TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. When we look at Twitter we’re following friends or people from whom we want to know more information.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? It’s one of the world’s highest-quality company showcases and it’s right there inside of Disrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

But the honeypot of information in companies is still in email. Investors: Foundry (Ryan McIntyre) (lead), new angel investors: Scott Petry (Postini founder), Matt Mullenwag (WordPress), and existing investors: Highway 12 Ventures, TechStars (David Cohen), SoftTech VC (Jeff Clavier), FF Angel (Dave McClure). Enter Xobni.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

Honestly, I didn’t take it that seriously—mostly because I was starting with no information. It seemed unrealistic—not that all startups aren’t in some way realistic—but VCs generally communicate communication style with competency. They helped him refine his idea. And then I disappeared.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On a good day, most people forget the chief information security officer even exists. ’s Q3 results last week sent its stock tumbling, but it wasn’t alone: Apple’s iOS 15 privacy implementation disrupted ad tracking and measurement for social media and advertising platforms across the board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

VC-backed deals that normally investors wouldn’t have access to; Lyft and Spotify (which we invested in, as well) are two of them.”. If you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will be. Technology makes it easy to organize information and liquefy marketplaces. InvestX offers access to U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve. I’ll walk my model around several smart & informed people on any topic. Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model. Ongoing information rights. An interesting model: ARC Angels Fund , an unusual VC in which the LPs are also collectively the GP. Automated matching with client’s specific needs, particularly risk management.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. Founded by Lucinda Koza.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. Startup investors can be the financial backbone for mass disruption. Are you doing this for the right reasons?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Immunai has been building a massive dataset of clinical immunological information. It combines genetic information, along with other data like epigenetic changes or proteomics (the study of proteins), to map out how the immune system functions.

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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. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. Per the report, only 3% of the $1.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. “I have been advising and referring investors into companies informally for the last few years, so this just formalizes it,” he said. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. A couple of local and foreign firms invested in the round — co-lead investors P1 Ventures, GFC, and Anim Fund (Founders Fund scout fund), with Costanoa VC, Liquid2 Ventures, Cliff Angels and other angel investors participating.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The grant facilitates advancing innovative technology solutions, driving startups toward market disruption or creating entirely new markets. This investment is directed toward seeding corporate venture capital (VC) funds that, in turn, invest in Singapore-based early-stage high-tech companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Sony’s VC fund invested an undisclosed amount in MagicCube in late May 2020). . And this is huge because unlike competitors, we can hide information in that virtual safe… And yes this is proven, patented and a big deal.”. Image Credits: MagicCube.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Last week at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt event, this editor sat down with VCs from two firms that have come to look similar in ways over the last five or so years. I think the thing that stayed the same is maybe the VC vest. We all go to where the needs are and the environment is. Marooney was joking of course.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Formerly PrivacyCheck, Hush is a VC-backed digital privacy startup founded by Detroit boomerang Mykolas Rambus. Apply now to Rivet.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Venture capitalists (VC) typically seek businesses experiencing rapid growth and that meet their specific investment profile. Once contact is made, maintaining a dialog with potential investors that informs them of ongoing progress and the passing of key milestones nurtures a trusting relationship.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category is figuring out how to sell a unique product to customers who have never bought such a solution. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Both of us would prefer to show the results of our work than make a list of future-looking statements, so I’ll sum up: I’m proud of the work we’re doing because people around the world use the information they find on Extra Crunch to build and grow companies. Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

“Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis. “In

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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. ITHAKA was just awarded $1.5 Top publicly traded or acquired tech companies in Ann Arbor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm studied information recently released by mobile gaming studio Jam City as it prepares to go public in a $1.2 Eventually, these insights would inform how he would go about shaping Expensify. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Also participating is LAUNCH (the fund led by investor Jason Calacanis), Sweet Capital (via Pippa Lamb), Rogue VC (via Alice Lloyd George) and Angel investors Simon Beckerman (co-founder of Depop), Eric Wahlforss (co-founder of SoundCloud and now Dance), Abe Burns and Joe White. Contact has now raised a $1.9 million (£1.4

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

This rich historical perspective informs his diverse responsibilities leading the US business, which span from product development to investor relations to advising portfolio companies. This is a market that deserves to be disrupted, because of how it exploits workers,” he says. Waiting for valuations to come down is a risky strategy.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. After multiple years of global supply chain disruption stemming from the pandemic, trade tensions, and reshoring, demand for industry-specific tooling has increased dramatically.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

There’s a host of difficulties to overcome: from managing market-specific database integrations with APIs that don’t talk to one another to understanding nuanced risk dynamics that inform underwriting models, and geo-specific consumer behaviors that impact product roadmap. I believe the next Alibaba will start as a fintech play.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

the discovery by German engineers of “psychoacoustic” principles according to which most of the information in recorded music is in fact inaudible to the human listener and can be thrown away?—?coupled coupled with the distribution power of the Internet, radically transformed a large and profitable industry in a matter of years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. By definition?—?I’m

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

OurCrowd made history this week by becoming the first Israeli VC firm licensed by Abu Dhabi Global Market, the regulatory authority in the UAE. Visit the conference website for more information on attending in person or participating remotely in the hybrid event. Brodmann17 launches groundbreaking ADAS platform. Introductions.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

We are expected to know everything and many people rush to conclusions given a limited set of information. In my experience many VC’s fall into this “I’m expected to know all the answers” trap. Any true disruption will change all the rules. We are their sparring partners, their sounding boards.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Startups and VC. A 3-year outlook “is a more appropriate time horizon for collecting more information so you can decelerate even further (with cash to pivot) if things are worse in 12 months, or accelerate if things are better in 18 months,” he advises.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

” European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives. Data collection, then, is particularly important, as well as collecting information from various data sources, before collating, analyzing and reporting on it. So in addition to the data itself, our tool does workflow management.

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