Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor. In response, AppHarvest has plans to launch 12 large-scale greenhouses by 2025. On February 1st, the AppHarvest team?—?led

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Leadership Transformation: David Ghodsizadeh’s Journey to Empower Technical Professionals Through Storytelling I had the pleasure of interviewing David Ghodsizadeh, the founder of Storytelling 4 Success , who is empowering technical professionals to unlock their full potential through leadership storytelling. The driving force?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

India is one of the world’s most digital, dynamic and fastest growing economies, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to continue to support PhonePe,” said Judith McKenna, President and CEO for Walmart International, in a statement. At a $12 billion valuation, PhonePe is India’s most valuable fintech startup. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

-based early-stage investor: My goal is to deploy the same amount every year, but the climate has led to far less interesting companies/founders raising rounds, so I will probably deploy 20%-30% of what I want to. We view this as a great opportunity to lean in. The end of 2022 has been a great awakening for founders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Bryan Adams , the CEO and founder of Ph.Creative , a global employer branding agency. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky pledged that 20% of the company’s US employees would be from underrepresented minority groups by 2025. He is a prominent employer brand thought leader as well as an author , podcaster and speaker.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Nevertheless, investors are optimistic about their prospects in the country and feel that the global slowdown is helping founders focus more on building and strengthening their core business. While this is a tough environment for companies, we see it as an opportunity to pause, take stock and consolidate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

NXgenPort is the brainchild of CEO and co-founder Cathy Skinner, who came up with the idea for the port based on her own experience after her father passed away from cancer 20 years ago. Skinner says the startup anticipates human testing to begin toward the end of 2025.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. The e-grocery delivery market in Indonesia is projected to reach $6 billion by 2025. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Europe leads the world’s instant payments industry, with $18 trillion in worldwide volume predicted by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2020 — a growth of more than 500%. Western Europe — and COVID-19 — is now driving that innovation and will account for 38% of instant payment transaction value by 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Indonesia’s digital economy is projected to reach $146 billion by 2025 and become Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy valued at more than $300 billion by 2030. Marshall Pribadi, CEO and Co-Founder of Privy, said he is thrilled to welcome KKR as among their new investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

John Lunn, founder and CEO of Gr4vy told me: “The pandemic has made things difficult but has also been a massive opportunity because everything went online. McKinsey projects that by 2025 global payments revenue will reach roughly $2.5 It now has partnerships with GoCardless, Banked and Akoova. of all retail sales worldwide.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

million, including some financed by the founder and chief executive in the early years, across all funding rounds. By 2025, nearly 75% of the global population and almost all people who use social and communication apps will be frequent AR users, said Snap in a recent report, for which it collaborated with Deloitte.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While companies across the globe were forced to lay off staff and cut expenditures when the crisis hit, many missed an opportunity to creatively augment or repurpose their existing offerings to serve a new audience and solve a new problem. Product-founder fit is essential, too. At Talview, we did exactly that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. billion by 2025. has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. . “Sima.ai

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

While traditionalists only comprise 2% of today’s workforce, employers should still support the few who remain by providing stability and ample opportunities to contribute. To support them, provide real-time feedback, flexible work arrangements that favor work-life balance and develop personal development opportunities. Baby boomers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Hormonal health sits at the center of conversations around personalized medicine and women’s health: By 2025, women’s health could be a $50 billion industry, and by 2026, digital health more broadly is estimated to hit $221 billion. Many believe it’s that complexity that underscores the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Raghu Ravinutala is CEO and co-founder of Yellow.ai , a platform that brings AI and human intelligence together to automate customer experience for large brands and enterprises. It’s easy, quick and according to Gartner , 80% of companies will switch from native mobile applications to messaging by 2025. Raghu Ravinutala. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

million, Vinay Shukla, co-founder and CEO of ConverseNow, told TechCrunch. Company co-founder Rahul Aggarwal said more people prefer to order remotely, which has led to an increase in volume. billion by 2025, according to Grand View Research. This new investment brings ConverseNow’s total funding to $18.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

