TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Let’s get into the data, which has been segmented into buckets covering fintech, software and SaaS, startups focused on developers or security and a final group that includes D2C and fertility startups, among others. Bank digitization, O’Malley says, which has “been forced to happen rapidly and dramatically” in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. growth from 2020 to 2021. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

billion in the same period of 2020. That is 226% growth in 2020 thus far… How high-quality is DoorDash’s revenue? In the first three quarters of 2019, the company had gross margins of 39.9%, and in the same period of 2020 the figure rose to 53.1%, a huge improvement for the consumer consumable delivery confab.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. The company now boasts over 500 employees, with more than 200 focused on product development and engineering. As AI adoption continues to accelerate, Island is helping establish a new industry standard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

LinearB , a startup that helps engineering leaders optimize the workflow of their development teams, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Tribe Capital. The company says it managed to grow its user base from 1,500 development teams in 2021 to over 5,000 today. Image Credits: LinearB.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Developer-focused productivity tool Raycast has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Accel and Coatue. As developers ourselves, we find ourselves spending a lot of time on busywork that doesn’t bring that much value. We’d rather spend our time on the work that actually matters.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

He saw a need for financial application development, but was hindered by a banking system “still stuck in the 20th century.” Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions. The company raised a $7.7 million seed round earlier in the year.

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Revolution

AUGUST 8, 2023

The pre-2020 artificial eight-hour workday forced most people to spend the vast majority of their time in two distinct places: home and work. The most expensive markets lost population during 2020 and 2021 while more affordable cities such as Dallas and Phoenix continued to gain people. The trade-off is that work is leaky as well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It certainly makes some bold claims, saying, “Quantori’s data engineering and data science platform for drug discovery and development aims to build a new data integration and high-performance computational environment for global and early-stage biopharma companies. So there will always be a license component and a service component.”.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. TrekIT aims to ramp up deployment in Q1 2020, providing their unique application to additional hospital systems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. . Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Israeli-based company developed artificial intelligence-driven data analytics that help food brands make smarter decisions around product development, marketing and retail sales for their next healthy, sustainable and delicious product.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. million Series A round in 2020, with partner Michael Droesch joining the startup’s board at that time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. Santa Barbara-based Apeel developed a plant-based layer for the surface of fruits and vegetables that is tasteless and odorless and that keeps moisture in while letting oxygen out.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Insurers, pharma companies, CROs, and academic medical centers have developed applications with Orbita.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Swedish battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt AB has raised $2.75 In July 2020, the company inked a $2.3 billion in capital as it prepares to ramp up to an annual production capacity of 150 GWh in Europe by 2030. CNBC reported that Northvolt’s valuation now stands at $11.75

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. Image Credits: Modular.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Thinking outside the box, Brad Stevens , president of EO Atlanta, created a way to increase EO member engagement across the 150-member chapter with 43 Accelerator participants. The program began in November 2020. We asked Brad about this exciting new initiative. How did you come up with this initiative to grow EO member connections?

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Pattern , a Lehi, Utah-based e-commerce accelerator that helps brands optimize sales on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, Target, eBay and Google, brought in $225 million in growth funding to continue developing its technology and expand its global presence. The new round was led by Knox Lane. Beauty through its IPO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. When we heard about the EO’s initiative to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , we felt on the right path. We hope that many other EO members join forces. Find your own way.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tonik’s acquisition of TendoPay is a testament of our passion for accelerating financial and credit inclusion in the Philippines. It has so far partnered with over 200 companies and has developed a channel network covering over 500 brands and e-commerce sites. Tonik operates out of hubs in Singapore (HQ), Manila, and Chennai.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Winnie Hart , former Global Board Director and EO Houston member, and her team at Twin Engine worked passionately to develop and launch the Living Liver Foundation brand. Increasing public awareness of living organ donation “In the United States alone, 10,000 individuals are waiting for a liver transplant today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Last year, Uber and Joby, which is developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft, signed on as a vehicle partner for Uber’s Elevate initiative. “This deal allows us to deepen our partnership with Joby, the clear leader in this field, to accelerate the path to market for these technologies.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

With that money, she hired a developer to build a chatbot for her app, which was mostly being used via Facebook Messenger. Then an earthquake hit Mexico City and that developer lost everything — including his home and computer — and had to relocate. “I Funding for mental health-focused startups rises in 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and innovation-supporting partners from throughout the Delaware business community and beyond, Startup302 launched in 2020 and has provided $800,000 in funding to 52 ventures since 2021. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Getting behind the empowerment of women stimulates societies, entrepreneurship, job creation, accelerates revenue growth and develops inspiring and motivated leaders.” – Ingrid Vanderveldt. Back in 2010, Ingrid had the vision to empower a billion women by 2020. EBW 2020 is a social impact organization. www.nawbo.org.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020. Automate workflows and mitigate risk.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This often creates a bottleneck for developers. EngFlow , an early-stage startup coming out of the Alchemist Accelerator this month, wants to help fix that by distributing the compiling part over as many machines as needed in the cloud, pushing out compiled projects faster. Today the company announced a $3.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Opsera plans to use the new funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate its go-to-market efforts. That journey is what led us to the pain points of what led to Opsera. There were many engineering teams.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While more than 75% of the Fortune 500 is headquartered in cities all across the country, nearly 75% of venture capital dollars invested each year ( $130B+ in 2020 ) is concentrated in just three states: California, New York, and Massachusetts. We believe that transformative companies led by brilliant entrepreneurs can?—?and and should?—?be

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Revolution

JULY 22, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce our seed investment in Anduin , a software company improving invoicing, accelerating collections, and modernizing payments for owners and executives in professional services, such as accounting. The situation was only amplified during the economic downturn of 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. Luminar will become a publicly traded company through its merger with Gores, which is expected to close in late 2020.

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