Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

One well known SaaS unicorn focused itself on monthly product launches. The company sustained this cadence for two years. First, the company sustained a torrid pace of product development for a long time achieving more than most thought possible. Second, the market perceived the startup as fast moving and innovative.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The importance of building more sustainable businesses has never been more evident, especially for those in the food and beverage space,” said Surbhi Martin, vice president of Greek yogurt and functional nutrition for Danone North America. “By Imperfect Foods brought in $95 million in Series D funding for its sustainable grocery delivery.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Relying on proven tactics and measurable metrics isn’t enough — today, the most effective marketers constantly study and learn from innovative approaches while exploring new avenues. This process-based service model is, in our opinion, the only way to grow a business in a sustainable way. This is where Unmuted comes in.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

As this accelerates in the coming years, we must find ways to scale efficient growing solutions that lighten the footprint of agriculture,” said Lucas Mann, managing partner at Acre. Greenhouse agriculture is a proven and viable solution, but without innovation, demand will be impossible to meet. We believe Source.ag

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers. Each year, the accelerator admits only about 5% of the startups that seek to join. Family physician Bobbie Kumar lays out the golden rules to ensure your healthcare product, service or innovation is on the right track. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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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. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. An engineer at heart, Sven is passionate about technologies that forge new industries and accelerate novel user experiences. Mar received her Ph.D. ” Day 2 .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. That said, we follow innovations closely and are open to exploring new verticals. How do you balance writing so many checks and funding the best companies?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level. Sustainability, silver tech, women in tech. Deep tech, SaaS, sustainability. What is it weak in?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Its offices and co-working spaces include Dotslash Utrecht, De Stadstuin, MindSpace and Tribes; as well as accelerator programs like Startupbootcamp and Techleap. Our survey respondents think the ecosystem is strong in sustainable energy, medtech, food tech, life sciences, marketplaces, deep tech, gaming and media. What is it weak in?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

They are innovative and have been able to anticipate and address their customers’ changing needs through major acquisitions, new market entries, and product designs. The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions. Last fall TravelPerk acquired a U.K.-based

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. Gambyt is a debt-free and fully profitable company that’s been sustainably growing since its founding in 2016. DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. Not only that, but Ann Arbor is home to great people.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 20, 2019

This summer I had the pleasure of facilitating the 2019 Energy (CleanTech) cohort for the AccelVT accelerator in Burlington, VT. At last week’s graduation they showed one of the critical differentiators between their accelerator and most others: funded pilots with utilities. I’d be happy to introduce you.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This in-depth industry analysis shows how increased regulation on the local level and changing consumer habits are pushing micromobility providers to adapt and innovate. Criminals continue to innovate with highly sophisticated attack methods, but many security organizations still use the same technological approaches they did 10 years ago.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Vincent Peters, the CEO (the three co-founders are Johannis Hatt, Kai Seefeldt, and chief innovation officer Marcel Hollerbach), told TechCrunch that the valuation was not being disclosed with this round, but given how little it’s raised in the last 12 years, that is a strong sign that the company has been growing well on its own steam.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Leeor Mushin is a principal at Floodgate Fund, where he focuses on application SaaS, climate and healthcare. The IRA contains several major programs that aim to accelerate building electrification  —  the replacing of residential fossil fuel machines with electric equivalents. Building electrification. Interesting problems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Israeli-based company developed artificial intelligence-driven data analytics that help food brands make smarter decisions around product development, marketing and retail sales for their next healthy, sustainable and delicious product. It is the 21st century, and we still see 90% of the 30,000 new products that launch each year fail.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

E-commerce and SaaS companies are spending a whopping $80B a year on digital-experience data tools, and Convizit has already deployed its system with select clients. Microsoft for Startups Israel has chosen two OurCrowd portfolio companies for the third AI For Good Accelerator Program, Calcalist reports. Stream the full event here.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

US fresh berry market leader Driscoll’s is partnering with OurCrowd portfolio company Consumer Physics to use its SCiO technology to innovate quality measurement of its produce. Offering mPrest’s DERMS on Microsoft Azure will accelerate the digital transformation across energy markets.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Beta Boom : founded in 2017 by two veteran Silicon Valley innovators, Kimmy and Sergio Paluch the firm invests in pre-seed software startups that are building the future for womxn, Black, Latinx and other ethnic minority consumers. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business? As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. Investors are.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The innovation offered by machine learning techniques are real, and they will changed the SaaS world. I’ve written before about the monstrous acceleration in machine learning innovation. Strong GTM enabled by ML - ML has the potential to be a technology innovation leading to a go-to-market advantage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). We have a decade behind us of incremental innovations. Dignio (SaaS/medtech).

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. – Flutterwave provides an end-to-end digital payment infrastructure for Africans. Why is that?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. – Flutterwave provides an end-to-end digital payment infrastructure for Africans. Why is that?

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