Y Combinator

JUNE 17, 2020

We’re excited to announce that Startup School (SUS) is relaunching today as a continuous program. This change will allow us to serve many more founders than the traditional annual course we’ve been running since 2017 and better support startup founders year-round. Curriculum.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

You’ll learn from subject-matter experts, across the startup ecosystem, ready to help you avoid costly missteps. Attendees say: “Early Stage 2020 provided a rich, bootcamp experience with premier founders, VCs and startup community experts. Build community and expand your network. Special Breakout Sessions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

” Peanut argues there’s inherent bias in assuming that every startup founder has access to what are, essentially, wealthy friends or family who can spare a little startup capital. ” The lack of access to funds for female founders may have gotten worse during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Founders from these three startups took a chance, gave it their all and ended up winning the championship — and $100,000 — in their respective years: Canix (2020), Render (2019) and Forethought (2018). TechCrunch vets every application and will select roughly 25 startups to compete. Still need a nudge? Keep reading.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live , our regular interview series with startup founders, venture capitalists, and other leaders from the technology community.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

At the end of 2020, I argued that edtech needs to think bigger in order to stay relevant after the pandemic. I urged founders to think less about how to bundle and unbundle lecture experience, and more about how to replace outdated systems and methods with new, tech-powered solutions. Millions of dollars and 3.5 Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 billion set in 2020,” writes Taranto. Mary Ann Azevedo and Alex Wilhelm looked at the company’s corporate structure and found that investors have enough leverage to push the embattled founder overboard — which means they “must not be agitating for Garg’s complete removal.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Yugabyte co-founder and president, says the startup saw a marked increase in interest in both the open source and commercial offerings in 2020 as the pandemic pushed many companies to the cloud faster than they might have gone otherwise, something many startup founders have pointed out to me.

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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. This is especially true for customer-facing roles, like support and community, but it extends to other aspects of business, too. But what now?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

After 2020 and the rise of Zoom University, we know edtech needs to be more engaging , but we don’t know the exact way to get there. Is it by creating micro-learning communities around shared loves? Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform. That, but for startups trying to get acquired. The peacock dance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

We’ve packed this two-day virtual event with more than a dozen (and counting) presentations by leading startup experts holding forth on a range of topics every startup founder needs to master — or at least understand enough to outsource wisely. Beat the deadline and register here before Friday, June 11 at 11:59 p.m. (PT).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. And the numbers are there to back it up.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

“Early Stage 2020 was a great opportunity to hear seasoned startup founders talking about their experiences and how they dealt with many of the same challenges I faced then and am going through now. ” — Ashley Barrington, founder, MarketPearl. ” — Chloe Leaaetoa, founder, Socicraft.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

January 2020 seems like a long time ago: Billie Eilish swept the Grammy Awards, Tesla’s market cap made it America’s most valuable car company, and Visa announced plans to purchase Plaid for $5.3 Image Credits: VallarieE (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Take action, reap savings and get ready to join your community of early-inning startup founders for a two-day bootcamp (July 8-9) dedicated to helping you build a firm foundation for entrepreneurial success. Here’s what two founders shared about their experience at last year’s event.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

With Silicon Valley Bank now being shut down, startup founders who have been unable to access their accounts are getting increasingly nervous about the status of their capital. Louis-based founder of the hair care company Rebundle, had just landed in Atlanta last night when she started receiving frantic emails from investors about SVB.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Moreover, the local investor community is quite dynamic. As it is a very tight-knit community, local tech investors are very collaborative and helpful with each other and entrepreneurs. Gradually everyone moved to full remove in the tech community. Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g., What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

The basic tenets presented in Ron’s story will resonate with anyone who’s launched a startup. Alex Wilhelm was particularly prolific this morning: For The Exchange, he studied UiPath’s 2020 quarterly results to get a clearer picture of its first S-1/A filing. based startups across 12,546 rounds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system. and they recommended some regulatory payment groups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. Thank you to everybody in the community who has supported us all these years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Public investors in 2020 also seem to have a deeper appreciation for the current revenue numbers and future growth opportunities for tech companies. The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). Wish files to go public with 100M monthly actives, $1.75B in 2020 revenue thus far. Airbnb files to go public. Unpacking the C3.ai

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

She kicked off the company with $575,000 from an Indiegogo campaign and turned Dame into a profitable business that was bootstrapped until December 2020. The new funding enables us to continue to expand our product line with Dip, especially our replenishables, do more product innovation and add to our content and community.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clearly, I’m not alone: a May 2020 McKinsey study pegged yearly domestic telehealth revenue at $3 billion before the coronavirus, but estimated that “up to $250 billion of current U.S. How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020. That’s 2020 VC around the world in a nutshell.” Hello, Extra Crunch community!

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Proal is accompanied by Henry Scott-Green , a London-based product manager who has been absent from his day job at Google’s YouTube for the past two years due to Long COVID; Helga Gutmane , previously an investor at KKR; and Nick Harrold, a former SaaS startup founder. LCRI’s Dr. Amy Proal. Move fast and fix things.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report, titled Europe and Israel’s Startup Founder Factories , was produced by VC firm Accel with heavy support from startup and VC data platform Dealroom. But irrespective of how events transpired, it all served to produce a lot of people with experience of building and scaling complex tech-infused startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

She started the company in 2020 to provide virtual data analysts for businesses. That data can be anything from sourcing TikTok influencers to qualifying B2B sales leads, finding job candidates and researching NFT communities. The company raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding in 2020, and today announced $4.5

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. We’ll discuss her strategic vision for Call of Duty as a game and as a community, as well as her thoughts on the shifting landscape of gaming and esports.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

"Uber’s ascent to the largest rideshare company in the world was fueled by a recurring cycle in which it blatantly ignored state and local laws, became entrenched and widely used in a community, and then tried to use its largesse to change the laws it was breaking." No current founders, pls. Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) May 28, 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie: How did immigration change for startup founders in 2020? and Silicon Valley tech startup communities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? More than 50%? More than 50%. We are the largest and most active player in Norway by far. Maybe, maybe not.

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