Revolution

JUNE 26, 2025

Portfolio company leaders from across the country touched down in the Windy City to connect with fellow Rise of the Rest-backed founders on tactical tools for turbulent times. Pulling founders into one physical room has always been a powerful tool for clarity, camaraderie, and the occasional course correction.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Investors want to understand the problem or pain point the startup addresses to gain their investment. When assessing a startups leadership, Andreesen looks for entrepreneurs who have the critically required drive, vision, and ability to overcome obstacles. Without this, the long-term prospects of a business idea are fleeting.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

He has successfully led projects to completion, championed user-centric products, and is currently disrupting the online deals space with his startup, Prizeskout. What motivated you to launch your startup? So many people overspend online simply because they don’t have the tools to compare prices easily.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

A quiet tooling revolution is underway or shall I say, has passed us, and it’s not just for billion-dollar firms. Good tools don’t replace instinct. Here’s how their workflow runs across tools: Sourcing : Intros and events go straight into Affinity , tagged with sectors, stages, and notes. That’s changing. They sharpen it.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

The Feedback That Made Me Sick to My Stomach Years ago, as president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, I received feedback that literally made me feel physically ill. Actually doing itespecially when faced with tough feedbackis something else entirely. Our board chairman called me in for a conversation.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

A founders journey when taking on the challenge of launching a startup is filled with highs and lows.Their path to success will have challenges, setbacks, and moments of doubt. First-time entrepreneurs may find the startup adventure daunting without having the right guidance and perspective. .”This

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 29, 2025

Five-year-old startup Eleos Health is focusing on the behavioral health sector, leading the charge with AI agents in an industry burdened by administrative challenges, inefficiencies, and limited access to care. The startup’s rapid growth has gained additional support from investors with the company closing a Series C funding round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

As startups scale, effective management becomes the difference between chaotic growth and sustainable success. After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind.

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Launching a startup is an adventure filled with uncertainty, excitement, and plenty of unexpected challenges. We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. It means building a resilient, adaptable, and innovative company.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

Hear from those who have overcome common challenges, how they have persevered to build their startups and how you can build an entrepreneurship mindset of resilience. For those engaged in the highly competitive and fast-paced startup ecosystem resilience is more than a soft skill—it’s a strategic advantage. Ask “What did I learn?”

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. and Canada.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

For example, when pitching a renewable energy startup, I used a visual timeline to showcase the growth of the clean energy market, highlighting the potential for exponential returns. This slide listed potential obstacles we may face as a startup, along with our strategies to mitigate them and ultimately succeed.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 22, 2025

There will also be workshop streams on Thursday 7 August covering topics like realising an exit for your startup, storytelling for growth, using AI to help build your startup, rethinking government support for startups, inclusive entrepreneurship, creative problem solving, Kaupapa Māori entrepreneurship, recognising ideas worth pursuing, and more.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2025

Extend, the AI-native document processing startup, announced the closing of $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding to accelerate its mission of turning complex, unstructured documents into accurate, production-ready data. His co-founder, Eli Badgio , serves as the company’s CTO.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

This article describes the entrepreneurial mindset behind successful startups, how you can develop that mindset, and the strategies to build your startup based on that mindset. Many startups are founded with great ideas but fail because the founder lacks the adaptability, problem-solving ability, or grit to push through setbacks.

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Instead, it asked: Your revenue-sharing model is somewhat unconventional in the startup investment space. Specifically, how do you ensure that the royalty payments do not overly burden the startups as they scale? Entrepreneurs can use this tool to refine their pitches independently, allowing mentors to focus on higher-value advice.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

They are at the forefront of industry transformation with their integrated tooling approach. Gururaj shared valuable insights from his experiences on having his previous startup getting acquired by a large public company, rapid growth with large-xLarge customers, and challenges in capturing SMBs and medium-sized enterprises.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In addition, SEO data can be imported from tools like Semrush, push and pull content from various sources. “We The startup has been embraced by marketing agencies and in-house teams who are now building AI-growth as a core competency.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. Mercury has reimagined this central hub by embedding essential business tools directly into the account experience. The result?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

The startup also received several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the U.S. Pisons technology also opens the door to personalized productivity tools. With support from Samsung Ventures and an expanding portfolio of use cases, Pison is poised to revolutionize how we approach mental acuity, wellness, and safety.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 2, 2025

