Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

After numerous discussions we held the line and all agreed as a board that profitability was much more important than chasing new markets and that perfecting our systems and methods was critical before we expanded and just increase the scope of our problems to solve. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? LinkUp launched in 2017. How do you keep the essence of what LinkUp is as it grows larger? When I’m looking for new employees, I’m looking for the right attitude, the right values. Is this something you are passionate about?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. All of the costs of the event were covered by our sponsors, the main ones being TAMKEEN (The Bahrain Labour Fund) and the Bahrain Economic Development Board. Promoting Disruption.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a And it would be?—?but

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn’t waste any time proving out its technology. version of FreePower on the horizon, and Jawad having just joined our board, this is an inflection point for Aira.”. The news also sees Axon CFO Jawad Ashan joining Aira’s board of directors. With so many partnerships in our pipeline, a 2.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As part of the transaction , Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco. Despite that setback, the company went on to raise $50 million in 2017. And just who is Starco Brands?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Goal board: create a board where you have goals or strategies that your company is striving for and each week you can focus on one goal or problem to solve or work on. You could even go a step further and have a board to acknowledge and encourage creative thinking. Originally published March 9, 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. As part of the round, BAce Capital founder Benny Chen, the former managing director of Ant Group India, where he invested in Paytm and Zomato, will join Loship’s board of directors. .

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Eber completed his PhD in 2016 and Wehmeyer was a Research Associate for a year, 2016 to 2017. Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

When they realized that what customers really were after was the information they were uncovering, and not so much the messaging capability, the company pivoted in 2017. The team started out building a messaging platform that provided a deep level of information about people that others might be emailing.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. Tens of thousands of these scooters are still in use today, and every month of continued service reduces their already low per-mile lifetime carbon emissions even further.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

The 2017 Startup Catalyst Europe Mission cohort?—?Will They’re also really exciting to work with because maybe they’re getting into their first big commercial contracts, they’ve maybe got their first few employees on board, and they’re starting to get a bit more serious. Get on a board. Meet William McCullough.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto. Last year, about $32 billion of capital pooled into the crypto world, and this year, $11.35

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investing investment strategy communities 94

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Halamka and Shail Jain, Global Managing Director, Data & AI from Accenture, are both joining as board observers with this round. “These novel privacy-protected solutions promise to usher a new era of collaboration.” Mayo Clinic also invested an undisclosed amount in an extension to TripleBlind’s $8.2 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and balanced hiring process. His tenacity is one of the things that attracted Sequoia partner and Canvas board member Mike Vernal to back the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. Verbit is a special company combining exceptional technology-driven organic and inorganic growth in the transcription marketplace,” said managing partner at Third Point Ventures Rober Schwartz, who will join Verbit’s board of directors. raises $50M.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

But not as impressive as the more than 100% revenue expansion that the company put on the board last year. Our paid subscriber penetration has increased steadily since we launched Duolingo Plus in 2017 and, combined with our user growth, has led to our revenue more than doubling every year since. The number is still strong, we think.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. It’s been a while since we checked in with Full Harvest. The company raised an additional $8.5

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

So in 2017, we launched the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , a $150M fund backed by an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, investors, and executives that are publicly standing behind the idea that great companies can start and scale anywhere. Talent : As we build out our portfolio support platform, we are laser-focused on talent?—?helping

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The company has its origins in 2017, after Sheridan and Todorovic met on the set of Rodrigo Garcia’s film Last Days in the Desert. With their advisory board, it would be hard to make a mistake without someone calling them on it. million to make it happen.

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venture capital creativity opportunity board 99

Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. LatAm SEED Program meeting, São Paulo 2017. In 2017, after an intense growth journey, we had to re-commit and put our money where our commitment is. Here’s her story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. On how the startup still in stealth managed to get these investors on board, Pillay says it’s down to the company’s network in the US and the belief each investor has in the product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 It’s an honour to bring on board Tencent, Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund. “And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”.

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peer-to-peer venture capital innovation education 107

Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Through the years, Tim attended many fundraising events held for Nuway and served on its board, so he had an intimate understanding of the good the organization is doing in the world. For years, Evans Nwankwo and Tim Rettig , president of EO Cincinnati, played together on a local recreational soccer team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Courtney Caldwell and her husband Tye have been building the Dallas-based startup ShearShare , which provides a marketplace service connecting stylists with open seats at hair salons, since 2017. Tye Caldwell has been a luminary in the industry and is a member-elect of the Professional Beauty Association’s advisory board.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Founded in 2017 by Chileans Jaime Arrieta, Santiago Lira, Teresita Morán, Felipe Sateler and Ricardo Sateler, Buk is building a cloud-based platform that it says allows companies to manage their human resources “ end to end” — from the payment of salaries to professional development. .

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Feedough

APRIL 9, 2021

These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Construction advertising refers to placing advertisements on a temporary boarded fence in a public place and is usually erected around a construction site. Hoarding graphics: A hoarding is defined as a temporary boarded fence in a public place.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

BOARD TRAINING. 2017 ACA Summit by Angel Capital Association. The Assure Podcast. Origins is a podcast about Limited Partners, created by VC Notation Capital. Venture Unlocked, Samir Kaji. The Fund Lawyer. Venture capital fund law FAQs. National Association of Corporate Directors Fellowship. Angel Investing Workshops by Golden Seeds.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In 2017, a furniture retailer he’d been advising for a few years grew rapidly, and rewarded him for his dedication. His teaching side hustle has clued him into young artists to star in his productions, taught him about marketing for emerging media and “provided interns that we’ve brought on board for editing and marketing.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“Allianz Malaysia is one of the very few corporates that has been at the forefront in driving digital innovation in Malaysia , and as one of the earliest regional VCs to set up shop in Malaysia, Gobi is very proud to have them on board as one of our key LPs,” said Gobi co-founder and chairman, Thomas G.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” Founded in 2017 by Professors John Morton and Simon Benjamin from UCL and Oxford University respectively, Quantum Motion is setting out to create “scalable quantum computers” through new quantum computing architectures that are compatible with established silicon processing. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Since it launched its debit cards for kids in 2017, the company has managed to set up accounts for more than 3 million parents and children, who have saved more than $120 million through the app. That’s up from 2 million parents and kids having saved $50 million at the time of its September 2020 raise. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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