Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. I believe the changes to the industry will be lasting rather than temporal change.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

“The Innovation Challenge is one of the most important things that we do at CharmHealth because it enables us to discover meaningful solutions that can have a positive impact on patients’ and providers’ lives. CharmHealth will cover the costs for accommodations and meals of the short-listed candidates invited to the event.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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Gust

JULY 3, 2012

As I wrote in Part I of this post , many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / Non-Equity Assistance from Creative Destruction Lab. SDR ground station technology improves downlink communications, provides significant cost savings and is far more dynamic, acting as an enabler for the exponentially growing Satcoms market.” Helix Technologies. Raised so far: N/A.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment. PandaDoc is another competitor in this space.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. The UK has built on this capability with a service called Variable Recurring Payments (VRP), a form of payment instruction that enables a merchant to securely offer subscriptions (or auto-pay) with a single click, direct from a user’s bank account.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The creative AI space is something I’m keeping a close eye on because I think this is where there’s huge room for advancement. As targeting and bidding become increasingly channel automated, creative is an area that I believe still needs the human touch. Which marketing automation tools do you think are poised to take off in 2022?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Deliverr ’s technology was developed to enable next-day, affordable e-commerce fulfillment for its merchants despite these disruptions. The new capital will enable the company to continue improving on its technology and product development, invest in adding more employees and expand its next-day capabilities.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. The results from metaverse-enabled L&D are likely to exceed your traditional in-person training. Or, a sales team member could practice complex product demos in a zero-risk virtual training space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. But it’s reportedly experienced some high-level turnover, losing two of its co-founders, Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, to another startup in recent months. ACT-1 displays as an overlay window on top of existing software like Google Chrome or Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. We spend a lot of time and energy instrumenting things that are downstream of our application, but we’ve never instrumented the creative process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, builds dolls that include programmable computers that girls can code through an app. The device has a screen and is Bluetooth-enabled to receive code via the doll’s companion app.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Many are getting creative by increasing the accessibility of their products and services and rolling out new opportunities for customers to engage. Technology enables organizational resilience. During the waiting period, small businesses are using their scalability to their advantage. Build a digital community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Dipp also works with e-commerce enablers, or agencies that help brands distribute products across multiple channels. In terms of competition, Chen says potential customers often ask how dipp is different from Rocketium , which helps creative teams build very large marketing campaigns.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While searching for remote locks that would enable him to unlock it after someone bought the grill, he came up short. Other sellers have gotten creative with drilling holes in plastic containers that can be locked to a fence, Wegelin said. An inventor by nature — he holds 70 U.S.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. . To enable inclusive and sustainable innovation – at scale. . About adidas. billion in 2021.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

She teamed up with some of the best creative minds including designer Sara Jaramillo and podiatry expert, Dr. Roxann Clarke, to design stylish heels for all women. Ally Shoes continues to aim to disrupt the footwear industry with intentional craftsmanship. After a foot injury, Samantha couldn’t find shoes that fit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

“Priority tasks should consist of setting up a growth tech stack, creating a testing roadmap to find the most efficient growth levers, and robust creative and copy testing in the first 90 days.” Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks. Image Credits: Bill Hinton / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Suddenly, companies had empty space for which they had to find creative uses. Our software is enabling tenants to collaborate on the entire lease life cycle.”. Michelle Killoran, a principal at OMERS Ventures, told TechCrunch that her firm has long recognized that the commercial real estate sector “was ripe for disruption.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Zestworld is bringing together every aspect of the comic creator business and community into one centralized platform that is disrupting how comic creators publish and own IP, as well as enabling fans to connect with creators directly in entirely novel ways.”. Both joined a Series A round led by General Catalyst that provides $9.37

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. This allows non-designers to express their ideas creatively, sans technical skills. Welcome, Uizard.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

has raised $14 million as it gears up to launch its next apps, Dewo (pronounced “De-Voh”), an app that is meant to help people do more “deep work” by learning about what they are working on and filtering out distractions to focus better; and Glue , described as a knowledge hub to help in the creative process.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

With so many changes and challenges during the last year of the pandemic, from shortages of consumer goods to moving life online, the tech industry has been more important than ever in providing creative solutions. Lab-produced and plant-based food is disrupting a $6 trillion global food industry. These are the top ten tech trends: 1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” It’s lofty stuff.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2022

It suggests that disruptive technologies go through 5 key phases: 1. Technology Trigger: the emergence of a potentially disruptive technology. Example: Professional sports players) Mirror.xyz enables crowdfunding via blog posts. People are finding other creative use cases for NFTs too. Ex: 2021 Bubble) 3.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

Above, the line chart shows the astounding growth in the number of Adobe Creative Suite subscribers from the launch of CreativeSuite 6 in mid-2012 through March 2014 growing at 31% per quarter to 3.97M in their last quarter. And in 2012, the company decided to disrupt its own businesses. in revenue in 2011 at 97% gross margin.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Internet took us from classifieds and poster boards to sites like Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist, while mobile enabled apps like DoorDash, Uber, and Instacart. Based on these 2 vectors, here’s how I predict different types of marketplaces will be impacted by genAI, from most to least disrupted.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

It’s more about new kinds of functionality that AI can enable, “the highest-powered tools that will unlock high-quality fun. We’re proud to join them at this moment in history and empower them to find the creativity in nascent technology.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The plates were a market ripe for disruption.” ” The company is eager to give a lot of credit to the various government organizations that have enabled them to operate. It enables the states to move into the future.” That means that you could use that real estate to do a lot of really creative things.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

There are no toolkits, no (strict) design guidelines, no single way of doing the job, and no bureaucracy… enabling decision-making simple. Full freedom to explore creativity and an open platform to throw more ideas! Such open feedback sessions make way for more creative ideas and problems that sometimes get overlooked.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. The firm supports dynamic entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in a broad range of industries, including consumer services and products, technology, healthcare, business services, education, and financial services.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms for data interpretation, WelSpot’s mission is to alleviate financial stress, enabling millions of consumers to access the care they need without the burden of immediate costs. Firstly, it’s the team I’m working with; their dedication, creativity, and expertise are invaluable.

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