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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ). The fall of players like Newchip and On Deck are not isolated incidents.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Seeing little opportunity here, Drew and Arash moved the company to Silicon Valley later that year. Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. There are lots of startup accelerators to help get the company off the ground. None of the local VC firms invested.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity, including Flexible VC.

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42Maru’s CEO D.K. Donghwan KIM’s quest to find all ‘Answers’ led to the establishment of a successful startup

AsiaTechDaily

So, he took inspiration from his favorite science fiction book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’ and in 2015 founded the deep-semantic QA (Question-Answering) platform, which understands a user’s real intention in a question and derives a single answer from an extensive unstructured data.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. They aim to provide founders with maximum optionality, flexibility, and alignment by aligning around profitable growth and realistic M&A opportunities. The firm uses whichever structure best fits a given investment opportunity. .