TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

“The best test environment is reality,” explained the founder and CEO of Manifold Bio, Gleb Kuznetsov. To make this happen it has invented a “protein barcoding” tech that you might think of as molecular RFID tags. From left, Manifold co-founders Gleb Kuznetsov, Shane Lofgren, and Pierce Ogden.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As the co-founder and CEO of PropFuel , Dave is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur dedicated to creating a place for unique conversations with successful founders and business leaders. But this typically comes with a hefty price tag. Dave Will, an EO Boston member, is the host of the EO 360° podcast.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Accompany each subtask with relevant details and deadlines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The company emerged from stealth last August when it announced it had raised $4 million in a seed round l ed by Founders Fund that valued it at $20 million. Founders Fund doubled down on its investment, also putting money in the latest round along with Abstract Ventures, Maple VC, Hyphen Capital, Blank Ventures and angel investor Elad Gil. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chris Coote, Founder & CEO, California Honey Vapes Not Having a FAQ Page Not having a FAQ page is a common mistake. This material should consist of well-written and original product descriptions, photographs of high quality, and relevant meta tags. Hamza Usmani, Head of content, SEO-Audits.io

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More recently, it’s launched a solution focused on connected TVs, where co-founder and CEO Yan Liu said there’s no standard measurement. So instead of relying on tags, TVision has built up a panel of connected TV watchers. “There’s no good currency, per se, in the industry.”

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Lindsay, her co-founders, and team are rock stars with a rare passion, unique product, and category-defining vision of Amplified Marketing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If you’ve decided that you need US$20 million to retire, but your current cash flow doesn’t warrant that price tag, it could make sense to wait until business picks up before pursuing a deal. The value of your business will be at least partially determined by company cash flow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using tags and notes, the videos become more searchable and easier to find. For example, you can tag a co-worker in a meeting in which they got an unexpected shout-out. Now, the two co-founders are trying to take one of GitHub’s internally loved features and bring it, and more, to the mainstream.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Controlant platform involves screen-based IoT tags, which link to GSM networks and then feed into web and mobile apps. Last week the governor of New York held up a box (see image above and video below) containing the vaccine, with an unidentified tag that looked like a Controlant GSM tracking device.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Customers connect their data, it is placed into various verticals and tagged in different ways. Varos founders, from left, Gil Shaked, Yarden Shaked and Lior Chen. Until a month ago, it was just the three founders, but the company now has a team of seven, mainly in product and design.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

And today, the startup has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Founders Fund at a $20 million post-money valuation. In a nutshell, Playbook claims it can automatically imports, tags, categorizes an organization’s entire media library, in minutes. Image Credits: Playbook.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

He would be — he’s the co-founder of Lang.ai , a startup developing a platform that automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues ostensibly more quickly. ” Lang isn’t alone in using AI to auto-tag customer service messages. “Automation in customer support is not new. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

WATI founders Bianca Ho and Ken Yeung began working together in 2016, building Clare.AI, an omnichannel AI digital assistant for large Asia enterprises. WATI founders Ken Yeung and Bianca Ho. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3 WATI also has integrations with platforms like Zoho, Shopify and Google Sheets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Theranos’s founder Elizabeth Holmes will find out her lot next week , while Peloton’s founder gave up on exercise equipment and is selling rugs now. Image Credits: GPC Smart Tags (opens in a new window). Jacquelyn writes that Framework Ventures co-founder says DeFi gives hope following FTX collapse. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Learn from the founder of The Meet Group Image Courtesy of Geoff Cook Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Geoff Cook, the founder of the Meet Group which was acquired by ProSieben for $500m. They created the popular apps of MeetMe, Tagged, Skout, LOVOO, and Tagged.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Alvaro Gutierrez is co-founder and CEO of Barkibu , which uses data to make pet care better, more affordable and personalized. When startup founders think of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), we tend to think of “Mad Men”-esque processes, involving dramatic office reshuffling and expensive rebranding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

That’s the premise underpinning Polywork , a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson. In the feed itself, individual posts can be given related tags (e.g. Clicking on a specific badge shows the sliced view of that user’s related tagged content.). It’s announcing a $3.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

