A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 7, 2023

Like tens of millions of others, I downloaded Threads onto my phone yesterday and signed up. As far as I can tell, Threads does not yet support ActivityPub but has committed to doing so. But more importantly, protocols that are widely used bring lots of developers to them and those developers bring lots of different ideas and products.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Vinehealth , a 2018-founded, London-based digital health startup that’s built an app which offers personalized support for cancer patients while also making it easier to gather patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, including for drug development and clinical trials, has closed a $5.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. ThoughtFullChat is available for download through the App Store and Google Play , or through insurers and employee benefit programs. One of them, ThoughtFull , announced today it has raised $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 5, 2023

June X 2023 – Platformatic , the fast backend development platform for developers and enterprises to build modern API-driven applications, has raised $3.5 development. Platformatic extends the capabilities of Fastify with enterprise-grade solutions, managed services and dedicated support. The core Node.js

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Source Link

MAY 5, 2021

During our March Quarterly Conversation, affiliates discussed the challenges moving from individual entrepreneur support organizations to a collaborative, community-based model. IASourceLink restructured much of their website content into specific, detailed, easy-to-navigate guides, and is working to turn each guide into downloadable PDFs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In total, the company has around one hundred extensions already created, but it offers tools that allow anyone — even non-developers — to create their own, too. 1 most popular download for a time on Airport , an app store for beta products. Insight is available today as a free download on the App Store.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

Otzzy, founded by Tim Emerick (Renovo, PA): This family-run business has developed an interactive tap-to-play interface app, revolutionizing personalized keepsake gifts. Their project, currently in the engineering phase, holds promise for reducing carbon emissions while promoting economic development in the region.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist , OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access. ” Plugins are a curious addition to the timeline of ChatGPT’s development.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while now, beginning development in 2019 with a team of employees who worked at places like Apple, Facebook and NASA. The funding will go toward expanding Flux’s development team, investing R&D for additional features and increasing its marketing reach. Image Credits: Flux.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With a mission to empower creators and foster a vibrant community, Ashley brings a wealth of expertise in human-centric design, mobile-development and advocacy for mental and physical health to Fini. Enabling individuals to lead healthier lives while supporting creators’ success is truly invigorating. This was very insightful.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 3, 2023

This huge amount of funding supports Inflection’s ambitious goal of building a highly sophisticated large language model that enables people to engage with Pi as their personal assistant. Together they are developing the largest AI cluster in the world that is comprised of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Here’s how the technology works: The open-source framework allows developers to test and make changes to their applications by directly connecting their local machines to the cloud. The problem with what V called an “old-school process” is that developers would upload their apps to the cloud, wait for it to run and then make any changes.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2023

Therefore, if one employee is uploading a large file to the cloud while another is on a video call, you need to have enough bandwidth to support them both. Plan ahead Even if your bandwidth suits your business needs right now, is it enough to support your business as it evolves and grows?” How much is enough? How much is available?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Kabam , the gaming company that has developed mobile games in partnership with entertainment brands including Disney, Marvel and Universal, has laid off about 7% — around 35 people — of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned from sources and confirmed with the company over email. The company has a headcount of over 500 employees.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Traditional web development requires you to host your server outside of where the code resides, so you end up using platforms like AWS or Heroku which not only require additional setup but also add additional cost to your project. Takeaway : Bubble gives you access to a database that is user-friendly and allows you to save development time.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

But our conviction in the power and impact of ecosystem building is not shared by most people, especially those who are in positions of traditional power such as many civic leaders, business leaders, and traditional economic developers. What started with a manifesto has developed into specific tactics and policy proposals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The app was originally built by iOS developer Shihab Mehboob, the creator behind a number of apps including the whimsical music app Vinyls and the Twitter client Aviary 2. Mammoth was the result of those efforts, but it has since been acquired by the company that’s now running the project, led by principal developer Bart Decrem.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 16, 2019

After downloading the app (available to both iOS and Android users), students at Penn State automatically “Join the Hive.” As the youngest in the family, I had a fantastic support system throughout college. The post NEW LIFESTYLE APP DEVELOPED BY RECENT GRADS IS CREATING BUZZ AROUND TOWN appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

MyBillBook, which supports Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil as well as English, will add support for “at least” five more regional languages within the next six months, the startup said, adding that the app has been downloaded more than 5 million times.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Various NPC with Unique Story : With more than 10 supporting NPCs, we can hear more than 10 different stories. It has about 16 million downloads of My Oasis, 7 million downloads of Seven Days, 5 million downloads of Underworld Office, etc. and many story game developments are on their way.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When they started Graphite, originally as a mobile development tool company, they missed those tools they had at the bigger companies and began to build one to use internally. If they could get 20 engineers to download Graphite before the end of August, they would complete the transition.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 15, 2022

Daniel Dotterer is developing a remote veterinarian service that solves the problem of vet shortages especially in rural areas. We all worked collaboratively to support each other during the ten-week process.”. The People’s Choice Award was made to Meta Global Technologies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Having accumulated more than 40 million app downloads and disbursing over $4 billion in loans, Atome Financial has demonstrated its impactful presence in the fintech sphere.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

As a virtual data room solution, it guarantees fast upload and download speeds and offers a reasonable price as a feature. While other VDR solutions have a capacity limit of 500MB to 1GB, Legaltech VDR offers up to 2GB and takes less than 10 minutes to upload and download. billion in 2020 to $ 2.7 billion in 2025.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. “Fundamentally, Explosion is a software company and we build developer tools for AI and machine learning and natural language processing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The app, which seeks to support those struggling with mental health issues, was built by Balvin and his two co-founders Mario Chamorro, a creative wellness activist and acting CEO; and Patrick Dowd, a creative strategist, and the company’s COO. Users who download the app before October 31 will have access to a one-month free trial.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

“For three years, we have created a product that brings a lot of value to developers, which has allowed us to form a strong community,” De Quelen said via email. “The new money is to focus on the development of Meilisearch Cloud, our fully managed offering of Meilisearch instances. Image Credits: Meilisearch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Phantom is part of a new class of crypto startups looking to build infrastructure that streamlines blockchain-based applications and provides a more user-friendly UX for navigating the crypto world, something that can make the entire space more approachable to a non-developer audience. 0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency.

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Forward Cities

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Anchor Institutions’ Contributions to Building Inclusive Small Business Ecosystems was jointly developed by Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and Forward Cities with support from the Annie E. DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT. Casey Foundation. What is an Anchor?

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding. We eventually launched the product, which didn't generate enough revenue to support us- so we shut down the business after all my credit cards maxed out.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Over the last 15 years, the Impact Hub network has supported more than 30,000 impact-driven enterprises in 55+ countries across all inhabited continents. At Impact Hub, we believe in supporting entrepreneurs with our accelerator programs as they prepare entrepreneurs for growth and serve as a pipeline for investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Given the legal status of these substances, people are hesitant to call 911 if they are experiencing a crisis, many don’t have access to peer groups that can offer support and there’s not a lot of other support available either. But psychedelics became a bigger part of my life around 2010.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As one of the architects of the Uber Pool service and a longtime proponent of ridesharing as a means to slash vehicle emissions, Cox leapt at the chance to harness technology developed at MIT that purported to perfect a dynamic routing and vehicle management system for transit authorities. We are thrilled to support The Routing Company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 9, 2022

It’ll help your people feel valued, supported and invested in and there’s the obvious business and customer benefits in ensuring high quality presentations, pitches and video conferencing. For example, are you developing new products and services? 2: Over sharing better than under sharing. A new report?

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