TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And in 2006, we realized ‘Wow, this is now working. . “At that time, mRNA was not potent enough,” ?ahin ahin recalled. “It was just a weak molecule. But the idea was great, so we invested many years in an academic setting to improve that. Okay, it’s time to initiate a company’ ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

23andMe, founded in 2006 by CEO Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza, has raised a total of just under $900 million to date, including an $85 million Series F round announced last December. billion, close to the total cited by an earlier report detailing the talks leading up to this deal. 23andMe raises $82.5 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The launch company was founded in 2006, and is led by founder Peter Beck. Rocket Lab, which got its start in New Zealand, and which still launches rockets there with its HQ now shifted to LA, will have a pro forma enterprise value of $4.1 At close, existing Rocket Lab shareholders will retain 82% of the total equity in the combined company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Way back in 2006, when DBL first invested in Tesla, we had no idea we would be helping to create a worldwide movement to unhinge transportation from fossil fuels. This approach is a smart investment for agriculture players looking to reduce their climate impact. Now, it’s agriculture’s turn.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

BT said the investment, which is its first major third-party investment in cybersecurity since 2006, reflected its plans to grow rapidly in the sector.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2006, Hubspot launched as a way to take advantage of the trend, giving marketers a platform designed to get inbound leads via blog posts. That meant customers came to your website drawn by the content on the blog without a sales team explicitly having to call and ask them to buy something.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

David was the top fundraiser from 2006 to 2012. Some of them are listed below: In 2006 and 2007, David received Fellowship from AAAS- American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. David likes soccer, mountain biking, body surfing, and weight lifting in his spare time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Since 2006, Ryan E. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Long has been the principal attorney of Long & Associates. The Santa Monica-based law practice solves tricky IP-related issues for tech/media clients so they can safely scale or be acquired.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I would have expected more of a decay here, and I’m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base – interesting! Coding has changed from 2006 to 2016, and modern projects evolve faster. We can compute the decay for individual commits too. half-life (years). first commit. kubernetes. tensorflow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But Beck, who has led the company from its inception in 2006 , saw this as just another challenge to take head-on, and within the month Rocket Lab had gotten to the bottom of the issue and was clear to fly again.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As for Scalyr it was launched in 2011 by Steve Newman, who first built a word processor called Writely and sold it to Google in 2006. The company’s most recent funding round came last November, a $267 million investment with a $3.1 billion valuation. It was actually the basis for what became Google Docs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As it stands, 2006-founded Northmill is available in Sweden, Norway and Finland, where it competes with incumbent banks with physical branches and the likes of Lunar, Revolut and Klarna (which operates as a bank in its home country of Sweden, and Germany). Next stop, Norway.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

When TechCrunch last covered Kaltura’s financial results , we noted that the company founded in 2006 had raised just north of $166 million, crossed the $100 million ARR mark, and was, per its own reporting, “profitable on an EBITDA.” For now we’ll focus on Kaltura. Let’s get into it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Jack Dorsey , who stepped down as Twitter CEO less than one year ago , finally addressed the layoffs that impacted approximately 50% of the company he co-founded in 2006. Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient,” Dorsey said on Twitter on Saturday morning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Founded in 2006, the gaming company ran as a startup until 2016 when it was acquired by South Korea’s Netmarble Games for a reported $700 million to $800 million. The company also has studios and offices in Montreal, San Francisco, Charlottetown, Austin and Los Angeles — alongside its headquarters in Vancouver.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Since 2006, Take Note has offered efficient, accurate and general data protection regulation (GDPR) compliance service. Also, Take Note’s 28 employees will join the team. With the acquisition of Take Note, Verbit will now serve more than 2,500 customers, Livne noted. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One defining moment in her early life as an internet creator was when Google bought YouTube in 2006. Since the early days of YouTube, McLoughlin has been a creator herself, so she’s seen the industry change from both creative and business perspectives. “Before 9 a.m.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Outbrain and Taboola are native advertising companies founded in 2006 and 2007, respectively. This perception is something we as a company have wrestled with for an entire decade, as have many others in the SaaS domain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

