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

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. Ten Eleven is a VC specializing in cybersecurity that has backed a number of other startups.)

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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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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

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. Today the U.S.

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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

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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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. Startups and VC. Momei Qu, managing director, PSP Growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Startups and VC. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. I can’t wait to see your smiling faces there. PT/2:30 p.m. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

The startup recently raised a $1 million pre-seed round from investors including Boba Guys founders Andrew Chau and Bin Chen, 500 Startups partner Paul Singh, Sharma Brands CEO Nik Sharma, Immi Eats CEO Kevin Lee and Vice Media co-founders Suroosh Alvi and Zanab Hussain Alvi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Pipedrive is an EU-based CRM company with offices in eight countries, but it has a Czech co-founder in VP of Product Martin Henk, one of several founders to emerge from the ecosystem. billion crowns ($114 million), making its seven Czech founders into multimillionaires. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Don’t forget that Found , the TechCrunch podcast where founders talk about the stories behind their startups, was nominated for a Webby for best technology podcast. Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov will join us for a fireside chat. And while you’re procuring tickets, grab one for October’s TechCrunch Disrupt. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. Part of the reason for the strong investor interest lies in the co-founders and their collective track record.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

The journey from two or three co-founders to an exit or an acquisition is long and arduous, and it turns out that a lot of VCs aren’t particularly picky about who sits in the CTO seat at company formation. In a nutshell: Customers are not buying as much as they used to. Welcome to Startups Weekly. That’s a bad idea.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. But how do you actually make use of that data that’s now available? Bob Moore: Yeah, great question.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Oh, and did you know we’ve managed to convince our marketing team to let you have 15% off TechCrunch Disrupt tickets, just for being a Daily Crunch reader? Use this link, or pop “DC” into the promo code box when you buy your passes to the hottest startup event of the summer. Startups and VC. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

It gives you the chance to exhibit your startup for free at TechCrunch Disrupt in October and win the $100,000 prize. Another bite of the Apple : Apple’s third-quarter profits were a mixed bag, but iPhone revenue bucked the trend (even as smartphone shipments are down globally ), with a 3% year-over-year revenue jump, Brian reports.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

to 573, from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. Startups and VC. Case in point: Nothing , the new company from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, announced that it won’t be bringing its first phone — the Phone (1) — to the U.S. The hardware business has been less forgiving lately. You can sign up here.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polo: One of the drivers of our work as the high commissioner is working with data and the data that we are using is that is the knowledge that the average startup lasts between three to five years — before it goes under or before it is acquired by another company. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Now if you’ll forgive us, we’re just going to listen to Rick Astley on repeat. Trick’s on you, 900 people who were trying to fool us into clicking on those links. P.S. Before we forget – TechCrunch Disrupt is back with an in-person event in October. Startups and VC. – Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Talking to Valentina Milanova, the still just 28-year-old founder of U.K. The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. femtech Daye , is best described as an exhilarating experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? and Nomono.

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