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. He pinged me that he was thinking about joining a startup based in LA with the CEO in NYC and would I be willing to meet him and give him advice on this process. Jordan Hudson.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

NOT spending time on the accelerator building the product. The most valuable resource the accelerator provides is the network, so use all my time to navigate that network. Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. The new investment will help the startup to accelerate its overseas expansion across the world with a focus on the United States, the country with the highest percentage of educators using one-to-one computing (1:1) computing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. Revenue acceleration is, too. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Brazilian proptech startup QuintoAndar lands $300M at a $4B valuation.

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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. Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rigetti Computing , one of the most visible quantum hardware startups, today announced that it is going public through a merger with the Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II SPAC. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Founded in 2013, Dataiku is used by data scientists, but also designed for business analysts and other people with less technical backgrounds. Co-founder and CEO Florian Douetteau told TechCrunch at the time Dataiku Online is focused on getting more startups and SMBs onto the platform. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was the founder of LegalX, a legal technology accelerator. The goal of this project is to standardize startup capitalization table data as well as make it far more accessible, transparent and portable. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

With the partnership, Bynder hopes to accelerate its ability to help brands overcome the complexity of proliferating content while enabling the delivery of exceptional content experiences and unlocking revenue growth. As part of the agreement, THL will also acquire Insight Partners’ stake in Bynder. It is also serving 1.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Zwick added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

WaveOne hopes to change that by taking the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and making them AI-powered — while somehow avoiding the pitfalls that would-be codec revolutionizers and “AI-powered” startups often fall into. 265, for instance, was introduced in 2013, but years afterwards its predecessor, H.264, Like Krisp.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. African startups nearly raised $1.5 Predictions were made on how much the continent’s startups would raise in December. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 It wasn’t a bad year, though.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception. Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing backers Norwest Venture Partners and Citi Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New York-based company’s valuation to over $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

based startup that offers a “headless” e-commerce platform to make it easier for developers to build better online shopping experiences, has raised $2.5 Saleor , a Poland and U.S.-based million in seed funding. The round is led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures , with participation from various angels.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He founded Logicbroker in 2010, his third startup, and hadn’t raised much in the way of venture capital since 2013, just under $2 million, to get to profitability, Zamani said. In order to be a powerhouse and global leader in drop ship, Logicbroker wanted to accelerate product features, which meant going after some capital. “We

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. Matt Zeiler founded the New York-based company in 2013 focused on computer vision.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Yet, fittingly, when it came time to join Google full time, he turned down the offer to build an edtech startup — one that would help young professionals like him create continuous, daily structured learning but without it feeling like a chore. A simple learning flow for Parthean consists of a trigger, recommendation and outcome.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. The valuation is not being disclosed. New Jersey specifically) in an interview. This is very much by design, Shangkuan said.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013. The new US administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure package is likely to accelerate the trend with potential tax breaks and subsidies encouraging the adoption of renewable technologies.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The company was also a member of the 2016 Dreamit Ventures accelerator program and recently took first place at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. About PhotoniCare.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 12, 2021

ACT Tulsa, Oklahoma’s unique six-month cohort-driven accelerator program aimed at cultivating and driving innovation for underestimated founders located in Tulsa and beyond, is accepting applications for cohort #2. Kene Onuorah, co-founder of ACT Tulsa startup Comme Homme , was born to Nigerian parents. By Scott Meacham. Comme Homme.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. For me, it was the combination of an acceleration in work plus all of a sudden having 3 kids. The marine layer of fog that draped Dolores Park shielded us from the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Accelerators have had quite a good run the past 5+ years. Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.”

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Meenta Instantly access the world’s scientific equipment & COVID-19 labs Launch413 Takes startups to their first $10 million in revenue while providing early returns to investors.

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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. Omnitron Sensors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s created the innovation group in 2018 that has backed or launched several consumer product companies, including cat products startup Cat Person , body care line Flamingo and hair care line Headquarters. billion valuation and over $650 million in total funding raised since it was founded in 2013. In addition, the entire Lum?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear , which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups. These were the exact pitches that the teams delivered straight to investors in attendance, so you’ll naturally spot a bit of hyperbole (because, startups).

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