AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In addition, Continental AG has been separately operating “Co-pace,” a global startup company, since 2017, introducing new mobility technologies and business models and collaborating with startup companies. Billion Opportunity first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" BlueCrew is an on-demand staffing platform for temporary workers that allows them access to hundreds of job opportunities with one interview in " The Millennial 'Try Before You Buy' Job Hunt Boosts Work-Life Balance. com grows user base by more than 2,000% to 10 million via Totara partnership.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? More overlooked founders than opportunities. A great team. Very positive.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. Through tourism, I am giving the opportunity to local kids to dream for a better future,” she says.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. She saw a need for local artisans in this community to be given the same opportunities as those in the modern industry. By Elise Kemp. Growing up, Nayleen Quintero was surrounded and nurtured by Panamanian folklore. Nayleen Quintero. “It

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 26, 2024

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty joins a16z’s Satish Talluri and Derrick Harris to discuss the promises, challenges, and opportunities for vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). ” [25;51] “I think RAG today is where transformers were in 2017.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

marking its highest level since 2017. Atul National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Herrmann The conversation: Choose your own adventure with National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Hermann The takeaways: Today’s climate problems are also incredible investment opportunities. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. 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. However, the increases in second-seeded rounds suggest investors are competing more for these opportunities.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

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. “We believe that Korea has excellent technology as well as opportunities. KSGC is now accepting applications for its 2023 edition from April 10 to May 18, 2023.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Neish’s hard work of creating a sustainable trans rights movement has blossomed far beyond his expectations. In the time since TransWave’s beginnings, Neish has made sure to focus on setting up roles of ‘ambassadors’ to support the work of the organization and provide more opportunities for the local community. “I

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The move to Toronto meant that opportunities for surfing, his favourite pastime, appeared few and far between. Yet, after rescuing people who were unfamiliar with the Great Lakes’ waters, he saw an opportunity to expand and shape this community into one driven by inclusivity, education, and adventure.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. Kumi Solutions is dedicated to giving startups, small businesses and owners ways to use their data to make strategic decisions, manage their businesses and find opportunities to grow and optimize their processes.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Each cohort member receives a $250,000 investment (£250,000 in Europe, Middle East and Africa aka EMEA) from Morgan Stanley with a variety of mentorship opportunities and business-growth resources. Since its founding in 2017 the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Labs has established a track record of success.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 26, 2023

Nonprofit advances to transform biomedical research with novel protein tools and expertise Very few individuals have the ability and the opportunity to directly impact a large number of people’s lives. Entrepreneurs, innovators, doctors, political leaders and others may have success of that magnitude. Tim Springer, Ph.D.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat, a former senior engineer at Toyota, was made redundant during the closure of the automotive industry in Australia in 2017. We hope to have the opportunity to meet some international EO members in the future! For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

We’re still savoring the success of 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Entrepreneurship Day! both with the goal of providing community growth opportunities for girls and women. We asked Michele and Melissa to provide a window into what it takes to plan, organize and facilitate such events.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Koffman’s Southern Tier Clean Energy Incubator program has much to tout, having fostered over 60 startup companies since 2017. The companies participating in the accelerator will receive $25,000, gain connections to investors, and have access to opportunities for follow-on investment, including up to $100,000 for technical development.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 13, 2021

Motorway says it has sold 65,000 cars since its launch in 2017 and seen sales hit £50 million in May 2021 alone, £2.5 Motorway has raised £14 million in venture funding since it was founded by Tom Leathes, Harry Jones and Alex Buttle in 2017. Over 3,000 professional car dealers then bid for the vehicle in a daily online auction.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital. In 2017 and 2018, crypto was not this big but we saw a huge opportunity there.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 23, 2024

DPP has consulted with PSI for several years and worked with the company since mid-2023 to explore growth opportunities. “It’s critical to Delaware’s job market to retain successful homegrown businesses and to ensure success by creating more high-paying jobs right here in our community.”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Trying to reach everyone is “impossible and hard to do,” says 2017 YLAI Fellow Mariery Young, who recommends that “it is vital to work with a specific target audience in mind.” Her business presents a unique opportunity for companies to collaborate with her services.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2017, the fintech firm expanded into financial services to provide users with safe and convenient investing options and has since introduced several mutual funds and insurance products, offering every Indian equal opportunity to access services and unlock the flow of money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

General Atlantic is in talks to invest about $50 million in Acko, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, doubling down on its bet on the Indian insurtech at a time when most investors are treading investment opportunities carefully. An average Indian makes about $2,100 a year, according to the World Bank.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

. “Our Tech Scouting program gives us unique insight about where opportunities for hyper-growth exist. But anticipating opportunity isn’t sufficient – we need to deploy capital to move at digital speed,” said Brian MacCarthy, vice president of tech scouting and ventures at Booz Allen.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT. New investors also participating in the round are Invus Opportunities and a group of individual investors, including executives from its customers 8×8 and Coupa. To date, Klarity has raised just over $20 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

But inside the big numbers is a surprising picture of a startup market in the process of maturing while outside money hunts for breakout opportunities. Echoing the point in a recent piece about “the Latin American startup opportunity,” U.S. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We’ve built an extensive distribution channel covering almost half of the high schools in Kenya, and that means we have an opportunity to solve other tech needs that schools have,” said Nyangolo. “We But around 2017 we realized that data was actually a much bigger problem in schools,” Nyangolo said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“We continue to see tremendous opportunity in the cloud management space given how early we are in the cloud adoption journey,” Battery Ventures venture investor Danel Dayan said. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ]. There are also reasons to think that we haven’t seen all of it yet. So what might be next?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. “The capital we raised allows us to capture the market opportunity as it evolves over the next several years,” Bijapur, who serves as CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As recently as 2017, more than 50% of early-stage Bay Area dollars were received by Bay Area startups. Not only is 2021 a record year for dollars raised, it’s panning out to be a record year for Bay Area- and NYC-based VCs who are investing in startups outside their regions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. “It’s an evolution brought on by the pandemic but taking hold for the long term.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This isn’t the first time that Techstars is running an accelerator in France as the company originally launched Techstars Paris in 2017. France could become a leading market when it comes to sustainability-focused and impact startups due to local and European regulation, innovation and talent looking for opportunities in this ecosystem.

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