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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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

The platform continues to achieve historical milestones, garnering more than 100 million users in its first two months, marking the beginning of a new era of disruption. For enterprise applications, SaaS companies like Salesforce may launch plugins to improve ease of use and enable users to become more creative on their platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. THAT is disruption. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At The accelerator has hosted 92 companies, with a combined valuation of $923MM and having raised $217MM in funding following their participation in the Lab.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This evolution has been accelerated by regulatory changes that are fostering innovation and competition within the financial technology landscape. Instant payment systems like CoDi and Dinero Movil , also known as DiMo, eliminate these hurdles, enabling businesses to transact in real time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? That’s certainly true for the Builder Stage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. Image Credits: Sonoma home / DANIEL KELLEGHAN PHOTOGRAPHY.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

Register Lumotive , the developer of Light Control Metasurface (LCM ) beam steering chips that enables the next generation of 3D sensors, has announced that it secured additional investments of $13 million from its recent funding round. The additional cash came from USAA, Uniquest, and Samsung Ventures.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Less heralded has been the next wave these disruptors often catalyze: Digital enablers seeking to arm the incumbents against the incursions of their new digital rivals. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption. and Enable.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. In early 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting food supply chains across the planet, it was time to double down on the Feeding the City mission.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Building Legacies Out of Movements), an accelerator program for social entrepreneurs of color. Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity. So what might Apple want with an AI-powered video codec?

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Register Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, has publicly announced that it entered into a definitive agreement, through its wholly owned international subsidiary Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V., Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Remember Me. No account yet?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. Image Credits: ILLA. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“When we started out on Pulumi, we knew we wanted to enable developers and infrastructure teams to collaborate more closely to build more innovative software,” said Joe Duffy, Pulumi co-founder and CEO. Pulumi 3.0 ” 9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. The demand for CADDi’s services has seen significant acceleration. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Maryland, and Virginia.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. The UK has built on this capability with a service called Variable Recurring Payments (VRP), a form of payment instruction that enables a merchant to securely offer subscriptions (or auto-pay) with a single click, direct from a user’s bank account.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. The results from metaverse-enabled L&D are likely to exceed your traditional in-person training. Or, a sales team member could practice complex product demos in a zero-risk virtual training space.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Over the years, the accelerator has created a portfolio of biotech companies valued at over $3.2 Leaving the $3.2

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc. Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The startup plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate its business expansion further, strengthen its operations in Indonesia, advance technology and expand its engineering and product teams. .

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It may be a hobby or something of personal interest that enables you to develop a level of expertise that other people value. This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models. The most common advice given to aspiring entrepreneurs is to start a business that ignites your passion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The Divido platform enables lenders to serve customers in this area with a compelling, well-managed proposition.”. This is an exciting and rapidly growing market that is constantly evolving and accelerating following Covid. Divido aligns with our lending value space and has a strong strategic fit with ING’s consumer finance business.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Being properly enable today’s diverse workforce is important for SMBS in order to work productively in their preferred modality. Digital acceleration allows smarter and flexible workspaces for employees. As an enabling technology, AI works in harmony with people to automate and facilitate existing processes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Now, the plan is to take on some funding to accelerate that with more investments into R&D and product development, more global deals, and M&A to bring in more functionality and to enter new markets. We’re the only provider who can enable companies to realise their global potential,” he told me in an email.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S. and Canada, but delivers its subscription and market services to more than 100 countries, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Bokksu’s subscription fee costs $49.95/month,

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