NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

” By 2013, Mel’s idea was further inspired while working at a startup called Augview that was using geospatial augmented reality for city infrastructure – nothing to do with games whatsoever – and she met the person who would become the co-founder of her studio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Many such efforts also revolve around the development of kitchen incubators or commercial kitchens, where entrepreneurs can produce food products at scale, and learn the ins and outs of business development. Kitchen Incubators: An Industry Update , provides an in-depth look at what’s happening in this sector. EntreWorks Blog.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.” The Velocity program, based in Waterloo, Canada, is an early-stage, pre-seed startup incubator for ambitious founders from the University of Waterloo and around the world looking to scale globally.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. SAFEs remain prevalent for incubator and earliest stage startup hub deals, stages typically prior to major angel investing.

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UBI Global

JANUARY 9, 2020

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – UBI Global, an intelligence company and community founded in 2013 and located in Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that Fredrik Grufvisare has been appointed to the role of CEO. Ali Amin, Co-founder and former CEO of UBI Global, will remain with the organization as the Chief Commercial Officer.

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UBI Global

JANUARY 9, 2020

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – UBI Global, an intelligence company and community founded in 2013 and located in Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that Fredrik Grufvisare has been appointed to the role of CEO. Ali Amin, Co-founder and former CEO of UBI Global, will remain with the organization as the Chief Commercial Officer.

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UBI Global

JANUARY 9, 2020

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – UBI Global, an intelligence company and community founded in 2013 and located in Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that Fredrik Grufvisare has been appointed to the role of CEO. Ali Amin, Co-founder and former CEO of UBI Global, will remain with the organization as the Chief Commercial Officer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. Europe and globally. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The year after its founding, Duolingo launched its Language Incubator in 2013. One of the ironic legacies of Duolingo’s evolution is that for years it outsourced much of the creation of its education curriculum to volunteers. It’s a legacy the company is still trying to rectify.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 7, 2014

Second, there seems to be a growing number of hardware startups bubbling in incubators like Lemnos Labs and Highway1. Before 2013, there were very few hardware seed rounds exceeding $1M, but in 2013, 56% of seed stage hardware companies that raised rounds, raised more than $1M. Note, the 2014 data is through May.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

In 2013, I was fortunate to get into artificial intelligence (more specifically, deep learning) six months before it blew up internationally. I’d previously been rejected from Entrepreneur First (EF), one of the world’s best incubators, for not knowing anything about tech. Here’s how we did it, and what we learned along the way.

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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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Veteran investor Eric Satz realized this in 2013 when he first tried to deploy money from his IRA into private companies and was met with pushback from his financial advisor, who was concerned about the potential risks, Satz told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

265, for instance, was introduced in 2013, but years afterwards its predecessor, H.264, million, led by Khosla Ventures, with $1M each from Vela Partners and Incubate Fund, plus $650K from Omega Venture Partners and $350K from Blue Ivy. 264, was only beginning to achieve ubiquity.

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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. Venture investment in renewables has soared as global investment in energy transition more than doubled from $235 billion in 2010 to $501 billion in 2020, according to Bloomberg NEF.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. Launching a strategic partnership with Equity Ventures Fund to provide pre-send funding to Divinc portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s Labs, the in-house incubator started by razor brand Harry’s Inc. billion valuation and over $650 million in total funding raised since it was founded in 2013. announced Monday it agreed to acquire Lum? , the direct-to-consumer brand created to help control all-over body odor.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. With this fund we also wanted to broaden our partnership ranks and added the talented Jamie Kantrowitz. But by 2014 much had started to change.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The new funding gives the company just over $791 million in total known funding since the company was founded in 2013, according to Crunchbase data. From acquisition target to brand incubator. Harry’s, through a spokesperson, said, “we are not commenting at this moment.”. Harry’s has been quite active over the past year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

But then came Bitcoin and the crypto boom and — also in 2013 — the Snowden revelations, which ripped the veil off the NSA’s “collect it all” mantra, as Booz Allen Hamilton sub-contractor Ed risked it all to dump data on his own (and other) governments’ mass surveillance programs. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. Drone Fund led the raise, which also features HAX (SOSV), Incubate Fund, SBI Investment and DBJ Capital. Yeah, well, I say we were a total artistic success. We just weren’t a financial success. We changed robot shows forever. It’s just the way things are now.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. A PitchBook survey of Israel’s venture investments by deal count over the past five years confirms OurCrowd as the country’s most active startup investor. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Founded out of London in 2013 , Kano has brought various products to market through the years designed to teach the building blocks of computing to children. ” And besides its equity stake, Kano Computing will also serve as an incubator of sorts in the short term, serving up office space in its East London HQ.

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