Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2018

Meet 26-year-old Lotte Leufkens, the 2017 GSEA global finalist from the Netherlands and founder of CloudCuddle. In November 2017, I won the TEDx Amsterdam Women Startup Award. In November 2017, I won the TEDx Amsterdam Women Startup Award. What’s been happening since GSEA? Here’s my Ted Talk. )

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Founded in 2017 by Hilda Moraa , Pezesha has built a scalable digital lending infrastructure that allows both traditional and non-traditional finance institutions to offer working capital to MSMEs. The round also included a $5 million debt from Talanton and Verdant Capital Specialist Funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Xu and Cutler will join former Uber CEO Ryan Graves as investors and advisors to the Lehi, Utah-based startup. Colton Gardner , Joseph Woodbury and Preston Alder co-founded Neighbor.com in 2017 with the mission of giving people a more accessible and personal alternative to store their belongings. . Image Credits: Neighbor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

What we wanted to address was a central platform that could basically provide solutions to e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing and peer to peer payment.”. According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Ozow is one such player.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Since Conversion Capital’s formation, the firm has backed more than 60 startups, and counts among its portfolio the likes of corporate spend giant Ramp, Vesta, Figure, Braid, Blend, Wisetack and Booster Fuels, among others. It will focus on startups that are building software, cloud infrastructure and data technologies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 Honolulu, Las Vegas, Miami) and Japan, Kimura said. since December 2020, as per its statement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image Credits: ProsperOps Lots of cloud optimization startups claim to do the same, like Sync Computing. The cloud is growing expensive. A separate report from Gartner forecasts that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow to total $591.8 billion in 2023, up from $490.3 billion in 2022. ” “H.I.G. a few months).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. Still, it is when compared with its peers in Africa as no local crypto platform serving just Africa has reached a million customers. million pre-seed to that end. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2017, Mounir Nakhla and Ahmed Mohsen started Halan as a ride-hailing and delivery app offering two and three-wheeler services to customers in Egypt. Its digital payments ecosystem provides services around loan disbursement and collection, peer-to-peer transfers, payroll disbursement, remittances, and bill payments. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The startup, filled with education enthusiasts and mission-driven employees, became “very college pizza vibes,” Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing at Duolingo, described. By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s no secret that the technology for easy business-to-business payments has not yet caught up to its peer-to-peer counterparts, but Yaydoo thinks it has the answer. Sergio Almaguer, Guillermo Treviño and Roberto Flores founded Yaydoo — the name combines “yay” and “do” to show the happiness of doing something — in 2017.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. But more than that, you need to be an exceptional leader to lead the startup and make it stay in the market for long.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Glorang , a Seoul-based edtech startup that offers after-school classes and extracurricular activities via online for students between the ages of 3 and 18, said Friday it has raised a $10 million Series A funding co-led by Korea Investment Partners and Murex Partners, along with Japan’s Pksha Capital. . billion in 2027 , from $17.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Station F , the big startup campus located in Paris, is launching an online component called Launch by Station F. Launched in 2017, Station F is a massive building that used to be a rail freight depot. It has become a flagship entity for the tech community in France with hundreds of startups working from there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2017

She relished the accountability of her peers and advisors. Hana Laurenzo is among nearly 100 Accelerator 2016/2017 graduates. But it wasn’t until a client told her about the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) that she felt she was on to something special. What is worse, she says, “I didn’t have much interest in learning.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. The brand began as an online retailer that was later bought by Walmart in 2017 for $310 million. To build successful businesses, entrepreneurs must fall in love with solving customer problems more than their own ideas. A plan for success.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Ecosystem building work is often thankless, tiring, and even demoralizing at times. How do ecosystem builders stay motivated to keep doing the work? What specific practices do ecosystem builders use for self-care, to keep going, and avoid burning out? Staying Motivated by Focusing on Others. Doing both centers me.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. I always worked in some form of distributed organization with a larger engineering theme of people everywhere trying to make it work,” he told TechCrunch. “I Whimsical dashboard.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Scaling a consumer-focused financial platform—that is also now the primary bank account for millions of UK consumers—in the midst of a once in a century pandemic is close to impossible.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

In June 2017, you won Visa’s Everywhere Initiative. at the world finals of the University Startup World Cup and Digital DNA. Tailoring our pitch to specific judges and peers in each competition helped improve our chances for success. You were an EO GSEA Global Finalist in 2016. How did your GSEA experience impact you?

