TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Techstars , a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris. This isn’t the first time that Techstars is running an accelerator in France as the company originally launched Techstars Paris in 2017.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2017

” While pursuing an MBA at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Sandton, South Africa, Stacey saw an opportunity to leverage her business acumen in South Africa’s educational sector. In 2017, the SPARK network comprises 11 schools and nearly 3,000 students. Read more about Stacey and Ryan’s endeavor.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Prizes include cash grants from a pool of over $100,000 along with mentorship opportunities and connections with potential investors and key influencers. This years categories of FinTech , Life Sciences , and Environmental Impact reflect Delawares evolving innovation and industry landscape.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

In October 2017, the European Union’s Urban Innovative Actions fund awarded €4,2 million to Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton for a 3-year initiative called MiFriendly Cities. The project looked to develop innovative, community-led and sustainable approaches to enhance the contribution of refugees and migrants across the region.

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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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Impact Hub

JUNE 14, 2022

At Impact Hub, we believe in the power of circularity to create a more sustainable present and future. Our social business model advocates for sustainable products created under fair and ethical working conditions. Basically, since we started in 2017, we have had a circular approach to all aspects of our venture.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Beta Boom : founded in 2017 by two veteran Silicon Valley innovators, Kimmy and Sergio Paluch the firm invests in pre-seed software startups that are building the future for womxn, Black, Latinx and other ethnic minority consumers. 90% of their funded startups are led by women or people of color.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

in income replacement grants and mentorship to first-time entrepreneurs, creating 10 new businesses and helping fuel innovation in strategic sectors The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the inaugural cohort of the New Jersey Innovation Fellows (NJIF) program.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We entered this market because we saw a real opportunity to guarantee and deliver quality furniture. However, in 2017 it pivoted and started a pilot for its first consumer product (a mattress), and then a year later launched the MoKo Home + Living brand to serve the mass market.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 25, 2019

In the NESI Forum held for the first time in 2017 more than 700 representatives of these models agreed that: “The new economy will be at the service of people and the planet.” NESI brings together the global key players working on economic system change and social innovation. What do all these models have in common?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

CEO Mark Rojas, whose background is in product development, founded Proper in 2017 after spending a year-and-a-half learning the ropes in a property manager’s office. He considers proptech still in its infancy with much of the innovation coming from home buying, selling and maintenance rather than accounting. The company brought in $4.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed. We sell to mass market Africans via a high innovative RTM cold chain which uses predictive data to push fish to thousands of market ladies every day all across Kenya with less than 1% spoilage.”. billion fish deficit.

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

Larissa de Moura, a Brazilian social innovator based in Spain, has experienced first-hand the challenges of being a young, migrant entrepreneur and developing her startup on her own, in an unknown country. We are changemakers, doers, social innovators, dreamers, thinkers, disruptors and much more. .

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Circularity tales: A holistic approach to sustainability in Greece ANKAA Project, co-founded by Line Didelot, integrates equitable education, employment, and sustainability. This Luxembourgish and Greek non-profit organisation is making waves with its innovative and holistic approach to education, employment, and sustainability.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. Subsequently, it provides an opportunity for sustainable growth of minority small businesses that are underfunded. 14) Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Adtech and martech VCs see big opportunities in privacy and compliance. 3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance. How do you sustainably scale a company that probably doesn’t have revenue and isn’t likely to for the foreseeable future? “Often these founders with Ph.D.s

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “[It] provides both a clear path to productization (with no new technology development) and basis for value proposition in customer applications at the forefront of AI, positioning EnCharge for market impact … Many edge applications are in an emerging phase, with the greatest opportunities for value from AI still being defined.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. She stated that Lori has been focusing on growth, sustainability and a path to profitability since its last funding round. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

The new funds will also be used to build out Ten-Nine Technologies’ engineering, business development and managerial team and continue development of its innovative battery materials. Johnson received the Battery Innovation Center (BIC) award for the development of hydrocarbon parity lithium battery technology in 2017.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. The co-founders are looking for entrepreneurial candidates who are “obsessed with finding a better way” and feel free to innovate. FinTech companies.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. . Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur, Magnus Grimeland , and a team of experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and company builders worldwide, Antler has raised more than $75 million to help entrepreneurs spread across nine of the world’s major entrepreneurial hubs. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 11, 2019

Hawaii is best known as a tropical paradise, but as the state is making big moves towards becoming an innovation ecosystem, we’re adapting our tropical paradise into a #startupparadise. We secured our newest (and current) location in Kaka’ako and opened our doors August 2017. We secured a great location, but quickly outgrew the space.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. I chose to come back to Orlando because I found it most rewarding in terms of personality fit, diversity, and growth opportunities. Yes, absolutely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. There is true innovation, major steps in terms of what we can offer the customer. We also think it’s great from a sustainability perspective [to move away from] pushing out new hardware.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

I felt like the luckiest teenager in the world, having gotten the opportunity to watch some of the best and brightest people I had ever seen try and solve the problems we are afflicted with, the problems we see on the news every day. In 2021, we invested more than we did in 2017-2020 combined. I was inspired by the people in my life.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. It is inevitable to miss out on opportunities due to time constraints. Not sure if I mentioned AI.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. And, looking now at 102 Impact Hubs across 60 countries and 24.000 entrepreneurs and innovators supported, it looks like we were right to believe so. LatAm SEED Program meeting, São Paulo 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

has opened up opportunities for companies that build such structures. In the future, he sees opportunities to monetize the other side of the marketplace, sourcing general contractors with projects and providing them with software tools and then taking a percentage of the transaction volume. . Cottage is one such company.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

Their decision to grow in Delaware will help make our environment more sustainable and add jobs to our state.” We have the talent right here in our state, and this expansion presents opportunities for our workforce to stay right here at home.” As the company has evolved, including raising $16.5

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Register The global events and meetings industry is a powerhouse, driving billions of dollars in economic activity with countless business opportunities. Founding Visions that Fuel Innovation Younghak Ahn’s journey into entrepreneurship began with a passion for addressing real-world problems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

He and his co-founders saw an opportunity to innovate around the tail spend space when they launched the company in 2017. “We Companies configure Fairmarkit for things like price, sustainability and vendor diversity and the system finds the best match for them, a process known as autonomous sourcing. “We’ve

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Naspers’ acquisition of Takealot for a little over $200 million across two transactions in 2017 guaranteed almost a 2x return for Tiger Global. That is why they saw an opportunity in the likes of Flutterwave, and they came in at the best time.”. Fintech brings the Tiger back. Investor interest in fintech reached its peak in 2021.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 18, 2019

#ImpactOnTour ’s next stop this year is Impact Hub Madrid: at the forefront of innovation. Her project was chosen as a finalist in the Coca-Cola 2017 GIRA Mujeres Program , a female entrepreneurship scheme which Impact Hub Madrid and other organizations took part in. Sugaro: a shift towards sustainable catering.

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