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 ! To da pub : Tepid investor reaction clouds Lyft’s new strategy , by Alex and Anna. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! PDT, subscribe here. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc. Aisha has more. “A

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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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

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 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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Leaders often approach complex problems using experts and interview-based, analytical techniques that have been honed for complicated challenges.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. Today the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. That’s what happened this week with Ro , which laid off 18% of its full-time workforce to “manage expenses, increase the efficiency of [its] organization, and better map our resources to [its] current strategy.” PT/2:30 p.m.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. Venture firms like Sequoia have also released pitch deck templates of their own and, well, you ought to listen to them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Oleksander Bondarev , associate, Credo Ventures. Ondrej Bartos , founding partner, Credo Ventures. ný , principal, Y Soft Ventures. Vaclav Pavlecka , managing partner, Air Ventures. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. But the deal never closed reportedly due to disagreements between Micromax and Alibaba over future strategy for the business. billion from Alibaba. of its phones in India.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. These were the knob-twiddling soundboard jockeys who actually mixed the albums. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. To connect with consumers on an emotional level, “you need a mix of goodwill, what-we-stand-for ideology, social prestige and customer delight — among other affinity-building ingredients.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center. This can also be used to identify existing members of the community (e.g. Community meets product. ” A “program” could mean a one-off event, a series of content (e.g.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Update : PitchBook is “plain wrong,” Zapp VP of strategy Steve O’Hear tells us. How many consumers will ultimately use these services, and for how long? Note: O’Hear was a longtime writer for TechCrunch before joining Zapp; this had no impact on how we reported this story.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The pandemic also called a halt to a major piece of research work the startup had lined up with a US university to study its hormone-tracking method for a key contraceptive use-case — a product it had intended to prioritize but could not bring to market ahead of the study which is required to gain regulatory approval.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New and existing investors participated in the round, including Franklin Templeton, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investments, Blackbird, Felicis and AirTree Ventures. Canva launched as a free product, and over time the company introduced enterprise layers into the mix.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3. The latter is home to startups like Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games, which have raised millions of dollars in venture capital owing to the adoption of crypto and play-to-earn models.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Espen Malmo , founding partner, Skyfall Ventures. Magne Uppman , managing partner, SNÖ Ventures.

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