Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

Prior to founding Equifund, Jordan founded capital markets consulting and investor relations firm Novea Capital Inc in 2009. He is committed to fostering an informed, engaged investment community, aligning business growth with investor education. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 7, 2012

I don't think the Valley really took New York seriously until Foursquare rose up in 2009. That's what will attract the best entrepreneurs here--an opportunity to push limits and explore the future of innovation. It can't and won't be market scale or, in the near term, investment capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Back in March 2009, USV hosted an event called Hacking Education. It was the beginning of our effort to invest in the transformation of the education sector. A few weeks ago, USV held its annual meeting, roughly 15 years after we closed our first fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. We maintain that there is every bit as much scope for originality at this stage as there is in trying to find a breakthrough idea in the first place. A fantastic example is Demis Hassabis, co-founder of the machine learning AI lab DeepMind. 2 for his age group at 12.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

East Ventures, established in 2009, has an impressive track record of supporting more than 300 technology companies. He highlighted the strong synergy between East Ventures’ profound knowledge of the startup ecosystem in Indonesia and Southeast Asia and SV Investment’s extensive experience in the South Korean market.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Established in 2009, FunP Innovation Group (BVI) controls cacafly.com, a leading digital advertising sales, consulting agency and Tenmax.io, an advertising technology development. The firm that is headquartered in Taiwan also has offices and operations in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync: Revolutionizing Corporate Commutes with Diverse Solutions Established in 2009 by Deepesh Agarwal and Akash Maheshwari, MoveinSync has developed various solutions to streamline employee commutes for large corporations. Among the interested investors is Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

We commend the VC’s and angels that have rallied around their entrepreneurs to repurpose lessons learned from the 2008/2009 recession. As they have proved time and time again, angels have embraced portfolio companies even in times of tougher fundraising and worked vigorously to keep startups, and job growth, moving forward.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In 2009, he sold reCAPTCHA to Google , a transaction conducted just a year after the internet giant had purchased a license to one of his other research projects , a game focused on image labeling. Users would complete the security test while also helping to digitize books for the Internet Archive. The early design of reCAPTCHA.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. Karkal told TechCrunch that the idea for Sila was born out of frustration while starting another bank.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. By comparison, the top quartile of global VC and private equity funds launched around the same time have a TVPI of 2.4x, according to data from Cambridge Associates. for the other funds. billion, and have an aggregate valuation of $17.4

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

He also co-founded ParkMe in 2009 achieving the world’s most comprehensive parking database. He was previously the General Manager of an enterprise division of INRIX, the leading traffic intelligence provider of smart technology and data analytics for urban mobility.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stein, who began her career as a holistic nutrition counselor, started the company in 2009 after going back to school and learning about superfood ingredients and food as medicine, a concept that wasn’t as popular then as it is now. “It It felt like an opportunity in the market for products to help people,” she told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

I distinctly remember being impressed by the possibilities of D&D on an original Microsoft Surface… back in 2009. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before. And I played with another at PAX many years ago.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

According to a recent Crunchbase study , the number of companies founded by women doubled from 10 percent of global startups in 2009 to 20 percent in 2019. What are the first names that come to mind when thinking about startup founders? Mark Zuckerberg? Steve Jobs? Bill Gates?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. Prior to this appointment, John was director of General Motors Research & Development organization’s China Science Lab, which he led from its founding in 2009.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In fact, according to a 2009 study by Dane Stangler for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , more than half of Fortune 500 companies were started during a recession. Since 1900, the U.S. economy has averaged one recession about every four years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The startup also joins 39 other African startups per YC data which have passed through the accelerator since 2009. It will receive $125,000 in seed funding with an opportunity to receive follow-up investment after graduating in March. Getting into the accelerator helps Mono with one of its biggest challenges.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

i2E made an initial concept investment through the OCAST Technology Business Finance Program (which iThryv repaid) early in the company’s life, and then in June of 2009, we made another investment in the form of a convertible note from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund (OSCF).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. TechCrunch hosts Darrell Etherington and Becca Szkutak will interview serial-founder-turned-VC Russ Wilcox. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. Four years ago, shared e-scooters didn’t exist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

A 2018 study of 63 drugs approved by the FDA between 2009 and 2018 found that the median capitalized research and development investment needed to bring a drug to market was $985 million, which also includes the cost of failed clinical trials. . This current round was oversubscribed four-fold, according to Zhavoronkov. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

“Based on our previous experience from the financial crisis in 2007–2009, an economic slowdown pushes companies to rethink their digital strategy which is often connected with rebuilding their website. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings. The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive. He worked at Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), a division of IAC/InterActiveCorp., for seven years, eventually leading the internet company. He went on to found Clicker, an internet video search and programming guide.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Starting from 2009, there have been regulations requiring athletes to participate in formal education programs, which has led to a decrease in both team tactical training hours and individual practice time.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Unicorn startup Duo Security ’s founder Dug Song co-founded The Tech Brewery in 2009 with building owner Doug Smith to be a coworking space for growing tech startups. It has been home to dozens of Ann Arbor’s growing tech companies, and offers a variety of options for open-office, single desk rentals or partial privacy for growing teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes. From being around so long, we’ve probably made every mistake you can possibly think of. Which is an advantage.” More details in the link below. Consultant: Appetiser Apps.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In 2009, Whurley and Erwin met Ben Lamm at SXSW and they decided to launch Chaotic Moon, which focused on software, mobile development and design, the next year. But the U.S. government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. Chaotic Moon made Whurley rich.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2024

He was a true “leading light” in the angel field, making 57 personal investments, educating numerous angels, and particularly in educating and mentoring entrepreneurs before he passed away in 2009. He was a sought-after expert and speaker about sophisticated angel investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

As one of the founders of Google’s self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016, he’ll talk us through how far autonomy has come, and how far it still has to go. . However, challenges remain on all sides — political, technological, commercial and social. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

As one of the founders of Google’s self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016, he’ll talk us through how far autonomy has come, and how far it still has to go. . However, challenges remain on all sides — political, technological, commercial and social. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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