Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2018

Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. Since I have a limited tenure at the Board, I know I will not be able to change everything.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The reason for that is that it has become incredibly challenging to stand out when you build a hypercasual, casual or board game with a small dev team. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over three rounds that started in January 2018. As he continues hiring in 2021, he is looking at diversity at all levels from the makeup of his board to the executive level to the general staff. The company has raised almost $165 million in just over two years.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Firstly, Charge+ will execute an ongoing contract with the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) to deploy around 4,000 EV charging points within the car parks of Housing Development Board (HDB) public housing estates. “Since founding Charge+ in 2018, our vision has been to catalyze electric mobility adoption across Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With a wealth of experience in traditional finance, as well as fintech, and her vision for bringing digital assets into the mainstream, we feel very lucky to have her on board.” Biggs is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and served as Head Tutor for their Blockchain Strategy Programme from 2018 to 2020.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Established in 2018, Soho.com.au “Soho’s growth has been amazing in the past year, and with Feedback Ventures now coming on board as a lead investor, we know we’re bringing on a great capital partner with clear conviction on spearheading the AI evolution in real estate,” Lui stated.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

The round included a slew of new and existing investors, including Sequoia, Silver Lake, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the UAE’s sovereign fund Mubadala Investment Company and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). Klarna’s valuation comparisons since 2018. But hey, compared to 2018, things are great.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The company has gone on record with TechCrunch that there are lots of reasons for the gap, and when it promoted COO Amir Movafaghi to CEO in 2018, it was the first in a series of steps that it took to right the ship. Doshi was CEO from inception until 2018 when he moved to become chairman of the board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Astreiko and Kisel started Synder, in 2018 and a year later focused on the company full-time to develop an easy way for commerce companies to shift to omnichannel sales, something Astreiko told TechCrunch can be “a huge pain” due to the complexity of different payment systems and high fees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

million Series A announced in 2018 and brings the company’s total funding to north of $40 million. The round also finds Whitney Rockley of McRock Capital and Toshi Otani of TransLink joining Plus One’s board. San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics today announced a $33 million Series B. The round follows an $8.3

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

In 2018 we had 200 businesses, and in 2019, 400. I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? We want an interactive brand, to have people come on and say, “we want to be a part of this!”. What has it been like to scale your business? When we launched, we had just 20 businesses on the platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Stenon , an agtech company that has a real-time soil-sensing solution, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round from Founders Fund, David Friedberg’s The Production Board and existing investors including Cherry Ventures and Atlantic Labs. Its main competitors are AgroCares, 360 Soilscan and ChrysaLabs (raised CA$1.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The company also added DNX Ventures managing partner Hiro Rio Maeda to its board of directors. CloudNatix was founded in 2018 by chief executive officer Rohit Seth, who previously held lead engineering roles at Google. Existing investors Incubate Fund, Vela Partners and 468 Capital also contributed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. Shoplook — Is fostering a community-driven platform for visual self-expression, curation and inspiration through mood boards.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 10, 2023

Raising funds in 2023 — a crash back to reality If you were planning on raising funds in 2023, DC Palter has some harsh advice — forget about the valuations that friends and cohort members were getting in 2018–2022. Investors are back to expecting the terms we saw in the old days of pre-2018. No uncapped notes or SAFEs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Forethought AI won Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018. During this live event, Dean Nicholas, CEO and co-founder of Forethought, and Vanessa Larco, NEA partner and Forethought board observer, talked through the company’s early days.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. The government body also said that it doesn't believe Huawei has committed to fixing the security problems in the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. billion in 2018. . Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., Loveseat gets comfy with new funding to expand its returned home goods marketplace. billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The company launched in 2018 in England, and currently has 20 employees, all based in the U.K. Diversity across the board has been something that we’ve thought about from day one, and again, that hasn’t changed one bit. The startup also lets customers define their own sensitive data types.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Eight Roads Ventures, the lead investor from the prior round, a $7 million Series A in a 2018, also participated. Mention Me , a platform to generate customer referrals, has raised a $25 million Series B round, led by London’s Octopus Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Atomico principal Andreas Helbig joins the Digitail board as part of the investment. Digitail was founded in 2018 by Sebastian Gabor (CEO) and Ruxandra Pui (CPO), who had previously founded the development studio and IT consultancy ITGambit together. The startup has now closed an $11 million Series A funding round led by Atomico.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s created the innovation group in 2018 that has backed or launched several consumer product companies, including cat products startup Cat Person , body care line Flamingo and hair care line Headquarters. Harry’s Labs, the in-house incubator started by razor brand Harry’s Inc. announced Monday it agreed to acquire Lum? ,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The InfoTrust Foundation undertakes charitable events quarterly, including its annual Basket Brigade , which is providing nearly 2,000 Thanksgiving baskets in 2018. EO’s FY17/18 Global Chair Brian Brault accepted the 2018 International Bridge Award on behalf of EO at Nuway’s annual Bianu Celebration in Cincinnati.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Other investors include the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and the Qatar Investment Authority, according to Crunchbase. Prior to the IPO, SoftBank’s Vision Fund holds slightly more than a one-third stake in the company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish. QED, too, was eager to jump on board. Their vision is to connect people who have a smartphone with ways to earn income and raise their quality of life.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

SoftBank Group first invested in Iyuno Media Group through SoftBank Ventures Asia , its venture capital arm, in 2018. SoftBank Vision 2 will join Lee and investors Altor, Shamrock Capital Advisors and SoftBank Ventures Asia Corporation on Iyuno-SDI Group’s board of directors. Streaming services face their real test in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. ” Before launching Reveal in 2020, Bouchez was the CEO of Multiposting, an HR tech startup, until 2018, when it was acquired by SAP.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since 2018, Prosus has invested $536 million in Byju’s, with another significant $153 million investment made in April 2021. Amid these issues, Byju’s CFO, Ajay Goel, left the company following the earlier departures of auditor Deloitte and three key board members. Therefore, Prosus now holds a 9.6%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. million in Series A funding in 2018. Back in 2018, Full Harvest had about eight employees; that has now grown to 35. It’s been a while since we checked in with Full Harvest. The company raised an additional $8.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

As part of the investment, Ravi Adusumalli, founder and managing partner at Elevation Capital, will join Zeni’s board. The Shinde siblings started the company after selling their last company , Mezi, a travel concierge, to American Express in 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

said Rajive Keshup, Director for Cathay Innovation in Southeast Asia and board member. He will work alongside co-founder of Igloo, Wei Zhu, who is on the company’s board of directors. Since joining Igloo in 2018, he has spearheaded its market entry into The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. 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. So when the company petitioned the U.S. They were wrong.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Founded in July 2018 by Cristina Vila, after she experienced the SaaS management problem first-hand while working at London fintech Dopay, Cledara has developed software to let companies track and manage their SaaS usage and spending, including analytics to help understand if it is money well-spent.

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