American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

This disruptive model enables cloud companies to build the most cost- and power-efficient AI solutions. Positioned to Power the Future of AI As AI continues to reshape industriesfrom healthcare to finance, logistics to entertainmentbehind-the-scenes infrastructure plays a pivotal role in enabling this transformation.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

With AI advancing rapidly and transforming industries from healthcare to finance, this fund arrives at a crucial moment. The fund, which was oversubscribed in just five weeks, will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in AI application companies across both the consumer and enterprise sectors.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Current encryption standards, essential to protecting sensitive data in finance, government, and telecommunications, can be easily broken by sufficiently advanced quantum computers—creating an urgent demand for quantum-resilient cybersecurity solutions.

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StartupNation

JULY 16, 2025

However, its growing popularity reflects fundamental changes in how businesses access financing, particularly as traditional lenders pull back. Still, this form of financing is no panacea. Building Business Credit: Your Roadmap to Financing Success The Hidden Costs and Cautions Expensive Borrowing Flexibility comes at a price.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Morgan Executive Director of Climate Tech There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to financing climate innovation. Adaptation is synonymous with disruption.”  — Jo Norris Jo didn’t set out to be a founder, but saw a problem worth solving and built a company around it.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Improve Invoicing and Payment Collection Delayed payments from customers can disrupt your cash flow, making it harder to cover operational costs. Leverage Financing Options Strategically Sometimes, external financing can help bridge short-term cash flow gaps. Sell off slow-moving or obsolete inventory to free up cash.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. Many great businesses in their growth periods find themselves stretched for cash.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

It will bring vast disruption and fuel positive transformation at unprecedented speed and scale. The first generation of agents is impacting customer success, finance, HR, and more as they help humans work more efficiently. Analysts estimate $1 trillion could be spent on data centers and energy expenses in the AI boom.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Read more: How Vendasta recovered $1M in revenue with automation and AI End-to-end intelligent document processing For many companies, especially in fields like finance, healthcare, or logistics, the sheer volume of documents can be a major operational drag. IDP can automate and make sense of it all.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Playground Global Leads Strategic Investment The seed round was led by Playground Global , a deep tech venture capital firm known for backing disruptive technologies across computing, automation, and biotechnology.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2025

Several factors are driving this shift: Economic Instability in White-Collar Jobs: Industries like tech are increasingly vulnerable to disruptions such as layoffs and automation. I’m part of a growing trend of professionals leaving traditional office jobs for careers in skilled trades and home services.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. I suppose, more specifically, the bubble ended in the last two weeks of September--right after this financing. The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Today is last day to cast your vote for Audience Choice roundtables and breakouts at Disrupt 2023. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. Voting ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world of finance is undergoing a profound transformation, and Mexico is no exception. Embedded finance: Integrating solutions into mainstream services Embedded finance represents a paradigm shift in how businesses access financial services. The immense potential of embedded finance is becoming increasingly evident.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. THAT is disruption. The Exit Problem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. With no revenue three years in and an ever-increasing pile of expenses, my personal finances took a hit. Loans replaced savings, and credit lines were stretched to their limits.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Morgan’s head of digital investment banking and digital private markets, will join us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. A leading financial advisor in the entertainment and sports industries, Roman focuses his holistic service model on creating and maintaining efficiencies within his clients’ finances.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. Read about Marqueta’s Power Finance acquisition from earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt ! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 1:40 pm.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What advice would you give to entrepreneurs and professionals looking to finance their business? That being said, we have seen many examples of large companies that get disrupted by smaller, scrappier startups. Where can startups find money to launch their businesses? Taking on bigger (and better funded) competitors is not easy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. And while Nagpal agrees that there’s no “north star” company that has shown how to tackle finance literacy at scale, he’s hoping that Ocho’s 10-person team may just have a not-so-boring wedge that changes that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Because of that, we went to the banks and tried to work with them to finance this kind of payment, but we realized that banks also had a problem: they couldn’t dash out credit to customers to finance retail solar systems when they didn’t understand the technical risks involved in owning them.” Think about it.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

I''m probably biased against just out of school hackers who think that just because they built a thing, they''re going to disrupt an industry they don''t care about understanding. We all have biases--and not all bias is bad. Am I wrong to have that? Do I want to change that?

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation. Cultivate a super team, not a superstar.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. ” In a nutshell, the Future Africa Collective, CcHub Syndicate, and Investzilla want to improve access to financing for African founders. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5

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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. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Beyond her 20 years of finance and investing experience, Fazeela has traveled the world and is actively engaged in the UN Women’s initiative. What industries are you excited for the next generation of founders to disrupt? We asked her a few questions about her impressive background: What led you to Revolution?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. The Series B funding is coming almost eighteen months after raising $10 million co-led by Partech Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, it co-led a $350 million Series D round in Argentine personal finance management app Ualá. There is so much innovation and disruption taking place in Latin America, and I believe the business opportunities there have never been stronger. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

“Appzone is building a disruptive fintech ecosystem that will be the backbone of Africa’s finance industry with products across payments, infrastructure and software as a service.

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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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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

Last week, I talked with Airbase founder and CEO Thejo Kote about the fact that the company just secured $150 million in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Companies close credit lines all the time, but the reasons behind the moves are often more interesting than the financings in and of themselves. Hence its recent debt financing.

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