American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Non-automotive companies are drawn from the metal industry, followed by semiconductor & electronics/photonics; food & consumer goods; life sciences, pharmaceutical and biomedical, plastics & rubber, and others.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

Hungryroot meals have a 10 day shelf life. Hungryroot is going after that category--the packaged food category, with a product that takes about 7 minutes from package to mouth. Newfound appreciation for rutabaga. So if you don't have any by Friday, no worries. You can have them next week.

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HPA

DECEMBER 8, 2021

HPA participated in the round, which included participation from other investors including Supply Change Capital, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventures, Hanfield Venture Partners, Lifely VC, Conscience VC, Kingfisher Capital, Big Idea Ventures, among others. This funding round was a milestone in the category of seafood alternatives.

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culture funders sustainability VC 91

TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

“We’re creating a new category in work tools; a visual knowledge base. Our company was born out of the real-life struggle we experienced ourselves. When I was finishing my PhD at Stockholm University I realized I needed a more visual way of working,” says Ece Kural, co-founder and CEO of Scrintal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Silver tech – Life expectancy is on the rise and the U.S. Social – The category is up in the air, again. It’s not a new category of companies, it’s a new layer that everyone has to consider mandatory. market is terrible at taking care of elderly and infirm people, in general. And yes, we saw that one coming too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

million, and will be used to expand the number of categories in its app, adding night clubs, karaoke bars and catering, for example, and enter new countries, including Thailand, Singapore and Japan. For example, both SoftBank-backed Klook and PickTime now also offer local bookings for many categories that overlap with FunNow.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 1, 2023

ENDERO’s mission is to improve the quality of life for women with innovative menstrual products. The Tidy Toasties concept is a non-messy option for on-the-go meals with crustless, sealed sandwiches. For the High Growth Undergraduate division, the $20,000 first prize winner was ENDERO, a team from The University of Oklahoma.

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innovation economic development entrepreneurs transportation 40

Revolution

JULY 6, 2021

We’re thrilled to back their vision for a new category of pet wellness that extends far beyond traditional pet insurance. As a student making zero income, this was an incredibly stressful decision, but I was willing to go into debt to save my dog’s life.

health 130

health education advice collaboration 130

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s how it works: Consumers answer a few questions about the products they are looking for, and Curated matches them to a category expert who provides a list of personalized recommendations and will text or jump on a phone call to guide the consumer to the right product, which the consumer can buy directly from Curated.com.

SaaS 98

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

and Strings of Life in Los Angeles, and Magic Mike Live Las Vegas and Sahara Las Vegas. In terms of its payment features, Mr Yum has a partnership with Afterpay in the dining category, and also added a pay at table function to the platform so merchants have more flexibility in how they use the platform with their customers.

hospitality 98

hospitality sustainability education pitching 98

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

Hosted by Delaware Prosperity Partnership , fifteen finalists from Delaware and surrounding states are competing for a share of $215,000 in non-dilutive funding and other awards with winning ventures receiving up to $20,000 in grants along with mentorship and other support.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

On the relatively brief application form for START, a16z names six categories — American dynamism, consumer, enterprise, fintech, games or other. This program extends Andreessen Horowitz’s stamp of approval to the earliest step of an entrepreneur’s journey: the idea stage, or the pre-quitting-your-day-job part of startup life.

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accelerator advice entrepreneurship venture capital 92

Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

the birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea , host of the top-10 That Will Never Work podcast, and a star of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Elevator Pitch web series. We work with bold leaders within high-growth categories. He is the author of the internationally best-selling memoir, That Will Never Work?—?the How it’s perceived.

entrepreneurship 130

entrepreneurship founder consulting pitching 130

AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Happilo which sells trail mixes, dry fruits, muesli, and nut protein bars will be using the fresh funding to grow its D2C channel and distribution network, for product expansion across healthy snacking categories, acquisition of synergistic food brands, capacity expansion, and brand building.

mix-use 52

mix-use accelerator enablement media 52

TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Fast-forward to today, and Purely Elizabeth, which has since added pancake/waffle mix and oatmeal, is one of the top brands in the breakfast category. Products are non-GMO and include ingredients like ancient grains, coconut sugar, probiotics and MCT oil. billion in 2020 and is poised to reach $1 trillion by 2026.

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capital mix-use education health 90

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One category of innovation that can reduce food waste: tools to help farmers improve field productivity. A related category: innovation that helps reduce food loss through pest control. Another category to reduce food waste: agricultural waste reuse. Plus, farmers normally detect pests too late and crops are lost.

sustainability 98

sustainability health creativity entrepreneurs 98

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If R&D is so critical to a company’s success, why then do R&D budgets lack the same discipline of other spend categories? Many companies have good reasons not to conform to R&D benchmarks, especially if they’re creating new categories or building at the forefront of a new technology like generative AI.

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frameworks board capital incumbents 124

Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

Walking down the aisle of some of the largest hardware retailers in the world, our category of goods is confusing, noisy, and stale, and consumers’ and associates’ education in these categories is very low. A little bit of ignorance and a little bit of arrogance while looking at opportunities in the US market.

