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

JULY 10, 2017

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. Here, he shares his experience and insights for growing Atlanta’s Accelerator program. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Over the last few years he’s been a diligent company-builder, brand steward, and community leader. Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Here are Five Questions with Sandro.

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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 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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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018. She was recently awarded the Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship for 2018. Rowena on the European Mission in 2018 where they visited Facebook and lunched with the 3 Aussies who now work there. A quick note: My words are in italics.

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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. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. 3) Accelerators. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ’s Accelerator program empowers early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow and master their businesses. Attendees at the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in 2018. Did you conduct any practice sessions?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

“We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc. This was an unexpected win!

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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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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Photo: Sutton Community Farm. In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. The program was born out of the passion for and expertise around sustainable food among the Impact Hub King’s Cross community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

Create a Social Impact Day that includes creating and celebrating social impact on one day globally by encouraging chapters to host a Social Impact Learning Event, which would include education on ROI to businesses, key executive involvement, member spotlights and community action.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Also participating was PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado and Google’s ex-director of product, Andrey Doronichev.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

with a goal of growing from three sites to more than 100 by the end of 2018. Finding people who view themselves as servant leaders of their community—whether it is a business, organization or segment of humanity—instead of focusing on their own narrow self-interests, lifts me up. What work led to your Global Citizen of the Year Award?

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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). ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. The rest were unannounced.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

With this, APX, which launched in 2018 , is now able to deploy up to €500,000 in pre-Series A seed funding per company. In addition to the new funding, APX also today announced that it is doing away with its 100-day accelerator program and instead opting for a long-term commitment to its companies, including participation in future rounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The startup has gone through Snap’s Yellow accelerator , an in-house effort from the social media company that began in 2018. The company also did Ready Set Raise, an equity-free accelerator put on by Female Founders Alliance , in the fall. Ready Set Raise, an accelerator for women built by women, announces third class.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Recently, I worked with a community that was struggling to explain what they thought success looked like in ten years to their funding organizations. For example, my EDO had “7 wins” (companies that relocated) in 2018, but only “1 win” in 2019. And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2018

With 2018 EO GSEA global finals rapidly approaching, we are reaching out to previous participants and finalists to find out how the program changed their lives. And in January 2018, I was named one of the Top 50 Entrepreneurs Under 35 by the Financieel Dagblad (Financial Newspaper) in the Netherlands. Here’s my Ted Talk. )

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. The new funding comes just months after a $100 million investment that gave the company a $3.5 billion valuation.

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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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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

In 2016, our ETC team weighed all the options and decided to go mobile with AMP (accelerated mobile pages) to see a rapid jump in sales (and we saw it!). 8 Ways to Make Money on Social Media Arm yourself with a toolset (free!) I must confess: I’m addicted to attending live events, especially in sports , even today. In 2024, it generated $6.7

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Y Combinator

JUNE 17, 2020

Through thousands of founder surveys and dozens of interviews, we’ve discovered that founders get value from SUS in three key areas: curriculum, accountability and community. Founders come to Startup School for the personalized advice and camaraderie that a strong community provides. Curriculum.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

By that same token, the new Climate Fund seeks to invest in startups that can help Toyota accelerate its goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Hydrogen hasn’t been crowdsourced across the startup community because there just wasn’t a market for it, but I think the market may be emerging.”.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 10, 2021

When we created Launch413 in 2018, we had no idea what was just around the corner. We already knew entrepreneurs were one of the best ways to create prosperity in our communities and we knew how to help them. This is a repost from the Launch413 blog. Effective Tools Used By Launch413: A Case Study. About Launch413.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 Danggeun Market, which already launched its global version of hyperlocal community app Karrot in the U.K. for providing hyperlocalized community service.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Maryland, and Virginia. For CAVA’s co-founders, taste and hospitality unite.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

The contrasting strategies come down to technical differences in cap tables, the culture of communities that many companies in this space are built upon, and, of course, the non-crypto world’s fear of missing out. These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

All of this often leaves out Black, brown and other fans from marginalized communities who cannot afford resale tickets or qualify for expensive, exclusive opportunities. As that program became more popular, he was introduced to investors involved with the accelerator, who then introduced him to others who helped him raise the seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

In 2018, the company shared some metrics — 1 billion views, 2 million members and 3 million 3D models. Joining Epic will enable us to accelerate the development of Sketchfab and our powerful online toolset, all while providing an even greater experience for creators. Those formats work particularly well on Android and iOS.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Getting behind the empowerment of women stimulates societies, entrepreneurship, job creation, accelerates revenue growth and develops inspiring and motivated leaders.” – Ingrid Vanderveldt. It's a community that brings together women across the globe who are starting and growing companies. But, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Crypto has become more global, so it’s not the same circle and group you might have seen in 2018-2020, and we want to be able to help more people.” Anzalone is one of the co-founders of Burnt, which is building a web3 community platform and blockchain (it previously wanted to create its own NFT marketplace ).

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

And a group of community leaders brought together a space and an environment for thought leaders and innovators and people who are just passionate about what Christchurch could become post-earthquake and imagine that future. Lots of community discussions. James Burnes: Well, we started as a result of an earthquake and a city in ruin.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. In 2018, Redbird participated in the Alchemist Accelerator just a few months before launch. This brings the company’s total amount raised to date to $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. T his was developed with the input of folks who might be direct beneficiaries of this program and that community was directly impactful in designing and developing this proposal,” Smith Ellis told TechCrunch. “We billion of the total $276.7

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. 80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, USA News ).Labor

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers. 3) Convening: Independent stores are increasingly becoming venues for local events and community meetups.

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