Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. They are filled with growth spurts and setbacks.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. There aren’t going to be any flashy announcements of a big new fund to go after bigger opportunities.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Great entrepreneurs invest countless hours reinventing, reimagining and disrupting products and services of all kinds. No one likes to admit weaknesses, but just as you look for the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) in a business deal, use that same rubric on yourself. Where are your blind spots?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

So they’re looking to diversify their investments with high-potential opportunities abroad. What this tells us is that foreign investors would do well to keep a sharp eye on emerging opportunities beyond heavily covered markets like Brazil and Mexico. Only disrupt when it adds value. investors remain shy.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Youre left with: A healthy sales pipeline A well-run CRM thats got more opportunity for you to mine Better forecasting to help your team with long-range planning Across several of our retainer projects, the stats are clear on the value youll get. Its no wonder opportunities stall, and buyers refuse to budge. And yes, you can do this!

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Farmers, witnessing post-harvest loss, also get paid less and miss the opportunity to invest in their crops production. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S., Ikenna and Uzo are the perfect founders to disrupt this market in Nigeria and beyond.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Our funds at Leta have also supported startups acquired by international firms, including the sale of Bright Box HK to Zurich Insurance Group in 2017 and WeWork’s acquisition of sales and marketing platform Unomy. A mine of opportunities. For investors, this represents a massive untapped opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Colton Gardner , Joseph Woodbury and Preston Alder co-founded Neighbor.com in 2017 with the mission of giving people a more accessible and personal alternative to store their belongings. . Interestingly, before leading the round for Neighbor, Fifth Wall approached the company about business development opportunities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi was founded by CEO Yushiro Kato and CTO Aki Kobashi in November 2017.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Adtech and martech VCs see big opportunities in privacy and compliance. 3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance. 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more. 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more.

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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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Atrium (2017-2020). Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Essential (2017-2020).

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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. Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. By Murray Indick and Kate Tyler. Starting a business is incredibly hard. And for those not blessed with inherited wealth, you need money. We understand.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker. It’s not all startups!

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Blue Line: Barclays Hedge-Fund Industry; 2017 . Large hedge funds over time hit liquidity limits and start impacting market pricing when they trade, losing their ability to exploit arbitrage opportunities. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies. Green Bar: Bloomberg.

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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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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017. Healthcare in this country has been broken for a long time and is in desperate need of disruption. Are they the right group to build a big business that addresses this challenge/opportunity and wins the market? When did you start your current fund?

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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

JUNE 15, 2021

This spelled opportunity in Johnson’s mind. So in 2017, he came up with the idea of Nickson , a Dallas-based startup that fully furnishes apartments on demand. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain, leading to delivery delays for consumers. This got him thinking.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like. This round of funding reaffirms our commitment to disrupt this deeply fragmented industry while improving public health by supporting the pharmacy channel.”.

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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. million customers.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. The grant facilitates advancing innovative technology solutions, driving startups toward market disruption or creating entirely new markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. But it was a series of personal experiences that prompted CEO El Tohfa to look into the opportunities in the market. El Tohfa recounts two stories where his friends lost their fathers. “We were fascinated by the concept of it.

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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. “[The latest investment] is primarily going to be used for land-grab and expansion opportunities,” Komoni said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Anecdotally, I am not sure that TechCrunch covered a single contact center startup in the last several years that hasn’t leaned on talking about AI innovation to disrupt how it all works. In the meantime, large backers are turning up for what appears to be a large opportunity today. Observe.ai Observe.AI

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million. We are focused on offering the opportunity to invest and grow their money to everyone in LATAM.”. Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I’ve always found the concept of total addressable market (TAM) hard to embrace fully — the arrival of a single disruptive company could change an industry’s TAM in a week. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room. on Sunday, Dec.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Founded by Melanie Stricklan, David Godwin, and Thomas Ashman in 2017 and based in Austin and El Segundo, it’s raised $34.6 The opportunities are endless in space but we must unlock a digital revolution to optimize spaceflight operations and orbital asset management,” Stricklan said in the company’s press release.

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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. million at today’s rates, but $60 million at the time of the deal closing) in a Series B round of funding.

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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. They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed. billion fish deficit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. We are excited by this opportunity to partner with Google and expect to reevaluate our investment options sometime in the first half of next year.”

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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

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. “The opportunity in front of the company is massive. ” Going up against incumbents.

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