TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

.” The news comes after a period in which Israel-based Speedata has piloted its tech with a mix of large companies — hardware makers, end users, big-name cloud providers — to show how it can speed up their workloads, which it has, by some two orders of magnitude, CEO and co-founder Jonathan Friedmann told TechCrunch.

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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

APRIL 26, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Cody Candee admits business “completely froze” for the first three months of the pandemic. “We basically just chased the opportunity wherever it was,” he tells TechCrunch, summing up how Bounce tackled the last two years of pandemic disruption.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. In the middle sits a mix between work and play, which is where Branch hopes to live. So for me, it’s not hard at all to use it. The biggest challenge ahead?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Under normal circumstances, one might expect the founders of Radian6 and Q1 labs to disappear into the suburbs of Cambridge or Marin Country, but that never happened.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. You need to recruit an amazing team, and ideally, have co-founders you trust and respect. Mix in humor to show your personality. By Murray Indick and Kate Tyler. Starting a business is incredibly hard.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. The round is coming from an interesting mix of strategic and financial investors. Placer has confirmed that the round values it at $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. Parfait’s four co-founders: Isoken Igbinedion, Ifueko Igbinedion, Marlyse Reeves and Simone Kendle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Going for larger rounds with higher multiples means reduced ownership, and it’s shifting more power to founders as investors are “paying more and at shorter intervals for less of less profitable startups.” Thanks very much for reading!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline. .”

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And the startup’s young founder — Ritesh Agarwal — doesn’t plan to sell his shares in the public offering. Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. Its aggressive expansion bet has had a mixed success rate. Oyo’s offerings. to name a few markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

TechCrunch spoke with Brex co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras, who confirmed that the company did in fact put its name in the hat for SVB but only for the early-stage and growth portfolios within its business. The idea actually came from a customer, he said, who thought Brex “could handle those customers better than big banks.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Second, while financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed by the two companies, but we have confirmed other details with Go1’s co-CEO and founder Andrew Barnes: the acquisition is a mix of cash and shares. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. Discover how Duolingo started with CEO Luis von Ahn at Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Of the 1 million active users it has of its freemium product today, Peled said that some 100,000 are paying users, currently a mix of consumers and “micro” (i.e. A large percentage of users with updated operating systems” — which internconnect to the internet — “were using antivirus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s said that you should measure what you value, and for founders, nothing is more valuable than growth. One example from a few years ago at SeatGeek: We tried to build a media-mix model before we had something much more basic in place. Yet, measuring growth is complex and challenging — and it’s only getting tougher.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing. While Opontia does not disclose the ratio of equity and debt, it confirmed that the majority was debt which will be used to make acquisitions. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Husband-and-wife co-founders Stephen and Allison Ellsworth, former oil and gas researchers, launched the soda in 2020 after Allison Ellsworth began having stomach issues about two years prior. Allison and Stephen Ellsworth, Poppi co-founders. The drinks retail for $2.49 Image Credits: Poppi.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. This morning, we published an interview with growth expert Julian Shapiro , a founder and angel investor who also advises startups on the best way to present themselves. We frequently run articles with advice for founders who are working on pitch decks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Berlin Brands Group (BBG) — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using technology to run and scale them more efficiently — has picked up a big round of funding to fill out that mission.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Leaders often approach complex problems using experts and interview-based, analytical techniques that have been honed for complicated challenges.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Years ago I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. The entrepreneur– founder explained this problem away by stating that the designers and manufacturers would ship direct after we’d grown to a large enough size.

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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. His co-founder, John Hering, was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Lookout.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently.

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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. But more than that, this IPO is a useful measuring stick for keeping tabs on the IPO market as a whole.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper , announced Deep Agency , a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Enshrined in U.S.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. The legal structures have gotten so much better, and the costs have come down to assemble investors using instruments like the SPV [special purpose vehicle] to invest together. What is unique about us? If we get the money, how will we use it?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

It was probably injection-molded, and the tool used to make the plastic was probably a royal pain in the ejector pins to manufacture. At first, the software Atomic is creating will be for its internal use, but the plan is to eventually make it available to other companies. Today, the company announced it raised $3.2

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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. Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. How did you break into your tech career? I’m not a product inventor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Before we get into this week’s show notes, some programming items: First up, use code “EQUITY” for a special listener discount for Disrupt tickets. We’re mere days away, and you should come hang out with us when we record on opening day! If you were laid off, go here to get a free ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt’s Expo!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

It now has its software in use in 20,000 locations across 40 markets, with the number of locations doubling in less than a year. It does see an opportunity to make acquisitions selectively to add more tech and talent into the mix. It’s fast heading to processing some 100 million orders globally, he added.

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