David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. It provides mentorship, networking, and equity-free grants up to $50,000.

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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 members surveyed said that being part of such a network had helped them to: Feel part of a larger community: 84%. Strengthen their motivation: 77%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. This event opens on May 4 at 11:30 am PT / 2:30 pm ET with networking and pitch practice submissions. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors. As one evidence of that, last year Crunchbase found that as of Aug. of the total $87.3

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 10, 2021

Originally from Afghanistan, Hasnain is the co-founder and current president of UNIRE ( Italian National Union of Refugees and Exiles ), the first national network of refugees living in Italy. UNIRE is a shared space dedicated to build and strengthen the networks of associations promoted by refugees and individual activists.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country also organizes the biggest startup festival, COMEUP, a 3-day extravaganza with lectures, panel talks, mini-events, and relevant topics for startups, attended by global and domestic startups, experts, mentors, innovators, media, venture capitalists, etc.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

After two years of operations, we are sad to see Impact Hub Montreal leave the network. Since launching in 2005, the Impact Hub network has undergone significant growth, now reaching over 16,500 members in 100+ locations across the globe. Impact Hub Montreal focused ever since on SDG ecosystem building at the Quebec-level.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

This is a Series C and it is being led by Sequoia Capital, with previous backers Tribe Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, and NewView Capital also participating. Beyond that, the company has shown resilience in its user numbers and wider business after facing a data breach some years ago.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Earlier, the company raised a pre-seed round of $890,000 from the likes of 2048 Ventures, Amplify and others, bringing its total fundraised to date to $2.3 The company is organized as a public-benefit corporation and was founded in September 2018 and first launched a year later. Last month, the company raised $1.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Halo Business Angel Network feels staid. Co-founded BrewBot. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. Suddenly network level adversaries were front page news. And the team behind Nym thinks conditions look ripe for general purpose privacy-focused networking tech to take off too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. This came decades ahead of most western governments. billion, from $6.51

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. It is based in New York, NY. The class will begin October 19th.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. RightBrain Networks. After raising $10.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A 2020 UCLA study found that approximately 15% of couples will have trouble getting pregnant, but Kindbody, which has spun up a network of fertility clinics since its founding in 2018 , has taken a holistic approach to the issue. But having 20% to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

OurCrowd has secured a $1M allocation in this $24M Series B round, co-led by Alpha Wave Global and the venture arm of a major telecommunications company. . In 2018, she co-founded and became the CEO of Maolac to fulfill her vision. Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved. Invest Now. Introductions.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Daniel Cohen, Viola Ventures.

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