TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Global cross-border e-commerce was estimated to be over $400 billion in 2018, but is growing at twice the rate of domestic e-commerce. One of the things that attracted MacLean to the company was that Reid was building a company outside of Silicon Valley and disrupting global trade far from any port.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Before starting Fintual in 2018 with his three co-founders, Pineda was an astronomer and an entrepreneur, who built and sold a Groupon copycat company in Chile called “Queremos Descuentos” (We Want Discounts) for just over $1 million when he was 28. . May 2018. 1.2 It’s different than the U.S.; Annual Growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. Viva Republica, which hit unicorn status in 2018 , has now raised more than $940 million in equity funding.

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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. The post-money valuation is estimated at $450 million, according to sources close to the deal.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures. However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. The real estate trends have also shifted in parallel to accommodate these preferences.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Gerkey assures that there won’t be any disruption in day-to-day activities with respect to OSRF’s oversight of the ROS robotics middleware, the Gazebo 3D robotics simulator and Open-RMF. Willow Garage was gradually dissolved into a number of spin-offs, including OSRF.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Description: “4pi Lab is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation providing real-time, wildfire detection, monitoring and reporting. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / Non-Equity Assistance from Creative Destruction Lab. ” Clutch Space Systems. ” Kinnami. ” Vector Photonics.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

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. million Series A in 2018, both led by i2E, Inc., April 1, 2020. Contact: Sarah Seagraves, Senior VP for Marketing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

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. There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” So when the company petitioned the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Founded in 2018, Venti Technologies develops highly flexible and industrial-grade precision technology that enables rapid deployment and best-in-class safety and operational efficiency for customers. The company has spent three years developing fleets that can navigate complex environments and heavy traffic with unmatched precision.

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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 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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We’re psyched to be reporting live from TechCrunch Disrupt — without ignoring the rest of the world, natch. They have made 150,000 of those connections since 2018. Caring for humans, at scale : Cityblock Health CEO Toyin Ajayi was on the Disrupt stage, and Catherine reports how she thinks about how to scale human-centered care models.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. The first Zambian startup to get into YC is developing Africa’s first card-issuing API. Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 The VCs who founders love the most. trillion by 2024.

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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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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. As it turns out, its first investment in the region was Nubank, a deal that is set to pay off handsomely.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. million Series B , in 2018, the company was focused on AI-driven logo creation.

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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. Seemingly objective algorithms can be biased by reliance on incomplete or unrepresentative training data, and/or by replicating the unconscious bias of those who developed the algorithms.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Back in 2018 we covered how Open Mineral (OM), a startup aiming to leverage greater transparency in commodities trading, had raised $2.25 Open Mineral plans to disrupt commodities trading with blockchain. Existing investors Xploration Capital and Emerald Technology Ventures were joined by new investors Statkraft and Lingfeng Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. And I’m excited to enter this new phase of scaling operations with my fellow board members Mark Lotke at Harmony and Kimmy Scotti and 8VC as we work with this very talented executive team to continue to disrupt this $34 billion market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The idea for the company came from a conversation founder Maria Goy and Matt Randall had back in 2018. Every major market was disrupted by some change of distribution, like Netflix and Airbnb,” Goy told TechCrunch. That led to a discussion about how to also have healthcare that was accessible.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sibener’s startup led her to a spot on Forbes’ 2018 30 Under 30 list, undoubtedly an early indication of her future impact. Driven by the desire to make taxis safer in her native Malaysia, Hooi Ling Tan, partnered with co-founder, Anthony Tan, to launch Grab , a ride-hailing company that was valued at US$6B in early 2018.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Moeller spent several years researching and developing prototypes and business plans for what would eventually become Keep Technologies. Instead, he developed a suite of smart devices for safety and security in vehicles and an accompanying cloud service and a mobile app. I wanted to find the red flag or a reason not to do this.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2018, and until January 2021 had been bootstrapped from inception, reinvesting its cash generation into growth and portfolio expansion, according to CEO and 2TM Group Executive Chairman Roberto Dagnoni. It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. but even here it’s relatively young: regulations only came into effect at the start of January 2018. million in 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

That, in turn, boosted the pet industry itself, with the market’s value increasing from $90 billion in 2018 to over $120 billion in 2021. Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. It will also increase its inventory and product development. on food and treats.

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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

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

AUGUST 25, 2021

Neobrokers are defined as startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investment options and modern and easy mobile-based interfaces to manage their money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The New York-based startup has developed lease management software for commercial real estate tenants and brokers. The raise brings the total raised by Occupier since its 2018 inception to $15.5 And while there is no shortage of technology out there for landlords, there are fewer options for commercial real estate tenants and brokers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Having raised $169 million to date, Contentstack plans to put the funding toward customer acquisition, geographic expansion, new partnerships and product development, CEO Neha Sampat tells TechCrunch. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 17, 2023

At a glance Founder: Craig Rowland Business: Sandfly Security Founded: April 2018 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business? Sandfly Security develops agentless intrusion detection and incident response for the Linux operating system. Linux runs the Internet and up to 95% of all cloud servers are Linux based.

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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. “The “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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