TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. ” Image Credits: Appzone. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear. We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. in 2021 from 2.3% Image Credits: Atlantico.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Even a partially remote workforce, when appropriate, enables organizations to expand their talent search to a more diverse and highly skilled pool of professionals. Originally published April 8, 2020. Harnessing the power of remote work is invaluable for startups looking to improve productivity and encourage high-performance teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Visa is actually an investor in MagicCube, having backed the company in August of 2020 and another time before that. Sony’s VC fund invested an undisclosed amount in MagicCube in late May 2020). .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

A 2020 IDC report projected that the videoconferencing market would grow to $9.7 ” Alongside Andrew Rabinovich, Green launched Headroom (not to be confused with Max Headroom ) in 2020 to address what he perceives as the outstanding blockers in the videoconferencing industry. . The momentum isn’t slowing down.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip, which intends to be the most customer-centric financial technology company in the world, enables users to do fair financial transactions from anywhere to anyone. trillion in 2020, citing Bank Indonesia’s data. . Interbank transfer is the most dominant payment method in Indonesia’s fast-growing digital economy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. Last year, the competition attracted startups from 87 countries, and one third of the XTC 2020 finalists raised more than $167M combined in venture investment since being selected.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets. Renegade Partners , founded in 2020 by Renata Quintini, formerly at Lux Capital and Felicis Ventures, and Roseanne Wincek, a prior partner at IVP.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The startup is not disclosing valuation, but according to PitchBook its last valuation, in 2020, was in the region of $208 million. “Especially in periods of high inflation, rising prices, and supply chain disruptions, the value of managing the inventory and procurement is huge,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

As the pandemic continued, buying patterns shifted dramatically and in April 2020, Forrester forecast COVID-19 would cause global retail sales to decline by an average of 9.6% Early in the pandemic, retailers had to cope with surge buying, as customers emptied shelves of stock while preparing to stay at home.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. billion in 2020 to $19.6 The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. As of 2020, it has partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Apply now to DocNetwork. DynamoMetrics. FreightVerify.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Putting safety first, the company’s Vehicle Intelligence Platform of embedded computers and cloud software enables its scooters to protect themselves from damage during and between rides by detecting problems including battery fires, short circuits, or failed brakes, and take corrective action to avert damage. Top Tech News.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. In early 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting food supply chains across the planet, it was time to double down on the Feeding the City mission.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

“Our developer platform enables our customers, and the world’s developers, to defragment their AI technology stacks — pushing more innovations into production faster and realizing more value from their investment in AI,” Lattner said. ” Ambitious much? It’s already had an impact.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. By any measure, it is poised for success — sales increased 800% between December 2019 and 2020, and by the end of this year, the company will have 60 retail locations.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

In the first quarter of 2020, startups in the MENA region excluding Israel raised $277 million. It will enable physicians to distinguish accurately between bacterial and viral infections, and provide faster and better-informed treatment and patient management. OurCrowd will create history on Sep. billion – 10 times as much.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 20, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 20, 2020: The Presbyterian Health Foundation has awarded nearly $4.6 Our contributions are enabling researchers to achieve important progress for public health. Contact: April Stuart. 405) 319-8260. astuart@phfokc.com. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Three of those companies are already in the OurCrowd portfolio and we are pleased to offer investors the chance to participate as we join this $35M Round E led by GSR Capital, enabling VisIC to scale its business to address a huge global market. They will be joined by Krishna Motukuri, Co-Founder of Zippin. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Join Scheinman and Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd, as they discuss their new co-investment in Zippin , whose checkout-free technology platform enables retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores, kiosks and fast-casual restaurants. They will be joined by Krishna Motukuri, Co-Founder of Zippin. Register Now.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 30, 2021

Bill Gross: Launchpad will ‘disrupt manufacturing forever’ Overtime Sports raises $80M from Bezos, Drake and A-listers. That’s more than half the record $10B raised in the whole of 2020 and puts the country’s ecosystem on pace to break $20B this year, as I told reporters this week at a briefing from Jerusalem.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 30, 2021

Bill Gross: Launchpad will ‘disrupt manufacturing forever’ Overtime Sports raises $80M from Bezos, Drake and A-listers. That’s more than half the record $10B raised in the whole of 2020 and puts the country’s ecosystem on pace to break $20B this year, as I told reporters this week at a briefing from Jerusalem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. In September 2020, Halifax-based fitness data management company Kinduct was acquired by mCube. In November 2020, Newfoundland-based Verafin was acquired by Nasdaq for $2.75 More posts by this contributor. billion in cash.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Eflex Intelligent digital energy for homes and small business 2020 Lumme Lumme Health is a digital behavioral health company with a radically superior approach to facilitating success with weight management and problematic eating patterns. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management. They are no longer in business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The tech enables a lot of things but taking the approach we have is what has brought us success.” “It’s highly difficult to build a geometry engine from the ground up,” Sosanya said. “A lot haven’t dared to step in because it’s a very complex space because of the 3D aspect.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. This a great example of company that is disrupting a traditional market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After launching in beta in August 2020, Adventr created a user-friendly interface where anyone can drag and drop elements to make interactive videos. The vast majority of the internet is video, so we’re enabling video to perform like the rest of these smart devices.” ” Image Credits: Adventr.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The biggest benefit is that remote work has enabled people in Big Tech to work outside of Silicon Valley, and it appears Miami and South Florida, more broadly, are enjoying the benefits of that decentralization. 2020 has just confirmed that you don’t need to sacrifice the way you want to live your life because of a dream job.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank Collective , which invests in early stage companies building the infrastructure to enable working women and families to thrive across career, care and household consumers. That means they required a lot of upfront venture capital investment to disrupt their respective markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Alex Gurevich: The continued disruption of content distribution models, whether that’s the debundling of cable via the plethora of SVOD services, or the way new content is released (i.e., Jana Messerschmidt: We will see a proliferation of products that enable content creators to build businesses outside of traditional media companies.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

OurCrowd’s Top 10 Post-Pandemic Tech Trends offers invaluable insight into what will be hot, disruptive and investible in startups for the coming 12 months. In addition, the application of digital technology across all economic sectors has accelerated the growth of the many companies enabling this digital transformation. Learn More.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 9, 2021

This program is supported by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 initiative and has been launched by a consortium of 15 companies from 11 countries, including Impact Hub Madrid. New technologies enable more open, innovative and inclusive financing systems that drive impact investment. Responsible food and consumption. Agrobridges.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Enabling communication, transparency within the remote workforce. Automation, AI, enabling remote, authentication. Remote and enabling remote seem like the biggest opportunity; automation and enabling digital transformation are attractive as well. Patrik Juránek from Startup Disrupt community.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

At the Diversity and Inclusion Panel Discussion in June 2020, Kendra Mitchell, Duo’s Chief of Staff said , “It’s about bringing everyone to the table in a way that respects their beliefs and values.”. In November 2020, Llamasoft was acquired by Coupa Software for $1.5 In 2020, they raised $5.5 million in 2020.

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