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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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Alex Yastrebenetsky is the founder and CEO of InfoTrust , a digital analytics consulting and technology company helping marketers use data to make smarter decisions. We believe in giving to grow, and that it is our responsibility to leverage growth as an opportunity to give back globally,” says founder and CEO Alex Yastebenetsky. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. million in seed funding (5.1 Chroma did.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. What are the most common mistakes you have seen growth stage founders make? " Investor Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. With the economic downturn and associated uncertainty, startup founders at every stage have been rushing to shore up their balance sheets and extend runways. Matt Cohen. Contributor.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Boris Silver of FundersClub shares his key takeaways about the digital currency/token space from the inaugural Token Summit in NYC in " My 6 Takeaways from Token Summit 2017. " Founder and Operator Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash , the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged fraud. Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It Pryce Adade-Yebesi , the co-founder of Utopia Labs, agreed. billion and $4.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Data from a variety of sources collated by TechCrunch shows that early-stage female founders have been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic’s impact. Other data indicated that the pandemic was landing more heavily on the shoulders of women than men , causing them to delay entrepreneurial plans.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Christopher Steiner of FundersClub draws from his own, and other founders' experiences, to offer some guidelines on how to best put together a work from home program in " Working From Home Can Be Productive Perk, But It's Best Done With Some Rules. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Investor Thoughts.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

" Dustin Rosen of Wonder Ventures shares three key elements of micro-traction that founders can demonstrate to create funding momentum before meaningful revenue or customer growth in " What to Do When “Seed” Investors Ask to See More Traction. " Founder and Operator Thoughts.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Well, I missed something in the data that was subsequently reported on by PitchBook , one of the authors of the report: Venture funding for female founders has hit its lowest quarterly total in three years. Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Late last month, Artifact , a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. It’s an ecosystem where publishers are failing left and right and misinformation is rampant, as the founders surely saw themselves while working at Facebook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Especially if you’re a first-time founder (but even if you’re an experienced serial entrepreneur), it can be hard to spot the potential pitfalls that might lead you astray before you even really get rolling. When you’re just starting out building your company, there’s obviously a lot that can go wrong.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. The support is meant to help them to spend their full time building the business.”.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Janese, a 2017 YLAI Professional Fellow, is the founder of Jan’s Empowerment Institute (JEI) in Antigua and Barbuda. Her experience in the 2017 YLAI Professional Fellows Program has been pivotal to the growth and success of her company. “I By Caroline Sachdeva. “I

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang. Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. In robotics, the remarkable often feels at odds with the practical. It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know. 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. First, both co-founders have an expertise in machine learning and data science and worked at QuantCo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Jake Rothstein is the co-founder of Papa , a Miami-based company that offers care and companionship to seniors. While Rothstein left day to day responsibilities at Papa in 2017, his experience there gave him a deeper look into the priorities of older adults and families as they go through the aging journey. This is incorrect.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. ” The low cost of living is also encouraging for talent to stay put in the city, which makes for a tech scene that’s poised to take off, this founder added. .”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. “Every startup has to start with an idea. What’s Appetiser’s origin story?

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Y Combinator

MARCH 26, 2021

Pheadra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Promise , had witnessed technology’s impact on the work communities in which she’d been a part — and not always for good. The Promise founders launched out of the program with $3.9M In the music industry, she’d seen artists’ content devalued with advances in digital innovation.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The 2017 Future Founders Mission just wrapped up it’s two-week stint in Silicon Valley, and in this post we share some of the insights and reflections from participants. This year we had 529 applications, from which we interviewed 71 to ultimately select the final 20 successful applicants. The partners and sponsors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2017

In 2017, there will be a lot of comparison between the prices public bound companies fetch at IPO compared to the last round private valuations as the public window opens. Given all that change, which early round will be the hardest to raise for founders in 2017? So, which is the hardest round to raise in 2017?

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

In 2010, Bastian Gotter invested up to $200,000 into IROKOtv, an African video-on-demand company Jason Njoku, his friend and co-founder, launched in Lagos, Nigeria. Gotter left the media company in 2017, an exit that afforded him the chance to take up angel investing full-time and pursue new projects.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“Every action we take, big or small, can make a difference in our society,” says Damaris Guardado, co-founder of Purpose Driven Tours Nicaragua. “I Read on for more information on the YLAI Professional Fellows program and to read the bios of the participating Fellows from 2017.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. Several founders have asked me recently how investors perceive second seed rounds. The anomaly in 2017 is due to an outlier. Only one company has raised two seed rounds so far in 2017, qualifying it into this dataset.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

When Katherine, the co-founder of Stereomatic Estudios , discovered the profound impact of music as an instrument to achieve a brighter future for impoverished Colombian youth in Medellín, she began to utilize digital marketing and branding strategies to guide emerging artists in their musical careers.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. Maybe they can’t sell.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. share of blockchain developers has fallen 2% per year in the last five years, dropping to 29% last year from 40% in 2017. Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) maintained a consistent share of around 29% during the five years from 2017 to 2022.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At a time when startups are facing a challenging funding environment, it is more critical than ever to provide a platform for founders to attract investment and scale their innovative solutions,” said Selma Bueno, Global Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. In this week’s episode, Marc and Ben are joined by special guest Tony Robbins to discuss the future of longevity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The 10 or so founders chosen for Converge will receive $1 million each and admission to five weeks of office hours, workshops and events with OpenAI staff, as well as early access to OpenAI models and “programming tailored to AI companies.”

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2023

Every batch, we invite founders to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. Emmett Shear Emmett was co-founder and CEO of Twitch , where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment together.

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