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. What are the breakthrough tech innovations transforming industries to build a radically better world? The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

We've seen disruption by machines among all sorts of human labor, particularly in the area of "making stuff". We've certainly seen technology labor get disrupted by technology itself before. There are a few "app builders" out there for mobile, enabling anyone to create a basic content driven mobile application without touching code.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

At any stage of investment, be it seed or a Series B, it’s necessary to include a slide in your pitch deck that explains the size of your market from three perspectives — TAM, SAM and SOM. I recently attended a presentation by a company that produces innovative, nutrient-rich olives and peppers. Step 1: Capture TAM.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. What emerged was “patent-pending hyper-soluble caffeine technology,” that enables VAE Labs to “significantly increase solubility of caffeine and liquid,” Bogdan said.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

[AND NOW I'LL PRETEND THAT I WASN'T REALLY PITCHING AND I'LL BE ALL MODEST ABOUT IT. But it’s a really innovative idea. Let’s not just prove [HOW YOU'RE DISRUPTING AN INDUSTRY], but reinvent [OBVIOUS THING YOU'RE REALLY DOING].” Or ‘How do we think about going back to the past via a technology-enabled model?’

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The innovation from Intropic, pitching in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, is the additives are added to the plastic raw materials, which means that the materials dissolve through a process called depolymerization. .” There are many different application spaces where that is relevant,” says Hall.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

Uncertainty, though challenging, can be a catalyst for improvement and innovation, reinforcing the need for transparent communication and learning from our mistakes. Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity for innovation, not a harbinger of failure. The experience highlighted the importance of adaptability and resilience.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

In an exclusive interview, Lok shares his insights into startup investments, his investment strategies, and his vision for the future of Awesome Ventures, offering a glimpse into the exciting world of entrepreneurship and innovation. What types of sectors do you look to invest in? And what’s your mental model for investing?

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. You should highlight the potential future earnings while pitching your proposal.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 9, 2016

Half of innovation is invention. Creating an elegant, disruptive, and new experience is one of the greatest attractions of founding a company. It’s in the other half of the innovation equation that startups often underinvest: go to market. Great products merit innovative go to market. Is your go to market aligned?

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. They have been recognized for this innovation in FreightDocs, FreightWaves, and Venture Michigan. DocNetwork.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. Headquartered in California with offices in Ann Arbor, KLA is a global tech company that makes process-control and process-enabling solutions that help manufacture tech devices like our computers, smartphones, smart watches, autonomous vehicles, LCD screens and more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Its focus is on developing DAC kit that can be installed (retrofitted) inside working cooling towers in the industrial sector — thereby, its pitch runs, slashing the cost of drawing down carbon emissions. This circularity will only enable the creation of carbon neutral processes, though. CO2 going down the chimney.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.” ” Bonfire.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest? Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Innovation. ” Let’s start with some basics. And they have. ” Ha.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“What we’re building is really the phone book of the future,” says Orlic, slotting his elevator pitch into our ~30-minute phone conversation. And platforms like us — that enable people to connect directly with each other in a one-to-one setting. For that you have all of these cohort-based courses through Maven.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Their pitch obviously resonated. Hoag said that while there’s been massive innovation for software development, hardware engineers are noticing the lack of innovation on their side of things. “We’re Heartened by the feedback they received, the duo decided to raise funds back in May to bring the product to market faster.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry. Jaia Robotics Inc. management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Today, 189 companies will pitch, while the rest will pitch tomorrow. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Neobanks have taken the world by storm and Africa is the last frontier for this brand of fintech innovation.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. PDT/2:30 p.m. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Jackson Grant (2017) founded Clevver Cup and is now working as CUA’s Innovation Co-ordinator while finishing his studies. That absolute concentration of tech-enabled entrepreneurial businesses is quite incredible and it just makes you realise what is possible when you lift your gaze and look a bit further afield. You need government.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

” It’s a pitch that has wooed customers and investors. We are excited to partner with Coro’s innovative team and participate in their journey to make non-disruptive security a mainstay of growing businesses across industries.”. You don’t know cyber as well as we and our machines do.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The biggest benefit is that remote work has enabled people in Big Tech to work outside of Silicon Valley, and it appears Miami and South Florida, more broadly, are enjoying the benefits of that decentralization. We invest in software companies disrupting traditional industries, Health tech, fintech, mobility, cybersecurity and jobs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. —– TinySeed.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. —– TinySeed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In i2e1, though I was hired as a UX designer, I collaborated with other teammates and took care of the branding, print design, offline and online marketing collaterals, marketing strategy, pitch presentations, and more. Full freedom to explore creativity and an open platform to throw more ideas! I love this aspect the most.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Day one of TechCrunch Disrupt is in the rearview mirror, and what a great day it was! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage locations and times listed in the Disrupt agenda — and in your handy event app. Women of Disrupt Breakfast . Disrupt Stage | 10:55 am & 2:40 pm. Disrupt Stage | 1:15 pm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

This pitch throw-down is all about startups determined to power a more equitable, inclusive and healthy world, and we need more of that visionary thinking put into action. You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Enabling Tech: Dot Inc. , The competition just to reach the finals was fierce.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Our mission statement is to enable the vision of cultivated meat by reducing its cost and improving its quality,” Guy Nevo Michrowski, ProFuse CEO, tells Amy Teibel in The Times of Israel. Innovative private companies are creating net-zero solutions, from renewable energy storage to bio-functional proteins to alternative food supplies.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The innovation offered by machine learning techniques are real, and they will changed the SaaS world. I’ve written before about the monstrous acceleration in machine learning innovation. domain name and inserting the words machine learning/artificial intelligence to your sales pitch isn’t sufficient to succeed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

” For this new survey, we heard from 10 VCs — nine who invest in media startups, plus a tenth who’s seeing plenty of media pitches and was happy to share her thoughts. Jana Messerschmidt: We will see a proliferation of products that enable content creators to build businesses outside of traditional media companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

From the earliest pitch decks I had ever created. Expanding on its overall positioning and approach, Milanova reiterates: “Again, this has to do with our intention to democratize access to what is otherwise really complex information while also enabling access to better gynaecological care. Image credits: Daye.

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