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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

You might imagine that if two former Twitter chieftains and a longtime C-suite Facebook exec agreed to build a venture firm together, they would chase after nascent social networks. You’d be wrong. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Founded in 2018, Getlabs aims to become the boots-on-the-ground accompaniment to telehealth. Between 2013 and 2018, spending on U.S. citizen got between one and two lab tests done per year; in 2018, the average citizen got five. Or it might be a phlebotomist, ready to do your blood work in the comfort of your living room.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

His expertise lies in artificial neural networks. Along with Yoshua Bengio and Yan LeCun, he has been termed as one of the Godfathers of AI, and co-received the 2018 ACM A.M. Furthermore, he has authored Neural Network Architectures for Artificial Intelligence. He is also one of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

His expertise lies in artificial neural networks. Along with Yoshua Bengio and Yan LeCun, he has been termed as one of the Godfathers of AI, and co-received the 2018 ACM A.M. Furthermore, he has authored Neural Network Architectures for Artificial Intelligence. He is also one of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Indeed, many quickly took to social media to voice their support, broadcast their new diversity-focused networking groups and pledge to do better, particularly when it comes to finding and funding more Black founders and other underrepresented entrepreneurs. As of 2018, 81% of venture firms still lacked a single Black investor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

CloudNatix was founded in 2018 by chief executive officer Rohit Seth, who previously held lead engineering roles at Google. The company’s typical customer spends between $500,000 to $50 million on infrastructure each year, and use at least one cloud service provider in addition on-premise networks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The round included investment from Iterative; Hustle Fund; XA Network; Rapzo Capital; Lazada co-founder Stein Jakabo; and Dot Property founder Ben Neve. Propseller’s last funding announcement was in December 2018, when it raised SGD $1 million (about $737,000) in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Instead, he rejoined Greylock as an EIR for another year before joining Dropbox shortly after it went public in 2018 as its VP of product and growth, leaving that post back in February to start his own thing, he said on his way out the door.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth. To date, Discord has raised $379.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

IBM purchased the company in 2018 for a hefty $34 billion and has been leveraging that acquisition as part of a shift to a hybrid cloud strategy under CEO Arvind Krishna. That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019. The companies did not share the purchase price.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Swarm operates a constellation of 120 sandwich-sized satellites as well as a ground station network. What this means for SpaceX’s operations, particularly its Starlink satellite network, is unclear, as these satellites operate in a different frequency band from that of Swarm. Swarm’s Evaluation Kit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As the crypto world continues to heat up, developers are clinging to the Ethereum network despite its general struggle to meet the stresses of a global network’s transaction load. Sequoia first backed StarkWare back in 2018, though this is the first time leading a round for the startup. billion fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Fraud prevention is big business, which is slated to be worth $145 billion by 2026, ballooning by eightfold in size compared to 2018. ” When an Identiq customer — such as an online store — sees a new customer for the first time, the store can ask other stores in Identiq’s network if they know or trust that new customer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

” The company, founded in 2018, had an exclusive presence in Nigeria before last year. By simply allowing unbanked and underbanked users in Nigeria to send and receive money and pay bills through a network of thousands of agents, OPay has grown at an exponential rate. The company plays in an extremely competitive fintech market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3 million at the end of 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

million round at the end of 2018. With this new round, Netskope continues to rack up large rounds: it raised $340 million last February, which gave it a valuation of nearly $3 billion. Prior to that, it was a $168.7 The reality is we could have raised $1 billion, but we don’t need more capital,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

BP brings to the table access to its network of strategic partners, as well as a wealth of knowledge collected from its 14 previous mobility investments and $27 million invested in India to date. The startup will also be able to leverage BP Ventures’ network to grow its strategic partnerships.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The capital comes at a critical time for Rivian, which is undertaking the design, development, production and delivery of two consumer vehicles (the R1T pickup truck and the R1S SUV), and building out of its electric vehicle charging network as well as fulfilling an order for 100,000 commercial delivery vans for Amazon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. Over the past 18 months, the company has been building out its distribution and agent networks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

