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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Their high-end products and storefront come from a hand-cultivated culture, state of the art facilities and a sustainable growing practice. Airway Innovations. Airway Innovations is one of five first cohort companies out of Grand Rapids taken on by the new Conquer Accelerator run by Michigan State University (founded 2020).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

With SaaS penetration roughly 20-30% by our estimates, there's several hundred billion in market cap to be created in the next few years. High costs of living plus modern collaboration tools, changing preferences, and startup success in other geographies push this trend into the mainstream. The M&A market continues to surge.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. ” The startups that are first to market with innovative “adjacent services will emerge as winners in the next few years,” she advises. 3 tips for SaaS founders hoping to join the $1 million ARR club.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Durango, Colorado, January 25, 2023 – Today, the Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) announced, in collaboration with the Colorado Venture Authority , a $25m close of GCVF Fund II. GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Durango, Colorado, January 25, 2023 – Today, the Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) announced, in collaboration with the Colorado Venture Authority , a $25m close of GCVF Fund II. GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years. GCVF’s Fund I raised $17.5M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We have seven key areas of interest that we remain committed to: financial services and insurance, life science and health tech, edtech and digital talent accelerators, enterprise SaaS, digital infrastructure, agtech and food security. That said, we follow innovations closely and are open to exploring new verticals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Sustainability, silver tech, women in tech. Deep tech, SaaS, sustainability.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I asked the panelists, how well understood is demand generation, considering it is one of the core elements of business needs to sustain its growth? At the outset of every startup that attains product market fit, a collection of innovators adopt the product. Unanimously, the panel concluded it’s not very well understood.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We also liked their flexible model — we were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed, it was properly collaborative, not a blackbox agency arrangement. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech. Recommended by: Chintan Bakshi, Skyku.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Fundamental changes are inevitable, but a collaborative process can smooth out some of the bumps and potholes on the journey. But insurtech startups’ fortunes in 2022 might be different depending on where they stand: purely insurance players stand to lose value, while those innovating could benefit, report Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

That’s why I founded MarketingCube.co , a boutique strategic growth consultancy for innovative startups and scaleups. Finally, always agree on a clear set of objectives and key results (OKRs) to ensure focus, prioritization and collaboration. Amex has shown how a brand and business can reinvent itself many times over.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

GM Vice President of Innovation Pam Fletcher is in charge of the company’s startups that tackle “electrification, connectivity and even insurance — all part of the automaker’s aim to find value (and profits) beyond its traditional business of making, selling and financing vehicles,” Kirsten Korosec writes. Image Credits: Chevrolet.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 20, 2019

Most CleanTech companies need to interface with local utilities in order to deliver their innovations to the world. However, tht same culture is usually far too slow for startup-paced innovation. AccelVT and their sponsors are making Vermont one of the best places in the country for CleanTech innovation.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Early success drives innovation, excitement, momentum, and more success. Additional roles are opened to sustain growth and teams rapidly expand. B2B saas companies will likely include folks from sales and marketing. Another common misconception is that loose coupling doesn’t require collaboration or communication.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The following areas should be explored to determine the feasibility of the business under consideration will become sustainable and profitable. There are two types of startups: replicative and innovative. In contrast, an innovative startup must establish a business model or develop and introduce a product that has yet to be proven.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 6, 2019

Benefix, located in Lancaster , is a one-stop-shop SaaS platform that gives insurance brokers the information they need while simplifying the current complex process. The company offers students digital e-books, studying tools, and collaboration features all on one platform. www.erapeutics.com. www.benefix.us. www.omeganotes.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

“Other incentives such as the Enterprise Investment Scheme , Patent Box Scheme , and the ‘ regulatory sandbox ‘ make London an ideal place for innovative companies to test new technologies, products, and services,” Coyle added. In the U.K., Naturally, our U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Landing in a period when VCs have been tightening their purse strings, it speaks to how strongly Muck Rack has performed until now and the confidence investors have in it sustaining that ahead. Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

If you can’t connect with an investor who can help you find and fill in your gaps with regard to talent or expertise, you can’t build a sustainable company. This tends to foster a collaborative work culture, but it also makes it easier to pivot when needed, and the work is less ego-driven. . To win insurtech 2.0,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

She is passionate about leading design, implementation and oversight of actionable strategies unlocking synergies, leveraging untapped efficiencies and fostering collaborations across functional areas. Shachi Shah is director of business operations at EQUIAM. We’ve seen widespread losses in global equity markets this year.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

SynergyMed , a California-based startup, plans to bring its unique 3D technology SaaS platform into healthcare with proprietary visualization and printing capabilities that significantly improve patient results while cutting providers’ costs. Top wineries use Trellis’ AI to boost efficiency, sustainability .

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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. Driscoll’s calls in SCiO to rate berries. With the additional funds, Varo Bank’s total raise to date is now $482.4

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

A fintech and music collaboration might not seem that obvious, but the music economy remains one of the most under-tapped (and under-innovated) opportunities that remains out there. We got into two different businesses and their approaches on how to serve farm robots, from SaaS leases to selling the robots one by one.

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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? At a high level, WalkMe is a SaaS business, which means that when we digest its results we are digging into a modern software company. Investors are. Let’s do just that.

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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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