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Like LinkedIn, the app also invites users who aren’t necessarily on the cusp of changing jobs to expand their network by connecting to their pharmacy peers. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like. Certainly, SwipeRx — which raised $6.3 Image Credits: SwipeRx.

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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. However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. These are needed for any business to grow.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. Well, that time has finally come. As a warning, this post will have more subheading than usual, and it will be packed with lots of links — please click through and read them. Here goes….

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company uses Equal Employment Opportunity reports and assessments of various policies involving promotion, recruitment, and benefits to track how a company is performing in relation to its industry peers. For Price, the drive to launch Kanarys came from her own experiences working in law.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Along with the growing number of Islamic fintech startups digitizing the process, Islamic-compliant services are becoming accessible to more people. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

cybersecurity startup CybSafe , a “behavioral security” platform, raised a $7.9 The company claims that this approach means that organizations can then “peer into” their workforce’s security behavior, culture and risk reporting to preempt security problems and track improvements over time. Last year, U.K. million Series A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Today, a Melboune startup called FrankieOne that has built an automated platform to help combat that is announcing a Series A on the back of strong customer demand. Today, a Melboune startup called FrankieOne that has built an automated platform to help combat that is announcing a Series A on the back of strong customer demand.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 26, 2021

Meeting through CNN commentator Van Jones, Ellis-Lamkins worked with her co-founder Diana Frappier at multiple companies and organizations previously — like Green For All and Honor — before deciding to start Promise in 2017, joining the YC Winter 2018 batch. We were so different [compared to our peers],” Ellis-Lamkins recalls.

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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. How can we make the field of entrepreneurship more inclusive to groups that are systematically deprived of representation?

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup, which was part of Y Combinator’s most recent Winter 2021 batch, closed on a $4 million seed round two weeks before Demo Day led by Ann Bordetsky, a partner at NEA who joined earlier this year and previously served as COO of Rival. It’s an idea that has quickly attracted investor attention.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

In a blog post in February 2017 , she described her boss coming on to her in a company chat channel on her first day on the job. That’s why it’s so important to have more women in these roles: to serve as mentors, role models and peers. That inequity leads to a power imbalance, which can lead to toxic working environments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

We cover a lot of health startups here on TechCrunch, and you know what it’s really hard to get any sort of excitement about? But realistically, those companies often don’t turn up on my radar: They are too big to be startups and haven’t had a liquidity event (i.e., Some companies exit quickly for billions of dollars.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was late 2017. Ash Ali, my friend, and investment partner was talking about a huge 3-day international startup summit in Dubai, where he was going to be flown in as a speaker and mentor to thousands of tech startup founders in attendance from all over the world. a startup that IPO’d for billions. They’ll love you.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . Inaugural Survey Report ‘India – An Impact Startup Nation’ released at the TiECon 2021. . They launched the Impact Startup Support (ISS) initiative in India as they unveiled. finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Kintsugi is a startup that wants to put technology to work on the problem. Depression became endemic , but it still too often goes undetected. Even when it does, healthcare providers struggle to meet demand. So Chang and co-founder Rima Seiilova-Olson built an API to detect depression through voice. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unlike most of his young investing peers, Gwak quickly decided to join the U.S. Unlike most of his young investing peers, Gwak quickly decided to join the U.S. After high school, he headed to Cornell in the U.S., and became an associate at The Carlyle Group. Everything was moving up and to the right, so to speak.

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