The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

You’re juggling pipeline, diligence, founder support, LP management, and usually doing it all with a lean team. Founders share materials via DocSend, and the cap table gets vetted in Carta or Capboard Docs & Close : Final agreements and SAFEs are dropped into structured folders. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By uniting cutting-edge AI with hardware engineered for meaningful interaction, were shaping a future where robots become true partners in driving progress, said Jeff Cardenas, CEO and co-founder of Apptronik. Its inspiring to have investors who believe in this vision and are committed to helping us bring it to life.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Creator Ventures, founded in 2022 by cousins Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee , is uniquely positioned to invest in the next wave of AI-enabled consumer applications, marketplaces, creative tools, and SaaS platforms reshaping the digital landscape. As a creator, Ive lived through the digital evolution firsthand, said Lee. Thats what we bring.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Founded in 2022, Encharge AI is led by CEO Naveen Verma, CTO Kailash Gopalakrishnan, and COO Echere Iroaga, all veteran technologists with semiconductor design and AI systems backgrounds. Verma, a Princeton University professor since 2009, has conducted pioneering research in next-generation computing technologies.

development

American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

Investors back the two co-founders having great depth in agricultural innovation and technology. Ty ler Niday , co-founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics, sees the companys success as a validation of their progress since their seed round of funding just one year ago.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2025

In 2022, she founded a Legal Advisory and Consulting startup designed exclusively for entrepreneurs and high-growth companies, focusing on risk prevention, strategic structuring, and aligning legal frameworks with the fast-paced innovation market. My goal was to become a strategic partner, working side by side with founders.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Event Tickets Center → $100 Founded: 2005 Industry : Media and Entertainment Number of employees : 30+ For me, as the CEO and Founder of Event Tickets Center (ETC), the ticket-selling platform is more than just a business launched with $100. It took her six years to turn content into a seven-figure business ($4 million as of 2022).

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A Smart Bear: Longform

JULY 26, 2025

In 2023, Buffer founder and CEO Joel Gascoigne wrote a strategy letter saying the same thing. Year 2022) This rule isn’t important only for heavily-funded VC-backed companies gunning for hundreds of millions of ARR. Since “market size” is not the ceiling, what is causing the slow-down? The chart shows the answer.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

There are some known unknowns founders and investors will adapt toforemost, a change in administration. Steep prices and borrowing rates: Although inflation has eased from 2022 peaks, relatively high interest rates persist, and consumers and businesses are still feeling the financial strain.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Morgan to bring together founders, investors, and local leaders for a conversation about the business of climate tech, and what it will take to scale solutions that make both environmental and economic sense. Help founders think two steps ahead. And if you can, bring a co-founder along for the ride to lean on.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

They don't talk to each other—much like coworkers who smile politely in meetings but haven't said a word in Slack since 2022. Matias Rodsevich, Founder & CEO at PRLab , chose the latter option and used Zapier to orchestrate the system. "We Mircea Dima, founder of AlgoCademy , decided to flip the script. "We

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Top Female Founders in 2023 and 2024. In 2022, we hired 100 people in a year, which exposed inefficiencies we had to correct in real time. If you had to share, words of wisdom, with a Founder whos about to start their own startup, what would theybe? Top 25 Entrepreneurs to Watch, and Pepperdines 40 Under 40.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

energy independence aligned with Washington policies to make domestic battery material production a centerpiece of its industrial strategy which has included more than $6 billion in grants and tax incentives since 2022. The funding is a catalyst for U.S.

technology

Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

miles to visit founders, college campuses, co-investors, ecosystem builders, and communities in rising cities. What we did: Steve Case was a featured panelist at Heartland Forward’s 2022 Heartland Summit?—?an co-chairman of the inaugural Raleigh-Durham Startup Week, former EIR of Techstars, and co-founder of MapQuest?—?for

economic growth

Jason Malki

JUNE 25, 2025

I had the pleasure of interviewing Kris Mathis, founder of MediaStreet.ai. Prior to starting Media Street, Kris founded, grew and sold a SaaS platform for sports sponsorships, SponsorPitch.com, in 2022. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be?

media

Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea. Let’s get into it.

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

In Their Own Words: Female Founders and CEOs Discuss the Discourse That’s Missing (and Hitting) the Mark This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “ Inspire Inclusion ” — a call to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, in all facets of life, including the innovation economy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 The post 5 ways founders and CEOs can diversify their leadership teams appeared first on THE BLOG. The fallout from the pandemic has left companies needing to re-strategize their recruitment policies. million to 6.3

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

Overcoming obstacles and transforming STEM education in Jamaica By Zoe Sweet “All I wanted to do was make an impact that will transform the education system in Jamaica,” says Kavelle Hylton , a 2022 YLAI Fellow and founder of STEM Builders Learning Hub.

education

StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. The founders are from Ann Arbor, but this company now hires remotely and has a major job on its hand working with infrastructure cleanup across the U.S.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. There are many ways to fund your startup in 2022. Decentralized crowdfunding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Arnold Shoko of Tanzania is the CEO and co-founder of Samaki Farms, a company that transforms food waste into protein feeds. In the 2022 GSEA Global Finals , Arnold Shoko won the Together We Grow Award for his collaborative spirit. The 2022/23 GSEA competition season is open. You are the 2022 GSEA Together We Grow winner.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. That is, comparatively speaking, when you consider the data realities we’re facing as we look to 2022. That is, comparatively speaking, when you consider the data realities we’re facing as we look to 2022.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Maureen Brown, EO Austin, co-founder and CEO, Mosie Baby. And with lockdowns now a thing of the past, we predict travel to also increase from 2022 levels which is a great sign for the industry and for business. David Fastuca, EO Melbourne, CMO and co-founder, Locomote. Richard Phu, EO Sydney, founder and CEO, Outsourcing Angel.

ecology

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Déborah, a 2022 YLAI Fellow , is the founder and director of CAPAZ Perú , which develops cultural, educational and social projects for people with disabilities through art programs such as theater and dance.

creativity

Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

real estate

Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In 2022, EO members enjoyed a long-awaited return to in-person events at the global, regional and local levels. UGG founder Brian’s Smith’s story at EO GLC. “I My favorite learning event this year was hearing UGG founder Brian Smith’s story at EO GLC. Rick Gardiner, EO Minnesota, founder and CEO, iAffiliate Management.

creativity

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.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. What brought you to YC’s Co-Founder Matching Platform?

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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. It is my conviction that female founders need to invest in their businesses and their futures beyond the business.”

education

AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

This remarkable achievement has now propelled its visionary founders, Donggyun Ko, Chaeyoung Lee, and Donghwan Shin, onto the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in consumer technology.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If five million podcasts sounds impressive, there are over 600 million blogs (Source: Internet Live Stats, 2022). Despite the challenges, for organizations that figure it out, branded podcasts are now a top channel for marketing (Source: MarTech, 2022 ). We’re still early in the adoption curve. Happy podcasting!

frameworks

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined.

accelerator

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

This builds on AV’s ten-year track record of $200M of investments made into female founders and CEOs, across healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, and more. Most notable are the 100+ AV portfolio companies founded solely by females and the other 245 having had at least one female founder and/or CEO.

ventures

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

MARCH 20, 2023

“Ennoconn’s capabilities in AIoT, together with our own in cloud computing and marketing technology, equals the opportunity to develop pioneering retail solutions for Indonesia and beyond,” said Brian Yang, funP group Co-Founder, and Chief Strategy Officer. To date, the funP group has already made major inroads into the Indonesian market.

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