This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. The whole thing started with Armstrong’s outright refusal to publicly support the Black Lives Matter movement and a walkout of employees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Incubate Fund’s investments in ispace stretch back to the company’s seed round in 2014. foot-tall Hakuto-R will also be used in the second mission in 2023, to deposit a small ispace rover that will collect data to support the company’s subsequent missions to the moon. Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The company’s decade-long growth will continue with its recent funding round supporting its innovative approach to healthcare. In 2014 Maven Clinic Founder Kate Ryder had a vision for improving women’s healthcare. Members receive support from the first trimester through returning to work.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

I put my ambitions of becoming an entrepreneur on pause for a couple of years until finally walking away from the corporate world in March 2014. Doing this will help you to uncover and receive the support you need, which can impact your business exponentially.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Boston Children’s Hospital has piloted or promoted dozens of voice applications and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has supported the development of platforms like Sopris Health and Aiva Health. million adults in the United States experienced a voice problem in 2014. Another study estimated that approximately 17.9

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments. “During a tough time in the market, we are ready to support the very best early and growth stage consumer tech startups with $1 billion of fresh capital. billion in assets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Started in Chemnitz, Germany in 2014, Staffbase has managed to onboard more than 1,000 clients, including Adidas, Audi, BHP, Deutsche Post DHL, Groupon, Hitachi, Ikea, Johns Hopkins University, McKesson, Paulaner, Suncor, Viessmann and Volvo, among others. Existing investors Insight Partners and e.ventures also participated in the round.

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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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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 and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in Talent : As we build out our portfolio support platform, we are laser-focused on talent?—?helping

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Just over a month ago, we were joined by friends, supporters, and alumni for Startup Catalyst’s 4th birthday. We’ve had many great partners and supporters over the years. Some of them supported us for a season and some will stay with us for years to come. QUT and Rowena have supported Startup Catalyst since the beginning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Yuriy Gankin, co-founder and chief science officer at Quantori, says the founders back up these claims with decades of experience in this market, including helping launch and build a company called GGA Software Services, which also focused on the life sciences market, and was acquired by EPAM in 2014.

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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. Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. Having raised $1.3

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

billion won are projected for this district, ensuring the establishment of robust infrastructures and business-support initiatives for the gaming and content sectors. 7 at the Business Support Hub in the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley, a must-attend for gaming aficionados. This sector has been on an upward trajectory since 2014.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Larson said her local SBDC advisors have been supportive in numerous ways, from encouraging Upcycle Hawaii to create its first business plan and helping the company navigate the hiring process to assisting with loan applications and continually providing guidance through regular meetings. . Key takeaways on finding a business mentor.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Retail Reactivation Initiative was established to stimulate the local economy Since Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was elected in 2014, he has been committed to revitalizing the City of Newark, stimulating business in the downtown area, and strengthening neighborhoods. For its business development program, he took two key steps.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said. Other investors noticed as well.

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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. Now as investors they have supported 70 new companies across multiple sectors that have raised hundreds of millions in follow-on capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

As winners of the competition, Organovis received the top prize of $25,000 to support the development of its business plans. Over the past nine years, our partnership with the Zahn Center has supported over 2,000 students in today’s ever-changing economy through mentorship, and we look forward to engaging more for many years to come.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Request for proposals seeks to support nonprofits leading groundbreaking food security projects Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS) found through their recent study that the estimated impact of malnutrition on the global economy reaches as high as $3.5 trillion per year. million meals on behalf of U.S. Hunger since 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. Before now, Appzone closed a $2 million round from South African Business Connexion (BCX) in 2014. Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In addition, SDG Lab participants were asked to support the creation of the SDG Olympic Games for Climate. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I They hope to launch it later in 2023. I shared EO’s GSEA model; SDG Lab may take inspiration from that on how to run this new programme,” Nikhil shared.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Niio , founded by Rob Anders and Oren Moshe in 2014 , combines an accessible streaming subscription service alongside the ability for people to purchase editioned NFT artwork directly from artists, galleries and content owners, through its public marketplace or via private transactions, Anders told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The company was self-funded until 2014, when McDerment decided to bring on outside investors and raised $30 million from Oak Investment Partners, Accomplice and Georgian Partners. When it came to billing clients, he found Word and Excel frustrating to use and felt like they weren’t built to create professional-looking invoices.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. It stems from our particular deal flow, since we’re mainly supporting our alumni founders and mentors, so we have two very different types of deal flows.”. AppWorks’ total assets under management (AUM) is now $212 million.

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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. It also grew 10x to support 10,000 restaurants. As such, the company is also making it more accessible, charging between $25 and $50 per month.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. Creating space for in-person connections has long been at the center of our Rise of the Rest place-based philosophy and investment thesis. Leverage?—?and

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asian and Western European markets. Its customer-centric solutions have been embraced globally by the small and medium business community and we are looking forward to supporting them through this next phase of their expansion journey.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This model is unique in that we are reaching parents and learners 100% online and supporting them not only across exams but also the day-to-day learning, homework, support, etc. In 2014, she founded Fashpa, a now-defunct Nigerian fashion e-commerce website. Edukoya goes beyond exam prep.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Callaghan Innovation’s Deep Tech Incubator Programme has supported nearly half of the innovative deep tech startups founded in Aotearoa over the past 10 years. 80% of startups raised follow-on investment post-incubation The Deep Tech Incubator Programme supported 39 public research organisation spinouts. .

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Looking to accelerate inclusiveness in Europe’s entrepreneurial and incubation environment , Impact Hub teamed up with partners to enhance Business Support Organisations’ skills, methods and approaches towards different under-represented groups. The accessibility of the content and sessions is also a guaranteed point (e.g.

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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. long-term support at the earliest stages). In some cases, funds themselves launch “accelerators,” which in most cases are the platform support and capital extended to earlier startups, so the VC invests earlier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups. Last month, it announced that a total of $267,500 had been raised to support three Nigerian startups’ bridge financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

In 2014, the Nigerian tech scene was coming of age as more local and global venture capital flushed into startups building the next big thing. From a revenue perspective, we’ve always thought that multiple revenue lines are critical to support publications that can thrive and meet their editorial ambitions,” said the CEO.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. We could see that there was value in supporting students across the university to participate in this event. As we went through the list of QUT-supported mission alumni, Rowena told me about the coding classes. What support do you need? Where are they now?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception. This is unheard of on the current landscape.”

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