TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. In today’s Web 2.0,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In contrast to her future success in finance, Kelly Peeler’s early start as an entrepreneur began with flipping refurbished furniture at the age of 11. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S., Even after graduating from Y Combinator’s summer batch that year, Releaf toyed around with ideas around trade finance and a marketplace for buyers and sellers of agricultural products. Then the $1.5

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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. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Fifth Wall led the financing, which notably also included participation from returning backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and new investors DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and StockX CEO Scott Cutler. Neighbor , which operates a self-storage marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $53 million in a Series B round of funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Investors in Mycel’s latest financing round include Korea Development Bank, Industrial Bank of Korea, Hyundai Motor’s Zero 1 Fund , also known as ZER0 1NE 2 Fund, Stone Bridge, We Ventures and Spring Camp. billion valuation in September 2021. Ecovative Design also closed $60 million in March 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. Its latest financing was an up round, but Jurist-Rosner said that was not something the company was focused on.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Hunger since 2017. 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. Stepping up during the pandemic, the Foundation supported the Global Food Banking Network’s COVID-19 relief efforts across Central and South America.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Turtlemint, an Indian startup that is helping consumers identify and purchase the most appropriate insurance policies for them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to reach more users in small cities and towns in the world’s second largest internet market. A range of startups in India are trying to disrupt this market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Today, he claims, SwipeRx has transformed and digitized the pharmacy industry and become a one-stop platform for pharmacists to perform all their daily tasks, from education to purchasing to inventory financing in Southeast Asia. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. 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.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. However, if you want to increase the chance that you will successfully close a round in late 2017, try the following 10 step approach: Prepare a concise investor deck that tells the story of your business in bite-size chunks.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Mumbai-headquartered startup has raised $150 million in its Series D financing round from Prosus Ventures and Warburg Pincus. MyGlamm was valued at $300 million in July, when it extended and closed its Series C financing round. billion post-money. billion post-money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Hufnagel started the Atlanta-based company in 2017 after a career as a college basketball coach for University of Nevada, Reno. The company previously raised funding two years ago, but the driver for this new financing was simple: growth. We want to be a disruptive player in a large category and want to put fuel on the fire.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Since 2012, he’s served as CEO, moving the company’s headquarters from Marseille to New York in 2017. Its financing reflects this — the company today announced that it closed a $600 million Series F round at a $5.6 billion valuation, exactly double Contentsquare’s valuation as of last May ($2.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. In 2017, SafeBoda officially started operations in Kampala and almost immediately began to deal with the threat posed by new entrants at the time: uberBODA and Bolt boda.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And today, San Francisco-based Honor has announced that it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing, bringing its valuation to over $1.25 Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

He added that the total cumulative value of NPP payment since its launch in November 2017 was about 2.6 “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. ” .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. At some point, the pair worked on a microfinance product in 2017 and came across insurance as a concept for the first time. ” Before starting Amenli, El Tohfa and Nauman were part of the founding team at Egyptian fintech Paymob.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. The company declined to reveal its valuation. and around the globe.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. The California legislature changed laws in 2017 to make it easier to build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs).

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Swvl was founded by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Sabbah in 2017. On why Queen’s Gambit picked Swvl for this deal, Victoria Grace, founder and CEO, said in a statement that the company fit the profile of what she was looking for: “a disruptive platform that solves complex challenges and empowers underserved populations.”

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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. It takes a different approach to doing this, not using low-code but smart contracts, which could be one reason why the VC doesn’t see the investments as conflict of interest.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 13, 2023

These seed companies raised enough capital to persist longer than normal and/or weaker companies in hot verticals received follow-on financings that wouldn’t normally be granted to them in a tougher environment. Startups Past: the boom of the last decade kicked forward and delayed a bunch of closures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 12, 2022

Between 2017 and 2021, the crypto market registered meteoric growth, pushing its aggregate market capitalization past the $2 trillion mark. Primarily it’s due to the immense return generating potential offered by the ever-evolving decentralized finance (DeFi) segment. 2022 is no different! 2022 is no different! Too complicated?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The International Monetary Fund says that as of 2017, only 43% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa were “banked” by way of a traditional bank or mobile money account. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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