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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The two received the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Award in the Services category, one of only 11 categories awarded in the E&Y program. TaskUs recently reached 15,000 employees , by offering up a range of customer service and business process outsourcing services. Ruan and Hudson just sold Honey to PayPal for $4 billion.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

According to Zefr, it will provide advertisers with independent, video-level verification of their content adjacencies on TikTok, mapped to the Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM) brand safety floor and brand suitability categories.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

According to GOAT Group, the new funding will go to further accelerate growth across product categories and geographies. Lu, i a statement, said that there are "significant market opportunities in sneakers, apparel and additional categories through technological innovation". The Series E funding was led by D1 Capital Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2021

Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are business examples in this category. After many stories of leaders in all these categories, he offers some good tips on how to get counted in the category you prefer: Know thyself. Which category will you fall into?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. “As GOAT continues to grow its core business and expand into new categories, it is rapidly emerging as one of the best positioned next generation global e-commerce platforms.”

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The app runs on TVs, letting viewers see the most liked and viewed videos, across a range of categories. According to the company, the app is now available on Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, LG Smart TVs, and Samsung Smart TVs. The app connects to a user's existing account.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

GOAT said the new investment round will go towards continued expansion in the fashion apparel and other new categories. GOAT said the strategic investment follows its Series E funding announcned in September of 2020, which was worth $100M, valuing GOAT at $1.75 GOAT is led by co-founder and CEo Eddy Lu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2016

As an angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2020

Headspace is already a giant in the mental wellness category. The company has research underway in over ten clinical trials to move from mental wellness into the digital health category, under its Headspace Health subsidiary, which launched in 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

EDT forecast by the NHC, assuming a Category 3 storm; later updates from the NHC have since upgraded Dorian to a Category 4 storm at landfall. That cone, issued by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), shows where the center of the hurricane might end up, and is not an indication of where actual damages would occur. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

“For us the calculus was to look at personal care and see what categories need to be reinvented because of sustainability,” said Bloom. “It was important to us once we get to a category what is the demographic opportunity. Howard, the chief executive of Irving Place Capital.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

According to Patron, its first fund, Patron Fund I, will go to investments into Web 3 (P2E/NFTs) and consumer categories such as education, fitness, personal finance, and more. The company's General Partners are Jason Yeh and Brian Cho.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

According to Newegg, it has launched a new "Maker" category on its site, which it says is dedicated to builders and DIY tech enthusiasts. According to Newegg, the new category will feature such items as developer kits, drones, home automation and boards, including Raspberry Pi and other similar products.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Sir Richard Branson , the technology mogul behind Southern California's Virgin Galactic , and investor in Los Angeles-based Ring , among other companies, shared his plans to ride through the Hurricane Irma, the approaching Category 5 monster storm, on his private island, Necker Island.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

According to Ember, the new funding will go to develop new product categories and scale its brand internationally. The funding was led by GOLDTek Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, and also included EDBI and others. Ember is led by founder and CEO Clay Alexander.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Hyperice said Mahomes will "further accelerate the recovery technology category globally". Size of the investment was not announced. Mahomes is the quarterback for the National Football Leageu's Kansas City Chiefs. Hyperice is led by CEO Jim Huether. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

The other moves are logical and they fall in line with existing Snap strategies, but games is an entirely new category for the company. It isn’t hard to see where Snap found inspiration for social games — Asian messaging companies have long twinned games and chat — but the U.S. company is applying its own twist to the genre.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

According to NewEgg, it unveiled a new automotive product category on its B2B website, where it now has over one million SKUs. The new category is now available on NewEggBusiness.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( I have very strong conviction that seed investing will remain its own category. The skills and networks inherent in making the early bet are consistent with the funds that play in this category.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company said currently 23 percent of its global employee population fits those categories. The company also said it plans to invest $250M to accelerate opportunities for diverse talent, with the goal of increasing the percentage of women and non-binary people in its workforce by 50 percent.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

According to the company, the hiring expansion goes beyond the normal seasonal staff increase for Q4, and also includes technical roles, as well as opportunities in marketing, business development and e-commerce category management. Most of the positions are at its headquarters in the City of Industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kate Drane, hardware category lead at IndieGoGo joins us and talks about IndieGoGo and crowdfunding. The post Ubuntu Edge, Startups, Crowdfunding, and More | Chat with Kate Drane Hardware Category Lead of IndieGoGo appeared first on TechZulu. Do you believe in crowdfunding over the traditional ways of investing?

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Acording to NZXT, the investment will bring on more senior talent, expand its product offering to include new hardware categories, expand its direct-to-consumer offering in new global markets, among other efforts. The funding came from private equity investor Franciso Partners.

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Xconomy

MAY 6, 2019

The finalists in the Startup category of San Diego’s Xconomy Awards (and other categories) show how much data security and privacy have become not just top public concerns but also the priorities of a growing number of companies. Here are brief introductions to the finalists. Winners will.

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Xconomy

MAY 13, 2019

The Xconomy Awards categories weren’t enough to capture the full diversity of the San Diego life science community. So we at Xconomy created X of the Year for people who are so unique they needed their own categories. Read on for short introductions of the X of the Year finalists. Winners will be announced at the.

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MAY 19, 2020

According to RelayCars, the website now features high quality, virtual realty (VR) content which lets users take virtual tours of any vehicle category, year, make, and model from its database of content.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

That data classifies each county under categories ranging from "emergent" and "epidemic" to "controlled" and "no cases". The new Esri CovidPulse tool allows the public, as well as decision makers, to track county-by-county data on COVID-19 pandemic trends.

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MAY 13, 2013

Greentoe''s website lets users name what they''d be willing to pay for all kinds of electronics and other items; the company said that it''s been seeing the most traction for photography and consumer electronics categories, but also has seen lots of growth in the baby product category. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

Openfit said it is providing "Labs" for the Amazon Halo, featuring a variety of fitness categories, ranging from yoga to barre to Pilates; Amazon Halo apparently currently offers up over 100 Labs created by both Amazon as well as third parties like Openfit. Financial details of the link were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to SurePrep, the new investment will help it accelerate its development roadmap, plus strengthen its technology and processes, grow its client base, and expand into new product categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2016

This is a huge moment for Michael Dubin who had the vision, the market genius, the operating chops and the perseverance to prevail even after the venture funding markets had wrongly written off eCommerce as a category. Frankly, it’s awesome to see a VC articulate a vision for the kind of company they would back in a given category.

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APRIL 7, 2020

The new content includes news and lifestyle content from USA Today and CBC News, sports from USA Today Sportswire and the Fubo Sports Network, entertainment content from TMZ and Hollywire, and many other categories of content. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Scopely said the new funding will go towards supporting its M&A strategy as well as expansion into new product categories. According to Scopely co-CEO Walter Driver, the investment comes as Scopely has become a "significantly profitable business". READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Category expert – show me that you know what I need. It’s not enough to have everything in a given category. A positive result of being a recognized category expert is that it gives you the credibility to broaden demand and start new trends, instead of waiting for outside influencers and other customers.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Irvine-based property information provider CoreLogic is estimating this morning that Hurricane Lane, currently spinning not far from Hawaii's Big Island as Category 4 storm, threatenes more than 48,000 homes in Hawaii--with a reconstruction value of more than $8 billion. CoreLogic said 48,617 homes in Hawaii are threatened by the storm.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

According to Omaze, it will use the funding to expand its "experience categories" and accelerate international growth. The funding was led by FirstMark Capital, and also included Causeway Media Partners, BDMI, Tusk Ventures, Inherent Group, Gaingels, Penni Thow's Copper and Guy Oseary.

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