Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 Even for companies that have made great progress in diversifying their organizations, there is real risk of reverting to a former homogenous status quo, unless hiring strategies evolve. million to 6.3 million, respectively.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. million raised in the quarter before.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Thinking outside the box, Brad Stevens , president of EO Atlanta, created a way to increase EO member engagement across the 150-member chapter with 43 Accelerator participants. The program began in November 2020. We asked Brad about this exciting new initiative. How did you come up with this initiative to grow EO member connections?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

has more than 50 plant-based items, the ability for customers to shop on-demand without signing up for a subscription, doubled its growth rate since 2020 and has over 20,000 subscribers to date. Today, the company delivers to every state in the continental U.S., Oh, and it recently secured $12 million in Series B funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. However, I did not expect that our hands would be forced in this manner, leading to an incredible acceleration of decentralised workforces and processes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 14, 2020

One of the most fascinating things I’ve been watching is how the 80 something USV portfolio companies are adjusting their marketing strategies during this pandemic. Even the ones who are not changing marketing spend are changing their marketing mix a lot.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016. Here, environmental stalwart Lee Yu-jin shed light on strategies for carbon neutrality and green growth.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said. “This deal allows us to deepen our partnership with Joby, the clear leader in this field, to accelerate the path to market for these technologies.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. ” Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.” Yoco’s strategy as the foremost card payments provider in South Africa lies in creating access and removing barriers to adopting digital financial services.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? Here’s what we have learned so far: As of 2020, only 8.6% Circularity-focused incubation and acceleration programs already exist, but there are two problems: There aren’t enough of them to transform the private sector as a whole.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

He was formerly an operating partner at Mercato Growth Partners and served as CEO and Chairman of PublicEngines (acquired by Motorola), and Avinti (merged with M86 Security) and served as Chief Marketing Officer/Chief Strategy Officer of M86 Security (acquired by Trustwave). and in Europe, led by the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even more expansion to help put in place key health infrastructure systems across the U.S. billion post-money, the company announced today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Dataiku’s last round of funding was a $100 million Series D in 2020. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun. New investors included Insight Partners, Eurazeo, Lightrock and Olivier Pomel, the chief executive of Datadog. Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 Enterprise AI 2.0:

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. Cybersecurity and industrial/manufacturing are the two fastest growing categories.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Arizona’s bioscience sector continues to set a national example for how focused, long-term strategy can elevate an innovation ecosystem. This is a growth rate four times the national average between 2020 and 2024, underscoring the state’s rapidly advancing stature in biomedical research.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Established in 2020, AHG Lab operates under the umbrella of the Alternative Housing Group, which functions as a real estate startup and prop-tech incubator in the Philippines. AHG Lab has already nurtured a range of promising ventures. Pardo, now an advisor to AHG Lab, has guided the company’s journey.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

billion (in 2020), up 32.4% To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. million in the fintech accelerator. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The Miami-based company, which created a platform for e-commerce businesses looking to scale their operations on and off Amazon, was founded in 2020. It will also enable the company to accelerate acquisitions of Fulfillment By Amazon brands, invest in technology development and further build out its team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

million seed round in 2020. Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase. Nacelle gives organizations a future-proof way to accelerate their innovation, leverage existing investments and do so with material ROI.”. It closed on a $50 million Series B round from Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Portside says it saw its revenue grow almost 300% in 2020 and that it added more than 50 aircraft operators in multiple countries to its user base. They have collectively demonstrated their confidence in our strategy and intentional approach to cloud-based digital transformation of the global business aviation industry.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Luminar will become a publicly traded company through its merger with Gores, which is expected to close in late 2020. That work has accelerated since spring 2019 when Daimler took a majority stake in Torc Robotics, an autonomous trucking startup that had been working with Luminar the past two years. billion SPAC merger.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. He is also an angel investor, and via CcHub’s accelerator programme and a partner fund called Growth Capital Fund , Tijani has invested in more than 40 startups. million across 19 African companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The partnership, according to Tsui, would allow the virtual networking company to tap NetEase’s game development and engineering capabilities as well as leverage NetEase’s knowledge in global market strategy as Together Labs launches future products, including one called WithMe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. CK’S expanded from 4,500 U.S. stores to 6,700, and expanded in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As 2020 fades into the rearview mirror of history (huzzah!), it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. Think of it as a condensed accelerator experience packed with workshops and highly interactive Q&As. Early Stage part one ( April 1-2 ) and Early Stage part two ( July 8-9 ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

” Just like Rho AP, the Rho Card is part of Rho’s strategy to position itself as “the first and last platform finance teams should need.” Per Cook, its annualized transaction volume grew from a little less than $2 billion in December 2020 to a cumulative volume of $3 billion between January and November 2021.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To be fair, not all of them held this view and many of them were investing nationally earlier, but as we flip over to 2020, there is a general acceptance among Bay Area VC partnerships that they need to be able to invest across the country, not just NYC and LA or Seattle. There are too many startups to keep track of.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

While sharing informative content can be an effective part of any branding strategy, some entrepreneurs have designed an entire business around it. . 2020’s canceled weddings, events, and vacations birthed new ways to manage special events and travel. . Tips, tricks, and reviews . Event and travel planning changes shape.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. Rad Power Bikes declined to disclose its 2020 sales numbers. “The core strategy is to continue to develop new vehicle categories,” Radenbaugh said.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 11, 2022

The company’s 4PL strategy streamlines the difficult process of shipping while empowering all players in the supply chain. billion in 2020. The post Biteship raises undisclosed funding to accelerate plans for product development first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. However, VC funds and their investment strategies and networks have unique features that give them an important position in these global efforts. However, depending on whom you talk to, the climate finance gap currently sits at $2.5 trillion to 4.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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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. Third on the list is the digital challenger or a company that has a more proactive technology use strategy.

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