TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Part of that experience includes a series of master classes in the run-up to Disrupt. Last year, at Disrupt 2020, CELA connected the winners of our Pitchers and Pitches mini pitch-off competitions with an accelerator to boost their business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight company Convoy , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy. So YC viewed this as a major disruptive play. At least, not at first. What do you think made Convoy stand out? Is that still a good method?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The product is made of two main compounds, both of them are obtained through microbial fermentation of native and non-GMO strains,” co-founder and CEO Joaquin Fisch tells TechCrunch. He met the other two founders as part of a company-building exercise run by Argentina-based Incubator/VC, Green Exponential.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. Investors and founders have long expressed excitement about what is happening in the region. Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Veterans of supply management like the founder of startup Amplio watched, and figured there had to be a better way to guard against these kinds of disruptions in the future using software to find parts wherever they were. We live in a world of constant disruptions,” he said. He knows what he’s talking about.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. In this era of endless innovation, there is only one thing you can do to stay competitive: you must learn how to disrupt yourself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Colin and partners continue to launch new companies, including Startups.club , a Fort Lauderdale incubator; Club Domains, LLC , an alternative domain extension to.com,net and.org with more than 1 million registrations worldwide; Entrepreneur.wiki Foundation ; Serial Entrepreneur Club. I am the founder of the relatively new domain extension “.club,”

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. How did you break into your tech career? I’m not a product inventor.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

Through the Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth provides a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, students, nonprofits and philanthropists to share groundbreaking ideas with the investors, incubators and partners who can bring them to market and effectively advance care.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. Previously funded or incubated companies will be added to the network automatically, in case any of you are reading this.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. The founders are banking that it will be different with Koa. Kidanu worked with MEST Africa, a pan-African incubator and accelerator, as well as a business lead.

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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. The entrepreneur says that he raised the $60 million debut fund for Vibe Capital with the idea that he would incubate a startup or two out of the firm, which materialized today now that it owns 20% of Ocho.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I could attend without disrupting my customer work by moving between the main stage and breakout presentations knowing I could catch anything I missed later.” Fast Money Breakout Sessions: Learn about the different accelerators, incubators and grant programs available to help you fund and grow your startup.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Melvin Chee, Co-Founder, and CEO of RPG Commerce said this round of funding would give them an opportunity to expand their talent pool across the entire organization and enhance their technological capabilities in addition to expanding their suite of brands to further disrupt the consumer landscape.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall. Ben is a co-founder and general partner at Primary Venture Partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investing in a tokenomics insights platform that offers unparalleled access to on-chain metrics and information reflects SCB 10X’s mission of expanding the disruptive potentials of blockchain technology,” Mukaya (Tai) Panich, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of SCB 10X. DAOs and all crypto projects.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

American Family Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and SIG; existing investors Blume Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Nexus Venture Partners, Dream Incubator and Trifecta Capital also participated in the round, which brings Turtlemint’s total to-date raise to $55 million. A range of startups in India are trying to disrupt this market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Their startup, five-month-old SourceWiz, said on Thursday it has raised $3 million in a round led by Blume Ventures and Falcon Edge Capital’s Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI). (A That’s the problem that attracted three entrepreneurs — two of whom worked at Zomato previously and one as an investor at Bessemer.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Fixing a foundation after the superstructure is built is a costly, disruptive and sometimes impossible task,” Bechtel said. Our goal with Formwork Labs is to help the best and brightest construction tech founders get started on the right foot, set up for success and in front of the right investors, partners and early customers.”.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. Pre-seed capital is required to set the base for the business operations to start and ensure that the founders’ business is a viable one. However, for some startups, it’s a essential inflow of capital just to set base for something big that can disrupt the industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Entrepreneurs are drawn to Singapore’s comprehensive support system, which has business-incubating infrastructure, tax incentives, substantial government subsidies, and strong international connections. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

One of these is being hatched by Gabor Cselle , a repeat founder who wants to build what he described to me as “a new Twitter.” Gabor is in that sense just one of hundreds of millions of founders out in the world noodling on ideas. And in that vein, so are completely new ideas. And also what works, and what does not.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Their steadfast dedication to circular principles is evident in their disruptive approach to the industry, where they actively reduce waste and ingeniously repurpose materials to infuse new life into their products. Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp At the heart of the CirculUP!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Incooling, which is pitching in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt , designed a custom-built server with a proprietary cooling system that it claims allows for superior thermal management, enabling the server to achieve high-efficiency standards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Series B equity portion of $35 million is being led by Lightrock, with previous backers Picus Capital and Global Founders Capital also participating. The latter two firms are tied in part to the Samwer brothers, who also built the Rocket Internet e-commerce incubator in Berlin.)

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. So that’s why we are here,” said Aykan Ekici, Co-Founder of Khenda.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. It is more important than ever for founders to remain calm and be strategic. Founders must consider a new timeline for the investment process. Valuations and dilution.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Play Enwise Stéphane Vernede is the co-founder and CEO of Enwise and is a dedicated entrepreneur and scientist with a passion for transforming innovative ideas into practical solutions that benefit society.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures. We really like a good storyline.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders. The co-founders have a balance in backgrounds. – Haje Kamps. Any visits and lab charges are billed to insurance.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 24, 2019

With recent market trends moving toward home dialysis, we feel Simergent is uniquely positioned to disrupt the global dialysis market,” said Steve Lindo, Simergent’s co-founder and CEO. Simergent has offices in Oklahoma City, OK and Chicago, IL as part of the renowned MATTER healthtech incubator.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“We’re disrupting the legacy LMS [learning management system] providers, the Cornerstones of the world, with our bite-size training platform,” said CEO and founder Ted Blosser in an interview. ” The company, originally incubated in Y Combinator, has now raised $27 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

We extend our deepest gratitude to all of our Innovation Funders Showcase sponsors: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic , VentureWell , Portland Seed Fund , Oregon Bioscience Association , Greentown Labs , Oregon Bioscience Incubator and OHSU Invest-a-thon.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

“It’s extremely important this year given the unprecedented growth of the tech investment scene driven by the unbelievable digital transformation that has affected all of our lives,” said Jon Medved, the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, as he opened the event. Lab-produced and plant-based food is disrupting a $6 trillion global food industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.

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