TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. It’s free, and attendees have the opportunity to ask guests questions, participate in Pitch Practice and network with other attendees. Now worth $3.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. . Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 food market and further positions Nestlé to win in the future.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Accelerating AI adoption. Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. “If your IVP is your presentation of an unbaked pepperoni pizza, your MVP is when you present a can of sauce, a package of cheese, a Slim Jim, and a pencil sketch of an oven.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity. Most of the time the world around me appalled me, especially with regards to climate change, and yet, there would always be times when the optimistic would reign in and believe that these problems were an opportunity for my generation to solve.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. So now that you’ve accepted (I hope) that exclusivity can be a massive opportunity if crafted correctly, let me delve into the topic. I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Without industry-wide master unique identifiers for medical-surgical (med-surg) items, hospitals cannot easily compare products by their attributes to identify cost-savings opportunities, or map product selection to the best patient outcomes. In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

How has your work on EO’s Accelerator Global Subcommittee impacted you? It’s been a remarkable opportunity to learn about influence and leadership as I’ve watched the EO Accelerator program evolve over the years—first as a participant, then running a program, and now on the Global Subcommittee.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. In part 2 of this article , he explains how he helped grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program. yet everyone wanted to learn them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively. The facility is set to open in June of 2022, with an eye on early-stage U.S. companies working toward their seed round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Boulder, Colorado. Nashville, Tennessee.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

As much as he had benefited from the rise of the mobile internet, he thought there was a far bigger opportunity building a consumer brand and applying the lessons he learned from programming to the manufacture of tangible products. Indeed, 2015 was the year when CACs began to exceed or at least rival ARPUs for Alibaba and JD.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Like so many other aspects of the robotics world, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest in the automated kitchen. Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

It was first acquired by Bitfury in 2015 after building a two-phase immersion cooling 500kW data center in Hong Kong, that purportedly cut energy consumption by 95% versus traditional air cooling technologies. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. “I founded Sima.ai

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them. Leveraging Voice Tech to Give Elders More Independence As of July 2015, there were 47.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. This is a $5 trillion market opportunity that is hugely overlooked,” she told TechCrunch. The fact is that an opportunity lies in this overlooked market. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S. Image Credits: igniteXL Ventures.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., That commitment to culture has overwhelmingly paid off, with pillars like above-standard wages and ample career opportunities translating into less churn, more continuity, and a galvanized team. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. Deuterium and Helium-3 are heated, then accelerated through magnets, compressed and captured as inductive current. It means we can accelerate the timelines. The funding includes commitments of an additional $1.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic. billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic.

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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. Lauren Morton: QED is incredibly bullish about the fintech opportunities in LatAm. There’s also real generational change happening across the region.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Over the years, the accelerator has created a portfolio of biotech companies valued at over $3.2 Leaving the $3.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“At a time of macroeconomic challenges, companies need a solution that accelerates key business processes,” Sangha told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” Sangha, a law lecturer at the University of Pennslyvania and a licensed attorney in the State of New York, founded LexCheck in 2015. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It seems, however, that the company has found plenty of opportunity for growth while remaining focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. “The grocery market is undergoing fundamental change and the shift to e-commerce and higher quality products and services is accelerating,” Van Arsdale said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

“I saw a massive opportunity and few people going after it,” Lewis told TechCrunch. Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. Billions of dollars were going into trucking each year but fewer than 30 startups showed an interest in the field.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As continentally confined Americans look for domestic vacation options that won’t expose them to too much risk of infection from the pandemic that’s still raging across the country, the RV rental company RVshare has raised more than $100 million to capitalize on its historic opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity? COSS is accelerating In general, the trends in commercial open source (COSS) are encouraging. And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup. — Garry Tan ???

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. That’s how the $20 million Opportunity Fund, Urban Innovation Fund’s first in this category, came about.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That changed in 2015, after Rad Power founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh teamed up with friend Ty Collins and relaunched as a direct-to-consumer business. The company, which was founded in 2007, initially was a low-volume custom bike builder. That year, they funded the RadRover Electric Fat Tire bike through an Indigogo campaign.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. ” They also give candidates an opportunity to provide a work sample to prove that they can do the job, regardless of their background or school, and they work hard to attract diverse candidates at the top of the funnel.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That change in customer composition is also opening some doors of opportunity for the company. As for acquisitions, SimilarWeb has historically made these to accelerate its technical march. There are a lot of opportunities right now on the table.”

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions. When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. But first, a bit of background. To encourage more interactions with friends, you can also share the water droplets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“With this funding, we hope to recruit more staff for the AI, sensor fusion and navigation business and accelerate our global market penetration plan.” ” The startup was founded in December 2015 by three founders: Park, Donghun Kim (co-CTO) and Hankeun Kim (co-CTO).

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