TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. It also has what it describes as a “suite of features” focusing on collaboration and quick sharing. That’s up from 1,000 last year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

So in 2018, Ko left Opendoor to set about solving the problem she was tired of dealing with by creating file storage for modern design workflows and processes. Or put more simply, she wanted to build a new kind of cloud storage that would serve as an alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive “built by, and for, creatives.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Epic Games has its own Unreal Engine marketplace , but Sketchfab has been working on building the definitive 3D marketplace for many years with three important pillars — technology, reach and collaboration. In 2018, the company shared some metrics — 1 billion views, 2 million members and 3 million 3D models.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. I don’t take anything away from the amazing team that built our existing processes and systems but having a respected leader from the outside helps bring in new perspectives.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

Finding a mentor and finding the right business partner, Ricardo Clavijo (2018 YLAI Fellow!) We had to find new, creative ways to approach this challenge, and through this, we are also more prepared for any future challenges. were also important steps in getting the right business off the ground successfully for me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Led by Prime Movers Lab, the round also features Prologis Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lemnos Labs, Creative Ventures, Ahoy Capital, Compound, FundersClub and Mark Cuban. The Philadelphia-based company was founded in 2018 by Samuel Reeves, who previous headed up Humanistic Robotics. Fort Robotics today announced a $13 million raise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Braid, a group-financing platform, is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects. The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the Demand Gen Report 2018, 91% of those who have used marketing automation for their campaigns think it is imperative to boost their efforts. Be more creative. Manual, repetitive work is not only tiring, but it also drains all of your creative juices. A lot of precious time is spent on creative tasks.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2023

After the successful operation of the Zero Shuttle in 2018, the PanTA-G Bus, a cooperative autonomous vehicle, has begun its journey through Pangyo Zero City. They reached a collaborative agreement to establish a “Self-Driving Demonstration Complex” and position Pangyo Zero City as a self-driving pilot city.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Before Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) co-founded Marcy Ventures in 2018, he was involved with other businesses such as the legacy entertainment company Roc Nation and champagne brand Armand de Brignac. Ajebutter22 , a Nigerian-based music artist and rapper whose real name is Akitoye Balogun, agrees with Mr Eazi’s philosophy of investing in creatives.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Many companies are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a hybrid work model, meaning some employees will return to the office at least part-time, but others will collaborate remotely. Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. When — and where — can your team get together? Bea’s Detroit.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded by Wu in 2018, OurSong is a community and governance platform positioned around the ‘co-creation of music’ On the platform, creators can access a vast array of music licenses from around the world in the form of Open License, which allows others to create remixes (derivative works) based on the original music.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 18, 2021

growth in 2018 against a 3.9% The country saw a 45% increase in visitors in 2019 as compared to 2018 and the Minister of Tourism, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, claimed that the plan had brought roughly $1.9bn into the economy. How important is tourism to the world’s economy ? global average, making it the second-fastest-growing region. .

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. For example, my EDO had “7 wins” (companies that relocated) in 2018, but only “1 win” in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The raise brings the total raised by Occupier since its 2018 inception to $15.5 Founded in 2018 by commercial real estate industry and proptech veterans Matt Giffune, Andrew Flint and Erik Pearson, Occupier says it’s on a mission to help organizations “make smarter real estate decisions for their business.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It all started in Rostov-on-Don, Russia in 2018 when my wife, Veronica, and I decided to combine our skills and efforts to produce 2D animation and founded the studio, V+ Animation. Even famous American actors, producers, musicians, and American talent agencies wanted to collaborate with us. Things were going fairly well. To be honest?I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “We started the OpenAI Startup Fund to accelerate the impact companies building on powerful AI will have on the world, and we’re particularly excited about tools that empower people creatively,” OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, who manages the OpenAI Startup Fund, said in a press release.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

This experience makes learning to code more engaging, competitive, and collaborative than anything else on the market. PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, in 2020, Samsung Electronics, SKT and Kakao collaborated to develop future AI technologies, study AI utilization methods to solve social challenges, and expand the base of AI technologies.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

After conducting a lot of research, Gozde brought together an interdisciplinary group of 40 volunteers including designers, teachers and psychologists, to design toys that supported children’s cognitive development, creativity and productivity. By November 2018, the pilot was up and running. Their first product? An Armful of Toys.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Their culture is flexible and collaborative, making it a top Detroit startup to work at, and they’re constantly innovating and helping small businesses find the banking tools they need. They operate with a hyper-collaborative process to solve difficult problems. FinTech companies. GreenLancer. Vectorform.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

When Fashion For Good set out to create a platform for innovation, they collaborated with Impact Hub Amsterdam to set up their space. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the latest of a series of articles that examines user experiences for consumer apps, UX expert Peter Ramsey and TechCrunch reporter Steve O’Hear studied Spotify Group Session , the shared-queue feature that permits users to create playlists collaboratively.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As time passed, I grew into a creative designer, crafting numerous products for clients around the world. Each COLORPIK product is the embodiment of dreams and creativity, while also serving as a support and encouragement for the dreams of designers and children alike. We started the research and development of the project in 2018.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

We’ve started hiring our first employees in June 2018. And it has built-in real-time collaboration that can literally allow more than 50 people to work at the same time. In other words, we understood that we needed to set up our company with processes that would foster remote collaboration between Europe and San Francisco.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Through 2017-2018, we started opening up our global events to engage with likely and unlikely allies (activists, artists, movement builders) from around the world – learning from and with others, turning a mirror onto our work and inviting new creative ways of collaboration. But, we’re not a community that doesn’t dare.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 20, 2020

My favorite shorthand definitions of these terms are as follows: complexity = the science of interactions; emergence = unpredictable creativity. The collaboration between Brad and me resulted in something that is much more valuable than what either one of us would have produced on our own (a nonlinear process).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

2) Remote work collaboration — clearly an issue that needs solving, but we have unsurprisingly seen an absurd amount of companies in the space. Companies need to be innovative and creative in maintaining/building culture, which was so much easier pre-COVID. Our founders are resilient and are finding creative means to succeed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Stipop even drives the sticker search in work collaboration software Microsoft Teams. The company has already partnered with Google, which uses Stipop’s sticker library in Gboard, Android Messages and Tenor , a GIF keyboard platform that Google bought in 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The funding is coming from a single investor, Sequoia, and this is Veed’s first outside money since starting out as a bootstrapped business in 2018. If you collaborated with someone else, for example, many of the packages required users to transfer huge files to each other.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Algorithmically enhanced or created media is a shift we identified at Betaworks in 2018 and in 2021 it will only increase in scale and scope. Hans Tung: Contextual social networks: Video and livestreaming with the likes of TikTok and with other players like Instagram and Snap will continue to drive creativity and engagement.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018, it acquired social learning platform Flipgrid, which used short video clips for collaboration. And as remote work became the norm, Microsoft has been adding more video capabilities to its team collaboration software, Microsoft Teams, too. is aimed more directly at creative professionals.

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