TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Marina is delighted to introduce a new member of her chapter, Brandan Ranaldi—a former GSEA competitor and EO Accelerator—who is now one of the youngest members in EO. We then welcomed him into an EO Accelerator class. Meet Brandan Ranaldi, a 23-year-old student entrepreneur. Here is his story. .

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! Crazy Rich Asians became the No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. In 2018, Ammar was given a four-month suspended sentence for a separate case. Entrepreneurs know this well.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. The California state legislature was passing laws, meanwhile, that directly targeted its gig-economy labor model. Then the pandemic hit. billion in the same period of 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Following a Covid-driven boost, the popular AllTrails resource for hikers, bikers, climbers, and anyone else who enjoys the outdoors, announced today it’s raised $150 million from the growth fund of global private equity firm Permira to further accelerate its business.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. About TrekIT Health Founded in 2018, the company has developed a software platform for both large institutional health systems and individual clinicians looking for a better way to manage their workflow and hand-off process.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Virtual reality and AR have the potential to transform a number of areas within real estate and the building process: Property walkthroughs that can accelerate the sales process for residential brokers. Site tours of construction projects that are geographically distant, reducing travel time.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 28, 2019

With the help of the EO Accelerator program for early-stage entrepreneurs, Costa is running a values-driven translation business that aims to make a difference in the world. . He relied mostly on himself to establish and grow his business—until, that is, he met up with EO Melbourne and the EO Accelerator program. What sets him apart?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

The firm acquired a Netherlands-based drone company, Terra Inspectioneering , in 2018 and invested in Belgium’s drone company Unifly in 2016. . The funds will also be used to acquire companies in those regions, said Seki, who did not disclose the company’s valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” August 2018 saw an exodus of top execs, including Evernote’s chief technical officer, chief financial officer, chief product officer and head of HR.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

This represents nearly four-fold growth over a year ago when its portfolio raised $6 million (and just $3 million in 2018). Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. On the other hand, Festival Coins is the only startup to be selected into Google for Startups Accelerator.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. “And then kind of dispassionately looking at what is the technology that accelerates our first product to market and then amplifying that — whether it’s from the existing Aurora team or to the new Aurora team — and pushing that forward, whether it’s ideas or code or bits of hardware together to accelerate our time to market.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” What is Andela, the Africa tech talent accelerator? This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

In May 2018, former EO Global Chair Brian Brault was a keynote speaker at the UN’s International Council for Small Business and Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, where he signed a declaration emphasizing the importance of entrepreneurship in driving positive change by addressing sustainable development challenges.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The model, which comes without a steering wheel, accelerator or brakes, is designed for operating in urban open roads, said WeRide. The partners have already jointly developed a front-loaded driverless minibus for mass-production.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It appears to have accelerated its growth. From 2017 to 2018, for example, when Wish saw revenues of $1.10 But from 2018 to 2019, its revenue only grew to $1.90 Wish’s growth acceleration helps explain why it is going public now: it has a growth story to tell investors. In 2018, Wish had gross margins of 84%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Yoav Leitersdorf is the Silicon Valley-based managing partner at YL Ventures, where he accelerates cybersecurity startups in the U.S. A look back at the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2018. More posts by this contributor. Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019. Michael Cortez. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain. The funding proceeds will be used for accelerating digital transformation of the platform, hiring and expanding to global markets. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and accelerating your growth, then you will want to register for EO24/7 , EO’s annual virtual-learning event. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. . LESSON: When solving large-scale problems, chase the art of the possible instead of settling for a pre-agreed target.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Shinde siblings started the company after selling their last company , Mezi, a travel concierge, to American Express in 2018. The new funding will be used to continue scaling and building the bookkeeping and accounting functions and to accelerate hiring, particularly in the engineering, sales and finance team verticals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

took nearly 39 million trips in 2018 and another 86 million the following year. 2: First custom-designed shared scooters released (fall 2018). That’s why Bird’s vehicle team unveiled the industry’s first custom-designed e-scooter, the Bird Zero , in October of 2018. After an encouraging start, shared e-scooter riders in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The company, founded in 2018, seeks to provide enterprise-level security to medium-sized businesses through turn-key, cloud-based solutions. million since its founding in 2018. According to Blumira, its product deploys quickly and gives these companies the security and threat monitoring ability of tools used by giant corporations.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

Shamir brought together a team of experienced leaders across the financial, legal, and technology sectors and co-founded Sila with Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines, and Alex Lipton in 2018. The pandemic has only accelerated demand for contactless payments–cashless methods are now considered an essential service for a business to survive.

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StartupNation

MARCH 8, 2021

The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Entrepreneurship is one of the best tools for challenging bias and accelerating parity. Today is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The idea behind Portside, which was founded in 2018, is that it lets business aviation companies and flight departments manage everything from flight operations to maintenance, crew and staff scheduling, expense management for crew members and staff, and financial data to help them operate more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

A self-driving pilot Oxbotica kicked off with London-based car service Addison Lee in 2018 projected that it would have its first cars on the road by 2021. “Helping to accelerate the global revolution in mobility is at the heart of bp’s strategy to become an integrated energy company focused on delivering solutions for customers.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“So that architectural shift is absolutely happening, and is only accelerating. And that’s in the background of why we also raised this next round to really accelerate that, to fuel the developer revolution and advance [this] modern way [of developing websites], and to also tackle the next set of challenges.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The team works extremely closely with portfolio founders through its venture program that provides execution focused support across business functions including marketing, growth hacking, tokenomics, fundraising, and more to accelerate and drive success. The successful close of BFF Fund II marks a milestone for Blockchain Founders Fund.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The categories include Growth Accelerators, Community Champions, Global Stars, and seven others. The company was founded in 2018 as a spinout company from the University of Maryland (UMD) to commercialize a groundbreaking skin health technology discovered by Human Aging Expert Dr.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Founded in November 2018, StudyFree helps students and alumni to enroll in universities and graduate schools internationally, by listing scholarships and grants. StudyFree was also selected by Techstars New York City Accelerator and Berkeley SkyYDeck, in addition to attracting investment from Techstars twice. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

The automotive startup is developing data transport and acceleration technology for automobile networks that support autonomous driving and electrical vehicles (EV). We’re excited to invest in Ethernovia to accelerate the transformation of automotive,” said Kokron. having recently completed a $64 million A-round.

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