TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

opportunity 93

opportunity startup startup ecosystem education 93

TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

It plans to use the funding to continue building out its software and its capabilities, to hire more people, and for business development, according to Artificial’s CEO and co-founder David Fuller. “You can really think of a lab, frankly, as a kitchen,” he said, “and the primary operation in that lab is mixing liquids.”

mix-use 98

mix-use accelerator health culture 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

VC 122

VC venture capital mix-use accelerator 122

TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently.

mix-use 76

mix-use incubation disruption culture 76

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While typically, game creation involves some aspect of coding, Playbyte’s games are created using simple building blocks, emoji and even images from your Camera Roll on your iPhone. After you play a game, you can like and comment using buttons on the right-side of the screen, which also greatly resembles the TikTok look-and-feel.

mix-use 88

mix-use media frameworks construction 88

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Per Crunchbase , the 2019 founded audio startup’s earlier seed and pre-seed investors were Mangrove Capital Partners and Redalpine. So it’s using quasi-brevity as a device to try to cut through. Which means the resulting thread can be, well, a mixed bag in terms of interest/quality from the listener’s perspective.

media 80

media collaboration mix-use communities 80

Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our movement stood for building a better world through the power of entrepreneurial solutions , supported by a powerful magic mix of inspiring spaces, vibrant communities and meaningful content. In the early years, there were only four people in the global team and most of us worked part-time. Makers Manifesto.

leadership 69

leadership networking communities support 69

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The company, which uses mushrooms in its meat alternatives, has raised $6.5 million USD) in a seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, the Australian venture capital firm whose portfolio also includes Canva, Culture Amp and SafetyCulture. Other startups that use mushrooms as basis for meat alternatives include Meati and AtLast.

mix-use 76

mix-use startup sustainability culture 76

Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

And building a culture tethered to a test and learn mentality. What we later saw during the pandemic was our business took a major turn towards growth in Q4 ’20 as our mix of off-premise tasting and digital solutions amplified one another. How soon until you authenticate users using Ethereum (and the MetaMask browser extension)?

communities 59

communities mix-use sustainability support 59

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world’s last dance with spontaneity. By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. In the middle sits a mix between work and play, which is where Branch hopes to live.

transportation 142

transportation culture mix-use real estate 142

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

VC 74

VC culture hospitality mix-use 74

TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019.

startup ecosystem 88

startup ecosystem startup incubation culture 88

HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve. Just as the $2.4B university.

entrepreneurship 91

entrepreneurship entrepreneurial ecosystem mentorship education 91

Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. used to be around 5 years. From what I’ve gathered from LPs and VC mentors, in previous eras, the initial deployment period of a VC fund (not including reserves for follow-ons, etc.) I know of one.

VC 76

VC mix-use construction venture capital 76

OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

In Australia, “vegan” was one of the country’s most searched Google terms in 2019. In the US, six to eight million Americans have completely eliminated meat, according to a recent Harris interactive poll. . Finding soy milk used to be a chore and milk alternatives captured less than 1% of the market a decade ago.

startup 31

startup mix-use culture sustainability 31

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Platforms that are transforming how people and businesses operate, go about their business or leverage their core assets, using superior products, data and AI. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly.

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 8, 2020

These pandemics and disease outbreaks are not presented in chronological order but arranged differently to support a different narrative on their impact economically, culturally, and otherwise. A virus is a small infectious agent that uses other cells to replicate. Vaccinations have been the most widely used and effective.

hospitality 116

hospitality mix-use development health 116

Y Combinator

JULY 6, 2023

Deel Founded: 2018 YC Batch: Winter 2019 Founding city: San Francisco, CA Company size: 2,700+ across 100+ countries What is Deel? That was the first one where I was like… whoa, okay, cool, there are companies using [Deel] that I love. "You All interviews have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

advice 96

advice financing finance pitching 96

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

And, with that warning, I offer to you what I believe to be the big, consequential forces driving trends in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2019, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. In 2019, Microsoft hit that milestone, and Google isn’t far behind. 2/ The Global Culture Clash And Bull Markets Effect.

VC 146

VC startup media mix-use 146

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t privy to the financials at the time, but by the end of 2019, I had penciled out a guess that they were at a $50 million run rate—or at least on a clear path to it. This drew the attention away from companies in the space that weren’t trying to be anything but what they are—cultures that employees have very low expectations of.

hospitality 351

hospitality real estate culture board 351

Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Elon Musk: In 2019, Tesla faced death “within single-digit weeks.” People and Culture. The root cause was not having the right people and culture. At rocket speed, Martin flattened the organization, brought in domain experts with high adversity quotient (AQ) , and fostered an ownership culture.

entrepreneurs 246

entrepreneurs culture mix-use sustainability 246

OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Juganu: Using light to chase away Covid-19. Hot-button issues in the US election. Investors around the world are focused on the US Presidential election. The Governor saw the treatment when he led a trade mission to Israel in 2019. SALT Talks: Next-Generation Mobility in a Post-Pandemic World. Healthcare.

mix-use 36

mix-use innovation enablement technology 36

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps. billion in 2019. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). billion from $17.8

startup 78

startup construction VC health 78

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. We always saw tampons as a potential tool for bridging the many gaps that exist in gynaecological health today.

health 91

health innovation support mix-use 91