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- February 2024
- Teaching Note
TimeCredit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-139. TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting...
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- February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (A)
In 2019, Matthew Scullion, founder and CEO of U.K. startup Matillion, faced a decision about which term sheet to accept for the lead investor in his company’s $35 million Series C financing round. Would the connections and opportunities offered by Silicon Valley-based...
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Kluender, Ray, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (A)." Harvard Business School Case 824-140, February 2024. (Revised February 2024.)
- February 2024
- Supplement
Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
By: George Serafeim
In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY was considering the best path forward for his company has he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and
other crops from cells grown in...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Business Model;
Green Technology;
Goods and Commodities;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Science;
Entrepreneurship;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Technology Industry;
Boston;
Sao Paulo
Serafeim, George. "Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 124-705, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Case
Horizon Quantum Computing
By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan
In 2023, the Singapore-based startup company Horizon Quantum Computing was on the cusp of fast expansion and the founder faced the challenge to decide where to open the second office outside Singapore. To make a choice from the list of 10 countries, the founder had to...
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- February 2024
- Case
AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney
The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Small Business;
Change;
Transformation;
Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Making;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Venture Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Information Technology;
AI and Machine Learning;
Digital Platforms;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Copyright;
Management;
Growth and Development;
Markets;
Market Timing;
Ownership;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy;
Competition;
Computer Industry;
Europe;
Germany
Nagle, Frank, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein, and Susan Pinckney. "AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup." Harvard Business School Case 724-444, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs’ Growth (A) and (B)
By: Mark Egan
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 224-023 and 224-024. As 2017 was drawing to a close, birddogs’ founder and CEO, Peter Baldwin, was working with his CFO Jack Sullivan to prepare for 2018. A nascent direct-to-consumer apparel brand, birddogs had carved its niche in men’s...
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- February 2024
- Case
Nuwa Capital: Investing During Uncertainty
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Nuwa Capital (Nuwa) was a venture capital firm based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The business was founded in 2020 by Khaled Talhouni and his partners Sarah Abu Risheh, and Stephanie Nour Prince (they were later joined by Nitin Reen...
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- February 2024
- Supplement
Ada: Advice for Potential Founders
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Mike Murchison, cofounder and CEO of Ada, shares his advice for potential founders.
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Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Ada: Advice for Potential Founders." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 824-709, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Supplement
Ada: General Updates
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Mike Murchison, cofounder and CEO of Ada, updates the audience on which investor he chose as well as how Ada has grown since its Series B.
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Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Ada: General Updates." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 824-707, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Supplement
Ada: On Fundraising and Cofounding
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Mike Murchison, cofounder and CEO of Ada, shares his fundraising philosophy and reflects on what he believes underpins a successful cofounder relationship.
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Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Ada: On Fundraising and Cofounding." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 824-708, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Case
Adventures Inc: 21st Century Brand Building
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Founded in 2020, Adventures worked with celebrities in Brazil to create and launch digitally native brands. The idea was to match the celebrity’s skill in creating content and entertaining fans with Adventures’ skill in consumer packaged goods marketing and operations....
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- January 2024
- Case
Runa
By: Paul Gompers and Carla Larangeira
In early 2022, Courtney McColgan, founder and CEO of Runa, a human resources and payroll Software-as-a-Service platform, faced an unexpected tech market downturn. Founded in 2018, Runa catered to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico, offering an affordable and...
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- January 2024
- Case
Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Josh Domingues had accomplished what countless young entrepreneurs long to achieve: founding a promising company that aspires to make the world a tangibly better place. Shocked to learn that international food waste cumulatively amounted to the world’s third largest...
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Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment." Harvard Business School Case 824-131, January 2024.
- January 2024
- Case
Vibrant Health
By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
This case is about nutritional supplements company Vibrant Health, among the 100 largest Black-owned businesses in the U.S. After acquiring the company from its white founder in 2007, co-owners Ted and Paige Parker significantly grew its sales. Set in September 2023,...
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- November 2023
- Case
Norse Atlantic Airways
By: Willy Shih
Bjørn Tore Larsen, Norse Atlantic Airways's founder and CEO, hadn't planned to get into the airline business. But when the COVID-19 pandemic depressed the global demand for air travel and the lease rates for jetliners, he realized if ever he was going to get into the...
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- November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months...
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- November 2023
- Case
Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
Already a leader in the edtech space since its 2008 launch, Khan Academy was now one of the first edtech organizations to embrace generative artificial intelligence ("genAI"). In March 2023, Khan Academy began beta testing Khanmigo, a genAI “guide” and tutor built with...
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- October 2023
- Case
Shredder Setups or Straightlining into Risk?: Investing in What You Love
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Bob Hall, President of Green Gables Partners, evaluated whether to angel invest into an up-and-coming ski brand. As the son-in-law of the founder of Vera Bradley and having retired from a lengthy career on Wall Street, Hall was well-versed in both direct investing and...
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Keywords:
Family Office;
Angel Investors;
Direct Investment;
Family Business;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Small Business;
Financial Strategy;
Personal Finance;
Investment Portfolio;
Private Equity;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Consumer Products Industry;
Montana;
United States
- October 2023
- Case
Fixie and Conversational AI Sidekicks
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In March 2023, Fixie Co-Founder and Chief Architect Matt Welsh and co-founders had the kind of meeting no founders want to have. The president of leading artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment firm OpenAI, which had catapulted into fame with its ChatGPT...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations and Performance
By: Justine Boudou and Maria Roche
Possessing unique knowledge is widely considered a critical source of competitive advantage. In this paper, we assess whether new ventures that exploit their founders’ technologically unique knowledge perform better on the exit market than those that do not (or only...
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Keywords:
Firm Performance;
Knowledge Foundations;
Exits;
Academic Startups;
Competitive Advantage;
Value Creation;
Research;
Information Publishing;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship
Boudou, Justine, and Maria Roche. "Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations and Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-021, October 2023.