NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’ll also continue to administrate the Github organizations, run the respective project websites, put together the annual ROSCon convention, and support TurtleBot, the low-cost robot kit manufactured by Open Robotics in partnership with Clearpath Robotics and ROBOTIS. Intrinsic got its start more recently.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

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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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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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. Public funding supports are good, but too fragmented and hard to access.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors. In February, several national and Chicago-based organizations banded together to support early-stage Black and Latinx tech entrepreneurs through a new program dubbed TechRise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. These startups will have access to funding between $100,000 to $250,000 and hands-on technical support.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Focusing on incubating AI-native applications, 25m Evolve’s mission is to support companies facing today’s dynamic digital landscape—which is demanding they adapt. Price co-founded 25madison in 2018 with a handful of individual investors, creating the venture platform to incubate and invest in early-stage startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Focusing on incubating AI-native applications, 25m Evolve’s mission is to support companies facing today’s dynamic digital landscape—that is demanding they adapt. Price co-founded 25madison in 2018 with a handful of individual investors, creating the venture platform to incubate and invest in early-stage startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The idea to build Adanian Labs, was conceived in 2018, when Kamara was living and working in Cape Town, South Africa, where he witnessed the fast growth of the startup ecosystem, and how, in most countries, accelerators were the default launch pads. So, we have a short program to help them raise,” said Kamara.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

While there may still be some debate over whether customers, or indeed agents or businesses, want a lot of video engagement in calls, there are times when you might imagine that could be useful, such as in cases of technical support. Gong.ai , Google , Talkdesk , and more are among those playing in this space.). Observe.ai

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 23, 2023

an early-stage company specializing in developing innovative technologies for carbon capture and utilization, has chosen to continue growing in its hometown of Newark, Delaware, with an expansion from its Delaware Technology Park incubator space to nearby Delaware Industrial Park. October 23, 2023 ) – RiKarbon Inc. ,

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

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. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City. Photo: Kina Mama.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Coworking spaces support hybrid work models in a variety of ways. Additionally, we offer supportive and inspiring programming and events to keep members inspired and connected. The owners purchased an old meatpacking building in Eastern Market in 2018, only to discover that the structure needed to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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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. FixFake: Founded by Kathryn Harrison and Jason Law, FixFake offers decision support tools to reduce fraud in e-commerce. It is based in Brooklyn, NY. ? It is based in Bozeman, MT. ?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. Israel’s government is very supportive of its high-tech economy. However, the decline may also be a function of large tech firms setting up incubation hubs to cut up and absorb talent. Late-stage companies drew in $8.33 billion, from $6.51

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Plus, it’s understood that Tech Nation is intending to carry on “as is”, even without the government subsidy, supported by fundraising from sponsors, subscriptions and partners. Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not.

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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. Come and show support for the entrepreneurs but stay to enjoy the rest of the evening. Come and show support for the entrepreneurs but stay to enjoy the rest of the evening.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2018, we moved away from being an accelerator to a CVC to better help more mature startups with joint-venture opportunities and scaling. Later, we also launched a fund aimed at supporting startups’ transformation in Southern Europe and Latin America. CVCs should have a foot in your startup field.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. Now as investors they have supported 70 new companies across multiple sectors that have raised hundreds of millions in follow-on capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The program is supported by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) and is a leading program funded by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The KSGC team also gives follow-up support to the top startups for them to establish a business in Korea.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The data shows the impact that tailored support programs can have for entrepreneurs looking to develop an idea or scale a venture. In 2018, the Impact Hub network ran over 100+ successful entrepreneurial support programs and 100+ collaborative innovation programs focused on SDGs and ecosystem development globally.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

They support centuries-old weaving practices and the women who carry on this beautiful tradition: creating these timeless textiles takes extensive knowledge of the history and technique of ancient Mayan weaving and design, and even a single panel for a pillowcase can take up to three weeks. The Tommy Hilfiger Social Innovation Challenge 2018.

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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. The coolest thing about LoanSense is there is a onetime advice option for $47, or you can sign up for the concierge option that includes 4 months of full support. After raising $10.3 Workit Health.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 18, 2019

As a finalist, Merce was awarded a place on a 6-month bespoke incubation program at Impact Hub Madrid – Alameda and mentorship with Leyre Romero, also an entrepreneur and the co-founder of the social consultancy firm Areteia, with whom she still enjoys a close and trusty relationship.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

With this growth has also come a stronger focus on programming and trans-local collaboration: tackling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through incubation, acceleration, and scaling efforts for social entrepreneurs and innovators from all sectors across North America.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

In my last blog, I talked about the definition and evaluation of two key elements of an entrepreneurial ecosystem – entrepreneurs and entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs). Collaboration between organizations providing various services creates a cohesive network of resources better suited to support innovation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

While growth in cryptocurrencies is driving demand for secure infrastructure to support crypto trading. Legal clashes between surveillance laws and data protection rights are also causing growing B2B headaches, especially for U.S.-based based cloud services. In short, the opportunity for privacy tech, both B2B and consumer-facing, is growing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Consider that to develop a digitally native product like a surgical robot — and bring it all the way through to commercialization — costs will include both the classic and complex medical device innovation needs, but also investment in an entire ecosystem of services, support, training and market development. automotive industry).”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. In 2018, IVC awarded TAU Ventures an award for one of the most active VCs in Israel.

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