TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Founded in 2014, Zeals currently serves more than 400 enterprises, including Toyota dealerships, Shiseido and NTT Docomo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The company was self-funded until 2014, when McDerment decided to bring on outside investors and raised $30 million from Oak Investment Partners, Accomplice and Georgian Partners. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. WJR Business Beat Transcript. 2, Guardhat.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

Founded in 2014 out of Chicago, ShipBob was launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati , two entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. We built ShipBob to solve that pain point,” said Saxena.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jscrambler said it will use the cash injection to “strengthen and accelerate” its product roadmap to meet its customers’ expanding requirements as threat actors increasingly turn to the web. The investment, which comes two years after the startup secured $2.3 health privacy rules HIPAA.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Talking about the acquisition, Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash said in a statement that the move “will accelerate our product development, bring greater focus to each of our markets and improve the value we provide to consumers, merchants, as well as Dashers and couriers around the world.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Integrating these resources, prepares the ground for our accelerated expansion in Africa,” said Bauck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

“We analyzed more than a 1,000 AI companies worldwide and identified Iguazio as the best fit to significantly accelerate our AI offering — from the initial concept to production, in a simplified, scalable and automated manner,” McKinsey senior partner Ben Ellencweig said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. Karkal told TechCrunch that the idea for Sila was born out of frustration while starting another bank.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The 2014-founded startup operates a marketplace model where lenders compete to offer the most suitable credit line to consumers to grease purchases — partnering with businesses such as banks, retailers and payment partners so they can offer “buy now, pay later” to their users at the point of sale.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million since its inception in 2014. Its grazing insights enable ranchers to maximize productivity, eliminate waste, and validate grazing and animal management decisions in a way that other record-keeping systems can’t touch,” Webb pointed out. In addition, the latest funding will enable the company to establish its database.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. Meanwhile, $1.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Some of the functionalities they build enable both local and cross-border payment players in credit and debit cards, bank transfers, digital cash, mobile wallets, and other alternative payment methods. “We The Series B will be used to accelerate growth and expand to Brazil and nine other markets in Central America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today. Dock plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product development roadmap and global expansion plans, as well as to do more hiring.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In 2014, Tala first launched its mobile application to offer credit and collateral-free loans to consumers in Kenya but has since expanded to the Philippines, Mexico and, more recently , India. Integral to this new direction is the use of crypto and decentralized finance to enable the company’s roadmap.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

” Kumesh Aroomoogan, a former research analyst for Wall Street firms including Citigroup, cofounded Accern with Anshul Vikram Pandey in 2014. The end result affects all organizations’ decision-making capabilities and adds additional risk to their respective portfolios and balance sheets.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

billion in transactions since its 2014 inception. ReCharge plans to use its fresh capital to accelerate hiring in both R&D (engineering and product) and go-to-market functions such as sales, marketing and customer success. Customers include Harry’s, Oatly, Fiji Water, Billie and Native.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

After closing this Series E round, Andela has raised a total of $381 million since being founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014, according to Crunchbase data. To Johnson, working with SoftBank means more acceleration of what the company is doing now, especially as the world has become more comfortable with remote work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies. “That went so well and we thought ‘what if we accelerated it now that we’re remote and just enable applicants from anywhere ?’

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. Not only has the pandemic accelerated remote-first culture, it is now seen as a competitive edge to acquire top-notch global talent.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Looking to accelerate inclusiveness in Europe’s entrepreneurial and incubation environment , Impact Hub teamed up with partners to enhance Business Support Organisations’ skills, methods and approaches towards different under-represented groups. which enables participants from different contexts to fully emerge into the learning process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

million since being founded in 2014. The behavioral analytics also enables customers to see and use behavioral data to optimize existing AI/ML models. Alton intends to use the new funding to hire additional engineering talent, accelerate product-led growth and expand globally.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2014

In fact, the 2014 cohort of public SaaS companies spend more on sales & marketing and engineering than previous IPO cohorts. Looking at the Median Sales Costs, which shows gross sales dollars in $M, the 2014 cohort does show accelerated spending compared to older cohorts. 1998 34 11.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi has launched a similar communication infrastructure tool that allows blockchain service developers to integrate code without starting from scratch, enabling notification delivery through familiar communication methods such as text messages and emails and increasing interaction between users. Paul sees “Web2.5”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Wuxiaworld was founded in 2014 by Jingping (JP) Lai, a former American diplomat and passionate fan of Chinese fantasy martial arts novels, or Wuxia, who started translating Chinese martial arts fiction into English out of his love for these works. Serial fiction app Radish acquired by Kakao Entertainment for $440M. and Korea,” Lai said. .

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

But now, artists can accelerate the dissemination of their new releases by making them available for remixing and letting social media generate exposure, removing the need to rely on major record labels. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fin VC led the financing, which values New York-based Ocrolus at “north of $500 million” and brings its total funding raised since its 2014 inception to over $100 million. It’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a digital acceleration in many industries, with financial services being among the most affected.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Acceleration Grants. Acceleration Grants. The Girlboss Foundation was launched back in 2014 by an entrepreneur called Sophia Amoruso. They go for companies with technology-enabled services and products. Subsequently, it provides an opportunity for sustainable growth of minority small businesses that are underfunded.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Hence the parallel goal of tackling a variety of gaps (territorial, gender, socio-economic, generational and so on) that might otherwise be exacerbated by a more single-minded rush to accelerate the size of the digital sector. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system. France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift. The software can be completely integrated into a customer’s platform or run as a standalone product, he adds.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Timely has racked up 500,000 users since 2014, including more than 5,000 paying businesses in 160 countries. He tells me he lived off the proceeds of his flat for two years “in a closet” in a hacker house, bootstrapping Timely, until eventually getting into an accelerator (500 Startups) and subsequently starting to raise money.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Founded in 2014 in Lagos, Andela’s original business model was based on building physical hubs to source, vet, train and house talent across the continent. We thought, ‘What if we accelerated [the African remote network] and just enabled applicants from anywhere?’ It did this in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 20, 2020

A major funder of research programs at the Oklahoma Health Center, PHF has awarded more than $25 million to support biomedical research in Oklahoma since 2014. Our contributions are enabling researchers to achieve important progress for public health. About Presbyterian Health Foundation.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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