress. ” The latest round followed an early-stage $3 million raise in 2017 and $400K the year prior. The company has raised $8.4 million in total. “As

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Bain & Company, a prominent global management consulting firm, has revealed its plans to acquire the Asia-Pacific division of Rainmaking, a renowned venture-building and startup development studio. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Years ago I came across a young community builder named Derek Andersen, the founder of Startup Grind. to do the interview.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Why QUT and Startup Catalyst have stayed friends. QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. 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. It’s not all startups! Where are they now?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. YC S20 had 198 startups, so that’s a 90% increase from last year. include India, with 33 startups; the U.K., with 18 startups; Mexico with 17; Singapore with 12; and Canada and Brazil, 11 each. Amenli (Egypt). Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 But while the industry hails the rise of the region’s ecosystem and its growing fleet of unicorns , Latin America’s startup story has a far longer past. Only disrupt when it adds value. Meanwhile, U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Our funds at Leta have also supported startups acquired by international firms, including the sale of Bright Box HK to Zurich Insurance Group in 2017 and WeWork’s acquisition of sales and marketing platform Unomy. Despite some of the success stories, I believe many Eastern European startups are still overlooked and undervalued.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Nigerian agritech startup Releaf is solving this by building proprietary hardware and software solutions to make these farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable. In addition to the seed round, the agritech startup secured $1.5 Ikenna and Uzo are the perfect founders to disrupt this market in Nigeria and beyond.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

Advertisement Uizard – Startup Review By Feedough. We discussed the startup’s concept, vision, and prospects with Thea Silayro, the Community Manager at Inlytics. Here are her thoughts on the startup –. How is your offering disrupting the industry? Uizard started as a machine learning research project back in 2017.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Most people who are familiar with Revolution , have heard of our Rise of the Rest Bus Tours where we visit five startup ecosystems in five days, once a year, to shine a spotlight on a city’s startups and the groups and individuals who champion them. And we congratulate the Kansas City startup community.

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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. Last year saw $11.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

E-liza Dolls , a Berkeley-based startup, is aiming to challenge the gender gap in STEM by helping young girls learn to code using dolls. 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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. He is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, consultant, startup investor and innovation authority. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees.

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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. In 2017 she joined Spark, and since then has led investments in Marqueta, Deel, Rapyd, Niantic, Capitolis and Earnin.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

It’s been able to rack up a customer base of some of the top food and beverage companies and up-and-coming food tech startups over the past five years, like Nestlé, PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz, Campbell’s and JustEgg. Disruptive led the round and joined existing investors PeakBridge and PICO Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

” You’ll find it cooking on the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco. In 2017, he co-founded Berkeley Yeast to commercialize this technology and its transformative benefits. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place in San Francisco on September 19–21.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S.,

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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. But more than that, you need to be an exceptional leader to lead the startup and make it stay in the market for long.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With millions of Nigerians using danfo minibuses and okadas to commute to their various workplaces and destinations, mobility startups have sought to digitize the market. But when Shuttlers launched in 2017, it did not have a functional mobile application. Yet, that was enough to onboard its first set of business clients.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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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. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. Whether it’s new funding, expansions or IPOs, it’s been an eventful year in Detroit startups. Here are the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Small Detroit startups to watch in 2022. Next year is looking even better. Apply now to Autobooks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. So in 2017, he came up with the idea of Nickson , a Dallas-based startup that fully furnishes apartments on demand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. The startup says it delivers the item to customers within 12 hours of harvesting.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

After these public incidents, Bush went quiet and only later re-emerged as the executive chairman of Firefly Health, a primary care startup. Now, Bush is back once again, this time as the co-founder of a new startup that aims to re-invent the digital health data stack. 4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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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. The open source dynamic runtime code analysis tool, which the startup claims is the first of its kind, is the brainchild of Elizabeth Lawler, who knows a thing or two about security.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others Pitch your startup for a chance to meet with Cross Culture VC Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But applications in industrial, military and enterprise scenarios have shown that there is indeed a market for unmanned aerial vehicles, and today, a startup that makes drones for some of those latter purposes is announcing a large round of funding and a partnership that provides a picture of how the drone industry will look in years to come.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. API startups are so hot right now. API startups are so hot right now. 3, 2017. trillion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The startup, filled with education enthusiasts and mission-driven employees, became “very college pizza vibes,” Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing at Duolingo, described. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Today, I’m appropriating the term to describe this roundup by Greg Kumparak, Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm and Jonathan Shieber that recaps their favorite startups from Techstars accelerators. The quartet selected four startups each from Chicago, Boston and Techstars Workplace Development. ” says Lingathoti.

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