Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

We started to invest out of our inaugural fund, Cross Culture Ventures I in April 2015. Healthcare in this country has been broken for a long time and is in desperate need of disruption. My first investment at Cross Culture came in April 2015 and was in a company named Mayvenn , a mobile based distribution platform for hairstylists.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic. Just as TripActions continues to disrupt the corporate travel market, TripActions Liquid is set to replace traditional spend management solutions,” he said. “No With the latest round, the company has raised a total of $1.3

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They are working every day to introduce novel technologies and disruptive approaches to a variety of industries, which will have the power to transform and reimagine our future. Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to solve the climate crisis.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

The supply chain disruptions from the pandemic accelerated the push for businesses to invest in real-time transportation visibility solutions. HPA Member Joe Beatty has been a board member and investor at FourKites since April of 2015 and worked inside the company for a brief period early in its evolution.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru in 2015, Pula delivers agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers navigate climate risks, improve their farming practices and bolster their incomes over time. Pula is one of the few African startups disrupting the farming industry with technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. of the total African VC funding counted by Disrupt Africa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year , he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty. In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6 As with Lamey Wellehan, the key to success for that 10% was practicing abundance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” An engineer by trade — Rangasaye was the COO at Groq and once headed product planning at Altera, which Intel acquired in 2015 — he says that he was motivated to start Sima.ai

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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. One investor in the company that caught our eye for its Latin American investments is QED. There’s also real generational change happening across the region.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Seadronix says some smart ports across the globe have adopted innovative technologies ; for example, Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Port of Hamburg in Germany and Port of Singapore, but that generally, the traditional shipping industry is conservative and resistant to change, meaning it’s therefore ripe for disruption.

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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. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The two riff on topics including martial arts, disrupting the financial industry, the perils of being kicked out of college multiple times and how strong foundational values guide future successes. She joined the EO Sydney chapter in 2015 where she currently serves as Learning Co-Chair. Forward Ever, Backwards Never,” Shelley Rogers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million.

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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. Tailor Brands has now raised a total of $70 million since its inception in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. When Taing moved back to NYC, he brought a suitcase full of his favorite Japanese snacks and shared it with his friends. Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Nuvemshop raised its first money in 2015 from Kaszek Ventures (a $5 million investment), and, as the business picked up steam, raised $7 million more from local investors. . “We share their strong engineering focus and look forward to helping them scale their business with our investment.” .

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Smoke and heat can quickly damage hardware, and interference from fires will disrupt most forms of wireless communications, rendering software all but useless. The company, which was founded in 2015, just raised about $5.5 When it comes to tough environments to build new technology, firefighting has to be among the most difficult.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., million since its inception in 2015. semiconductors), but also the agriculture industry. Tridge said Thursday it has secured $37.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., The furniture resale industry is projected to reach $16.6 billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9 billion in 2018.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2019

In 2015, I wrote about the trade-off facing vertical SaaS companies. AI Agencies use machine learning to disrupt a market dominated by agencies. Vertical SaaS companies focus their efforts on a particular group of customers. Procore targets construction with their software and Veeva targets pharmaceuticals with their CRM.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. George Rzepecki, its founder, in a statement, likened Thepeer’s move to unify Africa’s wallet ecosystem to how Flutterwave entered the fragmented card and mobile money payments space in 2015. Last year, the number of African fintechs increased 17.3%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Neobrokers are defined as startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investment options and modern and easy mobile-based interfaces to manage their money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia. It gives us the resources we need to fuel and accelerate our mission to build innovative solutions that simplify money movement in Indonesia,” said Rafi Putra Arriyan , co-founder and CEO of Flip. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. ‘No code’ will define the next generation of software. Image Credits: Steve Proehl (opens in a new window) /Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In a survey conducted long before the pandemic began (in 2015), large companies — those with revenues in the range of $500 to more than $1 billion — pegged variability as the top challenge that they faced. Forecasting, also known as demand variability, has long been a hurdle for businesses reliant on the global supply chain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Founded in 2015, CloudApp aims to help teams share information faster through instantly shareable videos, gifs and screenshots. CloudApp sees itself as a visual voicemail that can be read at any time without disrupting workflows. The tool supports dozens of integrations including Slack, Atlassian, Trello, Zendesk and Asana.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. The company, which raised nearly $75 million in venture capital, was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in May 2015 in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the decade.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

We are excited to partner with Coro’s innovative team and participate in their journey to make non-disruptive security a mainstay of growing businesses across industries.”. The company — based out of Israel but with a substantial operation in the U.S., based out of New York and Chicago — has been around for a while.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The average cost of shipping a standard large container reached $10,000 in 2021 , but from 2015 to 2020, the number largely trended below $2,000. The spike in cost was in part due to an increase in global consumption, ports shut down by COVID-19 and supply chain disruptions during the outbreak, the founder explained.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. TravelPerk has attracted top financial backers who have invested in disruptive tech companies Airbnb, Uber, Slack, Twitter, Trello, Zalando, and Delivery Hero.

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