UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We’re literally days away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt since 2019 — and we can’t wait to get this party started on October 18. Check the complete agenda to explore all of the programming across every stage at Disrupt. Buy your Disrupt pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. PDT) and you’ll save $700.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. In November 2019 it unveiled its artificial intelligence product that lets producers match samples from different genres using machine learning techniques to find the matches. Splice is also pleased to announce that Kakul Srivastava has joined the company’s board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, most recently as #2,118 on the 2019 list. While the desire and intention to create disruptive digital customer experiences grows, however, the majority of B2B companies struggle to deliver.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The new fund builds upon SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was first announced in March 2019 and was formerly called the Innovation Fund with an initial $2 billion in committed capital. At that time, Nyatta told me that technology in LatAm is often more about inclusion rather than disruption. billion as of June 30.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. Image Credits: ILLA. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The fund, which closed a $400 million investment vehicle in November 2019, has noticed that more and more startup employees are thinking about entrepreneurship as the pandemic has shown how much room there is for new innovation. The checks that Unusual cuts in pre-seed often range between $100,000 to half a million dollars.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As Below is a link to the pitch video.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of April 2019, there are 434,000 vacant construction jobs ( Forbes ).From Read the full article on TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. Pascal was a tech entrepreneur before there was even a web browser.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. But it’s perhaps best known for its effort around robotaxis.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. SDAC angel investors build social capital as they work together to discover investable companies with the potential to disrupt industries and solve real-world challenges. Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M

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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. Simon Ward founded FloatPays in 2019 as an on-demand wage access platform to help employees access, spend, save and manage their money. Chari (Morocco). Freterium (Morocco). Pylon (Egypt).

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. 2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups. The Miami ecosystem, which we visited on our ROTR 8.0

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5 Secretary of Commerce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Since 2019, Apeel has prevented 42 million pieces of fruit from going to waste at retail locations; that includes up to 50% reduction in avocado food waste with corresponding sales growth. (where approximately 40% of food is wasted ), the U.K. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S., This is a critical blind spot, especially as VC-funded startups seek to disrupt such fundamental parts of our lives as education, finance and health. based venture capital funding in 2019. of all U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The company was founded in July 2019 by Ajay Gopal, whose prior professional experience included leading initial public offering and merger and acquisition transactions as a fintech investment banker for Credit Suisse in London. Tinvio’s last funding announcement was a $5.5 million seed round in April 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Startups are poised to disrupt the $14B title insurance industry. which helped fund State Title’s 2019 acquisition of North American Title Company (NATC) and North American Title Insurance Company (NATIC). . makes money by charging a fee to the company depending on the credit they have to pay once they receive it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019. We see Divido as an innovator at the very forefront of the market, so perfectly fits the profile for the dynamic, disruptive companies we choose to partner with.”. Affirm spinout Resolve raises $60M for its B2B ‘buy now, pay later’ platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million since its inception in 2019, which includes its $2.1 Volopay, founded by Shaji and the startup’s chief technology officer Rajesh Raikwar , wants to disrupt traditional business banking and offer companies a control center for all their financial management needs without the hassle and limitation of a traditional bank. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a 2019 letter to the U.S. There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” They were wrong. If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

India, which is the world’s second-largest internet market, has produced over 23 unicorns this year (Eruditus is the 23rd), up from 11 last year and six in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

He launched Volpe in 2019 primarily with SoftBank’s backing. We like sectors that are prone for disruption in Latin America and that require local customization,” Maciel said. Andre Maciel, Gregory Reider and Milena Oliveira are the fund’s founding partners, and are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. And I’m excited to enter this new phase of scaling operations with my fellow board members Mark Lotke at Harmony and Kimmy Scotti and 8VC as we work with this very talented executive team to continue to disrupt this $34 billion market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. In 2019, Nigeria accounted for more than 53% of the diaspora remittances to the African continent. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 million across 19 African companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. First off, the fact that TransUnion , a public company with a $20 billion market cap, chose to back and partner with four-year-old Spring Labs is significant in and of itself. Spring Labs is one of them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In December 2019, Alex Wilhelm began reporting on startups that had reached the $100M ARR mark. Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. Jon and Alex parsed Oscar Health’s 2019 comps and its 2020 metrics to take a closer look at the company’s performance. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 2019, Techstars began making inroads into Africa after backing payments infrastructure company Korapay and cryptocurrency exchange platform Quidax the following year. Then, it checks if the team can provide more value and disrupt the industry they are playing in.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Launched in Boston in 2019 the program serves over 300 students with many more on the horizon due to Third Rock’s support. By gaining real world experience and exposing these college students to potential future employers, the program moves LSC’s mission forward to “disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, the U.S. Although NPI was founded in 2019, the 2021 legislation codifies significant funding for new and underutilized partners. Disruption in the industry. Share on Twitter. The NPI legislation would result in several positive changes. It also directs USAID to use solicitations that lower barriers to entry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

The winning team will receive a coveted spot in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 and the chance to win $100,000 in equity-free prize money. Bummed you missed your chance to apply for the pitch-off? TechCrunch has your back — you have until the end of day today to apply — here.

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