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JANUARY 4, 2023

Premji Invest deploys a “crossover format” (investing in both private and public companies) across the technology, healthcare, consumer, and FinTech landscapes; it has backed market leaders like Outreach, Sysdig, Heyday, Anaplan, Coupa, Moderna, Carta, Flipkart, Looker (acquired by Google), and DataStax. Why invest in the database market?

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JUNE 2, 2021

The Series B follows a $15 million Series A back in 2018 — when the fintech product was available in a handful of European markets and the U.S., It also means it doesn’t need a banking licence itself, so can (in theory) scale faster into more markets. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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MAY 17, 2023

It all starts with creating a product, testing it and finding the right market fit. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. From there, it was off to the races. From there, it was off to the races.

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MARCH 29, 2021

billion in 2014. In other words, the company now offers integrated financing — the mortgage and an interest-free bridge loan — with the goal of helping consumers make strong non-contingent offers on a new home before repairing and listing their old home for sale on the open market. ” Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (formerly known as AdPushup), a person familiar with the matter said, delivering 40 times return to a number of angel investors in the startup that began its journey in India.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Shares of data security and management company Rubrik rose 21% in early trading Thursday, marking the latest large software debut in an IPO market that’s showing signs of resurgence after a long lull. Strong post-offering performance from Rubrik could go a long way to bolster confidence in the tech IPO market.

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JUNE 2, 2021

The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 2014, was most recently valued at just over $4.5 Confluent became the latest company to announce its intent to take the IPO route, officially filing its S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week. billion when it raised $250 million last April.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

The new investment brings Joywell’s total funding to $38 million since the California-based company’s inception in 2014 by Alan Perlstein and Jason Ryder. As a part of the investment, Piva partner and co-founder Adzmel Adznan will join Joywell’s board.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. In 2014, Micromax poached Samsung’s country head for mobile and digital imaging Vineet Taneja and appointed him the CEO.

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MARCH 6, 2024

According to IDC, managed services are set to grow to 12% to 15% of all desktop and laptop offerings by the end of this year, up from 1% in 2014. Analysts predict the market will then grow rapidly as more enterprises adapt to the model: from $51.7 In its place, managed solutions are gaining traction. billion in 2021 to $1.8

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. Hootsuite was rumored to be worth around $1 billion back in 2014, but if Pitchbook data is anything to go by, Hootsuite was worth about a quarter of a billion less than that figure in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. In terms of the latter, the ability to operate our software as a service within the hyperscaler platforms will increase our market share.” Customers will say, ‘I’ve talked to the sales and marketing team. This is a new role for us.” I get all that.

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APRIL 21, 2014

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. Zeitview competes with vendors like PrecisionHawk , Skyspecs and Raptor Maps in the emerging drone services market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. As the market changed its direction this year, many Indian startups including MobiKwik and Snapdeal have delayed their listing plans.

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MARCH 19, 2024

per share, a premium of around 60% over the market price. February 2014: HP Autonomy breaks IDOL into discrete services. June 2014: HP agrees to settle shareholder lawsuits. Hussain and others made false and misleading statements to, among others, regulators, and market analysts. billion, valuing the company at $10.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO in 2014 and has since grown the company to a billion-dollar valuation. It’s never easy competing with the likes of Amazon, yet MinIO has been able to find success.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO in 2014 and has since grown the company to a billion-dollar valuation. It’s never easy competing with the likes of Amazon, yet MinIO has been able to find success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. It also provides data points like pricing and demographics to create new brands and market them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blockstream focuses on its own sidechain technology, dubbed Liquid Network, and it has bitcoin mining operations and provides hardware wallets for bitcoin and other assets. “I think investment into crypto kind of peaked early last year,” Svenson said on TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast this week.

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MAY 15, 2023

Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO in 2014 and has since grown the company to a billion-dollar valuation. It’s never easy competing with the likes of Amazon, yet MinIO has been able to find success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Francis Dufay, who previously held the CEO role at one of Jumia’s fledging markets, Ivory Coast, will now replace both co-founders as acting CEO, the company’s Supervisory Board said in the statement.

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MAY 17, 2023

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

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Startup investors and entrepreneurs are also hoping the IPO, which follows a prolonged drought for new tech offerings, could help kickstart the IPO market again. Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman , now CEO of OpenAI , led Reddit’s Series B of $50 million in 2014. Reddit will trade on the NYSE under the ticker symbol RDDT.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

million since its inception in 2014. The global beef market is estimated at $500 billion, but the pure farm management software market in its core geographies is estimated at around $3.5 AgriWebb’s key markets include Australia — where more than 15% of the national herd is managed using its platform — the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Yesterday, we dug into preliminary Q3 data for the Chinese startup market. The firm ran the numbers on Q1 and Q2 venture performance in their target market. What emerged from the data is a startup market busy accelerating its ability to raise capital, mint unicorns and, increasingly, generate outsized exits.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

million Series A round raised back in 2014, Jalal Nasir, founder and CEO of Pixalate, told TechCrunch. The company grew 1,200% in revenue since 2014 and is gathering over 2 terabytes of data per month. Western Technology Investment and Javelin Venture Partners led the latest funding round, which brings Pixalate’s total funding to $22.7

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MAY 11, 2022

The global market of conversational commerce, also known as chat commerce or conversational marketing, is expected to increase to $290 billion by 2025, up from $41 billion in 2021, representing a 590% rise for the next four years, according to a report by Juniper Research. Image Credits: Zeals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot — the maker of marketing, sales and service software products — as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17 billion. By the time HubSpot went public in 2014, net revenue retention had jumped to nearly 100% — all without hurting the company’s ability to acquire new customers.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

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

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

By leveraging this investment, we will capture broader Japanese market opportunities. This acquisition is the first step in an inorganic strategy to ultimately apply Riiid’s AI technology to the global market and help more learners around the world.” . The company expects to address local remote learning and education in the market.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

The online website creation and hosting service is a venture-backed entity, having raised Series A and B rounds in 2010 and 2014, respectively. By filing, Squarespace joins a growing list of companies pursuing the public markets in recent months. Squarespace announced this afternoon that it is going public. At the end of 2020 C3.ai,

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Talking about the acquisition, Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash said in a statement that the move “will accelerate our product development, bring greater focus to each of our markets and improve the value we provide to consumers, merchants, as well as Dashers and couriers around the world.”.

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JUNE 17, 2014

First, we found that growth slowed down in 2013 Q3 but resumed in 2013 Q4 and 2014 Q1. Here are the 10 largest groups (by membership as of March 31, 2014). Next Gen Market Research (NGMR): 23,368 (15%). Here are 10 groups with the fastest growth in the past 12 months (March 25, 2013 to March 31, 2014). RDataMining: 126%.

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