Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena noticed the large-scale unemployment throughout Dominica, and her concerns were confirmed by the Central Development Bank in 2017 when Dominica was listed as one of the Caribbean countries with the highest unemployment rates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prior to founding AppMap, she founded DevOps security startup Conjur, which was acquired by CyberArk in 2017, and served as chief data officer for Generation Health, later acquired by CVS. We don’t believe you should be charged for self-awareness in programming,” Lawler said. “If

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

December 20, 2024 ) Applications for Delawares fifth annual Startup302 funding competition will be accepted January 2 through 26 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

based startup developing “hollow core fiber (HCF)” technologies primarily for data centers and ISPs. Lumenisity was founded in 2017 as a spinoff from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton to commercialize research in HCF. Microsoft today announced that it acquired Lumenisity, a U.K.-based

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S. We are pleased to back this jointly developed vision with capital and knowledge.“. and the U.K., million.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

million Series A round back in 2017, but it also raised $20 million in Series B funding in 2019. This means companies have to use mobile to stay competitive, but how they are developing mobile is getting more complex.”. Developers are busy running processes so they can’t concentrate fully on creating new value for customers, he added.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. Core to our investment thesis was Scopely’s platform approach to IP partnership and game development, its exceptional ability to drive monetization among users, and the team’s dedication to becoming the preeminent free-to-play mobile gaming publisher.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Over the next five months, the disruptive startup companies will participate in an in-house accelerator program designed to help them develop and scale their technology further. These technology-enabled startups are in the seed to Series A funding round stage, tackling a wide range of global challenges and needing access to resources.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Since 2017, Seongnam City has made substantial efforts to bring UAM technology into the mainstream, with Pangyo Techno Valley at its heart. Chosen companies receive support, including a 40-80% rent subsidy, public laboratories, indoor drone testing grounds, and meeting rooms, enabling them to concentrate on technological advancement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Potomac, MD, the company set out to transform the process of getting homes move-in-ready with a streamlined approach to better automate home improvement. Accessible and automated home improvement enables every real estate agent and contractor to grow their business?—?and

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Over time, as more output options came along beyond the website, headless content management systems developed to make it easier to generate content for multiple formats from a single source. The content gets pushed through the GraphQL API and the developer can define any output such as mobile, watch or laptop.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Prior to the Series A round, Niio had raised $8 million, initially from strategic angels, followed by a seed round from institutions in 2017. By providing Niio’s tools to a global community of 6,000 galleries, institutions and artists, Niio’s platform and blockchain enables artists to distribute, manage, monetize and preserve their work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

The autonomous vehicle startup Aurora Innovation said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with Volvo to jointly develop autonomous semi trucks for North America. The announcement comes fresh on the heels of the startup’s recent acquisition of Uber’s self-driving subsidiary and a separate deal with Toyota to develop self-driving minivans.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. Uizard started as a machine learning research project back in 2017. Welcome, Uizard.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio. million to bring its total funding since 2017 to $20 million. Prior to the Series A round, the company raised $2.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

By 2017, the majority of employees reported significant improvements in how they were treated, a stark contrast from their response in 2015. Lastly, Nathan supported Bob and Mike on their journey to becoming conscious leaders, as they realized that it was essential to create a culture that enabled employees to follow their own dreams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Kansas City, Missouri startup has closed a round of $24 million, a Series A that it will be using to continue developing its technology and to extend into a wider range of enterprise verticals. So he moved over from there into corporate development. (In

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

Building Better Security Into Medical Devices 67% of the medical device manufacturers who participated in a May 2017 study believed that hackers would attack at least one device they had built in the next 12 months. And, in this article, you’ll get a look at the important work that they’re doing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Conversational commerce, a term coined by former Uber employee Chris Messina in 2015 , enables online businesses to sell their products and services through messaging and chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Image Credits: Zeals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

No-code platforms have developed into a hot market , and Stacker , a London-based no-code platform is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. The company has a big vision to be the software development tool for business units.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The company was founded in 2017 by Jay V and Frank Wang in San Francisco, and they were part of Y Combinator’s 2021 winter batch. Serverless Stack’s technology enables engineers to more easily build full-stack serverless apps. “That’s why we want the community to drive the roadmap,” V told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

CEO Mark Rojas, whose background is in product development, founded Proper in 2017 after spending a year-and-a-half learning the ropes in a property manager’s office. Proper’s tech-enabled service is designed to execute those specific real estate accounting-related processes and apply automation to those that are repetitive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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HPA

MAY 5, 2023

Bloomfilter is a process intelligence platform for software development , designed to measure and improve the software development lifecycle. The platform helps organizations develop a shared understanding of what the product team is building, when it will be delivered, and how much it costs. “We The funding included $5.5M

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Frontline Industrial Software, co-founded by Luis Martinez and Ruiqi Ding, has developed advanced construction planning simulation and optimization software. This platform enables construction companies, operators, and contractors to identify the most effective construction plans by leveraging proprietary optimization algorithms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Introduced as a concept by Uber in 2017, feature stores provide a unified place to build and share features across different teams in an organization. Feature stores promise to enhance collaboration between teams while streamlining the development of AI systems. They serve as the interface between data and [AI] models.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. billion Indians, over 90% of the population.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Senti Biosciences , a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer. But it wasn’t a fully developed platform. .

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