TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Virtual Internships uses AI to match students at scale with internships at companies ranging from startups to blue chips and guarantees a match within one month. It also partners with governments and university pathway programs. The edtech startup announced today it has raised a $14.3 4 views on unpaid venture internships.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This year’s edition will bring together innovative startups, forward-thinking investors, and entrepreneurial leaders from 29 countries, signifying a substantial increase in participation compared to previous years.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2023

Register Seven innovative companies have been selected for Cohort IV of ScaleUp Malaysia’s accelerator program, with upfront investments provided for the first time. The program will culminate in a demo day with investors from all over the world. They will receive $100,000 investment each.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. Other problems are inadequate funding, school strikes, and brain drain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the winners is GrowthSpace, founded by Omer Glass, which leverages algorithms to match individual employees and groups of employees with experts for development sprints. Biased datasets can lead to unreliable predictions, and — as the case may be — coach-student matches. billion from VCs between early 2021 and 2022.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 15, 2020

In total, 19 Oklahoma startups received financing and attracted an additional $16.34M from private investors, for a total of $29.23M invested in Oklahoma-based companies. in matching funds from co-investors, iMCI closed a total of $28.5M i2E Management Company Inc. iMCI ) , i2E’s investment arm, invested $12.5M With $16.0M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For as remote education drags on, students are unenrolling from school held on video conferencing software and opting for alternative programs. The roots are already in motion: Career Karma has been growing from a matching tool into a wraparound service over the past year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Partech Shaker , the innovation division of the Paris-based VC firm Partech , has launched an accelerator program christened Chapter54 to help European startups launch in African markets. The accelerator will take in 10 technology scaleups annually over the next four years for the Chapter54 program, which will last up to eight months.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Despite current market conditions, investors have a record amount of capital – an estimated $230 billion of dry powder — stocked away. Despite the gloom, doom and scramble for yield, one sector is too often overlooked by investors, where backing technology will produce returns no matter the state of the economy: government spending in tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The company’s services, including self-directed mental wellness programs in 15 languages and online therapy sessions, are available through two channels: as an employee benefit and through Intellect’s consumer app. Director of Southeast Asia Anubhav Nayyar; and Tinder and Match Group general manager of Southeast Asia Gaurav Girotra.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our programs, notably our batch program, underwent important changes in 2022. In March of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we shifted our batch program from an in-person Mountain View program to an all-virtual program with YC founders remaining in their locales around the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Instead of creating its own curriculum, Career Karma helps students find the best programs for their price point and career goals. Now, Harris describes, his vision is that Career Karma will match employees and contractors to job training programs in the marketplace it has built over the past few years.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The festival served as a dynamic platform for startups, investors, government agencies, and global corporations, fostering international collaboration. The ‘Future Talk’ program featured about 70 speakers discussing key startup growth issues, including the latest technologies such as Chat GPT and generative AI.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The trained lawyer did all this while running the Africa Payments Club, a platform that brought together a pool of founders, experts and investors in the tech space to connect and address common business challenges as well as to scout for opportunities in Africa. Our job is to support startups and help them all the way to maturity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

To do that, it develops programs for its app, available as an employee benefit, with local providers that take into account religion, gender stereotypes, racial representation, communication style and values, co-founder and CEO Bjorn Lee told TechCrunch. It’s time for investors to redefine how we evaluate digital health startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While passion provides self-motivation, it also serves to attract talent and investors to the venture. How do you match up? Inventory your savings, learn your credit score, and familiarize yourself with basic financial and investment vehicles such as bank loans, grants, and investor funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Graham & Walker , an accelerator and venture fund focused on helping female and non-binary founders, has announced the latest batch of companies to enter its accelerator program. I hopped on a call with G&W founder Leslie Feinzaig to hear what’s new with the program and what these six new companies are up to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

That was mind-blowing because fundamentally, accountants are there to match certain transactions and make sure everything tallies up against one another. Quah says it is also exploring expansion into Japan by doing pilot programs with government entities.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Startups also benefit from essential business services, including consultancy, marketing initiatives, investor relations programs, and educational seminars, ensuring they thrive on the international stage. Last July, an event was held for system semiconductor companies.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 23, 2022

