TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. But that’s no longer the case.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The 2014-founded startup operates a marketplace model where lenders compete to offer the most suitable credit line to consumers to grease purchases — partnering with businesses such as banks, retailers and payment partners so they can offer “buy now, pay later” to their users at the point of sale.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e.

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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. Pitch Deck Teardown: Lunchbox’s $50 million Series B deck. We want to actually capture that opportunity.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. Now, Shanghai is poised to become one of the top global financial centers in the world, like New York, London, and Tokyo.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. The Girlboss Foundation was launched back in 2014 by an entrepreneur called Sophia Amoruso. Applications are received throughout the year.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Takeshi “TK” Mori and Clancey Stahr met in 2013 at a cafe on Stanford’s campus and worked together on various investment projects before deciding to launch GoAhead Ventures I in Q4 2014. So, we encourage any founder readers to check out our rapid pitch process on our website and ‘go ahead’ to submit a pitch if the time is right!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Adam Goulburn, a partner at Lux Capital, was first struck by Eikon Therapeutics’ pitch to use super microscopes to develop drugs when founder Eric Betzig posed a simple question: How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live? . “It It was such a simple statement, but it was kind of eye opening to me,” Goulburn tells TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

” Wu and his team instead split up and waited outside, approaching professionals and pitching them directly after the day’s performances had ended. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Of those who had a QUT supported place: Alex Ghiculescu (2014) founded Tanda, a workforce success company that continues to go from strength to strength with over 120 staff across the globe. From Beer and Pitch nights to Startup Hatch to Disrupting Law, student-led events have shown that students are really hungry for this stuff.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

This unique concept went viral in 2014 and initiated a chain reaction that helped spread awareness about the disease ALS and encouraged donations to research on the same. Pitch a viral video series: If the people like the content and share it with others, it can help create a lot of buzz and increase popularity in the market.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

On top of that, Proton’s technology pitch is very much in line with the European Union’s thinking on privacy, which has been encapsulated by regulation such as GDPR. since it officially moved there in 2014 , its desire to relocate to the U.S. though employees are allowed to base themselves from the U.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. 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.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014. I can''t tell you how many times I''ve been pitched and examples have been made of companies that I don''t think are doing that well--but that you''d never know that from the press. They seemed annoyed that I said anything in the first place. What was said, who''s right, etc.,

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. In mid-2014, Caya started Slidebean.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. Claire Hughes Johnson : Yeah.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Machine Metrics Performance Monitoring for Manufacturing 2014 Boston Logic Boston Logic provides real estate brokerages with software, marketing and design solutions that make them technological leaders in their marketplace. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

February 2014 seems so long ago. “Founders need to see their investors demonstrating real concern for their well-being — and it has to be visible in their check-in structure, communication and post-pitch behavior,” says Michael Redd, co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. And your odds of getting a win are much higher when you focus on value vs. hype, when you focus on customers vs. TAM, and when you focus on building vs. pitching. But not for me.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Just recently, BrandXR received funding deals in the Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch competition. According to their site, since 2014 there’s been a 35% increase in the number of students receiving mental health treatment, and 40% of college students do not seek help from current campus resources. Groundspeed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This, explains Microsoft, has allowed video to establish itself as a new type of “document” for businesses to do things like pitch an idea, explain a process, or communicate with team members. Microsoft’s deal follows Adobe’s recent $1.28 is aimed more directly at creative professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

They get pitched by so many blowhards that more genuine people who aren’t in it for just a story stand out from the crowd. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. So be careful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. inside insight into VC decision-making.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Start here.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. Starting in 2014, wireless carriers began offering free smartphones, and once truckers got their hands on these devices, the industry quickly started to change. Register here , and apply for Pitch Practice using this form. . Join the event here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. Perfecting My Pitch. But it’s just the opposite—it’s an amazing company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. The partners complained that the quality of startups has dropped even as the volume of pitches has surged. Image credits: Accel).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

Ohanian returned in November 2014 as chairman, and Huffman eight months later as CEO. When Ohanian and Huffman first pitched Paul Graham of startup accelerator Y Combinator in Boston in June 2005, their idea–for a site called “Mmm”–was rejected. –before coming back to lead Reddit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data. Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch. Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2014 when we featured the company , the pitch then from IroFit (ZirooPay’s parent company) was that its “Internet-free” tech —a mobile platform for small businesses to accept card payments via a mobile app and EMV-certified card reader — operated in areas where there is no data coverage, particularly in emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. Since 2014, I’ve been a seed-stage investor at Freestyle and had the opportunity to fine-tune this skill by working closely with founders in our portfolio on raising Series A rounds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

” Launched in 2014, Robin began as a conference room scheduling app. Remley pitches Robin as a means of tracking office usage over time as well. . “Something that resonates with every leader is that our platform removes barriers from coming into the office and creates a workplace centered on choice. Image Credits: Robin.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed).

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick. Upadhyay pitches the algorithm as a time saver, but it should be noted that these sorts of models have the potential to amplify bias in the hiring process.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for entrepreneurs to identify then pitch, but the serendipity — or the chasm between what makes someone an effective mentor versus just a speed dial for questions — is harder for them to scale.

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