TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. The soundbite: “What distinguishes the apex innovators from behemoths who disappear? Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 6, 2020

This large-scale global pandemic made healthcare – an industry traditionally slow to adopt innovation because of cumbersome regulatory and governmental pathways, low IT budgets, legacy systems, lack of trained personnel, and more – ripe for disruption.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

I currently work for a large global organization that deals with container shipping as well as transport and logistics. The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. Honestly, I prefer the latter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. In 2007, as the most affluent people in the world were meeting the first iPhone, another mobile innovator entered the market. billion in sales.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine. Like Thiel, I think Christensen undervalues efficiency innovations. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

And now, our anti-tech progress Mayor is helping NYC join an exclusive list of cities that have stood in the way of Uber providing an innovative consumer service that is in high demand. Well, what are the chances of that given our anti-innovation policies regarding these two companies? Has Via, the new bus service come under fire?

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

But when he was struck by the urge to start a company, he researched the money-attracting industries of the world, and then, using AngelList, saw how many companies were trying to disrupt those industries. So YC viewed this as a major disruptive play. What do you think made Convoy stand out? Is that still a good method?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2024

With the effects of climate change on the rise, innovation is desperately needed in the industry but nearly impossible to execute as there is currently no affordable way to make cement at smaller scales. seed funding round and introduced its revolutionary, end-to-end cement production unit, the Furno Brick.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Save the date and get ready to rub virtual elbows with mobility’s best and brightest minds — the movers, shakers and policy makers that are shaping the future of transportation. We’re excited to host another day dedicated to the people — and the technology they’re developing — that’s changing transportation. Yes, you can!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (now the Alliance Automotive Innovation), which represents most U.S. They were wrong. In a 2019 letter to the U.S.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As food moves through supply chains and transport networks, it undergoes distribution , ultimately reaching household consumption. The interconnectedness of these components is crucial, and disruptions can have far-reaching consequences, affecting supply chains and food security globally.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

Upon project completion, 168 multi-family units will have EV charging stations utilizing TurnOnGreen’s innovative EVP700G level 2 EV charger. The latter is a diversified holding company that acquires undervalued businesses and disruptive technologies that have the potential for a global impact. Imperalis Holding Corp.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc.,

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Ideas are the critical spark in the first stages of a startup: Ideas for a new product, for a disruptive service or engaging customer experience. They actively seek out businesses in markets they know nothing about, because they sense a huge opportunity for innovation or improvement. Take Airbnb and Uber, for example.

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HPA

AUGUST 12, 2019

In the future, when we analyze moments in time when true innovation transformed an industry, we’ll remember an event that happened just a couple of weeks ago: Livongo’s IPO. Home to some of the best hospitals in the country, the Midwest is a prime location for continued healthcare innovation. Precision Medicine. Mental Health.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

In 2013, Thanh founded the BusMap Project, a free public transportation app for urban bus passengers. Among these, Smart Port is a port model helping cargo and inland transportation companies cut expenses and increase their competitiveness. In 2021, BusMap received a capital injection of $US1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. When starting in Nigeria, most two-wheel ride-hailing startups begin from Lagos, the nation’s hotbed of commerce and transport. Chinese and Japanese investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

They can range from a large shipping company finding ways to efficiently transport thousands of containers to a railway station, with more than 30,000 kilometres of railway, trying to automate scheduling for 10,000 trains. Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. During that time, she also held a full-time job as a marketing manager at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

This data is then used to train AI-based computer vision systems for customers such as big retailers, warehouse operators, healthcare, transportation systems and robotics. Our Chameleon platform solves the AI training challenge, freeing the industry to focus on higher-value tasks like AI network innovation. It’s now closed a $3.25

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. What are some techniques for innovating around these challenges?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“We are excited to partner with Zenskar on their journey to fundamentally disrupt the quote-to-cash tooling for SaaS companies. It also aims to go beyond SaaS billing and bring solutions to automate accounting, facilitate payments and provide analytics to companies in sectors such as telecom, transportation, IoT and media.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. Allbirds is not alone in this vision or innovation — Tesla’s job is far greater than simply getting a driver from one place to another; Impossible Meats’ job is more than just feeding a hungry customer. through comfort, style or performance? — ?and

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. How will our altered set of needs and wants reshape cities, right as new technologies are fundamentally altering transportation, too?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport. It was such an effective means for transport for him that he built a large contact list of “go-to” boda boda riders he would call for rides when need be.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“Our default rate is about three times better than the industry average — which is the payday lending industry that we’re looking to disrupt,” Holoway said. And they’re able to help individuals out who otherwise would not be able to pay for groceries, paying rent or taking care of their transportation expenses.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It gives us the resources we need to fuel and accelerate our mission to build innovative solutions that simplify money movement in Indonesia,” said Rafi Putra Arriyan , co-founder and CEO of Flip. . This new funding is a testament to our team’s commitment and persistence.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

And one of the great advantages of working in a studio is that we get to play around with new innovative ideas all the time. Perterson said further inquiry revealed to PEV that the industry in Africa was ripe for disruption, especially because the sector is among the fastest growing in the world. “I

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