TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s said that you should measure what you value, and for founders, nothing is more valuable than growth. One example from a few years ago at SeatGeek: We tried to build a media-mix model before we had something much more basic in place. Yet, measuring growth is complex and challenging — and it’s only getting tougher.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Many founders, unfortunately, skip this stage altogether and go directly to the next one. Challenges facing EdTech founders: Small Network: A small number of hugely successful EdTech startups (compared to other markets like FinTech, AdTech, etc) so a very small network to learn from and everyone is still exploring and finding his own way.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2022

One of Pantheon Design’s e-mobility customers waited 18 months before its injection molds, which are used for producing parts, arrived from China. Pantheon Design has raised $800,000 in funding from a mix of investors in Canada and the U.S., “So their machines break down all the time.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Before we get into this week’s show notes, some programming items: First up, use code “EQUITY” for a special listener discount for Disrupt tickets. We’re mere days away, and you should come hang out with us when we record on opening day! If you were laid off, go here to get a free ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt’s Expo!

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. Parfait’s four co-founders: Isoken Igbinedion, Ifueko Igbinedion, Marlyse Reeves and Simone Kendle.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. The round is coming from an interesting mix of strategic and financial investors. Placer has confirmed that the round values it at $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

If you’ve got some time on your hands today, get your Disrupt tickets — early-bird savings end in 7 days ! With valuations falling, founders who accept down rounds no longer have the taint of failure, said Russ Wilcox, a partner at Pillar VC. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! PDT, subscribe here.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2022

Years ago, I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. Over the course of these insights here and in my BERKONOMICS series of books and blogs, we explore the use of tools to help overcome this natural tendency.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Of the 1 million active users it has of its freemium product today, Peled said that some 100,000 are paying users, currently a mix of consumers and “micro” (i.e. A large percentage of users with updated operating systems” — which internconnect to the internet — “were using antivirus.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. Discover how Duolingo started with CEO Luis von Ahn at Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

TechCrunch spoke with Brex co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras, who confirmed that the company did in fact put its name in the hat for SVB but only for the early-stage and growth portfolios within its business. The idea actually came from a customer, he said, who thought Brex “could handle those customers better than big banks.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Berlin Brands Group (BBG) — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using technology to run and scale them more efficiently — has picked up a big round of funding to fill out that mission.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Husband-and-wife co-founders Stephen and Allison Ellsworth, former oil and gas researchers, launched the soda in 2020 after Allison Ellsworth began having stomach issues about two years prior. Allison and Stephen Ellsworth, Poppi co-founders. The drinks retail for $2.49 Image Credits: Poppi.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Promoting Disruption. I wanted to meet and learn from some of the people I’ve read and heard about.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” ” This quote, which Career Karma founder Ruben Harris mentioned off-hand on a phone call with me, has been on my mind for months. In return for an investment between $10,000 to $50,000, founders have to pay up to 2% of their revenue over four years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And the startup’s young founder — Ritesh Agarwal — doesn’t plan to sell his shares in the public offering. Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. Its aggressive expansion bet has had a mixed success rate. Oyo’s offerings. to name a few markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

It was probably injection-molded, and the tool used to make the plastic was probably a royal pain in the ejector pins to manufacture. At first, the software Atomic is creating will be for its internal use, but the plan is to eventually make it available to other companies. Today, the company announced it raised $3.2

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. His co-founder, John Hering, was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Lookout.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing. While Opontia does not disclose the ratio of equity and debt, it confirmed that the majority was debt which will be used to make acquisitions. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Enshrined in U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. You need to recruit an amazing team, and ideally, have co-founders you trust and respect. Mix in humor to show your personality. By Murray Indick and Kate Tyler. Starting a business is incredibly hard.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users. Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

However, I quickly realized that creating coherent images using just words was a challenge.” For his part, Shahir Salehi, the founder of ChatX and a front-end designer with computer science and art degrees, felt the “timing was right” to launch a competing marketplace for prompt exchanging. Consider moderation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

It will be using the funding to hire more people, and to continue building out its technology. The software, meanwhile, is architected to work using a mix of edge AI, satellite communications and cloud computing. That included specific antennae, sensors and power integrated into the body of the aircraft themselves.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Halfway through the journey, I realized that something was fundamentally off in how founders tell them and how investors receive them. Table of contents The Investor The Founder The Pitch The Story The Coach The investor The simplest explanation for what a pitch is, has to do with starting a conversation. Who is the founder?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Under normal circumstances, one might expect the founders of Radian6 and Q1 labs to disappear into the suburbs of Cambridge or Marin Country, but that never happened.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But more than that, this IPO is a useful measuring stick for keeping tabs on the IPO market as a whole.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

based company said it was able to unlock Tesla doors by hacking into the Bluetooth Low Energy technology used by Tesla to unlock and operate the car via its app or key fob. It’s not just Tesla — anyone using this type of technology is vulnerable, the company said. Tesla is not immune : A U.K.-based You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Years ago I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. The entrepreneur– founder explained this problem away by stating that the designers and manufacturers would ship direct after we’d grown to a large enough size.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. If you’re also using it for the optional Kegal exercises that would take a bit longer.). Kegg was unveiled on the TechCrunch Disrupt SF stage, back in 2018 , as part of our startup battlefield competition (though it didn’t go on to win).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Looking ahead, KPMG’s view on the prospects for financial services M&A over the next six to 12 months is mixed. Today the U.S. ” Image Credits: Paystand/Yaydoo. And elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What areas need to be disrupted? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue. What areas are going to change? You can't have everything--where would you put it?"

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