TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. The company’s primary backer was Lore, who sold his company Jet.com to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. 3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. That’s how I found the VC FinTech Accelerator in 2016, where one-third of founders were from minority backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

There, they share pitch materials and information about their business. The founder gets a detailed assessment with feedback on their pitch materials, the underlying metrics that they can use to develop their business and, their ability to raise capital down the line. The company has made significant strides since launching in 2016.

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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. And startups should think more about strategic opportunities, and collaborations, when giving up those coveted cap table spots.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. Danielle Vaz (2016) is with Deloitte Digital as a Technical Business Analyst.

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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. And startups should think more about strategic opportunities, and collaborations, when giving up those coveted cap table spots.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. PDT/2:30 p.m. yourprotagonist. Ritu Narayan founded Z?m

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. “The bigger picture is that each of our competitors views the opportunity more narrowly than ultimate.ai Our vision has always been the big picture: Of automation becoming one of the primary means of providing customer service.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 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. And startups should think more about strategic opportunities, and collaborations, when giving up those coveted cap table spots.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

That firm, founded in 2016, announced on March 29, 2022 that it closed $310 million in capital across three funds. Mike Smerklo moved to Austin from Silicon Valley in 2016 to start Next Coast Ventures with Tom Ball. “I I think the opportunities for diverse founders are very limited,” he told TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

… While we do lots of work in these areas due to the attractive opportunity set, we are not an impact investor, and impact qualification is not a criterion that we use in evaluating or funding companies. By contrast, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4%

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work. Echoing Green is a foundation that distinguishes transformational leaders via its fellowships.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Whurley has successfully co-founded and sold two Austin-based companies: Chaotic Moon Studios to Accenture in 2015 and Honest Dollar to Goldman Sachs in 2016. The whole ‘90s were the early days of the Internet and I saw a lot of opportunity,” Whurley said. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company. Austin got hit hard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Connecting consumers with products they need through channels they already know and trust is both a massive revenue opportunity and a social good, providing financial resilience to families at a time when they need it most. In simpler terms, Zeta helps companies pitch customers in varied manners depending on their own characteristics.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The startup accelerator program, launched in 2016, supports foreign startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the international markets. This hub aims to merge different industrial sectors, mostly within information and communications technology, to create new business opportunities and foster the growth of startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2016

I wasn't present at the event, but I heard about it and found this tweet that separately referenced the comment: To the brave black woman who asked what to do when ppl tell her to get a white man as the face of her org,Im so sorry for @Bethenny 's answer — Marah Lidey (@marahml) April 9, 2016. Now, I've seen the stats and the studies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in: 2016. Numida’s pitch to these businesses is that they can apply for working capital on its platform and receive it within a day. That’s where Plumter sees an opportunity and is pitching to help African importers process payments to China/APAC within 48 hours. Website: [link]. Team size: 60.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work. no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders. We offer 7.5K

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. According to Indie.VC 20% initial ownership.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. According to Indie.VC 20% initial ownership.

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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. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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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. 2016 KnipBio KnipBio has developed a series of naturally occurring microbes that convert low-cost feedstock into premium, nutritious, single-cell proteins laden with pigment-enhancing carotenoids to produce healthier, more vibrant fish.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For this survey, TechCrunch spoke to a number of investors about the area’s potential, opportunities and key players. They see a huge opportunity for the region to become a major startup hub by utilizing its diverse workforce and wonderful quality of life. In this survey, these investors agree on several aspects of Miami.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Because they’re quickly growing, working at Blumira offers the opportunity for high growth and a fast-paced work environment. Gambyt is a debt-free and fully profitable company that’s been sustainably growing since its founding in 2016. Just recently, BrandXR received funding deals in the Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch competition.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On one hand, it benefited tremendously from the Trump backlash after the 2016 election and society’s focus on women. approach where they should be thanking her for the opportunity to be an investor in a company that was going to make them all this money. She thought of investors with a Don Draper “That’s what the money is for!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

What’s your personal mantra for 2016? Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. The new year is here.

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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. These days, when you have an opportunity to sell an investor on your idea, it will likely be via a video call, not over a croissant or a shawarma. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. Fast forward to 2016. According to Bennet, Nichols reached out about the opportunity on Facebook Messenger. We started to build a casual relationship then.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

I think there’s a unique opportunity we can address, and I’m really excited to have an impact both in our community in Indiana, but also around the Midwest and parts of the South as well,” Kelli Jones, managing partner at the firm explained. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

I was pitching on the day, but I was also listening to other pitches. However, most of them tend to go alone and are stuck with cutting checks in their local markets, which limits opportunities. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. Some MAGIC portfolio companies. Here’s a scenario.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

“[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview. Ojansuu and Hanhirova launched Happeo ’s first incarnation, “Universe,” in early 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Notably, Ramp is college friends Glyman and Atiyeh’s second venture in the spend management industry following the sale of online price tracker Paribus to Capital One in 2016. With its new capital, Ramp plans to scope out more M&A opportunities. We only back companies where we see a strategic opportunity over time,” Glyman said. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. But the company, which was founded in 2016, has raised $2.4 It’s demo day season. Image Credits: Rosetta.ai. It’s early days for Rosetta.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

With the launch of Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) under the JOBS Act in 2016, investors can now participate in equity crowdfunding. Reflecting on the early success of SDAC, to today being one of the largest angel conferences and startup pitch competitions in the country, following are five tips for activating new angel investors.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

In 2016, she joined Y Combinator to launch the Continuity Fund, where she partners with companies as they scale their businesses. On being deliberate in building your network to create opportunities: “Five years into BCG [Boston Consulting Group], I learned a lot about private equity investing, but I missed tech.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com. They were in the Summer 2016 Batch of YC, and you can check them out at Meesho.com. I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Adora Cheung is a Partner at YC.

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