Vote in the awards by individual category: Hottest AgTech / FoodTech Startup Hottest CleanTech Startup Hottest CyberTech Startup Hottest EdTech Startup Hottest FashTech Startup Hottest FinTech Startup Hottest GovTech, CivTech, PubTech, RegTech Hottest HealthTech Startup Hottest MadTech (MarTech or AdTech) Startup Hottest Mobility Startup Hottest PropTech Startup Hottest Retail / ECommerce Tech Startup Hottest B2B / SaaS Startup Hottest SpaceTech Startup Hottest Tech for Good Startup Hottest Blockchain Project Hottest Blockchain Investor Hottest VC Fund Hottest Seed Fund Hall Of Fame Award The Europas Grand Prix Awards: No public voting, picked by judges.
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Board of Directors ■ Aura Biosciences* (cancer startup) ■ Bristol-Myers Squibb ■ Foghorn Therapeutics (cancer startup) ■ Grail* (cancer testing startup) ■ Infinity Pharmaceuticals* (cancer startup) ■ Varian Medical Systems (radiation equipment) Scientific or Clinical Advisory Board ■ ApoGen Biotechnologies (cancer startup) ■ Aura Biosciences (cancer startup) ■ Grail (cancer testing startup) ■ Juno Therapeutics* ■ Northern Biologics (cancer startup) ■ Paige.
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AI (pathology startup) ■ Peptomyc* (cancer startup) ■ PMV Pharmaceuticals (cancer startup) ■ Seragon Pharmaceuticals* (breast cancer) Founder or Co-Founder ■ Mosaic Biomedicals* ■ Tango Therapeutics (cancer startup) Paid Consultant ■ AstraZeneca* ■ Eli Lilly* ■ Novartis* ■ Roche/Genentech* Board of Directors ■ Aura Biosciences* (cancer startup) ■ Bristol-Myers Squibb ■ Foghorn Therapeutics (cancer startup) ■ Grail* (cancer testing startup) ■ Infinity Pharmaceuticals* (cancer startup) ■ Varian Medical Systems (radiation equipment) Paid Consultant ■ AstraZeneca* ■ Eli Lilly* ■ Novartis* ■ Roche/Genentech* Scientific or Clinical Advisory Board ■ ApoGen Biotechnologies (cancer startup) ■ Aura Biosciences (cancer startup) ■ Grail (cancer testing startup) ■ Juno Therapeutics* ■ Northern Biologics (cancer startup) ■ Paige.
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Awards by category: Hottest Media/Entertainment Startup Hottest E-commerce/Retail Startup Hottest Education Startup Hottest Startup Accelerator Hottest Marketing/AdTech Startup Hottest Games Startup Hottest Mobile Startup Hottest FinTech Startup Hottest Enterprise, SaaS or B2B Startup Hottest Hardware Startup Hottest Platform Economy / Marketplace Hottest Health Startup Hottest Cyber Security Startup Hottest Travel Startup Hottest Internet of Things Startup Hottest Technology Innovation Hottest FashionTech Startup Hottest Tech For Good Hottest A.I. Startup Fastest Rising Startup Of The Year Hottest GreenTech Startup of The Year Hottest Startup Founders Hottest CEO of the Year Best Angel/Seed Investor of the Year Hottest VC Investor of the Year Hottest Blockchain/Crypto Startup Founder(s) Hottest Blockchain Protocol Project Hottest Blockchain DApp Hottest Corporate Blockchain Project Hottest Blockchain Investor Hottest Blockchain ICO (Europe) Hottest Financial Crypto Project Hottest Blockchain for Good Project Hottest Blockchain Identity Project Hall Of Fame Award – Awarded to a long-term player in Europe The Europas Grand Prix Award (to be decided from winners) The Awards celebrates the most forward thinking and innovative tech & blockchain startups across over some 30+ categories.
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Investors, angels, startup community leaders, and startup founders can join to learn more about TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield.
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Startup founders, investors, angels and startup community leaders can join to learn more about TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield.
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Since January alone, it has picked up blockchain startup Mediachain, content recommendation startup MightyTV and audio detection startup Sonalytic.
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Simply buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and showcase your startup alongside 1,200+ companies and sponsors in Startup Alley.
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Then the judges will declare one startup to be TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion — the continent's best startup.
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Every early-stage startup exhibiting in Startup Alley has a shot at participating in Startup Battlefield, our epic pitch competition.
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Startup Battlefield, the world-renowned startup competition, returns — and so does $100,000 in prize money for one extraordinary early-stage startup.
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Startup Battlefield is the premier startup pitch competition and the best way to launch your early-stage startup to the world.
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Here are the best bedding startups to shop at online: Best bedding startup for mattresses: LeesaBest bedding startup for linens: BrooklinenBest bedding startup for fun prints: Crane & CanopyBest organic bedding startup: Boll & Branch Best bedding startup with the coziest offerings: ParachuteBest budget-friendly bedding startup: Brooklyn BeddingPrices and links are current as of 1/28/2020.
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AI (pathology startup) ■ Peptomyc* (cancer startup) ■ PMV Pharmaceuticals (cancer startup) ■ Seragon Pharmaceuticals* (breast cancer) Founder or Co-Founder ■ Mosaic Biomedicals ■ Tango Therapeutics (cancer startup) Source: Analysis by The New York Times and ProPublica.
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The startup is launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield.
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Don't forget about Startup Battlefield, our premier startup pitch competition.
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Crunchbase News also created its own fictional startup — drone chicken delivery startup Internet of Wings — in an explainer series on startup funding.
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Every startup that exhibits in Startup Alley has a chance to win a Wild Card entry to the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.
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Startup Battlefield begins at 11:15am with Startup Battlefield moderator and Senior Writer Anthony Ha.To learn more about Startup Battlefield, click here.
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Startup Battlefield begins at 10:45am with Startup Battlefield moderator and Senior Writer Anthony Ha. To learn more about Startup Battlefield, click here.
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Say you see a particularly promising startup compete in Startup Battlefield.
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Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield, our epic startup pitch competition.
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We started this little startup before it was called a startup.
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Or, even better, bring your startup and exhibit in Startup Alley.
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Meet Station, a startup that was created by startup studio eFounders.
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French startup Yomoni is a promising fintech startup operating robo-advisors.
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And now, meet the Startup Battlefield winners of Startup Battlefield Africa.
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Your startup is just another startup looking for a soft landing.
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French fintech startup Bankin is partnering with another fintech startup, Yomoni.
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TechCrunch-Curated Startup Pavilions Care to check out hot startup categories?
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Every Top Pick startup receives a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package.
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Know a startup we should feature on Startup of the Week ?
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Competitions Disrupt is world-famous for its startup competition, Startup Battlefield.
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Startup Battlefield will kick off at 2:00pm PT with Startup Battlefield session moderator Anthony Ha. To learn more about Startup Battlefield, click here.
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Grow Mobility, the entity that consists of electric scooter startup Grin, and bike and scooter-share startup Yellow, has merged with payments startup Flinto.
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The six-story Startup Lisboa building started as the city's main startup hub, which from 2011 has acted as the city's founding startup incubator.
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Every year, TechCrunch dives deep into the international startup scene to find innovative startups to compete in Startup Battlefield – TechCrunch's famous global startup competition.
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Only one startup will be named the winner of Startup Battlefield Australia.
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The French startup competed in round one of Startup Battlefield SF 2015.
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Before everybody started doing a startup competition, there was the Startup Battlefield.
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Money goes into a startup in exchange for shares in the startup.
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Launch your startup in the world's most famous pitch competition, Startup Battlefield.
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There's no better startup launch pad than our world-renowned Startup Battlefield.
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Yeah, you were at a startup, it was a startup, people forget.
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Take in Startup Battlefield, our premier startup pitch competition, to see which early-stage startup will reign supreme and take home the $50,000 grand prize.
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Wild Card shot at Startup Battlefield Exhibit in Startup Alley for a chance to win a Wild Card entry to the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.
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One startup will earn the title of best startup in the Middle East and North Africa and reign as champion of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018.
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She's now raised her own fund, Blossom Capital, which has already made interesting bets on marketplace startup Fat Llama, AI startup Spell, and travel startup Duffel.
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Every early-stage startup that exhibits in Startup Alley is eligible for a chance to win a Wild Card entry to the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.
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Investors, angels, startup community leaders, and startup founders can join us to hear about TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield and about our other activities, followed by informal networking.
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The buzzy $2.6 billion credit card startup announced Tuesday that it had acquired blockchain startup Neji, web publishing startup Compose Labs, and internal database company Landria.
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Only one startup will emerge as the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion.
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Startup talent is increasingly begetting startup talent, spinning out and circulating their knowledge.
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Jetpack is a pivot from Dicko's first startup, MyBestBox, a subscription box startup.
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And of course companies will compete in Startup Battlefield, our premier startup competition.
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Neesha Tambe is the head of Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch's global startup launch competition.
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And if you're interested in pitching your startup for Startup Battlefield, apply here.
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The company has a presence through events like Startup Week and Startup Weekends.
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In 2015, Twitter also acquired machine learning startup Whetlab, a five-person startup.
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And it ran a startup competition and various incubator initiatives such as the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend, and a 10-week educational program called Jumpstart Your Startup.
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We hand-picked all these great companies from the wild world of startup land so they could compete in our highly competitive startup competition — the Startup Battlefield.
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Bangalore-based Instamojo, which helps small merchants, education startup Unacademy, mobility firm Bounce, recruiting startup Springworks, and social commerce startup Meesho have all enforced a similar policy.
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The startup was a finalist at TC Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield finalist in 2018.
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Eric Ries's 2011 book, The Lean Startup, said no—a startup is a lab.
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Or maybe you want to plant your early-stage startup flag in Startup Alley.
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One startup will emerge victorious to become the first TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA champion.
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For those of you who don't know, Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch's startup launch competition.
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Few startup founders are truly exceptional, and it's hard to build an amazing startup.
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Startup Battlefield is the preeminent startup-pitch competition that's launched more than 750 companies.
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Startup Refugees functions as a combination between a startup incubator and a talent agency.
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Startup Step-By-Step is about my effort to build a startup called Freemit.
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Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch's premier startup competition and bastion of media and investor attention.
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Only one startup will claim the auspicious title of Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion.
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Plus, all Startup Battlefield teams join the ranks of the Startup Battlefield alumni community.
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You'll also get three minutes to pitch your startup from Startup Alley's Showcase Stage.
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If you've never attended our premier startup pitch competition, here's how Startup Battlefield works.
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Early-stage startup founders know that M&Ms are essential ingredients for startup success.
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If this was startup one or startup two, would you have sold it already?
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Each winning startup will have a three-minute slot on the Showcase Stage, in the heart of Startup Alley, to pitch their startup to thousands of Disrupt attendees.
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She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders.
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The six members of startup Woomoo's team The six members of startup Woomoo's team Woomoo, the startup behind app prototyping tool POP, has been acqui-hired by Priceline.
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Some of its newest bets include LabDoor, a startup that tests and rates supplements (we wrote about it here); MissionU, a still-stealth education startup; legal discovery startup TextIQ (more on the company here), and a Mexico City-based delivery startup called Rappi.
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The Portuguese startup community has also not sat on its hands, producing regular blogs and media out of the tech startup scene, and even creating its own Startup Manifesto.
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Each winning startup will have a three-minute slot on the Showcase Stage, in the heart of Startup Alley, to pitch their startup to the thousands of Disrupt attendees.
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The buzzy credit card startup was everywhere at TechCrunch's annual startup conference Disrupt, with prime placement in the famed Startup Alley exhibition area and three panel apparences on Wednesday.
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Because you're saying it's a startup in Silicon Valley, but it just happened to be a startup that is in Silicon Valley, not that is a Silicon Valley startup.
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TechCrunch editors will pick one early-stage startup exhibiting in the Alley to be the Wild Card, and that startup will compete in Startup Battlefield, our epic pitch competition.
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Startup Battlefield starts today, Wednesday, October 24nd, at 215:153 pm with Startup Battlefield moderator and TechCrunch Senior Writer Anthony Ha. To learn more about Startup Battlefield, click here.
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What's more, we've doubled the prize money for Startup Battlefield, the top startup pitch competition.
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All Startup Battlefield participants get to exhibit in Startup Alley for the duration of Disrupt.
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Consider this: Every company that competes in Startup Battlefield joins the Startup Battlefield alumni community.
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When the startup was short of cash, it evolved into a startup school with Koudetat.
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Only one startup will emerge victoriously and claim the title: Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion.
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Competing in Startup Battlefield is the best way to launch your startup to the world.
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Those are two huge, compelling reasons to place your early-stage startup in Startup Alley.
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Beam wins Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield The winner of Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield is…Beam!
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For those who aren't yet familiar, the Startup Battlefield is a world-renowned startup competition.
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The firm has also recently invested in blockchain startup Ledger and cloud OS startup Hadean.
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Justin Kan, CEO of corporate law startup Atrium, sold his first startup for $1 billion.
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Wild Card shot at the Startup Battlefield competition Missed out on the Startup Battlefield applications?
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The survey also found that startup founders are increasingly worried about the startup "bubble" popping.
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These include Anjney Midha's augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 (raised $37M+), Shubham Goel's investor-focused CRM startup Affinity (raised $13M+), Bruno Faviero's AI security software startup Synapse (raised $6M+), Amanda Bradford's dating app The League (raised $2M+), and Dillon Chen's blockchain startup Commonwealth Labs (raised $2.03M).
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Following the release of the City of Toronto's Startup Eco-system Strategy in 2015, the city launched StartUp HERE Toronto, a website built and managed by startup influencers to feature startup news and events and put a spotlight on entrepreneurs in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor.
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The two-day Disrupt conference runs December 5-6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield, where one startup will take home £30,000.
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If you're looking for a way to launch your pre-Series A startup to the world, there's no better platform for that than TechCrunch's premier startup-pitch competition, Startup Battlefield.
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On Monday along with TechCrunch editors, attendees vote for their favorite startup and choose a Wild Card Winner, and that lucky startup goes on to compete in the Startup Battlefield.
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The two-day Disrupt conference runs 5-6 December in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000.
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The two-day conference runs December 1003 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000.
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The two-day conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000.
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And every Startup Battlefield team gets to join the ranks of the Startup Battlefield alumni community.
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Every time Accel invests in a startup, it's an instant positive sign in the startup community.
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Promoting a startup is something I usually do rather well, especially when the startup is mine.
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The startup joined IBM Research to demo the new service at Startup Battlefield Africa in Lagos.
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There's no better place to introduce your pre-Series A startup to the international startup community.
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The judges confer and will declare one startup to be Latin America's first Startup Battlefield champion.
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If you're a startup in the enterprise space, we still have some startup demo tables available!
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Of course, Disrupt wouldn't be Disrupt without Startup Battlefield, the world-famous early-stage startup competition.
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Creating a startup is hard, but creating a bank with startup-like growth is even harder.
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He also has a site for startup job postings and a startup discovery site called BetaList.
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From the final five, one exceptional startup will be named Latin America's first Startup Battlefield champion.
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General Motors bought self-driving startup Cruise Automation in 2016, and the startup Strobe in October.
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"Fastest-rising startup," said Peretti of Postmates, referring to the category the startup was nominated in.
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The judges confer and select one outstanding startup as the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion.
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The startup is launching its product into private beta today at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin's Startup Battlefield.
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As a startup, I really am interested in this idea of being a startup right now.
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We'd especially like to invite all you international startup organizations to apply for a country pavilion in Startup Alley at Disrupt, one of our favorite Startup Alley staples in recent years.
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The attendees in Startup Alley might even vote your startup as a Wild Card company, which would let you participate in the Startup Battlefield pitch competition for a $50,000 cash prize.
