Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The nonprofit Dallas Entrepreneur Center offers public tours, but if you want to practice your pitch or get feedback, you can also apply to present as part of its 1 Million Cups program. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too. To find the right investors, you first need to consider LPs’ investment criteria. How well do your target LPs understand your investment thesis?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If economists tried to measure the cost of the malaise that the election of 2016 left, we'd undoubtedly see billions, if not more, lost in worker productivity. I met Rachel Renock a few months ago at a SheWorx pitch event. It reminded me of when I first heard the pitch for Kickstarter and then witnessed what it would become.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Seven venture capital firms participated in the latest round: DS Asset Management, Industrial Bank of Korea, Hanwha Investment & Securities, S&S Investment, Toss investment, Korea Asset Investment & Securities and Venture Field. AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. of venture capital deals.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 10, 2023

Existing investor WFC, along with iAngels Network, Sateeq Invest, and Impactful Pitch structured syndicates, and marquee industry mix global HNIs, also participated in the round.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. If you’d like your pitch deck reviewed by experienced founders and investors on a future episode, you can submit your deck here. Knowing when to bend the rules.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” Combined, those non-traditional VCs account for about 25% of venture dollars invested last year, sapping the strength from the startup bull-market. 2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. Being able to invest directly into companies that are building amazing solutions that just so happen to be founded by diverse people. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The following article was written by Glen Carlson , co-founder of the Key Person of Influence Business Accelerator, for the March 2016 edition of Octane magazine : Consider the three types of branding you can develop as a business owner: a company brand, a product brand and a personal brand. is about taking that pitch and scaling it.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. With that momentum, TrekIT Health was able to secure foundational investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners last year. For more information, visit trekithealth.com. For more info, visit www.dreamit.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. These are companies like hardware maker Native Instruments, which launched the Sounds.com marketplace last year, and there’s also Arcade by Output that’s pitching a similar service. . Image Credits: Getty Images. Splice teaches AI to sell Similar Sounds as users double. “My

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. Because UTA had its own investment branch, called UTA Ventures , Milana’s job also introduced her to some brilliant investors. Share on Twitter.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Ojansuu and Hanhirova launched Happeo ’s first incarnation, “Universe,” in early 2016. The year 2021 proved to be a record year for HR tech vendors, with around $14 billion invested across over 300 deals. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Loughlin then “came back home” to Accel in 2016, and has led investments in companies like Airkit, Ascend.io, Clockwise, Ironclad, Monte Carlo, Nines, Productiv, Split.io, and Vivun. Then, it’s time for the Pitch Deck Teardown.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 12, 2018

They began laying the groundwork for Radformation in 2016, after all three left their jobs working as medical physicists in the cancer clinic. Finding this is more rare than you think it would be--as many pitch meetings fall apart quickly, like someone who thinks they're passable in a foreign language until they talk to a native speaker.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. It has raised a total of $22.85 million to date.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Together, they interview three entrepreneurs who have pitched their businesses on “Shark Tank.”. Together, they share their “Shark Tank” experiences and offer up tips to aspiring entrepreneurs for perfecting your pitch in order to secure a deal. “The We want to make coaching affordable for everybody.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

The role involved working closely with Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a colleague to analyze and pitch what they felt were the best trades the professional basketball team could possibly make to improve their odds of winning. . Nonetheless, Tincher’s friend set up a meeting for him with a Rocket Cos.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). The pitch: Spathios says it’s a marketplace to book short-term venues and spaces. The pitch: Menta says its tech infrastructure enables B2B companies to offer their own payment and financial services to retail merchants in their ecosystems.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” You know it was a good application video when the same pitch can be reused in the S-1. Here’s their pitch: Many investors were skeptical, and they didn’t make it onto the list of top picks from Demo Day, but fortunately they were able to raise a seed round and keep growing. That was followed by Demo Day in late August.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s also invested in younger companies, like BigID, Dusty Robotics and Honeycomb. The timing of the new fund is about right for the firm, which has raised a new fund every two years since 2016, according to O’Driscoll. “We’d No investments have been made from the new fund yet, Niehenke said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The company still plans to add more agents with the new investment received. Due to the nature of Bankly’s business, Adejana didn’t accept some of the investments offered to the company and only let in investors who aligned with the company’s plans for the unbanked. Now, that number has grown to 15,000.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A little more than four years later, in 2016, Wealthfront’s original CEO and founder, Andy Rachleff, reclaimed the role. That Nash would start a fintech company specifically isn’t surprising, considering his involvement with Wealthfront, as well as some of the personal investments he has made in recent years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Things have stabilized since then, but prices are still five times above the average price from 2016 to 2020. To meet demand, Benchmark says that $42 billion will need to be invested in the space by the end of this decade. Large companies of all stripes have been racing to secure supplies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

We kicked off a series of pitch deck teardowns, and we are looking for startups that want to have their pitch decks reviewed. A Delaware judge ruled in his favor following a lawsuit brought by Tesla shareholders that accused Musk of coercing Tesla’s board into buying SolarCity back in 2016. Get involved! Oh Snap! :

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Loughlin then “came back home” to Accel in 2016 and has led investments in companies like Airkit, Ascend.io, Clockwise, Ironclad, Monte Carlo, Nines, Productiv, Split.io Then, it’s time for the pitch deck teardown. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. Who will be on our stage? Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Founders — apply here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. Who will be on our stage? Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Founders — apply here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While cybersecurity startups continue to attract funding (see: NetSPI’s $410 million growth round ), with investments in the sector totaling close to $4 billion in Q2 2022, the deal flow and size of deals are starting to dip, Crunchbase reported in July.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But, in my country (Croatia), there was a lack of investment. A year before starting my first company, my cofounders and I were pitching our startup to every startup competitions we knew about. Our last pitch was awarded $15k, so we stashed around $30k (all from competitions) and we started a company. That was our first mistake.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

As angels are typically characterized as making individual investments between $25,000-500,000 in early-stage companies, it’s likely that many who are qualified have a lower risk appetite. With the launch of Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) under the JOBS Act in 2016, investors can now participate in equity crowdfunding.

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