Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 Get everyone on board with your WHY. The post 5 ways founders and CEOs can diversify their leadership teams appeared first on THE BLOG. million to 6.3 million, respectively.

leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

In EO, we celebrate the remarkable women entrepreneurs who have shattered glass ceilings and are now paying it forward to pave the way for future generations of female founders to rise. We’ve helped our portfolio companies with introductions with potential customers, board members, key employees, and advisors.”

education

Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In Australia, we’ve seen similar growth, with the number of businesses owned by women increasing to over 35 percent in 2022. As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022. There are many reasons that we are seeing more women show interest in owning their own business.

entrepreneurship

AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Then in 2022, global markets took a huge hit, and the once booming NFT / crypto space transformed into a bloody battlefield.

founder

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

So In May 2020, he teamed up with fellow Digital Ocean co-founders Mitch Wainer and Ben Uretsky to startup Welcome Homes , a New York City-based company that offers people a way to design and build new homes online. DigitalOcean’s other two co-founders Jesse Mauro and Marc Hartman are advisors to the company).

founder

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He told private bankers that the $20 million, which amounted to 40% of the $50 million Slync raised from angels and venture firms, represented “a distribution from my company” — a distribution that Slync’s board of directors never authorized. billion in 2022. But lots of startups do the same.

founder

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

ventures

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. Hershenson also serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the Advisory Council of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park.

disruption

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle’s co-founder and CTO “Dillon Woods says that at previous jobs, he found that it took several months with a couple of engineers dedicated to the task to get a product onto the AWS marketplace, and he noticed that it was a similar set of tasks each time.”

accelerator

AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Loong Wang, the Co-Founder of Automera, spoke to the media during the announcement. ALSP’s Executive Vice President and Automera board member, Alice Chen, expressed ALSP’s collaboration with the Singapore biotech community to enhance the technological advancements and programs being developed by Automera.

health

TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Wyvern , which is working specifically on hyperspectral imaging (imaging that captures light across many different wavelengths, including non-visible ones) is also joining Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort. “Launch is the next big thing we’re looking forward to,” said Christopher Robson, co-founder and CEO of Wyvern.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

investing

American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. To help these fintech companies succeed, in addition to funding, the Ut ah -based BankTech created an ecosystem comprised of bankers, industry organizations, and tech founders who are working collaboratively to bring ongoing innovation to community banking. “We

communities

AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders. program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

development

AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Launched in August 2022, AIFF has an investment mandate to support innovative and high-growth social enterprises in the region as it targets to reach a fund size of $50 million and expects to provide catalytic growth capital to 10 to 15 social enterprises in Asia.

capital

Jason Malki

JANUARY 23, 2023

is a previous founder in the financial technology space and has a trackrecord of supporting founders even at the earliest stages. I was a failed founder who made all the mistakes someone could when trying to scale a startup. How did you break into tech investing?

venture capital

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. Olipop anticipates achieving a $100 million run-rate by the end of 2022.

capital

TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Layoffs up in H1 2022. So far in 2022, fintech startups are earning another, less favorable distinction — accounting for the third largest number of layoffs, by percentage, globally. There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann.

startup

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

In a column for TC+ , Ben Tigner, co-founder and CEO of electric aerial mobility company Overair, identified four trends that are changing how investors, entrepreneurs and the market are responding to expanding opportunities in eVTOL: An expanding competitive landscape. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Walter Thompson.

construction

TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Individual investors involved include Airtable co-founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman and DocuSign CEO Dan Springer. CEO Khusid told TechCrunch he considers the company a “pioneer of visual collaboration,” with its early days as a digital whiteboard.

collaboration

TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alto announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Advance Venture Partners , whose founder and managing partner David T. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors. Alto last raised $17 million for its Series A in April 2021. .

investing

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

culture

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

startup

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). Patch’s first site will open in Chelmsford, Essex in early November, and the startup says several more sites are planned for 2022. It’s now raised a $1.1

culture

TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s been a 12-year journey for Purely Elizabeth founder Elizabeth Stein, and based on her plans for the company’s next phase, she is just getting started. Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022. This gives the company $53 million in total funding.

capital

American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 1, 2023

Health and wellness startup’s support draws from prominent celebrities, top medical experts and prominent investor backing Healthcare consumers continue to seek alternative ways to manage their health, according to a Gallup study conducted in late 2022.

health

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently. ” Gener8tor co-founder Joe Kirgues. More than 1,000 companies have cycled through its accelerator, and it was named 2022’s VC firm of the year by The International Trade Council.

startup accelerator

TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Previous backers, including Slow, Founder Collective, Indicator Venture, Entrée Capital and CueBall also made follow-on investments in the round. “As we look ahead to launching with some of the nation’s largest employers in 2022, we are on track to grow to cover more than 1 million lives,” Kim said. .

support

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

She told TechCrunch that the platform, launched this month in beta, plans to go live fully in 2022. where the SAT is the standardized test for college admissions, the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) are the equivalents for university admissions in Nigeria.

education

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Direct experience of that was, in fact, some of what drove the founders to start the company: planning a trip to London from Belgium for the Olympics in 2012, Gino Engels and his friends couldn’t find any hotel rooms that weren’t painfully expensive. “We

hospitality

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The New York-based company got its start in 2010 by founder and CEO Chris Ashenden and is the result of his journey to find out why he continued to feel bad. The company operates remote only, and Ashenden expects to triple the company’s 150-person workforce in 2022. “It’s Chris Ashenden, CEO of Athletic Greens.

health

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. Funke Opeke is one of the very few founders to have come this far: running an African tech company to the point of exit.

venture capital

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Christine Moseley told TechCrunch that a majority of produce companies are still using pen, paper and fax machines to do business. As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. It also creates an additional revenue stream for farmers.

sustainability

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cliff is headed over to the California Air Resources Board. The UK’s Department of Transport reports weekday cycling rates have jumped 47% in the first half of 2022. The company also reported widening losses for the second quarter and said it no longer expects to generate revenue in 2022. billion in 2022, up from the $4.75

micromobility

propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

In this Startup Spotlight session, Propel(x) had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Barmak Heshmat, the CEO and founder of Brelyon. Barmak shared that the Propel(x) investment was template-based and the same template was being used across the board for other companies which were fundraising too.

investing

TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The idea to create an animated superhero franchise for kids, especially those in Africa, was because there was a lack of such shows, co-founder and CEO Bisignani told TechCrunch on a call. To this effect, the company appointed Matthew Ball — a venture partner at Makers Fund, the world’s largest gaming venture fund by AUM — to its board.

education

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Rampell is on the company’s board, but is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. Specifically, he said, Point’s funding volume was up over 5x in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the first quarter of 2021. “We Image Credits: Co-founders Eddie Lim and Eoin Matthews / Point. So, what exactly does Point do?

real estate