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. The demand for CADDi’s services has seen significant acceleration. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 17, 2023

At a glance Founder: Craig Rowland Business: Sandfly Security Founded: April 2018 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business? Sandfly is able to automatically hunt for hackers and malicious activity across Linux hosts without loading disruptive software agents on endpoints. It is also a nod to our New Zealand origins.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million from Plains Venture Partners I, as well as $1,000,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $500,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund II. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. million Series A in 2018, both led by i2E, Inc., parent company of iMCI.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures. However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s Lumchain’s goal: help the global meat industry innovate and solve some of the key challenges they face, including employee shortages, the impact of inflation and high operational costs, supply chain disruptions and that meat plants are still operating the same way they did 50 years ago. She even did a TED Talk about it. Gordon said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. Lester touts the company’s success as “the first major disruptive innovation in the soda category in over 40 years since Coca-Cola launched Diet Coke in 1981.”. soft drink industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. billion in 2018. . Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., The furniture resale industry is projected to reach $16.6 billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2018, EU regulators enacted the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which created rules for third parties to access payment account data. The new and old regulatory innovations are accelerating fintech’s success. The creativity of UK entrepreneurs has and will continue to disrupt the status quo in financial services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Not only is it costly to facilitate online payments for pharmacies, but they also have their own pharmacy management systems and workflows that can be easily disrupted by moving to a new payments system. HealNow launched in 2018 after graduating from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The Series B follows a $15 million Series A back in 2018 — when the fintech product was available in a handful of European markets and the U.S., This is an exciting and rapidly growing market that is constantly evolving and accelerating following Covid. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For comparison, there were only four unicorns in the region in 2018 — and it wasn’t necessarily obvious at the time that several Latin American companies would go on to list their shares publicly, both in the U.S. ” While the pandemic played the role of an accelerant in digitalization, it also drove structural changes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The platform can move] data without disrupting user access or existing data protection mechanisms thus ensuring greater ongoing data storage and backup savings without any hassles,” Goswami said. “Since the pandemic, customers have accelerated their transformation to the cloud and are more focused on cost optimization. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see. It has of course been accelerated by COVID-19, but we had seen the early tailwinds of this step function to digital even prior to the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The Series A funding comes after its 10x year-over-year revenue growth throughout the four years since its launch in 2018. “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. . After New Zealand, Zepto wants to enter the U.S. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company that set out to create an atlas of the human immune system in 2018 had raised about $80 million by February 2021. This round, which was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Talos VC, 8VC, Alexandria Venture Investments, Piedmont, ICON, and others, brings the company’s total funding to $295 million. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes. of all U.S.-based of all U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

They built an AV that spared no room in the narrow chassis for a driver’s seat, and had no need for an accelerator, windshield or brake pedals. government in 2018 for a minor exemption from rules requiring a rearview mirror, backup camera and a windshield, Nuro might have assumed the process wouldn’t be very arduous. .”

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

billion in 2018 to under $28 billion in 2020 as Western brands wrestled with pandemic-related border restrictions. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. billion injection from venture firms last year. . ”

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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. We are thrilled to partner with Swapnil and the team to help them accelerate a paradigm shift within the contact center industry.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Incooling, which is pitching in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt , designed a custom-built server with a proprietary cooling system that it claims allows for superior thermal management, enabling the server to achieve high-efficiency standards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have to balance how they value recovery and recent profits over the company’s disrupted historical growth arc. How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. Indeed, the company is on track to match its 2018 size, if we have our math correct. How did we get here?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. The open-source project was actually started five years ago by Valentin Vasilyev, according to the project’s GitHub page. The open source community was pivotal to our success thus far,” said Vasilyev, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.” During its time developing properties, it found new ways to improve the building process, according to CEO and co-founder Amit Haller.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The API-powered platform is using technology to disrupt a market that is largely dominated by traditional insurance companies, many of which are reluctant to abandon lengthy paperwork, and traditional payment modalities for both premiums and claims. million registered motorcycles as per government date (2018). Image Credits : MotiSure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While there have been quite a few attempts to disrupt search engines, Rewind may be the first I’ve ever seen try to revamp the way we search through our online lives. According to LinkedIn, he started a foundation in 2018 to “fund and conduct scientific research in order to accelerate our path toward human mind emulation.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Employees being let go will receive “severance, healthcare, job support, and accelerated vesting of some of your options,” as well as career transition support and an alumni network for continued support, the memo mentioned. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Thrasio’s growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding. With the new funding, the enterprise AI company plans to accelerate the launch of disruptive AI products across biotech, logistics, transportation and electronics manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

I’ve been covering ICON since its $9 million seed round in October of 2018, so seeing the company reach this milestone less than three years later is kind of cool. . ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. The company declined to reveal its valuation.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 5, 2020

raised in 2018, which was itself a record. Italy will launch an accelerator program for Italian startups in Israel , to help Italian startups develop their business idea within Startup Nation’s ecosystem. Marketplace… This Startup Used Storytelling to Disrupt the $50 Billion Flower Industry , featuring The Bouqs.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. billion into construction tech in 2018. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to offer, leaving the door open for some disruption. Beamery today already offers a pretty wide range of different services.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. After taking part in Impact Hub’s Investment Ready Program in 2018, they are preparing to launch their product into the market, so perhaps you’ll be wearing bacteria-dyed textiles soon. Fashion For Good. Good On You.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018. She was recently awarded the Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship for 2018. Rowena on the European Mission in 2018 where they visited Facebook and lunched with the 3 Aussies who now work there. A quick note: My words are in italics.

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