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The two-day Disrupt conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000.
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Why your CSO, not your CMO, should pitch your security startup Zack Whittaker argues that no startup of any size — especially a security startup — should be without a chief security officer.
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The two-day Disrupt conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield, where one startup will take home £30,000.
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Xiaomi-backed electric toothbrush startup Soocas raises $30M Xiaomi-backed electric toothbrush startup Soocas raises $30M Startup cash Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play
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Firms that Grove has backed include fabless IoT semiconductor startup Wiliot, API marketplace RapidAPI, autonomous vehicle startup TriEye, next-generation manufacturing startup 3DSignals and a number of startups still in stealth.
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One of the other fabulous opportunities for any startup exhibiting in Startup Alley (including Top Picks) is the chance to be voted the Startup Battlefield Wildcard by Alley attendees and TechCrunch editors.
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Part fashion startup, part tech startup, Stitch Fix has morphed into a massive e-commerce startup and is a big success story for Lake in the midst of a lot of competition.
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Brex, the $2.6 billion credit card startup for other startups, announced Tuesday that it had acquired blockchain startup Neji, web publishing startup Compose Labs, and internal database company Landria for undisclosed amounts.
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Dahmakan, a Malaysian 'full-stack' food delivery startup, raises $18M Series B Launched by former executives from Foodpanda, Dahmakan was the first Malaysian startup to participate in Y Combinator's startup accelerator program.
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Attention startup hopefuls: It's time to stop procrastinating and apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London.
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Every Startup Battlefield contestant, regardless of the outcome, joins the ranks of the Startup Battlefield Alumni community.
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Founders who exhibit in Startup Alley might just win a shot to compete in the Startup Battlefield.
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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018, our premier startup pitch competition, takes place October 3 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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You'd be hard pressed to call Quantum Inventions a startup, although it certainly operating in startup style.
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TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield is the world's preeminent startup competition and is at the very heart of Disrupt.
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For those of you who don't yet know, the Startup Battlefield is a world-renowned startup competition.
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One is that the only good generic startup advice is that there's no good generic startup advice.
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Founder Yin Wu previously created lockscreen startup Echo (acquired by Microsoft in 2015) and laundry startup Prim.
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The judges confer and will ultimately name one startup to be Latin America's first Startup Battlefield champion.
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The Portland-based startup had previously raised $800,000 in startup capital and $3 million in convertible notes.
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Not to mention legendary events like Startup Battlefield, the startup competition that's launched more than 750 companies.
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That's the nickname Kansas City earned for its startup culture, which includes LaunchKC, a local startup accelerator.
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Note: You must be a verified early-stage (pre-series A) startup to exhibit in Startup Alley.
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Local startup Mashvisor was the first ever Palestinian startup to be accepted into the 500 Startups accelerator.
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The company plans to develop a hybrid model between a traditional startup accelerator and a startup studio.
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Fifteen startups are launching in Startup Battlefield and hundreds of young companies are exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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Earlier this year, the food-delivery startup became the first startup to operate in all 50 states.
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In my view, no startup of any size — especially a security startup — should be without a CSO.
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It has backed German neobank N26, business expense management startup Divvy, and payment fraud monitoring startup Sift.
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The odds are long for any startup, and the odds for a social startup are even longer.
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Not only that, all Startup Battlefield competitors get to exhibit in Startup Alley for the entire show.
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The startup reckoning Shock and frustration are common feelings among startup employees now left in the lurch.
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" - Alex Sharp, startup founder "The K-Swiss Startup is an eco-conscious sneaker built for the entrepreneur.
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It was a big day for startup Render, which participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield today.
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London-based fintech startup Uncapped offers capital to other startup businesses, but without taking an equity share.
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What startup CSOs can learn from three enterprise security experts How do you keep your startup secure?
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The two-day Disrupt conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home $50,000 (about £40,600).
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As a Startup Alley exhibitor, your company might even get selected as the Startup Battlefield Wildcard — if they do, you get to compete in Startup Battlefield for a shot at the $100,000 prize.
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And we mean every startup — Startup Alley Exhibitor Package holders, our recently announced TC Top Picks, members of a Country Pavilion — no matter how you come to exhibit in Startup Alley, you're eligible.
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For instance, Pathfinder helps big companies become digital companies, Lion educates startup employees and Kymono sells startup sweatshirts.
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We're beyond excited to welcome thousands of startup movers, shakers and makers to Europe's premier tech startup conference.
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Launching on the Disrupt 225 Startup Battlefield stage, the Danish startup Poshtel is really, really into shipping containers.
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You'll have an opportunity to meet investors, startup founders and other folks in the startup community as well.
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In its eighth year, Startup Turkey, a gathering of 53, is one of the country's premier startup events.
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If you're part of Africa's rapidly evolving startup scene, you don't want to miss this Startup Battlefield event.
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You were a famous startup, does the startup environment feel ... It feels desiccated in a lot of ways.
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If you're an early-stage enterprise startup you can grab a startup demo table for just $2K here.
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The startup was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, who sold their previous startup TapCommerce to Twitter.
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In the journey of a startup founder, few things are more valuable than a truly excellent startup lawyer.
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Our world-renown startup pitch competition is yet another thrilling way to launch your startup to the world.
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Investors, angels, startup community leaders, and startup founders are welcome to join us and network over a drink.
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Dickey built the tool to help the startup community while showing off what his own startup can do.
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Let's assume this startup is in a mature startup space where investors are looking for good revenue traction.
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Startup Battlefield Alumni Startup Battlefield Alumni Disrupt SF will take place from September 12-14 at Pier 48.
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By participating in Startup Alley, each participant has the chance to get voted into the Startup Battlefield competition.
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He was an early investor in food delivery startup Deliveroo, and has also invested in scooter startup Bird.
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And the Startup Battlefield editors coach the founders to make brilliant pitches onstage at the Startup Battlefield event.
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Only a startup would conceive of work without money, because in Startup Land a "valuation" is quasi-fictional.
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" Oren agrees that "the Israeli startup scene (as the rest of the startup world) is still male-dominated.
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"I've lived life with a startup and without it, and I'm always happier in a startup," Kelly said.
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To stop Steam from opening at startup, you'll need to remove it from your computer's startup applications list.
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How to disable startup programs in Windows 10You can also disable startup programs via the Task Manager. 1.
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One of those companies is Sugarlogix, a Berkeley biotech startup that recently graduated from the Indiebio startup accelerator.
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For anyone who may be a little late to the game, Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch's startup launch competition.
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Liquid 2 Ventures is also an investor in logistics startup Lori Systems, the 2017 Startup Battlefield Africa winner.
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Just about every startup company does software these days, and even non-startup companies do their own software.
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Companies selected to pitch at Startup Battlefield receive intensive training over several weeks with the Startup Battlefield team.
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Why do startup investors take a long time to decide (and how can startup founders shorten that cycle)?
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We have included three tech-specific awards: Hottest AI Startup, Hottest Blockchain Project and Hottest Quantum Computing startup.
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Open Garden, too, competed in our Startup Battlefield in 2012 and won our award for most innovative startup.
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TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT LONDON The two-day Disrupt conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000.
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If you have a startup and want to participate in Startup Alley, you can get three tickets for the price of two by purchasing an extra early-bird Startup Alley package using that same link.
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She is credited with pushing France to become a startup nation, before current president Emmanuel Macron adopted the term, and has backed businesses including speaker startup Devialet, Uber rival Taxify, and German travel startup GetYourGuide.
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Startup founders and startup investors are going through changesA few inquiring minds have asked why we chose the title Founder Frenemies for our special report on the state of affairs in Silicon Valley's startup scene.
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Leveraging the luxury of having a small startup scene — necessarily so, the whole country only has a population of 5m — the government-led startup support infrastructure is reaching a tremendous proportion of Norwegian startup companies.
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Along with exploring all the new tech products, services and companies on display in Startup Alley, you'll get to watch — or maybe even compete in — Startup Battlefield, the most exciting startup pitch competition, bar none.
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Though none have been quite as dramatic in scale as WeWork, layoffs have also plagued dog-walking startup Wag, car subscription startup Fair, construction company Katerra and, just yesterday, reportedly, at food robotics startup Zume.
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That's the vision fueling Hamwells, a Netherlands-based startup that launched in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London 2015.
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And that, startup fans, is merely a taste of the informative presentations taking place at Startup Battlefield MENA 2018.
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Founded by Chan in 2013, Foundr is an entrepreneurial magazine run by the startup-obsessed for the startup crowd.
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In the novel Startup, published on April 25, titular company TakeOff checks all the boxes for a bewildering startup.
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Mastercard, which runs a six-month startup program to help companies scale, only invests when the startup needs it.
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Disrupt offers plenty of startup action — world-class speakers, Startup Battlefield, hundreds of exhibitors, workshops, a hackathon and more.
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I think what's tough being a startup right now is you want to make concentrated bets, as a startup.
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On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash has partnered with mRelief, a startup focused on helping people access food stamps.
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From that impressive cohort, the judges will select one startup as the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018.
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Go deeper: Geothermal energy startup spins off of Alphabet's research arm New cash for geothermal startup with Google ties
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How the Startup Battlefield works with Anthony Ha 1:45 PM – 2:35 PM Startup Battlefield Competition – Session 1
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How the Startup Battlefield works with Anthony Ha 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM Startup Battlefield Competition – Session 3
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To fuel the fight, Twitter acquired a visual intelligence startup called Madbits, and Whetlab, an AI neural networks startup.
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In addition to onstage panel sessions and fireside chats, Disrupt NY will also feature Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley.
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TheFamily is now an important French startup accelerator, an entrepreneur school and a startup studio for big corporate clients.
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When Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based startup accelerator, announces a request for startup applications, it causes a stir.
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"Attending Disrupt and exhibiting in Startup Alley is the best training ground for early-stage startup founders," said Hall.
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One startup founder to go public in his criticism is Tom Adeyoola, founder of virtual fitting room startup Metail.
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Fintech startup Klarna grew thanks to its e-commerce payment service, but now the startup is diversifying a bit.
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Extra Crunch managing editor Eric Eldon has published his deep-dive package into startup law and startup attorneys today.
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Some workers are indeed hopping from startup to startup every six months, or working as quasi-freelancers for Uber.
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Don't miss your opportunity to showcase your outstanding startup in Startup Alley and enjoy a VIP experience — for free.
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One of Europe's biggest startup investors has a new $400 million fund to focus on early-stage startup investments.
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Remember, being a part of Startup Alley means you'll get access to CrunchMatch, Disrupt's startup and investor matching program.
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I mean, I have found being ... I've been a very early startup employee in Vox's, I guess, theoretical startup.
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This is one of the things where being a media startup is way different than being a tech startup.
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The hope is that the companies can retain a startup ethos, and startup tech talent, under larger corporate owners.
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It's free, and a great way to showcase your startup to the people who can supercharge your startup dreams.
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It's a sizable presence for the startup, which was founded in Pittsburgh in 2005 as a robotic toy startup.
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Each exhibiting startup has a shot at being chosen as a Wild Card and competing in the Startup Battlefield.
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So far, Startup Battlefield pitch competitions have launched 857 stellar tech companies, which form our Startup Battlefield alumni community.
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And the startup selected as a Wild Card gets to compete in the Startup Battlefield for the $50,000 prize.
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Here are the most overhyped tech startup trends, according to 950 startup founders and employees surveyed by First Round.
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The real-estate startup WeWork is recruiting for a new startup incubator called Area 51 Paradise Ranch, Wired reported.
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If your mobility startup makes the cut, you receive a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes a one-day exhibit space in Startup Alley, three founder passes good for all three days of the show, use of CrunchMatch — our investor-to-startup matching platform — and access to the event press list.
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Every startup selected as a TC Top Pick receives a free Startup Alley Exhibition package, invitations to special events at Disrupt SF — like the investor reception — and prime real estate in the Startup Alley exhibition hall.
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Finally, after a long, exhausting day of bearing witness to incredible technology, the judges declare one startup as the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 champion and the best startup in the Middle East and North Africa.
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I was at a startup and we were running out of money, so I started talking ... What startup was that?
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This region's impressive tech startup scene is growing rapidly, and it's an exciting time and place to be a startup.
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The Indian startup scene is still young, but it has surpassed Israel to become the third-biggest startup market worldwide.
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Create a startup that uses a major survey to analyse the data of every startup in the country, of course!
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Come for Startup Battlefield, the premier startup competition and the best platform for launching early-stage startups to the world.
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Early-stage startup entrepreneurs now have an extra week to complete their applications and compete in Disrupt Berlin's Startup Battlefield.
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It's reportedly also now also buying a bike-sharing startup in China, Bluegogo, after investing in another bike startup, Ofo.
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TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier startup and technology conference, first took the European startup community by storm way back in 2013.
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But there's more— with your Startup Alley Exhibitor package, you'll get access to CrunchMatch, Disrupt's startup and investor matching program.
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Gupta's plan is to join another San Francisco-based startup as COO, but it's not clear what that startup is.
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All companies exhibiting in Startup Alley — including Top Picks — become eligible for a Wild Card spot in the Startup Battlefield.
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Every year, TechCrunch chooses an elite cohort of startups to compete in Startup Battlefield — TechCrunch's premier global startup launch competition.
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The app lists everyone attending, including Startup Alley exhibitors, Startup Battlefield contestants, investors, sponsors, speakers, and media (including TechCrunch staff).
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If your pitch impresses, you might be crowned the Startup Alley Wild Card Winner — and compete in the Startup Battlefield.
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Startup Battlefield, the Hackathon, Q&A Sessions and the hundreds of early-stage startups displaying innovative tech in Startup Alley.
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At Disrupt NY 2017, RecordGram exhibited in Startup Alley, earned the Wild Card and won the Startup Battlefield competition — sweet!
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Our goal is to encourage founders to apply to Startup Battlefield because, who doesn't want a shot at startup stardom?
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Disrupt wouldn't be Disrupt without the Startup Battlefield, the best pitch-competition platform for launching your startup to the world.
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Unicorn eCommerce startup Klarna and digital payments startup Modo announced a new strategic partnership this morning at Money20/20 Europe.
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Pan-African e-commerce startup Jumia's recent IPO filing on the NYSE is a first for any startup from Africa.
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In the Startup Battlefield and the Startup Alley, they'll be introduced to some pretty awesome international startups across many verticals.
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The rise of venture arms and startup acquisitions will factor more prominently than IPOs in creating Africa's early startup successes.
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Remember, being a part of Startup Alley means you'll also get access to CrunchMatch, Disrupt's startup and investor matching program.
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Two companies from Startup Alley will be tapped to participate in the Startup Battlefield competition as the Wild Card companies.
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And from those five finalists comes one shining startup to be named champion of the first Startup Battlefield Latin America.
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More than 300 companies will exhibit on the Startup Alley floor, and another 12 will compete in our Startup Battlefield.
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Silicon Valley's premier early-stage startup extravaganza focuses on founders, investors and startup experts determined to disrupt and reshape technology.
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Launched by former executives from Foodpanda, Dahmakan was the first Malaysian startup to participate in Y Combinator's startup accelerator program.
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A year ago, I became a venture capitalist after 23 years as a startup founder and early-stage startup executive.
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In 2013, when we first launched Startup Day, startup activity was at its lowest point in the last twenty years.
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The company acquired image-recognition startup Magic Pony last June, bringing employees from the startup on to the Cortex team.
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Startup Battlefield Finals: 3:40pm – 4:55pm _________________________________________________ 9:30 am – 53:35 am: Welcome Remarks from Brian Heater (TechCrunch) 9:35 am – 10:40 am: Startup Battlefield – Session 1 TechCrunch's iconic startup competition is back in Africa!