According to PitchBook , Nexthink raised external capital in modest amounts from 2006 until 2014, when the startup picked up a $14.5 Nexthink is a venture-backed software company with headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston. million Series D. That round was its first worth more than $10 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

CEO Andrew Grauer says Symbolab’s algorithm isn’t something that Course Hero, which has been operating since 2006, can drum up overnight. Course Hero, in contrast, is a broader service that focuses on Q&A from a variety of subjects. That’s precisely why he “decided to buy, instead of build.”. “It

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Growth of Public Cloud and the Need for Cloud Security Since 2006 when Amazon first introduced EC2 — the first public cloud service — cloud has become a major staple of enterprise information technology strategy. Both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and newer cloud services continue to grow robustly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Freestyle led the seed rounds in Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, Narvar and Snapdocs. Earlier in his career, he founded Spinner, the first internet radio service, which AOL acquired for $320 million in 1999.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Industry capital flows and fundraising In 2006 I wrote my college junior paper on venture capital: Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Deals. We are tremendously excited to see what other industries in 2025 will be revolutionized by technology and improved with new ownership.

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Erik Bernhardsson

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? But it's a bit imprecise, e.g. EC2 was launched in 2006, but the oldest API version is from 2014. This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year. The genesis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Launched in 2006, Course Hero was somewhat allergic to venture capital until recent. He went on to say that the layoff was done to meet the needs of the “rapidly evolving” sector and that it was “absolutely necessary” for the future of the company. After launching, the company waited eight years to raise a $15 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In 2006, UT Austin researchers re-identifed movies watched by thousands of individuals in a supposedly anonymous dataset that Netflix had made public by combining it with data from IMDB.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Before founding Virtual Internships, Nivern and co-founder Edward Holroyd Pearce launched CRCC Asia in 2006 to help students get internships in Asia, growing the business to more than 10,000 students.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

For instance, Disney’s acquisition of Pixar in 2006 revitalized the animation giant’s fortunes, though market analysts were skeptical of this move when it was announced. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have long been a driving force for companies seeking exponential growth, gaining market share and creating shareholder value.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Dioseve’s mission might sound like it comes out of science fiction, but it’s based on a scientific technique called induced pluripotent cells stem (iPS) cells, which was first developed in 2006.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Slava Rubin co-founded Indiegogo in 2006 and, as CEO for more than a decade, led the organization to become one of the world’s largest crowdfunding platforms with more than $1 billion distributed worldwide. Investments include Figma, Lambda School (now Bloom Institute of Technology) and HelloSign.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Since founding Felicis in 2006, he earned notoriety as an early backer of iconic companies, including Credit Karma (acquired by Intuit), Fitbit, Opendoor and Shopify. A super angel turned multi-stage investor, Aydin Senkut has appeared on the Forbes Midas List eight times and on The New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list four times.

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TechSoup

MARCH 26, 2021

Twitter has evolved significantly since it launched in 2006 as a simple, short messaging service. Twitter is no longer simply a platform to "microblog," as it was initially designed. Twitter is now a powerful platform to know, understand, and segment your community.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Launched in 2006, CentOS is widely employed by IT organizations that need an open source distribution of Linux to, for […]. Two insurgent efforts to make sure the CentOS distribution remains viable have been launched following a decision by Red Hat to no longer invest in that fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Launched in 2006, education startup Course Hero started its life away from the attention of venture capital. After launching, the company waited eight years to raise a $15 million Series A. Then, after going another nearly six years without raising venture capital, Course Hero closed two financings in 2020. billion valuation.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 24, 2022

Chris Brogan, author, keynote speaker, Chief of Staff to the CEO of Appfire, and an all-around good guy, began a practice in 2006 that I’ve always admired. It’s called My Three Words. I have not always adopted it consistently over the years, but when I have, I found it to be everything Chris suggests it […].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

An early Google employee, Stone worked on the Blogger team after its acquisition, ahead of helping co-found Twitter in 2006. He remained with Twitter for a number of years as the company grew to become adopted by millions of users worldwide.

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