Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. We can technology enable offline advertising. Thus, we click!

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” It feels like mental health and women’s health have started to get some well-deserved attention but caregiving is still really under the radar.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Investment activity is down now, but it’s likely to pick up in 2023. And when investments ramp up, so does M&A. Poor codebase health is more often than not “caused” by other teams rather than by engineering. The goals of TDD are to: De-risk the deal by determining if the codebase is safe enough for investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Haje is considering dressing up as “supply chain disruptions” for Halloween, whereas Christine is contemplating dressing up as a down round. Its new Level Lock+ with Apple Home Key support replaces your current lock and enables you to unlock your door and provides you with some exclusivity for now, Darrell writes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, some Kenyans still lack other digital financial services from savings to investments. Based on her experience, Kidanu teamed up with Alexis Roman and Bubunyo Nyavor last year to start Koa to help Kenyans save and invest their money better. She is the COO of the company, while Roman and Nyavor act as the CEO and CTO, respectively.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Fifty organizations will receive a collective $25 million for the piloting or expansion of ideas and projects that seek to address food security, as well as strengthen the physical and financial health of low-income families and their communities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Five success factors for behavioral health startups. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Founders focusing on gut health, optimizing the way our bodies process waste and what that can do to the brain. Technology that enables people to live longer on their own (not as big a factor in other countries where it is normal for multi-generational households to exist) and to take ownership of their health and care is on the rise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Draper Associates led the investment and was joined by Midnight Venture Partners and Cartograph Ventures. If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. The new capital gives VAE Labs an $8.5

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investment will accelerate advancements of the MIRA Surgical System LINCOLN, Neb. The round was led by current investors Bluestem Capital, Endeavour Vision, Baird Capital, cultivate(MD) Capital Funds, and PrairieGold Venture Partners, as well as new health-tech investors Arboretum Ventures and InVivium Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. For you, special price : Kyle reports that Enable lands $94 million to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs. News Drops from Disrupt. Christine and Haje.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

Its disrupting nature has given it an enormous potential with countless applications. Tesla’s autonomous cars, Google’s personal digital assistant “Siri” and Amazon Alexa/Echo are examples showing how AI can disrupt every aspect of our modern lifestyle. Rather, decisions should be backed by data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. But there’s a big disconnect between where so much of the tech industry’s attention and investment is going and the spending power and lifestyle preferences of today’s older adults.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Outsiders study multiple facets of a startup to determine its value and quality, and codebase health is one of them. “Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. “Enable it on every account that you have.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children. One of the startups taking on the $100 billion children’s health and wellness market is Little Spoon , producing fresh, direct-to-consumer baby and children’s meals. Little Spoon products. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Plus, I interviewed Kevin Hart on the Disrupt stage. The venture capitalist was one of many at an AI confab last month, but he — and many others — has not yet made a new AI investment during the current hype cycle. Of course: It’s already Disrupt season. Grateful is an understatement. Image Credits: Getty Images Etc.,

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. For example, coupling cheap computing with virtualization enabled cloud computing - a potentially $100B industry. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Led by Distributed Ventures with additional investment from Zeal Capital Partners, Matchstick Ventures , The Fund , Tech Stars , and Jumpstart Ventures , the funding will support the continued growth of Presta’s digital platform and expansion of its team. million in oversubscribed pre-seed fundraise. Presta is a customer-obsessed 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. . It means Verbit’s customers are in the legal, education, media and enterprises sectors.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Treatment & Healing – Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Remote monitoring, Digital health, etc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

We cover a lot of health startups here on TechCrunch, and you know what it’s really hard to get any sort of excitement about? We’re thrilled this new funding will enable us to continue to define this evolving industry and to help even more patients get the care they deserve.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. ” Health U.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Bob Iger joins team Gopuff : Now that former Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger is investing and advising Gopuff, the instant delivery company may be handing him his first assignment: how to keep momentum going in an overcrowded market. The green, green grass of climate investing just got a $1.7 It is not alone: Down in the “Big Tech Inc.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said. The company plans to use its new capital to further invest in its technology and expand it across the Home Instead network.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

A dedicated pre-event Summit kick-off gave each company more time to present with additional opportunities for Summit attendees to connect with companies during ACA 2021 – The Summit of Angel Investing. All three of these companies are made up of female founders who are disrupting their respective spaces.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3 trillion USD by 2030. Photo: Kina Mama.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The plan will be to continue investing in those markets, as well as expanding internationally. This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this. FintechOS is active today in the U.K. And it will be adding more services.

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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. Genomenon is such a company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

The company’s goal, according to co-founder and CEO Kevin Nazemi (who also co-founded now publicly traded Oscar Health), is to help retirees and soon-to-be-retirees “make the most of their limited resources.” That’s why we have so many repetitive neobanks, social investing apps, etc. million in funding led by Better Tomorrow Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. Last year, the competition attracted startups from 87 countries, and one third of the XTC 2020 finalists raised more than $167M combined in venture investment since being selected.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. The DEBUT Challenge is a contest for undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

It has also been a record-breaking year for venture capital investing, and overall growth in the tech industry. Lab-produced and plant-based food is disrupting a $6 trillion global food industry. Now, new technologies are harnessing its true power to increase understanding about everything from health to materials.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mermade Seafoods is out to disrupt the $8 billion global scallops market with its circular cellular agriculture technology approach for producing cultivated scallops. The Israeli company was founded in July 2021 by CEO Daniel Einhorn, CTO Dr. Rotem Kadir and COO Dr. Tomer Halevy.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

The time has never been better for new technology to disrupt these alarming trends. As a result, over the last five years investment in emerging FoodTech has tripled. This growth is why OurCrowd invested in Beyond Meat, a source of alternative, plant- based proteins that innately appeal to the environmentally conscious consumer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels?

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