TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” Federico Storani, executive director of Riverwood Capital, is joining UBITS’ board as part of the financing.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. Global leadership pioneering meetings. Initial global Impact Hub leadership team: Simon Ulvund, Hinnerk Hansen, Gabriela Gandel and Michel Bachmann, March 2011. Leadership team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

While the company would not reveal hard revenue figures, President and CEO Marc Olesen said that business has tripled since he joined the company in June 2018. Sift also recently tapped Eu-Gene Sung — who has worked in financial leadership roles at Integral Ad Science, BSE Global and McCann — to serve as its CFO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

They worked on their product for a year and entered the market in early 2018 to work with their transportation customers. Schiff plans to use the new capital to grow the business across the board, product development and key leadership. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

He rebranded Vanderbilt Financial as an impact investment broker firm, ensured that his company headquarters were environmentally sustainable via Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and became an outspoken advocate for the UN SDGs. He earned a nomination for 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

We fielded the survey in 2016, 2018 and 2020, and released the outcomes of the third edition last month, featuring data (as of June 30, 2020) collected from 378 firms, a marked increase from 203 participating firms in 2018. Once talent has come on board, inclusive culture and retention become key metrics of DEI progress.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

” Founded in 2018, Elisity — whose competitors include the likes of Vectra AI and Lastline — closed a $7.5 However, it currently has no women in its leadership team , nor on its board of directors. . million seed round in August that same year, led by Atlantic Bridge.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 10, 2023

Raising funds in 2023 — a crash back to reality If you were planning on raising funds in 2023, DC Palter has some harsh advice — forget about the valuations that friends and cohort members were getting in 2018–2022. Investors are back to expecting the terms we saw in the old days of pre-2018. No uncapped notes or SAFEs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kim co-founded ianacare in 2018 after spending more than seven years caring for her mom during a cancer battle. . We cannot authentically discuss keeping women in leadership or the workforce at large without addressing their care need,” Kim said. . Senior care startup Honor secures $370M in debt and equity, reaches unicorn status.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Shrestha came on board in 2012 as the head of customer success. He launched BeyondID in 2018 with the intention of focusing on systems integrations and managing a company’s identity in the cloud. CEO and co-founder Arun Shrestha has a deep background in technology including working with Okta from its early days.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Must-Read: 5 Leadership Traits No Entrepreneur Succeeds Without. If you don’t have the willpower to say “no” to shiny distractions, form an “advisory board” consisting of two to three friends who know you well, understand your goals, and have a good business mind. ©2018 by Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Mark Divine.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

In 2018, they granted the Angel Capital Association a no-fee license to their entire library of training materials to help found ACA University. I was a newcomer to angel group leadership at the time, and I distinctly remember my initial conversations with Hans Severiens, Marianne Hudson, Bill Payne, Bob Goff, Sue Preston and many others.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

We owe a debt of gratitude to our tireless volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise, and dedication to our mission. In 2021, ACA launched its first formal DEI Task Force, made up of a diverse group of ACA members, board leaders, and ecosystem champions.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission. Made up of a diverse group of ACA members, board leaders and ecosystem champions the DEI Task Force has worked to fulfill the ACA DEI Policy and set its strategic goals for 2023 and beyond.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 16, 2020

These businesses were also assessed on universal KPIs: Percentage Tax Paid, Pension Fund Status, Supplier Sustainability Score, Women in Executive Management, Women on Boards, Sustainability Pay Link, Sanctions Deductions, and Clean Revenue. Hansen Holding A/S. C ountry: Denmark. GICS Industry: Food or other Chemical Agents. Country: Belgium.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

