NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It will support a range of private and non-government sector innovators and innovations. Founder Julian Ostling was inspired to launch Mahu City Express after moving to Warkworth in 2012, from London, and finding there was no bus linking the area to Auckland City. We are looking to align our support to the needs of individual projects.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Building a system to support that is an incredibly difficult technical challenge,” he told TechCrunch via email. Kevin and Scott have the background and appreciation for the problem, and have built the only system that can support the scale, correctness, and uptimes required to handle billing for leading software companies.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. The company uses asset finance, technology and a customer support model to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises own income-generating assets. We will support Michael and his team to build up the tech platform, fine-tune the model and expand in new markets.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

In a statement, the BoE said: “SVB UK has a limited presence in the UK and no critical functions supporting the financial system. It plays a pivotal role in supporting and financing Britain’s startups. SVB UK secured a UK banking license in 2012 but became a UK Standalone bank in August 2022 and has 700 full-time employees).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

CEO Mallorie Brodie and COO Lauren Lake founded Bridgit in late 2012 with the mission of helping construction companies maximize profits “by taking a people-first approach. The construction tech market is exploding and for good reason,” said investor Arun Penmetsa of Storm Ventures, who took a seat on Bridgit’s board as part of the financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive. And Danny switches to major shareholder, board member & advisor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

During that process, she was battling Stage 3 breast cancer — doing drafts of the S-1 from a chemo chair and sending it to the board the morning of her double mastectomy. GV Partner Frederique Dame , who has also invested in the likes of Pill Club and Kindbody, has joined Found’s board as part of the Series A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. Ragnarsson is joining the board with this round. This round values the startup at $1.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. She is also the founder of and former chairman of YPO Atlanta and a serves as a member of the board for Barwick Bank and Authomate. Learn more about EO today!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The SaaS company was founded in 2012 by CEO Pini Yakuel to connect customers with brands and to apply artificial intelligence to customer data to orchestrate the right message to the right customer at the right time, and do it at scale, Yakuel told TechCrunch. Pini Yakuel, founder and CEO of Optimove, Image Credits: Optimove.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Kevin is soft-spoken but always supported by facts. Watching him develop over the past 4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The last several months, however, have seen the IPO market virtually shut down alongside a massive drop in technology stocks across the board and a wider downturn in tech investing overall, even in much smaller, earlier-stage startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Direct experience of that was, in fact, some of what drove the founders to start the company: planning a trip to London from Belgium for the Olympics in 2012, Gino Engels and his friends couldn’t find any hotel rooms that weren’t painfully expensive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. This would be an unbearably difficult job without your support. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. The 2012 New York startup community was very small, and it was very tight. And then, one day we went into a board meeting, and the revenue finally came in.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Our history with MaxQ began when they competed in the 2012 Governor’s Cup (now the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup), Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition. MaxQ made hard decisions to streamline operations, including across the board salary cuts. They have been supportive of us from day one.”. Then COVID-19 hit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 6, 2022

The first step, as with college-bound seniors everywhere, is that OSSM students have to figure out how to pay for books and tuition, room and board. Jessica Decker, OSSM graduate in 2008, has been an OSSM instructor since 2012 in various courses on the main campus. The question I received was, and what happens after that?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). My friend Byron Deter of Bessemer was on stage and was saying, “local [LA] investors are great in the earliest stages of a business when you need local, hands-on support. Companies need to evolve and so do boards. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Founder Kai Kloepfer said he began looking into the idea after the Aurora mass shooting in 2012. We’ve really gone back to the drawing board,” as he put it. Though the only one joining the board is Lt. “I started to think, what could I possibly do to have an impact on this? General Guy C. Swan (ret.),

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. When asked what motivated her, Ms.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As YC grows, some of our Visiting Group Partners join us full time as Group Partners to continue supporting YC companies and build out new programs and initiatives to better support our community. She founded nVision Medical in 2012 after her own healthcare scare. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nantes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Dark Sky (2012-2021). By June of 2021, the iOS app and API service officially had expiration dates , with co-founder Adam Grossman writing: “ Support for the Dark Sky API service for existing customers will continue until the end of 2022. It even got some Y Combinator startups on board. Nuzzel (2012-2021).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The best advice she ever gave me, though, was to join the EO to build my leadership skills and my support network. About a year and a half after starting my business, I joined EO and was quickly invited onto the board of directors where I sat with a woman who is so unapologetically herself.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them. The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

We are proud of the high-level commitment and trust from prime investors that support us on our mission to leading sustainable additive revolutions,” Johann Oberhofer, co-founder and managing partner at AM Ventures, said to TechCrunch. It means filters that are supporting climate tech, or enable decarbonisation, or to fight global warming.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

We look forward to supporting Onboard Dynamics’ ongoing efforts to lower fuel costs and carbon emissions. “In As a transportation fuel, it’s the cleanest alternative fuel available today, according to the California Air Resources Board. Award winners have a strong track record of innovation and growth.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

No board seats or personal guarantees. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Growth support. For RBI, return caps of 1.2x-1.8x and cash share rates of 3-10%. Get Funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

percent employment growth for software developers between 2012 and 2022, and it’s clear wage inflation in the industry will continue to rise if more qualified software developers don’t enter the field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate among software developers and engineers was just 2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

New investors Whale Rock Capital Management, TI Platform Management and Alpha Square Group came on board for this round and were joined by existing investors Amity Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Top Tier Capital Partners, Viking Global Investors and Willoughby Capital. It was a Startup Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in 2012.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As YC grows, some of our Visiting Group Partners join us full time as Group Partners to continue supporting YC companies and build out new programs and initiatives to better support our community. She founded nVision Medical in 2012 after her own healthcare scare. Surbhi Sarna. He has a Ph.D. Visiting Group Partners.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He teamed up with Codacy’s other co-founder, João Caxaria, to launch the startup in 2012. ” Surely not every developer will be on board with the idea of close watch over their work. .” Jorge did a master’s thesis focused on identifying duplicate code, which piqued his interest in the business of code review.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. When a new hire joins, employees can post welcome messages on Gusto’s internal message board. This support system creates a relationship built on trust, where Gusto is valued as an opinionated partner rather than just another payroll tool.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. This inspired its founders Minette Navarrete, Dan Siazon, and Christian Besler to pitch for a pioneering evergreen fund to the Globe board, starting with $2.5M on its first year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there.

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