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. peers and over 40% less than U.K. A mine of opportunities. Europe, United States and farther afield.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Hilda Moraa , Pezesha has built a scalable digital lending infrastructure that allows both traditional and non-traditional finance institutions to offer working capital to MSMEs. The opportunity and impact in solving working capital problems for SMEs is huge. [We

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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. . Xu and Cutler will join former Uber CEO Ryan Graves as investors and advisors to the Lehi, Utah-based startup. Image Credits: Neighbor.

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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. We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. 1) Your school. 1) Your school. school of engineering).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Traditional banks often overlook this segment because of their spending power or financial status and fintechs have seized the opportunity to cater to their needs. In 2017, Mounir Nakhla and Ahmed Mohsen started Halan as a ride-hailing and delivery app offering two and three-wheeler services to customers in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. million pre-seed to that end.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2017

When Hana Laurenzo launched her translation business in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2007, she did what every smart small business owner does—joined local professional organizations, like the chamber of commerce, and generally sought opportunities to mingle with like-minded professionals. She relished the accountability of her peers and advisors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s no secret that the technology for easy business-to-business payments has not yet caught up to its peer-to-peer counterparts, but Yaydoo thinks it has the answer. Sergio Almaguer, Guillermo Treviño and Roberto Flores founded Yaydoo — the name combines “yay” and “do” to show the happiness of doing something — in 2017.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. per month. Website: [link].

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , we support the positive trend of empowering women in entrepreneurship. Specific groups including MyEO Women of EO encourage support as individuals pursue their unique entrepreneurial journeys. The entrepreneurial path is wrought with exhilarating highs offset by sometimes demoralizing lows.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For example, we avoided the peer-to-peer direct lending craze during 2017. When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. Lawless raised $10 million and $20 million for Conversion Capital’s first and second funds, respectively.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers. Like LinkedIn, the app also invites users who aren’t necessarily on the cusp of changing jobs to expand their network by connecting to their pharmacy peers. Certainly, SwipeRx — which raised $6.3 Image Credits: SwipeRx.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Launched in 2017, Station F is a massive building that used to be a rail freight depot. Finally, the program is based on peer-to-peer feedback. But the most powerful peer-to-peer component is that you have to give feedback to people when you’re going through the program. That’s why Station F is launching Launch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

In June 2017, you won Visa’s Everywhere Initiative. My GSEA experience provided the opportunity to refine my pitch and really understand what problems and cultural challenges people face when exploring cities. Tailoring our pitch to specific judges and peers in each competition helped improve our chances for success.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Opportunity is everywhere, but it does not make its way to everyone. Ecosystem building work is often thankless, tiring, and even demoralizing at times. How do ecosystem builders stay motivated to keep doing the work? What specific practices do ecosystem builders use for self-care, to keep going, and avoid burning out? Doing both centers me.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

to “scale given the market opportunity.” to “scale given the market opportunity.” The cloud is growing expensive. A separate report from Gartner forecasts that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow to total $591.8 billion in 2023, up from $490.3 billion in 2022. ” “H.I.G.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company uses Equal Employment Opportunity reports and assessments of various policies involving promotion, recruitment, and benefits to track how a company is performing in relation to its industry peers. For Price, the drive to launch Kanarys came from her own experiences working in law.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Here goes….

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 12, 2022

Then, with the launch of Ethereum and its smart contract capabilities, the fresh crypto market underwent rapid changes, unlocking multiple new investment opportunities. Between 2017 and 2021, the crypto market registered meteoric growth, pushing its aggregate market capitalization past the $2 trillion mark.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Some notable Islamic fintech companies include peer-to-peer lending platform and digital bank Hijra (formerly known as Alami), online bank Bank Aladin , LinkAja , which is backed by Telkomsel and Bank Mandri, the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of asset loans and deposits. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

How can we make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to groups that are systematically deprived of representation? Larissa de Moura, a Brazilian social innovator based in Spain, has experienced first-hand the challenges of being a young, migrant entrepreneur and developing her startup on her own, in an unknown country.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Especially when that — albeit with slightly smaller numbers — was also the story back in 2017. This is the slide-deck equivalent of a standup comedian standing on a stage, peering into the spotlights, muttering ‘pharmacies, amirite?’ An online pharmacy that raised yet another round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Abu Seif and Davis met each other in an Egyptian jazz club in November 2017, about a week after he had quit his job. What they found was that professional development podcasts were much more popular compared to other topics, and so they had an opportunity to re-jigger the product to focus on training and specifically target enterprises.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unlike most of his young investing peers, Gwak quickly decided to join the U.S. Unlike most of his young investing peers, Gwak quickly decided to join the U.S. After high school, he headed to Cornell in the U.S., and became an associate at The Carlyle Group. Everything was moving up and to the right, so to speak.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Blue Line: Barclays Hedge-Fund Industry; 2017 . “ One summer day, probably in the 1870s, friends of a major short-seller got together on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, where they admired the enormous yachts of New York’s richest brokers. If investors complained about Wall Street 80 years ago, they’re howling now.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

and opportunities for impact focused start-ups in the current ecosystem, at the Resurgence TiEcon. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. Delhi-NCR event.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 2) Market .

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

Spawning the new micro-angel, equity crowdfunding has witnessed the number of investors participating in successful offerings increase from 77,558 in 2017 to 147,448 in 2018 ( CFCA ). By: Amy Duncan, Fund Manager - San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC) III The number of accredited angel investors in the U.S.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a consumer-focused financial platform—that is also now the primary bank account for millions of UK consumers—in the midst of a once in a century pandemic is close to impossible. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

This is one of the insights that Laura Behrens Wu drew out of Mittal during a FundersClub Facebook Live discussion on March 30, 2017. Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

These GPs believe strongly that automating data gathering, sifting through and selecting investment opportunities, managing relationships and streamlining follow-on funding and exit processes, gives them a competitive advantage over their peers. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming , no industry is impervious. On top of that, there is no geographical factor at play, with companies spanning North America , Europe , Asia , Africa and beyond all impacted. capital in recent months. capital in recent months.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2018

JS/ I’ve been an EO member for years and was honored to be invited to participate in the Global Leadership Academy in November 2017, a five-day immersive program in Washington, D.C. But, he assured me it wasn’t an issue because the organization is about peer-to-peer learning, so orientation or identity wouldn’t be a factor.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" I will not, however, tolerate hate in anyone's direction. Ducks head.] Ok, let's dive in.

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