American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Palm Tree Crew, through its investment arm, also recently raised a $32M venture fund that focuses on providing capital to early-stage disruptive brands across the consumer and technology space. Also, in Fall 2024, Palm Tree Crew will unveil its first restaurant concept, the name and market for which will soon be announced.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital , a former entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. I have been reflecting on why it is that we venture capitalists and founders keep making the same mistake over and over again — a mistake that has become even more glaring in recent years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

It aims to serve over 25,000 doctors by 2024 and reach 50,000 by 2025 to treat nearly 15% of the Indian population. “Every time you make a decision, whether it’s a small feature, a revenue opportunity, whether you build a tech stack or any decision you’re making, are you putting doctors first?”

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

This early-stage venture capitalist is uniquely positioned to bridge the economic and technological gap between North America and Southeast Asia. I’ve learned that if you have good pattern recognition, you can identify information asymmetries and arbitrage opportunities. However, I knew I had the potential to better myself.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. It is on a mission to triple the number of merchant transactions it helps facilitate by 2024. Will once-bootstrapped startups turn to venture during a watershed moment? The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

But as I told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble this week, venture investors must take a long view and remain optimistic. The two companies provide NCSOFT with a Cloud PC platform that monitors the gaming environment, optimizes performance, and takes action in real time to mitigate a disruption.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Startups, tapping into new manufacturing techniques, new batter technology, and new energy infrastructure, see a ripe opportunity to build new vehicles to disrupt the current status quo with safer and cleaner alternatives. Volta said it will also use some of the funding to continue developing smaller 7.5-

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

I had the opportunity to interview Vishal Garg, Better.com CEO and co-founder, a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the company’s going public via a SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp. Now, we knew Better.com’s stock wouldn’t exactly perform well. Learn more. Last-minute passes are still available. Save 15% with code INTERCHANGE.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

Even so, turning your venture into a successful, revenue-generating company is a little more difficult. Reinforcing those messages during checkout , including estimated shipping and arrival times so that your consumer isn’t frustrated by uncontrollable delays or disruptions in the supply chain. Updating transaction emails.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Last week’s historic decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to broaden its definition of an “accredited investor” is a game-changer for the venture capital industry, boosting access to the kind of investments in startups that OurCrowd has helped pioneer. billion by 2024. Upcoming Events . Job Vacancies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Greater geopolitical tensions around Taiwan The case for US venture capital outperformance by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

If you haven’t been, expect an annual founder summit with sessions from top experts and opportunities to meet fellow entrepreneurs. Looking farther down the line, there’s Disrupt , TechCrunch’s annual flagship conference, taking place September 19–21. Don’t miss it. Now on to WiR.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Heartland led the seed round and was joined by Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs and Redbox Ventures. It also gives the company a solid runway to open 350 fulfillment centers across the country by 2024. With the dark store model, there is more of an opportunity to stay capital efficient, though harder to launch your own fulfillment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce Swyft Cities won the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off and is fast-tracked into the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. Swyft is aiming to have the first vehicles up and running by around August 2024, according to Poskey. Beyond Aero is runner-up. Image Credits: Swyft Cities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. Jomayra Hererra, Cowboy Ventures. trillion by 2024. I’ve always found the concept of total addressable market (TAM) hard to embrace fully — the arrival of a single disruptive company could change an industry’s TAM in a week. Shauntel Garvey and Jennifer Carolan, Reach Capital.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 13, 2023

The impact is we’re pulling forward 2024-2025 “cash out” dates into the current day because the opportunity cost of people’s time and investors’ capital is sufficient to resolve many of the situations today. So let’s finish up with a hopeful (?)

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

The email is a vibe shift from just a few weeks ago , when hundreds of Y Combinator startups — many of which already raised venture funding — presented themselves to the public on Demo Day. The startups were the first to receive Y Combinator’s new $500,000 standard check and were aggressively focused on international opportunity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

P.S. Before we forget – TechCrunch Disrupt is back with an in-person event in October. In a guest post for TC+, he explains how recent attacks on critical infrastructure, pending regulation, and rising concerns over Russian cyberattacks are creating new opportunities in OT. – Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

By 2024, analysts predict cars with voice recognition will comprise 60% of the market. For our latest Extra Crunch market map, we sized up the general market opportunity before creating a roster of major players and reaching out to investors to see where they’re placing bets. Extra Crunch Live goes down every Wednesday at 3 p.m.

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