Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. On November 9th, we’re also opening Startup School to potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register for the new course today.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Developing the skills to be resilient is essential in order to be a strong leader, to recover from setbacks and to adapt to whatever challenges come your way. 2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta works hard to develop the small-business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the country’s devastating earthquake of 2016.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The companys collaboration with the New Jersey Economic Development Agency is a boost to the states program to attract AI companies for its innovation economy. The company also acquired AI platform developer Weights & Biases for $1.7 billion, expanding its capabilities in the AI development lifecycle. The company raised $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no easy fix, but an emerging cohort of startups is pitching software as a way to potentially anticipate — and respond to — market shocks. He claims that the startup acquired more than 200 new customers in 2021, accelerating Tive’s plans to expand its workforce of 120 people to 300 by the end of 2022.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Developing your brand means deciding how you distinguish yourself to your audience, and it determines how many people will interact with your organization and what the world knows you stand for. That being said, we have seen many examples of large companies that get disrupted by smaller, scrappier startups.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. Developer APIs includes a litany of different developer tools and services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. involved in developing state-of-the-art AI systems.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In response to these growing threats, several startups have created products to protect connected medical devices. Building Better Security Into Medical Devices 67% of the medical device manufacturers who participated in a May 2017 study believed that hackers would attack at least one device they had built in the next 12 months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any. And when it comes to robotic tractor startups, you could do worse than being acquired by John Deere. The Bay Area-based firm, which specializes in autonomous farming heavy machinery, was founded in 2017. We talked to other growers in California.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Market : The startup is addressing a significant, often underserved, need or problem in the market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

based startup developing “hollow core fiber (HCF)” technologies primarily for data centers and ISPs. Lumenisity was founded in 2017 as a spinoff from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton to commercialize research in HCF. Prior to the acquisition, the startup raised £12.5

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission. One of the biggest problems Argentina faces is the lack of digital knowledge in impoverished areas, which is a huge barrier to development. What drove you to launch these organizations?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. The open source dynamic runtime code analysis tool, which the startup claims is the first of its kind, is the brainchild of Elizabeth Lawler, who knows a thing or two about security.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

The idea is to let developers test AI systems and biases — that is, the edge cases where the systems perform poorly — to reduce the time needed for validation, Choi explained in an email interview. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. marking its highest level since 2017. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

What We’re Reading Developments in The Security Industry Verkada , a physical security startup that helps schools, gyms, municipalities, and corporations manage their security camera systems, reached a $540 million valuation in 3 years. Read how this startup set itself apart in a crowded market. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. Managers need an unobtrusive way to proactively learn about bottlenecks affecting their teams.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As proof that web3 is not some passing trend, blockchain infrastructure startup Alchemy announced today that it has closed on a $200 million Series C1 equity round that values the company at $10.2 In October, the startup was valued at $3.5 Meanwhile, the startup continues to operate with a “lean and mean” mentality.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I was able to focus on business growth, business development, hiring and sales. By late 2017 it was clear there was a problem with our bookkeeping and accounts receivable (AR) was so backlogged we nearly ran out of cash, just in time for our bookkeeper to quit without notice. Growing Pains.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the time of approval, the western side of the cluster was to be developed as a complex space for industries such as IT and media content, and a dedicated space for a corporate research center was also planned there. On the east side, a “ Business Support Hub ” that would support startup companies, and a hotel were planned to be built.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Israeli-based company developed artificial intelligence-driven data analytics that help food brands make smarter decisions around product development, marketing and retail sales for their next healthy, sustainable and delicious product. And now it has secured another round of funding, this time $17 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Enter SeekOut — a startup that is out to give companies no excuses with its AI-powered platform. 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. Image courtesy of SeekOut.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Register Asia is a significant market for startups due to its large and diverse population, as well as its rapidly growing economies. South Korea is considered a gateway to Asia due to its strategic location and well-developed infrastructure. 51 startup teams were selected through screening and auditions for the final 15-week program.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. Amine was struggling to find higher web developers,” CEO Yahya Bouhlel told TechCrunch in an interview. “So

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 13, 2019

Startups often focus most of their attention on securing funding from potential investors. In other words, partnering with a big brand can help your startup grow in ways that aren’t possible on your own. For example, you may need to develop new products or services that complement your partner’s offerings.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Japanese robotics startup Telexistence has successfully raised $170 million in a Series B funding round, with major investments coming from SoftBank Group, Foxconn, and other prominent investors. In addition, Taiwan-based Foxconn will collaborate with Telexistence to develop mass-production technology for their upcoming model, GHOST.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2024

Identifying Blind Spots In 2017, my Forum approached me and suggested that I had a work-life balance issue. Entrepreneurship is a trade like any other trade, and continued learning and development is the key to honing that trade. We truly could not put this book together without the support of my EO friends and the wisdom they shared.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

People can think of us as the technical co-founder, responsible for driving and executing product strategy, design and the development of scalable products,” Dovetail co-founder Nick Frandsen told TechCrunch. As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Nigerian agritech startup Releaf is solving this by building proprietary hardware and software solutions to make these farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable. In addition to the seed round, the agritech startup secured $1.5 Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $2.7 million in seed towards this effort.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. YC S20 had 198 startups, so that’s a 90% increase from last year. include India, with 33 startups; the U.K., with 18 startups; Mexico with 17; Singapore with 12; and Canada and Brazil, 11 each. Amenli (Egypt). seed round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 Cue Health raises $100 million to speed development of rapid, portable COVID-19 diagnostics.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

December 20, 2024 ) Applications for Delawares fifth annual Startup302 funding competition will be accepted January 2 through 26 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter.

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