Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. So they kept their focus trained on meeting more people in more places — through digital innovation and geographic expansion — with food that fuels and connects. Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Partner Clara Sieg and VP Graham Ober Banking regulations are confusing. Setting out to disrupt the global payments industry?—?with The company’s headquarters in Portland expands our footprint in the Northwest and is consistent with our approach of investing in disruptive startups across the country.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. Canada, the U.K,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s Lumchain’s goal: help the global meat industry innovate and solve some of the key challenges they face, including employee shortages, the impact of inflation and high operational costs, supply chain disruptions and that meat plants are still operating the same way they did 50 years ago. She even did a TED Talk about it.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 17, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Craig Rowland Business: Sandfly Security Founded: April 2018 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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OurCrowd

JULY 24, 2019

We expect healthcare to change in the next decade as disruptive technologies promise to improve patient outcomes, making medicine more personalized, effective, and interconnected. In 2018, the company completed its first human trial in Alzheimer’s, giving new hope to those affected by the disease and their families. About the Authors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. soft drink industry.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million from Plains Venture Partners I, as well as $1,000,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $500,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund II. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. million Series A in 2018, both led by i2E, Inc., parent company of iMCI.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We found that new ventures require radically different talents and skills. Ideas are the critical spark in the first stages of a startup: Ideas for a new product, for a disruptive service or engaging customer experience. Every venture needs Collaborators. Take Airbnb and Uber, for example. Remember Kara Goldin ? Key takeaways.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners. The Series A funding comes after its 10x year-over-year revenue growth throughout the four years since its launch in 2018. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space.

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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. Of that, $50 billion was spent in the U.S. on food and treats.

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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. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our systems are at a point where it is more productive to work with nature than against it,” said Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer at S2G Ventures. People have been looking at solving these problems in the wrong way,” said Daniela Fernandez, managing partner at Seabird Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While the concept of CMS has been around for decades, a relatively new innovation — so-called headless CMS — is beginning to attract both market share and the interest of investors. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018). billion by 2030, up from $21.5 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Alternative capital has pros and cons, just like venture capital has pros and cons. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Mobility-as-a-service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

million in a Series A2 round led by Blue Bear Capital and HSBC Asset Management with participation from Riverstone Holdings and Capnamic Ventures. million in pre-seed and seed funding round led by Augment Ventures with participation by Accion Venture Lab, TMV, Overton Venture Capital and Refashiond Ventures.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2023

The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. During that time, she also held a full-time job as a marketing manager at Microsoft. million in funding.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

Uncertainty, though challenging, can be a catalyst for improvement and innovation, reinforcing the need for transparent communication and learning from our mistakes. ” During the early days of my venture, we faced a sudden market downturn. Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity for innovation, not a harbinger of failure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

BioNTech (the company behind Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine), Chimera Abu Dhabi, Deutsche Bahn’s DB Digital Ventures, Google, G42 and Synergie participated in the round. Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab. The rail operator is the largest in Europe. .

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally. Tech startups with innovative technologies got the edge over other startups in the KSGC program selection. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They include the London Stock Exchange Group, Draper Esprit, OMERS Ventures, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and ABN AMRO Ventures, as well as previous backers Pentech and Outward Ventures. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In an attempt to remedy that problem, São Paulo -based Kovi was founded in 2018 to give those people access to those opportunities. . Kovi today is announcing it has raised $104 million in a Series B round of funding co-led by Valor Capital Group and Prosus Ventures. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. The New Angel Cohort is a six-month program powered by Melissa Bradley’s 1863 Ventures and BLK GRVTY , and it’s designed for new investors who want to explore angel investing with tools, education, and experts at their fingertips.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. In a market that has typically lacked innovation, Partech general partner Tidjane Deme says the investment will help Wave improve its service. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round led by returning investor Intudo Ventures, with participation from Quest Ventures. million since it was founded in January 2018, including a $1 million seed round also led by Intudo. That gives us a chance to disrupt it, in the sense that it has always catered to the big clients.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork. After raising $10.3

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In 2018, Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. Founded in 2018, Blumira brought in their first round of seed funding of $2.6 Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. million in 2020. Groundspeed.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

The time has never been better for new technology to disrupt these alarming trends. Food and beverage technology, or “FoodTech,” holds the potential to improve how we eat — from increased food yield, improved nutritional value and freshness to innovations in supply chain and procurement. Sustainability in FoodTech.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. ” Here is what they told me: Peter Barrett, Playground Global: Why the venture community decided to call in an airstrike on their portfolio companies is quite beyond me. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics?

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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. When Fashion For Good set out to create a platform for innovation, they collaborated with Impact Hub Amsterdam to set up their space. Tommy Hilfiger Social Innovation Challenge. Fashion For Good.

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