TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. News Drops from Disrupt. Omneky : Leverages OpenAI’s DALLE-2 and GPT-3 models to generate visuals and text that can be used in ads for social platforms. Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On the Extra Crunch stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 , we convened a distinguished panel of growth experts: Jenifer Ho, vice president of marketing at Elation Health; Shoji Ueki, head of marketing and analytics at Point; and Nik Sharma, the owner of Sharma Brands, a notable DTC growth marketing consultancy and investment shop.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug development process more predictable, and so he founded Katakem , one of the startups in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem. Image Credits: Katakem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Second, while financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed by the two companies, but we have confirmed other details with Go1’s co-CEO and founder Andrew Barnes: the acquisition is a mix of cash and shares. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

McKinsey & Co found that 25 to 36 percent of small businesses could close permanently as a result of the change in shopping behavior and disruption from just the first four months of the COVID-19 outbreak. And now that peak season is upon us, competing with retail giants for holiday shopping dollars is going to be an uphill battle.

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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

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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Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Startups that try to mix a non-profit entity with a for-profit entity to share resources don’t work, and scare off investors. Zappos logo via Flickr by Ben Spark.

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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

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

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

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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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful. There is a mix of science, engineering and philosophy behind that which needs careful study and growth-minded teams. They failed to cope with the disruption in the market.

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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. .” Not at all, it turns out.

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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

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

MAY 5, 2023

If you’ve got some time on your hands today, get your Disrupt tickets — early-bird savings end in 7 days ! Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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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

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. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. ” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29 per month (for a limited time), letting customers place the models against digital backdrops to realize their photoshoots.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Each can of Poppi includes approximately a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, sparkling water, real fruit and plant-based sweeteners mixed into a formula that provides a balance of gut-friendly prebiotics known to aid in digestion, immunity and glowing skin. The drinks retail for $2.49 Prior to the round, the company was bootstrapped.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The common thread linking all three experiences is that, chances are, you used an app that relies on workers in the gig economy. Instead of hiring full- and part-time workers exclusively, you will probably hire a mix of core employees and gig economy workers as your business grows. Scaling no longer depends on more employees.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

He wrote: “The changing revenue mix at both Coinbase and Robinhood makes it clear that their ability to generate material amounts of revenue off cash balances (and the crypto equivalent) is changing the game in their favor. Customers can pay businesses using credit cards, debit cards or Singapore’s PayNow fund transfer system.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. That deal immediately proved to be a success, which then propelled Agarwal to explore broadening his offering — now using technology — to focus on what were the neglected segments of the market. Oyo’s offerings.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

We want every merchant selling online to use our tools to run and superpower their stores.”. There was also some venture debt mixed in, and TriplePoint Capital provided that. At the same time, it’s fun to build in silence without too much disruption. We wanted to be the ‘Microsoft for e-commerce merchants.’

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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. Mix in humor to show your personality. Consider a website that separately contains useful materials, depending on the cycle of your business. By Murray Indick and Kate Tyler. Starting a business is incredibly hard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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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. “It was the universe telling me to use the name,” he said with a little smile.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Europe is roughly the same as the US. These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. The next part of the margin mix online video companies must get control of is talent margins.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” 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. Mobility-as-a-service.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Maybe in-car calls need to be disrupted soon, too). Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. But we have found ways to use our fundraising rounds to leap us forward on diversity — in a few different ways.”

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes.

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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

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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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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