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Each day of Startup Alley, conference attendees vote for their favorite Startup Alley company of the day, and the startup that gets a combination of the most attendee and editorial votes gets an entry into the Battlefield.
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After a couple of startup internships, I got accepted to UC Berkeley and that gave me even more exposure to the startup ecosystem with all of the startup events and resources that UC Berkeley had to offer.
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From December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village's Copper Box Arena, you see see incredible speakers and visit the enormous Startup Alley, as well as the famous Startup Battlefield where one startup will take home £30,000.
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Ultimately, Crawford landed in the tech startup world, hopping from Series A startup to Series A startup, offering up her product marketing skills before her daughter's idea prompted her to go into business on her own again.
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" — A startup sales executive in Mountain View "MSA's, NDAs, etc" — A startup sales executive in New York "Turnaround time, flexible and creative solutions to complex problems, deep understanding of challenges that growth stage and startup companies face.
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Here's how one co-founder, David Hall of Park & Diamond, describes his Startup Alley experience: Exhibiting in Startup Alley is the best training ground for early-stage startup founders, and it was a game-changer for us.
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" — A startup sales director in Seattle "Impeccable knowledge in IP and Contracts" — A Maryland based startup sales director "Helped achieve great results with a startup employment contract" — Head of talent for a startup in San Francisco/Seattle "Adam is there to look at any sort of document whenever needed to get a deal done.
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The map was built by Snapchat with the help of mapping technology from a San Francisco startup called MapBox, and resembles the product from another location-sharing startup called Zenly, a Benchmark-backed startup that Snapchat recently acquired.
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Last year, his startup Satago — a U.K.-based fintech startup looking to help small business owners get paid on time — was a Startup Battlefield finalist and wound up raising £4.6 million in funding from ESF Capital shortly afterward.
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The startup debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016, where it was plucked out of the Startup Alley as one of the Startup Battlefield Wild Card winners, and earned the chance to pitch onstage to judges and VCs.
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Recent investments include Ribbon, a real estate tech startup that brought in $225 million in October; Basis, a cryptocurrency startup that raised $133 million in April; and messaging startup Attentive, which closed a $13 million round in February.
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In fact, a portable ultrasound company just won TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield in Lagos: Ultra-affordable ultrasound startup M-SCAN wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa Iota's approach, however, has little to do with these traditional uses of the technology.
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Each year, TechCrunch chooses a select number of innovative startups to compete in Startup Battlefield — TechCrunch's premier global startup launch competition.
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You'll get to check out promising early-stage international companies in the Startup Alley, Hardware Alley, and the Startup Battlefield competition.
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Whether or not you earn a Wild Card or compete in Startup Battlefield, exhibiting in Startup Alley offers almost infinite opportunity.
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Darkstore's roster of customers includes mattress startup Tuft & Needle, premium headphones maker Master & Dynamic, clothing brand Wildfang and sofa startup Burrow.
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After a couple of months, you should be ready to start a startup or join a startup as a software engineer.
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For all of you time-strapped startup founders hoping to apply to TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Latin America, we have good news!
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We host the Startup Battlefield because finding and telling the stories of entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem is in TechCrunch's DNA.
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Buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package or apply to be a TC Top Pick and exhibit in Startup Alley for free.
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We will also stage Startup Battlefield, which, in case you haven't heard, is tops in the crowded field of startup competitions.
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Building a startup is hard, but building a startup that manages your bank account is even harder given the increased scrutiny.
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It starts with a free Startup Alley Exhibition package which, among other things, includes a full day exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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We believe in a pan-European startup ecosystem and we look forward to seeing more opportunities in this emerging startup hub.
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Past YC Africa alumns covered here at TechCrunch include payments startup Paystack, logistics firm Kobo360 and VOD startup Afrostream (now shuttered).
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Don't miss Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch's famous pitch competition — and who can resist the hundreds of innovative startups exhibiting in Startup Alley?
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Called Boundless, the startup had spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and raised a $3.5 million seed round.
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If you're selected, you'll get a free Startup Alley Exhibition Package good for one full day of exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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The startup launched in late 2014, and has so far been bootstrapped, besides winning NZ$143,000 in a local startup competition.
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One startup capitalizing on this is Yuanfudao, a six-year-old startup that has attracted a line of big-name investors.
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That's something being worked on by Startup Battlefield company Brightlamp, a computer vision and machine learning startup out of Purdue University.
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In Korea, once you fail in your first startup, then it's hard for you to get investment for your second startup.
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You'll get to check out promising early-stage international companies in the Startup Alley, Hardware Alley and the Startup Battlefield competition.
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We can also turn the unemployment office into the startup office, pointing people in the direction of startup resources and communities.
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Watch the Startup Battlefield competition — heck, if you're the founder of an early-stage startup, you should definitely apply to compete.
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It starts with three Founder Passes, one day to exhibit in Startup Alley and access to the Startup Alley Exhibitor lounge.
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This French startup — a cloud-based call center solution — competed in the first round of Startup Battlefield San Francisco in 2015.
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You were here during the dot-com boom, had a startup, sold your startup, left for a little bit, came back.
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Marino and his co-founder/CTO Brunno Attorre met at the Cornell Tech Startup Studio, where they won the Startup Award.
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With FDA clearance finally out of the way, however, the Redwood City-based startup medical startup is ready to start talking.
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This month's Startup Ethiopia also showcased high-potential early-stage ventures, such as payment company YenaPay and online food startup Deamat.
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Startup Alley organizes exhibitors into 10 featured pavilions based on categories currently generating a lot of startup buzz and investor interest.
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Startup Battlefield was featured throughout the first season, following the fictional startup Pied Piper and their efforts to win the competition.
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Opera founded startup OPay raises $50M for mobile finance in Nigeria Africa's startup boom is moving into the used-vehicle space.
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Day job: The head of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that is at the center of the Silicon Valley startup world.
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Everybody's creating a startup financial machine, you don't have a startup business, my friend, you have a start up financial machine!
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If you're a founder, there's no better place to introduce your early-stage startup to the European and international startup scene.
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The twice-annual startup pitch event rivals suburban garages and nondescript hoodies as an icon of the Silicon Valley startup scene.
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Did you know that every startup that exhibits in Startup Alley has a shot at being chosen as a Wild Card?
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Make the most of that opportunity — exhibit in Startup Alley and take your shot at the Wild Card and Startup Battlefield.
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It looks like TikTok has acquired Jukedeck, a pioneering music AI UK startup The startup — which won our Startup Battlefield in London — was building technology to do things like interpret a video and automatically set music to it. 6.
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TechCrunch is excited to be partnering with Facebook to bring our illustrious startup competition, the Startup Battlefield, to Nairobi, Kenya later this year, and we're looking for some promising startups to take part in the inaugural Startup Battlefield Africa.
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Fish food company MiniPro wins startup pitching competition I was surprised to find a fish food company winning a startup pitching competition; but on closer reflection, it's the perfect story to illustrate why Norway's isn't like other startup ecosystems.
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On-demand food delivery startup Munchery is ceasing operations effective immediately, the startup announced in an e-mail to customers on Monday.
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Together, the deal is the largest piece of funding for a Philippines-based startup in history, although Voyager is hardly a startup.
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Colombian crowd factoring startup Mesfix and Brazilian financial planning services startup QueroQuitar were selected as finalists to present at the Seedstars Summit.
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The startup is both a media company and a tech startup that wants to empower tech companies when it comes to recruitment.
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"There's a new startup model coming out of Shenzhen," said Eli Harris, whose startup Ecoflow is building the River Mobile Power Station.
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We're looking for delegations of international startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators to claim a country pavilion in Startup Alley.
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Startup Life One of the primary tools we gained from the Alchemist Accelerator was that a startup is a hypothesis testing machine.
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And there's no better way to take advantage of all that opportunity than to exhibit your early-stage startup in Startup Alley.
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Starting today, with our coverage of startup lawyers and startup law, we are beginning a long-term effort to solve these problems.
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The celebrity gossip and news startup The Shade Room is back on Facebook, the startup announced today, albeit under a new moniker.
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In addition to Tesla and SpaceX, he is involved with the Boring Company, a tunneling startup, and Neuralink, an artificial-intelligence startup.
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One of these 15 startups will receive the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Top European startup award along with €25,000 in equity-free money.
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One company will earn the title of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 champion and the best startup in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Who knows, attendees might even choose your startup as a WildCard company, which means you get to compete in the Startup Battlefield.
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In addition to Startup Battlefield, we have exciting panels covering many facets of startup funding in Africa, as well as the blockchain.
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We urge early-stage startup founders to apply if you meet these basic requirements: Startup Battlefield Latin America goes down on Nov.
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Today, the SoftBank-backed startup announced its acquisition of Drivy, a Paris-headquartered car-sharing startup that operates in 170 European cities.
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But before we outline the details, please remember — if you're a startup — that you should be thinking about applying for Startup Battlefield.
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Maybe your startup has what it takes to compete in the Startup Battlefield or be selected for the TC Top Picks program.
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You certainly won't want to miss out on Startup Battlefield, the world's leading startup competition and the crown jewel of Disrupt events.
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In the Startup Central, our zone dedicated to startup life, we'll be covering everything from seed funding to Series B and beyond.
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We're excited to be partnering with Facebook to bring our illustrious startup competition, the Startup Battlefield, to Nairobi, Kenya later this year.
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Silicon Valley gut-health startup uBiome has filed for bankruptcy protection, capping months of challenges and setbacks for the once-buzzy startup.
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French startup FretLink is using all the tips in the startup handbook and applying them to a neglected industry — the trucking industry.
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Also, Startup Alley companies have the opportunity to be selected as a "Wild Card" and participate in the famous Startup Battlefield competition.
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If you think your startup can withstand the heat, keep checking our site to see when the Startup Battlefield application portal opens.
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The judges will confer and ultimately declare one finalist to be the Startup Battlefield champion and Latin America's best early-stage startup.
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You have an opportunity to showcase your startup to thousands of potential investors, founders, collaborators and customers in Startup Alley — for free.
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Also, Startup Alley companies have the opportunity to be selected as a 'Wild Card' and participate in the famous Startup Battlefield competition.
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Glovo described PizzaPortal as Poland's biggest food-delivery startup, potentially meaning the Spanish startup will lead the market after the acquisition. Pyszne.
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What's more, every startup that exhibits gets a shot at the Wild Card — which means a spot to compete in Startup Battlefield.
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Think you have what it takes to compete in Startup Battlefield and launch your company on the world's most famous startup stage?
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After selling autonomous driving startup Scotty Labs to DoorDash just five months ago, entrepreneur Tobenna Arodiogbu is back with a new startup.
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The buzzy startup was widely considered one of the "crown jewels" in SoftBank&aposs portfolio after the implosion at coworking startup WeWork.
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The app relies heavily on the Visa-acquired financial services API startup, and I can see why the startup was so successful.
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Eric Migicovsky, the founder of failed startup Pebble, helps entrepreneurs avoid his past mistakes as a partner at startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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All exhibitors in Startup Alley get a chance to win one of TWO Wild Card entries to the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.
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Singapore's fashion startup Zilingo has acquired Sri Lanka's SaaS startup nCinga in a $15.5 cash and stock deal, the two said today.
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She's been a consultant at PwC Consulting, worked in corporate environments like Microsoft Ventures, served within a startup at Trayport and was an advisor across a number of organizations (Startup Europe, Techstars Startup Weekend, Tech London Advocates, European Innovation Council, WEF).
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Maybe you're ready to launch your startup to the world by taking on other exceptional startups in our epic pitch competition, Startup Battlefield.
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Lior Ron, who co-founded trucking startup Otto, has left the company a little less than two years after Uber acquired his startup.
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Most of the government-funded accelerators, such as Startup Mexico, Parallel 18, Ruta N and Startup Peru, still support startups from every sector.
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Cults ultimately self-immolate, let's face it… MB: Here's a list of 18 startup mistakes from legendary startup guru and investor Paul Graham.
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This week's Startup Ethiopia event also showcased high-potential early-stage ventures, such as payment company YenaPay and agtech e-commerce startup Deamat.
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And that's where Rlay (pronounced "relay") comes in — the startup is launching onstage today as part of our Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin.
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"We're a startup that has grown too big and never lost that startup vibe," Deciem Director of Operations Shamin Mohamed told BuzzFeed News.
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With skyrocketing costs of living in startup-centric cities like Silicon Valley, would-be startup founders are looking elsewhere to set up shop.
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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield returns to Africa next month, and we have an agenda chock-full of interesting panels and our premier startup competition.
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Back in 2007, a 22-year-old Mark Zuckerberg gave some advice at Y Combinator's Startup School: Do a startup before you're old.
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Exhibit It's time to showcase your early-stage startup and there's no better way to do that than to exhibit in Startup Alley.
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Merav is deeply involved in Israel's buoyant startup investment scene, is a board member and a mentor in several startup programs and accelerators.
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The MYO armband by Canadian startup Thalmic Labs The MYO armband by Canadian startup Thalmic Labs AMLG: This is control over motion right?
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In the last year, WeWork became the most valuable startup in New York City, and the fifth most valuable startup in the world.
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From ExtraCrunch, our new subscription tier, to Startup Battlefield, TC's world renowned startup launch competition, learn more about the new things at TechCrunch.
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Hosted in a partnership with the NFL and Stanford, 1st and Future is a startup competition modeled after the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield.
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UnifyID, which was in our Startup Battlefield in San Francisco last September, is another startup looking at biometrics as a route to authentication.
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Artificial Intelligence FinTech Health & BioTech To top it all off, we will also have the 15 contestants in Startup Battlefield, our startup competition.
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Its initial investments include fintech companies C88Fintech Group, MoneyTable and Investree, HR startup Qareer Group Asia, delivery service Etobee, and Saas startup Pawoon.
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That round makes Garena Southeast Asia's highest-valued tech startup — if you can call a near-$4 billion company a "startup," that is.
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Disrupt gathers the brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers and tech fans for on-stage interviews, the Startup Battlefield competition, Startup Alley and after parties.
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What is different about building a successful or hopefully successful startup/app, digital startup company in 21080 than ... when did you do OMGPOP?
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The show features top speakers from the startup world in China and beyond, plenty of startups exhibiting in Startup Alley and a hackathon.
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The digital retail startup Dealdey — a Groupon-like startup — previously raised at least $1 million from the Swedish investment firm Kinnevik in 2011.
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When we talk about building a 'startup nation', it is a nation that behaves like a startup and that fosters startups at home.
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They understand to really succeed with a merger like that you have to give autonomy to a startup that must operate like startup.
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Sit in on the thrilling Startup Battlefield — the tech world's premier startup competition — and potentially witness the launch of the next tech giant.
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Our search continues for audacious early-stage startup founders to participate in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 43-4.
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Ten Step Startup: The Complete Entrepreneurship Course Follow these 10 motivational steps and you'll be on your way to building a successful startup.
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Real estate computer vision platform startup Matterport is set to acquire Arraiy, an AI startup aiming to automate special effects processing in film.
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Rivvr is a hardware startup spun out from the YC-backed startup Sixa, a company that's selling monthly access to powerful cloud computers.
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Entrepreneur First is a startup accelerator that takes talented individuals (rather than companies) and lets them pair up to begin building their startup.
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The chipmaker pays the salaries of the engineers, and any intellectual property they develop while working for the startup belongs to the startup.
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Curran, who founded the cybersecurity startup Evervault earlier this year, pitched for funding to build out a team of developers for his startup.
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TechCrunch is excited to be partnering with Facebook to bring our illustrious startup competition, the Startup Battlefield, to Nairobi, Kenya, later this year.
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Purchase a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package or you can apply to the TC Top Picks program and exhibit in Startup Alley for free.
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For instance, if a Chinese investor owns 5% of a startup, then that startup could no longer be eligible for sensitive government contracts.
