Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

Shamir sold Simple to BBVA in 2014 and continued to work for the company, further aggravating his frustrations with traditional banking’s slow adoption of technology and ineffective home-grown solutions, which place heavy implementation burdens on innovators in the space?—?from Setting out to disrupt the global payments industry?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event. Meanwhile, DocSend participated in 2014 at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. PandaDoc is another competitor in this space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. In these instances, starting from the ground up is what is really required to deliver an optimal consumer experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We basically just chased the opportunity wherever it was,” he tells TechCrunch, summing up how Bounce tackled the last two years of pandemic disruption. The original idea for Bounce came to Candee back in 2014, although he didn’t start work on the startup until January 2018 — going on take take in $1.2M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The funding is being led by a strategic backer, Koch Disruptive Technologies , the investment arm of industrial giant Koch Industries (which has interests in energy, minerals, chemicals and related areas), with participation also from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2015

Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. As a result of both the disruptive nature of open source distribution, and the changes in buyer preferences, the number of open source financings has increased nearly monotonically since the genesis of the movement, and it shows no signs of slowing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see. One investor in the company that caught our eye for its Latin American investments is QED. There’s also real generational change happening across the region.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO). Advancing its computing infrastructure, expanding into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). ScaleFactor (2014-2020). The shutdown comes after the platform had pivoted just months earlier, laying off in-house lawyers and turning into a clearer SaaS play.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ricardo Weder , former president of Cabify (a large ridesharing company operating in Latin America, Spain and Portugal) founded Jüsto in 2019 with a mission to “disrupt the Latin American grocery industry.” Jüsto marks General Atlantic’s fifth investment in Mexico since 2014.

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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

APRIL 9, 2021

Secondly, it’s further proof that mortgage – a traditionally “unsexy” industry that has long been in need of disruption – is officially hot. The investment brings Better.com’s total funding raised to over $900 million since its 2014 inception. For all its controversy, when SoftBank invests, people pay attention.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

” Standing at ground zero in a healthcare industry primed for disruption After a decade of entrepreneurship, Deng candidly admits that although they are already helping diabetes patients globally, they have yet to achieve their initial goal. ” Ed sees the healthtech market as primed for disruption.

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StartupNation

MAY 2, 2021

The company has come a long way since its 2014 Kickstarter campaign. Set out to disrupt the $64 billion U.S. This brings Floyd’s total funding to $25 million. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Related: Top Ann Arbor Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. Free may not have paid the bills, but it did come with a valuable upside: growth. Today, Duolingo has a simple freemium business model that is remarkably unconventional.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

On Wednesday, October 19, I’m moderating “How to take the BS out of your TAM,” a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt. The subscription pie is getting bigger: How to leverage usage-based billing. How to take the BS out of your TAM.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. When Tailor Brands, which launched at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2014 , raised its last round, a $15.5

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Since 2014 their funding supported No Kid Hungry providing 300 million meals for kids facing hunger and Citi volunteers have packed over 1.7 Citi and Citi Foundation have a solid track record of supporting communities around the world. million meals on behalf of U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Kaiyo founder and CEO Alpay Koralturk said in an interview with TechCrunch that he was familiar with the hassle of buying and selling furniture after moving five times in five years in NYC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014. ”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Importantly, the merger will not disrupt RLP users, who can continue accessing its payment services through existing channels, such as the BTS Skytrain ticketing system and AIS’s bill payment services, ensuring a seamless customer experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Launched in 2014, YouCam Makeup now counts about 40 million to 50 million monthly active users and has expanded from augmented selfies to include live-streams and tutorials from beauty influencers, social features and a “Skin Score” feature.

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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 service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Workrise was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. Dave Bujnowski, investment manager at Baillie Gifford, points out that Workrise’s online management platform is “disrupting a sector that’s so far been slow to adopt new technologies.”. billion. “Our wind industry. .

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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 24, 2022

Federal Reserve leading a global trend of interest rate hikes; an evolving European energy crisis; the first land war in Europe in 70 years; various supply chain disruptions; an ongoing global pandemic; growing global trade tensions, and, to top-off the sundae, a slowly collapsing Chinese credit bubble.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Singapore-based CSP, that was founded in 2014, is a private equity firm that invests in technology and business services across Southeast Asia and India. Basil, that was founded in 2008, is a private equity firm that invests in niche technologies disrupting the IT services space.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

He joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014. According to Crunchbase, he co-founded Warehouse Investimentos in 2010, where he led deal-sourcing efforts. He is also active with Endeavor and multiple angel groups. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But after Hopper’s public debut in 2014, the company’s leadership decided to pivot to mobile and devote engineering resources to flight prediction, building a tool that continuously monitors airline prices and sends price change alerts via push notification. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Khosla led Fundbox’s Series A in 2014 and founding partner and managing director David Weiden said his firm was initially — and remains — impressed with Fundbox’s founders’ ability to recognize there were “dramatic increases in the availability of relevant data in the small business market.”.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd portfolio company Sight Diagnostics raised $71M for Its OLO Blood Analyzer with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Longliv Ventures and OurCrowd. OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. $71M Round for Sight Diagnostics. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“The founding team at Grip Security brings deep technical acumen to disrupt the SaaS security market,” said Ofer Schreiber, partner at YL Ventures. ” Most of the popular CASBs today were founded around 2013 and 2014 and then later acquired by other major players like Microsoft, Cisco and Proofpoint.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Disruption in the industry. When SpaceX filed its suit back in 2014, NBC News noted , “Musk emphasized that the suit wasn’t asking the federal government to award the launches to SpaceX rather than ULA. It is difficult for tech companies to work with USAID because commercial business models do not fit how USAID operates.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. Oculus was acquired by Meta (formerly Facebook) in 2014. There are an estimated 1.07 billion, per ARtillery Intelligence.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Register There are generally two camps when it comes to Web3 – one believes that Web3 services must be blockchain-native and fully decentralized in order to be innovative enough to disrupt the previous generation of services, while the other argues that Web3 and Web2 are not opposing forces and must complement each other. Paul sees “Web2.5”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Introduced by machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow in 2014, GANs consist of a “generator” that produces images and a “discriminator” that detects whether the image is fake or real. “Fundamentally, I think [synthetic media] provides a disruptive infrastructure. Uncharted territory.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

The Doppler Labs founder , who first came into the spotlight in 2014 with the launch of a wireless earbuds company, is teaming up with his brother to start something brand new. Well, for clarity’s sake, the brother duo are actually disrupting something relatively ancient.

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