Dream It
JANUARY 13, 2021
The venture capital screening call is an important step to get right in due diligence. In this Dreamit Dose, associates Alana Hill and I, Elliot Levy , offer five things we wish founders knew after screening over 1,000 startups in the last year. Startup Insights Fundraising
500
MARCH 26, 2020
It’s what led me to San Francisco, and, ultimately, what drew me to 500 Startups. When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. No one would’ve envisioned me as a venture capitalist.
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GAN
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Every year, some 30,000+ startups vie for just 1,300 spots at GAN Accelerators. Success rates for startups after they graduate from a GAN Accelerator are pretty impressive, too—more than 80% continue to be in business today. Most startups end there.
GAN
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
All of the branches are running successful accelerator programs, which benefit from the international trade relations and flair of the metro region. According to Hamburg Startup Monitor 2018, more than 660 young companies are to be found in the harbour city. Successful startups like About You, XING, Bigpoint, InnoGames, Jimdo, Mobile.de, Tipp24 and Free Now (formerly MyTaxi) started their journey in Hamburg. Accelerators Unite—GAN in Hamburg.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 21, 2022
There are hundreds of accelerators, but do they actually help? founders startup entrepreneurship accelerator venture-capitalContinue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
500
DECEMBER 20, 2019
It’s been a crazy journey for us from a small first batch of startups in our Silicon Valley Accelerator to running accelerators across the globe and investing in founders from over 76 countries. Over the past nine years, the venture capital landscape has dramatically changed.
Gust
MARCH 21, 2016
With startup growth up 61% since 2014 and more investment programs emerging, it can be overwhelming for founders to know just where to jump in. As the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, MassChallenge has helped 835 startup companies around the world, who have raised over $1.1 We have seen startups at. The post From Accelerators to Venture Capital: What is best for your startup?
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 17, 2020
Startups need capital to launch and grow. What many entrepreneurs don’t know is that startup capital comes in many different flavors. Here is a 2-page table summarizing each of the major flavors of capital, their pros, cons, and who they are good for.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 13, 2022
One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. ” “Where we invest, there was not a lot of capital yesterday. The U.S.
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. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. based startups.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
Accelerators have had quite a good run the past 5+ years. Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators.
GAN
JULY 23, 2019
Each year, GAN asks the accelerators in our community hundreds of questions on their programs with one goal in mind—to gather concrete insights into the state of the accelerator industry as it stands in any particular year. Responses from our yearly survey culminate in a giant data report available to any accelerator from the community that provided us with their data. Applying to Accelerators in 2019. On average, accelerators receive 594 applications for just 9.6
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned.
TechCrunch
MARCH 24, 2021
Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. The accelerator, announced two months ago , is explicitly focused on backing underrepresented founders in tech. Accelerators embrace change forced by pandemic.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. As with other forms of venture capital, CVC has pulled back some this year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.
TechCrunch
MAY 16, 2022
Startup layoffs are back, and the damage is starting to add up. Back in early 2020, an online layoff tracker — Layoffs.FYI — was built to collect and tabulate startup layoffs. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.
Haystack
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Those of us in the early-stage tech ecosystem by now well know that saying “there are a LOT of seed and new startups” is a gross understatement. And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc. ” Startups, don’t outsource your BD.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Saba Karim is director of the startup pipeline at Techstars. As the head of startup pipeline at Techstars, I’ve been getting on calls with founders, attending events, speaking on stages like TechCrunch’s Disrupt and hosting countless Twitter Spaces. Saba Karim. Contributor.
500
OCTOBER 4, 2019
One of these often-overlooked regions is Russia, which despite challenges, has a booming tech and startup ecosystem. Last year, 500 partnered with Sberbank—Russia’s largest bank and a leading global financial institution—to launch an accelerator in Moscow, bridging the gap in knowledge and social capital between Silicon Valley and Russia. Thirty hand-selected startups took.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Austin, Texas, is becoming the new home for large companies (Tesla), investors and startups alike. . It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program.
500
OCTOBER 25, 2019
How has corporate venture capital changed? Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. As one of the most active, early-stage investors in the world¹, 500 Startups has a unique perspective on the innovation economy.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure are well known: Undercapitalization, scaling challenges, lack of a competitive advantage or realistic IP. Creative capital comprises the design and development assets that bring an ingenious idea to life.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Accelerators have become a major force in the startup world, but these teeming masses of potential have been forced, like every other industry, to adopt major changes with the pandemic. Cyril Ebersweiler is a venture partner at SOSV and founder of the HAX hardware accelerator.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Disruption favors the small startup, and the pandemic has most certainly been disruptive. So it’s no surprise that accelerators and incubators are pumping out new startups that are ready to tackle the problems of 2020.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 28, 2016
By Lauren King, Director of the EO Accelerator Program. As someone who’s dedicated her career to helping small-scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, I’ve heard many skeptics say a business accelerator program is just a cover for startups looking to increase capital.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips.
GAN
APRIL 8, 2021
Each year, GAN asks the accelerators in our community hundreds of questions about their programs with one goal in mind—to gather concrete insights on the current state of the accelerator industry. Responses from our annual survey culminate in a giant data report that we make available to any accelerator within the community that provided us with their data. Applying to Accelerators in 2021. On average, accelerators receive 576 applications for just 11.2
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Skit announced today it has closed $23 million Series B round to accelerate its growth in domestic and global markets including the US and South East Asia and enhance its voice automation platform. AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 4, 2021
The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 24, 2014
These days, there are a ton of options for you if you''re a startup seeking guidence. We''ve done a lot to make sure startups get all the help we can get--and it''s leading to higher companies getting off the ground. So if you want to make better ecosystems, and better startups, doesn''t it stand to reason that you could help the situation by making better VCs? Just like a startup accelorator, a VC program would also really help on the fundraising side.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 21, 2022
Partech Shaker , the innovation division of the Paris-based VC firm Partech , has launched an accelerator program christened Chapter54 to help European startups launch in African markets. Africa Funding Startups Venture Capital accelerator africa Chapter54 Partech
David Teten VC
APRIL 1, 2021
Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. For a roadmap of your options in working with outside talent, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 8, 2022
Even to outsiders, the inner workings of startup accelerators has become familiar: pumped up on camaraderie and energy drinks, scrappy founders do product demos onstage before a room full of buzzy journalists and investors. Accelerators have an interesting role to play here.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2020
’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed from ICE71 Accelerate, 25 June 2020.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
He has opinions on bigger batch sizes , a growing standard deal , competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day. Michael Seibel is synonymous with Y Combinator’s growth over the past decade.
GAN
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
While I’ve been in the startup world for over a decade now, I know my mom (and many of my friends) have no idea about all of the startup jargon we throw around, especially when it comes to the type of support startups can receive. Words like accelerator, incubator , venture studio, and others are terms that sound the same or are very confusing. So, I thought it might be helpful—for my mom and yours—if I put together a “startup support terminology guide.”
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems. Startups 500 Global accelerators
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