American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know. Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. CEO Wehmeyer describes the impact of their startup’s innovation. This is big!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Gideon Brothers founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Now, Lok is bringing his expertise and passion to the forefront with Awesome Ventures, aiming to provide invaluable support and resources to startup founders during the critical early stages of their companies. The investment memo allows us to test our understanding just like the pitch deck helps founders crystalise their ideas.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ted Xenohristos grew up together. For CAVA’s co-founders, taste and hospitality unite. Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Co-founders Mike Dannenfeldt and Mike Milburn both bring experience with customer success and innovation on the Salesforce platform. Mike Dannenfeldt was previously the Founder and Managing Partner for Aleysian and the Founder and CEO of Zecutiv. Congrats to Co-Founders Mike M. and Mike D. for this milestone!

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

The fund will seek out founders harnessing the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to transform companies across multiple sectors, with a new focus on climate startups. India and Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystems are thriving, with immense potential for growth and innovation.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Register There are generally two camps when it comes to Web3 – one believes that Web3 services must be blockchain-native and fully decentralized in order to be innovative enough to disrupt the previous generation of services, while the other argues that Web3 and Web2 are not opposing forces and must complement each other.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

For years, the self-care industry has been underserved by lenders who understand little to nothing about how these unique businesses work,” said Matt Danna, co-founder and CEO of Boulevard. Traditional small business loans have only been accessible to business owners who don’t actually need them.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity. YouTube’s already doing this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In particular, it’s eyeing applications for electronics, including displays, PCBs and semi-conductors — the latter of which is certainly a category many are eager to disrupt amid ongoing chip shortages. million grant from the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, bringing the round a bit shy of an even $10 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

A: As the co-founder and CEO of Uniqconn, our primary focus is on developing unique and efficient connectivity solutions that solve existing challenges in traditional conductor cable connectors. With its innovative solutions and strategic growth, the company is poised for a promising future. to our readers?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists!

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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. What industries are you excited for the next generation of founders to disrupt? all with a more personalized approach.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. The sword of innovation that you skillfully yielded in your battle to breakthrough turns out to be double-edged.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Upon sensing a need for such a service, El-Zomor teamed up with his co-founders — Alaa Jarkas, Ahmed Sakr and Hossam Saraya — who have some background in the industry to build ILLA. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 29, 2023

We want to revolutionize the industry by enabling increased competition and providing access for smaller players in the market,” Doowa said. Doowa was the former Co-Founder & CEO of Frank Insurance, an online digital broker based out of Thailand that innovated the way insurance was bought and sold.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. It’d be great to get a mention in NYC Innovation. More detail from Tarikh below. Thanks in advance for help getting the word out.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Insurance penetration in Africa is currently below 3% largely attributable to the slow adoption of innovation in the sector. However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. This often left customer data unexploited, increased transaction costs, impeded innovation and degraded customer experience. Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

I am passionate about working with founders and investing is a vote of confidence in the concept, the team, their product or service, and their plan of execution. Investing enables me to “roll up my sleeves” and advise while also enjoying the upside that comes with successfully implementing the plan to scale.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

. “Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. Meanwhile, XM Cyber CEO and co-founder Noam Erez sees the advantages of being part of a large corporation, even if it lacks a technology focus.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 7, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

We are proud to share EO member James Kilkelly ‘s efforts to disrupt the linear economy with his innovative approach to addressing electronic waste. ATM units can be separated into parts and materials enabling their use in new products, displacing the need for new raw materials. But how do we get there?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

RakkaR Digital will be among the few SEA-focused digital asset custodians that will enable institutional customers to participate in yield generation and DeFi services. We are very grateful for this investment and strategic partnership,” said Arthit Sriumporn, CEO & Founder of RakkaR Digital.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sanzhar Kettebekov, co-founder and CEO of Liquient. Sanzhar and a team of highly experienced co-founders with tenure in global management consulting launched a new venture to tackle the foremost issue in the food supply chain. What is it that excites you about what you’re building?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

This disruptive platform enables the detection of crop health faster and easier than legacy practices, resulting in improved crop quality and yield providing better financial returns for farmers. Croptix’s platform enables predictive, data-driven farming decisions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He was previously the founder of Canary and Peixe Urbano, and was Facebook’s first employee in Brazil. We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. Julio Vasconcellos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

BetterData , which is launching onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield startup competition, is aiming to help customers quickly generate representative, synthetic structured data so that technical teams can work with data in a compliant way without waiting for months to gain clearance to use actual user data or generate their own.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

But that just might be the best thing for the industry… Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash Nour Haridy, founder of DeFi protocol Inverse Finance, a self-proclaimed “decentralized global central bank” is one of many prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry who has been tweeting for months about the inevitable demise of the UST stablecoin.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The past two-and-a-half years have been a roller-coaster ride for the founders of VAE Labs , but today the pre-revenue CPG company has some good news: a $2 million seed round that will help boost its sprayable caffeine device into the commercial market. million post-money valuation, according to co-founder Orri Bogdan.

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