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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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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., The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

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StartupNation

MAY 11, 2021

Many locally owned retail businesses as well as many franchise high-end retailers could not adjust so quickly, as evidenced by the many closures in 2020 (i.e., The opportunity to radically change how a service was delivered and how customers were engaged has long been an option, as the technology to enable it has been available.

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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. It was seed funded buy Amadeus in 2020. Startups are poised to disrupt the $14B title insurance industry. It has now gone on to raise $44.1 where the insurance industry is enormous.

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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. “The growth in e-payment suggests changing consumers’ spending habits as Southeast Asia moves toward a digital economy and a cashless society,” Thamavaranukupt said.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. We’re pleased to support Ryan and the ambitious Bolt team and see tremendous opportunity in the space that Bolt is disrupting.”. We don’t just want to be on par with competitors, but be better.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market. Pantone co-founded Turaco with Peter Gross after their stint at MIC Global (Micro-Ensure), a tech-enabled embedded insurance provider. Its users have grown 300% since 2020.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

Its disrupting nature has given it an enormous potential with countless applications. Another study by Gartner says by 2020, 85% of customer interaction will be managed without a human. So, whether is product review or customer service processes, AI enables businesses to make informed decisions.

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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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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

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Banking: disruption of in-person banking, website and in-app chat for faster customer resolution using Conversational AI, more advanced IVR menus to intelligently route calls and reduce handling time or give callers the option of receiving either a callback, switch to chat, or text, rather than wait in line. Consider two companies.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In fact, more than 70 percent of small business leaders felt a moderate-to-large negative effect from the pandemic, according to an October 2020 U.S. Technology enables organizational resilience. Small businesses are vital to our global economy, yet they are disproportionately vulnerable to the economic fallout from COVID-19.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” It’s not uncommon for caregivers to feel overwhelmed as they navigate the administrative and logistical complexities of caring for a parent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. What emerged was “patent-pending hyper-soluble caffeine technology,” that enables VAE Labs to “significantly increase solubility of caffeine and liquid,” Bogdan said.

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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

MAY 3, 2023

“Pando’s no-code capabilities enable business users to customize the apps while maintaining platform integrity — reducing the need for IT resources for each customization.” Since the startup’s Series A in 2020, revenue has grown 8x while the number of customers has increased 5x, Jayakrishnan said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

One of those was Grip , previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). This funding round is going to enable us to take the experience to a new level, leveraging our extensive industry-leading platform, offering unique value for Virtual, Hybrid and In-Person events.”.

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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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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

JULY 1, 2021

It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020. Then in 2020, the company issued Futecoin, the world’s first digital asset based on FIFA’s solidarity mechanism. . “We Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, the large B2B supply chain enabling the burgeoning retail market was plagued by bottlenecks and inefficiencies because it involved a plethora of intermediaries and streamlining became a big problem. India’s B2B e-commerce space has developed rapidly since 2020. Image Credits: Redseer.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. TS Anil (CEO) and Sujata Bhatia (COO) joined Monzo in 2020 to further improve operational excellence in risk management, lending, regulatory and compliance. When they joined, Monzo was generating $69M in revenues (in April 2020).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 The fintech then launched its product in October 2020 and has since grown to have about 60,000 customers and 110 employees. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Our platform not only reduces the friction with payments by enabling customers to pay how they want to pay, but also helps carriers sell more insurance.”. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

When he and co-founder Allan Fisch were getting started in 2020, they saw how similar companies, like Thrasio, were using debt capital to buy lots of brands and take them over. This brings the company’s funding total to $590 million and will enable Elevate to scale its portfolio to 45 brands, from 32, this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

With its approach, the company’s goal is to enable its acquired companies to sell on multiple channels. In 2020, that accounted for $300 billion in sales, according to Marketplace Pulse estimates based on Amazon disclosures. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. trillion by 2028.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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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 billion across 644 deals in 2021, surpassing the total raised in 2020 by about 87% and reaching a cumulative 10-year total of $43.8 billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chikazawa and co-founder Sam Yamashita started Autify in 2016 in San Francisco to develop software testing automation, enabling software developers to expedite the delivery of quality software to their customers in a rapidly changing marketplace. Existing backers Archetype Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Tably joined the round as well.

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