The startup, f ounded in 2022, is led by the seasoned team of Alex Yakubovich and Stan Garber who quickly gained investor backing to make Levelpath the leader in enterprise procurement. Unlike traditional automation tools, Levelpath’s AI Agents are built for flexibility, adaptability, and real-time contextual awareness.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Whether you’re a solopreneur or a small business owner looking to scale, leveraging AI-powered tools can be a game-changer in managing routine tasks, automating workflows to lower operational costs, providing advanced analytics, and gaining advantage over competitors to drive growth. Tools like Jasper AI and Copy.ai

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since its launch in 2019 over 10 million businesses and individuals have been served with access to seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools. The startup initially provided infrastructure and payment solutions for banks and financial institutions. Moniepoint Inc.,

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2025

Earlier this month, ten dynamic Oklahoma startups took the stage at Bridge2 Demo Day, marking the conclusion of the third cohort of i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator. Bridge2 is Oklahoma’s premier pre-accelerator for scalable, tech-enabled, early-stage startups. Bridge2 helped us get laser focused.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 9, 2025

While tools like the Business Model Canvas or Lean Canvas help define business models, they fall short of addressing the challenges of adoption. Enter the Adoption Roadmap , a tool designed to bridge this gap. This tool is for leaders tasked with driving innovation. Who Is the Adoption Roadmap For?

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StartupNation

JULY 24, 2025

With artificial intelligence, businesses, especially startups, have been able to scale their content production cost-effectively. Several AI tools can enhance this messaging to make it sound more personable and human. These tools amplify the human touch, allowing businesses to communicate with empathy, consistency, and creativity.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2025

Proven ability to lead high-performing teams, drive operational excellence, and improve startup outcomes across sectors and regions. programs at German Accelerator, specializing in global startup expansion and cross-border growth. She’s a frequent speaker, startup advisor, and nonprofit board member. From there, I ran U.S.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2025

Why should you learn inbound marketing tips for growing startups? And building awareness around your startup can be a tough task. In fact, more than 20% of startups don’t survive past the first year. Of the startups that fail, 38% state lack of cash as the top reason whereas 20% got outcompeted. What does this mean?

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 1, 2025

The Michigan based startup empowers contractors, manufacturers, and energy producers to reduce costs, meet sustainability goals, and contribute to a cleaner energy grid through its AI platform that uses machine vision and data modeling to improve the quality and consistency of biomass. million seed funding round. million seed funding round.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 2, 2025

In a landmark event at RSA 2025, CrowdStrike and Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed Terra Security as the winner of the highly competitive 2025 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator. The final event at the Falcon Lounge featured a distinguished judging panel that evaluated startups based on innovation, market relevance, and scalability.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 19, 2025

Filling a Critical Capital Gap for Growth-Stage Companies Lioncrest Ventures’ multi-strategy platform launches at a pivotal moment, offering alternatives as growth-stage startups face tighter capital markets and limited access to equity and credit financing. While Lioncrest primarily targets U.S.-based

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collins introduces an interesting tool called the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) to help create this shared vision. ” Six years later, we were named us one of America’s top 100 startup accelerators. The entrepreneurs we helped were making 100 times more money and impact than local startups did before VVM existed.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Note: Fines can definitely cost you more than your startup budget of $100. Time to Act—Launch Your Startup with $100 or Less No more waiting! However, it would be better to develop a website for your side hustle or small business for a more professional appeal and promotion. They offer the highest return on investment (ROI).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

With rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and software development tools, YC believes there has never been a better time for students to work on independent technical projects. Y Combinator (YC) is launching an exciting new initiative to empower technical college students: the Summer Fellows Grants.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The two-year-old startup having served approximately 40,000 customers announced the closing of a $21 million Seed funding round to support its AI speech models and an AI voice agent platform. The company’s latest model uses a conversation’s historical context to facilitate natural, human-like conversational experiences. Its Play 3.0

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If you had to share, words of wisdom, with a Founder whos about to start their own startup, what would theybe? Perhaps most importantly, embrace failure as a learning tool, but dont glorify it. Hire the right team and encourage open communication and collaboration within your team to harness diverse perspectives.

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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. This expansion signals vast potential for early-stage investment in consumer-facing tech startups.

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