StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

The work was meaningful but rigid, and as technology started to rapidly evolve around us, I realized we were missing an opportunity to bring agility and intelligence into the way healthcare operated. That was in 2017, a time when people interested in Astrology were still considered eccentric and a little strange.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

VoIP is a technology that allows you to make voice calls using an internet connection instead of a regular landline or cellular network. The audio gets converted into digital packets and transmitted online, then reconverted on the other end so you can communicate just like a normal phone call. The most recent update was in June 2025.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

NPHub: Solving the Clinical Placement Bottleneck Founded in 2017, NPHub is the nation’s first digital marketplace designed to streamline how nurse practitioner students secure clinical rotations—a critical and often frustrating step required for graduation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

AI automation (intelligent automation) AI automation (sometimes referred to as intelligent automation) combines automation technologies with AI to tackle tasks that require some level of intelligence. You can build your own AI agents using tools like Zapier Agents. Stable Diffusion Stable Diffusion is a family of open image generation models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. I am most passionate about finding new ways to discover how technology can help people. By Jewelle Saunders. What are you passionate about? Can you tell us more about your businesses? government.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. As smart speaker platforms have matured, more entrepreneurs are leveraging the technology to benefit healthcare.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The cohort members offer a range of disruptive technologies across industries such as Climate Tech, Green Tech, Retail, Healthcare, FinTech, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Consumer, and Travel – with many incorporating AI and sustainability into their products and services. Twelve U.S.-based

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Why does he spend so much time on the radio when his main business is technology repairs? For example, 2017 YLAI Fellow Marie Flore Morett uses her baked goods company Délices by Marie Flore Florett to promote women’s empowerment in Haiti. Kitts and Nevis as a radio and podcast personality.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Persistence for success in the technology industry in Bolivia. 2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. Her two companies, Kumi Solutions and Panal Fresh , are focused on providing ways to utilize technology to better people’s lives.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Smart Technology : The adoption of smart logistics solutions like RFID and IoT sensors allows for real-time tracking.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. Many climate-focused industries and technologies are so new that policymakers are still learning what they are, making education and proactive outreach essential. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel. It’s one way to get a combination of talent and technology, and in this case, also relationships.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We also had to invest heavily in “route optimization” technology to figure out the best way to pick up goods but we also had to build bundles of routes for drivers so we could maximize what we picked up or dropped off for one driving in any given day. Seriously, this happens.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. The company’s bad behavior was nothing new.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The major trends driving automation in the construction industry are a shortage of labor, aging out of the workforce, tech-native workers ready to embrace technology, the promise of huge efficiency gains and finally, advances in robotics and AI which makes the technology more possible and economic in uncontrolled environments.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Kansas City, Missouri startup has closed a round of $24 million, a Series A that it will be using to continue developing its technology and to extend into a wider range of enterprise verticals. Mayo is using its technology both around data encryption and to help build algorithms based on datasets without needing to share raw data.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

In addition, Taiwan-based Foxconn will collaborate with Telexistence to develop mass-production technology for their upcoming model, GHOST. Telexistence, a robotics startup founded in 2017, specializes in developing AI-powered robotic arms for the retail and logistics sectors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program. The disposable test sticks enable users to measure a range of biomarkers in just two minutes, using microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” technology.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants. The program encompasses both Proof-of-Concept (POC) and Proof-of-Value (POV) grants, catering to the diverse developmental stages of technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The story of Breadfast started in 2017 with bread and bakery when Mostafa Amin , Muhammad Habib and Abdallah Nofal conceived the idea for an on-demand bakery service that delivers freshly made bread and pastries to customers. The investment is coming two years after Breadfast raised a $2 million pre-Series A round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”. Reliance previously raised a $2 million seed round months post-YC in 2017. Kuti’s comments highlight critical issues with healthcare in Nigeria: accessibility and affordability.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. It will be added to a growing body of research that’s rapidly influencing micromobility technology and accelerating its adoption around the world. Looking forward.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

When they realized that what customers really were after was the information they were uncovering, and not so much the messaging capability, the company pivoted in 2017. Overall, it had about 500 customers as of January across a range of industries from technology to pharmaceutical to aerospace and defense to banking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The LH Business Support Hub opened in 2017 and is currently being used as a space for startup companies. EVAR’s charging solution installed in the parking lot of the Gyeonggi Business Growth Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In addition, Techno Valley offers a variety of programs to help companies develop technologies in shared spaces.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At Since its founding in 2017 the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Labs has established a track record of success.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

The program will select 60 startups that are less than seven years old, whose representatives hold foreign nationalities and wish to establish an innovative technology business in Korea. “We believe that Korea has excellent technology as well as opportunities. It takes work to enter the Korean market.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Established in 2017, Antler is a prominent early-stage venture capital entity on the global landscape, focusing on identifying and investing in the future’s groundbreaking technology enterprises.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Even industry outsiders like Google and Amazon are leveraging acquisitions and proprietary technology developments to carve out a space in mobility services, while semiconductor giants like NVIDIA are branching out to offer autonomous driving platforms to vehicle manufacturers. billion in 2022 to $55.6 billion in 2032.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Soylent Nutrition is joining public company Starco Brands as part of an acquisition that will keep the plant-based food technology company operating as a separate unit under its current CEO Demir Vangelov. Despite that setback, the company went on to raise $50 million in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. The Chroma team had a range of ideas but ultimately landed on audiovisual technologies and their intersection with music and sound. I don’t want that to happen.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“Now was the right time to raise because the technology has been extensively validated through previous R&D all the way up the compute stack,” Verma said. EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We are also improving our technology as we start our expansion into other countries in Africa,” Amitruck founder and chief executive officer Mark Mwangi told TechCrunch. By the time I was leaving Pictet in 2017, I was part of a team of four running a €5 billion ($5.6b) portfolio, but then I wanted more out of life.

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