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Since that round, the Mountain View, California-based company has faced major challenges including slashing its workforce and a change in business strategy, moving away from its delivery vehicles for packages to now licensing its autonomous driving software. ” Founded in 2016, Nuro has raised $2.2 billion, per Crunchbase data.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, “we’re seeing the value of low, mid and high-multiples SaaS companies each find a comfortable trading range after a bull run since early 2016, albeit one with caveats,” he writes. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. The value of software revenue may have finally stopped rising.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A hybrid multicloud model delivers the most value when organizations apply the same business-outcome strategies they use to optimize sales, finance, and supply chain processes. Learn about Nutanix’s AI platform, GPT-in-a-Box , and the latest IT industry trends in the 2024 Enterprise Cloud Index report.

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APRIL 10, 2025

IT spending has evolved from an operational necessity to a key component of business strategy, he says. TBM alternatives Logistics provider KUOG has been using TBM since its inception in 2016, says CEO and president Roy Rucker Sr. The company relies on IT to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Venture capitalist Soraya Darabi of TMV will join us today to discuss strategies early-stage startup founders can deploy to get their first “yes” from an investor — and which founder mistakes often lead her to say “no.” TMV is often the first institutional check a company might raise.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 20, 2025

Of course, SoftBank knows quite a bit about the Arm ecosystem, having acquired British chipmaker Arm Holdings in 2016 for $32 billion. Growing AI portfolio For SoftBank, the Ampere deal fits into a broader investment strategy around AI infrastructure.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Endpoint security requires a comprehensive and flexible strategy that goes way beyond what security teams relied on a decade or more ago. Between June 2016 and December 2021, the FBI recorded over 240,000 national and international complaints about BEC attacks, which cumulatively resulted in losses of $43 billion. Those days are over.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wallapop has confirmed that the funding is coming at a valuation of €690 million ($840 million) — a significant jump on the $570 million valuations sources close to the company gave us in 2016. By 2016, Wallapop was merging with a rival, LetGo , as part of a bigger strategy to crack the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Marcus Merrell Contributor Share on Twitter Marcus Merrell is vice president of technology strategy at Sauce Labs. Whether the team chooses to reboot or revive Vine, they must answer questions about sustaining a business in the world the app abandoned in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When you do something well once in venture capital, you want to keep repeating it, and HOF Capital plans to double down on its strategy of focusing on pre-seed through Series A, now with a brand new $300 million fund, its second institutional early-stage fund. from Egypt 11 years ago. Six years later, they have $1.2

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MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 The publication, launched in 2016, creates and curates content around African youth culture for Gen Zs and millennials within and outside Africa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global strategy officer to lead its growth in international markets. Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s last funding round was an $8 million Series C round back in 2016. The firm’s investment strategy is built on an initiative of choosing a subsegment, like customer success, and evaluating businesses in that market. It has previously raised $15.5 million in Series B funding in 2014 and in 2011, $3.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

“Instead of us investing individually because obviously , we have somewhat limited capacity in terms of how much time we have as founders because of our respective companies, why don’t we collaborate on a strategy together and co-invest together ?” Some MAGIC portfolio companies. Here’s a scenario.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Flourish, founded in 2016 by Duncan Clark and Robin Houston, provides data visualization tools so that companies, like BBC, Sky, Deloitte and Moody’s, can turn data points into easily digestible charts, graphs and visuals. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

billion for a majority stake in 2016. Lifeline Ventures’ latest fund represents its fifth to date, with its inaugural €29 million fund closing in 2012, followed by fund two in 2014 which amounted to €17 million; a €57 million fund three in 2016; and a €130 million fund three years later.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The startup was founded in 2016 by Raghavendran Viswanathan as a freight marketplace before pivoting into an automated rate management system, in a move he compares to Shopify’s evolution from an online snowboard store to e-commerce ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

