Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Get involved with non-profits where CEOs serve on the board, attend their galas and events, and get to know the leadership. In addition to high-level conferences, where else can you meet CEOs? Look for CEO roundtables and forums. None in your area? Consider starting one. Fellow alumni may be running their own businesses.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

The potential downside is that, as a Principal, you're not really as front and center as you'd like to be on decision making and board participation. Run an accelerator/incubator? So, the idea that you're going to be behind the building of great local companies as a Principal is somewhat idealistic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. Prior to the Apple acquisition, WaveOne attracted $9 million from backers including Khosla Ventures, Vela Partners, Incubate Fund, Omega Venture Partners and Blue Ivy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Having had a lot of experience on the Hospital Board, I knew we had to split this up into three steps: 1. We also scoured newsfeeds.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Having had a lot of experience on the Hospital Board, I knew we had to split this up into three steps: 1. We also scoured newsfeeds.

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Feedough

JANUARY 20, 2021

Incubators: Incubators are collaborative programs designed to help a startup develop during its initial stages until it can sustain itself in the market. Accelerators: Accelerators are for-profit organisations that help new startups by providing structured guidance, mentorship, access to investors and other support.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. At the core of Arrikto is Kubeflow, the Google -incubated open-source machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes — and in many ways, you can think of Arrikto as offering an enterprise-ready version of Kubeflow. Image Credits: Arrikto.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. There is a clear recognition of the business case for Afro-Brazilian businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. The reliance on YC could engender platform risk, considering how often the accelerator invests in competitors — often within the same batch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding. ” he wrote in an email to TechCrunch.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

None of them could afford to lead the entire round, so they would syndicate and take turns on the board. Founders can go it alone or partner with incubators and accelerators for almost every type of business. It started out with six men at a famous restaurant in San Francisco hearing pitches over lunch.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Yes, you can screw up some things, but there’s one task you can’t get wrong: you’ve got to pick the right, critical advisors or coaches, the ones who will keep you on track to accelerate toward your dream. The commitment to coaching is serious business. Business coaching: What it is and why you need it. It’s whenever a gap is observed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s not a corporate accelerator or incubator either, although it is building startups and working with corporations. An investment committee that includes UP.Labs, Porsche and UP.Partners, narrows them down to the final pair that the team will start incubating.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. That will be “the decade of the cloud&# where it really starts to become a truly connect resource that continues to accelerate innovation. Who’s in?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5 million in the fintech accelerator. Prudential is thrilled to become an anchor partner on the NJ Fast accelerator.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round. And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

It was organized by Diane Roberts of Xcell Partners and held at the StartupBaseCamp accelerator in Dublin. We arrived from Moscow on April 25th; the following day, I spoke on Raising Money to Go Global at StartSmart , a conference held at an incubator and innovation center named Technopolis Ülemiste.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

Bringing key stakeholders on board like the chief technical officer, chief financial offer, etc. Institutional investors like accelerators, angel capitalists, venture capitalists may invest during seed round. Incubators. Startup incubators are non-profit organisations sponsored by public or private institutions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan. Varanium Capital partner Aparajit Bhandarkar will join GetVantage’s board.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Incubated by Snoop Dogg’s ( yes, that Snoop Dogg ) Casa Verde Capital, a venture firm focused exclusively on the cannabis industry, Kompliant initially set out to tackle the pain points surrounding payments in the marijuana trade. Kompliant has a curious history. ” Image Credits: Kompliant.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Today, it is launching a new program called Arc , which it describes as a catalyst (not an accelerator, nor an incubator) that will seek out and then work with cohorts of about 15 startups in 8-week sessions, with the emphasis on “outlier” founders and startups from across Europe and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Gridware’s package contains microphones and other sensors to sense the ambient environment around a power pole, and it uses on-board AI/ML processing to listen for anomalies and report them to the relevant managers as appropriate. The two began working together in 2019, joining Berkeley’s startup incubator Citrus Foundry in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As Latin America bathes the startup spotlight, players there need to consider how its startup growth can translate to self-sustaining economic and social development across the board. Businesses that partner with schools can incubate the next talent generation. of GDP, while revenue from VC-backed companies accounts for 21%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

We want to be the source for incubating talent; we want to give them the platform through our exchange to launch their projects,” said co-founder and CEO Chi Nnadi on MARA’s unique selling proposition. Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

They’re also really exciting to work with because maybe they’re getting into their first big commercial contracts, they’ve maybe got their first few employees on board, and they’re starting to get a bit more serious. There’s really quite a lot we’ve been able get involved in, as we see businesses move out of that purely incubated phase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focused corporate venture capital outfits, and is instead focusing on abilities to collaborate with the LG conglomerate across the board, in a few key verticals: the metaverse, connected healthcare, smart homes, electric vehicles (EV) and the wonderfully fuzzily named tech for good.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Accelerators, incubators, entrepreneurship training programs and workshops, co-working spaces, maker spaces, universities, pitch events and competitions, networking events and meetups, venture capital firms, angel investors, government and other civic programs, and mentors. What kind of information should you look for?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Tufts, Brandeis, Boston [University], UMass, all these universities now have entrepreneurship programs, incubators, on campus accelerators that are often included in the curriculum.” VC is adapting too; Pillar is working directly with the student-led non-profit incubator Nucleate to find and fund university spinoffs.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 17, 2023

It is an opportunity to come on board as business partners and co-owners of the Impact Hub Network. To build and support these communities, Impact Hub provides relevant peer connections, a wide choice of programmes (skills training, incubation and acceleration, ecosystem development etc.), Our community told us they needed that.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

But big companies are following the wave with big efforts, including Microsoft teaming up with “accelerators and incubators across the continent,” we wrote today, to “support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years.” TechCrunch has been on that story for ages now. What’s being funded in Africa? You can sign up here.).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” If the first move on the chess board was free, it leads me to believe that for most, the second and even third moves will be costly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 27, 2013

Incubators, accelerators and others have become de facto vocational training institutes. Advisors and VCs join boards to share experiences. The valley in its entirety is structured to share learnings. Founders create huge information dissemination groups in person and through blogs.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

Incubators… Former General Motors VP joins C2A Security Board. Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator. Healthcare… This Israeli tech Insightec helped ‘grandpa’ stop spilling his drink and FDA clears Israeli-developed robotic standing wheelchair UPnRIDE for US distribution. News from the industry .

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

Her company Evrnu took part in Impact Hub Seattle ’s Fledge accelerator back in 2014, and in 2016 partnered with Levi Strauss & Co to create the company’s first eco-friendly jeans, made from recycled cotton T-shirts, showing that even the big players in the fashion world are open to innovation if the right thing comes along.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Pursuant to the amendment, an issuer would not be deemed to have engaged in general solicitation if the communications are made in connection with a seminar or meeting sponsored by a college, university, or other institution of higher education, a local government, a nonprofit organization, or an angel investor group, incubator, or accelerator.

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