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Hey startup founders — don't miss your opportunity to receive the VIP treatment and showcase your early-stage startup at Disrupt San Francisco 2019.
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If you make the grade, you'll get a free Startup Alley Exhibition Package good for one full day of exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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Visit our Startup programs application page to fill out TechCrunch's new, reusable application, and to apply for Startup Battlefield and TC Top Picks.
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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is headed to VivaTech in Paris on May 24th to find and feature the best early-stage startup across Europe!
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To compete in Startup Battlefield MENA, you must: Don't miss your opportunity to compete in the first-ever TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018.
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Blavity, the media and events startup focused on black millennials and black culture, has acquired travel startup Travel Noire for an undisclosed amount.
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At Disrupt NY 2017, RecordGram went from Startup Alley to Wild Card to winner of the Startup Battlefield competition — and took home $50,000!
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If you think your pre-Series A startup has what it takes to win our premier startup pitch competition, don't wait another minute.
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Out of all the startups exhibiting in Startup Alley, TechCrunch editors will choose one — the Wild Card — to compete in the Startup Battlefield.
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At Disrupt Berlin 2018, TC editors chose Legacy, and the feisty startup went on to win the Startup Battlefield and the $50,000 prize.
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To be eligible to apply for the startup portion of the awards, you must be a late-stage seed or Series A startup.
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But truth be told, every single startup and every single startup that I sold, I don't really have a plan for what's next.
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Tristan Walker, Walker & Company (runner-up) Jessica O. Matthews, Uncharted Play Morgan DeBaun, Blavity Ryan Petersen, Flexport Best Startup Video Best launch or explanatory video Snapchat Spectacles (winner) Slack (runner-up) Lyft Navdy StockX Hot New Startup A startup founded or publicly launched this year Otto (winner) Otto is an autonomous startup focused on the development of self-driving technology for trucks.
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You must apply to purchase a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package that includes one exhibit day, three Disrupt SF Founder passes (if you apply before July 25), access to CrunchMatch (our investor-to-startup matching platform), use of the Startup Alley exhibitor lounge, access to the Disrupt press list and a chance to be selected as one of the Startup Battlefield Wildcard companies.
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Pro Tip: If you missed the deadline to compete in the Startup Battlefield, you have one last shot: Buy a demo table and exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF for a chance to win a Wild Card entry to Startup Battlefield.
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Case in point: All Startup Battlefield teams receive private pitch coaching with the TechCrunch team, access to CrunchMatch — TechCrunch's investor startup matching program, access to private VIP receptions, the VIP treatment at Disrupt and exhibit space in Startup Alley for all three days.
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Experience Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, engage in world-class networking and spend a full day celebrating the awesome talent of the region's startup community.
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If you're detail-minded, read our Startup Battlefield Europe FAQ it has everything you need to know about applying and competing in Startup Battlefield.
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Y Combinator is improving upon its Fall 2014 Stanford course, How to Start a Startup, with a larger-scale online course called Startup School.
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Back in the days of the dot-com bust, as startup after startup began to implode, a site cropped up to list the casualties.
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If a startup can take money from an investor that can help the company achieve it's goals, then that's what the startup will do.
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Buy a demo table and exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF for a chance to win a Wild Card entry to Startup Battlefield.
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Startup Alley at Disrupt is one of the best ways to get your startup noticed by the people who matter in the tech industry.
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Our latest startup, Jaywalk, brought me back together with my longtime college friend Rich, the guy with whom I worked on my first startup.
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TechCrunch recently raised the question of "Peak Startup," arguing that the wave of vibrant startup-led technology change has passed for the time being.
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You can meet Startup Battlefield Director, Samantha Stein, and learn more about TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield program at one of the upcoming meet and greets.
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We're thrilled to announce that you can catch a glimpse of all the Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Alley companies on our Startup Alley hub.
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That's when 15 of the region's best early-stage startup founders will gather in Beirut, Lebanon to compete in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018.
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An accidental startup of sorts, Tapster formed while Jason Huggins was working as CTO of his previous company, Sauce Labs — a Selenium testing startup.
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An email sent to users explains that the startup, founded in 2011, will shut down operations and roll into clothing rental startup, Le Tote.
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The Startup Battlefield team will work intensively over many weeks with the Startup Battlefield contestants to hone pitches, sharpen business models and perfect demos.
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He left in October of last year to pursue his latest startup, Boxouse — that startup ended up a part of the subsequent YC batch.
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I mean, well, compare ... so the other startup book that I sort of admired and modeled was a book called "Startup" by Jerry Kaplan.
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Legacy, which exhibited in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2018, was chosen as the wildcard company to present its services onstage during Startup Battlefield.
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That's a pretty small exit by startup standards, but despite its small size, it has created an entire generation of NYC enterprise startup founders.
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It is such a big market, and I can see the attraction there, but also there is just startup after startup popping up there.
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Several portfolio companies have had successful exits, such as crypto startup Distributed Systems (acquired by Coinbase) and social networking startup tbh (acquired by Facebook).
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Startup Alley — the pulsing heartbeat of every Disrupt — is about as prime a piece of real estate as you'll find in the startup world.
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Exhibiting in Startup Alley will expose your startup to more than 10,000 attendees, including potential investors, customers, partners and more than 400 media outlets.
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A startup called Osmo, which launched at TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield in 2013, has dedicated itself to designing toys that bridge the digital and physical.
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As ChartMogul is a SaaS startup as well, I'm sure the startup uses its own product to get new users and optimize retention rates.
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That last benefit isn't just limited to the winners, however, as just participating in the Startup Battlefield can do wonders for a budding startup.
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"Stockholm was always the plan ... Stockholm is a huge and great startup city with a great startup community," said Cuponation's Nordic spokesman Lukas Ohlsson.
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For the past two years Startup Edmonton has hosted Edmonton Startup Week, which features more than 20 community events for entrepreneurs across the city.
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Startup Battlefield's contestants have been training for weeks, but TechCrunch also chooses two wild cards from Startup Alley to compete at the last minute.
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The firm has invested in more than 25 startups, including Opendoor, scooter and bike startup Lime, homeowner insurance firm Hippo, and coworking startup Industrious.
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I Used My Credit Cards to Fund My Failed Startup and Now They're SuingHave you had trouble getting a job after a failed startup?
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We're interspersing three rounds of Startup Battlefield competition with an amazing roster of speakers and panel discussions addressing the continent's rapidly expanding startup scene.
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The startup was founded by Lodha and fellow ex-Googler Jon Lerner in 2017 after the pair went through prestigious startup factory Y Combinator.
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Wild Card is a Startup Alley exhibiting company that is selected by our TechCrunch editorial team to participate in the celebrated Startup Battlefield competition.
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The startup community is really pumped about TechCrunch's first-ever Startup Battlefield Latin America, which will be held on November 8 in São Paulo.
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All TC Top Picks receive a free Startup Alley Exhibition package, prime exhibiting space in Startup Alley and the VIP treatment during the show.
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At Disrupt NY 2017, RecordGram went from Startup Alley to Wild Card and ended up winning the Startup Battlefield competition — and took home $50,000!
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Startup Battlefield participants also receive free demo space in Startup Alley, tickets to VIP events, a Battlefield-only reception and, of course, TechCrunch swag.
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In addition to CrunchMatch, Startup Alley companies have the opportunity to be selected as "Wild Card" and participate in the renowned Startup Battlefield competition.
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Who knows, you might even be selected as one of the Startup Battlefield Wild Card winners and compete in our $50,000 startup-pitch competition.
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The firm announced Tuesday that it had acquired blockchain startup Neji, web publishing startup Compose Labs, and internal database company Landria for undisclosed amounts.
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Criticism's gonna come with this, that is part, as you said, it's part of being a startup, certainly part of being a media startup.
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The startup that earns the Wild Card designation gets to compete in Startup Battlefield, our epic pitch competition with a $50,000 prize. Ka-ching!
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Munchery (2010 – 2019) Total raised: $125 million One of the first startup scandals of 2019 involved a once well-known meal delivery startup, Munchery .
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Eric Ries' The Lean Startup revolutionized how the business world thought about startups and small businesses, according to Lean Startup co-creator Steve Blank.
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Though it didn't take cash from Accel or DJI, the "Waze for drones" startup Hivemapper is a good of example of such a startup.
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Why should I invest in a startup in Palestine if I'm not sure if the owner of that startup can travel to the U.S.?
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And, like many startup CEOs right now, he said he expects his startup to become profitable on an Ebitda basis in 2017, as well.
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Lord was the driving force behind AOL's acquisitions of Millennial Media, the Web-personalization startup Gravity and Convertro, a startup focused on ad attribution.
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Daniel is also actively engaged in the firm's activities in the local startup and business community through organizations such as Startup Weekend and Challenge Seattle.
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Cruise, GM's self-driving car startup, will now source its lidar laser sensors from Strobe, a Pasadena-based startup that the Detroit automaker just acquired.
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Among programs in Latin America that arose from the Start-Up Chile "spark" are Startup Peru, Parallel 18, IncuBAte, Startup Mexico, Ruta N and 21212.
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A politically connected startup is trying to make Obamacare work A politically connected startup is trying to make Obamacare work This segment originally aired Dec.
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Come exhibit in Startup Alley for your chance to win one of two Wild Card spots and your last opportunity to compete in Startup Battlefield.
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Cryptocurrency startup Circle has raised another $110 million, one of the largest rounds yet for a crypto startup, pushing its valuation to nearly $3 billion.
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One of them, a Santa Monica-based startup called Earny that is backed by the startup incubator Science, first pointed out the change to Recode.
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Disrupt Berlin is where you'll find the renowned Startup Battlefield competition, hundreds of startups in Startup Alley, Workshops and legendary networking at our After Parties.
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The Startup Battlefield pitch competition with its $100,000 prize, workshops, Q&A sessions and hundreds of early-stage startups and sponsors exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego Tech giant of the West, soil of the startup, epicenter of the cutting-edge.
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All TC Top Picks receive a free Startup Alley Exhibition package, prime real estate in the Startup Alley exhibition hall and invitations to VIP events.
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Instamojo, a Bangalore-based startup that helps merchants and small businesses accept digital payments and sell on the web, has acquired Gurgaon-based startup GetMeAShop.
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In the past, according to multiple sources, a startup was kicked out of this building after Partech couldn't invest in this startup for various reasons.
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You've collected all this money for investment, and now, there hasn't been a big startup lately, there hasn't been a big startup environment right now.
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Startup food delivery businesses may have spoiled globally, but investors in Latin America think at least one startup has a fresh take on the industry.
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This would make it ICONIQ's second disclosed investment in a startup from the Lowlands, after the company put funding into Dutch startup Adyen in 2015.
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The bootcamp program at Beirut's AltCity is producing a series of Startup Sprints as the first phase of the venture's bootcamp idea-stage startup program.
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After reading this article, or other "Startup Law A to Z" articles, should you identify legal risks facing your startup, Extra Crunch resources can help.
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We've selected five finalists in each of 11 categories ranging from Hot New Startup to the Founder of the Year to the Best Startup Video.
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During the past year, Ford has invested in Civil Maps, Velodyne, and autonomous AI startup Argo – plus it acquired Chariot, and algorithmic platform startup SAIPS.
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Google's previously made its first direct investment in an Indian startup when it backed Dunzo, a startup that operates a concierge app, in December 2017.
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Hone these five essential skills and more with the Startup School Bundle now on sale for 97% off and get that startup off the ground.
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The other reason the startup may have negative implications is that David has been accused of exploiting online movements to function as a startup grifter.
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Just ask RecordGram, who was plucked from Startup Alley as the Wild Card and actually won the Startup Battlefield competition last year in New York!
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There'll be a chance to pitch your startup as part of our pitch-off, featuring a few judges from the startup community and TechCrunch editors.
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All the judges will confer and select one competitor to become the Startup Battlefield champion and earn the title of Sub-Saharan Africa's best startup.
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Next, you'll check out some of the most promising early-stage startups in Startup Alley and the Startup Battlefield (which you can apply for here).
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Through WeWork, he invested in a wave-pool startup called WaveGarden and a superfood startup called Laird Superfood, which sells "performance mushrooms" among other things.
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It's all about networking and making the right connections to make your startup dreams come true, and there's no better networking mecca than Startup Alley.
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Dan Wagner, the former CEO of collapsed tech startup Powa, has persuaded the UK's former ambassador to Japan and South Korea to his new startup.
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Explore hundreds of early-stage companies exhibiting in Startup Alley, hear from top tech and investment leaders, enjoy the thrill ride that is Startup Battlefield.
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Startup Battlefield is one of the tech industry's leading startup pitch competitions and, without a doubt, it's the best launching pad for early-stage startups.
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At Disrupt NY 2017, RecordGram went from Startup Alley to the Battlefield stage and ended up winning the Startup Battlefield competition — and took home $50,000!
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" — A startup marketing executive in London "All MSA, EULA agreements for SaaS service" — A startup sales executive in Indiana "We recently started working with Adam.
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" — A startup sales executive in Redwood City "Updating our standard contracts and reviewing/editing negotiated contracts" — A startup CEO in Irvine "Runs our legal department.
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Or buy a Startup Alley Exhibition package and place your startup in front of thousands of attendees — including hundreds of media outlets and eager investors.
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In addition to CrunchMatch, Startup Alley companies have the opportunity to be selected as a "Wild Card" and participate in the famous Startup Battlefield competition.
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You might even be lucky enough to be chosen as Startup Alley's Wild Card Winner, which lands you a spot in the Startup Battlefield competition.
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The corporate will then aim to work on a pilot program with the startup to test their product, which could be beneficial for the startup.
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The ride-sharing startup (can we still call it a startup?) said it would be partnering with Magna to "co-develop" an autonomous driving system.
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The buzzy credit card startup has taken San Francisco and its startup ecosystem by storm since it graduated from Y Combinator's accelerator program in 2017.
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They have experience shattering norms, having built a successful startup, Dyn, in Manchester, New Hampshire, which is not exactly a hot-bed of startup activity.
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While most startup leaders strive to avoid layoffs while keeping the company afloat, it is sometimes necessary, pushing startup founders to navigate a delicate task.
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He has invested in many of its companies, primarily through backing every startup to graduate from Y Combinator, the tech industry's most celebrated startup program.
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The new financing round valued the three-year-old startup, which has raised $381 million to date, at more than $1 billion, the startup said.
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Thanks to a dataset from startup and venture data provider CB Insights, we have a fresh, deep look into the world of startup fintech investment.
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If you're an early-stage mobility startup, make sure you grab an exhibitor package to get your startup in front of today's leading mobility leaders.
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SoftBank-backed software startup Improbable has hired a new chief financial officer, after former CFO Michael Bannon departed for messaging API startup MessageBird in 2019.
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The startup was approached by startup incubator Techstars for investment and accepted the standard $20,000 investment and expertise in exchange for 6% of the business.
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Every early-stage startup that exhibits in Startup Alley, our expo floor and the heart of every Disrupt — has a shot at the Wild Card.
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Whether you're an investor, founder or developer — or play some other role in the startup world — you'll find something new and exciting in Startup Alley.
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SoftBank is selling back its nearly 50% stake in Wag to the embattled dog-walking startup, while the startup struggles to turn around its performance.
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I've never been one to hop from startup to startup, and I've been immersed enough in the corporate world to know I can navigate it.
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The result would have been annual tax bills for startup employees that soared into the tens of thousands of dollars, warned startup founders and employees.
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This year, we'll choose up to five startups to represent each of the following tech categories: Each TechCrunch Top Pick designee wins one Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes a one-day exhibit space, three Disrupt Berlin Founder Passes, access to CrunchMatch (our free investor-to-startup matching platform), full use of the Startup Alley Exhibitor lounge, access to the Disrupt press list and a chance to be selected as one of the Startup Battlefield Wildcard Companies (and compete in our $50,000 startup-pitch competition).
