NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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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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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Note: Fines can definitely cost you more than your startup budget of $100. 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’s my passion.

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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? Average ARR at IPO is $255M.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

There are some known unknowns founders and investors will adapt toforemost, a change in administration. In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024.

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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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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Top Female Founders in 2023 and 2024. Horners insights into startup dynamics and scalable business strategies have earned her a seat on Forbes thought leadership councils and established her as a leading voice in the business community. In 2022, we hired 100 people in a year, which exposed inefficiencies we had to correct in real time.

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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 an event connecting coastal investors with Chicago’s most innovative startups. figuratively and literally?—?is

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit?

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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. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022.

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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. Get angel investment for your startup. Angel investment. Venture capital or VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A few years ago, VCs were expected to perform extensive due diligence on startups. Investors dove into financials, called customers and vetted founders. But power has now shifted toward the founders after a long run of investors holding more than half the power thanks to the commoditization of capital. ” Mary Ann Azevedo.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4%

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. marking its highest level since 2017.

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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. We are an Insect-Tech startup. The 2022/23 GSEA competition season is open. Apply today!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

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 Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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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. Our goal is to help increase the number of entrepreneurial startups led by women and increase the number of women in early-stage investing.”

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., the free YC Startup School courses). Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

Register Korean startup Noutecompany has captured the attention of the world with its ground breaking platform, WeBudding , revolutionizing the digital stationary market. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Register Asia is a significant market for startups due to its large and diverse population, as well as its rapidly growing economies. South Korea’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 19, 2023

A new batch of enterprising New Zealanders are being given the opportunity to fast track their ventures from idea through to startup, thanks to an online education initiative backed by Callaghan Innovation and entrepreneur education platform Startup NZ.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. Mr. Eazi (founder of Empawa Africa and investor in PawaPay). According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Bain & Company, a prominent global management consulting firm, has revealed its plans to acquire the Asia-Pacific division of Rainmaking, a renowned venture-building and startup development studio. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 12, 2023

Register Indonesia-based ed-tech startup SoLeLands has successfully secured funding led by venture capital firm East Ventures, with participation from SMDV. Launched in 2022 SoLeLands was established in response to the evolving nature of parenting in today’s world. The exact amount of funding raised was not disclosed.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

1Billion Partners supports startups with innovative ideas and growth potential in South Korea and beyond. During the BEYOND Expo , 1Billion Partners had the opportunity to showcase its commitment to supporting startups globally at the Korea Tech Reception.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

Register Jakarta-based startup BintanGo , a platform facilitating content creators in monetizing their work, has recently secured $2.2 This infusion of capital takes the total funds raised by the startup to $4.8 This was followed by a seed round in April 2022, generating $2.1 million in fresh funding, a mix of debt and equity.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Loong Wang, the Co-Founder of Automera, spoke to the media during the announcement. Since its establishment in 2022, the firm has invested over $220 million in various sectors, including biotechnology, diagnostics, digital health, and early-stage venture capital funds.

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