TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

As a frontline state and coalition partner in the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan saw fatalities from terrorist violence soar from 295 in 2001 to a peak of over 11,000 in 2009.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Launched out of Betaworks in 2009 , the service offered real-time analytics back when Google Analytics made you wait 24 hours to see who was clicking around your site. Chartbeat, a website that tells publishers about their readers, is getting the private equity treatment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late stage” between 2009 and 2019. The UK’s venture capital industry is even less focused on investing in diverse founders than you thought , with our own Natasha Lomas reporting that “all-ethnic teams received an average of just 1.7%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For well over a decade since the 2008/2009 Great Recession, the cloud market has known only one direction: up and to the right. Here is why: The party is over. And what a party it was! Almost without interruption, the market grew, public investors got the hang of SaaS economics, and IPOs became more frequent and more lucrative.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Currently a partner at Pillar VC, Wilcox commercialized electronic paper displays by founding E Ink, which Amazon acquired in 2009. And we’re thrilled to announce that hosts Darrell Etherington and Becca Szkutak will interview Russ Wilcox.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The firm raised its first fund in mid-2009, amid the Great Recession. 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. Things have gone pretty well since.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

SPAC combos worth $300 million to $2 billion in pro forma equity are off around 71% on a median basis since 2009, to pick a data point. Per SPAC Insider data , companies that merged with blank-check companies recently have seen their value fall sharply.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

The yield curve has become inverted , inflation is at 8.6%, and economic pessimism is the highest it’s been since 2009. The biggest startups in the world are laying employees off. For e-commerce brands, the wave of bad economic news is a shot across the bow heralding a major change in consumer spending. Bleak times are ahead.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 29, 2020

Tuve el placer de entrevistar a Ingrid Astiz, quien es una de la pioneras que se sumó a la fundación de la comunidad Agil en 2009 en su natal Argentina. Antes de comenzar con la Agilidad, Ingrid estuvo desde edad muy temprana involucrada en el desarrollo de software desde la empresa que su madre había … Continued.

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CTOvision

APRIL 1, 2021

Take Aerospike, for example, an American company founded in 2009 that provides solutions to help companies build data-intensive apps or scale-up by boosting performances of existing databases. It is no secret that the main destination targeted by Israeli tech startups is the U.S. However, it isn’t just one-way traffic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded out of Boston in 2009, Lookout originally started out as a consumer-focused smartphone security and data backup business, garnering millions of users and hundreds of millions in funding from esteemed investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Greylock, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Telekom, and Jeff Bezos.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Mapan, which means “steady” in Bahasa Indonesian, was founded in 2009. Apti said that since 2009, the company has had 250,000 MUMs. The new capital will be used to expand Mapan’s product range and partner with more suppliers for its marketplace of goods for resellers. The company recently appointed Ardelia Apti as its CEO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bardin previously served as the CEO of Waze between 2009 and 2021. . “I believe the future newspaper is the feed and want to make it more civil for users, profitable for publishers and better for society,” wrote Post News founder Noam Bardin in a tweet announcing the endeavor. A profile on Post News. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

was founded in 2009 and has raised $12.9 We want to preserve the flexibility and interoperability [of WordPress], and we want to make sure from a Parse.ly perspective that it still exists as a standalone product. That’s key to its future and we will continue to invest in it.” ” Parse.ly and Montalenti leading product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

That move was notable in that the storied venture firm was founded in 2009 in Menlo Park and has historically been associated with the Bay Area. . ” Alongside ditching a centralized HQ, a16z announced new offices in Miami Beach, New York and Santa Monica in addition to its existing Menlo Park and San Francisco posts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

One of my favorite go-to-market slides comes from Airbnb’s 2009 pitch deck (the one they used for YC Demo Day): Airbnb’s go-to-market slide from its original 2009 deck as redesigned by Slidebean. Image Credits: Slidebean.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

He founded his first cybersecurity company, Easy Solutions, in Miami in 2009, focused on preventing fraud. During his time at Unisys — and later at IBM — he said he was exposed to merger and acquisition deals, motivating him to start his own business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

was founded in 2009 and has since grown to become a leading cultivator of designer cannabis strains. Connected Cannabis Co. Today, the company announced $30 million in debt and equity financing. This comes after the company raised a $25 million Series A in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Founded in 2009 and based in Madrid, it has generated €500 million in revenue last year. There are still some growth opportunities in its existing markets as well. Jobandtalent , another company in this space, has attracted some headlines as it has raised $108 million last week. But, let’s be honest, the temporary work market is huge.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 17, 2025

In 2009, DevOps was coined to address the friction between the Development and Operations teams. It is exciting how different disciplines can be merged to make the processes more efficient.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

billion for an app company might sound silly if your head is still suck in 2009. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has largely been bootstrapped, although it did raise a private round of a few million dollars in 2009 and a $20 million injection of capital in 2020. The company has always been profitable even as it has expanded, Radenbaugh said. To date, Rad Power has raised $175 million — the vast majority of which came in this new round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Affectiva, which spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2009, has developed software that can detect and understand human emotion, which Smart Eye is keen to combine with its own AI-based eye-tracking technology. million in a cash-and-stock deal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As we wrote last week , Lerman is not just another public company CEO: His company, Yext, has some old-fashioned history with TechCrunch, having pitched at one of our events back in 2009. It went well, with Yext quickly raising money afterward.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

As a venture investor, I have invested in over 60 companies, and while many have gone public or been acquired, the journey has included pivots, near-death experiences and navigating through the 2008/2009 downturn.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Puppet has raised almost $190 million since its founding in 2009. Perforce will continue to let Puppet do what it’s been doing all these years, while finding ways to integrate it into Perforce’s broader platform where it makes sense. The last raise was a $40 million debt round from Black Rock in 2020.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Founded in 2009, Kong has raised $345 million, per the San Francisco-based company. The round was a mix of primary and secondary transactions, with no exact amount given for the primary investment. The funding comes as companies are being overwhelmed with more APIs as AI business applications grow.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

The social media company had raised a down round in 2009 before it went public in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation. Meta, known as Facebook at the time, is probably the best-known example.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company was purchased by Facebook in 2009 and Taylor had a stint as CTO at the company. Taylor spent four years at Google starting in March 2003 before undertaking an entrepreneurial journey, founding early social network FriendFeed in 2007, right after leaving Google.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Launched in 2009, Kdan Mobile has focused on developing content creation and productivity software for mobile devices from the start, founder and chief executive officer Kenny Su told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

He notes that this is the second time he’s been a YC company and while the size and scope of the operation has changed since he last participated in 2009, the process remains much the same. FeaturePeek moves beyond Y Combinator with $1.8M

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The company was mainly focused on creating the PaaS solution with their own application & database stack. It was then 10gen got the required attention from a capitalist Albert Wenger and invested over $1.5 The new name was MongoDB Inc. got released this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs. It’s best known for its fellowship program that provides education grants, networking opportunities and business advice to women entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista. The rate reached its peak of 69.2% The rate reached 63.7% in 2016 before steadily going back up.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Horvath co-founded Strava back in 2009, steering the company to become one of the world’s biggest activity tracking social communities, passing 100 million registered users last year. Strava is on the hunt for a new CEO, after Michael Horvath revealed that he’s stepping down from the role for a second time.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 19, 2020

The DevOps methodology, a software and team management approach defined by the portmanteau of Development and Operations, was first coined in 2009 and has since become a buzzword concept in the IT field. What Is DevOps?

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