Gust

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Department of State developed the idea for GIST Net in response to demand from the international science and technology community for more access to resources and mentorship opportunities. Content on the site includes the latest news, events, startups, jobs, funding opportunities, and industry insights.

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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

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. We literally are a land in which people left their stable East Coast homes in search of opportunity and a chance to start fresh.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Together with fellow EO Johannesburg member Ryan Harrison , she founded SPARK Schools in South Africa in 2013. ” While pursuing an MBA at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Sandton, South Africa, Stacey saw an opportunity to leverage her business acumen in South Africa’s educational sector.

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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. Sensing an opportunity to solve this problem, many entrepreneurs have developed voice-powered applications that allow providers to offer a better patient experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Participants will also get introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors and ongoing advisory support, plus access to a virtual community of AWS experts. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020. One report found that minority tech startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. One of its larger initiatives was the “Digital New Deal,” a program in collaboration with California state and local governments to provide students in Bitwise’s apprenticeships the opportunity to work with government agencies on tech-related projects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For instance, companies like Groupon or those engaged in food delivery face winner-takes-most markets, where opportunities for product differentiation are limited. There are edge cases where companies need to move quickly to internationalize for strategic reasons — despite uncertainty about their market fit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Matt Zeiler founded the New York-based company in 2013 focused on computer vision. We saw an opportunity and raised the round.”. That opportunity included having the right team in place to execute enterprise sales, he added. We managed to go a long time without raising more funding,” Zeiler told TechCrunch. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Each year since 2013, EO recognizes one outstanding member who embodies the heart and soul of volunteerism, and who paves the way for others to follow, through its EO Global Citizen of the Year Award. minimum viable product) in everything that I do and try to find that balance between getting it right and getting it to market.

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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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. The pitch takes 90 seconds and participants have the opportunity to win prizes totaling $10,000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 Bolt is piloting a “Women Only” ride-hailing service in South Africa, with female drivers and passengers to improve job opportunities and general safety, one of the programs that the IFC funding will support, it said.

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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. And though the race to get there is a collective one, it’s also a personal one.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

Seeing an opportunity, I would buy ice blocks on hot days and sell them in the yard at a premium. I saw the PoL program as an opportunity to make a big difference with minimal effort. What most excited me about stepping into a leadership role was the opportunity to give back in a way that allowed me to be my best self among my peers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In addition to sharing direct advice for fintech founders, the investors talked about managing fraud and default risk, BNPL’s growing popularity as a point-of-sale option, and what kinds of investment opportunities they’re looking for. The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Sharing economy marketplaces allow owners to “unlock” earning opportunities from these underutilized assets. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

Grant founded Watershed Health in 2013 to help the Alabama Gulf Coast region. Demand has since expanded geographically with the opportunity to scale Watershed across the United States.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Corcuera is no stranger to running companies, having launched a housecleaning marketplace at the age of 23 in 2013. We see a very clear opportunity in similar markets across the region,” Corcuera said. So the opportunity is to tackle this acute pain point being felt by a lot of businesses.”. Without it, they are at risk.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Coyote Ventures : Jessica Karr launched Coyote Ventures in 2021 to address the $1T opportunity in women’s health and wellness that has been historically marginalized. Fika Ventures , co-founded by Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, raised a $160 million fund 3 and a $35 million opportunity fund.

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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). Fintech opportunity in Nigeria is the largest on the continent. In Africa and globally, funding doesn’t come easy for female-led companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Founded in 2013 by two brothers — Fabian and Felix Wunderlich (now respectively CFO and head of sales) — Lingoda had only raised around $15 million before now, a mark of the company being pretty capital efficient. The valuation is not being disclosed. New Jersey specifically) in an interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Increasing opportunities for women entrepreneurs sets off a domino effect that local and global markets can benefit from. Women entrepreneurs and fundraising.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Since the ATC program’s inception in 2013, 2,900 investments totaling $872 million have been approved to support 141 New Jersey companies. The company received a credit bonus for operation in an Opportunity Zone. The woman-owned company closes the literacy and opportunity gap in education using emerging and innovative technology.

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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. They believed in the team, vision, mission and the opportunity of building streamlined cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. In VC, 100x investment opportunities only come along once every few years. If you bet your VC fund on opportunities like that, you’re relying on luck. Hope is not a strategy.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2013, the Canadian budget airline WestJet surveyed passengers using interactive life-like screens, which depicted Santa dressed in the airline’s colours, to find out what they would like as Christmas presents.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 1, 2022

As CEO of i2E , I have had the wonderful opportunity since January 2013 to write this weekly column for the readers of this newspaper. Tom and Judy Love founded Love’s Travel Stops with $5,000 in borrowed capital and a vision of the opportunity in retail gas. Thank you for reading this column for nearly a decade.

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Forward Cities

JULY 27, 2020

But that model only partially makes sense, as opportunities for entrepreneurship are often more readily available — with vast amounts of information accessible online to guide aspiring business-starters. Evidence of searching for those established jobs is, therefore, typically the requirement for sustained unemployment benefits.

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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. Exciting Opportunities. These developments are creating exciting opportunities for investors. The rush to renewables is not a passing fad.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Maybe in the past, it was helpful to think of competitors as foes, but the modern world is so interconnected that this perspective doesn’t allow us to see new opportunities, stands in the way of improving, and, as a result, weakens our products. Everyone’s an enemy, and this point of view remains dominant among business owners and CEOs.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 27, 2022

As the first Israeli company to run the programme, OurCrowd’s collaboration with EDB will provide thousands of Israeli startups the opportunity to work with Singapore-based corporates across the manufacturing and services sectors including healthcare, precision engineering and chemicals.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

PhotoniCare has developed a patented imaging platform that provides growth opportunities beyond otology (study of the ear). The grant reported in this press release is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the NIH under Award Number 2 R44 DC17422-02. About PhotoniCare.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

In 2013, Netflix established its original content division, and its productions, such as “Stranger Things,” “Black Mirror,” and “The Irishman,” have garnered critical acclaim and won numerous awards. Eatontown is excited to welcome Netflix to our community. The closure of Fort Monmouth left an enormous void in the region.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

This creates a unique opportunity to craft better customer experiences, which increase customer engagement, grow conversion rates and ultimately drive more online revenue.” We’re 100 percent focused on creating surprisingly simple customer sign-in journeys and this new investment will accelerate our strategy and the opportunity ahead of us.”

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