American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Founded in 2017 by former Wall Street traders Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee, CoreWeave began as a cryptocurrency mining operation before pivoting in 2019 to become a specialized provider of GPU-based cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The company raised $1.5

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. The company’s bad behavior was nothing new.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With the support of the U.S. 2017 YLAI Fellow Andrea Puente Salazar has had her share of obstacles on her way to entrepreneurial success. Her advice to YLAI Network members on overcoming obstacles is to “assume people are willing to help and ask for help and support when you need it.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. Each year since the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s launch in 2017, we have expanded our efforts to ensure that more entrepreneurs around the world can succeed – and this year is no different,” sums up Bueno.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

At EO, we celebrate and support entrepreneurs on World Entrepreneurs’ Day—and every day! EO supports entrepreneurs at every age and stage. EOA supports growth through direct learning, access to mentors, leaders, peers, and experts. As a mostly freelance firm with contractors, it was very difficult to scale.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Background Pocket Sun’s journey in the investment industry has shaped her into the leader she is today.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. Supporting companies post-investment. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look.

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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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ever the adventurer, Lennert soon left Toronto’s advertising scene, at which point his new venture really took off. Making Waves Lennert and Murnaghan opened a newcomer-friendly, Toronto-based surf and coffee shop in 2017, Surf the Greats. The venture quickly scaled beyond its initial vision.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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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. I was more passionate about starting my own business and finding ways to help people, so I knew I had to venture off on my own. Assume people are willing to help, and ask for help and support when you need it.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Ventures with underrepresented founders will compete for share of more than $100,000 in cash grants, plus mentoring and connections WILMINGTON, Del. Prizes include cash grants from a pool of over $100,000 along with mentorship opportunities and connections with potential investors and key influencers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources. Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. Fintech startups and those from Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa get looked at the most by venture capitalists.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. The company was founded in 2017 by Beam CEO Viveka Hulyalkar, a former McKinsey consultant, and CTO Alex Sadhu, a former Tinder iOS engineer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Two of its new backers are the government-owned Development Bank of Japan and JIC Venture Growth Investments, the venture capital arm of Japan Investment Corporation, a state-backed investment fund. The regulator MAS and our institutional investors have been far-sighted and progressive, and they support the change wholeheartedly.”

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Bain & Company, a prominent global management consulting firm, has revealed its plans to acquire the Asia-Pacific division of Rainmaking, a renowned venture-building and startup development studio. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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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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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. The support is meant to help them to spend their full time building the business.”.

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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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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. Furthermore, Antler ONDC’s focus extends to supporting founders even in their early stages, catering to pre-team and pre-idea entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Entrepreneurs are drawn to Singapore’s comprehensive support system, which has business-incubating infrastructure, tax incentives, substantial government subsidies, and strong international connections. In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Sydney Thomas , who was the first hire at Precursor Ventures , a seed and early-stage focused fund that backs first-time founders, is starting her own venture firm. For what it’s worth, she’s been working on a thesis since 2017 about companies that give real people more agency over their lives.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

British VC firm Molten Ventures led the operation, with participation from new investor Citi Ventures. MOSTLY AI was founded in Vienna in 2017, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented across the EU one year later. where it already has offices in New York City. of its platform. “MOSTLY AI 2.0

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In fact, as the keynote speaker at the University of Oklahoma graduation in 2017, Piyush paid off one of the graduate’s student debts. Consider Piyush’s Conclusion Wine company, a social entrepreneurial venture that just keeps giving. Piyush’s background is in elementary education.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. Supporting VCs have established their commitment to move forward by sharing their current progress in the wake of the discrimination and harassment experiences bravely shared in the past year.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These adjustments are expected to provide greater flexibility for individual investors and startups alike, offering crucial support to businesses with promising growth prospects. Since the launch of crowdfunding services in 2017, businesses have leveraged platforms like Fundinno and Ecrowd to secure funding from retail investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Since 2017, Seongnam City has made substantial efforts to bring UAM technology into the mainstream, with Pangyo Techno Valley at its heart. Chosen companies receive support, including a 40-80% rent subsidy, public laboratories, indoor drone testing grounds, and meeting rooms, enabling them to concentrate on technological advancement.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

HoneyBee , a startup that aims to help companies provide access to financial support for their employees, announced today it has raised $5.7 Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis.

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