StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2025

In a world dominated by constant disruption, from AI automation to ever-changing customer expectations, Drucker’s wisdom is a timely reminder that leadership must be centered around people, not just products or profits. Management is not simply about control; it’s about enabling people to do their best work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. 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. and Enable. Enablers take on the unglamorous role of helping incumbents stay relevant.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fazeela’s experience as an investor and trusted advisor to tech-enabled businesses makes her an invaluable addition to the team, strengthening our approach of providing hands-on company portfolio support. Revolution has a unique, collaborative culture where I knew I would fit in well. The people and the firm’s approach to investing.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The new generation of workers has high expectations for the type of tech-driven collaboration they desire from their workplace. Providing technologically advanced options for work and collaboration to the employees is not enough. Today’s workforce is every business’ most valuable asset. Therefore SMBs should be adaptable and attentive.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

in BayaniPay’s roster of industry-leading collaborators. The collaboration positioned BayaniPay as the first cross-border, digital financial service for the Filipino American community, which is about 4.2 BayaniPay is also collaborating with BDO Unibank to enable its users in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. You’re part of a knowledgeable group of investors who work collaboratively to evaluate each startup and its ability to provide valuable, marketable solutions and good returns.” To learn more, visit www.thesdangels.com.

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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. But I believe that it holds incredible potential as a space to unite people and facilitate collaboration.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By addressing these issues and collaborating on solutions, we can develop a resilient food system that benefits both people and the planet. These approaches reduce reliance on non-renewable resources and ensure food production remains resilient against climate-related disruptions.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Spot AI enables simple access to insight from video. Spot AI builds an artificially intelligent camera system that stores video, analyzes it, and enables collaboration across a team. More than just transforming the user interface, Spot AI disrupts the purchasing process. Plus, it’s plug and play.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

This article presents real-world examples of business leaders who successfully overcame various crises, from supply chain disruptions to regulatory shifts. We continued with transparent and empathetic customer communication and recognized the importance of investing in technology to help with effective shipping and preventing disruptions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. New BI systems will enable both. AI is changing the structure of data teams.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By bringing product information into Salesforce, Pimly removes product information from the silo, enabling everyone to get the most out of product information.” The round will enable Pimly to drive further growth in the Go-to-Market and Product Teams. Congrats to Co-Founders Mike M. and Mike D. for this milestone!

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Even a partially remote workforce, when appropriate, enables organizations to expand their talent search to a more diverse and highly skilled pool of professionals. Remote workers may experience feelings of isolation, loneliness and difficulty collaborating and communicating with their coworkers, leading to a decrease in performance.

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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

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. We connect consumers and businesses to enable high-quality, ethical and transparent data exchange.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Capria’s Fund II will make early-growth investments in fintech, mobility/logistics, agtech/foodtech, climate, and jobtech/HRtech sectors, supporting tech-enabled innovators primarily focused on domestic-first transformative solutions of many of the fastest-growing emerging economies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Fintech companies are increasingly collaborating with traditional players like banks, payment agencies, insurance providers and stock exchanges. This will enable access to information, improve consumption of products and services, and disrupt and de-structure established value chains.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The company competed against knowRX Health and Vertikal X on today’s TechCrunch Live episode and won free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt this October. As the child explores the FabuLingua world, more stories unlock, enabling more teaching opportunities. The company was founded by Leslie and Mark Bergert.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

For us, it's about collaboration and connections and what we can do to support them there.". Chris feels that he also wants to enable small business customers to do that. We've been hearing it a lot — this time in history presents a lot of opportunity for disruption. Disruption comes from this space.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The meeting room of the future includes redesigned workplaces, new technologies, and continued or new support for collaboration between local and remote employees. Enabling remote work for the millions of workers who are working from home has taken priority, and most companies have succeeded while keeping their core IT systems up and running.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. ” Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We’re psyched to be reporting live from TechCrunch Disrupt — without ignoring the rest of the world, natch. It’s one of the startups participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200, and it uses machine learning to try to identify fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare claims , Kyle reports. News drop from Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Buildots also creates a collaborative environment and trust by having a single source telling everyone what is going on. Walking around today’s construction site, Danon said the adoption of technology is enabling Buildots to move quickly to build processes for the industry. It’s a natural next step for the company.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. . The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. .

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems. It also opened the door to more collaborative conversations with investors who understood not just what we were building, but why it mattered. You shouldn’t be tunnel-visioned by raw data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The Open Network for Digital Commerce, an Indian government-backed initiative that is attempting to “democratize” e-commerce , has set its eyes on another industry it would like to disrupt. “Nowhere else in the world do open networks exist. It’s all proprietary and closed systems,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Box offers a 90-day free subscription with unlimited storage, 50,000 API calls, and more for their secure file sharing and collaboration platform. The plan provides the software for free for two years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Dipp was launched three years ago to automate much of that workflow, and allow marketing and design teams to collaborate more effectively, while focusing on their own performance metrics. Dipp also works with e-commerce enablers, or agencies that help brands distribute products across multiple channels.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. But collaboration between banks and fintech in Kenya is quite exasperating and even lags that of Nigeria, a country riddled with its own set of regulatory challenges.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Businesses are transforming their ways of working to keep pace with disruption. Founded in 2016, theDesk offers flexible and productive workspaces with a focus on building inclusive and collaborative communities that enable meaningful business connections.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Molecule.one went on stage at Disrupt SF 2019’s Startup Battlefield , where they explained the difficulty faced by the drug discovery industry, basically that they come up with lots of theoretical treatments but can’t actually make the molecules. odarczyk-Pruszy?ski ski said that their efficiency has increased as well. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking. Chari (Morocco). Infiuss Health (Nigeria).

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