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. Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. This is driven by two competing but incredibly important trends.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

And we won’t know the pandemic’s true impact on our psyches until the dust settles and we have an opportunity to reflect. In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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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. It’s there that Yummy has an opportunity to connect multiple vertices into a super app with little to no competition.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. Meanwhile, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock led the Series E investment, with new investors Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, CreditEase and H.I.G.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept.

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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. This presents a huge opportunity, and it is our mission to support that transition,” he added.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

EO Path of Leadership (PoL) offers members who have served in local or regional leadership positions an opportunity to grow their leadership skills as a leader of leaders while serving the organization as a whole. It was early 2020 when I agreed to be president-elect, attended the annual Presidents’ Meeting, and returned home.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Mycelium is a tunable material, and a lot of folks are entering the space because they see opportunity for it. When we previously profiled MycoWorks in 2020 for its $45 million raise , we pointed to companies like Bolt Threads (mushrooms), Ananas Anam (pineapple fibers) and Desserto (cactus leather) doing similar things.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 It puts startups in a difficult spot: if 2020 was about enabling video-based teaching, what might emerge from 2021? What opportunities are fading as the space matures? What opportunities are fading as the space matures?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In fact, more than 70 percent of small business leaders felt a moderate-to-large negative effect from the pandemic, according to an October 2020 U.S. Many are getting creative by increasing the accessibility of their products and services and rolling out new opportunities for customers to engage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Our conviction that digital assets are the future of finance has been vindicated by our client base, which grew 10 times year over year in 2020 and has more than doubled since the end of 2020.”. He believes there are currently limited banking services available for crypto holders, which puts BlockFi in an opportune position.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The pandemic has hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process. PPRO is not the only company to be targeting that opportunity. It’s growing rapidly because there are no other players that are truly global.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

“We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. It’s a great opportunity to better explain ideas, problems and design solutions.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s according to Reveal CEO Simon Bouchez, who alongside Gautier Machelon, Perrine El Khoury, and Alex Sadones aims to build a platform that allows B2B companies to more easily identify sales opportunities with their partners. With customers including Qualtrics, Tealium, Contentsquare, and Vonage.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

The success of Pinduoduo in China suggests there is a huge opportunity for social commerce platforms to emerge in other regions. 3 In 2020, it is China’s second largest e-commerce platform on an active user basis only lagging behind Alibaba. But first, a bit of background. These numbers reveal a missing element in e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company raised $27 million in Series A funding in a round, led by Khosla Ventures and including First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom — all companies involved in Loyal’s $11 million seed round raised in 2020, as well as a group of angel investors. Alexander Morgan, M.D.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Proper’s tech-enabled service is designed to execute those specific real estate accounting-related processes and apply automation to those that are repetitive. Rather than sit and wait for a company like that to emerge, Proper pivoted to address accounting in early 2020 and saw “growth explode” over the past year. Proper dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020. Gani later joined Hong as a co-founder to scale the business, as they realized there was a bigger opportunity for global e-commerce. It’s latest brand, Meridian, offering grooming products, launched in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

” The program initially launched in Europe in November of 2020, and now is available in the U.S., What we’re realizing is there is a significant opportunity to pair up a lot of venture-backed companies with our existing clients. But what Visa is doing is looking at ‘How can we enable our banking clients to do something similar?’

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. Altro went on to participate in Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 batch. Image Credits: Altro. By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

The pair founded the fund in 2020 — read more about it here — and their backgrounds with NEA and Uber, respectively, and closed their first fund of $140 million last year. And this time, they have an even bigger arsenal of capital to support their efforts. This gives the firm a total of $440 million in assets under management at this point.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some of the ways the company is keeping up with demand is enabling organizations to sign up and start for free with 100 devices to see how the platform works. Insight proactively approached the company, and Esper “jumped at the opportunity to partner with them to accelerate our trajectory and predict market growth quicker,” Gopalan said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How did fashion marketplace Poshmark go from posting regular losses in 2019 to generating net income in 2020? From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. ” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. 2020 was a disaster, but the pandemic put security in the spotlight.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Korea has passed the first law in the world dedicated to digital lending, ‘The Marketplace Lending Act’, in August 2020 to regulate marketplace lenders, protecting P2P consumers. The number of marketplace lenders in Korea has fallen from 237 to 102, between August 2020 and May 2021, as per its annual report in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Through its end-to-end agricultural services offerings, DeHaat will have a major societal impact in India, improving the earning potential for Indian farmers and overall yield for the sector while also enabling microentrepreneurs all over the country, including in rural areas where there is often less income opportunity,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The crypto remittance company was built to enable merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world, Eluan tells me. In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer , an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. W e believe the opportunity here is huge. Image Credits: Flux. The platform charges $0.50

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Its total payment volume stood at $14 billion in 2020 across the six countries in Southeast Asia, representing 84% growth between 2019 and 2020, according to its statement. Ascend Money provides a financial platform of opportunity for those financially excluded as well as SMEs around the region.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Even a partially remote workforce, when appropriate, enables organizations to expand their talent search to a more diverse and highly skilled pool of professionals. Try to regularly check in on each of your team members (whether by phone or video) to connect on a human level and give an opportunity to share details about goals or concerns.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Higher budgets also enable entry to several markets nearly simultaneously. This is less true than it was in early 2020, as digital education and work is now so commonplace that it’s possible to build a billion-dollar edtech in a single, larger European market. International expansion sounds good, but what does it mean?

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