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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

The company is the result of the Business sans Border initiative, which aims to create a global ecosystem of MSMEs through trusted credentials, and to enable B2B cross-border trade through financing and fulfillment services.

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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. LG Technology Ventures was established in 2018 in Silicon Valley and manages over $500 million of fund assets.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition to its payment services, Alchemy Pay has also introduced its innovative NFT Checkout service, which enables customers to acquire NFTs using fiat payment options, making the process as straightforward as any other standard online payment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services. In 2018, Redbird participated in the Alchemist Accelerator just a few months before launch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. AI also creates opportunities to disrupt traditional industries with massive addressable markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Enter Skydropx , a Mexico City-based logistics management company that enables businesses to create an end-to-end automated delivery experience for customers that includes over 250 shipping options, track notifications via WhatsApp, estimated delivery times and return management. It now serves over 50,000 customers and makes more than 1.5

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 4, 2022

funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. Since 2018, Popoyán and partner farmers have planted about 263 hectares of avocado trees. Here are some of the ways U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit their needs, both in the United States and worldwide. In addition, 40% of customers booked trips through the company more than twice.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

SDR ground station technology improves downlink communications, provides significant cost savings and is far more dynamic, acting as an enabler for the exponentially growing Satcoms market.” Description: “Helix Technologies – enables precision GPS antennas, providing 10cm level accuracy. Helix Technologies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Attendees at the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in 2018. In 2018, Alan Peterson, an EO member in Orange County, California, formed MyEO Deal Exchange (MyEO DX), a resource for connecting EO members who wish to find mutually beneficial deals. Why can’t you buy a desk that will perfectly fit the available space?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , It enables military veterans and their spouses to take online and in-person educational courses, which teach them how to run a successful business. and overall, 6.8

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The startup, founded in 2018, said it will use the fresh capital to attract more top tier talent and scale its presence across more key geographies. Provided as a SaaS model, CLASSUM enables active communication and engagement from participants. CLASSUM provides an interactive learning platform for corporates and universities.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

He started his first business aged 18 and received the New Zealand Angel Association’s Arch Angel award in 2018 as New Zealand’s top angel investor. Like all entrepreneurs, he looks for and takes advantage of opportunities while managing risk. “If

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The pandemic has hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process. PPRO is not the only company to be targeting that opportunity. PayPal leads $50M round for PPRO, a profitable cross-border payment specialist.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2018, three co-founders of Refract, Chong Geng Ng, Michael Chng and Eugene Koh, worked on a gaming-related project and encountered a problem statement: How would one bridge the gap between gaming and physical activity? The Series A round brings Refract’s total raised to $9 million.

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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. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

At the time, custom-built solutions were the trend, and — according to Romero — he and his friend had the opportunity to build an asset allocation software for a mutual fund company. ” Equisoft was a self-funded company for 24 years, up until 2018. They left the company together to pursue a more entrepreneurial path.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In late May, the startup announced it had raised $35 million in an equity round led by Union Square’s Opportunity Fund, and $30 million in debt funding from Architect Capital. We…believe they have an opportunity to fundamentally reshape the entire consumer payments experience in the region.”.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

The company was later acquired by Cloudera in 2018. As the check size increase, the way to source and invest changes to be able to find the “right deals” The challenge is to be able to iterate and grow on each new increment, and see the long term game by investing in various areas to increase the opportunity to find and win “right deals”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018. Gani later joined Hong as a co-founder to scale the business, as they realized there was a bigger opportunity for global e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was founded in September 2018 and it has raised $68 million overall. 800,000 candidates have used the app to access job opportunities. You can consider it as a tech-enabled version of the good old employment agency. As a partner, you find new clients and new job opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We are extending them the financing to enable them to scale up their businesses,” she said. Peinovich, Hedvig Alexander and Alison Phillips founded Powered by People in 2019 to enable emerging brands to access global markets. She moved to Kenya 10 years ago after graduating from MIT and held the CEO position until 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish. Their approach to growing opportunities for independent workers in the region is a major step forward in financial inclusion and we’re inspired by the ways to grow this impact over time.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Register The global events and meetings industry is a powerhouse, driving billions of dollars in economic activity with countless business opportunities. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

Established in 2018, Profet AI is a significant enabler of corporate digitalization worldwide. Asia Pacific currently reports the highest growth rate in the enterprise AI market, unveiling market opportunities that Profet AI is seeking with its planned overseas expansion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. We are excited to partner with CoderSchool to provide both opportunity and access to the millions of aspiring students in Vietnam.”. This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without industry-wide master unique identifiers for medical-surgical (med-surg) items, hospitals cannot easily compare products by their attributes to identify cost-savings opportunities, or map product selection to the best patient outcomes. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts. We didn’t know the domain.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Hong Wang says that the funding will enable Akuity to expand the size of its workforce while contributing to the open source community. The three were founding engineers at Applatix, a Kubernetes management engine that was acquired by Intuit in 2018. A 2021 poll from Canonical found that 45.6% billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With a lot of that experience covering payment systems based on cards and card networks, it was the perfect knowledge bank for understanding why open banking was such an important innovation, and why it had an opportunity to disrupt a lot of what’s in place today. However, if the numbers speak for themselves, there is clear opportunity.

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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. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time. “Our Positive Food Co., Our business went to zero, and then we were moving into a giant new facility. It turned out to be the right one.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain. We enable integrated production of complete sets of equipment consisting of custom-made parts such as sheet metal, machined parts and structural frames.

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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. In addition, the quiz enables the company to output the right bundle for the pet, including formulation, size and frequency of food and supplements, based on the specific needs of the pet. “If

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries. Certainly, I can see M&A opportunities for whoever starts to lead the pack. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 In a similar vein, Shift Technology in France has raised $100 million. raises $2.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

By any objective measure the amount of money going into tech-enabled startups is up considerably (left chart) while the amount of money that VC funds have raised from LPs is also up significantly (right chart). Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later. trillion in value.

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