She is also a major advocate for diversity within the tech industry, launching Project Include in 2016. Chou will join us as part of our Founders in Focus series, talking to us about the process of spinning up and launching Block party, as well as her strategies around growing the business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Shan Hanif to help social media influencers develop their brands and extract revenue from their audiences, Genflow combines aspects of a traditional branding agency — such as strategy, design and planning — and a tech company with its own software stack.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. Since it first launched its classes in March 2016, the company has seen a 118% CAGR in revenues and a 145% CAGR in students. How nontechnical talent can break into deep tech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Podcast advertising company Acast is announcing that it has acquired RadioPublic , the startup that spun out of public radio marketplace PRX in 2016. The acquisition of RadioPublic is fundamentally a partnership of values,” said Acast’s chief business and strategy officer Leandro Saucedo in a statement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty, and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. Loughlin then “came back home” to Accel in 2016, and has led investments in companies like Airkit, Ascend.io, Clockwise, Ironclad, Monte Carlo, Nines, Productiv, Split.io, and Vivun.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

When co-founders Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant first began barbershop tech platform Squire in 2016, they leaned in: The duo bought a barbershop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood to see firsthand how the business worked. Ultimately, its decision to bring on more capital is so it can expand in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

It’s also emerged as something of a consolidator in the space: In 2016, SumUp acquired one of its bigger competitors , the Rocket Internet-backed Payleven, which helped expand its footprint to a wider set of markets. That M&A also speaks to how SumUp is approaching its product expansion strategy. in an all-cash deal.

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MAY 12, 2022

In 2016, Interswitch disclosed its intention to go public for the first time. Alongside existing investors, LeapFrog and Tana plan to work with management to continue to drive Interswitch’s pan-African strategy, which includes acquiring new customers and building new products to support a financial inclusion strategy. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Egyptian proptech startup Nawy , which began life in 2016 as an AI-driven property, listing has grown to offer brokerage services, supporting the closing of property deals. Nawy is now set to introduce in its catalog a mortgage service for pre-owned property, to serve a market that is predominantly shunned by traditional lenders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That strategy appears to have paid off as it has now raised a $13 million Series A funding round, taking its total amount raised to $14.5 Founded in 2016, Grip counts some large event organizers as clients, including Reed Exhibitions and Messe Frankfurt. The round was led by London-based growth equity fund Kennet Partners.

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MARCH 19, 2021

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. Christine Tao runs Sounding Board , a business founded in 2016 that offers executive coaching services to leaders at major companies like Kraft and Heinz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

But one thing has remained the same since 2016: startup compensation data, including information about base pay, bonuses and stock options, is still hard to find. Most of the founders interviewed by Monk’s Hill Ventures and Glints said that base salaries have at least doubled since 2016. Going remote even before the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

What’s your web3 strategy? As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. FOMO is real.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

More than $90 billion was invested into Texas-based companies since 2016, according to Crunchbase data. Our results are that we have gotten to validate that strategy is right and works well.”. In 2021, $14.2 billion was invested so far, and is poised to eclipse the $15.4 billion invested into companies in all of 2020.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Founded in 2016, Octopai offers automated solutions for data lineage, data discovery, data catalog, mapping, and impact analysis across complex data environments. It allows users to mitigate risks, increase efficiency, and make data strategy more actionable than ever before.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Then last November, Jiko revealed it was pivoting from that consumer-focused model and “accelerating its business-to-business strategy,” as reported by Banking Dive. ” That attention led the startup to once again rethink its strategy to meet that sudden increased demand. million since its 2016 inception.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Then in 2016, it launched Roadrunner Financial, a wholly owned-and-operated lender, so that it could offer full spectrum lending, “expand access to credit and speed up transactions through digitization and automation.” Octane describes itself as a remote-first workplace that has offices in New York and Dallas.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Is SoftBank early to its decision to shake up its investing strategy, missing Chinese deals for some time? billion raised, Q2 2021 still did better than every other quarter since Q2 2016 with the exception of Q2 2018, Q4 2020 and Q1 2021. Or is it late? However, that’s only one way to look at the numbers.

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MARCH 11, 2025

simple_w_condition Movie In 2016, which movie was distinguished for its visual effects at the oscars? The goal is to index these five webpages dynamically using a common embedding algorithm and then use a retrieval (and reranking) strategy to retrieve chunks of data from the indexed knowledge base to infer the final answer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The money is an extension to its Series B, closed in May of last year , bringing the total for the round to $95 million, and over $100 million for the Calgary, Canada startup since being founded in 2016. Inovia Capital is leading this latest funding injection, with other unnamed investors participating.

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