TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve initiated the final countdown, and we’re just hours away from the deadline for early bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17). The Space Force Accelerators. All exhibitors will get five minutes to pitch live to global attendees. Is your company interested in sponsoring TC Sessions: Space 2020?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Our $25 Expo Only ticket offers affordable access to an impressive array of presentations — and opportunity — at TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. Plus, you’ll have two opportunities to watch live pitch sessions and learn what VCs look for in a pitch deck. Get ready to take copious notes. Schedule conflict?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 18, 2020

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, The Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with Invent Penn State that has helped create more than 130 new startups, hosted a zoom pitch event. The post THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES PITCH WINNERS! ” About the Ben Franklin Tech Celerator @ State College.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But we’re talking science fact, not fiction, and TC Sessions: Space 2020 provides real opportunity to connect with the people, information and funding you need to boldly build the future of space technology. And don’t miss out on the Fast Money breakout sessions to learn about space accelerator programs and how to access grant money.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed. Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

That’s how much time you have left to score early-bird passes to TC Sessions: Space 2020. Bonus: All exhibiting startups get to pitch live to thousands of global attendees. TC Sessions: Space 2020 helps intrepid pioneers go further together. Is your company interested in sponsoring TC Sessions: Space 2020?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment. In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan reviewed the earliest pitch deck for social gaming company Rec Room with Nick Fajt, its founder and CEO. Getting the details right in your pitch deck. Image Credits: Rec Room.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 25, 2021

But thanks to the incredible involvement of our members and our assistant manager Ethan Ferris, 2020 was our best year ever. Invested in nearly twice as many companies in 2020 than in any prior year in our 18 year history. I’m proud as hell of what we we did in 2020 and can’t wait to see what 2021 brings us.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It is a huge mountain to climb and a full-time job to continuously pitch your vision and yourself to reach the first meeting with a VC fund — and that’s still miles away from a funding discussion. Make serious headway with accelerators. These discussions then bring further biases to the surface. Think of the worst-case scenario.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. Today, 189 companies will pitch, while the rest will pitch tomorrow. Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020. The company was founded by Melissa Bime and Mbah Charles in 2020. Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

A quick tangent: If you’re not already familiar with CELA or what it does, the NYC-based company matches early-stage startups to world-class accelerators and incubators that align with a startup’s vertical and business goals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

The pandemic accelerated transforming contactless technology with AI deployment for intelligence surveillance, smart city, autonomous driving, smart factory and robotics where AI data is inevitably needed,” Doyle Chung, Head of Global Sales of AIMMO, said in an email interview. AIMMO declined to comment on its valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. PIN wants to replicate the Stanford 2020 story for other community-based ventures. During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

By early 2020, with just three months of runway left, she pivoted to create an app with chatbot integration that wasn’t just limited to use via Facebook Messenger. But then on October 10, 2020, Apple’s App Store highlighted Yana for International Mental Health Day, and the response was overwhelming. “It Image Credits: Yana.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

A total of nearly $63,000 in grants were made during 2020. Leading the global shift toward inclusive innovation, digitalundivided invested in over 1,500 Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs in 2020. The application deadline is the third Friday of each month. Up to 15 winners are selected from a pool of up to 90 applicants.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. As smart speaker platforms have matured, more entrepreneurs are leveraging the technology to benefit healthcare.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

OpenPhone successfully raised a $14 million Series A in November 2020, but when co-founder and CEO Mahyar Raissi realized they needed another round a year later, “it was becoming obvious that the market was turning.” Pitch Deck Teardown: Alto Pharmacy’s $200M Series E deck. Do all of that before you start the countdown.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Something that stood out in our notes on the company when it presented at the accelerator’s graduation event was its economics, with our piece noting that the startup “already [has] several big ticket clients and [says it] will soon be profitable.” Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day 1.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This dynamic zone will feature IR pitches for investment attraction, conducted on a dedicated stage, and thought-provoking conferences. The COMEUP Stars program for this year involves 13 top Korean and foreign VCs and accelerators closely collaborating with 10 promising startups each.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As 2020 fades into the rearview mirror of history (huzzah!), We’re talking everything from legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. Think of it as a condensed accelerator experience packed with workshops and highly interactive Q&As.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

million (RM5 million) in Pitch Platforms Sdn Bhd (pitchIN). The investment, that was made through MTDC’s Business Growth Fund (BGF Fund) and Gobi‘s Superseed II Fund (Gobi SSII Fund), will be spent to assist Pitch Platforms to expand its equity crowdfunding (ECF) platform and launch its first initial exchange offering (IEO) in Malaysia.

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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. “We Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it. Publica is Shopify for Digital Content.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In exchange for 14 weeks of help with everything from product-market fit to the go-to-market strategy a team should employ, the startups in Pear’s accelerator program give Pear the right to invest from $500,000 to $750,000 in each team at a valuation that it caps at $10 million. Founded in: 2020. HQ: Barcelona, Spain.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Burro first crossed our path during our 2020 robotics event, when the agtech company competed in our pitch off. Agtech is one of several robotics verticals that have seen accelerated interest during the pandemic, as labor shortages have become more pronounced. million Series A raise this week. Image Credits: Burro.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

One-fifth of the accelerator’s Summer 2022 batch , which spans 240 companies, is working on solving issues in the financial space. The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. Etc: Without desks and a demo day, are accelerators worth it? Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. How African startups raised investments in 2020. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. 2020 becomes the decade of data. Friends have relocated to different cities. Half a point.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

In his article, he shares the seven tactics he used to fundraise successfully, such as planning to pitch 30-60 investors. Pitch Deck Teardown: Arkive’s $9.7M This week, he reviewed 12 slides from Arkive’s winning pitch deck: Cover slide. Pitch Deck Teardown: Arkive’s $9.7M In 2020, the U.S. Solution slide.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

We last profiled the company in 2020, before its name change, and after it had picked up both a $5.7 The capital infusion will help accelerate Solid’s entrance into some new verticals like travel, logistics, construction, healthcare, education and the gig economy. million seed and a $12 million Series A. To date, Solid has raised $80.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Since I began physically distancing from others to stem the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020, I’ve taken exactly 10 hailed rides. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. Dig into the pitches yourself, as there’s never a bad time to check out some super-early-stage startups.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. million round raised in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

While it’s clear that this year will be far more muted for fintech investment globally and in the United States, it’s still on track to crush 2020’s results. So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. Northwestern Mutual expands business accelerator for black entrepreneurs. Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

million pre-seed raised back in late 2020, ahead of its launch. Sastrify’s sales pitch to SMEs includes that current customers have seen an average 6.5x Today it’s announcing closing a $7 million seed round from HV Capital and the founders of FlixMobility, Personio and SumUp. That follows a $1.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. It’s demo day season. The moonshots.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. But COVID-19 is clearly accelerating digital transformation of consumer focused businesses — a movement that, logically, pumps demand for smarter tools to handle online customer support. Now ultimate.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. in the third quarter of 2021 versus the same period last year. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. This has been costly. ” Tracking real-time shipments. .

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