TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Bokksu CEO Danny Taing has always been passionate about Japanese food and culture, so he moved to Tokyo after college and lived there for four years. Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

With a 98% client-retention rate since our founding and the successful resolution of more than 20,000 IT support requests in 2015 alone, we’ve discovered the core to building a winning customer-service promise is to start with your team, particularly through employee recognition and staff-training programs. Results through Rapport.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. Innovations such as return insurance have also sped up customer adoption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. since 2015, and in 2020, women make $0.81 This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.” Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing. Asian women made 77.1%

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 14, 2021

from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public, the first alum of the YC Growth Program to go public, and one of the earliest investments made by the YC Continuity Fund. is one of the most innovative companies to participate in YC’s programs. team on today’s IPO! GitLab Inc., GitLab Inc. Though GitLab Inc.’s

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Broadening participation in engineering is not just about numbers; it’s about fostering innovation, enriching our perspectives, and building a future in which everyone has an equal opportunity to shine.” produced approximately 97,000 engineers per year at the bachelor’s degree level in 2015, roughly 34% were minorities and women.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015. Of course, such crowdsourcing would have to be intrastate, limiting the cash innovative startups could potentially find within a more restricted region. Many of the startups that crowdsource are driven by passion or innovation rather than raw profits.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Bird noted that “thanks to our high retention, we’re able to build a company culture that makes up for any of the disadvantages of a smaller labor market.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. Lewis: The YC culture is a really curious one, so they didn’t feel like they needed to stay in a particular lane, especially with the Continuity Fund, which was geared toward early growth-stage companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

Last year, the GSEA experienced record-setting global participation, which culminated with 42 students representing 37 countries at the 2015 GSEA Finals in Washington, DC. Innovation Award: Gino Tubaro , Founder of Atomic Lab (Argentina). What ensued were the makings of another milestone year for EO GSEA Finals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. “With a tiny fraction of the money spent on other fusion efforts, and the culture of a startup, this team has a clear path to net electricity. The funding includes commitments of an additional $1.7 Animation courtesy of Helion Energy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

At the time Quest built DockerSlim in 2015, he was working with Docker containers and he wanted a way to automate some of the lower level tasks involved in dealing with them. “One of the first two or three people we brought into the company was our head of culture.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. From a cultural perspective, I grew up on a diet of Hollywood culture and movies and TV shows. And I think there were two influences. And the ‘90s was an incredibly optimistic time in America. And I kind of soaked it all in.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Since its founding in 2015, Moderne Ventures has built a successful investment track record yielding top-tier returns on its 35+ investments, backing over 150 Passport companies across three funds. Moderne’s Core Funds invest in technology companies with between $2-20 million in revenue.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Critical innovations in fintech. Every five to 10 years, the global payments industry undergoes a critical innovation cycle that determines the winners and losers for the next several decades. The last major transition was the shift to NFC-based mobile payments, which I wrote about in 2015. Even more so than eBay + PayPal.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The company was part of a Y Combinator cohort in 2015.). ” Another area where it would like to use investment is to bring more technological innovations into the Go1 platform. For some context on that valuation, Brisbane, Australia-based Go1 has now raised $400 million to date. It would be quite a different product.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Whurley has successfully co-founded and sold two Austin-based companies: Chaotic Moon Studios to Accenture in 2015 and Honest Dollar to Goldman Sachs in 2016. Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This produces a whole host of problems from overspending on attempts to centralize data to damaging the entire company culture around data. Hurt cofounded Austin, Texas-based Data.World in 2015 alongside Bryon Jacob, Jon Loyens and Matt Laessig. ” Making data actionable. ” Beyond the usual suspects (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. In Paris, Laiye is slated to assemble a product and engineering force, building on top of Mindsay’s 30-people team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. Pebble was one of the first-movers in the category, creating loyal fans and producing real innovation in the frontier days of this space.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

Jeff Carruthers founded Resonate in 2001, and has steered the business with a focus on what makes organizations relevant to contemporary customers as well as a keen eye for technical innovation. He joined EO in 2015. The post Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Tancman and Boutnaru had previously co-founded another security startup, CyActive, which was acquired by PayPal in 2015 ; the pair worked there together until leaving to start Rezilion. It creates a win-win, allowing companies to speed innovative products and features to market while enhancing their security posture.

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OurCrowd

JULY 31, 2019

Israel is home to more than 6,500 innovative tech companies and startups, dozens of public and private innovation players, and over 530 multinational corporations (MNCs) from 35 countries. The institutional know-how is there, as is the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. The Israeli Innovation Ecosystem Matures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. The good news: VC funding in Italy has grown.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. And, looking now at 102 Impact Hubs across 60 countries and 24.000 entrepreneurs and innovators supported, it looks like we were right to believe so. In 2015 we had already become more than 60 Impact Hubs.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

BHAGs serve as a rallying cry for the company culture, an ambitious target for the future, and a focusing tool for corporate decision-making. As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. UberPool is the natural evolution of this journey, and obvious BHAG candidate for 2015 and beyond.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt. Both countries boast a large, young, talented, and tech-savvy population with a strong appetite to innovate,” said Sequoia Partner George Robson of the investment. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , co-founder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” Immuta was co-founded in 2015 by Steven Touw and Carroll, who began his career as a U.S. Specialists in a recent TechRepublic poll cited corporate culture, lack of knowledge, financial cost, and poor integration with existing tools as some of the top blockers. “We don’t see that slowing down.”

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Teknobuilt, a UK-Canada-based startup with innovative technologies in digital program management, construction workflow automation, and SaaS platform services for AI-based project delivery, participated in KSGC 2020. South Korea is the best country among the other countries in Asia because there’s no cultural barrier here.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

Throughout my career, I have always been passionate about innovation and improving the way we work. In 2015, I spearheaded the development of ‘Vantage Fit,’ a platform designed to promote holistic employee wellness on a global scale. has profoundly shaped my approach to leadership and company culture.

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