UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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UBI Global

APRIL 8, 2020

Purpose-driven Entrepreneurship and Climate Change Startups from the World Benchmark Report 2019 – 2020 Unless there is hope, no one takes it upon themselves to address catastrophic situations such as climate change. The post Startup Discovery: Disruption in Climate Change appeared first on UBI Global.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, most recently as #2,118 on the 2019 list. In part 1 of this article, Tim discussed the false assumptions driving B2B innovations that fail. In all, billions of dollars are wasted on research and development of innovative ideas that never win new business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We’re literally days away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt since 2019 — and we can’t wait to get this party started on October 18. Check the complete agenda to explore all of the programming across every stage at Disrupt. Buy your Disrupt pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. PDT) and you’ll save $700.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. in the New Yorker.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

The next Battlefield takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. If you want a shot to compete against some of the most innovative early-stage startups in the world, apply to Startup Battlefield here before the application window closes on May 13 at 11:59 pm (PT). Yup, that sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. She later assumed the role of chief innovation officer, a position in which which she oversaw Northwestern Mutual’s venture arm.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” Master digital disruption with digital reinvention.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of April 2019, there are 434,000 vacant construction jobs ( Forbes ).From We watch the construction market avidly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it last raised money , he said. We are a product-led firm and our focus will remain on innovation in that space,” he said. “In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. For many of those cities– who have been laying the foundational bricks of innovation and entrepreneurship in their communities for the last decade or more?—?this Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The new fund builds upon SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was first announced in March 2019 and was formerly called the Innovation Fund with an initial $2 billion in committed capital. At that time, Nyatta told me that technology in LatAm is often more about inclusion rather than disruption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

According to Mohamed Emera, the company’s director of growth, ILLA is targeting the FMCG logistics head-on, which speaks to the company’s focus on disrupting the market in Egypt. The bigger picture is global, where fragmentation in supply chain is a $1 trillion market. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. Pascal was a tech entrepreneur before there was even a web browser.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The fund, which closed a $400 million investment vehicle in November 2019, has noticed that more and more startup employees are thinking about entrepreneurship as the pandemic has shown how much room there is for new innovation. The checks that Unusual cuts in pre-seed often range between $100,000 to half a million dollars.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But with the region’s thirst for innovation, the market is expected to expand nearly tenfold over the next decade, with open banking through the use of APIs leading the way and acting as digital transformation facilitators. Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup and relative newcomer to the industry, is now valued at $5.3

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. Ironically, the same report also reveals that current corporate commitment to innovation has been decreasing as CEOs prioritize their core business in the wake of Covid-19.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops. In a 2019 letter to the U.S. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (now the Alliance Automotive Innovation), which represents most U.S. They were wrong.

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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. Neobanks have taken the world by storm and Africa is the last frontier for this brand of fintech innovation. Chari (Morocco). Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

They started their company in 2019 to develop a Medicare concierge service to assist seniors in easily navigating through those 30 plans to find the right one for them. “We Health clouds are set to play a key role in healthcare innovation. Image Credits: Connie Health.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

billion in 2019 to up to $26.16 He likened Ursa Major to a company like Intel, which is constantly innovating more powerful processors and outsourcing that expertise to brands like Dell and Lenovo. “We Fortune Business Insights estimates that the global market size for launch will grow from $12.67 billion by 2027.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Apeel Sciences , a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain. where approximately 40% of food is wasted ), the U.K. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The round was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from strategic investor MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), a venture capital firm for collaborations between startups and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A to build out its B2B transactions platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, the U.S. NPI simplifies access to USAID resources and makes it easier for partners to bring forward their ideas and innovation. Additionally, many of the breakthrough innovations that we need in global development have been spearheaded by for-profit entities, including those located in low- and middle-income countries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company’s vision, he said, is to automate access to billions in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to help businesses fuel their growth without giving up equity and dealing with red tape. Startups are poised to disrupt the $14B title insurance industry. Proving R&D costs to the U.S.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns. MGMA, “The 2019 MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Report”, 2019 . If an allocator hires a known player, underperformance will not cause the employee’s judgment to be questioned. Yale & “Major, Lindsey, & Africa”, Jeffrey A.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

South Korean startup Seadronix wants to reduce the issue of marine accidents, 75% of which are caused by human error, according to a 2019 Allianz safety and shipping report. The company just secured a $5.8 Our mission is to be an AI platform that ensures the safety and environmental protection of the ocean,” said Park.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 16, 2020

In December 2019 I became the first Israeli investor to appear on a public platform at a business conference in the United Arab Emirates. This agreement will accelerate rapid deployment of the latest innovation to fix the urgent issues facing us all. . . . Food Industry is Ripe for Disruption.

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