TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

On March 3, we’re hosting TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a day-long virtual conference dedicated to examining diversity and inclusion in tech. TC Sessions: Justice 2021 takes place virtually on March 3. Is your company interested in sponsoring TC Sessions: Justice 2021? Founded by Aneshai Smith.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

This year at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23) we’re shaking up history and adding a new layer of opportunity exclusively for founders who apply for a Startup Alley Pass. Who wouldn’t want to perfect their pitch long before diving into Disrupt to impress investors? 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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JUNE 8, 2011

When you're educated by Jesuits, you know the word "discernment". Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. The 2021 Forbes Midas List--the up and comers who are in the process of making their mark, but haven't gotten there yet. and if you don't understand the value of Twitter, blogging, etc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

They had six minutes to present their pitch decks and answered six minutes of questions from noted investors and executives. These companies will take the stage one more time on Thursday, September 23, the final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Wish them luck. Koa sees an opportunity to bring banking services to more people in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We love nothing more than highlighting notable early-stage startups, and you’ll find plenty of them in the spotlight on March 3 at TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a virtual conference exploring diversity, inclusion and the human labor that powers tech. Each TC Include founder gets a 60-second pitch to a TechCrunch staffer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021. Join us at Early Stage 2021 on April 1-2 and again on July 8-9 to learn, connect with community, expand your network and build a better startup.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

From how Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital to how Coda perfected the growth fly wheel, much to the delight of Madrona’s S. Check out the Startup Alley companies that will exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in an episode dedicated to the art of the pitch. We do that by (duh!)

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. So the oft-elusive “elevator pitch” is instead replaced with a shorthand: “we are the Uber for X.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The platforms, which mix entertainment and education, have an unconventional value proposition. The belief that employers will invest in edutainment benefit platforms is a departure from the traditional pitch that edtech has used to break into this market. When the struggle is more obvious.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ben Franklin Technology Partners is pleased to announce the company finalists that will be moving forward to pitch for up to $50,000! Two Sparrows LS/Shape City, located in Erie , is creating an interactive gaming platform for the education technology market. The post FINALISTS IN BEN FRANKLIN’S NWPA BIG IDEA CONTEST ANNOUNCED!

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Interestingly, the conversation revealed that Wong declined an invitation to do a virtual pitch and insisted on an in-person meeting. She was one of the few or maybe the only CEO who ever stood up to pitch the entire team,” said Siniscalco. How Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

The public markets get educated. I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. “It By 2021, the app had gone viral after Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures wrote a blog post about it. Image Credits: Altro.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

in the third quarter of 2021 versus the same period last year. . Commenting on the Series A in a statement, Eugene Belov, managing partner at Redseed, said: “Traditional educational institutions have a hard time keeping up with the rapid pace of technological development in today’s world.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2021, we extended a grant to Grand Valley State University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Lab. It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun. It’s a story common to all sectors today: investors only want to see ‘uppy-righty’ charts in a pitch. This is less true than it was in early 2020, as digital education and work is now so commonplace that it’s possible to build a billion-dollar edtech in a single, larger European market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

This pitch throw-down is all about startups determined to power a more equitable, inclusive and healthy world, and we need more of that visionary thinking put into action. You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Join us and thousands of people around the world for this free, virtual pitch competition.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Greenlight , the Atlanta, GA-based fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, is launching a credit card. Sheehan said the company considered designing the card so cash back accrued into a 529 plan, a tax-advantaged educational savings account parents can open on behalf of their children. billion.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In 2021, when Syed Haizam Jamalullail launched The Hive Southeast Asia, I saw opportunities in learning and collaborating from such an esteemed group from Silicon Valley, hence I joined the company back in 2021. Drop what you are doing right now, listen to my pitch, write me a check, and introduce me to all the investors you know.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. 8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

During BloomTech’s last big layoff, in April 2021 , Allred admitted that it’s been difficult to make his for-profit company’s vision of “incentive-aligned education work.” Career Karma, a platform that helps connect students to coding bootcamps, cut staff this year , while Flockjay pivoted away from its bootcamp pitch in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a mere 72 hours, early bird pricing disappears for TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , our two-part, founder bootcamp series focused on the building blocks you need to grow your company. The first event, TC Early Stage Operations & Fundraising , happens on April 1-2 — that’s two program packed days of education, connection and opportunity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. The startup claims to be the largest coding educator in the region. Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The startup’s goal is to create “small Silicon Valleys” across Vietnam, with educational centers that help prepare students of all ages for careers in tech. The startup claims to be the largest coding educator in the region. Founded in 2015, MindX was created to address the lack of coding in Vietnamese school curriculums.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Jessica Chen Riolfi and Chris Goodmacher co-founded the company in March 2021 as a free financial planning tool for Gen Zers. Around the same time, they were seeing younger people invest randomly in certain stocks or cryptocurrency with no real education behind it — and losing money. Image Credits: Uprise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

A pitch deck for Anthropic’s Series C fundraising round discloses these and other long-term goals for the company, which was founded in 2020 by former OpenAI researchers. “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Obviously QR codes are now commonplace and the past couple of years has saved us years of consumer education and any hesitation around them.”. Mr Yum began pitching its mobile ordering platform to businesses before the pandemic, but the pandemic has accelerated adoption. Mr Yum’s team as of April 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

In Vietnam, a startup called Azota wants to help with an online software platform that not only helps educators develop and proctor tests, but also automatically grades them using information from Vietnamese teaching materials. Azota’s creation came amidst the pandemic in 2021. The company announced today it has raised $2.4

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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. video chat API service.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Though Teran and Gettinger were able to surpass their initial goal of $15 million, Teran was quite candid about their experience, which started at the end of 2021 and ended with them closing the fund earlier this year. “It He explained that when pitching as a founder, you share the vision of the company and can show what you are building.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, our research indicated that the web3 investment landscape is growing increasingly competitive as venture capitalists become more educated. To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

Or, as I covered this week, a tool for startups that lets companies simultaneously blast out the same application — or pitch — to multiple angel and pre-seed investors. Afore’s take on the idea is to help founders rapidly pitch expert investors while also helping those investors get differentiated deal flow on a consistent basis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. from a year earlier, and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for entrepreneurs to identify then pitch, but the serendipity — or the chasm between what makes someone an effective mentor versus just a speed dial for questions — is harder for them to scale. It also works with corporations such as Wells Fargo.

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