Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

One of the most famously successful deals of all times — Accel ’s lead investment in a 2005 Series A for Facebook (now Meta ) — came out of its Fund IX, a downsized vehicle raised in the wake of the dot-com bust. Another firm well-known for finding success after launching in tough economic times is Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

.” “These directions are issued under sections 21, 35A and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, sections 45JA, 45L and 45M of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, sections 30A and 32 of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987, section 6 of the Factoring Regulation Act, 2011 and section 11 of the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) (..)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Meanwhile, Klarna was founded all the way back in 2005 and has a fascinating story from startup to scale-up — a story that almost certainly has a few more twists and turns yet. If you need to catch up, check out this 8,000 word opus on the company for Extra Crunch.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Scattering of seeds Since the beginning of institutional seed investment in 2005, the asset class has grown from a select few seed-stage firms writing small checks, to thousands of seed funds that back fledgling startups. Early-stage funds and multistage funds also began investing at seed, with some writing larger checks at this stage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. . “IMVU operates one of the world’s oldest, yet most vibrant and young — in terms of our user base — metaverses.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 4, 2016

A somewhat arbitrary sample of projects and their half-lifes: project. half-life (years). first commit. kubernetes. tensorflow. scikit-learn. underscore. It’s interesting that moment has such high half-life, but the reason is that so much of the code is locale-specific.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Un estudio de la consultora Deloitte de 2018 analiza cómo ha pasado de ser, en los 80 del siglo XX, desarrollador tecnológico, al arquitecto de la tecnología que es en los 2010.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology. Prior to becoming chairman of IDT, Mr. Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems from June 1999 to September 2005. He has held this position since March 2006.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The startup was founded in 2005 by a 15-year-old, Andrew Sutherland. It also reclaimed the Q from its less fortunate predecessor, amid an entire rebrand. Quizlet’s quiet march toward the public markets has been slow yet steady. It was fully bootstrapped until 2015. Glotzbach, who was previously an executive at YouTube, then joined in 2016.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 29, 2014

On 16 October 2005, an incredible feat was achieved sixteen miles West of Denver, Colorado. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, determines its outcome.”. William James.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Odeo was the organization founded in 2005 by Noah Glass and Evan Williams, that later reformed as the Obvious Corporation which ended up becoming the birthplace of Twitter.) . “I think I was in the first 10 accounts on the platform, and one of the first angel investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Founded in 2005, the company continues to assiduously evolve and expand as it staves off that ambient and inclement sense of doom that pervades media. Sixteen years in and now valued at $7.5 billion, Automattic has found a multitude of strides, even as it strives to own ever more of the media market.

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Coding Horror

JULY 24, 2016

My two arcade emulator builds in 2005 satisfied my itch thoroughly. The CRTs I used in 2005 may have been truer to old arcade games, but they were a giant pain to work with. That's way better than I was doing in 2005, even adjusting for inflation. Sadly, no. Cheap, quality IPS arcade size LCDs.

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CIO

MAY 21, 2024

From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology. Prior to becoming chairman of IDT, Mr. Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems from June 1999 to September 2005. He has held this position since March 2006.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Box launched in 2005 as a consumer storage product before deciding to take on content management in the enterprise in 2008. There are many such examples: Perhaps the most famous is Slack , which originally was a multiplayer online game before pivoting to be a communications company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

So in 2005, he launched reCAPTCHA. “During those 10 seconds while you’re typing in a CAPTCHA, your brain is doing something that computers can’t do, which is amazing,” von Ahn said. But the tests were annoying and pointless, so he wondered, “Could we get those 500,000 hours a day to do something useful for humanity?”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The company has been growing revenues and customers at a rate of 50% over the last 10 years (and 63% over the past 15 — it’s been around since 2005), and it now has 1,700 employees with plans to add another 1,000 this year. Billings are expected to be €160 million in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 NFX founder and general partner Pete Flint has known Schwartz and Armstrong under a different capacity. They were once rivals. billion in 2015. “We

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In 2005, EDS made a groundbreaking investment by rolling out neuroscience-based coaching. We operated one of the worlds largest innovation centers, where the retina scanner one of the first biometric airport identification systems was developed for Ben Gurion Airport.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. With the checking account, customers have the ability to sending and receive money as well as pay bills digitally. This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology. Prior to becoming chairman of IDT, Mr. Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems from June 1999 to September 2005. He has held this position since March 2006.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Sonos began as a disruptive startup in 2005 with its groundbreaking patented innovation in wireless speakers. The story of Google’s abuse of Sonos is one of the more telling ones. Sonos is a classic American success story, and Google’s piracy of its technology is a tragedy.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Rimini Street: Replacing FOMO with FOR SURE In 2005, Rimini Street entered the market, offering organizations an independent, third-party option for transferring their annual support from the vendor to an independent provider.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Clearly, there has been a major uptick in RBI firms being founded since 2005, with a relatively consistent number of new firms being founded over the 15 years since then. In 2010, five firms were founded and in 2015 four additional firms were founded, then from 2014-2019, two or more firms were founded each year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The ongoing expansion of e-commerce in the country and New Delhi’s aim to reduce India’s carbon footprint by 33–35% by 2030 below 2005 levels are expected to boost the demand for e-mobility among stakeholders. Although the market is largely dominated by electric two-wheelers, the country has over 1.39

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

in 2005, Umubyeyi studied political science at the University of Notre Dame, believing that was the way to create positive change. Born in Rwanda, Umubyeyi moved around Tanzania and Zambia as a child, observing how her parents utilized entrepreneurship to sustain themselves and the communities in which they lived. After moving to the U.S.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 15, 2020

From the emergence of the web in 1995 to applications or apps in 2005, technology has grown by leaps and bounds as the years progressed. The relationship between computers and humans has undergone a significant paradigm shift over several decades.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Siegler’s career in startups began in 2005, working in web development at a startup agency focused on tech clients. We’re thrilled to have Siegler joining us to talk about his investment experience, and how his early career as a writer influenced his thinking about startup success on Extra Crunch Live on October 27 at 2 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

At the time, 1Password was hardly a startup, having been founded in 2005. . You may recall that the previously bootstrapped 1Password only raised its first round of external capital in 2019 – a $200 million Series A led by Accel that represented the venture firm’s largest single investment in its 35-year history.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

in 2005, Umubyeyi studied political science at the University of Notre Dame, believing that was the way to create positive change. Born in Rwanda, Umubyeyi moved around Tanzania and Zambia as a child, observing how her parents utilized entrepreneurship to sustain themselves and the communities in which they lived. After moving to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

based incorporation management company that has incorporated more than 450,000 companies since its foundation in 2005. As it enters the U.K. market, Sleek has also announced the acquisition of Ltd Companies , the U.K.-based Sleek will add its stack to the existing Ltd Companies offering to build an operating system for U.K.-based based SMEs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Siegler’s career in startups began in 2005, working in web development at a startup agency focused on tech clients. We’re thrilled to have Siegler joining us to talk about his investment experience and how his early career as a writer influenced his thinking about startup success on Extra Crunch Live today live at 2 p.m.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the mid-1990s, he co-founded WildCard Systems, an early independent processor of prepaid cards, that was acquired by eFunds in 2005 for about $250 million. Palmer knows a thing or two about payments. FIS bought eFunds in 2007 for about $1.8 Palmer then went on to co-found Adaptive Payments, which sold to Mastercard in 2015.

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