With funding from Algorand, FlexID aims to make its decentralized identity network available in emerging markets where over one billion people are estimated to lack formal identification, the startup said in an announcement. Zimbabwean serial entrepreneur Victor Mapunga founded FlexID in 2018 out of his frustration with the banking system.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Rokid shows it’s still around and ready to go global : We had not heard much from Chinese augmented reality company Rokid since 2018, but its new cash infusion of a $160 million Series C round is proving the company is ready to take on more of the enterprise side of the world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. Ko said Summer International differentiates by owning its own distribution network and it also has a network of live commerce and social commerce distributors, mainly micro influencers based in Southeast Asia. “It

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Founded in 2018 by Alex Thomson, Sumarie Greybe and Ernest North, Naked is a digital insurance platform covering cars, content, homes and standalone items. We have come a long way since our launch in 2018 towards meeting these goals…,” said co-founder Alex Thomson. But this is just the start of our journey to reinvent insurance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Incredibuild , an Israeli startup that provides a way for organizations to implement distributed computing architecture to speed up the processing needed for intensive tasks like software development by tapping into a company’s network of idle CPUs, has picked up $140 million in funding. CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Trade wars, military conflicts, the rise of e-commerce and sustainability concerns are driving changes to supply chain networks and trade flows. Seventy-four percent of supply chain companies made changes to their networks within the past two years, according to Gartner. Image Credits: Altana.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

took nearly 39 million trips in 2018 and another 86 million the following year. 2: First custom-designed shared scooters released (fall 2018). That’s why Bird’s vehicle team unveiled the industry’s first custom-designed e-scooter, the Bird Zero , in October of 2018. After an encouraging start, shared e-scooter riders in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 Adewale Opaleye founded Alerzo in 2018 as a last-mile distribution platform that helps retailers stock inventory directly from manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Founded in 2018, New York City-based Level says it’s “rebuilding insurance from the ground up” via flexible networks and real-time claims with the goal of helping employers and employees get the most out of their benefit dollars. . Employers can customize plans to do things like offer 100% coverage across treatments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

It claims to have evolved from marketplace to “superapp” by combining its marketplace platform (which is powered by Trendyol Express, its own last-mile delivery solution) with instant grocery and food delivery through its own courier network (Trendyol Go), its digital wallet (Trendyol Pay), consumer-to-consumer channel (Dolap) and other services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD. Instead, B2B marketplaces are discovering creative new ways to monetize their networks, ensuring their approach is tailored to the complex and nuanced world of B2B e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Afterpay and Square have the potential to build one of the world’s most important payments networks. Square has built a very significant merchant payment network, and, via Cash App, a thriving high-growth consumer payment service. Afterpay and Square have the potential to build one of the world’s most important payments networks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem. ” The Dakar-based platform is akin to PayPal (with mobile money accounts, not bank accounts) runs an agent network that uses their cash on hand to service Wave users. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. The software — Redbird Health Monitoring — is networked across all partner pharmacies and enables patients to build medical testing records after going through 5-minute medical tests offered through these pharmacies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Backers include Techstars Ventures, Beta Bridge Capital, a network of “super angels” placed by ClearList and an oversubscribed SeedInvest campaign. Jeff Myers and Ryan Belanger-Saleh co-founded Gatsby, a commission-free options and stock trading app aimed at younger traders, in 2018.

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MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. This event opens on May 4 at 11:30 am PT / 2:30 pm ET with networking and pitch practice submissions. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou. Register here for free.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

When Operator Collective started in 2018, its idea of cultivating a community of operators as LPs to serve as a resource to its portfolio companies was unique. Yen, a former operator (defined as someone with experience building a company) herself, got the idea for the model back in 2018 when she realized a gap in the market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In an interview, CEO and co-founder Domagoj Rozic described Minka as “a seamless payment network built from the ground up.” The network was designed to connect separate legacy systems through blockchain concepts and APIs “to simplify the movement of complex money flows.”. Image Credits: Minka. That wasn’t the original plan.

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