Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

But the company later pivoted to create a social payments app. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies. In other words, Circle will have plenty of capital on its hands if the merger goes through. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company is focused on creating a vertically integrated supply chain with a B2B marketplace and a social commerce feature for group buying by consumers. TreeDots was founded in 2017 as a surplus food marketplace for F&B businesses, before it expanded its business to include social commerce, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Cityblock works with community caregivers to work with residents to provide primary care, behavioral health and other services to address social determinants of health, in person and… increasingly… through virtual consultations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers. TipTip founded in October 2021 by Albert Lucius, whose previous startup Kudo was acquired by Grab in 2017. The latest round was led by East Ventures, with participation from returning investors Vertex, SMDV and B.I.G.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Burns joined the firm (formerly known as Google Ventures) in 2017 as a principal, then was promoted to partner last year — making her the first Black female partner at GV, and its youngest partner as well. At GV, she’s invested in high school social app HAGS and social audio app Locker Room.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

million seed round led by Indico Capital Partners , alongside the Social Innovation Fund in Portugal (SIF) and previous investors. Rui Ferreira, vice president at Portugal Ventures, said: “In 2017, when Portugal Ventures invested in Nutrium’s pre-seed round, the company was mainly present in two markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The mobile magazine publishing toolkit they developed was sold to Mic in 2017, but it was only the most recent success in a string of collaborations dating back nearly a decade. Finally it offers a social sharing feature so that other would-be climate warriors can join the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Boasberg of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We We believe Firework empowers businesses to use video to transform their websites into social and storytelling hubs so they can build deeper, long-term relationships with customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

PicPay operates largely as a financial services platform that includes a credit card, a digital wallet similar to that of Apple Pay, a Venmo-style P2P payments element, e-commerce and social networking features. “We million to social projects in Brazil. In December 2020 the company agreed to pay a fine of $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I For many women, trying to access financial services means facing logistical and social barriers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When Countable pivoted in 2017, Canaan Partners invested in the seed round and assisted the company’s transition into an enterprise SaaS organization. “A Instead, Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The startup itself was founded in 2017 by CEO Kelly Nyland and COO Rhenee Bartlett , both previously of Snap. “I realized through that journey that messaging was going to become a really important part of social shopping in the future,” Nyland explains. Image Credits: Whym.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. “There’s already value in what we post on social media. ” A screenshot of Cent’s social platform. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

The app generates a QR code that shows your professional info, including social media links, as soon as someone scans it, even if they don’t have the app installed. Founder and CEO Jarrod Webb was an early Uber Eats operator and software engineer when he created Blinq in 2017 as a hobby.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

The company has a total of $13 million in venture-backed investments since Rise was founded in 2017, founder and CEO Hank Adams told TechCrunch. Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Kafka itself emerged from a LinkedIn internal project in 2011.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Givz was founded in 2017 to make charitable giving more accessible and convenient for the masses. Eniac partner Vic Singh said that there’s been a trend of brands experimenting with different ways to target the socially conscious consumer. . “We Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The last year and a half has been a bumper one for the world of e-commerce — with more traffic, transactions and retailers moving online in the wake of social distancing measures impacting in-person, physical shopping. Fraga is joining Constructor’s board with this round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

“Every single one of these investors has a demonstrated commitment prior to people marching in the streets in April, to social justice and to investing in diversity and inclusion initiatives and people,” said Van Court. “Every single one of them.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2017, when Campos was in her early 20s, she learned to program and created a system to help manage her mental health. He first met Campos when she was participating in an accelerator program in 2017, and then again recently. Andrea Campos has struggled with depression since she was eight years old.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Westbrook’s investment came through Russell Westbrook Enterprises , which previously backed social avatar startup Genies. Founded in 2017, Varo Bank competes with a growing number of all-digital banks operating in the U.S., Varo Bank last year raised $241 million in Series D funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

Since StashAway launched its app in 2017, more robo-advisors have emerged in the same markets it serves. The company says it has outperformed benchmarks since launching in 2017. As investing apps boom, Public doubles down on its social focus. For example, Syfe also caters to new investors. and AutoWealth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry. I believe that the luxury fashion houses of tomorrow are being built today.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Bosta was launched in 2017 by Mohamed Ezzat and Ahmed Gaber. ” E-commerce is a fragmented sector where 80% of transactions come from small businesses selling on Facebook, Instagram and social media in general. This investment comes a year after the company raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Back in 2017, S?kr’s After meeting through social media, where they had become micro-influencers in the van life space, the co-founders decided to build a mobile app for people in the same position. filter them by amenities and services, save favorites and network with others through social features. Image Credits: S?kr

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Between its formation in 2008 and 2017, Deputy didn’t have a CEO, until Ahmed stepped into the position after the startup’s first funding round. During the first ten years of her career, she worked in finance as a founder and investor in socially responsible investments, and women- and minority-owned businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Founded in 2017, Armenia-based DeepCraft specialized in video and image processing and was the country’s first unicorn. The team will also help to complement Picsart’s A.I. research and development arm, PAIR (Picsart AI Research) with additional senior resources, the company says. and cloud technology evolves, it says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Husband and wife Drew and Ashley Rose founded Living Security out of their house in June 2017 with the mission of making cybersecurity training less boring and more effective via gamified learning with live action immersive storylines, role-based micro modules and reporting. I wanted to gamify how I presented training,” she recalls.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While the company was seeing strong growth since its launch in 2017, the pandemic is accelerating the move to smarter office spaces. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s maybe no surprise that VergeSense would be seeing quite a bit of demand for its service and sensors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round. So our courses are not just for graduates or professionals, or people from a specific social class,” he said. We are targeting a wide range of students.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I want to know at what stage did Howard begin to consciously prep Yext for an IPO — the company went public in 2017 — and how long until he felt the company was ready? We’ll spend a little bit of time in the past talking about Yext’s history as a startup. What can startups learn from the choices that Yext has made?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” The companies’ combined valuation stands at over $147 million according to the firm.

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