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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

Whereas in 2016 I struggled to come up with one, and whereas in 2017 it was obvious it was Coinbase, with 2018 comes the most money poured into U.S. In 2018, it was that kind year. This is the company, in my opinion, which only first appeared on the radar of most investors in 2018. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Ocrolus lands $80M at a $500M+ valuation to automate document processing for fintechs and banks

TechCrunch

If you’ve ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process. Ocrolus is a startup that is hoping to change that with an automation platform that it says analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy. It’s a lot. We wanted to create a new way of doing this.

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Reflecting On Haystack’s Investment In HelloSign (Acquired By Dropbox)

Haystack

In early 2014, Docusign became a unicorn and eventually went IPO in 2018 at a whopping $4.5B Was Docusign just a place to get electronic signatures done, or could it have more tentacles into document-management systems across a variety of sectors? That turned out to be a good lunch.

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Kdan Mobile gets $16M Series B for its cloud-based content and productivity tools

TechCrunch

Kdan Mobile , a company that provides a wide range of cloud-based software, including AI-based tech for organizing documents, has raised a $16 million Series B. Since announcing its Series A in April 2018 , Kdan Mobile has grown from 70 employees to 200 in Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States. Image Credits: Kdan Mobile.

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Profile of a Young Entrepreneur: It’s All About Choice

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Costa’s translation company, EthnoLink , provides professional document translation services by certified translators to new migrants and travellers who wish to apply for visas, university admission or car rental services. Not even 30 years old and a member of EO since 2018, Costa’s values are clearly steering him well.

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How We Turned Our Biggest Setback Into an Innovation Opportunity

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It was the beginning of 2018, and my agency had just lost two of our biggest accounts. Once the new processes were in place, we documented everything, so we could make continuous improvements and scale once the business model began to work. Before, we didn’t have anything documented. Everything was ad hoc.).

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. Zimbabwean serial entrepreneur Victor Mapunga founded FlexID in 2018 out of his frustration with the banking system.

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