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It is often measured in financing events, but it actually plays out every day in the choices the startup makes and the work the startup accomplishes.
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Although now based in Silicon Valley, PicsArt emerged from — and has become a star of — Armenia's nascent startup scene which also includes mobile learning startup SoloLearn.
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TechCrunch Shanghai startup competition winner Blue Sky Labs sucks up RMB 1 million prize Of course we can't forget the winners of TechCrunch Shanghai's startup competition.
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As Inti Nunez, CORFO's head of entrepreneurship, explained, CORFO has pioneered a process called the "Startup Journey," which categorizes a country's startup ecosystem into distinct sections.
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We are now accepting applications from International startup groups, government innovation centers, incubators and accelerators that want to display as a country pavilion in Startup Alley.
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The Ultimate Startup Launch Lifetime Bundle is a set of five online courses that can help you learn how to thrive in the tricky startup world.
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But there are no checkpoints on fibre-optic cables; against the odds, a startup industry may yet appear in the failing startup state that is Palestine.
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Choosing the Startup Battlefield competitors from hundreds of applications was no easy feat — a testament to the depth and creativity of the region's growing startup scene.
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Sign up for an exhibitor's table today, show the startup world exactly what makes your company Wild Card-worthy and take another swing at Startup Battlefield.
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Come and watch as 15 of the region's top early-stage startup founders vie for the title of the Middle East and North Africa's best startup.
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We love finding, showcasing and connecting the top tech talent in the world, and Startup Battlefield can launch your early-stage startup into the tech stratosphere.
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One startup looking to make an impact is Pundi Pundi, a Hong Kong registered company started by one of the founders of HTML5 game startup Wozlla.
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Every company that competes in Startup Battlefield joins our Startup Battlefield alumni community, which includes a few notables like Mint, Dropbox, Yammer, TripIt, Getaround and Cloudflare.
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Moderna Therapeutics, a Massachusetts startup that wants to revolutionize drug manufacturing, on Friday filed for what could be the largest-ever IPO for a biotech startup.
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Plus, you'll get to check out the handful of promising startups participating in Startup Battlefield competition, and dozens more on display in Startup and Hardware Alley.
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You won't find a better opportunity to showcase your early-stage startup in front of the influential people who can make your startup dreams come true.
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Top Pick designees receive a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and a prime location in Startup Alley, our exhibition floor featuring hundreds of early-stage startups.
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Between rounds, we have an amazing cast of speakers on tap — founders, investors and startup experts who've all been busy shaking up the region's startup scene.
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There's still time to apply to compete in Startup Battlefield — or to be selected as a TC Top Pick and exhibit in Startup Alley for free.
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But it's good to see that the startup managed to find banks that were willing to lend a substantial amount of money in today's startup environment.
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Ripple, the fintech startup behind the controversial XRP token, has its first investment after it backed U.S.-based storage startup Omni through a $25 million round.
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The full portfolio today includes deep linking startup Branch, French high-end audio maker Devialet, driverless tech startup Nauto, the new phone company Essential and more.
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In the meantime, check out these agenda highlights: 9:30 AM – 10:40 AM Startup Battlefield Session 1 TechCrunch's iconic startup competition is back in Africa!
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Buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and you might even be selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield competition in one of the Wild Card spots.
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The startup initially tried to block overseas users until it was ready, according to this great history of the startup written by Business Insider's Alyson Shontell.
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There's been plenty of talk that India's startup scene has entered a period of revaluation following 2015, a year of unprecedented funding rounds and startup valuations.
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"In a startup, when something goes wrong, you just get on and deal with it," Stephen Bourke, co-founder of health-tech startup Echo, told me.
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Though the firm is disclosing that it has led a whopping $12 million Series A round in new startup Brava, details about the startup are scarce.
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Team: Will Cheung (head of customer success at Sequoia-backed startup, CS from CMU), Jochen Bedersdorfer (Intel AI Group, VP Eng of text analytics startup). Edyza
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Simply buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package to place your early-stage startup in the path of more than 10,000 influential technologists, founders, investors and media.
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The startup, which came about after Eidelman sold his previous successful petcare startup Whistle Labs to petcare giant Mars, has yet to open any physical locations.
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In early 2017, the startup also closed a $2 million seed led by Birchmere Ventures with participation from Uber co-founder Garrett Camp's startup studio, Expa.
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The background check software startup announced Thursday it raised $160 million in Series D funding, valuing the 5-year-old San Francisco startup at $2.2 billion.
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Read more: The startup founder's guide to letting people go efficiently and compassionatelySo, how do you prevent (or at least minimize the risk of) startup implosion?
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You can also disable startup programs in Windows 10, as having too many can slow down your computer, and even cause Windows to crash upon startup.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article described Stensul as a "mailing list startup," when in fact Stensul is a startup email creation platform for marketers.
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And in the startup world, a once high-flying, venture-subsidized food delivery startup crashed and burned, leaving a cluster of small businesses in its wreckage.
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The application can be used for Startup Battlefield, our renowned startup pitch competition and TC Top Picks, editorially highlighted free exhibition space at our Disrupt conferences.
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Win or lose, every team that competes in Startup Battlefield receives invaluable exposure to investors and media coverage — plus entry to the Startup Battlefield alumni network.
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They may not realize that while they may found a startup, an F1 visa may not allow them to work or be employed by the startup.
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The Chicago-based startup has been widely credited for helping grow Chicago's tech and startup scenes that had been largely dominated by more traditional finance companies.
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Relativity Space, the startup developing manufacturing technologies for entirely 3D printed rockets and space equipment, has signed its latest paying customer, the orbital transportation startup, Momentus.
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If you're ready to launch your early-stage startup to the world-wide tech community, we want you to apply to the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.
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A wave of cancelled subscriptions to Armoire Style, a Seattle-based startup that specializes in renting clothes to women, forced the startup into crisis-management mode.
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He backed Zoom, the video conferencing startup, just days before its blockbuster IPO, and has written checks to sneaker startup Allbirds and developer management tool PagerDuty.
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If a startup gets acquired or goes public, that equity can turn into a windfall (and, similarly, if the startup goes bust, the equity becomes worthless).
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But every single one of those things was promised years ago by a startup named Gaikai — a startup that Sony bought in 2012 for $380 million.
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That effectively makes every single new company a tech startup in some way – and it also makes every tech startup a regular company in some ways.
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Kushner founded the startup with his brother, Joshua, and another friend in 2014, but only included the investment in the startup on the newest disclosure form.
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I gave away free massages We were trying to think of a creative way to make my insurance startup, Margo, get noticed at a startup expo.
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If you've seen "The Social Network" (2010), you're familiar with the roles that startup founders and venture-capital investors play in the formation of a startup.
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Adikteev is an adtech startup that previously acquired Motion Lead, a startup that worked on interactive and creative ad formats for mobile apps, and Trademob, a startup specialized on the demand-side so that advertisers can reach a ton of users to foster installs and retention.
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One startup will emerge as the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield LATAM 2018 — and receive a USD$25,000 cash prize and win a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019 (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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V2X Network, a German-based startup presenting onstage Thursday during Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, sees opportunity in all the data produced in the modern car.
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The biggest events include Startup Camp, Pioneers Bratislava and the annual StartUp Awards which is even broadcast on national TV (and which last year featured your's truly).
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If you want to launch your startup to the world, there's no better way to do it than by participating in Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch's epic pitch competition.
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This broadcast booth will play host to interviews, live shows and Hardware Battlefield, our startup competition where one hardware startup will win $50,000 and our robotic trophy.
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The startup also wants to get into VR — a medium that we know can be hugely powerful for home design, as U.S-based startup Modsy is proving.
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Then the agencies go back to the startup and say, "Hey, we locked in a briefing for you with Forbes," which any startup is absolutely thrilled about.
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Since then, the city's startup scene has grown only hotter; if tech-startup blood courses through your veins, this is one event you don't want to miss.
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The Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch's premier startup competition, which over the past 12 years has placed 750 companies on stage to pitch top VCs and TechCrunch editors.
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REGISTER YOUR INTEREST Startup Alley Exhibitor Directory Startup Alley is the Disrupt Berlin expo hall where hundreds of early-stage startups and sponsored exhibitors demo their companies.
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On the venture side you may not have noticed, but Uptake, a Chicago-based IoT startup, beat Slack and Uber to become Forbes 2015's Hottest Startup.
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Techland, like most places, likes stories with extreme outcomes: Startup X sells for a gazillion dollars; Startup Y, once valued at a gazillion dollars, goes to zero.
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Raisin, the well-capitalised fintech startup that offers a pan-European marketplace for savings and investment products, has acquired Fairr, a German startup disrupting the pensions industry.
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It's a select group, and if we pick your startup, you'll receive a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, VIP treatment and plenty of media and investor exposure.
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With that said, EF also notes that, according to Startup Genome, Bangalore's startup ecosystem is valued at $19 billion, with an estimated 403,800-2,300 active tech startups.
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Today, the LA-based startup, which took home the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield cup last year, is launching an open beta of its gamer performance tool.
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We profiled the startup then; now they're about to emerge from Y Combinator's latest startup class with some new funding and an increasing feature set for users.
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The name on the lips of many this year is Byton, an electric vehicle startup that doesn't want to be seen as just another electric vehicle startup.
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Yesterday, as part of some of its programming for startup founders, the startup incubator Y Combinator posted a new interview with its widely revered founder Paul Graham.
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It's a selective, competitive process, but if you're chosen you'll get a free Startup Alley Exhibition Package good for one full day of exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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Sadly, this is not an uncommon story as examples abound of strategic investors influencing startup direction and management decisions to the point of harm for the startup.
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It's not typical for an enterprise startup to have such a lofty valuation so early in its funding cycle, but Celonis is not a typical enterprise startup.
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Get diverse, startup experience… All in all, my "startup experience" accounted for nearly eight years of my life prior (since I was 17) to joining Corigin Ventures.
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Hot startup Superhuman has been getting some backlash, as often happens when someone notices the precise methodology that a startup is using to enable a core feature.
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Over 25 companies will compete in Startup Battlefield for the grand prize of $50,000, and hundreds of early-stage startups will showcase their products in Startup Alley.
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And there's no better way to place your startup in front of these three essential groups than to exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt San Francisco 25.
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If there's one thing we learned hosting last year's Startup Battlefield in Kenya, it's that the tech startup scene across Africa is both impressive and growing rapidly.
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BlockFi, the firm's lending for liquidity startup, was founded by Zac Prince — a serial startup founder whose previous idea was the lending platform for the underbanked, Cognical.
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In July, the startup announced it was shutting down after a new funding round had fallen through at the last minute, leaving the startup out of runway.
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To disable automatic boot-up on lid opening: To reenable automatic boot-up: To disable the startup chime: To enable the startup chime: Ah. Sweet, sweet music.
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We have two days packed with startup goodness waiting for you, and that includes our slate of speakers from every part of the early-stage startup ecosystem.
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The startup visa was intended to allow a path for immigrant startup founders to work in the United States for 2½ years, with the possibility to renew.
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Paris startup campus Station F and Le Studio Next have teamed up once again for a second season of Foundation, a documentary series about building a startup.
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This includes seed capital from angel investors, grants from foundations and governments and, more recently, a cash prize from Startup Perú, a local startup competition they won.
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If you're a founder of an early-stage startup this is your chance to win a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and a VIP experience in Berlin.
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The social juggernaut said today it has invested in social-commerce startup Meesho in what is the first time the firm takes equity in an Indian startup.
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Now's the time to apply to TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield competition — the world's best startup pitch competition going down at Disrupt San Francisco 2000 on September 21-20183.
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All companies will work out of the Pangyo Global Startup Campus, which was opened earlier this year by the government as part of a new startup hub.
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In March, GM acquired Cruise, a self-driving software startup, for $1 billion; in a talent grab, Uber acquired self-driving trucking startup Otto for $680 million.
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Benefit from more accessible investors The startup ecosystem is more sophisticated than ever before because of global availability to startup resources and new types of funding sources.
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The country is home to the continent's first e-commerce startup unicorn, Jumia, and serves as an unofficial bellwether for e-commerce startup activity in Africa. Gloo.
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Take in Startup Battlefield — the leading startup pitch competition — to see which of Europe's best early-stage startups will reign supreme and take home the $50,000 prize.
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It's not Disrupt without Startup Battlefield, the premier startup competition and hands-down the best platform from which to launch an early-stage company to the world.
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The founders of entrepreneurial community Startup Grind have a startup of their own — Bevy, which announced today that it has raised $6.4 million in Series A funding.
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Neumann had invested $30 million in the startup in January through his family office, but the startup collapsed the same day that WeWork filed to go public.
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At age 2500, his role at YC behind him, Gross is now working to revamp the startup accelerator model for a remote future with his startup Pioneer.
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We have two (yes two) Startup Demo Packages left, so book your package now and get your startup in front of 1000+ of today's leading industry minds.
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Risks (and rewards) in startup investing Startup investors can look for a decent return on their investment, but must also be able to stomach the inevitable risk.
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Event Registration & Badge Pickup Registration opens at 8:30am Wednesday (8:00am for Startup Alley exhibitors) and 8:113am on Thursday (7:30am for Startup Alley exhibitors).
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It's getting down to the wire for your opportunity to show off your early-stage startup in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this October 2-4.
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TC Top Picks win a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes a one-day exhibit space in Startup Alley, three Founder passes (good for all three days of the show), use of CrunchMatch — our investor-to-startup matching platform — and access to the Disrupt SF 2018 press list.
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One startup will emerge the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 — and receive a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and win a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019 (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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At least one other EV startup CEO claims he is close to that breakthrough, though: Henrik Fisker, the famed automotive designer behind Fisker Automotive, the flashy hybrid sports car startup that arrived on the startup scene in the mid aughts and wound up bankrupt just a few years later.
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One startup will emerge the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 — and receive a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and win a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019 (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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One startup will emerge the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 — and receive a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and win a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019 (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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The debt round for the two-year-old startup — not to be confused with an Indonesian startup with the same name that operates in the same space — was financed by a private fund managed by BlackRock's Private Credit team and CLSA Capital Partners' Special Situations Group, the startup said.
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" Coughlin hates what he calls "the narrative," according to which new tech appeals to newer people: "Startup money goes to youngsters because that's what startup entrepreneurs are supposed to look like, and the products are designed for kids because that's what startup products are meant to look like.
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We're not sure if it's possible to be part of the startup world and not be familiar with Startup Battlefield and all the benefits you reap by participating.
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France, where three years ago I said it's going to be the startup nation in Europe, it went from 140 venture capital-backed startup technology companies to 740.
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It's about a startup world where every organization, whether they're government or big companies or small companies, must have a startup mentality on speed, fearlessness, ability to dream.
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If you're not quite ready to compete but want to showcase your startup for free in the Startup Alley expo hall, apply to be a TC Top Pick.
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Volunteering on the project in addition to Putorti is Eric Ries, CEO of startup Long-Term Stock Exchange and author of "The Lean Startup," a book on entrepreneurship.
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Not only did the company reap the many benefits of exhibiting in Startup Alley, but it also earned a Wild Card slot and won the Startup Battlefield championship.
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As a Disrupt attendee, you will get to check out tons of promising early-stage domestic and international startups in both Startup Alley and the Startup Battlefield competition.
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The study, released in September, revealed that women own just 9 percent of founder and employee startup equity, despite making up 35 percent of startup equity-holding employees.
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If you think your pre-Series A startup has what it takes to be named "the Middle East and North Africa's Most Promising Startup," don't waste another minute.
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Anyone with even a tangential relationship to the European tech startup scene knows that Startup Battlefield is one of the most effective launching pads for early-stage startups.
