Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love. How has YLAI helped you achieve your mission?

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Post-Pandemic Geography: Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Announces that Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Steve Case for the Tech Talent Tour Mainstage Discussion (Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET).

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. So, why should startup founders care about attracting and retaining a diverse workforce? Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. Most notable are the 100+ AV portfolio companies founded solely by females and the other 245 having had at least one female founder and/or CEO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. As a founder, it’s your job to manage financial and operational risks. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity II, a $525 million for later-stage investments.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. More than half of the portfolio companies have women founders or women in the C-suite. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

The bottled beverage industry wasn’t what Genki Forest’s founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. The China opportunity. Finding a bigger wave to ride. Other investors noticed as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

upr, Rohlik CEO and founder, told TechCrunch in an interview. Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. “We are honored to partner with Rohlik’s founder Tomáš ? We understand from sources it is around $600 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

“ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone. Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. Its emphasis on premium talent also helps stem brain drain, rewarding Africa’s best brains with best in class employment opportunities, ” he added.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Unveiling the Vision: Founder Martins Zemitis on Revolutionizing the Wooden Bicycle Industry with Materia Bikes I had the pleasure of interviewing Martins Zemitis, the founder of Materia Bikes , a Latvian-based startup that is revolutionizing the wooden bicycle industry with its state-of-the-art craftsmanship and commitment to sustainability.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Of small businesses started in 2014, only 56 percent survived four years. The style of many CEOs is to be risk-averse, whereas entrepreneurs and founders tend to be more willing to embrace risk.”. Look for ones with growth opportunities inherent in the business model. The success rate plummets to around one-third by 10 years.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. ” asks David Kirtley, Helion’s co-founder and CEO. billion Series E, with an additional $1.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. With a standard IPO, you have all of the banks take you out to all of the big investors,” Latch founder and CEO Luke Schoenfelder tells TechCrunch. “We This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Overall Takeaways from the WEF meeting in Davos John Metcalf, co-founder and CEO of Upgraded , shared his experience at Davos 2023: This year was my fifth time to visit Davos during the WEF annual meeting. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I There’s an opportunity here. I am now an alumnus).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. To be eligible, one of the business founders has to be black or a person of African descent. 6) SoGoal Foundation Black Founder Startup Grant. This is after the participants have submitted an original idea.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends. founders?—?challenges

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Co-founder and CTO Juan Manuel Cuello had the idea for Fudo back in 2014 after working as a developer at Restorando.com, an Open table-like company that was acquired by The Fork. We have the unique opportunity in Latin America to become a one-stop shop because this is an area that is still very underserved,” Ferraro said. “We

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and Indeed, our tour is a key part of our investment strategy, as it provides us with the opportunity to really understand the dynamics of a particular startup ecosystem. A: Tell us more!).”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Some firms like K9 Ventures won’t even back founders who have taken prior institutional capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America. million (not to be confused with a company called Conductor based in the U.S.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2014, she founded Fashpa, a now-defunct Nigerian fashion e-commerce website. He is one of the angel investors in this round; others include his co-founder Musty Mustapha, Paystack CEO Shola Akinlade, Stash founders Brandon Krieg and Ed Robinson, and Aux Money CEO Raffael Johnen. I don’t make that segmentation so much.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, even in conservative markets, the changing global landscape can still give rise to new markets and opportunities. Two key changes led Habitto to discover new business opportunities The first change is the shift in the Japanese mindset, where “savings are a top priority.” The first step was to recruit the right talent.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

billion venture capital firm is entering the crypto market with a new $110 million fund dedicated to the sector that it will operate jointly with Ledger , a French startup focused on digital asset security, Cathay co-founder Dennis Barrier told TechCrunch. Denis Barrier, co-founder of Cathay Innovation Image Credits: Cathay Innovation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet changing legal demands.” “[I] built Filevine alongside co-founders to fill this void in the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Assaf Resnick, BigPanda co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch the company is cementing its leadership in AIOps event correlation and automation. It’s been a while since we checked in on BigPanda — nearly eight years to be exact, and much has changed since the company came out of stealth in 2014.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Auckland-based startup Niesh, which has developed a student discount platform, is on a rapid growth trajectory and has had to decide if it should grow locally, or prioritise opportunities overseas. Download the ecentre study “Where To Grow”, including a checklist for founders wanting to go global, at [link].

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. The company chose to “run towards the impossible” to break into the crowded online education space, says CEO and Co-Founder David Rogier. See some opportunities below: Senior NLP Researcher for Signals Analytics (Israel). Webinar Aug.12: Watch here.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did. Why have you switched to the dark side? What's the insight there?

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

She is also a woman entrepreneur and the founder of Moving Mood , which started as a clothing line for people with reduced mobility and turned into a research and consulting partner for the fashion industry on the topic of inclusive fashion. . Rut Turró, Founder of Moving Mood. It did not work very well.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014. That doesn''t mean I have anything against the founder or the investors. I just respectfully don''t see the same opportunity as her investors do, and I reserve the right to be 100% wrong. But in the private markets, we''ve got "Yay, founders! doesn''t much matter.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Care+Wear’s Razdan Bold Enough to Bridge Fashion and Function in an Effort to Rehumanize the Healthcare Experience I had the pleasure of interviewing Chaitenya Razdan is the Founder and CEO of Care+Wear , a leading provider of innovative healthwear focused on creating positive and effective healing experiences for people everywhere.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. In the first three years of Startup Catalyst, there was only the Youth Mission (now called the Future Founders mission) sending 20 people at a time to Silicon Valley.

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