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founder accelerator creativity culture 52

Revolution

OCTOBER 6, 2020

They’ve helped thousands of families extend the life of gear and become more conscientious consumers, saving thousands of dollars and preventing tons of waste from filling landfills. Good Buy Gear aims to serve as the arbiter of quality and create the “blue book” for the category.

investing 130

investing investment sustainability founder 130

AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Safeware’s Smart Airbag product has been recognized as the gold winner in the ‘Personal Technology – Smart Wearable’ category at the prestigious Edison Awards 2023 held in Fort Myers, Florida, USA. In addition to its life-saving features, the Smart Airbag C3 is also designed with user convenience in mind.

innovation 95

innovation construction collaboration hospitality 95

TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The average cart size varies per category, but on the prepared food side, it is $14, while groceries are $30. With the new capital, Yummy plans to invest in product development, increasing density within its current categories and expanding coverage in its more mature markets, including Venezuela and Bolivia. That is poised to be a $9.3

transportation 97

transportation board sustainability capital 97

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

At TRI, we’re always searching for ways to amplify human ability and help improve quality of life,” TRI’s Gill Pratt said in a statement. Robotics and automation generation has been a fairly hot category for VC investment amid the ongoing COVID-19 shut down. XRobotics is keeping the dream of pizza robots alive.

startup 83

startup collaboration innovation VC 83

TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

During the pandemic, we’ve charted the massive growth across all sectors of robotics, and while VC money is slowing for nearly every startup category, robotics investments continue at a pace not seen before 2020. Logistics and fulfillment may well be the hottest category in robotics at the moment. Funding the Future.

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pitching education communities technology 93

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s a life cycle assessment that leads to a letter rating from A to E. The key element in the new eco-score that’s coming up is that there will be some differences within a product category because ingredients and farming methods are different,” Asdaghi said.

collaboration 90

collaboration health VC strategy 90

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Yup, sustainability, a category that will combine transportation , climate tech , smart cities and renewables. To us, the goal of sustainable tech is simply to do less harm to the planet (thus sustaining something close to life as we know it). What the heck is sustainable tech, anyway? In our experience, it’s a moving target.

sustainability 83

sustainability disruption transportation SaaS 83

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

insurance industry — in terms of life insurance premiums, 95% are sold by insurance agents and brokers, showing how critical these frontline workers are to this mammoth industry. They really just wanted everything in one place, which is not described very well by traditionally modular category names of software.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Brianne Kimmel, Work Life Ventures. These are the kinds of innovations that makes me optimistic about the VR category in general. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX. Brayton Williams, Boost VC. Greg Castle, Anorak Ventures.

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opportunity startup VC innovation 119

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As friendly competitors, they acknowledged that while the category is not a winner-takes-all one, it’s still important to differentiate and continuously innovate. Glyman and Kote shared how they’re working to preserve capital, while Blader offered up some of the advice she’s giving to her portfolio companies. And she didn’t hold back.

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advice frameworks disruption capital 87

Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 16, 2021

One of the biggest mistakes Arlene’s made in investing is loving the category and idea and not spending enough time to understand the entrepreneur. Personal and Professional Life Balance. Arlene was born with enormous energy and the ability to do a lot of things in life. Mindset for Business and Life.

capital 105

capital energy advice board 105

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

The ocean’s capacity as a carbon sink has created problems for myriad marine life, which have depended on historically stable acidity levels that are now creeping higher. Plastic pollutants are responsible for choking marine life and destroying both marine and coastal ecosystems.

funders 89

funders energy sustainability opportunity 89

TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Marconi told me that AppliedXL started out by working on a number of different data and machine learning projects as it looked for product-market fit — but it’s now ready to focus on its first major industry, life sciences, with a product launching broadly this summer.

health 100

health capital ventures development 100

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

My earliest encounters with a personal computer, initial uses for the Internet, and 12+ years of product work [Second Life, AdSense, YouTube], were all driven by the conviction that everyone deserves the chance to be creative. But it has never, ever been a better time to try if you’re willing to commit.

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creativity ventures culture communities 135

StartupNation

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Roughly eight months into the pandemic, our plans—both in business and in life—have drastically changed. But no matter how much we try to prepare ourselves for the unexpected, none of us could have predicted, nor prepared for, the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis it has created. Take, for example, outdoor gear.

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opportunity founder entrepreneurs culture 119

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

After all, to get a LEED certification, buildings must hit a performance score combining metrics across several categories including energy, water, waste, transportation and quality. To unpack the opportunity come specific considerations with investments at each point.

real estate 88

real estate construction energy transportation 88

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Altitude Life Science Ventures and the second SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from the Qatari Investment Authority and other undisclosed investors. The ability to write in the code of life will be a defining technology of this century and drive a fundamental change in medicine. The round was led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.,

mix-use 95

mix-use technology financing finance 95

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Shaeffer said that he and his co-founder Alex Benzer have “both seen firsthand that a great teacher can change the trajectory of somebody’s life.” As a result, Knowable has focused on “soft skills” in categories like professional development, self-improvement and health.

startup 98

startup education entrepreneurship health 98