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. Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in $20M Series B round Here’s also how it fits into Smile Identity’s current growth strategy from a product but geographic-led standpoint.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Based in Australia, Deputy is focused on expanding in the United States and other countries, and Martincevic will oversee its growth strategy. She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors. She is also a board member of Lemonade and Kiva. Deputy says it has surpassed $100 million AUD (about $69.5

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. One of the crypto projects that the SEC has been investigating, where I have had a front-row seat, is the Kin project that was birthed by USV’s portfolio company Kik , where I am on the Board.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Taking into account my genuine interest in making an impact on the lives of Maharashtra’s rural artisans and entrepreneurs, coupled with capabilities and understanding of the rural landscape, the Minister arrived at a decision to give me the opportunity to head the Maharashtra State Khadi and Village Industries Board (MSKVIB) on September 2017.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The startup will use the proceeds to invest in product development and continue its vertical and geographical expansion, CEO and founder of Verbit Tom Livne said, adding that it will also double down its acquisition strategy. . Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. raises $50M.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

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. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. Some of these companies include Retool , Novo , Payfazz , and Mono. ” MAGIC Fund 1 was $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We’re board already : As the end of COVID may be in sight, Connie reports that investors are losing their taste for board meetings in a big way. 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. ” 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. You can sign up here.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

million in a Series A round led by General Catalyst, and brings the startup’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $75 million. The startup, which describes itself as “ a new-guard active investment manager, “ launched its first investment strategy in February of 2018 and today has 30,000 users.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. What strategies have you utilized to grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program? The other major change that fueled the program was installing a full Accelerator board composed of Accelerator participants.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company.

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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. We used to meet to discuss our strategy, plans, take stock of new teams coming in and build the basic processes of the network. LatAm SEED Program meeting, São Paulo 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price. In 2017, they added Prodigy , a commercial product for generating data for the machine learning model. “We didn’t raise any investment money [until now].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Solivan has ample experience on both sides of the fence, as she founded TaskRabbit and led it to exit through an acquisition by Ikea in 2017. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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Feedough

APRIL 9, 2021

These advertisements are a component of above the line advertising strategy that is largely non-targeted and has a wide reach. These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Hoarding graphics: A hoarding is defined as a temporary boarded fence in a public place. These are: Billboard Advertising.

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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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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Gabriela will continue to support our Ambition 2030 as a Board Director focusing on developing partnerships and engaging in policy efforts. Sarah Stamatiou Nichols, Impact Strategy & Measurement Director. At the same time, I plan to continue enabling our impact through large scale partnerships and policy efforts in my Board role.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown. Battery Ventures has backed Databricks since 2017, so Alex Wilhelm interviewed General Partner Dharmesh Thakker to understand why he thinks the company may be undervalued. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Joining Initialized in the round is the serial entrepreneur Moise Emquies, whose previous clothing lines, Ella Moss and Splendid, were acquired by the fashion holding company VFC in 2017. As part of the round, actor, activist, and author Hill Harper has joined the company as a co-founder and as the company’s chief strategy officer.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world. with relevant expertise, joined the board of directors. Savara Pharmaceuticals, Rob’s 4th startup, is an orphan lung disease company working on inhaled investigational therapies.

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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. Relatedly, we typically field a series of similar questions: “Is Steve Case really on the bus? (A:

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI , an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Why can’t we draw from, for example, maybe a Trello board?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Harris took a seat on the board. Oates gave an example from 2017. They explained how much time and energy they spent early on in their investor/founder relationship talking about the “why” behind opinions and strategies and decisions, plotting out the short-, medium- and long-term plan for the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Frustrated with only helping the rich get richer, the pair founded Titan in 2017 with the goal of disrupting what they viewed as “an archaic industry. The startup currently offers two stock-focused strategies on its platform, One of those strategies, called Flagship, is focused on large cap growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

My journey and how I came to this decision My journey into crypto began in 2017. I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. Now with big banks, corporations, and governments on board, Bitcoin and?—?by The year 2017 was filled with promises?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Founded in 2017 by Aditya Kothadiya, Devendra Laulkar and Albert Lai, Avoma developed an artificial intelligence meeting assistant that has templates for meeting agendas and takes both notes and video, transcribes everything in real time, summarizes the notes and calls out actionable insights for participants in the agenda.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Our WOMENtrepreneurs have personal strategies for managing that particular challenge. The guys at EO Austin are like a personal board of directors to me. Similarly, Mary views her EO chapter as a sounding board and lifeline in times of hardship. I love the way they challenge and push me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Hedge funds, meanwhile, use causaLens to gain better understandings how a market trend might develop to inform their investment strategies. And interestingly, one new wave of customers might be cropping up in the world of autonomous transportation. This is one area where the lack of human reasoning has held back progress in the field.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Once boda boda riders get on board, they can double their take-home profit from $5 per day to $10 per day after becoming owners, the CEO claims. ” Over the years, Tugende’s demand has come mainly via word of mouth, a strategy Wilkinson says the company has struggled to keep up with. Image Credits: Tugende.

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HPA

MARCH 25, 2022

HPA has been an investor in Popular Pays since the 2017 Series A. We’d like to thank HPA Deal Lead and Board Observer, Corey Ferengul, and Independent Board Member, Amanda Lannert, for their contributions and counsel to the company over the years. We are excited to get to work on them together.”

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2015 we closed our third and largest fund to date , allowing us to double-down on our strategy of filling the seed-stage financing gap in the Pacific Northwest. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle. On the Techstars side, the 2019 class we’re recruiting for now will lift the total number of Techstars Seattle alumni to over 100.

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StartupNation

MAY 5, 2021

They only asked for a quarterly board meeting ?— ?two It pushed me to try bold strategies that still pay off today. ©2017 by Success. If it makes $1 million in three years, I’ll get 5%, which is $50,000. The math isn’t worth it. I recently acquired 2 million shares of stock in a public company, trading at 60 cents a share.

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