TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“We started the OpenAI Startup Fund to accelerate the impact companies building on powerful AI will have on the world, and we’re particularly excited about tools that empower people creatively,” OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, who manages the OpenAI Startup Fund, said in a press release.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). Some 44% of the UK’s decacorns graduate from a TN non-dilutive accelerator growth programme (failure rate is less than 5% thus far).”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Spryker’s argument is that by being a newer company (founded in 2018) it has a more up-to-date stack that puts it ahead of older startups and more incumbent players like SAP and Oracle. Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $6M led by Benchmark for its headless e-commerce platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. meter coworking office space where majority of our portfolio companies and accelerator program companies sit on a daily basis. At TAU Ventures, we have 1,000 sq.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Rivian emerged from stealth in 2018 with a pair of vehicles that helped it become the buzziest EV automaker since Tesla. Accelerating Startup Marketing Growth. Learn how you can accelerate growth by leveraging powerful analytics tools, ad features and your active professional network. . Rivian Grows Up. Sponsored by: LinkedIn.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And then there was actually one guy who…actually, his name is, I think, Alec Radford, and he literally was like off in the corner at OpenAI, like, working on this in 2018, 2019. And so I don’t think there’s some magic bullet to hugely accelerate things. They started to do something different.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The European grocery market is currently worth €2 trillion, but access to customers for high-quality, smaller producers is still tricky and blocked by incumbents. It also uses a 100% electric fleet serving big cities and suburbs, and its model is to have zero food waste.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Of course, startups often manage to find a way to take down incumbents and a distraction for Carta, at least, in the form of a very public gender discrimination lawsuit by a former VP of marketing, could be the kind of opening that Pulley needs. YW: I left Microsoft in 2018 and started Pulley a year later. Carta was just valued at $1.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. billion, “the largest percentage drop since Q3 2018.” Since its founding in 2018, Legalpad says it has helped thousands of workers relocate to the U.S., Guess we’ll see about that.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2022 and beyond, Monzo’s revenues are likely to further accelerate as they benefit from cross border-travel, increased EU interchange rates, and new products. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. trillion in deposits.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note : Last Thursday, Cigna acquired Brighter to accelerate the development of Cigna’s mobile and desktop platforms and create new end-to-end experiences that connect health consumers and providers with the guidance, support, and incentives they need to increase quality of care and maximize cost-savings. We are willing to bet on it.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Both online grocery platforms, Misfits Market raised nearly $530 million since being founded in 2018, most recently a $200 million Series C round in 2021 that put its valuation at over $1 billion. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

However, Allianz noted in a recent report that the market has “cooled” this year as a result of COVID-19 economic unease, but that is also accelerating trends for new technologies and new approaches. Marshmallow first came out of the wild in 2018 with a product targeted initially at expats. The logic was that U.K.

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