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Schwarz, who has been at Luminar for about two months now, comes from Uber by way of self-driving truck startup Otto, which acquired his own LiDAR startup.
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Legacy, a male fertility startup that won TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield competition at Disrupt Berlin 2018, is today announcing a $1.5 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
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A study by the European Startup Initiative, a nonprofit organization, found this year that Lisbon is Europe's fifth most attractive startup hub, after Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Barcelona.
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If you want to show your stuff in Startup Alley, all you need to do is head to our registration page and purchase a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package.
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We'll be scouting for the next set of startups to launch at Startup Battlefield Dubai, and of course, so we can tell the story of Berlin's startup community.
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Startup demo tables for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI on April 18 are still available for any early-stage robotics or AI startup with $3M or less in funding.
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There's no better launching pad than Startup Battlefield, and the next battle goes down at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 — in the city that gave birth to startup dreams.
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I was working for a startup, so I was living that startup lifestyle, and being young and all that, but realistically, I was not making a good income.
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Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 takes place in less than two weeks, and we have a classic good news/bad news situation to share with all you startup fans.
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The Lean Startup helped familiarize the world with "pivots" and other features of early-stage startup life, which in turn also helped investors place investments earlier than ever.
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So, with that, some words of inspiration for graduates: If your goal is to be a funded startup CEO, the surest path is probably to launch a startup.
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More than 25 companies will compete in Startup Battlefield for the grand prize of $50,000, and hundreds of early-stage startups will showcase their products in Startup Alley.
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Kendall Flutey, cofounder of the Christchurch, New Zealand-based startup Banqer, a financial education platform for schools, has found building a startup with a social purpose particularly satisfying.
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The startup is underwritten by an affiliate of reinsurer Munich Re, whose venture-capital arm also led a $45 million fundraising round for the startup earlier this year.
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The company's director of PR and director of marketing both left the AR startup to flock to smartphone startup Essential, which they have both since left, as well.
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At this point, we've reached a moment where every startup is trying to say it's an AI startup and sticks that into a slide into their pitch deck.
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Lastminute.com founder Tom Teichman slams 'Brexit' doomsayers as he reveals positive outlook for UK startup scene BBC World interviews a Disrupt startup News – Brexit Tech Recommendations The Times
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The first season of Silicon Valley, the HBO show where Judge is co-creator and showrunner, revolved around fictional startup Pied Piper's attempt to win our Startup Battlefield.
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But that's now changing, as the startup is acquiring VetPronto, another on-demand veterinary startup that's live in San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, DC, Chicago, NYC and Baltimore.
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" Or, as one founder from the startup Platzi, which is using Atlas, put it, "You don't have to be an insider in Silicon Valley to grow a startup.
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Using a new Metro Startup Economy Index, we identify what we call The Next in Tech — 22019 emerging startup centers, including Washington D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans, and Minneapolis.
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"We've had nearly everyone from Silicon Valley cancel their plans to come to Startup Istanbul this October," says Burak Büyükdemir, founder of the Istanbul-based startup accelerator eTohum.
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In addition to the aforementioned unicorns, the firm has also provided capital to Reddit, mental health startup Happy Not Perfect, on-demand self-storage startup Clutter and more.
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The sovereign wealth fund of New Zealand is making a rare direct investment into a U.S. startup, sending $65 million into the trash-and-recycling startup Rubicon Global.
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He co-founded the startup in 2015, a few months after moving on from Vine — the Twitter-owned short video format startup which got closed down in 2017.
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Seenit, a startup competing in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt London, has a different approach: they want to turn your event's biggest fans into your film crew.
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In addition to the possibility of raising some needed funding, Startup Alley companies have the opportunity to win the chance to participate in the illustrious Startup Battlefield competition.
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Does your early-stage startup have what it takes to be chosen as a TC Top Pick and earn the right to exhibit in Startup Alley for free?
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Earlier this month, the error monitoring software startup Sentry changed its software license to the Business Source License (BSL), which was created by the database startup Cockroach Labs.
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Moore works at a sports betting startup near Madison Square Park and is currently experimenting with intermittent fasting, a trendy diet popular in Silicon Valley and startup culture.
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Streem, an AR startup that is meshing teleconferencing software with computer vision tech, has acquired a small U.K. startup called Selerio that's also building out augmented reality technologies.
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If that describes your early-stage startup, don't let procrastination or paraskavedekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th) keep you from reaping the benefits of exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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Each day at Disrupt, one Startup Alley company is selected as the Wild Card based on popular vote, and given the opportunity to participate in the Startup Battlefield.
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You can purchase a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package or you can apply to the TC Top Picks program for a chance to exhibit in Startup Alley for free.
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He has also invested in Reddit, stock trading app Robinhood, weed delivery startup Eaze, and launched his own marijuana content startup, Merry Jane, at TechCrunch Disrupt in September.
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TechCrunch spoke to each organization (and reviewed the reports) and found the contrasting stats derive from different methodologies — namely defining what constitutes a startup and an African startup.
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The US-based corporate credit card provider has purchased three companies — blockchain startup Neji, web publishing startup Compose Labs, and internal database company Landria, according to Business Insider.
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And in a classic "but wait, there's more" moment, every early-stage startup that exhibits in Startup Alley has a shot at being chosen as a Wild Card.
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Our TC Top Picks get the VIP treatment at Disrupt, starting with a free Startup Alley Exhibition Package good for one full day of exhibiting in Startup Alley.
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For a decade, I've reviewed startup pitches via email and Twitter, at demo days for accelerators like Y Combinator and on stage as a judge of startup competitions.
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For 10 years, I've reviewed startup pitches via email and Twitter, at demo days for accelerators like Y Combinator and on stage as a judge of startup competitions.
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The startup is run by CEO Nikesh Parekh, the former vice president of new ventures at real estate startup Trulia before it was acquired by Zillow in 2015.
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Mattress startup Leesa took on a $23 million investment and another startup, Purple, raised $90 million in a reverse merger that will make it a publicly traded company.
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For foreign startup founders to qualify, they must own at least 15% of the startup and have started the company in the US within the last three years.
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Lemonade's CEO said that although DT's letter specifies that the startup stop using magenta globally, he thinks that the carrier waited until the startup entered Germany to take legal action because it put the startup squarely in German jurisdiction, where DT might get treated more favorably because of its ubiquity.
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Women Who Startup holds regular basecamp events in Denver and Boulder, and there's also Women Who Startup Radio, an awesome podcast featuring insightful and inspiring interviews with female entrepreneurs.
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Top Pick designees receive a free Startup Alley Exhibition package and VIP invitations to special events at Disrupt SF. Hey, why not see whether your startup makes the cut?
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Yeung joined the firm as CEO in 2014, after leaving Groupon following its acquisition of his Hong Kong startup uBuyiBuy, and it has been in startup mode since then.
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Buy a Startup Demo Package, open the door to opportunity and place your early-stage enterprise startup directly in the path of influential enterprise software founders, investors and technologists.
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If after reading this or other articles in the "Startup Law A to Z" series, you identify legal risks facing your startup, then other Extra Crunch resources can help.
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If you want to place your early-stage startup in front of thousands of influential technologists, investors, entrepreneurs and potential customers, Startup Alley is where you need to be.
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Your startup might be one of two selected to compete as a Wild Card in Startup Battlefield — our epic pitch competition with an equally epic grand prize of $100K.
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We encourage all early-startup founders to apply if they meet these basic eligibility requirements: Startup Battlefield Latin America goes down on November 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil.
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The Anthemis portfolio includes online wealth management startup Betterment, challenger bank Atom, SME banking startup Tide, trading app eToro and money transfer service Azimo, to name just a handful.
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The company has been a poster child for India's startup ecosystem, becoming the first Indian startup to hit a billion-dollar valuation, and it employs more than 30,000 people.
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That can pose a double whammy for a startup, since many VCs continue to charge the legal fees of conducting a round to the startup they are investing in.
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In the world of founders, the Startup Battlefield finalists are elite; the more than 750 Startup Battlefield alums have raised over $8 billion and produced 100+ exits to date.
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To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner "Peak startup" is a phrase that no doubt strikes terror in the hearts of entrepreneurs and startup investors alike.
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French startup Misterb&b thinks so as the startup just raised $8.5 million from Project A and Ventech to build an apartment renting platform focused on the LGBTQ community.
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And then, of course, there's the Startup Battlefield, where brand new companies launch brand new products on the Disrupt stage, making their foray into the big beautiful startup world.
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Plus, every Startup Alley exhibitor has a chance to win one of two Wild Card slots to compete in Startup Battlefield — this year's grand prize is a whopping $100K.
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One. More. Day. That's how long you have until the region's very best early-stage startup founders compete head-to-head in the first Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018.
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Mixed reality startup Magic Leap's VP of Public Relations and Government Affairs Andy Fouché has left the company to join a stealth startup led by Andy Rubin, Recode reports.
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Consider this your personal invitation for a chance to exhibit your pre-Series A startup for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt San Francisco 23 on October 2-4.
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Up to five cream-of-the-crop startups in each category will earn a TC Top Pick designation and each startup will receive one free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package.
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Subscription startup Scroll acquires news aggregator Nuzzel Tony Haile, who previously led analytics company Chartbeat, is trying to rethink the business model for news at his new startup, Scroll.
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Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52 million The startup was founded by veterans of Apple and Google, as well as Uber Advanced Technologies Group's self-driving truck program.
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Startup Battlefield, the premier startup-pitch competition and the best platform for launching your company to the world, takes place at Disrupt San Francisco 2018 on September 5-73.
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He's currently the CEO of a startup called Quip, and had co-founded a startup called Friendfeed that once could have been described as sort-of a Twitter competitor.
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Maple, a New York City-based startup that delivered healthy meals, has shut down its operations and sold its tech assets to Deliveroo, a big European food delivery startup.
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Options are often a major portion of the compensation for startup employees and founders, who take lower salaries in anticipation of a big payout if their startup takes off.
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The spareness and earnestness of startup minimalism truly found its match in the ubiquitous decor style that the writer Kyle Chayka coined "AirSpace," a reference to travel startup Airbnb.
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Ethos, the startup marketing a new life insurance product for people who probably haven't really thought about life insurance, may have 99 startup problems but new capital ain't one.
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Though Startup never made it to America, his son William Daw Startup wound up following a pretty young woman named Hagar Hicks to Utah during the great Mormon migration.
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For Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch's startup competition, we approached more than 1723 community groups and nonprofits in the Bay Area to reach underrepresented founders and encourage their participation in Battlefield.
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London -4.8 Overall startup founders are quite pessimistic about the startup climate in London but feel that the status quo will remain stable or improve significantly in other markets.
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The biggest-ever venture round for any robotics startup was $820 million for Ubtech, a consumer and educational robotic startup also out of China, in May of this year.
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Co-founders of Noida-based ed tech startup Gradeup Co-founders of Noida-based ed tech startup Gradeup But still, only a fraction of students take online courses today.
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Previously Bregman founded ride hailing startup Hailo, the Uber challengers now majority-owned by Daimler, and merged with MyTaxi and Hertz was CIO of the e-commerce startup Quidisi.
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Hinrikus, meanwhile, has stepped back from day-to-day management and has stepped up his angel investments, backing payment API startup Fidel and AI startup Pactum in September 2019.
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Because of the tricky nature of building a startup in a heavily regulated industry, Hodges said his team is more experienced than is typical of an early-stage startup.
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Not every startup that we work with goes on to become a unicorn and eventually IPO, but we do believe that Microsoft was a startup one day as well.
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Haskell himself bounced around the startup industry, with forays into launching a crowdfunding startup and stints at a few mobile technology companies, before landing on his current venture, Shuttle.
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Here's an example of a hypothetical partnership born out of Wove: A dog-walking startup like Wag logs onto Wove and is matched with Ollie, a dog food startup.
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Media exposure is almost as important as cold, hard cash at this startup stage, and we'll record every Startup Battlefield session on video and post them all on TechCrunch.com.
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Along with brands like Rebecca Minkoff and Levi's, it carries up-and-coming names, particularly in the digitally native space, like bedding startup Boll & Branch and kitchenware startup Potluck.
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So the long-time vegan, who previously founded the Silicon Valley biotech startup hub IndieBio, created a startup called Wild Earth that's making animal-free pet food using koji.
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The agency wants the engineers to reach out when they're ready to embark on their next career move — be it landing another startup gig or kickstarting their own startup.
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A signed term sheet prevents a startup from shopping the deal around to other investors, and if SoftBank goes back on its promise, the startup&aposs time is wasted.
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Explaining what a startup is all about in a face-to-face meeting with a venture capitalist is one of the toughest challenges for any startup founder or CEO.
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Meet Sendmi, a fintech startup that is launching today in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Sendmi works pretty much like a 401k or a Flexible Spending Account.
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Mutiny, a personalized marketing startup for businesses that sell to other businesses, is taking the stage today at TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield, where it's announcing new funding and new features.
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"Project A can provide support in all critical functions across the entire startup building stack, at all stages of a founding teams' startup journey," says the Berlin-based firm.
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"It's been like a startup but this startup has gone mainstream, about to go public, if you want to keep using the analogy." said Zach Graumann, Yang's campaign manager.
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Startup Social Chain is taking social-media marketing to a new level Startup Social Chain is taking social-media marketing to a new level This segment originally aired Feb.
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Options are often a major portion of the compensation for startup employees and founders, who take lower salaries in anticipation of a big payout if their startup takes off.
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Shine has recruited a host of companies and organizations including GIF-search engine firm Giphy, dog food delivery startup Ollie and HR services startup Justworks to participate in the campaign.
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N26, European fin-tech startup and Startup Battlefield EU 2016 alum, just raised a $503 million Series D round, bringing the company's valuation up to a whopping $3.5 billion dollars.
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The startup formally launched its cloud-based content management system (CMS) platform in November 2015 after a successful debut as a finalist in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2015.
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We see startup after startup offering a feature, like a messaging app or a commerce store that proposes to be better than what hundreds of millions of people already use.
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Now, SRI Ventures, a kind of startup incubator within the Menlo Park research and development firm SRI International, is investing in and spinning out a startup called Abundant Robotics Inc.
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It's in exploring these unknown territories and facing the headwind of startup challenges that it becomes clear that the startup is merely a force of catalytic professional and character growth.
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We're talking essential how-to content designed to help early-stage startup founders succeed — nuts-and-bolts information from people who know their slice of the startup scene inside-out.
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While the app has been available in the App Store and Play Store for a year and four months, the startup has acted more or less like a stealth startup.
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Maisie Williams' talent discovery startup Daisie raises $2.5M, hits 100K members The actress who became famous playing Arya Stark on "Game of Thrones" has fresh funding for her startup. 5.
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We're thrilled to announce that you can now peruse the companies that will be on display in the Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2017 on our handy Startup Alley Hub.
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There are also exhibition packages available which would put your startup or company in the middle of the action at Startup Alley and in front of all the Disrupt attendees.
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Coinbase buys blockchain intelligence startup to boost security and new asset discovery Coinbase announced today that it has snapped up blockchain intelligence startup Neutrino in a deal of undisclosed size.
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The startup says it has selected Greece for its first international office primarily due to "the growing Greek startup ecosystem which offers access to high caliber talent with international experience".
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All Raise, a startup nonprofit committed to accelerating female founder success, will host a day-long AMA event in a dedicated area in Startup Alley (aka the Disrupt expo floor).
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Particularly for a tech startup, even a health care startup, it costs next to nothing, so I don't think they have to go out and make the rounds for VCs.
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While the media has a tendency to fawn over San Francisco's "disruptive" startup darlings, Silicon Valley is far from the end-all, be-all of global tech startup hot spots.
