American Entrepreneurship

JULY 2, 2025

Hyperbridge unifies: Context management Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration Secure and compliant data handling This powerful combination ensures that every procurement decision is informed, secure, and aligned with company goals. We’re building the intelligent infrastructure that turns procurement into a competitive advantage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 20, 2022

They’re also the second most popular category of influencers on Instagram and have a follower count between 20k and 100k. That means most influencers fall into this category. . Campaigns best for nano influencers: Hire a nano- influencer for a small campaign to secure high credibility for your brand. Mid-tier influencers.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

By minimizing downtime and maximizing output through AI-powered insights and expert service, Omnidian is making solar more financially secure and operationally transparent. The firms value proposition is resonating globally. Marunouchi Innovation Partners sees Omnidian as a linchpin in achieving a carbon-neutral future.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, our current linear economy produces enormous amounts of waste—and electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing categories to address. Naturally, data security is a critical part of every asset retirement process. That’s why businesses and industries must embrace the circular economy—the economy of the future?where

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

There are exceptions: Oracle’s database, Tanium’s security product, Workday’s human capital management software. Switching from the norm in your category introduces friction. It commodifies the category by reinforcing a single dominant purchasing parameter: performance. Slack is a notable exception.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

In just five minutes, Mel tells you the five ways to get a CISO to buy your security product. For example, reducing the cost or complexity of security operations or projects driven by macro or micro-trends, including new privacy regulations or a company’s move to the public cloud. Other needs may be driven by strategic priorities.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. In fact, the only founder I've ever seen completely run the table for a multi-million dollar seed round based off of a Powerpoint is Chantel Waterbury of chloe + isabel. Seriously, not a single investor turned her down.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

It’s already reshaping how thousands of organizations operate, making Glean a frontrunner in the rapidly evolving Work AI category. This context-aware design enables users to search intelligently, generate content accurately, and automate workflows confidently, all while preserving enterprise-level data governance and security.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

CISOs don’t underestimate the value these next-generation security solutions will add to their organizations. Your product must: Have key security solutions or applications used by the firm Have APIs that can be used to integrate with homegrown tools Support industry standards that are applicable to your product category.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

So you will see me invest in security infrastructure, developer tools, productivity applications, creative apps, generally enterprise-like sort of relational database applications that keep records, [and] verticals where I think the vertical is large, interesting and the data is affected by this, like comp bio. Nails, not hammers first.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In my previous venture, a 100% sales-led growth (SLG) cybersecurity company, we regularly secured $250K annual deals with large enterprises. Though initially complex, we have the potential to secure significant deals. I realized then, and now more than ever, that there’s a better way — by combining both PLG and SLG approaches.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2025

In a bold move to transform the energy sector with cutting-edge AI, Collide, the category-defining GenAI platform for oil and gas professionals, has secured $5 million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise , has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 Island, founded in 2020, created a security-focused browser for enterprise users based on Chromium. billion just weeks after emerging from stealth with $100 million in initial funding.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

Underpinning this modern data stack, a data observability platform like Monte Carlo and a data security layer like Cyral ensures the data is accurate and safe. Or a security researcher might identify a vulnerability in customer systems that violate the company’s SOC2 certification. Nor will this transition be immediate.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 9, 2025

Securing this funding validates confidence in our flagship technology and the concept of Supraphysiological Preconditioning,” said Dr. Saahil Mehta , founder and CEO of Plexāā. “It Plexāā is building a category-defining platform that can transform care not just in the U.S. but globally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Take these ideas as inspirational — they aren’t limits, nor should the borders of these categories be seen as anything but liminal. How do we make workers feel more secure and meaningful in a remote world where gig work makes up an increasing fraction of all employment? Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Jason Calacanis ( @jason ), angel investor in many category-defining companies, including Uber, Thumbtack, Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Calm, says you absolutely should. Learn more about Dreamit Securetech , a growth-focused program for cybersecurity, fraud, compliance, and physical security startups.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. It was an opportunity to generate significant returns, momentum for rising startup markets, and innovation that would strengthen America’s dynamism and competitiveness.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

