American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

Liftoff, an industry leader in AI-driven performance marketing, has secured a minority growth investment from General Atlantic, reinforcing its role as a vital platform for mobile businesses seeking to scale in the fast-evolving app economy. Valued at $4.3 Were excited to continue this journey alongside General Atlantic.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 29, 2025

Invest in your employees. Prioritize flexibility, enabling your tech stack to quickly integrate emerging AI models and seamlessly connect with existing systems. Good governance protects your organization from regulatory issues, reputational risks, and operational disruptions. Culture Culture centers around your people.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These approaches reduce reliance on non-renewable resources and ensure food production remains resilient against climate-related disruptions. The programme focuses on supporting enterprises involved in deforestation-free or sustainable supply chains, enabling them to reach new customers, secure better prices, and attract investment.

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

This switch decreased our operational latency by 30% and enabled us to support our expansion into international markets effectively. These weren’t minor usage gaps—they represented wasted investment and missed productivity opportunities. System claims mismatched, disrupting team workflow. A hard lesson indeed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

These learning capabilities are crucial for AI automation, enabling systems to adapt and get smarter. AI automation use cases AI's ability to handle complex processes, analyze vast amounts of data, and enable smarter decision-making is driving fundamental shifts in how businesses operate. Let's look at some examples.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Contingency Planning : Prepare for the most likely scenarios that would cause disruption and focus on robust backup systems. External Expectations Balancing professional duties enables the protection of stakeholder reputation as well as the well-being of the family. This ensures that your unique circumstances are being catered to.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Its superconducting architecture enables order-of-magnitude improvements in processing speed and energy efficiency, making it a powerful alternative to today’s conventional silicon-based compute platforms. We’re building compute systems for the edge of what’s physically possible,” said Michael Lafferty, CEO of Snowcap Compute.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Version control for AI models enables tracking changes, rollbacks, and consistency. Improved decision-making and AI performance: Because it enables different AI models to collaborate and share information, AI orchestration allows for more comprehensive analysis of complex datasets, revealing angles even your smartest analyst probably missed.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Time-series analysis takes these shifts into account and quantifies their impact on the overall data—and this goes for any kind of revenue pattern, seasonal or not (think market disruptions, competitor product launches, or viral social media trends). Attracting investment: Investors love it when lines go up.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. Finishing is the ripest for disruption.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

Joe Reilly , CEO of Circulus Group and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report , interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. I knew that executing this research, and then publishing it, would attract pertinent investment opportunities. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The ability to interact, transact and disrupt is an order of magnitude greater at broadband speeds than at 56k dial-up modem speeds. And the future?

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At The post Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab hosts Global Demo Day of Disruptive Startups appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka. I didn’t end up investing but I always loved the concept. Serialized TV with Audience Participation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. According to the firm, that fund has generated a net IRR of 85% — with SoftBank having invested $3.5 SoftBank Group Corp.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. So it went out last year to raise a $50 million Series C.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. I’ve been meeting lately with more and more family offices interested in investing directly into companies, in lieu of via funds. Investors there are outsourcing the decision-making about individual investments to the GPs.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

Register Lumotive , the developer of Light Control Metasurface (LCM ) beam steering chips that enables the next generation of 3D sensors, has announced that it secured additional investments of $13 million from its recent funding round. The additional cash came from USAA, Uniquest, and Samsung Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The platform enables financial advisors to manage their estate planning for all U.S. This investment validates our efforts to disrupt estate planning while supporting our continued growth and ability to serve an ever-expanding client base,” sums up Loureiro. jurisdictions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. Less heralded has been the next wave these disruptors often catalyze: Digital enablers seeking to arm the incumbents against the incursions of their new digital rivals. and Enable. Steve Sloane. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Derek Xiao.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Joining us as a Partner, Fazeela formerly served as Managing Director of Consumer and Americas at Temasek International, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. healthcare investments, starting the European practice, leading the U.S. The people and the firm’s approach to investing. a global throughline.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. While the company digs deep to find more solutions from within, it also plans to use this investment to fuel growth in Egypt. Image Credits: ILLA.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. to explore angel investing and join the member-managed fund as a way to grow their investment portfolio.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in eight dynamic companies. Learn more here. Learn more here. West Arete Computing, Inc. Learn more here.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Register Capria Ventures , a venture capital firm specializing in investments in the Global South , has announced the first close of its $100 million fund, which will focus on investing in 20 to 25 tech startups in key entrepreneurial hotspots across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

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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. Christian Müller, chief information officer at Schwarz Group, says that adding a security piece to the portfolio is essential, especially as more shopping moves online.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And UK institutions continue to invest: This summer, Mastercard, Barclays and the London Stock Exchange Group announced a £1 billion fintech fund to back British growth-stage fintech companies. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. (A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

With Boulevard Capital, we developed a unique offering based on our deep understanding of the industry, making funding more equitable and accessible to self-care business owners from diverse backgrounds so they can invest in their continued growth.” to book more than 1 million appointments every month.

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