TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

So imagine if you enable financing and make the cars much more affordable to people, that’s a core value proposition we want to ship as well,” added El Defrawy, who founded Sylndr with Amr Mazen in November 2021. . Sylndr is yet to launch to the public. Almajdouie, the managing partner at RAED Ventures, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2021

When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. But if I’ve learned anything from moderating said Disrupt panels, it’s that there’s no easy answer to the question, due in part to the aforementioned elasticity.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

The 2021 best Ann Arbor tech companies. We’re excited to see what this partnership brings in 2021! Related: Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021. Schneider has over 25 years of experience in the mobility and transportation sectors, and we’re excited to see what he does with the company in 2021.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. and Europe increased by nearly 2.5x, eventually peaking at close to $10 billion in 2021. AI is making hardware much smarter, which is enabling companies to generate the kind of high-margin recurring revenues typically associated with software businesses.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Fresh for 2021, the Innovation Funders Showcase Company Flipbook provided a sneak peek of all the companies presenting, along with critical information such as market strategy, opportunities and more. All three of these companies are made up of female founders who are disrupting their respective spaces.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

More than 3,700 startups — from 92 countries — applied across XTC’s competition tracks: Agtech, Food & Water, Cleantech & Energy, Edtech, Enabling Tech, Fintech, Healthtech and Mobility & Smart Cities. Enabling Tech: Dot Inc. , The competition just to reach the finals was fierce. Learn more about XTC here.

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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. 1] Podcast Insights: 2021 Podcast Stats & Facts [2] Spotify and WARC: Changing Channels in B2B Listen Up!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

This offer is only available to readers in Europe and expires on April 30, 2021. The solution enables podcasters to edit their recordings with the click of a button, as a sort of digital audio technician in your pocket. Entrepreneurs are the polar explorers of 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But at TechCrunch Disrupt, where Adventr is one of 20 startups competing in Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, founder and CEO Harris unveiled an element of the product that will set Adventr apart: a patented voice-control technology that lets users dictate the course of a video. ” Image Credits: Adventr.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 Smartwatches are enabling people and their doctors to track their health and fitness.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But with 2021 came all the second- and third-order effects of the crisis, further accelerating a continentwide tech expansion to a pace beyond any projections. in 2021 from 2.3% Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm. Total unicorn market cap 2021 LatAm. in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Image Credits: Atlantico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The Open Network for Digital Commerce, an Indian government-backed initiative that is attempting to “democratize” e-commerce , has set its eyes on another industry it would like to disrupt. The firm is kickstarting its mobility journey by on-boarding Namma Yatri, an on-demand auto rickshaw booking app operational in Bengaluru.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, builds dolls that include programmable computers that girls can code through an app. The startup was founded in 2021 by Eliza Kosoy, a PhD student at UC Berkeley, who is focused on the intersection of child development and artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. Since beta launching in April 2021, the company has onboarded around 5,000 customers who use its savings product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Now, we know that investments in fintech companies were far lower in 2022 compared to 2021. billion it was valued at last July, but also still significantly lower than the $45 billion it was valued at in 2021. He says that his startup, MagicCube, was first to market with Tap to Pay on Android devices in 2021 in the U.K.,

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The $11 million round announced today follows the $6 million Series A round in 2021, which was led by Pearl Abyss Capital, Storm Venture, Big Basin Capital, and Smilegate Investment. Provided as a SaaS model, CLASSUM enables active communication and engagement from participants.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

That, in turn, boosted the pet industry itself, with the market’s value increasing from $90 billion in 2018 to over $120 billion in 2021. Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. Of that, $50 billion was spent in the U.S. on food and treats.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

And as these teams grew and adjusted to protecting against customer data breaches and disruptions to services, growing pains associated with working in a corporate environment were to be expected. billion in 2021. Expectations are changing, though. billion in 2025 from $262.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes. The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Since the February seed round, Unybrands said it closed on multiple acquisitions in both the United States and Europe, and along with more in the works, will put the company on track to beat its 2021 projections of completing 20 deals. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The idea that got to me was that we were allowing people to invest in the long term, we enable them to invest in instruments they didn’t have access to before,” said Pedro Pineda, co-founder and CEO of Fintual. For Pineda, disrupting the financial sector also seemed like a lot of fun, he thought. “I May 2021. 480.7

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

In conjunction with the launch, TC Ventures announces its first two partnerships: an angel investment in Turtle in late 2021 and a seed investment in Everimpact in early 2022. Founded by Isabelle Rickmers, the company’s mission is to enable data driven recruitment decisions at global scale and to provide seafarers with a safe home.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

2021 has been an important year for crypto gaming, with Axie Infinity popularizing the play-to-earn model. In 2021, Voodoo acquired eight companies. Blockchain will especially disrupt gaming, as players are already used to buying digital assets. Next year, it plans to open another 20 studios focused on crypto games.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Akros Technologies wants to disrupt the current asset management industry via its AI-driven asset management software platform that mines market data for stocks. However, asset management is still in the nascent stage of digitization, according to the chief strategy officer and co-founder of Akros Technologies , Jin Chung.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Founded in 2021 by a pair of fintech entrepreneurs (Hasan Nawaz, CEO, and Ignacio Javierre, COO), HUBUC says it does the heavy lifting of embedding financial services into business offerings via an API with no-code solutions. Our vision is to become the platform that enables any company to embed financial services within their products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In December 2020 and again in June 2021, researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) made credible claims to have achieved “quantum supremacy.”. Chinese supercomputing centers in April 2021), thereby blocking technology exports — including from non-U.S. companies — to those entities. In fact, the U.K.

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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. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 2. Networking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Veev last raised in March 2021 — a $100 million Series C. The company declined to reveal its exact post-money valuation.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. “Enable it on every account that you have.” billion they received in Q3 2021 and a sizable drop from the $594 million the cohort raised in Q2,” writes Dominic-Madori Davis.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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