Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2017

When Hana Laurenzo launched her translation business in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2007, she did what every smart small business owner does—joined local professional organizations, like the chamber of commerce, and generally sought opportunities to mingle with like-minded professionals. So, Hana waited. From my first day of learning, I was amazed.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Otherwise called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the legislation modifies a series of laws that enable startups to seek funds using methods that have been illegal since FDR's Securities Act of 1933.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Apple saw this potential and took the opportunity to add it to their technology portfolio.” ” 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. So what might Apple want with an AI-powered video codec?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In May 2016, 89% of healthcare organizations included in a study by the Ponemon Institute had experienced at least one data breach over the prior 24 month period. Health systems and hospitals face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges. And, The U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. This is an enormous missed opportunity with dire consequences.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The exuberant acquisition environment should enable some early-stage companies to menace their incumbents and take share, as those behemoths are distracted by M&A. Many of the most of apparent and immediate opportunities in the software market have been filled by now SaaS incumbents. And investors are excited to support them.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

The company’s innovation creates the opportunity for reduced core losses, improved efficiency, and an overall reduction in size. Launched in the summer of 2016 as a subscription cloud-based teacher platform, it offers easy to use curriculum, materials, and training. www.horizontechnology.biz. www.magnitudeinstruments.com.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 8, 2016

The results have enabled me to crowd-source best practices in life. Alignment enables us to sync competing tasks or relationships and re-purpose them toward the pursuit of our overarching goal. After all, entrepreneurship is about pursuing the future opportunities we believe to be most valuable. Jack Crawford, Jr.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Since its founding in 2016, the company has raised $200 million in investment capital. “Automated inspection of vehicles enabled by advanced computer vision and AI is in its first innings, but will completely transform the auto industry,” Lior Prosor, partner at Hanaco VC, noted in a prepared statement. Ventures L.P.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Hiine, who co-founded the startup with Hans Osnabrugge and Jorne Schamp in 2016, hopes to tap the payment platform to enable more people across the continent to make international calls through its app. The company said its internet calling app has connected 2.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Since its $30 million Series B in 2016 , Clarifai has been rolling out new capabilities and products targeting a company’s unstructured image, video, text and audio data files. We saw an opportunity and raised the round.”. That opportunity included having the right team in place to execute enterprise sales, he added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Hisham Elhaddad, Onsi Sawiris and Fady Yacoub co-founded the venture capital firm in 2016 after emigrating to the U.S. They saw Silicon Valley as a “tight-knit circle of insiders that continually got access to the best opportunities,” and wanted to build a firm that could essentially get in the trenches with its portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. “The capital we raised allows us to capture the market opportunity as it evolves over the next several years,” Bijapur, who serves as CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. The trio met at a Diwali party in New York and moved back to India in 2016.)

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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. Pinduoduo’s team purchase is often compared to Groupon in the US because they both enable a form of group buying. But first, a bit of background. But the models are actually very different.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 9, 2019

But state funding shortfalls are starting to curtail the partners’ ability to fund companies appropriately, creating missed opportunities. billion between 2012 and 2016. It’s imperative to secure new opportunities that continue to nourish and grow our regional economies. in additional state taxes, the analysis found.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

million in total funding since the company was founded in 2016, founder Obi Omile Jr. The app also enables barbers, perhaps for the first time, to have a list of clients and keep notes and photos of hair styles, as well as track visits and spending. The latest funding gives theCut $5.35 told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We That could be new crops that enable customers to earn more money,” said Pollak, who co-founded Apollo with Benjamin Njenga and Earl St Sauver.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The latest funding gives the company roughly $21 million in total funding raised to date, which includes a $3 million seed round in 2016 and $8 million in Series A funding from 2019. However, due to COVID shining a light on how people perceive healthcare and became more comfortable with remote care, they saw an opportunity to continue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

CinetPay was founded by Idriss Monthe and Daniel Dindji in 2016 after CEO Monthe experienced issues collecting payments at his previous startup, CinetCore, a site specializing in the sale of online domain names. CinetPay is their first investment in the Francophone region. And between 10 and 20% of people have a bank account and credit cards.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White and Shawn Mendes are the new backers, who came in through a strategic round of funding alongside PLUS Capital to bring the Seattle-based company’s total funding to $60 million since the company’s inception in 2016. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

The funding comes just a few months after Bucketplace acquired Singapore-based online furniture platform HipVan , and Lee said that the company will continue to seek acquisition opportunities and strategic partnerships both in Korea and overseas markets. Image Credits: OHouse app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The London-based startup was actually founded back in 2015, launching the first version of its product in 2016 — so years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and triggered a temporary shuttering of physical offices everywhere, followed by a slow and (still) partial reopening. 15% in the EU; 15% in APAC and 10% elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 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. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. CEO Damilola Olokesusi founded Shuttlers in 2016 to address the issue of inefficient transportation costs in Nigeria’s most renowned urban city, Lagos. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6 Image Credits: Shuttlers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The fresh capital will enable Nreal to accelerate its global expansion and double down on the company’s consumer business in the U.S., As such, having Gentle Monster as our investor will open up interesting opportunities not just for Nreal, but also for the wider AR industry as a whole.”. the company said.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. The pitch takes 90 seconds and participants have the opportunity to win prizes totaling $10,000.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

But former Google AI tech leader Tomas Vykruta is taking a different tack with EvolutionIQ , which works with insurers to analyze claimant data and third-party information to identify “high-opportunity” claims — specifically those involving bodily injury. ” Market opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2016, he started Seattle-based Zuper , a provider of productivity tools for intelligent field service management and customer engagement. trillion opportunity to inject some technology into this industry. We see significant opportunities for Zuper to continue delivering tangible ROI for its customers.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After practicing securities law at Shearman & Sterling in New York City and White & Case in Hong Kong, Sangha founded Intelligize, a regulatory filings research platform that was acquired by LexisNexis in 2016. The size of the segment isn’t terribly surprising considering the opportunity it presents.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2023

As per calculations, this latest funding brings the Chinese tech giant’s total investment in Lazada to nearly US$6 billion since it acquired a controlling stake in the company in 2016, with a major US$1 billion investment then.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. And that presented an opportunity for companies like Skit.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One of the fastest-growing private companies links its’ success to furthering social causes In 2016 when David Berkal, CEO of Banyan Software, founded his company he envisioned it to be an alternative for fellow entrepreneurs when deciding upon their companies’ futures. based Merit America. says Berkal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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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. The San Francisco-based company previously raised $18 million in a Series B round in March.

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