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JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed from ICE71 Accelerate, 25 June 2020. ” Kinnami.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. The new funding will accelerate the rollout of those systems, as well as co-create another 10 supply networks with retail and supply partnerships by the end of the year. (where approximately 40% of food is wasted ), the U.K. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve been urging you to apply to Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 for weeks now, and you have just over 12 hours left before the application window slams shut on May 27 at 11:59 p.m. (PT). She and her team competed in Startup Battlefield last year at Disrupt 2020. TC: What did it feel like to pitch at Disrupt?

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in their ‘ The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 ’ report, sound the alarm loud and clear about the growing impact of what we eat. The post Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities appeared first on Impact Hub.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Part of that experience includes a series of master classes in the run-up to Disrupt. Last year, at Disrupt 2020, CELA connected the winners of our Pitchers and Pitches mini pitch-off competitions with an accelerator to boost their business.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Risk Parity strategies peaked at $1 trillion at the end of 2020, but a combination of losses and redemptions shrunk its collective AUM to $400m in less than a quarter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

More than $11 million was earned on the platform to date by the lawyer network and over 60,000 hours of work was logged on the platform in 2021, a 200% boost from 2020, our own Christine Hall reports. Cuffing season: Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Why Microsoft’s $2T+ market cap makes its $68B Activision buy a cheap bet.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

As short-form media consumption and the effectiveness of influencer-style marketing have increased, and as enterprises continue to search for better customer acquisition and engagement channels, podcasting has been fueled to a multi-billion-dollar category with nearly 2M shows hosted in 2020¹.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Shabodi raised $3.375 million in seed funding to enable enterprises, system integrators and telecommunications companies to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation applications on 5G. This is the pair’s second time working together. This is the pair’s second time working together.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020. It will also enable the company to accelerate acquisitions of Fulfillment By Amazon brands, invest in technology development and further build out its team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

April 1, 2020. million from Plains Venture Partners I, as well as $1,000,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $500,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund II. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. Contact: Sarah Seagraves, Senior VP for Marketing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

We first covered Traptic back in 2019, when it appeared as a Battlefield finalist on stage at Disrupt SF. That follows a pilot in 2020, when many agriculture companies were seeking assistance amid pandemic-related shortages. Today, the South Bay robotics startup is announcing some major progress.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Founder and CEO Pritesh Kanani was exhibiting Seattle-based AIMIRR’s technology as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt and announced that the company closed on an exclusive partnership with Chicago custom clothing marketplace Balodana Inc. He got the idea for the company in 2020 while he was getting married.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Secondly, it’s further proof that mortgage – a traditionally “unsexy” industry that has long been in need of disruption – is officially hot. The COVID-19 pandemic and historically-low mortgage rates fueled acceleration in the online lending space in a way that no one could have anticipated. We’ll do it when it’s right,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. Rad Power Bikes declined to disclose its 2020 sales numbers. Now, Rad Power Bikes is reaping those rewards and using them to double its workforce and scale globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The startup plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate its business expansion further, strengthen its operations in Indonesia, advance technology and expand its engineering and product teams. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Seadronix says some smart ports across the globe have adopted innovative technologies ; for example, Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Port of Hamburg in Germany and Port of Singapore, but that generally, the traditional shipping industry is conservative and resistant to change, meaning it’s therefore ripe for disruption.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The pandemic’s disruptive effects have accelerated the growth of the digital economy across Southeast Asia,” Itai Lemberger, founder and CEO of Bow Wave Capital Management said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots has raised a healthy sum in the years since it appeared on our Disrupt Berlin stage, way back in 2017. million , followed by another $30 million in June 2020, as excitement around automation continued to build as COVID slowed manufacturing to a crawl. Image Credits: Wandelbots.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Since I began physically distancing from others to stem the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020, I’ve taken exactly 10 hailed rides. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. ” TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to Atlantico, their total post-money valuation went from $46 billion in 2020 to $105 billion as of August 2021. ” And there’s more to come: During TechCrunch Disrupt, Claure said that SoftBank can be expected to deploy between $8 billion to $10 billion of capital into Latin America in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

billion in 2018 to under $28 billion in 2020 as Western brands wrestled with pandemic-related border restrictions. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. Gupta expects headcount to expand to 250 by the end of the year. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

At the end of 2020, I argued that edtech needs to think bigger in order to stay relevant after the pandemic. He went on to explain how a notable acquisition from 2020 was K12 scooping up Galvanize, “which would give K12 exposure into corporate training and the coding bootcamp space, a market outside of K12’s focus at the moment.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

A recent Gallagher Re report found that quarterly insurtech funding for Q4 fell to the lowest level since Q1 2020, decreasing 57% quarter on quarter from $2.35 In 2018, in order to “accelerate growth” (as Romero puts it), Equisoft opened up to investors, securing around $17 million in its first round of funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have to balance how they value recovery and recent profits over the company’s disrupted historical growth arc. How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. What changed from the first three quarters of 2019 to the first three quarters of 2020? How did we get here?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. It’s still early days for the company, which has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding since its founding in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion in just the first half of 2021, almost double the amount in all of 2020, and mega-rounds are a growing trend. Latin America is a very welcoming and open market, and local investors and accelerators will happily work with foreign investors, including in deal-sharing opportunities. Only disrupt when it adds value.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., With this investment, we will accelerate overseas expansion plans.”. semiconductors), but also the agriculture industry. Carrefour and Indofood.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. This has been costly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

According to FIS’s global payment report 2020, A2A payments will take up 20% of all e-commerce payments, surpassing credit and debit cards by 2023. . “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

With consumer demand shifting to primarily online ordering and delivery over the past 18 months, online ordering revenue is expected to double from $248 billion in 2020 to $449 billion by 2025. closed in 2020. To add to his bad luck, he was then rejected from Y Combinator and other accelerator programs.

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