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. There’s plenty of opportunity to build a huge business without selling people product that lasts one year.”. This brings Floyd’s total funding to $25 million. It’s all about keeping things that exist in the world.”.

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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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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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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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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. The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2016, Premise had its first opportunity to work with USAID, and it was a proud moment. 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. Thinking beyond the system.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim founded the startup in Tunis in 2014 with “two laptops, $2,000, and a lot of enthusiasm,” CEO Beguir told TechCrunch last year. One of the reasons we founded InstaDeep was to show that there was real potential and opportunity for AI in Africa. As such, it is a great opportunity for the continent.”

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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

We believe these sectors will continue to show strength and resilience through economic cycles and yield compelling investment opportunities for CSP Fund II,” Partner Chakrabarty said. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. “The opportunity in front of the company is massive. ” Going up against incumbents.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Since forming in 2014, were excited to be part of the sales growth story for more than 50 businesses. Its no wonder opportunities stall, and buyers refuse to budge. There are still opportunities, but you might just have to look a little harder to find them. Its exciting to be part of your growth story!

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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. See some opportunities below: Senior NLP Researcher for Signals Analytics (Israel). Webinar Aug.12:

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

CEO Greg Chen founded the company in 2014 came from his 15-year span in the mobile industry, noticing how enterprises in South Africa struggled to target and engage their customers via SMS efficiently. ’ small and medium business market because “its product is easy to use and suited for the big market opportunity in the U.S.”

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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. Wonderbelly was the answer.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data. Doximity’s S-1 may explain why healthcare exits are heating up.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. We discussed how the current macroenvironment is impacting Bitcoin-focused businesses and where Erik sees the most opportunities for startups today.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Once heralded as disruptive marketplaces, classifieds are giving way to transactional marketplaces. Since its inception in 2014, Jiji is for the first time exploring a business outside its usual classifieds model, which has brought it profitability according to the company. Jiji raises $21M for its Africa online classifieds business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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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. It is, in a sense, a timely disruption. Aimed not just at people who are quantified self geeks, but those who need to track time for practical reasons, such as consultants or others who work on the concept of billable hours.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. We also had the opportunity to catch up with some QUT alumni who are running businesses over there. it came in through the QUT Business School. Where are they now?

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Precision Ventures Precision Ventures identifies market opportunities and delivers complete concept solutions to brand-name global manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

This investment is strong recognition of Smart’s success and journey to date, and highlights the immense opportunity that lies ahead. Founded out of London in 2014, Smart emerged in the wake of the U.K. It also claims to have £5.5 We welcome Aquiline to our board and we’re incredibly excited for the years ahead.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

“For that reason, cards remain one of the largest untapped opportunities … The Concerto platform disrupts all of this to give businesses the tools and the credit they need, along with the power to easily create and deploy highly customized, remarkably innovative loyalty programs people will love.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Consequently, there are many huge opportunities for entrepreneurs to seize. Second, the capital startups require to pursue those opportunities is plentiful. 2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. For example, in January 2014, the public markets priced SaaS companies at 8x forward revenue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

So we want to generate a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs, investors and the rest of the ecosystem to access all of opportunities of collaboration between the central government, regions and CP councils in order to improve entrepreneurship in their respective areas,” says Polo.

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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. See some opportunities below: Senior NLP Researcher for Signals Analytics (Israel). Webinar Aug.12:

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. It's that kind of thing that we see as a unique opportunity. We look at the resonance between the founding team and the opportunity. I only learned that yesterday.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Because they’re quickly growing, working at Blumira offers the opportunity for high growth and a fast-paced work environment. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Blumira is another cybersecurity startup in Ann Arbor that’s a part of this vibrant security ecosystem. million in 2020.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In November of 2014, the Morgan Stanley sell-side research team that focuses on the auto industry, headed by Adam Jonas, made a trip to Detroit to visit the big three automakers. I think it’s safe to say that over the past five years, no industry has created more new jobs and new income opportunities than ride-sharing.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Casper is a directto-consumer sleep brand that broke onto the scene in 2014 with a re-designed, high quality mattress that shipped directly to consumers’ doors. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

He added, “That said, we want to maximize the outcome by selecting an opportune time. Sijbrandij told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm at a TechCrunch Disrupt panel in September that he believes that transparency helps attract and keep employees. GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.75B valuation. ’

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2016

Just like any new business venture, begin with a basic SWOT analysis measuring strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Disruption sends ripples through social, financial, and bureaucratic fabrics, so expect red tape waiting for you around every corner. Uber learned this lesson when it launched in Las Vegas in October 2014.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

” Downes founded Nyshex in 2014 after serving as director of shipping giant Maersk’s supply chain and key accounts team. “C-suite decision-makers recognize the need for a trusted system of record, and this has been magnified by the ongoing supply chain disruption.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

He added, “That said, we want to maximize the outcome by selecting an opportune time. Sijbrandij told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm at a TechCrunch Disrupt panel in September that he believes that transparency helps attract and keep employees. GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.75B valuation.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” Some interesting demographic trends are also underway that favor Uber’s opportunity in this market. Scale clearly matters for these types of opportunities. Undiscovered Clues.

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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. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences.

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