Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

2016 was a year of change for SaaS, and most of the story was the public market. The Hottest Startup Sectors In 2016 - published on January 3rd, this post reviewed the patterns of investment in startups, and in particular, the sectors where investors were increasing their investment the fastest. The end of the year is fast approaching.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This article was written for the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. … Read the rest of this amazing story in the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine. Request a free copy by emailing us

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in 2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Lucky for Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, the co-founders of Lawtrades, defining the term has been a conversation that’s been in the works since 2016. When it comes to our newly distributed world of work, flexibility is a key but elusive term.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Finding and closing security gaps from an attacker’s perspective is a disruptive approach to the way organizations can proactively protect their networks. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. Time will tell on that front.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. HubHaus (2016-2020). The service had its roots in the software giant’s acquisition of Beam Interactive shortly after the startup won TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

” WaveOne was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel, who set out to take the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and make them AI-powered. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital wrote on Twitter: The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions.” of venture capital deals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. Obviously, EO had an impact on me as well,” he says.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Lowe; “2016 Partner Compensation Survey”; 2016. Continue reading… This is part of a series on disruption of investment management that I co-wrote with Katina Stefanova, CIO and CEO of Marto Capital , a multi-strategy asset manager, which creates customizable investment solutions for institutional clients.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 10, 2023

Founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Sparsh Khandelwal, Stylework has established a strong foothold in India’s flexible workspace market, partnering with over 250 coworking and managed office operator brands and having a presence in over 80 tier I, tier II, tier III, and tier IV cities.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. Jeshua Soh’s journey offers a refreshing perspective on entrepreneurship and venture capital in a world driven by innovation and disruption.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million Seed round in 2016 and a $1.54 Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. parent company of iMCI.

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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. As it turns out, its first investment in the region was Nubank, a deal that is set to pay off handsomely.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. 2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

since being founded back in 2016. ” The startup has focused on disrupting the use of legacy tools like Word and PDFs for contracts — offering a dedicated, browser-based contract builder platform, rather than merely creating a cloud-based work flow for moving files around. In total the startup has raised $31.5M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. The Brazilian finance and banking market has been ripe for disruption, as it has traditionally favored the rich. . It has raised a total of $22.85

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

MyCarrier was co-founded in 2016 by freight and freight tech veterans Bookout and Chris Scheid, who previously worked at GlobalTranz, a logistics company based in Phoenix, Arizona. And it’s absolutely needed given global supply chain disruptions and chaos.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Samsung Ventures investment follows Pison receiving support from organizations like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the National Science Foundation, and the ALS Association since the companys founding in 2016. The startup also received several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S. In a short period of time, the Bokksu team has built an authentic and purpose-driven brand. Bokksu’s subscription fee costs $49.95/month,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

That company sold to Germany’s WireCard in 2016 (with a 3 million customer base) and after three years the founders were able to strike out again. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Elevating the self-care industry Boulevard Capital is the latest in a long line of company innovations aimed at disrupting the status quo, elevating the self-care industry, and empowering business owners and professionals alike to redefine the client experience. to book more than 1 million appointments every month.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. Danielle Vaz (2016) is with Deloitte Digital as a Technical Business Analyst. Kaitlyn Sapier (2016) co-founded OrbMaps and is also with Accenture as a Digital Business Integration Analyst. It’s not all startups! What walls do we need to move?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. A lot of the very traditional industries are ready for disruption, and that’s going to challenge and change society at its core. Einride’s business is threefold. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo. It’s not my thing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Frayman has been involved with multiple startups including Cujo.ai , a consumer firewall startup that participated in TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York in 2016. And a lot of us came from organizations where this was very visible and we took a lot of those processes [and lessons] and brought them here,” Frayman said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. South Africa makes up a large bulk of it; without it, the continent is on a 1% to 2% rate even with other developed technology and financial markets like Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The startup obtained a license from Bank Indonesia (BI) in 2016 to provide financial services, including interbank transfers to more than 100 domestic banks, international remittances, e-wallet top-ups, salary transfers and business solution products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In part one of this EC-1 , we explored how von Ahn’s previous products around CAPTCHA led to Duolingo’s launch, the rise and fall of crowdsourced translation as a way to disrupt language learning, and the accidental iteration of a top education app by a pair of interns. he remembers asking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

NXgenPort, which presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, is building an implantable chemo port that features added sensors and remote connectivity functions. In 2016, she was working with a breast cancer patient and noticed that her condition had worsened from the last time Skinner saw her.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

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. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The idea for the company came to Wegelin in 2016 when he had a grill that he wanted to sell. And he estimates that between interacting with potential buyers and dealing with no-shows, each sale takes about a week to complete. We have pizza companies using lockers as do people for dropping keys for Airbnbs, as well as Amazon pick-up lockers.

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