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Wrap-up of the Startup Community Leaders Mission USA 2018

Startup Catalyst

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Entrepreneurs are a cultural norm in the US.

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Pangaea Holdings, developing men’s personal care brands, raises $68M, including minority stake from Eurazeo

TechCrunch

This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018. Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will expand to be a vertically integrated e-commerce platform for other brands.

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Ready, Set, Raise, an accelerator for women built by women, announces third class

TechCrunch

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. Health In Her HUE : Founded by Ashlee Wisdom and Eddwina Bright, the company is a digital platform connecting Black women to culturally competent providers. It is based in San Jose, CA. ?

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. billion, from $6.51

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. They have won $20k in funding from the inaugural A2EF pitch competition, have been incubated at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program, and won multiple awards for their project. After raising $10.3

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Opportunity Amid Volatility

Haystack

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Accelerators and incubators and angels can help new founders get their wings and leave the nest.

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The BF TechCelerator is Hosting a Pitch Event: Someone Will Walk Away With Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. When: December 6, 2018. You Won’t Want to Miss This! You Won’t Want to Miss This! Come and show support for the entrepreneurs but stay to enjoy the rest of the evening.