Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Founded in 2013 by AJ Bruno, Matt Allison, and Patrick Brannen, TrendKite participated in the 2013 Dreamit program. Between that time and now, TrendKite raised approximately $46 million in venture funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2013

Time to get cracking on some new initiatives in 2013. Ok, it's still resolution time, right? and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company. Forget the fact that you can't write or it takes a long time. These are things that go away over time.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

The initial idea was born in 2013 but was not officially registered as a business until 2020 because she faced hardships launching the STEM Builders Learning Hub and finding tutors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

I backed that company in 2013 when it was basically a table top science project, but the key was a series of connections that could have only been possible as a full time investor. Angels will often sit on the sidelines until someone comes in to set the terms and write a bigger check.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. I was at the Lobby Conference a few weeks ago in Mexico. My wife and I went down 3 days early and had some chill out time. I don’t want to be on autopilot.

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UBI Global

MARCH 19, 2021

What you need to know about the next World Benchmark Study Since 2013, UBI Global has conducted the World Benchmark Study, an analysis of the impact and performance of hundreds of business incubators and accelerators from around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. We believe Libra has the potential to be the catalyst that brings the entire cryptocurrency and cryptoasset market into the mainstream.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. million views).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013. Using Voice Tech to Improve Physician Documentation and Note-Taking Physician burnout has increased at a rapid rate over the past few years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. São Paulo-based QuintoAndar is now valued at $5.1 billion, up from $4 billion at the time of its last raise in late May. Ribbit Capital led the first tranche of its Series E.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

In 2013, Monot co-founded Innovative Auctions, a high-stakes auction company. . He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund. Mohnot previously served as vice president of business development at Groupon after a startup he founded, FeeFighters, was acquired by the company in 2012. Early action equals bigger savings.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Since its establishment in 2013, the Pangyo CS Alliance, a collective of 13 IT giants based in Pangyo, has been dedicated to addressing community-centric challenges. The logo of the Pangyo CSR Alliance (Image: AhnLab homepage) Situated at the heart of this evolution, Pangyo Techno Valley stands out with its forward-thinking initiatives.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020. But it’s a question of whether they go far enough to combat the institutionalized disadvantages that minority founders face. . One report found that minority tech startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2013, Homejoy had a fresh $24 million Series A from Google Ventures and First Round — considered a huge round at a time when Instacart had just raised an $8 million Series A and Snapchat had done a $13 million Series A round.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Bynder founder Chris Hall said that the company which he founded in 2013 has grown from a bespoke solution which they delivered to fulfill the need of a single customer 10 years ago, to a $100 million ARR business employing 500 Byndies. It is also serving 1.7 million users from nearly 4,000 brands across the world.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 13, 2023

Companies in the 1st Pangyo Techno Valley and the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley (Image = Besucses) A decade ago, in November 2013, Gyeonggi-do initiated the ‘Industry-Academy Research Center’ (currently known as Pangyo Techno Valley Startup Campus), an R&D center in Pangyo Techno Valley.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. Tomiwa Aladekomo , the company’s CEO, took over from Taylor in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. For Stone, that led to the creation of Jelly, a Q&A app and search engine that was later sold to Pinterest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged members of her community.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Soylent shakes up its executive team, naming Demir Vangelov as its new CEO Origins of a nutrition company Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by Rob Rhinehart, Soylent is focused on what it calls “complete nutrition,” developing a line of shakes, powders and bars meant to provide a daily dose of vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates and protein.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Zwick came from the edtech industry — he sold his first startup, the flashcard app Flashcards+, to Chegg in 2013 after dropping out of Harvard. Hsu has a health background, having completed a neuroscience PhD at Stanford before joining Zwick to co-launch Speak.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

Grant founded Watershed Health in 2013 to help the Alabama Gulf Coast region. “Our work to drive coordinated care across healthcare communities is unbelievably compelling to both payers and providers, and we are expanding to help solve the problem of fragmented care nationwide.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2013, he flirted with an idea for a platform that could help people pay for songs on their phones. “Some of the investments I’ve made in the music space have been through that mentality of seeing an artist or project as a fast-growing vehicle,” said Ajebutter22 in an interview with TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A report by Briter Bridges from the middle of this year looked at 1,100+ companies to have received VC money between 2013 and May 2021 (pegged at $20 million or less). In Africa and globally, funding doesn’t come easy for female-led companies. Per the report, only 3% of the $1.7

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

By 2012, Blakely was named the youngest self-made female billionaire by Forbes , and in 2013, she was featured on Time magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people. Blakely continued to innovate within the shapewear industry while keeping the business entirely self-funded.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The firm has made 221 investments since 2013. The firm states, “Our strong belief in student founders is demonstrated by 49% of our portfolio companies being founded by students.” Programs through Pear VC’s Pear Dorm are aimed at supporting students in the field of entrepreneurship.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Women’s Venture Capital Fund : Backed by Harvard Business School classmates (men and women) and two prominent institutional investors, co-founders Edith Dorsen and her Harvard Business School classmate Monica Dodi closed the Women’s Venture Capital Fund in late 2013.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. The ecosystem has come a long way since I built my first startup in 2013.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. I think it’s our job as CEOs to put a lot of different bets on the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). He hit me from two very trusted sources.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Heidi Zak launched ThirdLove with Ra’el Cohen in 2013 with the (revolutionary) core belief: Every woman deserves to be comfortable and confident. In her interview on Wonder, she talks about racism in all of its forms, her experience as a black female founder and how she’s using her position to make a difference. Listen here.

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