StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, Glassdoor came out with a list of the top 25 U.S. In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. Guardhat is the maker of smart safety gear for workers, and they had a pretty big 2020.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The CertifID tool is used by real estate companies to insure and accelerate transactions with financial institutions for real estate purchases. Treatments aim to create precision diagnostics and solutions for diseases and accelerate treatment onset. Building Catalyst is also a Conquer Accelerator Grand Rapids pick. FirstIgnite.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. Teknobuilt got an overwhelming response from participation in KSGC 2020. The accelerator program’s positive support system helped the startup expand its business in Asia.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Connecting with excellent diversity-focused incubators and accelerators such as Camelback Ventures in New Orleans, Opportunity Hub in Atlanta, the LatinX Incubator in Chicago and the Hillman Accelerator in Ohio might serve as a starting point. Hire more diverse investors and change your culture. Originally published July 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

The past two years have been exciting periods of growth for the cloud market, driven by increased demand for access to new technology during COVID-19 and the proliferation of the “work-from-anywhere” culture. For many businesses, the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation plans by months, or even years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The global tech sector is booming, and as technologies like cloud and AI accelerate their growth, the demand for tech talent outpaces supply globally. is the increasing focus on software as a service and broader digital transformations across industry sectors, which have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Make serious headway with accelerators. Accelerators allow ventures to define their products or services, quickly build networks and, most importantly, sit at tables they wouldn’t be able to on their own. I would suggest looking out for accelerators explicitly searching for minority founders by using platforms such as F6S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020. For Richard, he came from a place where skincare was more culturally accepted. It’s latest brand, Meridian, offering grooming products, launched in 2020. Products are now selling in more than 70 countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CK’S is a snacking brand that is “a platform for changing culture.” Its direct-to-consumer business launched in 2020 and has remained at the top of the DTC ice cream delivery space since July, Altschul said. Between 2020 and 2021, N!CK’S The new funding will accelerate the company’s goal of doubling its stores in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. “And then kind of dispassionately looking at what is the technology that accelerates our first product to market and then amplifying that — whether it’s from the existing Aurora team or to the new Aurora team — and pushing that forward, whether it’s ideas or code or bits of hardware together to accelerate our time to market.”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. As of 2020, it has partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Apply now to DocNetwork. DynamoMetrics. and the world.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Mural also raised a $23 million Series A at the start of 2020. That second figure is up from a “couple” seven-figure deals at the start of 2020, a figure that the company disclosed at the time of its Series A. Per Suarez-Battan, Mural has continued the torrid pace of growth that made it a breakout company in 2020.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. The accelerator program ends with top startups getting additional financial incentives and the possibility of doing business in Korea. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. How African startups raised investments in 2020.

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million round raised in May 2020. billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28 billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28 Daily has real platform potential — it’s a great product with stellar engineering culture, coupled with Kwin’s experience building video for the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Wider issues seem more cultural; startups not thinking big enough, investors lacking the necessary appetite for risk, and even — among wider society — some latent suspicion of entrepreneurs. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic having sent so many to work from home, those investments have paid off — the company has transcribed over 100 million meetings with more than 3 billion minutes, and has seen an 8x increase in revenues during 2020. added Zoom integration back in April 2020 — the early days of the pandemic.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

2020’s canceled weddings, events, and vacations birthed new ways to manage special events and travel. . StuDocu is no exception with its recent $50 million in Series B funding, which will help accelerate its global reach. While many startups were lost in 2020 , we hold out hope for startups entering new territory in the future.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A new study reveals just how much the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating small business digital transformation. These insights are from the 2020 Small Business Digital Maturity Study , commissioned by Cisco. It is forcing companies to accelerate their digitalization,” he says.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

The company plans to use its new capital in part to accelerate its rollout across the U.S. Branch has seen increased momentum since its $24 million Series A in July 2020. Branch also offers its insurance direct-to-consumer and through agencies. so that it can sign more such partnerships where it can embed its offering.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In 2020, TIME listed Guardhat’s smart hat as one of the best inventions of the year. They hire locally and remotely and have a close-knit culture built on authentic connections between team members. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Onboard.io.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Today, it is launching a new program called Arc , which it describes as a catalyst (not an accelerator, nor an incubator) that will seek out and then work with cohorts of about 15 startups in 8-week sessions, with the emphasis on “outlier” founders and startups from across Europe and the U.S. “Europe is so fragmented. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Jonathan Greechan is co-founder of the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, Founder Institute , has run over 100 webinars including 100,000+ live attendees, and is one of Meetup's most active organizers. equity trading in 2020 was driven by mom-and-pop investors — up from around 15% in the previous year. Almost a fifth of U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Z1 participated in Y Combinator’s Winter ‘21 batch earlier this year, and at the time got $125,000 in funding from the accelerator. Maya Capital led its $700,000 seed round in March of 2020. the founders agree that its products have been adapted more to the Brazil-specific cultural and market situation. Image Credits: Z1.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Its sugar-free sodas, milk teas and energy drinks sell in 40 countries and generated revenue of about $450 million in 2020. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. “I believe knowledge is power, and my mission is to change the way companies work by creating a data-driven culture that is accessible to everyone. In some cases, it cost them dearly. According to Couchbase, enterprises wasted on average $4.12

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StartupNation

JUNE 8, 2021

Working remotely became a way of life in 2020. Many teams have already begun to unwind the temporary remote work arrangements of 2020 while others continue to contemplate the decision. It can make customer support both physically and culturally more accessible, both factors that can spike customer experience. But what now?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to ActivTrak, 41% of organizations didn’t have a dedicated remote work policy in place as of May 2020. In doing so, we realized that somehow in April 2020, there was still no good solution for group video chat. “ We need to stop pretending that chat emojis equal corporate culture and a sense of community.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations. more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. An IDC report commissioned by Seagate projected companies would collect 42.2%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. By any measure, it is poised for success — sales increased 800% between December 2019 and 2020, and by the end of this year, the company will have 60 retail locations.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

After two years of new construction, they opened in March 2020, and had to shut down two weeks after opening for the pandemic. This reflects the rougher side of the pandemic some coworking spaces endured as people were forced to work from home and dropped either their office rental or their entire business in 2020. “In

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. Accelerators and incubators and angels can help new founders get their wings and leave the nest. I do think a national downturn will hurt funding in other (not all) markets because of the cultural norms around here with respect to angel funding and all the seed funds.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

and abroad between February and September 2020. I hope to gain more understanding of cultural differences and how they influence an entrepreneurs’ decisions. I wish I had access to several data from different cultural settings and understand how the ecosystem differs and evolves in different countries. Adam Arredondo.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

He has served as a co-fund manager of the San Diego Angel Conference, an investor with NuFund Venture Group, and a mentor with both the NexCubed Digital Health Accelerator and the Illumina Accelerator. In 2020 Jason moved from San Diego, California to Austin, Texas. Today it’s down to 25%, but compare that to 1% pre-pandemic.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

My approach is centered around Patrick Lencioni’s “The Advantage” and Fred Kofman’s “Conscious Business” principles, each of which are really systems for building and maintaining culture and organizational health. Coming out of the first half of 2020 we were experiencing a boom after the initial shock of COVID-19. I will finish here.

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