The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead of just reacting to problems after they hit, it uses machine learning to constantly scan historical data, logistics information, news updates, and even weather reports to get ahead of potential disruptions. The most recent update was in June 2025.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2025

Several factors are driving this shift: Economic Instability in White-Collar Jobs: Industries like tech are increasingly vulnerable to disruptions such as layoffs and automation. Franchising offered a structured way to enter entrepreneurship with reduced risk—a key factor in my decision to invest in Ideal Siding.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

The Ovarian Cancer Challenge Grant expands on the Foundation’s long-standing commitment to cancer research through the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance (PSSCRA) and is part of a broader strategy to raise awareness and drive targeted investments in underfunded women’s health issues.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. Finishing is the ripest for disruption.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

It sounds like you’re committed to the August 2025 timeline for it. Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. So we work very hard on trying to drive up the percent of our procurement and investment that is going to those small businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . billion by 2025. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “I founded Sima.ai “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of $2 billion. This is what it looks like: “Following the most significant supply chain disruptions of the modern era, there’s only room left for innovation,” co-founder and CEO Romain Moulin said in a statement.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s clear that the additional overhead is generating higher prices, but not necessarily better results, according to Sumi Das and Nina Gerson, who lead healthcare investments at Capital G. Derek Idemoto, SVP for corporate development and Cisco investments. PDT/2:30 p.m. Since then, Z?m

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“RBI’s payments vision 2025 document also talks about looking at the various charges for payments made in India in such a way that it further encourages digital adoption, which we believe means there is a possibility that various payment charges can come down to encourage more adoption.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The real estate industry was ripe for a disruption that put the people’s needs before the landlords. Coworking is that disruption. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR INVESTMENT? I believe coworking will be more than 25% of the market by 2025 thanks to the speed of business and innovation. Only time will tell. Coworking will thrive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

million, with past backers including Alpha Bridge Ventures, Bob Lee, and the Uber Syndicate, an investment vehicle to back Uber alums in new ventures. Nana estimates that to meet the demand of growing numbers, an additional 28,000 new technicians will be needed by 2025. Nana has now raised $10.7 Move fast and fix things.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investment will accelerate advancements of the MIRA Surgical System LINCOLN, Neb. The $30 million funding extension will support the company’s operations well into 2025 as it seeks to disrupt the industry with miniaturized RAS (miniRAS).

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Sales of cars using batteries jumped 43% in 2020 to 3.25M units and are forecast to grow to over 30M units by 2025. How To Grow a Hectocorn: Zoom Backer Jim Scheinman on His New Investment. Zoom is now worth $100 billion and Scheinman has seen five of his investments exit as unicorns. ” Learn More. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

That’s the belief of the vast majority of investors on the OurCrowd global investment platform surveyed in January. 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

MAY 21, 2021

Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. Instead of one giant factory and an assembly line, Arrival’s commercial electric vans, buses and cars are robotically built in small, regional microfactories, of which the company wants to open 31 by the end of 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. But that doesn’t sit well with Christian Angermayer, who co-founded Cambrian BioPharma and Rejuveneron, and whose family office Apeiron Investment Group has a special interest in expanding longevity.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. If that is the capital of investing, then why not use it to improve not only the lives of people involved in business, but everybody else as well? Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. Volta’s wider business strategy will be based both on selling trucks as well as offering its vehicles on a trucking-as-a-service model.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

NXgenPort, which presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, is building an implantable chemo port that features added sensors and remote connectivity functions. Skinner says the startup anticipates human testing to begin toward the end of 2025.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Cellino Bio’s founder Nabiha Saklayen didn’t initially intend to enter TechCrunch Disrupt 2021’s Startup Battlefield — it was her PR advisor who threw the startup’s name in the ring as a wildcard entry. The dream is to build a truly autonomous human cell foundry by 2025. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Some analysts predict that by 2025 the payments segment revenue of embedded fintech could reach $141 billion. Katzenberg, Walt Disney Studios’ former chairman, and WndrCo co-founder said: “Embedded finance is going to disrupt banking in every single vertical market, from retail, mobility, to logistics and insurance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new investment comes months after the startup was approached by one of the two Indian edtech giants that offered Teachmint a $400 million acquisition price, according to three sources familiar with the matter. It also offers its ed-infra service to institutes and said over 4,000 such institutions in India and overseas are using it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk. billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9 At Kaiyo, our mission is to make great design accessible to everyone. billion in 2018. .

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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. Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Want a free Disrupt pass? Hello, it’s more funding calling : In PhonePe’s quest to raise $1 billion, an investor group that included Tiger Global and Ribbit Capital invested another $100 million into “India’s most valuable fintech startup,” which is valued at $12 billion, Manish writes. Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This latest round is intended to formulate a massive investment in a “roadmap” for developing model organ systems created to fit drugmakers’ needs and bring the idea of an organ-on-a-chip into use in the lab. . Emulate Inc., Emulate was founded in 2013 and has, so far, raised about $255 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

HealthPlix , an Indian startup offering its in-house platform for doctors to help record patient data digitally, has raised $22 million in fresh investment to broaden its reach in the country and allow more doctors to utilize its software to offer improved care to their patients. In India, roughly 300,000 doctors practice medicine regularly.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

Since then, the angel group has worked to open doors for the startup and many individual members of the group have invested in the company. In addition to investments from ACA groups like Golden Seeds, how has the company attracted funding?

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

Register IMC Pan Asia Alliance has invested $1 million in GIFT.ed , a new Singapore-incorporated edtech firm from the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT). with the globe yearning for solutions to environmental concerns and the corporate e-learning industry expected to exceed $40 billion by 2025.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

The time has never been better for new technology to disrupt these alarming trends. As a result, over the last five years investment in emerging FoodTech has tripled. This growth is why OurCrowd invested in Beyond Meat, a source of alternative, plant- based proteins that innately appeal to the environmentally conscious consumer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

With consumer demand shifting to primarily online ordering and delivery over the past 18 months, online ordering revenue is expected to double from $248 billion in 2020 to $449 billion by 2025. In the same way we were disrupted, I began to think there was no better position to be in than a scrappy startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

— who I’m sure would be not thrilled if I said who it was — and she said she’d seen 30 menopause startups and had not done an investment yet,” she recounts, saying one of the hurdles for that particularly reluctant (unnamed) investor was a question mark over whether women in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Over the last few days, we’ve been telling you about all the cool stuff that’s happening at Disrupt. Hardware gets its turn in the spotlight at Disrupt 2023 …Exciting times! Startups and VC James Murdoch’s venture fund Bodhi Tree slashed its planned investment into Viacom18 to $528 million , down 70% from the committed $1.78

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