Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Founded out of Spain in 2019, StudentFinance partners with educational institutions such as Ironhack and Le Wagon to help finance those looking to upskill into disciplines like software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, serving as an alternative to traditional bank or student loans. .

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

Kandal will focus on unlocking greater synergies across Grab’s superapp ecosystem to create more value for our users and partners, and building a product mix that offers affordable services for those seeking value as well as highly differentiated premium offerings. He then became head of Geo in January 2022.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at the Technology Center on Innovation Blvd in State College, each team pitched their business concept to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of $10,000! The cohort represented an exciting mix of target markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The company founded by Tope Alabi and John Obirije in 2019 provides instant, zero-fee transfers to Africans at home and in the diaspora. This is in contrast to better-known platforms like Western Union and Wise that use traditional banking systems. Remittance is the best and most important use case for crypto.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

New York-based Acorns had last raised more than three years ago — a $105 million Series E round in January of 2019 at an $860 million valuation. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. in favor of an eventual traditional IPO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Founded in 2019, Sunday is a direct-to-consumer company that wants to sell customized, eco-friendly lawn care to the approximately 90 million Americans who have lawns. The company brought on chief science officer Frank Rossi, who has a PhD at Cornell, to create its core product, which requires a mix of tech and science to work.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Nooruldeen “Noor” Agha, a serial e-commerce entrepreneur, founded Flip in 2019 after emigrating to the United States from Iraq. In total, Flip raised $31.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Breadfast employed a mix of improved customer experience (from what customers expected from traditional players) and a native supply chain process to gain entry into the market, said Amin. In 2017 when Breadfast launched, the more prominent companies either used marketplace or aggregator models: think Instacart and Postmates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Kruger previously partnered with Matt Kopel, SwiftConnect’s other co-founder, to start Waltz , an access control company launched in Kopel’s dorm room that was acquired by WeWork in mid-2019. “SwiftConnect also tapped into the fact that administrators were also seeking to use physical space and real estate more efficiently.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

Ahmed Omar and Ahmed Nasser launched Odiggo in December 2019. A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction. A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction. We believe we are at a watershed moment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Liu launched Jenfi with Justin Louie in 2019, after seeing how traditional financial institutions were lagging behind Southeast Asia’s digital boom. The two previously founded GuavaPass, the fitness studio membership platform that was acquired by ClassPass in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Canada-based company got its start in 2008 as the payment processing company Zomaron, and rebranded itself as Paystone in 2019. million in a mix of debt and equity. Paystone , a payments and integrated software company, secured another strategic investment this year, this time $23.8 It raised $54.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The luxury goods market in Africa and the Middle East was worth over $35 billion in 2019, with designer apparel and footwear generating more than $7 billion in retail alone. So these customers don’t just want Orange Culture, they want to mix the Orange Culture with Versace. to shop for and ship luxury items to them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

They have been experimenting and developing using a Cessna 172, which started flying unmanned flights a couple of years ago. Back in September 2019, Reliable Robotics flew a Cessna 172 with no one on board in airspace just outside of San Jose, California. . The company is also evaluating emerging electric and hybrid aircraft platforms.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company has been a longtime leader in the lost item finder space, offering consumers small devices they can attach to items — like handbags, luggage, bikes, wallets, keys, and more — which can then be tracked using the Tile smartphone app for iOS or Android. “We felt this was the right mix of capital choice for us.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

Use the data collected from those varying perspectives to accomplish this step. Considering the situation at hand, mix and match parts of different options to determine what suits it best. They will help you detach from a habitual and too-cozy reliance on your gut instinct and help you recognize potential your own bias.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

MPOWER students hail from 120 countries and are considerably more geographically diverse than the general international student mix in the U.S. No-Cosigner Loans Drive Campus Diversity and Gender Equity The report demonstrates that MPOWER’s unique fixed-rate, no-cosigner loans: Build a more geographically diverse student body. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lerman previously co-founded and led Yext, the publicly traded brand management company that uses a cloud-based network of apps and search engines to keep company information up to date across the web. In pre-pandemic 2019, [only] 40% of US jobs were either remote or hybrid,” Lerman said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Co-founders Aylon Steinhart and Thomas Bowman believe Eclipse Foods has come a long way since its 2019 origins. The proprietary technology uses micelles, which Steinhart called “the microscopic magic of milk,” to create the replacement plant-based dairy products, but that don’t sacrifice on taste, texture or functionality.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Jochen Engert, who co-founded and co-leads the company with André Schwämmlein, described the round in a press call earlier today as a “balanced” mix of equity and debt, and said that the plan will be to use the funds to both expand its network in the U.S. market as well as across Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Adding Discord to the mix might give Microsoft even more tooling to augment its existing communities, or perhaps tie them more closely together. ” That figure has been widely reported, so we’ll use it for our work. That means gamers, developers and kids are all content to hang with Satya Nadella and company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. The funding it’s announcing today will be used in part to enhance how those monthly plans work.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While typically, game creation involves some aspect of coding, Playbyte’s games are created using simple building blocks, emoji and even images from your Camera Roll on your iPhone. After you play a game, you can like and comment using buttons on the right-side of the screen, which also greatly resembles the TikTok look-and-feel.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Founded originally as Taxify and slowly growing the business just around ride-hailing for a number of years in less-scrutinized emerging markets, the company rebranded in 2019 as it kicked its strategy into a higher gear, with launches in cities like London and a move into micromobility, primarily around electric scooters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

It plans to use the funding to continue building out its software and its capabilities, to hire more people, and for business development, according to Artificial’s CEO and co-founder David Fuller. “You can really think of a lab, frankly, as a kitchen,” he said, “and the primary operation in that lab is mixing liquids.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. My one thought: perhaps, it’s time for us all to put our grown-up pants on and stop normalizing this kind of behavior. The pairing has been something of a mixed bag.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s true that corporate training programs tend to be a mixed bag, with only 25% of respondents to a McKinsey survey saying that their company’s training improved their job performance. According to another survey , 75% of managers were dissatisfied with their company’s learning and development function in 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology. What’s more, it does this by using just a few minutes of the actors’ voices — so the dubbed version sounds more like the original.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

What emerges is a generally growing venture capital scene, but one that had mixed results in 2020 compared to 2019. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. However, if we control for an outsized investment or two, things smooth out rather nicely. This is a win. So, what does the data say?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Google acquired homework helper app Socratic in 2019 and Microsoft built Microsoft Solver in the same year. The programming, a mix of videos, prompts and projects, cover a range of questions such as, “Where do rivers flow?” Using data management and analytics to improve student outcomes. for young students.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Vecmocon, an abbreviation for vector motor control, is trying to solve all this using its core EV components and software that it sells to OEMs. The funding from the all-equity round will be used to build a business around the offerings created by Vecmocon, Asati said. Some have even caught fire in the recent past.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism , creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

billion in 2019 to $5.8 It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events.

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