Alicia Robb shows by doing, and the ACA could not be more proud to promote what she does so well - making angel investing a better, more inclusive purpose for economic progress,” said selection committee member David Verrill, who won the award in 2018. “It Alicia received her M.S. Individuals may be self or third-party nominated.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2018, Duo, one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity providers in the world, was acquired by Cisco for $2.34 Not only that, but Song himself is a member of Censys’s board. Duo’s leadership team often says that they not only want Duo to be a great place to work, but also a great place to be from.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For anyone following venture news, this data should not be new: Fortune reported that while the numbers have tripled since 2018, Black women still only receive 0.27% of all venture dollars in the U.S.; Eyebrows were raised, especially when we claimed a board seat. Sifted reported the number in the U.K. to be 0.24%.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Founded in 2018, Play Ventures invests early into the most promising free-to-play and Web3 games studios and games services startups from across the globe. We see ourselves as a mix of cheerleaders, enablers (when it makes sense), sanity checks, and sounding boards. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 3/ AutoDesk Eyes New Markets: Despite going through leadership transitions and quarterly losses, AutoDesk remains an iconic software company that’s been nearly tripled its market value over the past three years.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

Each hour you invest with them can create exponential productivity. — Tom Shieh , CEO of Crimcheck ; advisory board member to Defy Ventures ; advisor to Tiny Devotions ; connect with Tom on Facebook. © Copyright 2018 Meredith Corporation. Review your plan with your team and empower them early in the week and regularly throughout.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2018, Hijra has raised $30 million in equity from investors like Quona Capital, Golden Gate Ventures and EV Growth. Thevarajah said the process is auditable because Islamic financial institutions have internal shariah compliance departments, which in turn undergo regular audits by external shariah supervisory boards.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps you have to adjust your product or even go back to the drawing board. ©2018 by Forbes Media LLC. Maybe you haven’t found the exact market fit, or the product isn’t designed for your intended audience. The founder couldn’t believe that someone didn’t want his product. Originally published on Forbes.com. All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. 2018 / We’re just getting started. I certainly did. But in 2006, I found my peer group by joining the Entrepreneurs Organization —and it was a game-changer. Getting a close look at the challenges other business owners face means I get to learn from their experiences.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Wu said that behind the scenes, Gainful developed “hundreds and hundreds of different [protein] blends,” then worked with its science advisory board (which includes nutrition experts who have worked with the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings) to “hone in on a set number of blends.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As part of the transaction , Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco. Vangelov joined the company in 2018 after previously serving in executive roles at Califia Foods and Oberto Foods.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. What even is a ”girlboss” anymore?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Diversifying an investment portfolio to include more women-led ventures means trusting in the leadership of women, which research has shown to be worth believing in. A 2012 study of company performance showed that more than 150 listed German firms excelled when they had at least 30% women representation on their executive boards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

That news is coming at the same time that Thrasio is changing its leadership: today it announced that Greg Greeley, a former president of Airbnb and a longtime Amazon executive, is joining its board and taking on the role of CEO this August. Their final working day will be May 13. Thrasio’s growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

By late 2018, I started to see a lot of momentum in the open source adoption and people were reaching out to ask about enterprise functionality. He sees this as a leadership challenge, and to hold them accountable, they report to the board on a monthly basis on how well they are doing from a candidate pipeline perspective.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

Derrek Kayongo, Global Soap Project; Andrew Wilson, ICC; Shamina Singh, Mastercard; Joshua Williams, Ashoka; Rosemarie “Bubu” Andres, EO Global Chair; and Warren Rustand, Dean of the EO Leadership Academy. SDG 5 – Gender Equality. • SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation. • SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth. “At

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The company was nominated by Golden Seeds, an angel funding group that met Onboard Dynamics at the annual ACA Summit in 2018. This week, Onboard Dynamics was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Technology, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.)

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. If you walk around to a bunch of board rooms, or I’m in a bunch of angel investments, and I think “pipeline” is the word of the year. Sarah Wang: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

He joined the company in 2018 as chief of staff and rose to the ranks of CEO of the Israel market. Over the past 6 months, the company’s board of directors and leadership began looking at what that platform offering could look like. Shifting to a platform offering puts more in the hands of the customer, Jacoby told TechCrunch.

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