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TC Top Pick designees receive a free Startup Alley Exhibition package that includes one full day of exhibiting alongside hundreds of startups in Startup Alley, our expo hall of opportunity.
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The Silicon Valley startup scene gathered in San Francisco tonight to celebrate the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards — and if there's one kind of person the startup scene lionizes, it's founders.
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This startup nonprofit, dedicated to accelerating female founder success, will host a day-long AMA event on October 3 at Disrupt SF 2019 — in a dedicated section of Startup Alley.
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Faris said it still has a "startup culture," with a small team of 24 startup veterans working out of the old Converse offices on 23rd Street in New York City.
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The startup, which is co-founded by Leandra Tejedor and Melissa Halfon, got off the ground as a Startup Weekend hackathon project in early 2014, where the founders initially met.
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The company, which participated in Cyberport, the Hong Kong government's startup incubator, claims this is the largest ever fundraising round for a pre-revenue insurance tech startup in Hong Kong.
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Microsoft has acquired Canadian startup Maluuba, a company founded by University of Waterloo grads Kaheer Suleman and Sam Pasupalak that also participated in TechCrunch's 2012 San Francisco Startup Battlefield competition.
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Bamisaye's work with her startup MYperiodKIT has not gone unnoticed—she was recently selected as a finalist to represent Nigeria in a $1 million global startup competition, the Chivas Venture.
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Battlefield startups get up to four free conference passes, access to TC's investor-startup matching program and can exhibit for free in Startup Alley for all three days of Disrupt.
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TechCrunch is seeking awesome startups for Featured Pavilions, which are a special section of Startup Alley based on categories where there is a lot of startup activity and investor interest.
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Sumo Logic, a mature security event management startup with a valuation over $1103 billion, announced today that it has acquired JASK, a security operations startup that raised almost $40 million.
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"StartUp" by Gimlet Media "StartUp," which is described on the podcast&aposs website as "A show about what it&aposs really like to start a business," is no longer active.
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Just over a week later an adverting-hoarding truck was seen trawling the startup-filled streets of Shoreditch, extolling the benefits of moving to Berlin (London's chief tech startup competitor).
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There's nothing we love more than the excitement of Startup Battlefield, unless it's bringing the world's best early-stage startup pitch competition to a new region for the first time.
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The most recent was George Bevis, founder of startup business bank Tide, who has decided he'd rather find a CEO experienced at scaling a business after the initial startup phase.
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Now, that investment group is using those patents to sue a health startup — and that health startup is working on tests for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Its presence at the annual startup conference TechCrunch Disrupt was so ubiquitous that it wasn&apost clear whether the conference was essentially a customer marketing event for the startup itself.
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You can run a successful startup and still be strapped for cashIt&aposs typical for startup founders to hold equity in their companies, meaning they own a portion of it.
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Here's just a taste of what's to come: Don't miss Startup Battlefield — our epic pitch competition returns with an outstanding cadre of early-stage startup founders from around the world.
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It will feature technologists, investors, entrepreneurs and media outlets; Startup Alley, where over 400 pre-Series A companies exhibit; Startup Battlefield, our premier startup pitch competition where a curated group of tech's top early-stage startups will compete for the $50,000 grand prize, the coveted Disrupt Cup and intense media and investor interest.
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One finalist will be named the first TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America champion and win a $25,000 non-equity cash prize and a trip for two to the next Disrupt, where they can exhibit free of charge in the Startup Alley — and possibly qualify to participate in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt.
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These TC Top Pick founders have won a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes a one-day exhibit space in Startup Alley, three Founder passes (good for all three days of the show), use of CrunchMatch — our investor-to-startup matching platform — and access to the Disrupt SF 2018 press list.
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But don't take my word for it — Forbes' Christopher Steiner cited St. Louis as "The Right Way To Build a Tech City," the city was ranked as the top startup city by Popular Mechanics in 2400, the fastest growing startup city by Business Insider and the "new startup frontier" by FiveThirtyEight in 22.
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Skymind:The deck AI startup Skymind used to scoop up $11.5 million in fundingThinknum:Read the comic book that data analytics startup Thinknum used instead of a pitch deck to win over investors for its $11.6 venture capital roundVerbit:The deck this New York startup used to raise $23 million to expand its hybrid transcription service
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A startup that's helping us better understand the bugs that live in us just raised $83 million to start developing treatments for diseases like cancer Complaints and probes An entrepreneur who worked with uBiome says the troubled poop-testing startup owes him $600,000 UBiome's board just tapped a former federal prosecutor to run an internal investigation after the FBI raided the $600 million Silicon Valley startup Customer complaints show $600 million health startup uBiome has been surprising patients and insurers with bills for years The FBI reportedly just raided microbiome-testing startup uBiome as part of an investigation into improper billing
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Naspers has taken a bite out of yet another food delivery startup, with its commitment to lead and $237 million investment in the Indian online ordering and food delivery startup, Swiggy.
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A few chairs short, millionaires from around the world could be seen sitting on the floor to watch startup after startup strut their stuff — many of them for the first time.
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In fact, the company was created by the organizers of Startup Grind, who said they initially built Bevy because of the challenge involved in managing all the different Startup Grind events.
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Earlier this week I attended Ethiopia's ICT Expo and first Startup Ethiopia event, moderating and sitting on panels with Ethiopian government representatives to discuss the country's startup community and internet landscape.
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States like California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts and others with relatively high levels of startup activity are more likely to have higher median funding values than those with less startup activity.
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Founded in 2013, Mercari was Japan's first unicorn - a startup with a valuation above $1 billion - in a country that boasts numerous successful giant corporations but lacks a vibrant startup culture.
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From the six comes one startup to claim the title of champion, win the vaunted Disrupt Cup and take home the largest grand prize in the history of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield.
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TechCrunch is seeking awesome startups to exhibit in featured pavilions, which are special sections of Startup Alley based on categories where there is a lot of startup buzz and investor interest.
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This year, TechCrunch will host 10 nonprofits or NGOs at the Moscone Center at Startup Alley inside Disrupt SF. TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Alley is the heart of the conference show floor.
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Procrastination is the mother of missed opportunities, and if you still haven't submitted your early-stage startup to compete in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018, then it's time to get moving.
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The startup is starting its efforts with job recruitment, working with companies like Uber, but Bronson hopes the startup becomes a hub for providing services to those with a criminal record.
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TechCrunch is once again teaming up with Facebook, our partner for last year's Nairobi event, to bring the Startup Battlefield to three major cities representing regions with vital, emerging startup communities.
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A startup founded by David Roger and Chris Benedict, Felix Gray is a startup that is conscious about eye health in the 73st century, for both adult millennials and today's children.
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That year, GM invested $500 million into ride-hailing startup Lyft, bought the remaining assets and tech of ride-hailing company Sidecar and, most famously, acquired self-driving car startup Cruise.
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Startup Alley attendees chose Zeroqode as a Wild Card company on day three, which earned them a five-minute interview with TechCrunch editor John Biggs on the Startup Alley Showcase Stage.
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If you want to get your AI startup in front of literally thousands of tech influencers, investors and media, Startup Alley at Disrupt SF '18 is where you need to be.
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Putting your startup on display in the Startup Alley at Disrupt is one of the best ways to get your company in front of thousands of tech enthusiasts and industry leaders.
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Wijnands is no rookie in the startup world; his previous startup Prss was picked up by Apple and later turned into the Apple News Format, which was subsequently integrated into iOS.
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Meanwhile, the little drone startup that could had caught the eye of a corporate development executive at Sahara, and she kept that eye on our startup for the past several quarters.
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" Then there's Roelof Botha, a VC at Sequoia Capital (and a former Startup Battlefield judge), who says, "I think the Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt is the World Series of startup competitions.
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YC offers a startup program to which aspiring entrepreneurs can apply to receive mentorship and a $150,000 investment, and participate in a three-month bootcamp to work on their startup idea.
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Cedar Rapids isn't known for its bustling startup scene, but thanks to the Iowa Startup Accelerator and Built By Iowa, the two collegians were able to realize a few things. One.
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TechCrunch is seeking awesome startups to exhibit in Featured Pavilions, which are special sections of Startup Alley based on categories where there is a lot of startup buzz and investor interest.
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In Orangeburg, we saw a strong startup that planned to move to Baltimore — and none of us could fault those founders for choosing to go to a more active startup place.
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African e-commerce startup Jumia's shares open at $0003 in NYSE IPO Call it coincidence or competition, but the day before Jumia's IPO, DHL partnered with another e-commerce startup — MallforAfrica.
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Looking at the physical activities of each startup, we developed a framework based on objective criteria, which allowed us to define what a data startup is, using it for classification purposes.
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If you want to make the most of your time there (and why the heck wouldn't you?), then buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and set up shop in Startup Alley.
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If your startup earns enough combined attendee and TechCrunch editorial votes, you might win a Wild Card slot and compete in Startup Battlefield — our pitch competition with a $50,000 cash prize.
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IndieBio, the biotech startup accelerator that's produced heaps of notable companies (including several that have graced the Startup Battlefield), is holding its twice-annual demo day today at 3PM Pacific Time.
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It also positions a16z as a thoughtful investor when it comes to crypto startup investments — not just for participants of the crypto startup school but for the crypto community at large.
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In this specific instance, it is most important to analyze the impact of such a move on Indonesia's startup economy, as the nation is one the world's leaders in startup growth.
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In late December, we launched our startup lawyer survey and to date we've received more than 1700 responses from startup leaders about hundreds of lawyers around the country and the world.
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In case you need a quick refresher, TechCrunch organizes Startup Alley into featured pavilions — 10 categories representing technologies that generate lots of buzz and interest from startup fans, investors and media.
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Of course, you don't want to miss the famed Startup Battlefield, our new Off the Record sessions, hundreds of companies in Startup Alley or all the networking opportunities and after parties.
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OTR sessions joins the growing list of Disrupt activities — including Hackathon, Startup Battlefield, Startup Alley and CrunchMatch — that give you the opportunity to engage with like-minded technologists, investors and entrepreneurs.
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I definitely would have said, "We'll never have a financially successful startup or a hot-growing startup ..." Habitz — one of the most popular ones — Habitz CEO stepped down on ethical grounds.
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Mars had sold his teleconferencing startup Bitplay to Jive Software where he met his eventually co-founder Simon Ratner, who'd joined after his video annotation startup Omnisio was acquired by YouTube.
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Making it easy for a startup to set up a network in the cloud was also how Amazon built a huge lead in the cloud, and a sizable startup customer base.
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But the sale of a startup to a big industry titan has its own risks, as the FTC's attempt to block the sale of razor startup Harry's to Schick's owner shows.
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This is the final week you can apply to be a TC Top Pick and exhibit your startup — for free — in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December.
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All TC Top Picks receive a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package which, among other perks, includes three Founders passes and one full day exhibiting in a prime location within Startup Alley.
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The Startup Alley Exhibitor Package that each TC Top Pick receives (at no cost) includes three Founder passes and one full day to exhibit in a prime spot within Startup Alley.
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Case in point: Legacy, a startup focused on helping men freeze and store their sperm for future use (yes, you read that correctly) exhibited in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2018.
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Apple recently acquired a similar startup called Spectral Edge, a British startup that used machine learning to dramatically enhance the quality of photos that could be taken on the iPhone camera.
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Aero, a new air travel startup backed by Garrett Camp's startup studio Expa, is officially announcing the appointment of its first CEO: Uma Subramanian, who previously launched Airbus' helicopter service Voom.Flights.
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PullRequest, a startup that provides code review as a service, announced today that it was buying Moonlight, an early-stage startup that has built an online platform for hiring remote developers.
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There wasn't a strict dress code, which meant that attendees' outfits spanned kilts, tuxedos, startup t-shirts over jeans, startup t-shirts under blazers and women carrying Chanel and Prada handbags.
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But the investment came in at a lower valuation than its Series A — a "down round," in startup parlance — which was $93 million pre-money, according to startup data firm PitchBook.
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Parcel, which was founded in 2013, had raised just $2 million from investors, and had pivoted from a consumer-facing startup to a business-to-business startup about two years ago.
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Ah yes, Startup Battlefield — the crown jewel of Disrupt.
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West Virginia (!) has contracted with a startup named Voatz (
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That price includes three tickets — bring your startup posse!
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The startup currently operates in Ghana, Uganda and Kenya .
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Square has acquired elements of corporate catering startup Zesty .
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Another startup — Bangalore-based Instamojo — offers a similar functionality.
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Summary: The best startup advice from Silicon Valley & beyond.
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Up to five startups will represent each of the following tech categories: TechCrunch Top Pick designees receive one Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes a one-day exhibit space, three Disrupt Berlin Founder Passes, access to CrunchMatch (our free investor-to-startup matching platform), access to the Disrupt press list and a chance to be selected as one of the Startup Battlefield Wild Card Companies (wild card winners get to compete in our $50,000 startup-pitch competition).
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Anyone with an Innovator, Founder or Investor pass can access this delicious insider content found on the Extra Crunch Stage, plus all the speakers, panelists and startup founders who will grace the Main Stage (think Startup Battlefield), the Showcase Stage (in Startup Alley) and the Q&A Stage (where you ask and experts answer).
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Here are just a few reasons why early-stage startup founders jump at the chance to attend Disrupt: Disrupt Berlin 2018 drives opportunity at every turn — from networking in Startup Alley and learning from Main Stage speakers to competing in Startup Battlefield to having deep conversations on crucial topics at the Q&A Sessions.
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The US is suing Peter Thiel's secretive data startup for discriminating against Asians The US is suing Peter Thiel's secretive data startup for discriminating against Asians Working at Palantir sounds pretty sweet.
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Signals, otherwise known as heuristics, allow VCs in an information-deprived environment like a startup ecosystem to try to glean what is "really happening" about a startup, without directly asking a founder.
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Keeper, a startup that's just graduated from the Y Combinator startup accelerator, is here to make taxes a lot easier for that demographic and to save them as much money as possible.
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Do you think of Lyft as a startup anymore are they acting like a startup or are they acting like a company that could handle all of these different complicated, various challenges?
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Plus, you'll get to check out some pretty amazing early-stage startups in the Startup Alley and Hardware Alley, and watch as a few dozen companies compete in the Startup Battlefield competition.
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It snapped up Halli Labs, an Indian AI startup led by ex Twitter data scientist Pankaj Gupta, this year and bought the team behind Singapore-based enterprise chat startup Pie in 2016.
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Back in November, TechCrunch took a look at former Startup Battlefield competitor Satago, a U.K. fintech startup that was looking to help freelancers and other small business owners get paid on time.
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Other notable winners from this era included GitHub (Best Bootstrapped Startup – 2nd Crunchies), Evernote (Best Mobile Startup – 2nd Crunchies), Dropbox (Best Internet Application – 3rd Crunchies) and Foursquare (Best Mobile Application – 3rd Crunchies).
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Since we began the project last month, we've already heard from nearly 600 founders and early startup leaders about lawyers they recommend, across booming local startup scenes and top Silicon Valley companies.
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TechCrunch is holding an informal Startup Battlefield meet and greet on January 15th with Samantha Stein, TechCrunch's Director of Special Projects & Startup Battlefield Editor, and Mike Butcher, Editor-at-large of TechCrunch.
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Mojiworks, new startup from the founders of Wonderland, the UK gaming startup acqui-hired by Zynga back in 2011, is on a mission to turn Apple's iMessage into a social gaming platform.
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The region also hosts a number of unicorns, including Brazilian ride-hailing startup 99; Colombian last-mile delivery service Rappi; Brazilian learning systems provider Arco Educação; and Brazilian fintech startup Stone Pagamentos.
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Amazon's debut of Scout last month drew initial comparisons between it and another delivery robot made by Estonian startup Starship Technologies, and some even wondered if Amazon was working with the startup.
