TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, builds dolls that include programmable computers that girls can code through an app. Kosoy originally coming up with the idea for the dolls in 2017 while she was working at MIT in an AI lab that was mostly made up of men.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. . Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Our vision is to become the platform that enables any company to embed financial services within their products. He says they looked at various fintech verticals in 2017, but decided to go for an across-the-board API approach. In a statement, Nawaz said: “Embedded finance is no longer the exclusive privilege of large technology firms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. In 2017, Bird and the former CEO of Q1 Labs founded a new cybersecurity company, this one focused on public clouds, called Sonrai Security , which has since raised nearly $40 million in venture capital. More posts by this contributor.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Hunger since 2017. Citi and Citi Foundation have a solid track record of supporting communities around the world. Since 2014 their funding supported No Kid Hungry providing 300 million meals for kids facing hunger and Citi volunteers have packed over 1.7 million meals on behalf of U.S.

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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.” In recent years, a number of tech-enabled home builders have emerged to help address the nation’s housing shortage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

SwipeRX’s community-driven commerce model enables small pharmacies in particular to benefit from the power of that broad network by accessing the best prices and better ensuring that medicines are available to them and their patients, he said. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017, according to rating agency ICRA. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017. A range of startups in India are trying to disrupt this market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The pivot to using technology in 2013 allowed Tugende to move fully to digital payments, build its own interoperable payment gateway in 2017 and launch an in-house credit score in 2019 to allow clients to see how they are performing. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking. Chari (Morocco). Mecho Autotech (Nigeria).

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Adam Hibble (2015) co-founded Popgun with Stephen Mawson (formerly of We Are Hunted) under Mawson Ventures where Meg White (2017) works as an AI engineer as she finishes her studies. Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker.

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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. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company. billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Sturzenegger and her team launched Amara’s first products in Whole Foods in 2017 after three years of working on the technology. The funding will enable Amara to grow fast to meet the demand as it invests in hiring, product development and brand awareness. Existing investors from the seed round also participated, including Pharmapacks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” It’s not uncommon for caregivers to feel overwhelmed as they navigate the administrative and logistical complexities of caring for a parent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Swvl was founded by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Sabbah in 2017. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. The deal will see Swvl valued at roughly $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“When we launched FintechOS in 2017, we could already see existing solutions to digital transformation would struggle to deliver tangible results. This is “low code,” but it typically means that the company needs to work with third parties to enable all of this.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children. The new financing gives Little Spoon $73 million in total funding since it was founded in 2017 by Lisa Barnett, Ben Lewis, Michelle Muller and Angela Vranich.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. In 2017, the CEO of Zomato, Deepinder Goyal, told Economics times that his mentor and founder of Info Edge, Sanjeev Bikchandani, has given him the hunger to learn from his mistakes. Adaptable to Changing Environment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Gauthier Van Malderen and Matthew Davis founded the company in 2017, when, as newly minted university grads, they were inspired to build a platform to address what they felt was an acute financial issue for students: the very high cost of textbooks. Image Credits: Perlego (opens in a new window). Perlego claims that in 2021, it intercepted 2.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Koch Disruptive Technologies led the tranche, with participation from SK Hynix and Walden International’s Lip-Bu Tan, bringing Pliops’ total capital raised to date to more than $200 million. “In short, Pliops enables getting more out of existing infrastructure investments.” ” Accelerating data processing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. Eventually, we can enable them to build their own investment products on Titan.” “But we realized they did not have the same access to investing that the wealthier did.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The company has raised £175 million ($230 million at today’s conversion rates), from a single investor, the PE firm Apax Partners. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The capital will be used to build Delegate Connect’s teams in Melbourne, London and Norway, which enable it to handle events around the world, increasing headcount from 45 to more than 100 by December. It also plans to open a United States-based office soon.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This simple decision enabled Monzo to quickly launch spend categories, round up transactions, pots (sub accounts), trends (where you can see all your accounts in one place), and other first-of-its-kind features. 2) Tone of voice guide: In 2017, Monzo published a Tone of Voice guide to maintain its clear, concise, positive voice as it scaled.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape. Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. We had a rather long Big Tech section for you yesterday, so enjoy these five shorter snippets: Make amends : Amnesty International’s new report is calling for Meta to pay reparations for Facebook’s role in promoting content that led to the Rohingya genocide in 2017, Natasha L reports.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros. Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When Honor launched in 2015, it was soon after named a “best startup of the year” at Disrupt amid a time where “no one” had been applying technology to help older adults, Sternberg said. In 2017, Honor started selling its operating system to other home health care agencies — which state they are “powered by Honor.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries. As a result, client decision making is more proactive, enabling them to deal with a constantly changing environment. Both attended Harvard University.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

“Company disrupted an existing industry with a new business model, has been doing well for a while, and is now raising more money to do more of the same, except more” is hard to tell a compelling story around. Especially when that — albeit with slightly smaller numbers — was also the story back in 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The company was among TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 startups at TC Disrupt in October, and TechCrunch interviewed Pulse co-founder and CEO Raj Singh at the event for a potential future startup profile piece. “Finding ways to use AI and machine learning to simplify tasks for users is our passion.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In 2017, after working for 1.5 There are no toolkits, no (strict) design guidelines, no single way of doing the job, and no bureaucracy… enabling decision-making simple. years in India’s top service-based org- Infosys, I had realized that I wanted to do something different with my career. I love this aspect the most.

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