TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Plus, it’s understood that Tech Nation is intending to carry on “as is”, even without the government subsidy, supported by fundraising from sponsors, subscriptions and partners. Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If the items are further afield, Tile taps into its broader finding network consisting of everyone who has the app installed on their phone and other access points. Through this network, Tile is able to automatically and anonymously communicate the lost item’s location back to its owner through their own Tile app.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say about us when we don’t allow certain groups of motivated, innovative, and optimistic people access to the resources they need to start up and scale up? 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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Though logistics and supply chain economics certainly have their share of innovation on the data and services side, the ships and shipping companies themselves have stagnated. The feds will be looking into price fixing (and in fact just passed a law ), but supporting a sustainable American alternative is kind of a no-brainer as well.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Business model innovations: For example, could you provide pre-wiring for free (leveraging incentives) in return for purchasing the appliance on failure? Smarter EV charging for charging networks, fleets, and residential use cases that is price, carbon intensity, and excess solar awareness. short haul aviation and shipping).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The plan will be to continue to support and grow its wider business building e-commerce tools for all kinds of larger companies, but in particular Spryker plans to use this tranche of funding to double down specifically on the B2B opportunity, building more agile e-commerce storefronts and in some cases also developing marketplaces around that. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s a growing market for private cellular networks, or dedicated cell networks configured to support a company’s specific requirements within a confined area (think a warehouse or wind farm). But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Both approaches complement each other, especially for innovative tech companies which typically disrupt an existing market by undercutting the incumbents on the one hand ( and hence shrinking the market), while creating a new use case attracting a larger number of new users on the other hand. What costs will be needed to support them?

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. Other investors noticed as well. Image Credits: VCG.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations). While Unreal and Unity try to support all platforms enabling cross-platform development, they make performance tradeoffs with the engine for the one-size-fits all approach.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. The startup also hasn’t detailed its proprietary networking protocol, a protocol that it has previously claimed is more performant than existing solutions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And save from mPharma, which has a network of Mutti pharmacies and recently raised $35 million to build out its telehealth and e-commerce offerings, funding has been few and far between for B2B distribution healthtech startups. However, a direct path to multi-national telemedicine scale through these chains is not clear, the report contended.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The proceeds, which bring Oort’s total capital raised to $15 million, will be put toward supporting its go-to-market strategy, CEO Matt Caulfield tells TechCrunch. Gone are the days of pervasive endpoint and network security,” Caulfield told TechCrunch in an email interview. Image Credits: Oort. Israel and Uruguay. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. “A challenge we had, and saw reflected in the processes of our clients, was that building and scaling hardware felt incredibly laborious in comparison to software.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Via email, he told me: “Over the last 7 years running Fintech, Crypto and Loyalty at Visa, we have been focused on how Fintech companies innovate on Visa’s global payment rails. He initially ended up at Visa through the acquisition of a company he co-founded called TrialPay. For too long, many people in the U.S. Ali Heron, Petal CTO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. There simply isn’t enough innovation in fintech from the Israeli ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

01:07] Social networks as compliment to AI [03:59] Poe: bringing AI to the masses [05:51] The future of AI is multi-model and multimodal [08:11] Is the model the product? [11:31] And meanwhile, I just watched social networking start to boom. We think a ton of innovation is going to come from these companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Last weekend, the network began banning certain parody accounts following a Musk-led rule change, including the accounts of high-profile comedians.

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