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Every Startup Battlefield is an absolute thrill ride, but we get even more charged up when it all goes down in a region where the tech startup ecosystem is taking rapid shape.
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This is your chance to be in the room as the top early-stage startup founders of the region compete for the title of the Middle East and North Africa's best startup.
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On the stage of TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield, French startup Riminder made the case for how its deep learning-powered platform could augment recruiters — helping them better surface ideal contenders for job openings.
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Meanwhile, in startup land… This week edtech startup Emeritus, a U.S.-Indian company that partners with universities to offer digital courses, landed a $40 million Series C round led by Sequoia India.
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CrunchBase, a service that surfaces information about startup funding, venture capital investments and people in the startup ecosystem, was spun out of TechCrunch and its parent company AOL/Verizon late last year.
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If you're an early-stage startup founder with dreams of building a company to rival the likes of Dropbox, Mint or Yammer, then our premier startup pitch competition was designed for you.
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Vicarious, a seven-year-old startup in Silicon Valley startup working on artificial general intelligence, has raised $50 million Series C funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total to $122 million.
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Startup Battlefield, the leading startup-pitch competition that's produced the likes of Dropbox, Mint, TripIt and Yammer — to name a few — promises to be even more intense and exciting than ever. Why?
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This means the Flamanville startup would again be delayed by two or three years from the most recent startup target of loading fuel in the reactor by the end of this year.
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Disrupt is one of the best ways to get your startup to connect with the folks that matter in the startup industry, and you definitely aren't going to want to miss it.
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It's a prime time to be a startup in Africa, and it's the perfect time to compete in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, which takes place on December 11 in Lagos, Nigeria.
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When it comes to startup studios, the partners themselves craft startup ideas internally, recruiting entrepreneurs to lead the projects, then building them from the ground up within their own safe, protective walls.
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We're thrilled to announce that you can now peruse all of the companies that will be on display in the Startup Alley at Disrupt NY 2017 on our handy Startup Alley Hub.
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We love to see startup ecosystems develop, and Startup Battlefield is one of the best platforms in the world to spotlight the most promising ventures for investors, partners and even future employees.
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The startup figures at the center of Alphabet's lawsuit against Uber, which alleges Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski stole files to bring to Uber when he left Alphabet to found the startup.
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On Tuesday, BI reported that the family office lent $110,000 to a British startup boss who was later fired from the UK energy technology startup Faraday Grid over allegations of gross misconduct.
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Buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and plant your early-stage startup in the path of more than 10,000 attendees, including leading technologists, investors, 400 accredited media outlets and other leading influencers.
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Yet research by the Dubai-based startup data platform, MAGNiTT, suggests that Qatar's startup ecosystem has seen far less activity than those in neighboring nations such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
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The mouth tech industry is continuing to pick up steam with electric toothbrush startup Quip's latest $10 million funding round from Silicon Valley Bank and its acquisition of dental insurance startup Afora.
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The company, a mobile recording studio for aspiring artists, won an exhibition table in Startup Alley at Disrupt NY 2017 and went on to score the Wild Card spot in Startup Battlefield.
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Layer, the messaging platform that won TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield back in 2013, is making two big announcements today: It's raised $15 million in Series B funding, and it's acquiring another startup, Cola.
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Startup spending guide: When freebies will do This is the second installment in the Startup Spending Guide series, where we are exploring how early-stage startups should spend their non-payroll money.
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These include stakes and strategic deals in four different alternative currency startups: bitcoin and blockchain startup Ripple; Japanese bitcoin trading platform bitFlyer; Kraken exchange developer Payward; and SMB cash advance startup Fundbox.
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Cybersecurity startup exits will most likely come in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than initial public offerings, according to a report from SharesPost, a private share exchange for startup investors.
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A company that bought patents from failed blood-testing startup Theranos has filed a lawsuit claiming that a health startup that recently launched three COVID-19 tests is infringing on those patents.
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Scooter startup Bird cut almost a third of its workforce in an online call on Friday morning, as the cash-guzzling startup prepares for the 'black swan' event to dry up funding.
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For Wesley Kang, cofounder of a men's dress-shirt startup, the coronavirus pandemic has not only slowed sales, it's also highlighted the downsides to working with international suppliers as an American startup.
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See also: Visa's backing a data-security startup just days after revealing it's buying buzzy fintech Plaid for $5.3 billionSee also: SoftBank-backed small-business lending startup Kabbage is moving into payments.
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All TC Top Pick startups receive a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes one full day exhibiting in a dedicated space within Startup Alley — the Disrupt expo floor teeming with opportunity.
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The startup is participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. There are plenty of brokers that let you buy and sell shares using a mobile app and a web interface.
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The Tencent-backed startup pays that manufacturer for every vehicle it builds, which has in turn made it harder for the startup to generate any money to put back into its business.
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VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo The photo-sharing app behind the 2019 meme craze "VSCO girls" has acquired Rylo, a video editing startup founded by the original developer of Instagram's Hyperlapse.
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The move comes days after the state, once widely known for its poor governance, announced the Bihar Startup Policy 2017 — a $76 million fund that pledges to work on fostering startup culture.
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Of all the startup jawns that could possibly come from Philadelphia, perhaps none is as unexpected as Jenzy, the startup that provides an online marketplace and virtual sizing tool for kids' shoes.
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Natural language processing pioneer Evi Technologies, predictive keyboard startup SwiftKey, and AI video startup Magic Pony are all in the Octopus Ventures portfolio, as are companies like LoveFilm and property website Zoopla.
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It almost makes people feel a sense of anxiety because it's so much like their life, and so they'd rather just go to their startup than watch this show about a startup.
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You can buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package, which includes one exhibit day, three Disrupt SF Founder passes, access to CrunchMatch (our platform that makes it easy for investors and founders to meet), use of the Startup Alley exhibitor lounge, access to the Disrupt press list and a chance to be voted as a Startup Battlefield Wildcard.
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Finally, the judges will choose one stand-out startup to lay claim to the Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 crown, a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and a trip for two to Disrupt San Francisco in 2019 — where they get to compete in that Startup Battlefield (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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Exits include the sale of the ad retargeting startup Tap Commerce to Twitter in 2014 for a reported $100 million; the sale of the ad retargeting startup Chango to Rubicon Project for $122 million in cash and stock; and the sale of the ad retargeting startup Tapad to the Norway-based company Telenor for $360 million.
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After expending a lot of blood, sweat and maybe a few tears, one startup will emerge the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 — receive a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and win a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019 (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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The package includes one exhibit day, three Disrupt SF Founder passes (if you apply before July 25), CrunchMatch (our curated investor-to-startup matching platform), use of the Startup Alley exhibitor lounge, access to the Disrupt press list and a chance to be selected as a Wildcard entry to the Startup Battlefield pitch competition (this year's prize: $100,000).
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AI AR/VR Blockchain Biotech & Health Fintech Gaming Privacy/Security Space Mobility & Transportation Retail Robotics, Hardware and IoT If you missed out on applying to be a TC Top Pick and exhibiting for free, it's not too late to buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and showcase your startup alongside 1,200+ companies and sponsors in Startup Alley.
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If you're a startup, we also have packages to Startup Alley and Hardware Alley available to purchase here, or you can enter for the chance to win one of three demo tables in 12 categories we're giving away to a few lucky startups (that's 36 free Startup Alley spots up for grabs) by filling out this form.
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Other acquisitions have included Flipagram — another music-video app and startup — in 7.43 for an undisclosed sum; the AR selfie camera FaceU in 2018, reportedly for $300 million; payments startup UIPay, also in 2018; and — just last week — it appears ByteDance acquired a gaming startup, Mokun Technology, from previous owner 37 Interactive, also for an undisclosed sum.
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All the judges confer, and they will choose one outstanding startup to lay claim to the Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 championship, a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and a trip for two to Disrupt San Francisco in 2019 — where they get to compete in that Startup Battlefield (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time).
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This year, Amazon also invested in Novel Effect, a startup making smart children's books with voice recognition, and Sensible Object, a startup making smart children's toys, like blocks, that connect to an app.
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Vitaly M. Golomb leads global investments at HP Tech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Silicon Valley's original startup and is the author of Accelerated Startup, a book about ramping up your business.
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Susan had co-founded Intucell, a "self-optimising network" startup that sold to Cisco for $475 million in 2013; while Kobrinsky founded web conferencing startup Interwise, acquired by AT&T for $121 million.
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Yes, the Indian startup scene is still young, but it has surpassed Israel to become the third-biggest startup market worldwide, behind only Britain and the U.S. in terms of growth and size.
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Startup Muster not only measures the progress, challenges and opportunities within the Australian startup ecosystem – it ensures all startups across the nation (no matter what category they fit into) are recognised and represented.
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You'll also get to chat with startup founders and other representatives from some of the most promising early-stage startups in the UK and around the world in Startup Alley and Hardware Alley.
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These include blockchain/crypto startups Blockstream and Blockchain (the firm remains bullish with regards to the space), fintech startup Habito, open source drone company Auterion, period tracking app Clue, and data startup Infosum.
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The Startup Battlefield competition features a few dozen companies competing for the ultimate prize – the coveted Disrupt Cup, a $50,000 check and, perhaps most importantly, the attention of the startup community at large.
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GumGum, the Los Angeles-based startup that's spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry called Pearl.
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In an age where "consumerization of the enterprise" is a trendy phrase for investors, it was natural a startup would come along to bundle its take on some of the trendiest startup tools.
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Next, they'll check out the illustrious Startup Battlefield competition, in which a few dozen startups compete for the coveted Disrupt Cup, a $50,000 prize and the attention of the startup community at large.
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On the crypto-side, there were several 2018 ICOs, including remittance startup SurRemit's $7 million token launch, payments venture Wala's $1 million offering and one by South African solar energy startup Sun Exchange.
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Plus on Monday, attendees get to vote for their favorite overall Startup Alley company in the Wild Card competition, and that winner goes on to compete in the Startup Battlefield for that day.
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The Startup Alley Exhibitor Package includes a one-day exhibit space, three Disrupt Berlin Founder passes, access to CrunchMatch (our free investor-to-startup matching platform) and access to the Disrupt press list.
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The startup approach: The PLL is a single-entity organization, so you should think of it more as a Silicon Valley startup (consisting of employees) than a traditional sports league (consisting of franchises).
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So when Y Combinator startup Joy approached me about their intelligent wedding planner startup I was already in the eye of the storm using the most popular wedding site in the U.S. TheKnot.com.
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For starters, it doesn't cost anything, and all TC Top Picks receive a free Startup Alley Exhibition Package good for one full day of exhibiting in Startup Alley, the heart of every Disrupt.
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In his role at Storm before the promotion, Penmetsa worked with a variety of enterprise startups including TruStar Technology, a security startup concentrating on threat information sharing and ShoCard, a blockchain identity startup.
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A one-day exhibit space, three Disrupt Berlin Founder passes, CrunchMatch (our free investor-to-startup matching platform), full use of the Startup Alley Exhibitor lounge and access to the Disrupt press list.
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Rather than marrying an idea without investor backing from the start, potential startup founders can attend hackathons until they win a big investment deal — essentially removing much of the risk of a startup.
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Language in the bill could require venture funds that have raised money from foreign investors to get government approval for the startup investments they make, a proposition the startup community has called untenable.
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In New York City, Urban-X is doing much the same — supporting Envairo, a startup ensuring space is allocated optimally within large buildings and Citiesense, a startup bringing fresh data to real estate.
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Kate Clark: All Raise is a nonprofit organization, but it walks and talks like a startup… Pam Kostka: Yes, we run it like a startup, which is how it ties into my background.
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Under the disguise of a slow Nordic city, there is a startup scene here that is rivalling the likes of London, Berlin and Paris as the most important tech startup hub in Europe.
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Making the case for a startup visa In the five years since thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo's Tahrir Square, startups in Egypt have multiplied as have the number of funds and startup accelerators.
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South Korea startup unicorns South Korea startup unicorns Coupang, the local e-commerce leader, has already surpassed the bar of the $1 billion valuation, and there's still a lot of room for growth.
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Justin Kan is a mid-30s entrepreneur who sold his previous startup, Twitch, to Amazon for $1 billion, and has raised millions in VC funding for his current project, the legal startup Atrium.
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Startup: WeFoxCited by these VCs: Tara Reeves (Omers Ventures)Total raised: $158.8 millionWhat it does: German insurance startup WeFox was founded in 2015 and connects all users of insurance products via its network.
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Zennström and his team appear to now be directing that cash into a wide range of investments, with some focus on sustainable businesses, including childcare startup Koru Kids and flying taxi startup Lilium.
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We spoke with founders, human-resources experts, and startup hiring managers to gather the best questions you should be asking in a job interview to determine whether a startup is worth working for.
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The re-invigorated startup community lured home Canadians - such as the founder of online investment startup Wealthsimple, Mike Katchen - keen to trade promising careers for a more supportive and less cut-throat environment.
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Startup: PitchCited by these VCs: Sarah Cannon (Index Ventures)Total raised: $22.7 millionWhat it does: The Berlin-based tech startup Pitch was founded by former bosses of Wunderlist (acquired by Microsoft in 2015).
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The reference to Silicon Valley's famous startup accelerator is something of venture investor catnip, hitting on both Y Combinator's rocketship success and investors' deep fear of missing out on the next hot startup.
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Qasar Younis, a former Google product manager who was most recently chief operating officer at startup accelerator Y Combinator, is quietly working on an autonomous driving startup, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Opera founded startup OPay raises $50M for mobile finance in Nigeria UPS recently entered into a partnership with Zipline, a medical drone delivery startup, to begin aerial transport of healthcare supplies in Rwanda.
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On the heels of payment processing startup Adyen pricing its IPO in Europe to raise $1 billion, another startup working in the area of digital payment processing has raised a significant growth round.
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After all, IPOs can transmute the blood, sweat, and tears of startup labor into personal wealth and give VC firms the exits they need to help fund their next round of startup investments.
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While population growth and startup growth are both rising in many metro areas, what is really happening is that these startup ecosystems, moribund a few years ago, are finally coming into their own.
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If you aren't in one of the categories we're looking for, your startup can still participate in the Startup Alley or Hardware Alley at Disrupt, and we've got a special deal for you.
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So, when I headed back to Norway this week to take a deep dive into the Norwegian startup scene at the Startup Extreme conference, I have to admit: My expectations weren't that high.
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We had 416 Startup Alley exhibitors, a record for an international Disrupt and 888 CrunchMatch (curated Startup/Investor matching service) meetings, with 97% of startups telling is they'd happily participate in CrunchMatch again.
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Amazon has made its own moves, from investing in electric vehicle company Rivian and developing a fully electric delivery drone to acquiring urban delivery robot startup Dispatch and warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology.
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The Startup Alley Exhibitor Package includes a one-day exhibit space, three Disrupt Berlin Founder passes, access to CrunchMatch (our free investor-to-startup matching platform) and access to the Disrupt press list.
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We discussed the pros and cons of VC funding compared to bootstrapping your startup, the implications of financing and self-funding and how Hiten's time in the startup world has affected his investing.
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Augmented Reality Startup Daqri Raises $15M More, Troy Carter Joins Advisory Board In early 2016, Daqri acquired Two Trees Photonics, a small U.K. startup that was building holographic display technologies for automotive customers.
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Startup valuations are impacted by a host of factors, one of which is the value of their public comparables (comps); if public comps lose value, private startup comps tend to earn lower valuations.
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Rojas Eing has worked on the startup side as well, as she pursued an entrepreneurial project with an ed tech startup a few years ago, although that company is no longer in existence.
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Don't miss the always-epic Startup Battlefield pitch competition, explore and network with hundreds of stellar early-stage startups — including our hand-picked TC Top Picks — exhibiting the latest tech in Startup Alley.
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