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. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Chari (Morocco). Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The idea that got to me was that we were allowing people to invest in the long term, we enable them to invest in instruments they didn’t have access to before,” said Pedro Pineda, co-founder and CEO of Fintual. For Pineda, disrupting the financial sector also seemed like a lot of fun, he thought. “I May 2018. 1.2

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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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.” ” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings launched the Vega project in 2018 with the mission of giving anyone the ability to create and launch a derivatives market. Vega disrupts the intermediaries traditionally controlling market creation, settlement, collateral management, and pricing in the derivatives market.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Fearless Fund : invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing, bridging the gap between venture capital funding for women of color founders to build scalable, growth-aggressive companies. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. The two men launched a business around Vasilyev’s project in January and have raised $4 million in financing to support the commercialization of the project. WTF is GDPR? Pinto is undeterred. “We

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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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

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

In 2018, Ignacio Canals, Diego Fleischmann and Benjamin Izikson got the idea for the e-commerce and lending company to provide durable goods, like cars, motorbikes and mobile phones, for gig workers in the Andes region. “We They can provide financing at the point of sale,” Silva Lombardi added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”.

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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. Businesses can choose which one or multiple shipping carriers they want to work with and even enable customers to choose at the time of purchase. Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

“The pandemic has brought existential threats and societal challenges to the fore and generated a fresh impetus for change,” Nair added saying the company is committed to solving these challenges through disruptive e-learning, which empowers users with insights and understanding to redesign society.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) The company was nominated by Golden Seeds, an angel funding group that met Onboard Dynamics at the annual ACA Summit in 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. million seed round in October 2018, Titan differs from Robinhood or E*Trade, where users essentially are left to fend for themselves.

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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. Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. After raising $10.3 FreightVerify. Bedestrian.

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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. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. The Tonal EC-1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s the message from Quiq, an AI-powered conversational platform, which today revealed that it closed a $25 million series C financing round led by Baird Capital. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal. . Chatbots are alive and kicking. human) setups.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Eventually, this will extend into wealth generation tools to help customers grow their finances. This did not happen by magic. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Of course we can’t.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

By September 2018, they formally launched the app beyond the campus of Babson College, which they were attending on scholarships. Today, Lula offers a “fully integrated suite” of technology-enabled tools such as customer vetting, fraud detection, driver history checks, and policy management and claims handling through its insurance partners.

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel Founded: 2018 YC Batch: Winter 2019 Founding city: San Francisco, CA Company size: 2,700+ across 100+ countries What is Deel? Enabling this talent and empowering this talent to get the best opportunities is really what Deel is all about. Can you tell me more about the financing side of it? Nothing else matters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” Its latest financing was an up round, but Jurist-Rosner said that was not something the company was focused on. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Launched by startup SmartLabs in 2005, Insteon at one point had an agreement with Microsoft to sell its kits at Microsoft Store locations and was one of the two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit platform, with the HomeKit-enabled Insteon Hub Pro. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk. Onward Mobility.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 8, 2023

Instead, three nuclear superpowers (USA, Russia, and China) are sparring against each other on the physical battlefield through proxies (Ukraine), in cyberspace , in finance via sanctions , in semiconductors via virtual embargos, in space via satellites , and in mental health (largely via social media). million b/d. In that year, 2.7

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