Cybersecurity and industrial/manufacturing are the two fastest growing categories. The Wiz acquisition and the overall growth rates of security companies as a durable budget within software spending has propelled security more broadly. Education & life sciences are right behind.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. Space + Security. Climate + CleanTech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand. trillion category by 2027 and the number of active IoT-connected devices ??is We are solving the problem for use.”. It is projected to be a $1.1

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

The best vibe coding tools Lovable for ease of use Bolt for flexibility Cursor for debugging vibed code v0 for a clear view of the building process Tempo Labs for free error fixing Replit for planning before building Base44 for easy security controls Memex for vibe coding everything What makes the best AI vibe coding tool? Guardrails.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Companies that defend APIs from outside attack have been particularly fruitful, lately, with startups such as Ghost Security and Corsha raising tens of millions of dollars in capital. Prior to starting ThreatX, Settle was VP of enterprise architecture at BMC; Useckas had worked with Bret at BMC, where he was an enterprise security architect.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

They leverage the separation of data and compute to accelerate queries, enable secure and compliant access,and future proof the infrastructure to new advances in tools and use cases which you haven’t been built. Innovators in this category include Preset, Streamlit, and Tecton among others. Innovators are Dremio and Databricks.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mentalaba.uz, a disruptive project focusing on revolutionizing education in Uzbekistan, secured the top spot in the category of “Information technologies in the social sphere.” […] The post Mentalaba.uz

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

On the other side we debated whether a higher-end solution with video cameras was the way to go and what the demand would be for anonymity versus solutions that can help with security / identification. Density raises $4 million from Upfront Ventures, Ludlow, Dawn Patrol, Jason Calacanis and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We rebuilt our base and secured what we thought was the perfect anchor only to find out that a strategy change for the firm meant our lead was moving from VC to timber and they pulled out of VC altogether. So you really want LPs who invest in the category in good markets and bad.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

When broken down by industry AI models and tools reflected 25% of companies, with 25%, data platforms, ETL and BI 18%, developer and devops tools 10%, security 10%, fintech 8%, and defense/aero 5%. No security, fintech, or defense/aero companies were identified in early and mid-stages for the ET30 in 2023. years for 2022 and 5.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The focus was on security products, not service providers, except companies that have “productized” their services, i.e., offered them as a product package, transparently priced per user, with the ability to sign up online, etc. The categories are intentionally broad; the explanation of what was included in each category is provided below.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Following a hefty $39 million Series B announced in April, the company secured a $75 million Series C in a round led by CapitalG. Meanwhile, the new funding will be used to double the company’s team of 100 and go into R&D so that it can expand into new categories.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Authentic user reviews were a key factor in selecting those on the annual list G2, the largest software marketplace serving over 90 million people annually, announced its Best Security Software Products list for 2024. The top 100 products are ranked based on reviews across all categories in which they are a part.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

It’s one of the best ways to secure your funding. Customizing the metric presentations in this way has been very helpful for securing funding for our business and building strong relationships with the right investors. Investors saw Evaheld as a category creator—not just a product, but a movement. The outcome? The outcome?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category is figuring out how to sell a unique product to customers who have never bought such a solution. Is it secure? Every company wants to be innovative, but innovation comes with its share of difficulties.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

are defined in law as “special category data” to which more onerous rules apply. Our privacy policy will detail how we will use different categories of personal data – including to manage our app, categorize profiles so they appear to appropriate audiences on the app and invoicing our users.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Local teams will run programs in the respective regions, and vet and manage partners in the following categories: account opening, data aggregation, analytics and security, customer engagement and new cardholder services and operations and compliance. So we’re bringing innovation into our ecosystem so that anyone can take advantage.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Register WriterZen is working to expand its product features and penetrate strategic markets in the US, UK and Australia in 2023 after it secured seed funding of $1.35 It has also consistently been recognized as a High Performer and Leader in the SEO category of G2 2021 and 2022 Fall Reports. Remember Me. No account yet?

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