Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Many GSEA participants go on to grow their businesses through EO Accelerator and eventually graduate from the program and become EO members. All of these experiences are directly tied to the opportunity of competing in GSEA, joining EO Accelerator, and ultimately becoming a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. With a passion for drones and other cutting-edge tech, Burton says he saw an opportunity to use airborne robotics and sensors to capture data about how assets — for example, solar panels and turbines — change over time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Co-founder and CTO Juan Manuel Cuello had the idea for Fudo back in 2014 after working as a developer at Restorando.com, an Open table-like company that was acquired by The Fork. We have the unique opportunity in Latin America to become a one-stop shop because this is an area that is still very underserved,” Ferraro said. “We

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity. Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels The year was 2014. All of that changed on December 1st, 2014. I was looking for an opportunity online to make a few quick bucks for my girlfriend's birthday. We used this money to double down and accelerate our growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketing initiatives. ThreatX was co-founded in 2014 by Bret Settle and Andrius Useckas. He declined to name any names.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Because the HotelPlus client-base currently uses on-premise software, this creates a unique integration opportunity with our cloud solutions…We are creating a massive win-win situation for the HotelPlus clients, in other words,” said Bauck, who co-founded HotelOnline with Endre Opal in 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . Unfortunately, we have created a widening opportunity gap for most Americans to become entrepreneurs. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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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. Many venture investors are now increasingly chasing opportunities to back banks instead. Image credits: Accel).

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Although entrepreneurship is presented as an opportunity and alternative form of employment, people with disabilities face considerable challenges related to business development. In addition, as an incentive, those who finalise the academic programme have the opportunity to ask for financial support to develop their projects.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. We felt like there was an opportunity here to have an extra level of strategic partnership and an extra level of product expansion that came as part of the process.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

“Last week’s event showcased the growing diversity in New Jersey’s innovation sectors and is a tremendous step toward ensuring every entrepreneur has equitable access to opportunities and funding,” said NJEDA Chief Economic Transformation Officer Kathleen Coviello.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today. Dock plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product development roadmap and global expansion plans, as well as to do more hiring.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014. In addition to the opportunity to work with Saiprasad, Hariharan said the driver for going after new funding — especially when its seed fund is still firmly in the bank — was seeing the $4.5

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

million from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, as well as $500,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $350,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund. Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. The iMCI-led investment in Ten-Nine Technologies includes $1.65

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity II, a $525 million for later-stage investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

most of which are used only a handful of days, they saw an opportunity. In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. The money will be used in large part to accelerate the growth of Outdoorsy’s insurtech business, Roamly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The accelerator has now invested in four logistics and digital freight focused startups, including Nigeria’s Kobo and SEND, ever since it successfully backed Flexport in 2014. We recognize the massive opportunity in logistics presented by the rise of e-commerce in the region,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Deuterium and Helium-3 are heated, then accelerated through magnets, compressed and captured as inductive current. million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years. It means we can accelerate the timelines.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Some developer teams are struggling to make APIs useable as a result, leading to duplicated efforts, wasted engineering hours, and missed revenue opportunities. ” Blundell founded Gravitee in 2014 alongside developers Azize Elamrani, David Brassely, Nicolas Géraud and Titouan Compiegne. This is the very issue Gravitee solves.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Innovium founder and CEO Rajiv Khemani, who will remain as an advisor post-close, told a familiar tale from a startup CEO being acquired, seeing the sale as a way to accelerate more quickly as part of a larger organization than it could on its own. 2021 will be a calmer year for semiconductors and chips (except for Intel). .

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day. It’s funny how things have changed since then.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

billion in transactions since its 2014 inception. ReCharge plans to use its fresh capital to accelerate hiring in both R&D (engineering and product) and go-to-market functions such as sales, marketing and customer success. Customers include Harry’s, Oatly, Fiji Water, Billie and Native.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

It’s exciting work, especially when we have the opportunity to connect with a new startup in the first year or two of its existence and continue to support the company as it grows. ]. Dirk Spiers, a visionary of exceptional grit and determination, founded SNT in 2014 in Oklahoma City. SNT founder Dirk Spiers. million in August 2015.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Ushur, which Sadasiva co-founded in 2014 with ex-Lucent Technologies staffer Henry Peter, targets enterprises in heavily regulated industries such as insurance, healthcare, financial services and banking with tools designed to simplify the adoption of tech like conversational AI and intelligent document processing.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Through the Circular Economy Acceleration Programme, they were provided with the necessary tools and support to transform their innovative circular ideas into real-world solutions. Additionally, the organisation empowers women by generating employment opportunities. These ventures featured in the CirculUP!

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Lorien has been honored by Pet Age Magazine as one of the pet industry’s Women of Influence, and she was also named the Pet Industry Network’s 2014 Pet Industry Woman of the Year. We’re focused on growing our company and building strategic partnerships that will fuel future growth and investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Everli, formerly called Supermercato24, says it will use the injection of capital to accelerate growth and further expand its international footprint. Founded in 2014, Everli lets customers order from local supermarkets for delivery. FITEC (part of Fondo Italiano d’Investimento), 360 Capital, Innogest, and DIP also followed on.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet changing legal demands.” “The solutions on the market were point solutions focused mostly on defined processes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. Through our experience of investing over past funds, we’ve also developed expertise, particularly around commerce opportunities, fintech and micro- and small enterprises.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. Not only has the pandemic accelerated remote-first culture, it is now seen as a competitive edge to acquire top-notch global talent.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This new capital will be deployed toward expanding its payment infrastructure, accelerating growth and growing its team, the company said. No major company is coming in with modern technology trying to tackle this space and that’s one area that we see an opportunity for us because we are primarily a retail payment platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

But in a separate poll by McKinsey , 87% of workers said that they would embrace the opportunity to work remotely when given the choice. ” Launched in 2014, Robin began as a conference room scheduling app. The pandemic accelerated that shift faster than anyone could have predicted,” Remley said.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

She is also set to lead the acceleration of the growth of the GrabFin as it continues to become the stronger service player in Malaysia. She also wanted to create more earning opportunities for their partners and help more micro-entrepreneurs digitise and grow.

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