Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. So they kept their focus trained on meeting more people in more places — through digital innovation and geographic expansion — with food that fuels and connects. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. 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. Other entirely new industries will appear.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. We are a sustainable finance business focused on helping people find a way out of spiraling debt. We celebrate when we lose customers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. Its latest financing was an up round, but Jurist-Rosner said that was not something the company was focused on.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Like Thiel, I think Christensen undervalues efficiency innovations. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. As a user of Nguvu Health, there are different methods to fund a wallet, such as cards and bank transfers; Thepeer is another option. Here’s how it works.

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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 23, 2022

The region had seen “lots of innovation for patients through a proliferation of telemedicine apps and even innovations for doctors, but the pharmacy and its workforce were largely unaddressed,” SwipeRx CEO Farouk Meralli said. ”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

According to a Small Business Credit Survey conducted by the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, Black and Latino-owned firms are less than half as likely as white-owned firms to be approved for financing. This is especially impactful for the self-care industry, where, according to the latest Annual Business Survey from the U.S.

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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. Clients including Google, Coursera, Promedica, Duke Health and the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. have already dipped their toes into similar alternatives at brick-and-mortar stores.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Atlantico participated in the financing as a new investor in addition to all existing backers including Monashees, Kaszek and OneVC. Its clients include Brazilian unicorns MadeiraMadeira and Buser, Caelum and Funcional Health Tech, among others. when it came to technology penetration in the health space,” Mitchell said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

I think the roadblock with these bridge financing investors is you have to prove you are really building the bridge,” said one founder who closed a round recently. CVCs, however, don’t want just financial outcomes, they want to tap into the innovation and disruption you bring.”. Looking for an investment from a CVC?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are at least eight companies across the globe using mycelium to make leather, per the 2021 Material Innovation Initiative report. These mycelium-based materials innovators have attracted investors to ramp up mushroom- and plant-derived leather. Mycel isn’t the only company using mycelium to make leather.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

GDP, so it’s no surprise that digital health is attracting record levels of investment. billion to health tech startups, compared to $14.6 Given the high cost of care in the United States compared to other nations, pairing fintech with health tech is just good business. Healthcare spending accounts for almost 18% of U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

in my alternative financing panel next week for TC Sessions: Justice. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Does YC care at all? Mobility-as-a-service.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Five success factors for behavioral health startups. Particularly in industries where supply is scarce, or in old-guard industries where innovation in the underlying product or service is slow, a digitized marketplace — even when managed — can produce underwhelming experiences for consumers. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

The first two years of the pandemic boosted e-commerce, but Simon Wu, a partner at Cathay Innovation, has identified three factors that are now creating strong headwinds for online retailers: Increasing economic uncertainty. iOS social media privacy updates. “A potential drop in discretionary spending.” But since the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

That’s why I founded MarketingCube.co , a boutique strategic growth consultancy for innovative startups and scaleups. One lesson — which was especially true at Amex — is to always be prepared for shifting markets that may disrupt your business. For instance, in health and finance, credibility and trust are critical.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 19, 2019

The great thing for startups in this state is that The Oklahoma Innovation Model, which is unique in the U.S., With the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology’s (OCAST) as the hub of the Innovation Model, here’s how that continuum of capital works to provide a pipeline to the market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

OMERS Ventures, G Squared, Mountain Partners, Merian, Horizons Ventures, Eurazeo, Mubadala Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Speedinvest, CE Innovation Capital, GR Capital and Seedcamp are all participating once again in this Wefox founding round. We nailed how to disrupt it in our core market,” Teicke said. We’re tackling that $5.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. Parthean teaches personal finance to young professionals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, psychedelic therapeutics are being used to treat a variety of mental health issues. Visa opens first innovation hub in Africa : The Kenya studio gives the global digital payments giant a deeper connection to the country’s developers and partners aiming to create payment and commerce tools.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. What does Zillow’s exit tell us about the health of the iBuying market? Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users.”. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board. Most startups could use an advisory board, but in health tech, it’s a core requirement. Dear Sophie: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Both achieved master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Yash in finance, and Puneet in health/healthcare administration. Healthcare and life science require disruption,” said Yash, “something that creates better treatment practices, or something that makes the costs go down.”. Every person has helped us.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

This week, MedRhythms was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Life Sciences, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) Millions of people suffer from neurologic injury and disease each year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised to about $50 million since its 2016 inception. It is a completely innovative way to conceive of protection against price movements in untraded commodities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Disintermediating basic functions from the services built around them is arguably a bigger trend, but it has been especially prevalent in enterprise, which has long been a slow-moving space when it comes to innovation in the back-end, and the front-end. Coinbase’s direct listing alters the landscape for fintech and crypto startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. Infiuss Health (Nigeria). Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Fingo (Kenya).

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Finance and Insurance: a maximum of 1,500 employees, and a maximum of $32.5 Health Care and Social Assistance: a maximum of $7.5 This is why, many times, managing becomes a burden and takes a toll on the mental health of an entrepreneur. Innovation: A unique feature of a startup is disruptive innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Specifically, Sequoia participated in Klarna’s $800 million financing ; Yokoy’s $80 million Series B; Telda’s $20 million seed round ; and Cococart’s $4 million seed financing. EarnIn is currently hiring across engineering, product, business development and finance among other departments in the U.S., More details here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play).

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