Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio. David Fastuca, founder at Ambisie and Locomote. Keith Roberts, founder and creative director at Zenman.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

Natasha Miller is an EO member in Los Angeles, and founder and Chief Experience Designer of Entire Productions , which designs, plans and produces incredible event experiences both virtually and in person. But as a founder and CEO, where can you learn such skills while simultaneously hustling to grow your company?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. To find out how Black founders are planning to manage their time, money, and expectations for the upcoming months, TechCrunch+ surveyed three founders.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. DigitalOcean’s other two co-founders Jesse Mauro and Marc Hartman are advisors to the company).

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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. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

link] — Infermedica (@Infermedica) August 6, 2020 Technology and Benefits to Health Systems/Payers/Telemedicine Companies Infermedica is an AI-driven, customizable, multi-language platform that aids patient care and healthcare service delivery. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica. Take a look!

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Gleb Polyakov is co-founder and CEO of Nylas , which provides productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Access to rich interaction data combined with pre-trained ML models, automated workflows and configurable front-end components enables developers to drastically shorten development cycles. Gleb Polyakov. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A lot of African founders (and future founders) I’ve spoken to were encouraged by seeing Paystack do so well and get acquired. Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The crypto remittance company was built to enable merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world, Eluan tells me. In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer , an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. Pioneer gives founders access to funding streams and talent hardly found outside Silicon Valley.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Established in 2020, AHG Lab operates under the umbrella of the Alternative Housing Group, which functions as a real estate startup and prop-tech incubator in the Philippines. AHG Lab has cultivated an environment characterized by agility and a strong sense of community among founders and leaders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup was founded in 2020 during covid lockdown with its founders keen to build an app that would enable people in India to watch live matches. “We We decided to build a product, which enabled users to watch matches on the app, and have video calls with their friends to enjoy the match. “We It brings to $24.5

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

CEO and founder Ari Buchalter has more than two decades of leadership experience building successful data-driven marketing businesses. Ari understands how to transform the experience of public spaces and enable brands to reach consumers more efficiently and effectively. Ted and I have con-invested together for nearly two decades.

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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. “ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap was first a collective before a fund, Hayden Simmons , the general partner who launched the firm in 2020, told TechCrunch in an interview. “By the end of 2020, we recognized that was too passive of a strategy,” Simmons remarked. “We’re here as an enabler to help them go from zero to one.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers analyzed data from 2020-2022, primarily post-pandemic. 18% higher per capita income growth in counties in the high broadband group from 2020-2022, equating to an increase of nearly $500 per person each year on average for county residents. The cloud and managed services company C alix, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. Bisu is in discussions with other companies in the fitness, pet care and bathroom sectors for additional partnerships, co-founder and CEO Daniel Maggs told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Financing: It is customary in B2B transactions to pay “with terms,” such as net 30 or net 60, effectively giving a line of credit to the business buyer that enables them to send payment after delivery of the good or service.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

“We are proud to be officially bringing our payment infrastructure and ecosystem to the Malaysian market – boosting the growth trajectory of local start-ups through our secure and easy-to-integrate payment system,” said Moses Lo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xendit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders. In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

“This funding marks a significant milestone, enabling Fuel Me to accelerate the development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver unparalleled service to our customers. and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges.

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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. How effectively founders engage their remote workforce affects both company culture and the bottom line. Originally published April 8, 2020. Establish trust.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded in 2020 by Ashutosh Shukla and Sandesh Shetty, Explico focuses on assessment using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help students identify their specific strengths and weaknesses to design a unique learning modular based on their individual needs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., growth from 2020 to 2021. the free YC Startup School courses). Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

3 In 2020, it is China’s second largest e-commerce platform on an active user basis only lagging behind Alibaba. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. During that same year, JD and Taobao generated a combined $433B of gross merchandise value.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

It has also closed a $4 million sidecar fund, dubbed Reach Founders Fund, which brings together capital from 40 portfolio companies. Not much is changing for Reach Capital’s strategy between funds (Chu says that edtech valuations are starting to come down to March 2020 levels).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Roberto Cebrián, co-founder of Parrot. With an eye on reversing that trend, they created Monterrey-based Parrot in April 2020, and in 2021 launched with ParrotConnect, its point-of-sale software for restaurants enabling them to digitize and take advantage of the home delivery boom to accelerate growth. Image Credits: Parrot.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The funding comes less than a year after it announced a round of €90 million ($105 million) in January 2020, and is more specifically an extension of that round. Despite the difficulties of 2020, it was a year of great growth for Tink,” said Daniel Kjelle?n, n, co-founder and CEO of Tink, in a statement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. A handful of companies achieve record-setting growth rates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. Why aren’t female founders getting a bigger piece of the pie? Tebogo Mokwena , co-founder and CEO, Akiba Digital.

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