TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup that builds e-bikes and offers micromobility subscriptions to gig workers and couriers, wants to be the next disruptive electric vehicle company. “We really see ourselves disrupting Rivian,” Mina Nada, CEO and co-founder of Zoomo, told TechCrunch. .”

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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. Rowe Price, that brought the company’s valuation up to $3.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. “[The latest investment] is primarily going to be used for land-grab and expansion opportunities,” Komoni said.

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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. In-Q-Tel invests in startups that support U.S. It literally trains a “synthetic” CCTV camera inside a synthetic world. It’s now closed a $3.25

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million. 4 essential truths about venture investing. 4 essential truths about venture investing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

” is becoming more and more important to investors — why should they part with their cash to invest in you in this exact moment? Apropos Tesla, our transportation team has been kept hella busy with the EV manufacturer this week. Decks are getting shorter; last year, the average successful deck had 19 slides. Super cool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Russia invaded Ukraine last week, which, in addition to being a human rights tragedy, is going to affect industries far and wide as supply chains become even further disrupted than they were before war broke out. First thing’s first.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. But it’s perhaps best known for its effort around robotaxis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. The company has built out its online sales platform, pre- and post-purchase customer support teams, retail showrooms, service van and a local service partner network. Rowe Price Associates.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. Prior to starting Fashinza, Gupta co-founded Curofy, a social networking app for doctors, while Sharma previously helped to found ecommerce retailer OfferBean.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Urtasun, who is the sole founder and CEO, already has a long list of high-profile backers, including separate investments from Uber and Aurora. ” Urtasun’s vision and intent isn’t to take this approach and disrupt the ecosystem of OEMs, hardware and compute suppliers, but to be a player within it.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

I am transported over a decade ago, living in San Francisco, dating a girl who is now my wife, and we had nothing to do most of the time. Social networks were not much of a thing, email was about work, telco’s charged for texting and we had feature phones which were definitely not computers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In the near term, Lu pointed to supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. Adding more personnel, as well as increasing the commercial utilization of its fleet and autonomous freight network (AFN) partner fleets, is what TuSimple credits as the reason it was able to beat revenue expectations of $1.65 million with a Q3 revenue of $1.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The upshot was Bounce was able to grow revenue 38x in 2021, per Candee — reaching “millions” in revenue, and expanding its partner network to 40 countries. “We basically just chased the opportunity wherever it was,” he tells TechCrunch, summing up how Bounce tackled the last two years of pandemic disruption.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Vic Patil thinks the solution lies in a “mesh” — specifically what he calls a “supply mesh,” inspired by the way wireless mesh networks function. Backbone today announced that it raised $14 million in seed funding from Nautilus Ventures, 12/12 Ventures, and individual investors to prove out its technology. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 Better choices to fight cancer.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As It’s something any public transportation rider in New York City intuitively understands—buses are more efficient and cheaper means of moving people by all measurements such as cost and energy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Last year was huge for the cybersecurity market, fueled by rising incidents of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware that disrupted services and held companies hostage. The numbers are striking: Investments in the space more than doubled from the year before to $29.3 JBS ended up paying $11 million in ransom.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2022

Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. NeuReality is disrupting the current approach by deploying AI with a new system architecture that reduces the cost and energy consumption of AI systems by an order of magnitude.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2022

Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. NeuReality is disrupting the current approach by deploying AI with a new system architecture that reduces the cost and energy consumption of AI systems by an order of magnitude.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. We love the productivity and independence that comes from oil powering our machinery & transportation but we hate enriching producers that we feel sometimes act against our best interests as consumers.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. NeuReality is disrupting the current approach by deploying AI with a new system architecture that reduces the cost and energy consumption of AI systems by an order of magnitude.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2021

Investing in a commercial break. Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed increases investment in BlueNalu. Since OurCrowd made the seed investment in Freightos, the company has raised $94.4 It was one of the first companies that OurCrowd invested in, and it remains one of our favorites. Freightos adds Qatar Airways to WebCargo roster.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

BeamUP today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures and Ibex Investments along with participation from angels including Workday CEO Chano Fernandez. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. ” Applying AI to building design. [The] Image Credits: BeamUP.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Gozem , a super app that provides a host of services — including transport, e-commerce and financial services in Francophone Africa — has raised $5 million in Series A financing, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. firm Plug and Play Ventures, Launch Africa, BANSEA and Virtual Network.

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HPA

AUGUST 12, 2019

Unlike many traditional healthcare companies, Livongo helps people use less-intrusive technology and an easily accessible professional support network to change and maintain behavior that leads to healthier lives. Similar to NOCD, Minneapolis-based HabitAware is working to empower people to disrupt compulsive behavior. Mental Health.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. Learn Mo re. We kicked off in the UK and focused on the Benelux countries in Europe.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This will be a gamechanger for us,” says Geert Denutte, the founder of CGK, a Belgian company that makes 13-foot-high storage tanks for storing and transporting hazardous liquids. Jerry Yang: ‘I do not invest in public markets’. “I I do not invest in public markets,” Yahoo! Nobody else is doing such technology. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

JULY 2, 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. Ariel Krause is the Medical Investment Analyst at OurCrowd.

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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. The post Innovation Insider: Intensive Care appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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