Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The company offers innovative, affordable payment solutions for a wide range of services, including elective treatments ranging from telehealth, fertility, dental, vision, and cosmetic to pet care. He also co-founded TruCom, an innovative communications company, culminating in its acquisition by Broadview Networks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Bolt , an Uber competitor that is building an international on-demand network of services to transport people, food and other items in cars, scooters and bikes across Europe and Africa, has picked up some strategic funding today to continue expanding its business in emerging markets. billion, based on a 1.5x multiple on GMV of €3.5

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The YLAI Network hosted Michael Goldberg , a professor of entrepreneurship and an expert in international business development, for a Facebook chat in November for Global Entrepreneurship Week. Michael answered questions from network members requesting advice for their entrepreneurial endeavors. Many paths to successful startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. A traditional company focuses on disruption or becoming more customer centric. Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What areas need to be disrupted? New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. More Accessible Innovation Resources for All.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. To ensure that we get the world back on track, there is now an urgent need for innovation to help us overcome many of the problems resulting from the crisis. Other entirely new industries will appear.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That success has been bolstered by the fact that the UK is among the world’s most innovative financial services regulatory environments. Regulation is generally a blocker to innovation. The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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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. Meralli told TechCrunch it is easiest to think of SwipeRx as a LinkedIn meets Amazon for pharmacies.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models. Profitability and Viability : Gaining an understanding of the finances associated with particular businesses is very difficult to do. See if there are products or services that are in demand that are not being met.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. We are a product-led firm and our focus will remain on innovation in that space,” he said.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 9, 2021

By combining various areas of expertise, joint action between different actors has the power to advance innovation and develop new solutions. Entrepreneurship, training and innovation. This partnership involves the Impact Hub Network and ALDA (European Association for Local Democracy). Responsible food and consumption.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

By working with a business consultant, startups can better prepare themselves for challenges and unexpected disruptions, allowing them to respond quickly and effectively when the need arises. This can include identifying and mitigating risks, developing contingency plans, and helping startups stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? David's firm most recently participated in the $77 million second round financing of SoFi, a one year old startup focusing on student loans. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

First created to give supply chain merchants a streamlined way to communicate with buyers, Tinvio is now preparing to launch financial services, including financing and credit card issuing. Despite COVID-19, we still see great growth momentum, led by increasing network effects, leaving Tinvio well positioned to dominate this category.”.

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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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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. We are incredibly excited to support this ambitious team building a next-generation network.”. African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

s development finance institution, last year. It may be like five years behind Kenya, but we think it is ripe for innovation and disruption,” he added. It plans to use its network of pharmacies to build what it describes as a digital primary care service that will offer all-in-one diagnostics services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

regional backer NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance , with Deeptech Labs and In-Q-Tel. Our Chameleon platform solves the AI training challenge, freeing the industry to focus on higher-value tasks like AI network innovation. It literally trains a “synthetic” CCTV camera inside a synthetic world. It’s now closed a $3.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

We are also putting finances into product development as we plan to scale our offering,” Churpy co-founder, Kennedy Mukuna told TechCrunch. It was really not hard for us to unlock a lot of ideas, products, innovation and tech around the financial industry space. Embedded finance product for SMEs. SMEs have a huge financing gap.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 13, 2022

Register Chainalysis , the blockchain data platform , announced a $170 million Series F financing led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC , bringing its valuation to $8.6 Chainalysis customers also had huge success disrupting criminal activity and recovering funds.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually.

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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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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. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Cardless announced plans to launch co-branded credit cards on the American Express network. Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release. The company declined to say how much Amex contributed specifically other than to say it was “significant.”

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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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HPA

AUGUST 12, 2019

In the future, when we analyze moments in time when true innovation transformed an industry, we’ll remember an event that happened just a couple of weeks ago: Livongo’s IPO. Home to some of the best hospitals in the country, the Midwest is a prime location for continued healthcare innovation. Precision Medicine. Mental Health.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” During the Great Recession, business failures rose faster than business starts and startup rates fell to a record low. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Taking advantage of the international and collaborative nature of our network, we have made a virtual trip around the world based on the experiences of the Impact Hubs in Boston, Florianópolis, Taipei, Shanghai, Bamako, Lisbon, Vienna, and Madrid. The lockdown there also brought social and environmental innovation to the fore.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Contributed by Mark Morissette – founder of Foxquilt – an insurance technology company empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. Many of us have had to think quickly on our feet as our plans, revenue streams and customer bases were significantly disrupted.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Financing Illegal Activities (drugs, terrorism, etc) On a related note, governments are concerned about crypto being used to finance illegal activities. Similar to the money laundering problem, governments are also worried about people using crypto to finance illegal activities like drugs, weapons, gambling, trafficking, etc.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Independent sponsors (groups seeking to acquire a company which do not have the equity financing needed in advance) earn nothing upfront, but earn 20% of the deals they facilitate. Similarly, certain Revenue-Based Finance investors (e.g., Methods in between are a tradeoff of compensation and carry.” HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Clearbanc wants to replace friends and family money, a concept that D’Souza says is “quite elitist,” with its own version of an angel check, while also offering founder services such as supply chain analysis, introductions to networks and competitive landscape analysis. in my alternative financing panel next week for TC Sessions: Justice.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Smoke and heat can quickly damage hardware, and interference from fires will disrupt most forms of wireless communications, rendering software all but useless. million in financing this week. When it comes to tough environments to build new technology, firefighting has to be among the most difficult.

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