Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We need to shi f t our economic development strategies to startup community building, (also referred to as entrepreneurial ecosystem building), as the primary approach to rebuilding our cities’ economies. The research and evidence supporting the impact and value of startup community building is strong. They need a community of support.

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Just over a month ago, we were joined by friends, supporters, and alumni for Startup Catalyst’s 4th birthday. Startup Community cohort (2017). Israel cohort (2017). Investor cohort (2017). Female Founders cohort (2017). …to We’ve had many great partners and supporters over the years. 4 years by the numbers.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

Sources cited by Reuters reveal that VNG had initially entered a preliminary agreement with NASDAQ in 2017 to explore the possibilities of an IPO. Register VNG , Vietnam’s first unicorn, will become the country’s first technology company to list in the US publicly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. Without being honest with ourselves about why our strategies went awry, we cannot improve. That support we get when we show ourselves not at our best—and realize we are accepted even more—makes it possible to transform and to move forward. The world has changed significantly. A brutal war.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

which includes servicing and support. Since Zoomo was founded in 2017, it has expanded to 16 cities in six countries across North America, Asia Pacific and Europe, with Spain, France and Germany being added to the list just last year. Our investors will help bring us one step closer to making this a reality.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 24, 2023

After leaving the company in 2017, I pursued my passion for homebrewing and worked hard to become a brewer. With the support and encouragement of my colleagues with whom I had frequent conversations, we set out to establish the brewery together. It is also important to develop investment plans centered around sales strategies.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As a women-led venture capital firm, SoGal Ventures’s investment philosophy revolves around identifying and supporting world-class women and diverse entrepreneurs to build billion-dollar businesses. The firm actively seeks out underrepresented founders from undercapitalized geographies to tackle underserved problems.

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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. Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in $20M Series B round Here’s also how it fits into Smile Identity’s current growth strategy from a product but geographic-led standpoint.

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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. Some of these companies include Retool , Novo , Payfazz , and Mono. Some MAGIC portfolio companies. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Launched in 2017, Digibee makes it easy for businesses to build and deploy integration workflows without having to touch any code. The company tells me that it plans to use the new funding to support its U.S. go-to-market strategy. Brazil-based Kinea and G2D Investments also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

TTTech Auto — which came out of TTTech Group, a provider of safe networked computing platforms across automotive, aerospace, mobile machinery and automation industries — announced on Thursday its $285 million Series C raise, led by Aptiv and supported by existing investor Audi.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. The most exciting part is shaping the future by supporting great founders. What is it that excites you about investing?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The company’s ESG practice has deep experience and skills to assist clients with their end-to-end ESG needs, including the overall ESG strategy, climate action goals, global & Indian reporting frameworks, technology, and implementation support. Sustainability and Trust are two of the most vital business imperatives today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Cansativa Group came onto the scene in 2017 with business-to-business tools for customers to manage every stage of the cannabis value chain — from importing goods to distributing them — and all associated logistics required to get product to thousands of pharmacies. “We

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

L earn m ore The Black Women in Food Grant: Made possible by support from UberEats and EatOkra, $100,000 in grants are given for Black women-owned food businesses on UberEats. Grants of $10,000 will be given to 10 food enterprises that show how the funds will catalyze impactful growth in their companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

The inaugural cohort marks an important milestone in the NJEDA’s commitment to fostering innovation and supporting business ventures in their critical early stages. By supporting these 10 new, cutting-edge companies, New Jersey is firmly cementing itself as a national leader in innovation.” million in bonus grant funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Founded in 2017 by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, Countingup now boasts over 34,000 business customers. Today that includes a business bank account with its own sort code and account number, a Mastercard for making payments and support for faster payments and direct debits. and beyond.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

TipTip wants to help them build up followers in their communities using an offline/online strategy, and monetize by selling content instead of relying on advertising algorithms. TipTip founded in October 2021 by Albert Lucius, whose previous startup Kudo was acquired by Grab in 2017.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in So in 2017, we launched the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , a $150M fund backed by an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs, investors, and executives that are publicly standing behind the idea that great companies can start and scale anywhere. But our team didn’t stop there.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

Their conversation definitely has to do with small business success and entrepreneurial support, but the journey is a little different than our normal conversations. And of course, how it supports local business. . It all gets laid out on the table so the strategy to bring about real outcomes can be discussed. . “So

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The tranche, which values CoreWeave at $2 billion pre-money and brings the company’s total raised to $371 million, will be used to support CoreWeave’s U.S.-based CoreWeave was founded in 2017 by Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee to address what they saw as “a void” in the cloud market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, ZenLedger has managed to secure four contracts with the U.S. government, and it’s been doubling down on that strategy ever since, its CEO and founder Pat Larsen told TechCrunch. The company supports over 500 exchanges, 50 blockchains, and 40 DeFi protocols including NFTs today, it says.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. Examples of this include helping a local school with their entrepreneurship class and creating the strategy for a local child protection and anti-abuse NGO. Promoting Disruption.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. Our movement stood for building a better world through the power of entrepreneurial solutions , supported by a powerful magic mix of inspiring spaces, vibrant communities and meaningful content.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Just by supporting open-mindedness, setting up an inspirational environment and offering the right rewards, you can get the creative juices of your team members flowing like never before. Treat your team members like the creative human beings they are, listen to their point of view and support them in developing their imaginations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI , an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Ideally, a product like Percept.ai

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s important for investors outside of Latin America to get involved in fundraising at earlier stages, when founders need extra support from everyone around. Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. Investors should look for younger markets. investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The new funding brings its total raised since being founded back in 2017 to $52 million. ” “Our first priority is to grow our solution so it can support any care provider, delivering any type of care at home — from complex care to live-in care as we want any older adult to be properly supported,” he adds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I We’re also helping these individual contractors increase the brand, and helping them with the administration and customer support side with our software.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Launched in 2017 by Shashank Bijapur, Madhav Bhagat and Rohith Salim, the company today closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Premji Invest, which also had participation from Prosus Ventures, 021 Capital, Arkam Ventures, Riverwalk Fund and 100x Entrepreneur Fund. . ” SpotDraft’s platform is holistic, to be sure.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It was an intense journey filled with cold-calling potential new members, leveraging resources, producing events that appeal to both strategic alliance partners (SAPs) and potential members, and implementing the strategies and structure for a successful organization. Hire a strong chapter manager.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The company uses asset finance, technology and a customer support model to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises own income-generating assets. These riders get some training, medical and life insurance, safety equipment and hands-on support from their first use of the motorcycle to owning it. . Image Credits: Tugende.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Khadiya also worked at McKinsey as an engagement manager before joining Myntra as director of strategy and planning. “The massive dissonance between personal and business travel processes presented an interesting opportunity. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Store owners can use the platform to purchase goods, request delivery or logistics to move the goods, and access a customer support team. That business model got WaystoCap into Y Combinator’s Winter batch in 2017, making it the first company accepted from Morocco. The company subsequently raised a $3 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2017, they added Prodigy , a commercial product for generating data for the machine learning model. But in our case, our strategy is to hire good people and good people are often very diverse people, and again if you play by the [startup] playbook, you could be limited in a lot of other ways.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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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. She previously founded Dress for Success, a network that empowers women to thrive both professionally and personally, and Crisis Textline, a non-profit that provides crisis intervention support via text. Execute on the strategy to win.

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