TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company is financing tens of thousands of loans per month, according to chief executive officer and co-founder Travis Holoway, and loan volumes are growing at about 40% monthly, he said. The company also offers a sort of default insurance product that lenders can purchase to backstop any losses they experience, Holoway 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 22, 2021

This data is then used to train AI-based computer vision systems for customers such as big retailers, warehouse operators, healthcare, transportation systems and robotics. regional backer NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance , with Deeptech Labs and In-Q-Tel. It literally trains a “synthetic” CCTV camera inside a synthetic world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. When starting in Nigeria, most two-wheel ride-hailing startups begin from Lagos, the nation’s hotbed of commerce and transport. Chinese and Japanese investors.

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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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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. I’d love even 0.5%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

IRP Systems , a maker of innovative electric powertrains for electric vehicles, has raised a $31 million Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $57 million. The financing was led by Clal Insurance and Altshuler Shaham, which are Israeli institutional investors. IRP Systems is in the epicenter of this revolution.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. But Simon argues that the companies that sell such cards were founded decades ago with very little innovation since.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

InstaDeep utilizes advanced machine learning techniques, including deep reinforcement learning in applications within an enterprise environment that cuts across various industries such as biotech, transportation, electronics manufacturing and logistics. I believe that AI is a huge opportunity for Africa and I’ve been vocal about it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Quona, GFC, Monashees, UVC Investimentos and Globo Ventures also participated in the financing, in addition to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel through his family office. Also, financing is often difficult and expensive to obtain, as credit is difficult to access in most Latin American countries.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? Why bother with a cyberattack when a few well-placed uppercased words from apparently reputable sources can wound thousands of our most innovative companies? Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. That’s doubly the case with adoption.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. trillion last year, according to a recent Deloitte study.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Transportation and Warehousing : a maximum of 500 to 1,500 employees. Finance and Insurance: a maximum of 1,500 employees, and a maximum of $32.5 Innovation: A unique feature of a startup is disruptive innovation. Startups create new offerings or innovate the existing ones, while SMEs deal with existing offerings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; fixing a city’s transportation infrastructure is complex. We understand that without innovation, nobody keeps up or stays ahead. Contrast that with a complicated challenge, where someone with expertise (you or someone you hire) can reliably and repeatedly solve it no matter the situation.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2019

After months of planning and presenting, we are proud to share that Tnuva, OurCrowd, Finistere Ventures, and Tempo Beverages have together been chosen by the Israel Innovation Authority to operate the new FoodTech incubator in the north of Israel ! Mobility… RTA and skyTran to develop driverless transportation system in Dubai.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2021

The digital disruption is destined to go much deeper, with technology driving a fundamental change in the relationship between stores and their customers. Investing in a comercial break The ecommerce explosion during 2020 represents a seismic break with the past and a major investment opportunity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Here’s who we interviewed: Clara Brenner , co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Natalia Quintero and Rachel Haot , Transit Innovation Partnership/Transit Tech Lab. But there’s a lot more; they even see tailwinds for eVTOLs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. In 2007, as the most affluent people in the world were meeting the first iPhone, another mobile innovator entered the market. billion in sales.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

Inrix , the transportation analytics and connected car services, raised $70 million in a financing round from investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Morgan Stanley Tactical Value. Come and hear from today’s leading mobility entrepreneurs on what it takes to build and innovate for a more sustainable future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

That means they required a lot of upfront venture capital investment to disrupt their respective markets. Moreover, government investment, via tax credits for electric vehicle purchases, made it more affordable for consumers to buy the green transportation they needed. We saw this over and over again since the start of the pandemic.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Innovative private companies are creating net-zero solutions, from renewable energy storage to bio-functional proteins to alternative food supplies. Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The world in which our communications was controlled by the telephone and media companies of 20 years ago would have been much less innovative than what we have achieved, which is precisely why we need to protect future companies not even created yet from anti-competitive behavior. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. I like healthcare a lot.

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