TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Apply here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. The conversation spanned 30 minutes and includes a look at Agility Robotics’ early pitch deck. In robotics, the remarkable often feels at odds with the practical.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Unlike other business owner communities, people aren’t joining to pitch you on their company’s products or services, so you can build real relationships and help one another. Also, people who own their own business are willing to call you out on what you are doing wrong, which makes you listen vs. feeling like ‘you don’t understand.’

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Especially when that — albeit with slightly smaller numbers — was also the story back in 2017. Having read all of this, I was curious to see how a company tells the above story in the form of a pitch deck to investors. And, perhaps most notably, which parts of the story don’t show on the pitch deck.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur. Who we took.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

We have quite a unique pitch deck on our hands today. A few years ago, AR car hardware company WayRay raised $80 million at a half-a-billion valuation in a Series C round led by Porsche, and I’m super excited to show off their pitch deck today! Events — CES 2017. Slides in the deck. Awards — Awards received slide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. The truth is, you don’t raise a round based on a 5-minute, highly scripted, polished and practiced on-stage pitch,” Feinzaig continued.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2017, when Campos was in her early 20s, she learned to program and created a system to help manage her mental health. The company had pitched ALLVP, which was intrigued but wanted to wait until it could write a bigger check. . He first met Campos when she was participating in an accelerator program in 2017, and then again recently.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Sure, you need to learn what the common theme of the no’s are and be willing to make adjustments to your pitch. It is CRITICAL that you not let this get inside your head. Just remind yourself of lemons. But if there is nothing wrong with you then please don’t let early rejections alter your course.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. Successful pitches help your confidence snowball. Tell stories, but back up the narrative with numbers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. I was pitching on the day, but I was also listening to other pitches.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The story of Breadfast started in 2017 with bread and bakery when Mostafa Amin , Muhammad Habib and Abdallah Nofal conceived the idea for an on-demand bakery service that delivers freshly made bread and pastries to customers. The investment is coming two years after Breadfast raised a $2 million pre-Series A round.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Twenty-three members of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab cohort are pitching today to an audience of over 300 investors, potential partners, and customers. Since its founding in 2017 the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Labs has established a track record of success. Twelve of 23 cohort members are based in U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Aurora’s pitch is that unlike traditional time-of-flight lidar, its technology provides the long-range visibility needed to be able to spot hazards with enough time to stop or slow down. Lidar, or light detection and ranging radar , is considered to be a necessary component of self-driving systems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

In June 2017, you won Visa’s Everywhere Initiative. My GSEA experience provided the opportunity to refine my pitch and really understand what problems and cultural challenges people face when exploring cities. All of these pitches combined made our pitch to Visa well-practiced, precise and clear.

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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. . 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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

In 2017, just 2.2% Practice your pitch, have them look over your business plan, and solicit their advice to so when you go into the lion’s den you’re as prepared as possible. . Find the Right Investors - don’t throw your pitch to just anybody. But, with all of the progress that’s been made, there are still looming disparities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

There’s even a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. Investment into the city startups started picking up around 2017 and really peaked in 2021. in 2017 for $1.4 Pitch Competition (4:20 p.m. Register for the virtual event here for free! Why Columbus? billion, which represents Central Ohio’s first $1 billion exit.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Another entrepreneur told me how incredibly stressful it is for her to pitch her ideas in front of would-be investors. He loved developing the product, and he also enjoyed speaking about the product to potential clients, because he truly believed in it. However, when it came time to make the “ask,” he’d freeze. Originally published Feb.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others Pitch your startup for a chance to meet with Cross Culture VC Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel. Then, it’s time for the Pitch Deck Teardown. On each episode of Extra Crunch Live, we take a look at pitch decks submitted by the audience and our experienced guests give their live feedback.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Today, 189 companies will pitch, while the rest will pitch tomorrow. It was founded in 2017 by Ahmed Ashour and Omar Radi. The countries with the most representatives (aside from the U.S.) include India, with 33 startups; the U.K., with 18 startups; Mexico with 17; Singapore with 12; and Canada and Brazil, 11 each.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Prior to co-founding Floodgate , she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ross Lipson co-founded Dutchie in 2017 and has since led the company to a multibillion-dollar valuation on top of raising $600 million. PDT followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 p.m. Apply for TCL Pitch Practice by completing this application.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 11, 2017

Patrick Weeden from Scout Aerial giving his pitch. . After the pitches, the team at SOSA kindly hosted a full member lunch in our honour, giving us a chance to mix with the local startups and corporate partners. Everyone then broke for their own private meetings for the afternoon.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The company, founded in 2017 by former Qualcomm engineers, started out as an AI voice service provider, offering 170 virtual voice actors in Korean and English. to use synthetic media for personalized sales pitches. Last month, it added an AI-powered video (avatar) feature that looks like a real person. raises $1.5M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital. ET/noon PT.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Carey Lai and Paul Yeh started the firm in 2017 after Lai had been with IVP and Yeh with Kleiner Perkins. One of the great things is we can really look at the pitch that we want, and then decide when to swing,” Lai said. “We We don’t have to swing at every single pitch. Then he met Lai.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Adam Hibble (2015) co-founded Popgun with Stephen Mawson (formerly of We Are Hunted) under Mawson Ventures where Meg White (2017) works as an AI engineer as she finishes her studies. Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

Uizard started as a machine learning research project back in 2017. This inception work received significant press in June 2017 and was featured on WIRED, The Next Web, Fast Company, Hacker News, among others. We experimented with deep learning and tried to train neural networks to generate computer code from a single input image.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, India’s most valuable , said on Monday its sales people no longer visit students’ homes to pitch to their parents. All these calls are recorded, so we know what is being pitched to the parents. The refund is also done over a Zoom call, the startup said.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

The role involved working closely with Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a colleague to analyze and pitch what they felt were the best trades the professional basketball team could possibly make to improve their odds of winning. . Nonetheless, Tincher’s friend set up a meeting for him with a Rocket Cos.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

However, if you want to increase the chance that you will successfully close a round in late 2017, try the following 10 step approach: Prepare a concise investor deck that tells the story of your business in bite-size chunks. There are a number of great examples of publicly available pitch materials, so draw from ones that you like the most.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Founded in 2017 by Jesse Shemen and Jiameng Gao while going through EF’s company builder program, Papercup is building out an AI and machine learning-based system that it says is capable of translating a person’s voice and expressiveness into other languages. Meet the startups that pitched at EF’s 9th Demo Day in London.

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