This exciting program has been offered by Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @State College, in partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, for ten years. Second Place: Talia East with HER Tech World took home $3,000 for developing a solution that matches up underserved female founders with investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It reminded me, in some ways, of a speech I saw three years ago when Yasmin Green , the then-director of research and development for Jigsaw, spoke about how human bias seeps into the programming of AI. Compared to Wall Street, AI is practically unregulated, and as the level of governance fails to match its growth, it risks going rogue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Early-stage investment as an asset class is maturing in New Zealand,” Suse Reynolds, chair of New Zealand’s Angel Association, a network that connects angel investors to business owners, wrote in the PwC report. “A According to a PwC report, 2020 was also the third year of more than 20% year-over-year growth in dollars invested.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

First Complete Cycle of Investment Under Novel State Program Benefits Newark Provider of HR Gaming Platform TRENTON, N.J. Under the NJIEF, the State acts as an equity investor in startups, deploying up to $600 million into companies alongside professional venture capital groups. The investment into Newark-based 1Huddle, Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. This event, as well as advice on how private fintech startups can deal with policy issues, will be part of FinRise programming. OfColor wants to be the go-to enterprise wellness platform for employees of color.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And while venture capital and founder support programs within the continent are growing, a lot still remains to be done to meet the financing, technology and social capital needs of the especially marginalized groups like women founders. “We encourage founders across the continent to apply for our program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

The Bard has new skills : In response to user demand, Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now help software developers with programming, including the ability to generate and debug code. Investors were so attracted to what startup Enter was doing with home energy assessments that they injected €19.4 Kirsten has more. You can sign up here.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

In solution-based selling, you match benefits to the needs and pain points that customers signal. You can assume that the company’s investors are pressuring management to solve these issues too. Learn more about Dreamit Securetech , a growth-focused program for cybersecurity, fraud, compliance, and physical security startups.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 16, 2023

With a fully personalised experience, Lived matches you with others who are similar to you and have successfully navigated their own journey with alcohol. Sally joined Antler’s Founder Program and became the first Antler Founder globally to secure investment as a solo founder, and Lived was born.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

He is also an angel investor and former EdTech entrepreneur. Around the same time, I was helping a PE investor run diligence on some personal projects and really enjoyed the work. I was starting Senior year at Northwestern, only had a few classes left, and decided to find a program where I could formally learn the ins and outs of VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Its team comprises of former VCs, program directors, consultants, and startup CXOs. Our investors can write cheques of $10-100 million. What’s your advice to entrepreneurs who have a chance to meet investors like you?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We then use AI to determine what they’re looking to buy and match that to suppliers in our marketplace, do competitive sourcing, and then push results back into their procurement solution to finish the purchase,” he explained. We integrate with their existing procurement solutions. Today’s $35.6

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, we have been supported by our dedicated volunteer and professional staff to continue to offer better member experience, expanded our professionalized education programs and continued to be the voice for protections and incentives for angel investors in the public policy arena. Identify like-minded investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Blockchain startups and protocols are fighting to onboard and train more engineers — an even tougher undertaking in a world where developing on Ethereum vs. Solana vs. Polkadot vs. another blockchain can require completely different programming skill sets. “If you go through our program, we kind of have your genome map.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

We spoke with Greg Crabtree , chair of EO@Wharton Executive Education program, to gain insights on how to plan during these uncertain times. Some business owners will over-estimate and others will under-estimate, but rarely will your gut estimate match the actual quantification. Notice that we don’t say plan out revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. All companies go through a four-month program but start at different times, thanks to 500 Global’s somewhat new rolling admissions strategy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company uses machine learning algorithms to match users, who include investment firms, Fortune 100 companies and government entities, with experts on its platform, helping connect them with people they would probably not find at traditional consultancies or by searching online. Most of the time they do a question-and-answer session.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 5, 2022

In light of it, the Unicorn League has been newly set up to carry out a more efficient and advanced accelerating program. COMEUP Stars finalists will pitch at “Startup Valley” (COMEUP 2022 main program) main stage at DDP, Seoul to promote their company and join business matching with global investors to seek their next funding round.

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