Sentences with phrase «tech startup industry»

The growth of this legal tech startup industry was even more pronounced at the CodeX Demo Event and at the CodeX / Thomson Reuters Summit, where several companies showcased their new technology.

Not exact matches

Recent business news is slick with reports about startups, usually in the tech industry, getting millions of dollars in investment capital, typically from the gold - plated venture capital names.

Instead, the startup program should be seen as just one part of Google's emerging efforts to remake the economic impact of patents in the tech industry.

Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.

Then he did the thing that gave him an even bigger fortune and made him a tech industry star: He cofounded Nutanix, the poster child of the unicorn - startup era.

It's one of the reasons Canada's strong startup scene isn't translating into a mature tech industry: we need more anchor companies.

The world's most glamorous industry is getting a digital overhaul as investors pour money into a wave of fashion - tech startups.

A comprehensive research briefing last September by CB Insights tech analyst Deepashri Varadharajan, for example — which tracked AI startups across industries from 2012 through the fall of 2016 — showed healthcare dominating every other sector, from security and finance to sales & marketing.

-- Neha Sampat, CEO of digital tech solutions provider Built.io, which powers innovation at the intersection of enterprise mobility and the internet of things (IoT) for startups and industry - leading companies.

Ed - tech is a promising industry, within the $ 1 trillion American education industry, with ed - tech startups attracting $ 1.25 billion in funding in 2013, according to CB Insights.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

Canada's tech industry is plagued with problems, not the least of which is a tendency for our startups to sell early or license their technology to foreign - based, usually American companies.

Yes, startup success cleaves inordinately to tech companies and seems to steer clear of non-tech industries.

Estonia's tech prowess helps local startups punch above their weight in other ways, including innovative public - private partnerships that — thanks to the country's E.U. citizenship — have the chance to become industry standards across the Continent.

Vic Gundotra embarked on his health tech startup journey with the confidence of a tech industry veteran boasting years of experience.

But San Francisco is also the largest incubator of tech startups in the country, a place where every entrepreneur with even the most basic coding knowledge is trying to turn some industry on its head through an app.

Dropbox's cost - cutting measures drew a lot of attention because it's one of the most richly valued and highly funded startups in the tech industry.

On March 6, 2018, the Women Startup Challenge Emerging Tech finalists will pitch their innovative ventures to a panel of tech industry investors on stage at Google, in New York CTech finalists will pitch their innovative ventures to a panel of tech industry investors on stage at Google, in New York Ctech industry investors on stage at Google, in New York City.

In the tech / startup industry, in particular, we've seen a few co-founders come under fire for things they have said or did in the past that resulted in some unwanted attention in the press.

In the more tech - heavy segments of the industry, startups like pet toy and treat subscription service BarkBox, services platform Rover, direct - to - consumer pet pharmaceutical company Vets First Choice, and smart - collar maker Whistle Labs are some of the dominant companies.

Some groups are focused on tech startups, while others focus on manufacturing and other specialty industries.

How two tech startup employees left their company, and disrupted a very old (and comfortable) industry.»

Despite fierce competition and a fast - paced industry, standout ad - tech startups find their footing and succeed.

And while many startups and tech companies that depend on open access to the Internet have cheered those rules, which reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, cable and telecommunications industry representatives have already filed several lawsuits that challenge the regulations.

The overall sums of private capital raised by today's tech startups over longer periods of time are indicators of industry health.

The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry — at startups and venture capital firms — and the interaction between men and women in the two.

Just as with any other industry, Startup Land has its own unspoken etiquette that can make moving into the industry initially a little forbidding to those who didn't come up surrounded by tech culture.

As a former tech startup founder who started Eleven Eleven PR after my own frustration with the PR industry, this really spoke to me.

DogVacay is the latest in a series of tech startups taking aim at the traditional pet care industry, and the market opportunity is great.

Open Innovations and the associated Skolkovo Innovation Center, a massive high tech research campus and home for startups and industry just outside of Moscow proper, was developed with the help of Russia's Medvedev, who has taken on the development of Russia's technology and innovation economies as something of a pet project.

Undeterred, Open Innovations aims to put all the right pieces — big traditional industry, high tech startups, government ministers, foreign and domestic investors, global media — all in the same room in an effort to alter these larger realities.

I've come to Moscow to attend the third annual Open Innovations Forum, an extravagant two - day event that is designed to bring startups, traditional industry, government, and the public together to cultivate growth in Russia's tech community and stanch the brain drain that sends a large part of Russia's ample engineering and programming talent in search of work elsewhere.

It is so popular that it has become a cult legend, garnering real world recognition on startup tracking site Crunchbase and having its fake press releases covered by real tech industry publications.

The discussion touched on all the usual culprits for the underrepresentation of women in tech industry leadership roles: discrimination in the workplace, the «pipeline problem» of too few girls studying math and science, the difficulty of balancing motherhood with the demands of a startup.

When Daehee Park and JT Marino left the tech startup they worked for to strike out on their own, they looked for a different pace, perhaps something in an «old - fashioned industry» ripe for change.

Startups in Silicon Valley continue to launch, innovate, merge and change along with the demands of the tech industry, and there's no doubt that founders in the area see cyber security as a huge opportunity.

Silicon Valley's overall authority and dominance in the tech industry makes it a natural place for cyber-security startups to spring up.

Since then, I've founded four more tech startups across different industry verticals - failing at two, selling one and currently running another.

The team — conceived as a tech startup within a bigger conglomerate — focuses on beauty industry projects.

TaskUs has spent seven years bootstrapping and quietly becoming the go - to outsourcing company for some of the tech industry's hottest startups.

And so a trillion - dollar industry is sitting there waiting for a startup to fill the void with a new tech solution.

Young companies are now offering higher salaries than the tech industry average — with developers earning 26 percent more, marketers raking in an additional 7 percent, and sales / business development folks commanding a 12 percent premium to work at startups.

Yes, Silicon Valley is no doubt the center for tech startups, but it's not the center for every industry.

Silicon Valley, which debuted in 2014, centers around a young startup, Pied Piper, and its quest to build a powerful technology to compress files while navigating the typical challenges of the tech industry.

The fund comes during a tumultuous year for the venture capital and tech industries as they deal with sexism scandals that have resulted in the ouster of notable investors and executives at firms like Ignition Partners and startups like Uber and SoFi.

Where: New York, NY Why: TechCrunch Disrupt bills itself as the leading authority for debuting revolutionary startups for the tech industry's key innovators, and with good reason: By gathering together major players in the innovation space, including entrepreneurs, investors, hackers and tech fans, TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Competition and Startup Alley are must - do launching platforms for startups seeking maximum publicity and industry exposure without hefty PR agency fees.

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From policy - comparison engines to tech - enabled health coverage and insurance tools for on - demand workers, startups are invading the multi-trillion dollar insurance industry — and investors are chasing them.

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Though tech firms and startups are praised for their ability to lead through rapid change, the industry also has a reputation for sexism and exclusion.