David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Founded in 2013, RVshare connects RV owners with people who want to rent an RV. Since 2013, the company has amassed a network of more than 100,000 recreational vehicles or trailers, ranging from deluxe motorhomes to camper vans to trailer attachments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Farmerline was founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai. It will start its expansion in Ghana before expanding to the neighboring Ivory Coast, accelerated by a fresh $12.9 million pre-Series A funding. million ($6.4m equity and $6.5m debt) pre-Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines. In Thailand, Ascend Money has about 70% of market share based on its own research, Thamavaranukupt said.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

AttackIQ was founded in 2013 and is based out of San Diego, California. This is used by a number of cybersecurity companies also building continuous validation services, including FireEye, Palo Alto Networks and Cymulate. The round brings the company’s total funding raised to date to $79 million. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Fictiv was founded back in 2013 to address some of the biggest pain points of bringing products to market. Those services accelerate new product development, cut cycle times for engineer-to-order products, and increase efficiency in maintenance, repair, and operations of production-line tooling.”.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. On this dimension, most seed funds can’t even compete on network, brand, or the cost of capital. A lot has changed since when I wrote my first check in 2013.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

TC Ventures not only provides capital but makes a deep understanding of – and contact network in – maritime and aviation available to its investee companies. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2021

Elon Musk coined the term Hyperloop back in 2013 when he released his vision for a fifth mode of transport. Virgin Hyperloop has successfully tested the technology with human passengers and in Europe Hardt Hyperloop is working on the technology and international coalition building needed to create entire Hyperloop networks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated the adoption of e-commerce, which now accounts for 20% of all global retail sales. As the use of e-commerce continues to accelerate, retailers and brands have to meet consumers where and how they shop. Altogether, the e-commerce market is being projected to reach $5.9 trillion by 2023.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

Each year, thousands more do the same through the Path of Leadership (PoL) program, which equips members with the tools, knowledge and networks they need to grow as leaders. HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH EO ACCELERATOR? DB/ “I realized the potential of EO Accelerator at the Global Leadership Conference in 2013.

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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. And he decided he wanted to be part of the 500Startups accelerator. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. Jordan Hudson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

A network of automated battery swapping stations that would replace spent batteries with freshly charged ones. By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. In 2013, there were 220,000 electric vehicles on roads, according to data from Statista , a number which had grown to 4.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. As more guests and hotels join, the shared data creates a powerful network effect.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Right now the tool is useful for building a picture of what the network looks like today, and to flag when something is crashing or potentially violating a security or data protection protocol, and to suggest how to fix it. We will be accelerating that product roadmap.”

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Social networks were not much of a thing, email was about work, telco’s charged for texting and we had feature phones which were definitely not computers. Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. Yes, I know it’s not perfect and under strain, but that’s for another post.)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. I published in 2013 a much earlier version of this in Forbes , and in December 2020 published the final version in Techcrunch. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. Netshield Harden your network and cover your assets with ironclad network access control and vulnerability. management.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Revolution provided the capital for the company’s Series C round in 2013 and continued to invest in subsequent rounds.). This could be an accelerant. But we don’t really have the networks. So we just don’t have the networks in the middle of a country.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

A key pandemic-driven trend is the acceleration of the fertility tech sector, including egg freezing and IVF, with a market predicted to be worth $37+ billion in less than 10 years. million, the second-highest year ever, after 2013, when Waze was sold to Google for some $1 billion. Exit proceeds in 2020 totaled $1.9

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for more than $1 billion in 2013. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 This came decades ahead of most western governments.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Recent legislation will also significantly accelerate the existing market trends. Smarter EV charging for charging networks, fleets, and residential use cases that is price, carbon intensity, and excess solar awareness. The Inflation Reduction Act will spend an estimated $800B in the US alone over 10 years.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 25, 2021

PitchBook has awarded the accolade to OurCrowd every year since 2013. This financing positions us to accelerate our commercialization efforts and bring Hominis to both surgeons and patients in the months ahead,” Dvir Cohen, co-founder and CEO, tells Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch. . Introductions. 1,000 High-Tech Jobs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

To cut through the noise, he recommends that founders create a “teaser trailer” to share with their network before they begin approaching angels and VCs. Nothing beats experience like experience, which is why we were happy to run this article written by Zach DeWitt, winner of the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Funds from this $5M SAFE at a 20% discount with a $20M cap will be used to set up operational centers in Mexico and Spain, accelerate production capabilities, and scale up sales and marketing. Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved. Tests on avocados and peppers in Mexico showed similarly positive results.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2022

We are glad to partner with Openspace to expand our product development, and accelerate our go-to-market motion with support from their operation team. The team behind it are machine learning engineers who met in 2013 and built the platform on the back of a series of impressive hackathon victories.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The company also saw Clipchamp as an interesting acquisition target due to how it combined “the simplicity of a web app with the full computing power of a PC with graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration,” it said. That makes the software a good fit for the Microsoft Windows customer base, as well. Image Credits: Clipchamp.

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Forward Cities

JULY 27, 2020

Statistics from 2013-2014 further show that about 16% of them employ another person and their income in the first year of business is roughly equivalent to the median income of all self-employed people in the state. Bruce Katz is the founder of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and a Partner with Accelerator for America.

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