TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Ushur, which Sadasiva co-founded in 2014 with ex-Lucent Technologies staffer Henry Peter, targets enterprises in heavily regulated industries such as insurance, healthcare, financial services and banking with tools designed to simplify the adoption of tech like conversational AI and intelligent document processing. After all, Jiffy.ai

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

Carmel previously founded Ethos Lending (which sold to Fenway Summers in 2014 ) and it was that experience that helped him conclude there were serious gaps in the market for automating workflows for lenders. We see this as a compelling window and opportunity to really help transform the market.”. The need certainly seems to be there.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent. Satya strikes again. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. But Linietsky was keen to highlight one core difference between W4 and these incumbents: it’s expertise. ” Support and services.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Service Level – Do your doctors ask you for feedback? Do they conduct surveys? Do they measure waiting time?

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health hospitality networking mix-use 59

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

. “Nyshex was formed because [we] experienced firsthand the challenges associated with keeping track of contractual commitments, and [we] realized the incumbents could not solve these challenges.” ” Downes founded Nyshex in 2014 after serving as director of shipping giant Maersk’s supply chain and key accounts team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. An opportunity for a new revenue stream. We’ve heard from customers that Lithic can power a launch in the same amount of time it takes an incumbent issuer to return a phone call.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In fact, it’s twice as costly to operate a startup in 2014 as it was in 2009. In parallel, startups and incumbents vying for talent in the increasingly competitive job market have bid up the median wage of a San Francisco technology worker 15% each year, from about $90k to well over to $180k in 2014.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of work where we have been acutely interested in two data points: the acceleration of funding to early-stage startups outside of the Bay Area and the acceleration of remote work opportunities in tech. At Rise of the Rest, we see opportunity first through the lens of geography.

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