Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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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. We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns.

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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. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Maryland-Based Startup Offers a Fix Now, Pay-at-Closing Solution for Optimal Sale Outcomes Say hello to Curbio ?—?the Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Potomac, MD, the company set out to transform the process of getting homes move-in-ready with a streamlined approach to better automate home improvement.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. . Similarly, accelerator programs like YCombinator and 500 Startups have gold-star reputations for a reason. One pattern I see in Canadian startups is that too many wait too long to think about global expansion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan. The six-year-old startup said it has averaged a 3.5x It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

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. Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. Did that seed make this round our Series A?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Background Pocket Sun’s journey in the investment industry has shaped her into the leader she is today.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels The year was 2014. I discovered this idea through a small startup. By the start of 2017, the company faced a major existential crisis. We were already growing however, we all agreed that outside investment could propel the company much faster.

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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. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Europe and globally. . based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital.

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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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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

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Bain & Company, a prominent global management consulting firm, has revealed its plans to acquire the Asia-Pacific division of Rainmaking, a renowned venture-building and startup development studio. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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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’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

On the east side, a “ Business Support Hub ” that would support startup companies, and a hotel were planned to be built. The LH Business Support Hub opened in 2017 and is currently being used as a space for startup companies. Mirroroid (CEO Jeong Ji-hye), an AI beauty solution developer, is targeting the US market after Japan.

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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. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. Years ago I came across a young community builder named Derek Andersen, the founder of Startup Grind. to do the interview. And it would be?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At Today’s Demo Day showcases the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s largest and most global cohort to date, underscoring our mission to advance a more equitable investment landscape worldwide.”’

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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. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. The two hit it off and began to have monthly calls after Stone’s angel investment.

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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

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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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. “So The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round.

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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 Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. Whether it’s new funding, expansions or IPOs, it’s been an eventful year in Detroit startups. Here are the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Apply now to Autobooks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So it will be something of a milestone. France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6 million raise in 2017. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

technology

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s a myth that only the top startups and the best startup jobs are in Silicon Valley or New York City. As a Midwest company built for Midwest startups, we know that’s just not true. That, plus the growing number of startups, affordable cost of living, and vibrant community, make it a great place to live and work.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), and a host of additional investors. In the past month alone we’ve seen French startup Pasqal raise €100 million , while Israel’s Quantum Machines closed out its Series B round at $70 billion and Australia’s Quantum Brilliance secured $18 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Register Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator (President Kang Sung-cheon, hereinafter referred to as GBSA) welcomed a delegation from the People’s Council of Hà Nam Province in Vietnam on November 1, introduced Pangyo Techno Valley , an exemplary case of a startup cluster, and discussed cooperation plans for benchmarking in Vietnam.

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