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. Rail Network : Atlanta offers access to both Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

LinkUp launched in 2017. I’ve learned so much about finding the right talent, and finding out what’s available in other markets, and networking. The views and opinions expressed here belong to the author or interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the YLAI Network or the U.S. I’m still with the company today.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena noticed the large-scale unemployment throughout Dominica, and her concerns were confirmed by the Central Development Bank in 2017 when Dominica was listed as one of the Caribbean countries with the highest unemployment rates. Advice for YLAI Network members.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 6, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. To highlight Andrea’s hard work and perseverance, we asked her to answer the following questions and provide key advice to fellow YLAI Network members looking to make a difference in their community. By Jewelle Saunders.

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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. Adam Struck brought on significant additional capital from his network.

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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. . As an entrepreneur and angel investor, I’ve built a network that spans dozens of countries. Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is driven by relationships and many investments are sourced via personal referrals, usually through one’s direct networks. Investors’ networks tend to mirror themselves. So, if your own network lacks diversity and you rely on your network for deal flow, how can you expect to see startups led by diverse founders?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Register Venture capital platform Antler has recently unveiled its Antler ONDC , an Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)-focused venture platform in India. Antler ONDC serves as a resource hub and expert network for founders who are developing projects within the realm of digital commerce.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. First, the company says it created the world’s first decentralised payment processing network. The following year, Appzone launched its first product (branchless banking) for commercial banks.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Burns left Twitter in 2017 to join GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. Any anecdotes for how out of network founders grabbed your attention? Social media, networking events and warm intros are pretty good paths. Her hope has now been met with recognition. In fact, I met Suraya Shivji, the CEO of HAGS , through Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

But in the end, if you have the right business partner, if you connect to the Korean ecosystem, and you enlarge that network and add some value to them and also show that you are interested in staying in Korea long term, then people are super excited to work together,” said Sina Albanese, co-founder of Koralo.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

It provides mentorship, networking, and equity-free grants up to $50,000. Next Canada’s programs offer a world-class education, exclusive events, an expansive network, and more. The community is great for students of any background to network, learn, find career opportunities, and more. 5) Student-focused VCs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. The types of infrastructure VCs are building range from networking and education to operations. Matt Cohen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

And it was one such summer in 2017 that he had the concept of GOMYCODE. The edtech, launched in 2017, is announcing today that it has closed an $8 million Series A round. Students are required to spend 50% of their time learning online and the other half at one of GOMYCODE’s network of 20 physical centers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. Shared scooters can now be found in over 200 cities on almost every continent around the world. #2: 2: First custom-designed shared scooters released (fall 2018).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. That’s especially challenging for a foreigner who has less of an understanding of the local industry and lacks a network and people on the ground. investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. But having 20 to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community. And web3 is all about the community.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The financial services giant had, in 2017, acquired eye-scanning biometrics startup EyeVerify for $100 million — where Das was the product architect — but the acquisition was not developing as Ant had hoped: it ran into controversy over privacy issues, or what Das described as “data access issues.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

million raise in 2017. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks. She also became acquainted with the company through personal networks. TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6 Long Game uses best practices from the gaming industry to engage with users,” she said.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Inevitably, his side hustles flowed from curiosity and generosity, and from his network, especially his co-working hub. “I In 2017, a furniture retailer he’d been advising for a few years grew rapidly, and rewarded him for his dedication. The network effect. Chris Castiglione, image courtesy of Noa Griffel).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge has its roots in federal grants that Verma received in 2017 alongside collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Verma says that the software, once finished, will allow EnCharge’s hardware to work with different types of neural networks (i.e. sets of AI algorithms) while remaining scalable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s not yet clear how Kakao Mobility intends to use Splyt’s tech: using it as a lever to work with a wider network of international partners or using it to extend Kakao Mobility’s own app, Kakao T, which currently has around 32 million registered users.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. On how the startup still in stealth managed to get these investors on board, Pillay says it’s down to the company’s network in the US and the belief each investor has in the product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Mecho Autotech has created a network of vetted mechanics, and via an app, car owners can book and pay for their services. It was founded in 2017 by Ahmed Ashour and Omar Radi. The latter is because many of these professionals (mechanics) are unvetted. Odiggo (Egypt). ShipBlu (Egypt).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Komoni asserts that visibility is an unsolved problem for many companies reliant on the global supply chain. (“Supply chain” can mean many things, but here, it refers to the network between businesses and their suppliers to manufacture, assemble and ship physical products to buyers.)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The restaurant chain also recently backed Nuro, a self-driving delivery service with an extensive partner network. That came fast on the heels of Pizza Hut’s purchase of online ordering platform QuikOrder in 2017.) But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

21 companies have passed through the incubator since 2017, attracting some $160M in further investment and at least one major acquisition: XNOR, an AI acceleration and efficiency outfit that was subsequently (and I like to think as a direct consequence of TC coverage ) snapped up by Apple for around $200M.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” DeMers co-founded Cinchy with Karanjot Jaswal in 2017 with the ambitious goal of abstracting away data integration processes. ” Cinchy aims to solve this by enabling organizations to decouple data from apps and other silos by connecting them to a “network-based” platform.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S., Andrew Ackerman, Dreamit Ventures Dreamit has been actively investing in proptech and contech for the past three years and we are seeing consistent, broad and intense interest in construction robotics across our customer partner network.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

She created the SoGal community in LA, one of the largest global networks for women entrepreneurs and investors. The establishment of SoGal Ventures in 2017 marked a turning point, and since then, they have invested in 150+ startups worldwide, including nurturing five $1B+ unicorns from their earliest stages.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“[W]e’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created.” ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

PlainSight is a new networking app. It’s a unique take on the networking problem we all face finding the right partners at events and in business. Nextek is all about low-voltage power networking systems, including lighting and controls for efficient building lighting. PlainSight. EXPLORE DETROIT STARTUP JOBS.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This staggering growth has been consistent since 2017 at an annual rate of 14%. Oktopost gives you the whole picture of how your efforts fare by analyzing the impact of every post, campaign and network. Investment for marketing automation technology is getting more sophisticated, projecting an increase of $25 billion by 2023.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to the quality of the product, our readers are willing to take the step to share the newsletter with their network at an exceptionally high rate. actually building it back in 2017. As readers hit the referral milestones (outlined below), they earn rewards. Tyler did the hard part?—?actually

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