TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. We’re pleased to support Ryan and the ambitious Bolt team and see tremendous opportunity in the space that Bolt is disrupting.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

The Brazilian finance and banking market has been ripe for disruption, as it has traditionally favored the rich. . Traditionally, young Brazilians have lived with their families until they got married, and while there is a cultural aspect to it, the bottom line is that mortgages were infinitely hard to get approved for. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

1) Build an Engaging Culture. With the workplace re-opening, it’s important for businesses to recommit to providing an engaging workplace culture, where coming back into the office has its own sets of rewards. So we provide them the necessary financing to kick-start that growth. How to Attract Employees (And Retain Them).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Megan O’Brien , business and finance editor NetSuite. To grow this year, you have to address challenges around supply chain stability successfully and be prepared for future disruptions that are likely to occur. Here are some strategies to manage supply chain disruptions: Have a supply chain emergency plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

It become such a quick part of popular culture that Jim Carrey rode a Bird in an opening segment of the Jimmy Kimmel show (hilarious if you haven’t seen it). This is only true when: 1) there is funding available to finance short-term losses and 2) when there is a lucrative positive unit-economics business when you become the winner.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

The new financing, which gives Madison Reed some $250 million in total funding to date, was led by Sandbridge Capital, with participation from Marcy Venture Partners. Dollar Shave Club disrupted an industry no one was paying attention to. We thought he would be a wonderful culture fit.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. A common theme with these partnerships is that all three organizations are investors in InstaDeep’s new financing round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

According to three entrepreneurs Connie Loizos spoke with at TechCrunch Disrupt, a social media presence that blends aspects of your business and personal lives can “make it easier to connect with investors and customers.” Image Credits: Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for TechCrunch. ” Nik Milanovi?

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

“I believe knowledge is power, and my mission is to change the way companies work by creating a data-driven culture that is accessible to everyone. Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A pop culture hobby transformed into Lisa Sugar ’s sensationally popular media company, POPSUGAR. POPSUGAR is poised to remain one of the biggest names in pop culture news as it continues to expand its partnerships and launch its own subscription box and beauty products. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” In just a few short years, Vise has gone from launching on the Disrupt Battlefield stage to a unicorn.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Many of us have had to think quickly on our feet as our plans, revenue streams and customer bases were significantly disrupted. There are many ways businesses have shown resilience throughout this disruption. Here are a few tips to help stay resilient during times of disruption: .

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. It’s a perfect system for collections attorneys, legal, auto finance, health care and property management companies who need to keep on top of payments in a particular way.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

The next storm front expected to arrive tomorrow is expected to bring disruption and destruction on a massive scale. Most financing contacts between early-stage startups and investors take the form of a SAFE note, also known as a simple agreement for future equity. Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

As the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University recently wrote , “cities need to organize economic stabilization teams… to offer short-term, focused relief until the federal government can offer some direct relief.” As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. 4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture. 4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

For Tom Patterson, CEO of the men’s underwear startup Tommy John , disrupting a saturated industry meant solving problems people came to believe they just had to live with. “In SOLUTION: To disrupt a market, look for common problems or pain points that remain unsolved. A perfect example exists in the underwear industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Is it suffering from cultural dissonance between its high-growth model and more conservative European investors? E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. What to make of Deliveroo’s rough IPO debut.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Startups are messy and development is seldom linear and up-and-to-the right.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In my experience, many founders have a hard time delegating, which can quickly create cultural and operational problems. Since the pandemic disrupted the social rhythms of work and school, many of us have compensated by changing our relationship to digital media. Image Credits: Aleksandar Nakic (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. For instance, in health and finance, credibility and trust are critical.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Target companies span an array of industries from technology to finance to healthcare. So SPAC sponsors must have industry expertise aligned with the target, as well as similar ambitions and a compatible culture. SPACs have disrupted this model. In the first quarter of 2021, SPACs raised $92.5 The Valuation Process.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Target companies span an array of industries from technology to finance to healthcare. So SPAC sponsors must have industry expertise aligned with the target, as well as similar ambitions and a compatible culture. SPACs have disrupted this model. In the first quarter of 2021, SPACs raised $92.5 The Valuation Process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

The PayPal Mafia is a set of former PayPal executives and employees — such as Elon Musk, a South African, and Peter Thiel, a German American — who have gone on to seriously disrupt not one but multiple industries across tech. ambassadors. That’s just one company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“‘Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt. “We’re not remote, we’re distributed. We’re distributed intentionally in the same way that the internet is a distributed system.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 , then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. If being acquired means losing the brand and identity you have worked so hard to build — or perhaps worse, losing your cultural identity — it probably will suck.

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Haystack

JUNE 22, 2018

The manner in which I encounter it most is around early-stage financing. There are countless ways this phenomenon of beefing up a profile ahead of an event — a launch, a new hire, a new funding round, etc. — manifests in startup land.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I dove headfirst into the space when I understood that we’re in the midst of a cultural revolution enabled by technology — not the other way around. Funnily enough, we’re already starting to see how crypto products are taking hold of our culture and of our shared attention. In the absence of decentralization, disruption is stifled.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 anyway — and announce your public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt! The only unicorn born in Q1 was Egypt-based MNT-Halan, which in early February raised $260 million in equity financing at a $1billion valuation, Mary Ann and Christine report in their look back at the first quarter of the year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

You might not speak the language, or understand the cultural differences,” he said. As veterans within the migrant tech sector, the team behind MAJORITY has already established themselves as builders of disruptive solutions for the world’s immigrants,” said James Fitzgerald, founding partner at Valar Ventures. “By

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Buildings are the same, however often historically and culturally significant and therefore protected.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. Eventually, this will extend into wealth generation tools to help customers grow their finances. This did not happen by magic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. At the same time, Kunkolienkar was running a Lambda School for India, but realizing that “the financing and collections infrastructure in India isn’t evolved enough to run ISAs at scale.”

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

Amir has been an entrepreneur, operator and investor with over 15 years of experience, working with early and mid-stage companies on financing, partnerships and strategic growth initiatives. His background and career span over 3 continents, where he was exposed to different people, cultures and regions that shaped his global mindset.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Satyam and Nishit (founders), who lead i2e1, cultivated an amazing culture where accepting mistakes was not punished but rewarded. Anyway, when you look for a change in your career, make sure that you find companies with leaders like Satyam and Nishit who cultivate such open culture. In startups, it’s the opposite.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Finally, after many “could have beens,” they end up at her apartment, but the whole romance fell through because she’s constantly disrupted by phone calls from her mentally ill brother, Michael. Remember the story about Sarah (Laura Linney) who has had a crush on her co-worker Karl for years? We do not rest.

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