TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We basically just chased the opportunity wherever it was,” he tells TechCrunch, summing up how Bounce tackled the last two years of pandemic disruption. “This is especially useful to them compared to PO Boxes or Amazon lockers because it provides a single nearby location where the customer can get all their packages.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. could bring into that mix a sweetener for would-be customers, in the form of intelligence that can be applied to voice-only interactions and those taking place over chat. .” Observe.ai Observe.AI

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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. Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. Mix in humor to show your personality. Consider a website that separately contains useful materials, depending on the cycle of your business.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Regie.ai , a startup using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, South Park Commons, Day One Ventures and prominent angel investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. That deal immediately proved to be a success, which then propelled Agarwal to explore broadening his offering — now using technology — to focus on what were the neglected segments of the market. Oyo’s offerings.

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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. .” Not at all, it turns out.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” I have never used this space to offer advice, but if you believe you have a good idea for a startup — go for it. Mixing the personal with the professional in startup fundraising. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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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. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said. Key insights have always been a commodity.”

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Now, a startup called Deliverect that has built a platform to integrate the many moving parts that go into ordering and delivery for the average restaurant is announcing a big round of funding to pursue the opportunity. “We are preparing to scale to meet all of the digital opportunities in the food hospitality industry.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. ” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29 per month (for a limited time), letting customers place the models against digital backdrops to realize their photoshoots.

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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 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. ” Image Credits: Paystand/Yaydoo.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

We want every merchant selling online to use our tools to run and superpower their stores.”. There was also some venture debt mixed in, and TriplePoint Capital provided that. At the same time, it’s fun to build in silence without too much disruption. We wanted to be the ‘Microsoft for e-commerce merchants.’

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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. The growing complexity of fundraising has the opportunity to make tech either inclusive or exclusive.

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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 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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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. Aim, instead, to assess opportunities objectively. Actions with dates.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Maybe in-car calls need to be disrupted soon, too). Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. But we have found ways to use our fundraising rounds to leap us forward on diversity — in a few different ways.”

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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. Lexis was an early application of full-text boolean search logic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

It will be using the funding to hire more people, and to continue building out its technology. And indeed, this is the company’s first outside funding, made to double down on expanding its technology and selling to a wider set of organizations as the business opportunity grows. “The drones are just one part of the chain.”

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ).

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

based company said it was able to unlock Tesla doors by hacking into the Bluetooth Low Energy technology used by Tesla to unlock and operate the car via its app or key fob. It’s not just Tesla — anyone using this type of technology is vulnerable, the company said. Five construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2020

Combine a pandemic, childcare disruptions, anxious kids home from school and your job—or stress about that job going away—and parenting becomes a case study in stress management, patience, organization and crisis communications. Parenting has never been considered easy, but lately it’s become exponentially harder. Social time.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

Below, I’ve tried sharing our advice for managing your board – from how often to meet, to the materials you need – in order to ensure a useful and productive group discussion. Talent Plan: Retention, Development and Recruitment Opportunities. Managing Your Board. Meeting Schedule. Current Engineering Org. ? Hiring Scale. ?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

These memos often integrate the traditional components of a founder’s pitch, and blend it together with a deal champion’s observations on the opportunity of investing into the company — as well as the risks that come with it. It’s a decent decision-making tool, provided the fund’s partners are disciplined and intellectually honest in its use.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I’m here to talk about challenger brands and how they continue to grow, outpace competitors and build growth via the entrepreneurial spirit in all of us. I chose to write this article because I want to spotlight the opportunities created by the COVID pandemic. We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. It shouldn’t be.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Juganu: Using light to chase away Covid-19. Hot-button issues in the US election. Investors around the world are focused on the US Presidential election. Tevel’s autonomous drones are equipped with a one-meter long mechanical claw, which can pick fruit, or be used for thinning and pruning tasks in orchards. Healthcare.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 24, 2020

With a mix like that, Oklahomans have had to learn how to take a 360 degree view. How can we use the learned experience of this state to survive and thrive, whether the recovery is shaped like a V, a U, or something else? Airlines are using under-utilized passenger plans to carry freight. Start at the beginning. It took the U.S.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

He’s been in the public speaking industry for almost 15 years but prior to that he used to represent Olympians. The money comes from outside opportunities, such as speaking engagements and endorsements. And then there are speakers who have a solid mix of both. . “I Zach Nadler is the CEO of Vayner Speakers. In a good way!)

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Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel was created when its co-founders, just out of college, experienced how heavily where you live impacts the opportunities you get. Enabling this talent and empowering this talent to get the best opportunities is really what Deel is all about. Something that they themselves wanted, or that the people immediately around them wanted.

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