TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Founder and CEO Nash Ahmed wouldn’t go into too much detail about the technology that allows Undock to accomplish this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was asked again in an LP meeting later in the week and then again at a founder breakfast gathering we hosted yesterday. I fall in love with both the founders and the concept. But frankly, if you’re honest, that’s the same exact situation every CEO/Founder often has with all of their team members, too. I fall in love.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some prominent angel investors also participated in the round, including Opendoor founder Eric Wu and former Wealthfront CEO Adam Nash. Advance access to tax refunds serves as an interest-free loan, r educing the need for users to take out expensive loans or accrue credit card debt, Mandelbaum said.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

As entrepreneurs many people are driven to solve their personal issues right in front of them, which leads a disproportionate number of founders to focus on: music, bars, restaurants, photos, etc. Mission Driven I also am looking for founders that are on a personal mission to solve a big problem. But really it’s something I look for.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

I had a catastrophic relationship with incumbent banks.”. I wanted to help underserved people in Brazil and offer them financial education, and a better relationship with banks,” he told TechCrunch in his first interview with a U.S. Moving forward, the founder is eager to tap into the tech talent in the U.S. publication. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

“We wanted these big things out of our healthcare system, like value-based healthcare or personalized medicine,” explains AcuityMD’s founder and CEO Mike Monovoukas. ” “[Our customers are] trying to sell and educate surgeons about which products to use in which settings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. Many are not qualified for the jobs they are applying for.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Amira Yahyaoui, the founder of Mos.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Maev founder and CEO Katie Spies. Today, it is great that more dog owners are educated on some of the problems with standard kibble and are skeptical about what they are feeding their dogs. She worked at a startup as a product development manager, but ultimately left that behind to find a different calling. Image Credits: Maev .

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Brad Birnbaum, founder and CEO of Kustomer , discussed the challenges of innovating on two dimensions simultaneously on the [Saastr podcast](). There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent. Pricing and budget aren’t the customers’ pain point.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

A recent survey by TechCrunch+ indicates that investors and founders are, instead of simply looking for attractive opportunities, increasingly putting their minds to building the foundations for an industry that can employ the power of psychedelics to change lives.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With 9 facilities in Iowa up and running and talks progressing with dozens more ahead of a planned 2022 launch, the company may soon usher in a fundamental change in how incarcerated people access communication and education. The last area where Ameelio hopes to move things forward is in education.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. It’s not an afterthought.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Online education. Far from it. Lots of it. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech co-founder, CEO and president Amir Hemmat says his company’s initial approach was different than others in the space in that rather than launch a banking product and then set out to earn the trust of the community it aims to serve, it first “worked hard to earn that trust and understand the community’s needs.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. COVID, despite all the terrible parts, pushed the education around digital banking — at least in our part of the world,” said CEO Bensoussan. Co-founders Eytan Bensoussan (CEO) and Justin Adler (COO).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Extras: Hana Mohan’s Twitter thread on the YC advice to founders. Equity’s episode: We think founders need a quick Heart to Heart about the market. Hana Mohan’s episode of Found.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. Every level of education was forced online by the pandemic this year, at least temporarily. Every level of education was forced online by the pandemic this year, at least temporarily. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

He’s one of the three co-founders of 222, a social events app that aims to — unlike many that’ve come before it — facilitate meaningful and authentic connections. Venue managers are educated on 222’s moderation and guidelines and it’s incumbent on them to instruct staff, Kazemian said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

According to James Zhang, its co-founder and CEO, Jambo wants to onboard millions of users to web3 in Africa through its applications. Many web2 incumbents or even web3 are having a $100-200 user acquisition costs so we can lower that by order of magnitude by directly incentivizing the end-user.”. The last bit is play-to-earn games.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. The first investment that 75% of our users have done was with less than $500. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

To understand why Draper Esprit not only decided to stay public but doubled down on its structure by moving to the main boards in London and Dublin, we got on the horn with the firm’s co-founder, Stuart Chapman. So, there’s been a great education system, great engineering infrastructure.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

What I would like to tell you is AI is gonna, you know, be completely transformative for education. And, you know, I was, like, very, very proud of myself because I was like, “Wow, this is just gonna be such a great educational resource for him.” I believe that it will. And so I think that’s the risk.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 15, 2023

And many Republicans seem to be frightened of their own base on immigration or have also fallen victim to some form of incumbent regulatory capture. I belong to an industry (tech) and in a role (investor) which benefit immensely and directly from the entrepreneurism of technical founders, often first generation Americans or newly arrived.

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