It also includes resources that chefs tap into daily, like ingredient yields and unit conversion, a menu cost calculator and automated allergen tagging and nutrition analysis. Angel investors backing the company include Snap’s former head of product Bobby Lo, Shef founders and Bento Box founder and CEO Krystle Mobayeni.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

The firm’s two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV, closed on more than $980 million, according to co-founder and managing partner Dana Settle — cash that’ll be put toward investing in both early- and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Just because someone let you tag on to their seed round doesn't necessarily mean they're going to look to you to lead the Series A in the future, especially if you're going head to head with Sequoia, A16Z, or Union Square Ventures. The best bets often look pretty stupid, if we were honest with ourselves.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

At the time of the acquisition, Prosus said the high price tag was justified because of the scalability of the combined businesses. The move to terminate the deal has come as a surprise to BillDesk founders and its investors, according to three people familiar with the matter. Why is the $4.7 It would have meant a $1.4

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 17, 2014

I was scanning the SXSWSocial network for anyone that had tagged themselves "Brooklyn". I had no idea she was a founder with a startup. She pounded the pavement for months looking for other investors who also wanted to take a shot at a first time founder team on a towercutting project. But handy isn''t why I backed it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It also results in a product that doesn’t need bulky components like ionization chambers, and an overall smaller and lighter weight system relative to the spacecraft — key considerations in space, where every gram of payload has a high price tag. “It

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Instead, its Network Pulse technology taps into those “wonks” through a question-based tool where someone would ask a question and receive bite-sized answers in real time from more than 40,000 possible experts based on expertise tags. Question-askers can also schedule additional time with experts to go more in depth on a topic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Popl co-founder and CEO Jason Alvarez-Cohen, a UCLA grad with a background in computer science, first realized the potential for NFC business cards through a different use case — a device he encountered in someone’s home while attending a party. . To date, Popl has sold somewhere over 700,000 units and has generated $2.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s not about necessarily building something for a hardcore buyer today,” co-founder and CEO Alex Perelman told TechCrunch. “We The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. Both Perelman and his co-founder Nathan Shinder previously worked at PeerStreet, a real estate tech company based in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

NayaPay CEO and founder Danish Lakhani told TechCrunch that the super-app allows people residing in Pakistan to send and receive money, split bills and make payments conveniently from smartphones. We are very bullish on fintech in Pakistan. Image Credits: NayaPay.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Other notable investors participating in the round include founder of Stitch Fix Katrina Lake, CEO of Italic Jeremy Cai, CTO of Molekule Dilip Goswami and ex-CEO of Misfit Wearables Sonny Vu. . Why isn’t there a crib that can monitor for signs of waking,” wondered Radhika Patil, the co-founder and CEO of Cradlewise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

We’ll explore each below, along with some food for thought for founders building startups in this (re)emerging space. How to proceed: VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch Marketplaces There are two primary forms of recommerce marketplaces: (1) branded (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Omneky automatically adds tags to each ad using computer vision and text analysis. All of this is integrated into our AI to generate content that is on brand,” Omneky founder and CEO Hikari Senju told me in a call before TechCrunch Disrupt. But it gets more interesting once you start diving a bit deeper. Image Credits: Omneky.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

There’s a lot of moving pieces and a lot of fragmentation across tools,” explains Runway co-founder Gabriel Savit , who met his fellow co-founders — Isabel Barrera , David Filion , and Matt Varghese — when they all worked together as the first mobile app team at Rent the Runway. Image Credits: Runway.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Kdan Mobile founder and CEO Kenny Su. Launched in 2009, Kdan Mobile has focused on developing content creation and productivity software for mobile devices from the start, founder and chief executive officer Kenny Su told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Kdan Mobile. We always sensed that trend would continue.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The actor helped start tbh one year ago and now works alongside co-founders and co-CEOs Elena Guberman and UMANA founder (and tbh investor) Ba Minuzzi with an earnest goal: to offer consumers a less sugary and overall healthier alternative to one of his favorite childhood snacks, Nutella. By contrast, a 13 oz.

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