American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize. Homejoy expanded internationally in 2014 in a rush to squash a new German competitor Helpling. billion market cap), Zalando ($21.2

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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. So we’ve rolled it out across our residential portfolio […] I hope we can act as both a thought partner and product incubator for them.”. This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

But why keep the door open to investing in other startups that it didn’t help incubate? Forum can now better defend early ownership in standout companies from its accelerator batches. It comes back to the company’s new name, it turns out. Reasonable. Undergirding Forum’s new raise are results from its earlier funds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. building companies in-house) or incubator (e.g., Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts. long-term support at the earliest stages).

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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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Gust

MARCH 21, 2016

With startup growth up 61% since 2014 and more investment programs emerging, it can be overwhelming for founders to know just where to jump in. As the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, MassChallenge has helped 835 startup companies around the world, who have raised over $1.1 billion in funding and created over 6,500 jobs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Today, there are more nonprofits and incubator programs supporting potential entrepreneurs than ever before. We can and should address these obstacles to resurrect the American dream for all citizens. What are the new trends we are seeing in entrepreneurship today that didn’t happen 10 years ago?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

The genesis of Wingtra came together in 2014 when Boosfeld, Basil Weibel, Elias Kleimann and Sebastian Verling started working on a thesis paper while studying at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. While still working on their thesis, the four registered Wingtra as a company to develop and commercialize the tech.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

hundreds of incubators and accelerators, giving the impact start-up ecosystem the much-needed. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. 16,500+ change driven entrepreneurs in 100+communities, 450 incubation, acceleration and scaling. Some of them.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). Instead of creating advertisements and posters, we reached out directly to 600-some contacts at universities and local incubators, and this paid huge dividends. We also scoured newsfeeds.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

But by 2014 much had started to change. We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2014 Niesh co-founder, Jae Yoo, now 26, had $10 in his bank account, and had to choose between printing past papers for exam study, or feeding himself. Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). Instead of creating advertisements and posters, we reached out directly to 600-some contacts at universities and local incubators, and this paid huge dividends. We also scoured newsfeeds.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! To follow our work as part of the Better Incubation program, you can read more here , s ubscribe to our newsletter and follow us on our Impact Hub social channels: LinkedIn , Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook. Stay tuned!

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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. Note, the 2014 data is through May. I wonder how the 2014 market will evolve. First, the amazing success of the GoPro business and IPO , which set a 23-year high-water mark for a consumer hardware company.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The January figure equals the previous year, but February dollars deployed halved compared to 2015, reverting to 2014 levels. Median seed rounds are then dominated by the +/- $150k initial investments of incubators and accelerators with large new portfolios like YCombinator and 500Startups whose demo days are fast approaching.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

Airobotics has raised $130M since it was founded in 2014. On July 13th, we will pull back the curtain on seven early-stage startups backed by Labs/02, OurCrowd’s early-stage fund and incubator. TechCrunch: Maolac CEO, from supermom to superfood. Investors always want to know what new innovations our companies have in the works.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

Her company Evrnu took part in Impact Hub Seattle ’s Fledge accelerator back in 2014, and in 2016 partnered with Levi Strauss & Co to create the company’s first eco-friendly jeans, made from recycled cotton T-shirts, showing that even the big players in the fashion world are open to innovation if the right thing comes along.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

According to Forbes, there have been 19 to 33 venture-backed investment rounds in the country annually since 2014, and an overall yearly increase in total funding. . Like most FoodTech startups, the majority of these companies are still young (reporting less than $10 million in annual revenues). Still, investment has been steady.

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