Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The report marks Impact Hub network’s role as an industry thought leader in the impact sector, utilizing a local community-based, yet globally connected model.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level. This was an unexpected win!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. ” Before launching Reveal in 2020, Bouchez was the CEO of Multiposting, an HR tech startup, until 2018, when it was acquired by SAP. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

For decades, e-commerce giants, like Amazon and MercadoLibre, have perfected the logistics and delivery technology for their marketplaces, but more recently, startups have developed similar technology to enable any sized e-commerce business to have equal footing. A year ago, the company had 40 employees, and that has now grown to 175.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. As a founding scientist at a medical diagnostics startup in Boston, Beattie’s job was to develop new rapid diagnostic tests. In 2018, Redbird participated in the Alchemist Accelerator just a few months before launch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. billion in 2018. Viva Republica, developer of Korean financial super app Toss, raises $410M at a $7.4B

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Watch the video interview now A network of more than 140 entrepreneurial businesses and organisations warns New Zealand is in danger of being left behind due to a lack of resources and insufficient policies to progress entrepreneurship. They collaborated to produce the manifesto, reflecting the views of network members.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

What does technology-enabled public safety look like? As far back as 2018, even the Brookings Institution was highlighting real-world examples ranging from tracking criminals to recreating car accidents and locating senior citizens with dementia who had wandered off. police departments in some capacity.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 4, 2022

-funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. Up to 4 million people need food assistance across those three countries, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Description: “4pi Lab is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation providing real-time, wildfire detection, monitoring and reporting. Description: “Helix Technologies – enables precision GPS antennas, providing 10cm level accuracy. ” Clutch Space Systems. Helix Technologies. Raised so far: N/A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The capital comes at a critical time for Rivian, which is undertaking the design, development, production and delivery of two consumer vehicles (the R1T pickup truck and the R1S SUV), and building out of its electric vehicle charging network as well as fulfilling an order for 100,000 commercial delivery vans for Amazon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. “The integration of our software into the platform systems of our Big Tech customers enables this growth.”

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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. The proptech has processed over $3.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

An increasing percentage of the code that companies use to develop software is open source. In a 2018 survey by Tidelift, a software supply chain management platform, 92% of professional software developers said that their apps contained open source libraries. Image Credits: Endor Labs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

By any objective measure the amount of money going into tech-enabled startups is up considerably (left chart) while the amount of money that VC funds have raised from LPs is also up significantly (right chart). Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later. Want some context?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The startup will continue to look for ways to expand its partner network of hardware and software companies across the globe, Luke Wilson, founder and CEO of ManageXR told TechCrunch. Wilson founded ManageXR in 2018 with the intention of building VR experiences for pediatric patients in the hospital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

The latest round gives the company $150 million in total funding, which includes $100 million in a credit facility announced in 2018. The new funding will enable the Future Family to expand its network, invest in staffing and product development and explore new channels.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We delve into fintech developments with the top 10 investment stories that have empowered startups across Southeast Asia to pave the way for a more inclusive and technologically advanced financial future. The company invests the infused capital into product development and enhancing Finfra’s engineering, data, and finance teams.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time. “Our Positive Food’s vertical integration technology is mainly done in-house, including production and a cold-chain logistics network.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2018

Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. Form a strong network of support. Social good and community development work is inherently about the communities where it’s done.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks. And business development head Nick Daniel spent years in financial services at Logica (now part of CGI) and VocaLink (which was acquired for nearly $1 billion by Mastercard a few years ago). million in 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In an effort to protect other organizations from suffering the same fate, Corsha has developed an automated MFA solution for machine-to-machine API traffic. Corsha toughens those requests with a one-time-use MFA credential built from the machine’s dynamic identity and checked against a cryptographically verifiable distributed ledger network.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also says it can compress common AI models by ten times without a noticeable change in accuracy, partly through an “attention mechanism” that enables it to save power and run only what is needed, and partly because it can self-adjust its workload based on environment and operational context.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings launched the Vega project in 2018 with the mission of giving anyone the ability to create and launch a derivatives market. For now, Vega is still under development. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between blockchains and financial services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This branchless banking model extends financial services to the last mile via a network of agents. The company said it will use part of the capital to expand its team, geographical operations and marketing to increase its 7,000-strong active agent network three-fold this year. million pre-Series A investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Elenas estimates that 11 million women in Latin America sell consumer items via catalogs and door-to-door sales methods.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

According to a 2018 Gartner report, 87% of organizations have low business intelligence and analytics maturity. He worked with Brodacka at Flowbox, where Brodacka was responsible for designing and developing image processing libraries for processors and graphics cards. . Enso’s platform enables data analytics.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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. A fun networking reception follows the presentations. When: December 6, 2018. You Won’t Want to Miss This! Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM. RSVP: [link].

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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. When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be! Here’s her story.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. billion, “the largest percentage drop since Q3 2018.” Since its founding in 2018, Legalpad says it has helped thousands of workers relocate to the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Madan founded Nightfall in 2018 alongside CTO Rohan Sathe. ” Sathe was at Uber in 2016 when a developer committed credentials to a private code repository on GitHub, leading a hacker to extract Uber rider and driver data to a public storage service. ” Image Credits: Nightfall AI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

The startup will use its new funding to develop its super app, called The Pack, by increasing its platform offerings, including optimizing store operations, including funding access for businesses, and order management across the entire supply chain. It was founded in 2018, with an initial client base of five sari-sari store partners.

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