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Dispatches from the Road: Q2 2022

Revolution

is core to our investment thesis. What we did: Steve Case was a featured panelist at Heartland Forward’s 2022 Heartland Summit?—?an Dispatches from the Road: Q2 2022 was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. At the start of 2022, there were $1 trillion in assets under management (AUM) and $230 billion in VC dry powder, figures that dwarf the prefinancial crisis AUM by a factor of five. Flyover Tech ) have played a significant role in this shift.

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South Korea’s largest accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 invites applications

AsiaTechDaily

Korean government’s accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), is all set to invite applications from world entrepreneurs for its 2022 chapter. month-long all-expenses-paid program from April 15th.

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Despite bumps, crypto investment starts 2022 with a roar

TechCrunch

The pace of investing may prove to be. This morning, let’s take a look at a few data points showing how rapidly the current pace of investment into crypto-focused startups is shaping up in 2022 and cast a quick glance at issues in the blockchain market that could, but are not, giving investors pause. To the moon.

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Investing in Tennr

Andreessen Horowitz

In 2022, as LLMs took the world by storm, the market was trying to navigate the right way to build solutions on top of the many models becoming available. Today, we are excited to announce we’ve led their Series A. Trey kept the team focused and spent months obsessing over novel applications of new open source models.

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Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022?

TechCrunch

Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Y Combinator, perhaps the best-known startup accelerator, has also evolved. Let’s see where Y Combinator’s most promising young tech companies come from to get a loose barometer of where the accelerator is finding the most intriguing founders to back.

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Meet Seoul-based accelerator SparkLabs’ 19th batch of startups 

TechCrunch

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. and Asia. . Its monthly subscription fee is ~$20. Its service SmartBox allows for thermal management.