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APRIL 1, 2020

Oklahoma City, OK-based Linear Health Sciences has developed a globally patented medical device known as the Orchid Safety Release Valve (SRV), designed to limit disconnection of IV catheters for patients worldwide. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s widely known now that our current food production is not adequate enough to keep up with the growing population expected to come in the next three decades, which is why alternative meat products are being developed. Lumachain was founded in 2018 to use computer vision-based artificial intelligence to transform meat plant operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. 70 million of Equisoft’s new tranche came from Investissement Québec and the government of Québec, with the remainder coming from Export Development Canada and Fondaction. . $70

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Smith, CTO at the company, has been a developer since 2012. Not only is it costly to facilitate online payments for pharmacies, but they also have their own pharmacy management systems and workflows that can be easily disrupted by moving to a new payments system.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope is transforming workforce development in the United States by making modern Registered Apprenticeships scalable. Lenoss Medical Designed and developed the first and only biological solution to treat osteoporotic spinal fractures. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

They built an AV that spared no room in the narrow chassis for a driver’s seat, and had no need for an accelerator, windshield or brake pedals. government in 2018 for a minor exemption from rules requiring a rearview mirror, backup camera and a windshield, Nuro might have assumed the process wouldn’t be very arduous.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. 3) Accelerators. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

billion in 2018 to under $28 billion in 2020 as Western brands wrestled with pandemic-related border restrictions. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. billion injection from venture firms last year. . ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. “We will continue to build upon that base and focus on selling to developers first. . “We will continue to build upon that base and focus on selling to developers first. WTF is GDPR? Pinto is undeterred. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Incooling, which is pitching in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt , designed a custom-built server with a proprietary cooling system that it claims allows for superior thermal management, enabling the server to achieve high-efficiency standards.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While there have been quite a few attempts to disrupt search engines, Rewind may be the first I’ve ever seen try to revamp the way we search through our online lives. According to LinkedIn, he started a foundation in 2018 to “fund and conduct scientific research in order to accelerate our path toward human mind emulation.”.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. billion into construction tech in 2018. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 5, 2020

raised in 2018, which was itself a record. Italy will launch an accelerator program for Italian startups in Israel , to help Italian startups develop their business idea within Startup Nation’s ecosystem. Foodtech… New milk chocolate developed with nearly half sugar of a normal bar , featuring DouxMatok.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The lab’s mandate was to deploy the latest advances in AI and ML to develop novel immunotherapies. Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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OurCrowd

JULY 4, 2021

Polaris Quantum Biotech is reinventing drug discovery, reducing the time it takes to find candidate molecules for drug development from the typical three years to just four months, Gil Press reports in Forbes. Gone are the days when Israeli startups developed technology that nobody wanted for problems that didn’t need solving.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal. But thanks to a proliferation of development tools from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others, as well as enhanced support for chatbots across platforms such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, chatbots have experienced a resurgence in recent years. .

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

This) often leads to business development for our members,” Lewan said. We know that many people felt lonely, isolated, or found it harder to conduct business development virtually during COVID. Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. Bea’s Detroit. SpaceLab Detroit.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018. She was recently awarded the Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship for 2018. Rowena on the European Mission in 2018 where they visited Facebook and lunched with the 3 Aussies who now work there. A quick note: My words are in italics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

On Tuesday, we published a four-part series on Tonal, a home fitness startup that has raised $200 million since it launched in 2018. Our deep dive examines Tonal’s origins, product development timeline, its go-to-market strategy and other aspects that combined to spark investor interest and customer delight. The Tonal EC-1.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. After taking part in Impact Hub’s Investment Ready Program in 2018, they are preparing to launch their product into the market, so perhaps you’ll be wearing bacteria-dyed textiles soon. Fashion For Good. Good On You.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. RightBrain Networks is an end-to-end cloud development lifecycle solutions company based in Ann Arbor. After raising $10.3

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s home to a world-class university, developing cutting edge research as well as top tech talent. In 2018, Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 Founded in 2018, Blumira brought in their first round of seed funding of $2.6 Their software provides agile product development, software design and development services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. billion, “the largest percentage drop since Q3 2018.” Today the U.S.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 31, 2022

streamline auto insurance claims NVIDIA drives autonomous vehicle development with Foretellix Introductions More than 4,600 high-tech jobs. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market and is now funding on the OurCrowd platform. NVIDIA drives autonomous vehicle development with Foretellix. Invest Now. Sapiens and Ravin.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. They are filled with optimism and exhaustion.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2018, EU regulators enacted the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which created rules for third parties to access payment account data. Developing a regulatory sandbox to support financial innovation at early stages The UK was the first market in the world to create a regulatory sandbox.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. In 2018, all-female founding teams received just 2.2% of all U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see. It has of course been accelerated by COVID-19, but we had seen the early tailwinds of this step function to digital even prior to the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company that set out to create an atlas of the human immune system in 2018 had raised about $80 million by February 2021. This round, which was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Talos VC, 8VC, Alexandria Venture Investments, Piedmont, ICON, and others, brings the company’s total funding to $295 million. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Employees being let go will receive “severance, healthcare, job support, and accelerated vesting of some of your options,” as well as career transition support and an alumni network for continued support, the memo mentioned. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Thrasio’s growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. I’ve been covering ICON since its $9 million seed round in October of 2018, so seeing the company reach this milestone less than three years later is kind of cool. . for developer 3Strands in Austin, Texas.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to offer, leaving the door open for some disruption. It might also consider developing a version for smaller businesses to use.

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