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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America

Revolution

Revolutions mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that upend age-old industries, with a unique focus on startups based outside of the coastal tech hubs. When our team first visited its startup community in 2014, the city had just declared bankruptcy, and people were not betting on an innovation-driven future.

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Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google

TechCrunch

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. When InstaDeep launched, Africa wasn’t in the picture detailing AI’s contribution to global economic growth.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Spotlight Media Spotlight Media delivers economic growth to people and businesses by harnessing the power of the internet and marrying that with the success of video production (ie.

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9 Ventures Forming the Future of Fashion

Impact Hub

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. Slow and sustainable fashion is gaining momentum, and you no longer have to make a choice between style or ethics – you can have both. They have just released their second capsule for women, and their first one for men.

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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

TechCrunch

The documents, which include 83,000 emails and 1,000 other files including conversations, reveal for the first time Uber’s $90 million-a-year lobbying and public relations campaigns to gain the support of world leaders, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, in order to disrupt Europe’s taxi industry.