2014 disruption financing 
Revolution
MARCH 26, 2025
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.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 20, 2020
In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Expect a disruption of normal terms (expect to get paid slower, but you may have to pay faster). During economic disruption, customers will take longer to pay and vendors will need to be paid faster.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. The doubters will question you.
TechCrunch
JUNE 2, 2021
London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups. million across 19 African companies.
TechCrunch
APRIL 12, 2021
Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. “Appzone is building a disruptive fintech ecosystem that will be the backbone of Africa’s finance industry with products across payments, infrastructure and software as a service. Four years later, it raised $2.5
TechCrunch
APRIL 9, 2021
The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, that new $6 billion valuation, is up 50% from the $4 billion it was valued at last November when it raised $200 million in Series D financing. Secondly, it’s further proof that mortgage – a traditionally “unsexy” industry that has long been in need of disruption – is officially hot.
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