Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On the heels of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests, we recognized our role in leveraging the Rise of the Rest platform we built to be more explicit about leveling the playing field — not just in terms of place, but also in terms of people.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

billion industry this year, startups in the e-commerce enablement software space are looking to carve out a niche in this huge market. Because raised $650,000 in angel investment last year, which enabled the company to grow to over 900 merchants and 150 paying customers. With global e-commerce sales poised to be a $5.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. But I’ve long been a believer in the stark benefits that flexible working environments enable. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

Whether you’re a leader in a small, midsized or larger organization, whether business or nonprofit, these eight steps will enable you to make better decisions and avoid potential disaster by overcoming cognitive biases. Recognize that a decision needs to be made. Collect relevant information from a range of informed perspectives on the issue.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 27, 2020

I argued that “software companies with software margins” are better businesses than tech companies that are not really software companies but a tech-enabled version of some other business. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 18, 2020 A Plan for Rapidly Ramping COVID19 Testing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

As he built this organization he realized the limitations of tools that existed to help recruit, nurture and manage communities so he set out to build these tools and capabilities to enable other companies to launch communities more effectively and with fewer resources. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

The PPP enabled me to keep a small but scrappy team; we dug deep to become the experts on virtual and hybrid events. We ended up doing over 200 virtual events in 2020 and finished the year with US$1M in profit?which which is a miracle number given the circumstances.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

link] — Infermedica (@Infermedica) August 6, 2020 Technology and Benefits to Health Systems/Payers/Telemedicine Companies Infermedica is an AI-driven, customizable, multi-language platform that aids patient care and healthcare service delivery. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica. Take a look!

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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. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

December 20, 2024 ) Applications for Delawares fifth annual Startup302 funding competition will be accepted January 2 through 26 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

" #startups @fredwilson blog fodder [link] — Claudia Lamb (@cloudylamb) November 23, 2020. It is true that we VCs enable the bad behaviors outlined in that piece and we must look a little more carefully at ourselves in the mirror in the morning and, as the Gotham Gal likes to tell me, “get over ourselves.”

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Vicente Zavarce, Yummy’s founder and CEO, launched the company in 2020 and is currently part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. We also already have exclusivity with 60% of the food delivery marketplace, which has enabled us to build a moat around the market.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

Another study by Gartner says by 2020, 85% of customer interaction will be managed without a human. AI-enabled analytics for crucial customer insights AI can play a critical role in providing companies with actionable insights by feeding intelligence into CRM, marketing automation, and other key operational tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The 2020 Summer Olympic games (which took place in Tokyo in 2021), were my 10-year-old daughter’s first real exposure to competitive sports. Taking care of my own mental health enables me to reset, regroup and refresh my resolve. She’d watch and ask, in her sweet innocence, “Why are the Americans teasing the other team with the ball?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2021

Since it’s January 1st and I know many people are scrambling to put together plans for what to eat I thought I’d just start with a question I know is on many people’s minds, “what should I eat in 2021 to make it healthier than 2020?” but they are also enablers of bad eating behavior. You know this, of course.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020. For one, the cloud makes data accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, enabling the seamless collaboration necessary in a hybrid work environment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup was founded in 2020 during covid lockdown with its founders keen to build an app that would enable people in India to watch live matches. “We We decided to build a product, which enabled users to watch matches on the app, and have video calls with their friends to enjoy the match. It brings to $24.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Your Startup’s Unit Economics Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said. Joby was the first partner to commit to deploying air taxi services by 2023. To date, Joby Aviation has raised $820 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface. Tipser’s technology enables consumers to purchase products natively from sites like online publications, mobile marketplaces, price comparison sites, social media platforms or search engines.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

Ari understands how to transform the experience of public spaces and enable brands to reach consumers more efficiently and effectively. Despite the category overall taking a hit, Place Exchange saw its monthly revenue grow over 12X in 2020. Prior to that, he was President and COO of MediaMath, a leading programmatic ad-tech platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers analyzed data from 2020-2022, primarily post-pandemic. 18% higher per capita income growth in counties in the high broadband group from 2020-2022, equating to an increase of nearly $500 per person each year on average for county residents. The cloud and managed services company C alix, Inc.,

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

The company offer of a one-stop payment infrastructure that enables businesses to scale rapidly. In addition to this, the firm also offers facilities that enable the disbursement of funds to banks, eWallets and cards 24/7. The firm enables businesses to accept payments, disburse payroll, run marketplaces and more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. The disposable test sticks enable users to measure a range of biomarkers in just two minutes, using microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” technology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company, which enables underbanked customers in select African markets to access a broad range of products and services without collateral or a guarantor, announced today that it has raised $75 million. “At growth of new customers from 2020 to 2021. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID, M-KOPA had an active seller base of 2,500.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Many small businesses’ efforts to adopt cutting-edge technology were on a slow trickle until the pandemic hit in first quarter 2020. trillion between 2020 and 2024. Plus, a September 2020 QuickBooks survey reports that 23% of small business starting in the next 12 months will have fully remote workforces – which the cloud enables.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 20, 2023

Founded in 2020, Ellipspace specializes in developing advanced satellites capable of integrating remote sensing technology. Their satellites enable the integration of remote sensing data, sensor monitoring data, and positioning information data, offering customers standardized data products and real-time responsive remote sensing services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In September 2020, Halifax-based fitness data management company Kinduct was acquired by mCube. In November 2020, Newfoundland-based Verafin was acquired by Nasdaq for $2.75 Bird also pointed out that the Atlantic time zones are ideal, enabling effective communications with Europe as well as the rest of North America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Taneja, who has previously co-founded social payments platform Mypoolin, which was acquired by Cupertino-based financial services company Wibmo, and spent eight years in the fintech market, co-founded Decentro with Pratik Daukhane in 2020 — after personally facing all the problems he wants to address. million in seed and angel rounds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Financing: It is customary in B2B transactions to pay “with terms,” such as net 30 or net 60, effectively giving a line of credit to the business buyer that enables them to send payment after delivery of the good or service.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

” During the height of the lockdowns in South Africa, sentiment across SMEs owners on a scale of -100 to 100 dropped to an all-time low of -12 in Q2 2020, according to Yoco’s small business pulse monitor. According to the company, the number of small businesses that were fully cashless jumped 300% from March to July 2020.

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