TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020. Paulo Rogério Nunes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Plus, twine co-founder and CEO Lawrence Coburn admits his company had even lost some deals to Glimpse. Glimpse had participated in startup accelerator Y Combinator’s winter 2020 batch and had seed-stage investment from both YC and Maven Ventures.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). This decline has also become evident in startup accelerator programs shifting their focus on later-stage scale-ups that provide higher returns.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Both outfits look to back early-stage founders with money and advice in exchange for equity. YC has backed over 3,500 founders, while 500 Global has backed more than 2,800 founders, according to each institution’s websites.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. The founder estimates that 60% of YC companies are active Brex customers. ” On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. In 2020, SkyDeck — along with much of the rest of the world — went virtual. In 2020, SkyDeck — along with much of the rest of the world — went virtual.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The frustrations with the current set of reading apps drove Matter co-founders Ben Springwater and Robert Mackenzie — who met while working at Nextdoor — to take on the challenge of building a new tool for online reading. At the outset, one of Matter’s larger goals was to help people make better decisions about what to read.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. In addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. and Dreamit Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. Traditional investment that prioritizes pedigree and culture, or the “art” of a founder, has left out an entire class of historically overlooked individuals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Amnesty International recently surveyed the world’s largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes. of all U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. program and investing group with hundreds of companies in each of its accelerator classes may have materially changed the earliest stage of investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Corporate benefits have typically been deployed to employees through a top-down model where companies determine what their employees need, which is inefficient both for employers and employees, co-founder and CEO Jason Fan told TechCrunch in an interview. million from Stripe and Upside Partnership in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

First, Managing Editor Danny Crichton looked at how well the company’s co-founders and many investors stand to make out. Our all-hands-on-deck coverage of DoorDash’s S-1 is a good illustration of Extra Crunch’s mission: timely analysis of current and future technology trends that serves founders and investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

“This is about financial services for freelancers,” co-founder and CEO Lilac Bar David said in an interview. That list of past backers includes Zeev Ventures, Foundation Capital and the Google for Startups accelerator.) Down the line it will also be expanding into invoicing, payment management and credit (e.g.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

. “We need to … think about how safety controls might be subverted when you have an API-mediated version of the system that carries controls preventing misuse,” Abhishek Gupta, the founder and principal researcher at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, told TechCrunch via email.

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