“With the market the way it is, the number of accredited investors is expected to grow by 50% by 2025,” Kaji said. There is a huge opportunity to unlock the market and have people participate.”. Jordan Nof, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Ventures, agrees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

But the cost and time involved in developing longevity solutions presents a major hurdle, which means founders must be prepared to take the long view. “It Christian Angermayer , founder, Apeiron Investment Group. What’s the most important thing first-time longevity founders need to know? Samuel Gil, partner, JME Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Notably, both Northrop Grumman Corporation and Lockheed Martin Ventures also participated, the first time the two contractor-rivals have done an investment together, Orbit Fab co-founder Jeremy Schiel told TechCrunch. As launch market matures, space opportunities on the ground take off. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

million, which co-founder and CEO Rishabh Poddar says is being put toward product development and doubling the size of the team to close to 100 employees by the end of the year. The new cash brings Opaque’s total raised to $31.9 At least one firm anticipates that the confidential computing market will be worth $54 billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But this is something that French startup Edda is looking to fix, with a platform aimed at helping investors, analysts, chief financial officers (CFOs), and even company founders get the insights they need, and the tools that make working collaboratively on deals just that little bit easier. Investors invest.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag, declined to talk about valuation, but did say it was “a steep evolution from the last time.” The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added. The “last time” was a $15 million Series D round in 2020, also led by Novator.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“We’ve been tracking the Francophone Africa market for some time now, and have been impressed by CinetPay’s ambitious goal to digitize payments across the region,” said Walter Baddoo, co-founder and general partner at 4DX Ventures. “We “Our vision is to be the first payment aggregator in Francophone Africa by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

With the help of your recommendations, this week we were able to interview Peep Laja and Lucy Heskins, and publish multiple guest columns on growth-related topics including homepage testing, marketing lies to watch out for, VR ad opportunities, company-naming and ad compliance. We’ve included some of our favorites, below the links.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. Some of my co-founders are big fans of The Lord of the Rings,” Gómez told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. The opportunity cost of this challenge is enormous. AI has transformative potential. Modular aims to change that. Image Credits: Modular.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Dwana Franklin-Davis is a lifelong technologist currently serving as the CEO of Reboot Representation , a coalition of tech companies pooling their philanthropic resources to double the number of Black, Latina and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025. This is an enormous missed opportunity with dire consequences.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Other notable investors in the company include The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC Fund and the founders and CEOs of Allbirds, Everlane, FIGS, Harry’s, Flexport and Warby Parker. billion by 2025. Existing investors, including General Catalyst, Bling Capital, Construct Capital, Industry Ventures and Origin Ventures, joined the round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company intends to use the funds to add 10,000 new electric vehicles to its platform with the end goal of achieving 100% EVs by 2025. m , a startup that provides optimized transportation services for school-age children, has announced the close of a $130 million Series D raise, bringing its total funding to more than $200 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to starting Vowel, Berman was one of the founders of baby monitor company Nanit. As we now go back to hybrid work, we see this as an opportunity.”. A Garner report said that 75% of workplace meetings will be recorded by 2025 , and that is a trend we are reinventing from the ground up.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Dragoneer and Echo Street are investing in the startup for the first time, and many of Lydia’s existing investors are putting more money on the table, such as Tencent, Accel and Founders Future. What’s really impressive with this round is that it is primarily financed by existing investors,” Lydia co-founder and CEO Cyril Chiche told me.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Now, that will include menopause, as well — a life stage that will impact nearly half the world’s population at some point, but where opportunities there are few online communities where women can connect and learn. Unfortunately for Peanut, not all investors see the opportunity in addressing the needs of menopausal women.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2022

Vea, Voyager and PayMaya CEO-Founder. According to the 2021 e-Conomy Southeast Asia Report by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company, the country’s internet economy grew 94% from 2020 to 2021 and is expected to grow to US$40 billion by 2025, powered by growth in e-commerce and strong adoption of e-wallet payments.

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