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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

VC firms rushed to support Black founders , and Henry saw a gap in solutions committed to change. ” He knew Nadeau had focused on transportation and mobility, and the duo eventually decided that they would “swing big.” The idea for the startup began in July 2020, when George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by police.

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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. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding. That was crazy.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. FreightVerify. Now there is FreightVerify , a supply chain visibility platform for complex supply chains.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

SmartHop, a startup that uses AI to help interstate truckers make their routes more efficient and lucrative by removing administrative headaches, just raised a $30 million Series B financing round, bringing the company’s total funding to $46 million following a $12 million Series A last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

.” Drawing from observations gleaned from working with founders like Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Sebastian Siemiatkowski from Klarna, and iZettle’s Jacob de Geer and Magnus Nilsson, Brenner explains where “VC FOMO” comes from and how it drives dealmaking. The air taxi market prepares to take flight.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. It’s easier to raise and harder to spend these days, because there’s such a high demand for talent,” Dua said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Kelly Chen, DCVC: Robotics startups have an additional layer to their banking relationship, typically tying equipment financing and other debt structures to banking. While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. There are so many efficiencies that come from the fleet model for transportation — we think this will be an increasingly important area in the coming years.

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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.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

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. Classiq adds HSBC, NTT Finance to $36M Series B. I felt deep down that there had to be a better way to do it. Learn More.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Novel disruption has fallen out of favor, with many preferring more time-tested models like enterprise SaaS and biotech. I have wanted to see how these companies trade because it will help us in the private markets better understand how to finance and value businesses. Peloton yesterday raised over $1.1 And now we are seeing that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Allow untrusted network participants to trade If you started a business 200 years ago you could mostly only trade in your local economy and you relied about “traders” who could transport your products great distances to those who might like to buy them in foreign lands. We’ll have to see how it all plays out. 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. It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare.

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