TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

based agtech startup that’s using computer vision AI plus farm-sized proprietary machinery to expand crop yields. “They’ve using a depth-sensing camera with the 3D piece in it to determine the size of that head. What is automation good for? The business was established last year as a spinout from another U.K.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. A note on board composition.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Please note, this page does not cover the basics of the CARES Act and we encourage founders to read What Startups Need to Know About PPP and The CARES Act for broader context. Kathryn (attorney from PilieroMazza) : Most banks are opening applications today, though a few rolled out last Friday with mixed success.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility. Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to. In the middle of the maelstrom, founders enjoy simpler and faster fundraising processes on better terms. Just kidding.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Early co-founders often drop out of the picture due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal promises you made. This problem can be avoided by incorporating immediately after early discussions, and issuing shares to all founders. Lastly, make good use of your Board Members.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed. Image Credits: Varjo.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Much of the event’s content was shaped by its founder’s personal influences and world view. “I

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s been a 12-year journey for Purely Elizabeth founder Elizabeth Stein, and based on her plans for the company’s next phase, she is just getting started. Fast-forward to today, and Purely Elizabeth, which has since added pancake/waffle mix and oatmeal, is one of the top brands in the breakfast category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2014

The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. Why You Should Pre-Meet Board Members. It is healthy to allocate 30 minutes per board member for a call at least a week in advance of your board meeting. A founder involved in a scandal.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. June 17th, 2012.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Offering video software and other features dedicated to workshopping, the idea is to pull people away from using more generic tools, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, which, arguably, aren’t well suited to workshops. Butter also supports various third-party integrations, such as for white boarding, note taking, etc.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Previous companies using the IdeaPAD scaled their product by 10x or became leaders in their space. Each criteria was weighted at either a 1 or 2, though any multiplier could be used.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Other existing investors include Matthias Biilman and Chris Bach, co-founders of Netlify; Jon Dal CEO and co-founder of Mux; and Edvard Engsæth, co-founder of NURX. Sanity stands out partly by keeping its focus wider than e-commerce and by not using the words “content” or “commerce” in its name.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

They have been experimenting and developing using a Cessna 172, which started flying unmanned flights a couple of years ago. Back in September 2019, Reliable Robotics flew a Cessna 172 with no one on board in airspace just outside of San Jose, California. . The company is also evaluating emerging electric and hybrid aircraft platforms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. So many founders that I’ve been privileged enough to work with started in non-typical technology hubs.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Most founders are not experienced entrepreneurs, which means they tend to repeat the same mistakes as they try to overcome universal challenges. According to Klaviyo co-founder and chief product Ed Hallen , luck was a contributing factor to his marketing automation company’s success. Stay tuned! Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

The product can also be used by partner businesses to manage their own insurance needs. Some customers like Stanbic Bank in Kenya use Lami’s API to run insurance operations; HR platform WorkPay makes insurance products available to the businesses using its platform. Jihan Abbas (Founder & CEO).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. Part of the reason for the strong investor interest lies in the co-founders and their collective track record.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond , a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. An injury or an illness can cause someone to use the internet differently on a temporary basis. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Now it has closed a huge funding round to ride the wave.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz also participated in this round, in addition to former Zscaler CISO Michael Sutton, former Bank of America Chief Security Scientist Sounil Yu, Fireglass co-founder Dan Amiga, Cynet CEO and co-founder Eyal Gruner and Hexadite co-founder Eran Barak. and.NET). .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The entrepreneur, who previously worked as a designer and co-founder of a snack company, says the stench of pesticides and herbicides piled high was too strong to ignore. The company brought on chief science officer Frank Rossi, who has a PhD at Cornell, to create its core product, which requires a mix of tech and science to work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Gaming is at a crossroads these days: a decades-old business that has had remarkable staying power banked around classic concepts is now engaged in a battle royale with innovations in areas like mixed reality, AI, blockchain, and networking, as it strives to connect with an increasingly fragmented consumer base.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In other words, the tools that it has built are there to help companies have a presence and stack up against the rest of the online landscape, but they are built with a view to making them easy enough for non-tech companies and their partners to use. Wand and CETP director Constantin Boye are joining Shopware’s board with this round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

It plans to use the funding to bring the tools it has already built to a wider set of verticals that have some of the same needs to manage risk, compliance and other factors as finance — healthcare and manufacturing are two examples — as well as to continue building more into the stack. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

RapidDeploy , which provides computer-aided dispatch technology as a cloud-based service for 911 centers, has closed a round of $29 million, a Series B round of funding that will be used both to grow its business and continue expanding the SaaS tools that it provides to its customers. “Now the cloud has become the nexus of signals.”

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The MySpace founders took some money off the table in the Redpoint deal, albeit at a $35 million pre-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

It plans to use the funding to continue building out its software and its capabilities, to hire more people, and for business development, according to Artificial’s CEO and co-founder David Fuller. As those liquids are mixed, a robotic system typically moves around pipettes, liquids, in and out of plates and mixes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. It’s nice to see some other cities put points on the board. Another day, another unicorn public offering.

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