TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Following a Covid-driven boost, the popular AllTrails resource for hikers, bikers, climbers, and anyone else who enjoys the outdoors, announced today it’s raised $150 million from the growth fund of global private equity firm Permira to further accelerate its business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Vic Patil thinks the solution lies in a “mesh” — specifically what he calls a “supply mesh,” inspired by the way wireless mesh networks function. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017. ” Building a supply chain backbone. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. . As an entrepreneur and angel investor, I’ve built a network that spans dozens of countries. Join an international accelerator or entrepreneur group. Leave Canada for a little while (and find other Canadians).

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur. Who we took.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Massive data growth has collided with legacy compute and storage shortcomings, creating slowdowns in computing, storage bottlenecks and diminishing networking efficiency,” Beitler told TechCrunch in an email interview. ” Accelerating data processing. Nvidia sells the BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU). The road ahead.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way. Farmers Business Network just raked in a whopping $110 million in Series D funding.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. The short story now is that I believe we as a society and economy are not only underestimating the rate of acceleration in climate change, we are doing the same with respect to the severity and intensity of global trade wars. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is driven by relationships and many investments are sourced via personal referrals, usually through one’s direct networks. Investors’ networks tend to mirror themselves. So, if your own network lacks diversity and you rely on your network for deal flow, how can you expect to see startups led by diverse founders?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

By hosting the IES, EO aims to create momentum among leading entrepreneurs from around the world and incite connections with key stakeholders from the broader UN SDGs ecosystem—forming a network of connections that will empower business leaders to contribute in solving pressing global challenges.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. At the time of our initial investment, the company was already on its way with a network of more than 125 million players and hit titles, including “The Walking Dead: Road to Survival,” “Wheel of Fortune,” and “WWE Champions.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Startup302 strengthens Delawares innovation ecosystem by providing this access to entrepreneurs seeking financial and networking boosts for their businesses. This years competitors will be chosen from applicants who enter by the January 26 deadline. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Launched in 2017, Fuse connects insurance companies with multiple distribution channels and partners to make insurance services accessible and affordable through its technology. The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation in the insurance industry, one of the most conservative sectors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

New York Private Equity Network. VCPlatform – for portfolio acceleration professionals. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs. International Climate Finance Accelerator – based in Luxembourg. Draper Venture Network. National Venture Capital Association. Gen Z Mafia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Solivan brings her keen insight as an early-stage investor who has invested in and helped many early-stage companies spanning consumer tech, marketplaces, hardware and retail — but also her eight years of experience leading TaskRabbit, the startup she founded and led to a successful exit when it was acquired by IKEA in 2017.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated the situation. In their Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017 , they found that, “Early-stage startups are highly dependent on their surrounding startup ecosystem, and so if we can create healthier startup ecosystems, we can generate more successful startups.”. Economies are hurting.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Founded in 2017 by Dr. Aneesh Sathe and Dr. Kaveh Taghipour, Qritive today has presence in Singapore, USA, and India. Qritive’s technology helps accelerate cancer diagnosis across multiple cancer types including colon, prostate, lymph node, breast and includes a robust set of tools for immunohistochemistry.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Any number of things can cause this server to break — a power failure, a network failure, a bad configuration change, too much traffic arriving at once, and so on. ” So you have additional servers in other physically-separate data centers that draw power and network connectivity from different vendors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator. The collective wants to use the crypto-native DAO formation to better incentivize its growing network to source deals. Y Combinator is not formally involved in the project, the accelerator tells us. A crypto collective backing web3 startups is seeking new members.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

The challenge was the driving force behind Ordr, a startup focused on network-level device security. Pandian Gnanaprakasam and Sheausong Yang — who between them had tenures at Cisco, Aruba Networks, and AT&T Bell Labs — co-founded Ordr in 2015 to address what they call the “visibility gap” in enterprise networks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Stephanie Strong, the company has a mission to address national overdose rates, particularly with opioid and alcohol use disorders. Analysis from the White House in 2017 shows the cost of the opioid epidemic was over half a billion dollars. Stephanie Strong, CEO of Boulder Care.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vienna, 10 November 2021 – As the Impact Hub Network continues to accelerate the transition to a more just and sustainable future, we are excited to announce an update on our leadership team. This network is a community full of talent, drive and a genuine commitment to radically transform the way we do business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

“Joining together with AMD will help accelerate growth in our core business and enable us to pursue a much larger customer base across more markets,” he said. Pensando CEO and co-founder Prem Jain framed the deal in terms of being able to grow faster inside the larger organization than it could on its own.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Well, a report released today by data research organization Briter Bridges and global inclusive tech accelerator Catalyst Fund is punching above its weight to offer a holistic representation to the darling sector of these three markets: fintech. Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Such a task is Herculean.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. Back in 2017, Fred Wilson noted the strategic importance of the seed stage , writing: Seed is really hard. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

TTTech Auto — which came out of TTTech Group, a provider of safe networked computing platforms across automotive, aerospace, mobile machinery and automation industries — announced on Thursday its $285 million Series C raise, led by Aptiv and supported by existing investor Audi.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. Its last funding announcement was a $25 million Series A in October 2017. COVID-19 pandemic accelerated shift to e-commerce by 5 years, new report says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The financing brings the Bogota, Colombia-based startup’s total raised to $85 million since its 2017 inception. The pandemic accelerated the adoption of online grocery shopping in LatAm,” McAllister told TechCrunch. Dark stores are traditional retail stores that have been converted to local fulfillment centers.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto. But having 20 to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community. And web3 is all about the community.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In healthcare, because HCF can accommodate the size and volume of large data sets, it could help accelerate medical image retrieval, facilitating providers’ ability to ingest, persist and share medical imaging data in the cloud. ” An illustration of Lumenisity’s cable design. Image Credits: Lumenisity. million (~$15.35

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. It will be added to a growing body of research that’s rapidly influencing micromobility technology and accelerating its adoption around the world. Looking forward.

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HPA

JULY 18, 2019

The first Michigan unicorn in recent history was Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity startup Duo Security , which claimed the status in 2017. Founded in 2017, May Mobility closed a $22 million Series A round in February of this year. Acquired by Cisco last year for $2.35

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