TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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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. CADDi was founded by CEO Yushiro Kato and CTO Aki Kobashi in November 2017.

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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 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. Lester touts the company’s success as “the first major disruptive innovation in the soda category in over 40 years since Coca-Cola launched Diet Coke in 1981.”. soft drink industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. Unsurprisingly, they all too often ignore the broader societal and human rights implications of these investment decisions. For instance, women comprise only 23% of venture capital investment professionals (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 Caryn Marooney, right, vice president of technology communications at Facebook, poses for a picture on the red carpet for the 6th annual 2018 Breakthrough Prizes at Moffett Federal Airfield, Hangar One in Mountain View, Calif.,

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That deliberate balance paid off, but CAVA wouldn’t be where it is today without… A few leaps of faith: Notably its acquisition of Zoës Kitchen in 2018. The resulting approach was risk tolerant but thoughtful: CAVA opened its first store beyond the D.C.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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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 online grocery space has been growing and drawing major investments for the past few years. Canada, the U.K,

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And UK institutions continue to invest: This summer, Mastercard, Barclays and the London Stock Exchange Group announced a £1 billion fintech fund to back British growth-stage fintech companies. In 2018, EU regulators enacted the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which created rules for third parties to access payment account data.

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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. Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M Chari (Morocco). Infiuss Health (Nigeria).

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. How did you break into entrepreneurship and tech investing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Y Combinator remains the most strategic global accelerator for African startups and has invested in about 60 of them in the last six years. ” Techstars is poised to multiply its investments in African startups per year to 24, Sharma added. But so far, it has invested in 10 this year and a total of 13 since 2018.

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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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. It also realized that at the pace it was scaling, it needed to double down on its tech investments. So it went out last year to raise a $50 million Series C.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Drawing from their shared background as news producers, Zakin and Weisburg’s media company has attracted subscribers like Oprah Winfrey and Trevor Noah—plus a recent $12M Series C round with investments from Google Ventures and Spanx founder, Sarah Blakely, among others. Kendra Scott / Kendra Scott. Hooi Ling Tan / Grab.

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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

He left for business school at Harvard University intending to make a career switch to investment banking. Moeller had spent half of that summer filming the reality TV show and the other half interning at an investment banking firm. The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and became a finalist in the competition.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The businesses would be picked up by Thrasio, which would invest in tech to run them better and more profitably as e-commerce operations, both on Amazon and potentially outside of it as well – a new kind of Procter & Gamble for the twenty-first century. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Anecdotally, I am not sure that TechCrunch covered a single contact center startup in the last several years that hasn’t leaned on talking about AI innovation to disrupt how it all works. Gong.ai , Google , Talkdesk , and more are among those playing in this space.). Observe.ai Observe.AI

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures and Stage 2 Capital co-led the investment, which included participation from existing backers Alate Partners and Metaprop. The raise brings the total raised by Occupier since its 2018 inception to $15.5 And today, Occupier is announcing it has raised $10.5 million in a Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

On a call with TechCrunch, CEO Rotimi Thomas said the investment will help SunFi grow its operations and improve its capabilities to recommend the best systems at the lowest cost to customers. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Boulevard also recently made its first-ever appearance on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in late 2022, ranking 54th overall with a nearly 3,200% growth rate for the period spanning 2018 to 2021. Focused on multi-stage, sector-focused investments, GGV manages $9.2 billion in investments across the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The bulk of the investment is equity, but there’s some debt — Goswami wouldn’t give a ratio or percentage. The platform can move] data without disrupting user access or existing data protection mechanisms thus ensuring greater ongoing data storage and backup savings without any hassles,” Goswami said.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Last week at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt event, this editor sat down with VCs from two firms that have come to look similar in ways over the last five or so years. Bonatsos was joined onstage by Caryn Marooney , a partner at Coatue, which began life as a hedge fund in 1999 and now also invests in growth- and early-stage startups.

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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. After taking part in Impact Hub’s Investment Ready Program in 2018, they are preparing to launch their product into the market, so perhaps you’ll be wearing bacteria-dyed textiles soon. Fashion For Good. Good On You.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. Feeding the City Start Up has now worked with 23 early-stage social enterprises, providing business mentoring, practical workshops, direct funding, and access to investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 31, 2022

Aaron Ciechanover, with CEOs from OurCrowd’s MedTech startups Genopore , OncoHost and Sequentify , were my guests for an online webinar on ‘Investing in Precision Medicine.’ EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market and is now funding on the OurCrowd platform. Invest Now. Invest Now. Nobel laureate Prof.

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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. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even of the fund.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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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. Before giving up, Microsoft made some big investments in Mixer’s success, most notably signing streaming superstars Ninja and Shroud to exclusive deals. Quibi (2018-2020). Total Raised: $1.75

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world.

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