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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. 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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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. In the Innovator’s Solution , Christensen proposes the idea of competing against non-consumption. Viewing the SaaS world through this lens, disruption means enabling users to do things for the first time.

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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. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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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. Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. “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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S. Bokksu’s subscription fee costs $49.95/month,

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

The companys latest breakthrough in AI-powered neural sensing marks a significant leap forward in wearable technology and healthcare innovation. The startup also received several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the U.S.

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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns. Lowe; “2016 Partner Compensation Survey”; 2016. For example, an individual allocator is often motivated to allocate to the most popular fund or type of investment in which her peers are investing, to protect from career risk.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

NPI simplifies access to USAID resources and makes it easier for partners to bring forward their ideas and innovation. Additionally, many of the breakthrough innovations that we need in global development have been spearheaded by for-profit entities, including those located in low- and middle-income countries.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. . This new funding is a testament to our team’s commitment and persistence.

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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. From Angry Birds to an amusing and sometimes scowling owl.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2022

Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative. The speaker tech is interesting, but what really piqued my interest was how a small rag-tag bunch of innovators from the Netherlands is planning to shake things up. And every year, it falls flat.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Ritu Narayan founded Z?m

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori, in a statement, said it has helped thousands of shippers and carriers move over $10 billion worth of cargo across the continent since launching in 2016. There is so much potential in the region, but it’s only through innovation that this can be fully unlocked,” commented Gajria on Google’s participation.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally. K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

“Through PrimaryBid’s innovative offering, retail investors have been able to access capital raisings on the same terms as institutional investors, supporting the U.K.’s Just as Covid-19 disrupted other aspects of our life, the early months of the pandemic saw a major freeze descend on the world of trading.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The company was founded by Marc Hostovsky and Shobhit Khandelwal, who worked together at Jet.com before the e-commerce marketplace was acquired by Walmart in 2016. We are building our entire tech org in India, so it’s not a back office but our front office from a technology and innovation perspective.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. These two companies, alongside dozens of other startups, are leading the way in reusable rockets and space innovation. Investors funneled $15.4

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed exponentially since the monumental showdown between Alpha Go and Lee Se-dol in 2016. Enter Alchera: A tech-driven company spearheading innovation by weaving its proprietary AI technology into multiple sectors. Can you shed light on your global strategy?

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Every year, we put together this list of top private companies, and we are blown away by the level of innovation, growth, and impact they are making on the SMB economy. Congratulations to all on making this year’s list.” Placement on the 2023 SMBTech 50 is the latest in a string of accolades Boulevard has garnered in recent months.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chikazawa and co-founder Sam Yamashita started Autify in 2016 in San Francisco to develop software testing automation, enabling software developers to expedite the delivery of quality software to their customers in a rapidly changing marketplace. The latest funding brings Autify’s total raised to $12.2 million, Chikazawa said.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. When Fashion For Good set out to create a platform for innovation, they collaborated with Impact Hub Amsterdam to set up their space. Tommy Hilfiger Social Innovation Challenge. Fashion For Good.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Startups will have five minutes to pitch their companies, business models and innovative ideas — followed by a Q&A with our superb panel of judges. The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. What major trends do you expect to see in technology innovation over the next 5 years that excites you?

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

welcomes powerful women of color to hold monthly conversations on topics like innovation, networking and self-care. After graduating from the program, participants become a partner in the “Innovation Network”, a network of social impact partners that seek to drive forward change within their communities and organizations.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Businesses are transforming their ways of working to keep pace with disruption. Founded in 2016, theDesk offers flexible and productive workspaces with a focus on building inclusive and collaborative communities that enable meaningful business connections.

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