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MARCH 3, 2023

In 2014, the startup almost ran out of cash. And when we almost ran out of cash in 2014, we were forced to become frugal and profitable.” Later, it scrambled with its product offerings after its marquee service struggled to make inroads, Zelto founder and chief executive Ankit Oberoi told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. Creating our MVP allowed us the flexibility to build and release as we learned, and it proved successful. From there, it was off to the races.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Williams was a co-founder of satellite design and manufacturing company Tyvak Nano Satellite Systems, which was acquired by Terran Orbital in 2014, and has since become core to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company, which launched in 2014, offers a DevOps platform to help move applications through the programming lifecycle. GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.75B valuation. Update: The original headline of this story has been changed from ‘GitLab raises $195M in secondary funding on $6 billion valuation.’ ’

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

StackRox was founded in 2014 and raised over $65 million, according to Crunchbase data. That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019. Another competitor, Aqua Security, which has raised $130 million, remains independent. Investors included Menlo Ventures, Redpoint and Sequoia Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Founded in 2014, HappyFresh was the first Instacart-style grocery delivery service to launch in Southeast Asia. The company’s previous round of funding was a $20 million Series C announced in April 2019. Resurgent HappyFresh raises $20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Meanwhile, DocSend participated in 2014 at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The startup has been working on its solid rocket biofuel since its founding in 2014, and has received grants from the Maine Technology Institute and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to refine its fuel formula and rocket engine design to help it get to this point.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Finland-based Wolt was founded in 2014 by Miki Kuusi, who, upon the deal closing, will run DoorDash International and report to Xu. The company has over 4,000 employees across 23 countries and its technology enables users to easily discover and receive food via its platform by selecting a restaurant, placing the order and hitting send.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Williams founded her own firm, Serena Ventures, in 2014 and raised a $111 million inaugural fund this year to invest in “ founders with diverse points of view ,” she previously told The New York Times. When Serena Williams steps from away tennis, she’ll be walking into an arena as white as the one she just left.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In Zimbabwe, for instance, only 30% of the adult population had access to any financial services as of 2014. More than 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unbanked, according to World Bank estimates for 2021. Several years ago the numbers were starker. The number of bank accounts in the country stood at 1.5 million in 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In 2014, it set up an AI Research Institute and technology laboratory with elite schools including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Microsoft. Currently, Yuanfudao offers a variety of products: live tutoring, online Q&A arm, and math problem checking arm.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Boomerang launched its email productivity software in 2010, and since its 2014 launch, Superhuman has raised $108 million to help users get through their inbox faster. Plus, talk about a large TAM! Startups have taken note. Trying to build a better email mousetrap isn’t exactly a novel concept, but it could be big business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In 2014, they pitched MicroBlink at TechCrunch Disrupt in London. Photomath was originally designed as a demo app for another company called MicroBlink. At the time, the team was working on text recognition technology. It planned to sell its core technology to other companies that might find it useful.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Founded in 2014, Shippit’s technology automates tasks related to order fulfillment, including finding the best carrier for an order, tracking packages and handling returns. Shippit , a Sydney, Australia-based e-commerce logistics platform, will expand in Southeast Asia after closing a $30 million AUD (about $22.2

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. This round comes after its $279 million Series D round at about $750 million of valuation in May 2020. Ninja Van claims it delivers approximately 2 million parcels a day, with more than 1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Incubate Fund’s investments in ispace stretch back to the company’s seed round in 2014. The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co., Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

The growth funding for the company comes after bootstrapping since 2014, in large part because product managers (PMs) are no longer needed just inside tech companies but have become sought after across almost virtually all industries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

That company went public back in 2014. SuitX is a spinout from UC Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Lab, founded by mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni. Prior to launching the company and serving as CEO in 2012, Kazerooni founded Ekso Bionics in 2005.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” In these instances, starting from the ground up is what is really required to deliver an optimal consumer experience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Joanna McFarland got the idea for HopSkipDrive in 2014 because she needed a solution to a problem that many working parents like herself face: How do you consistently get your kids where they need to be on time? The idea was sparked at a birthday party she attended with one of her children.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Founded in 2009, Helsinki-based Lifeline Ventures has invested in around 115 companies to date, with more than a dozen exits to its name including activity-tracking app Moves , which Facebook acquired back in 2014; food delivery company Wolt, which DoorDash snapped up in a $8.1 billion for a majority stake in 2016. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Night School Studio was founded in 2014 by Sean Krankel, a former senior game designer at Disney Interactive, and Adam Hines, who was a lead writer at Telltale Games. Telltale Games was a Netflix partner, working on interactive shows like “Minecraft: Storymode” adventure before shutting down).

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said. Other investors noticed as well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Even more notable, Work-Bench reports that venture funding of enterprise startups in its city was up 12x in H1 2021 compared to a full-year 2014 tally. Per the Work-Bench report, enterprise startups in New York City raised $6.7 billion in the first and second quarters of this year, up 146% from the first half of 2020, when $2.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Founder and chief executive officer Bimbola Adisa , an aerospace engineer, started the company in 2014 after working several years for a power turbine manufacturer and as an investment banker covering the power sector in the U.S. Adisa launched BPS in 2014 to address the inadequate electricity supply from power distribution companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2014, our company attracted its first Japanese client when we were featured on product discovery platform Product Hunt. While this initial awareness got us on users’ radar, awareness alone wasn’t enough to sustain and grow a reliable pipeline.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay , the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along with Klarna and Affirm. Dovetail helps them build companies from the ground up, preparing them for growth and more funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

in 2014), announced a $300 million Series C on an impressive $5.1 OneTrust , the 4-year old privacy platform startup from the folks who brought you AirWatch (which was acquired by VMWare for $1.5B billion valuation today. The company has attracted considerable attention from investors in a remarkably short time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

T&E expense firm Certify found in a 2014 analysis that businesses lost $30,000 each because of expense fraud reports, like mischaracterized expenses, fictitious expenses, overstated expenses and multiple reimbursements. .” Itilite also features built-in fraud prevention tools that leverage AI to spot submission errors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). ScaleFactor (2014-2020). Total Raised: $520,000. Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft shut down its Twitch competitor Mixer this year, handing off its partnerships to Facebook Gaming. “We were all really surprised given how relevant and needed this is right now,” she said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

In a 2014 post on TechCrunch , VCs John Backus and Hemant Bhardwaj coined a new term for these fund makers: “dragons.” In venture capital, big home runs have become a fixture. They have a name, too: “Fund makers,” and they signify an investment that generates more liquidity than the entire fund backing it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Dufay has been with Jumia since 2014, holding multiple senior leadership roles, more recently Executive, VP, Africa, responsible for the group’s e-commerce business across the continent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014 , then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. He didn’t pull any punches: “Acquisitions always suck, and suck worse than you think that they are going to suck.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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