TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Circularity tales: Accelerating the transition in Rwanda Impact Hub Kigali is a dynamic and forward-thinking innovation hub in Rwanda, dedicated to fostering sustainable business practices and social impact. Each startup was paired with a sustainability coach to guide them in applying circular economy knowledge to test their innovations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. “Bonfire is empowering creators to turn audiences into communities through easy-to-use tools and a no-code platform powered by their social tokens and NFTs. We are experts on user generated content and creator communities.” ” Parthean.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Pro tip for creating a sense of community during self-isolation: Virtual Happy Hours ????? This pandemic is accelerating a trend in more and more startups utilizing remote workforces and closing sales with virtual demos,” states Barsh. “As

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity? Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day. But TechCrunch reporters spend a lot of time talking with startups, hearing pitches and telling their stories; if you’re curious about which companies stood out from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day, read on. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Y Combinator will be writing fewer checks for late-stage companies, a scale back that also cost 17 team members — or roughly 20% of the accelerator’s employees — their jobs, according to a statement released on Monday. Anonymity requests will be respected.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I While Tan’s new gig is set to begin in January 2023, he sat down with TechCrunch to talk about his vision for the accelerator, its batches and his goals going forward.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

Earlier today Michael shared an update with the YC community, outlining a shift to his role within YC moving forward. After 8 years as the Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator, I’ve decided now is the right time to hand over my leadership responsibilities.  Effective

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. 3) Accelerators. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Accelerators found h ere.

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Gust

JUNE 4, 2014

For example, the most recent investment I’ve led, Social Bicycles, I saw when they demoed at NY Tech Meetup last summer. Demo Days from the NYC-based accelerators. University-affiliated demo events from NYU, Columbia, Pace and others. Major industry conferences like Business Insider’s Startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

” New crypto startups forged ahead during Alliance DAO’s demo day on Wednesday amid the FTX implosion. The most recent cohort, known as All9, for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community, presented their ideas on Wednesday during a demo day , exclusively covered by Jacquelyn. Aisha has more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

That’s a substantial increase from the 1-2 neobanks per batch that made the cut for YC in both 2020 and 2021, suggesting that the accelerator is doubling down on founders who are aiming to build the next “one-stop-shop” for fintech services. International fintech remains a key focus at YC Demo Day.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Community has never felt louder in startupland. Bringing people together over a shared interest is innate to human nature, and coming out of a lonely, draining pandemic, every startup is looking to cultivate community, conversation and camaraderie. Privacy first. It’s more than a polite request.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Our growth program typically unfolds in three stages as well, which we call the Foundation, Acceleration and Transformation stages. In the Acceleration stage, we scale the experiments that have shown promising early results. For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Diversity of a cohort matters when trying to create a community that will systemically empower women of all backgrounds. The community of women, many of whom plan to return to school, aren’t focused on classic accelerator tropes like Demo Days or first checks simply because of the stage of life they are in. A team photo.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models. We are dedicated to showcasing new practices and learning from them through our accelerator program, podcast, meetups, blogs, tailor-made member sessions, Friday’s jazz hours, and more. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

As a result, he says the accelerator model must evolve, as “nearly every early-stage VC will have a ‘platform’ component to support early-stage founders.” ” Thanks for reading TC+ this week!

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 31, 2023

Here’s how it works: There are micro-streamers (Twitch streamers with CCV ±35) who have small but highly engaged communities. Campaigns are now being scaled with new streamers while continuing to support the community of streamers and the viewers that were attracted before. The results were fantastic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. Let’s get to all of it before we start to talk accelerators, overheated pre-seed valuations and the like. But there’s also a host of late- and super-late-stage news this morning that matters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The accelerator, which has accepted only a handful of African startups, included one from Zimbabwe in this class. In addition, Choto says the company offers community and development resources that help them upskill and remain competitive in the global marketplace.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

I’d rather have a co-founder than do it alone and had a full pipeline with people from my network and other startup communities. Matthew: You gain a whole new network when you meet someone outside of your community. This was really helpful to accelerate a lot of the early-day information sharing that is so important.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Wërngël-Bi supported a diverse range of projects, from eco-construction to ecological toilets, with the top three projects qualifying for funding opportunities following a Demo Day where participants showcased their progress.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion. Internationalization is a factor. It costs about $9,000 to attend.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Adapty was one of the companies presenting at the accelerator’s 27th demo day in February 2021 — and one of TechCrunch’s favorites at the time. Adapty’s round was led by Surface Ventures with participation from irrvrntVC , two funds with which the startup connected via 500 Startups. Image Credits: Adapty.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2017

In this special interview, EO South Australia’s DAVID BARTHOLOMEUSZ , a longtime member leader and EO Accelerator trailblazer, opens up about his PoL journey, finding his purpose as a leader and giving back to get ahead. HOW HAS THIS GLOBAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTED YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY? HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH EO ACCELERATOR?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. However, the investor community also recognizes that there’s still a long way to go and a slew of opportunities left to tap. “We

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our team works with local animal services organizations and municipalities to build a custom identification tag program tailored to meet the needs of the community. Earlier this year, we were one of six pet care companies selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the Leap Venture Studio , the first pet care-specific startup accelerator.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The ample optimism in Nigeria’s tech community and belief that better days are ahead are unsurprising, despite questions around investors’ due diligence and the eyebrow-raising valuations of some of the nation’s startups. Yesterday, the accelerator graduated its first startup batch featuring its newly revamped terms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day tomorrow. How to get into a startup accelerator. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story said that demo day was today. is a skin health brand focused on men.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm. Second, he thinks that technology is the most scalable way to spread that impact.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Called Reactor , the program combines curriculum from classes Miura-Ko teaches at the Stanford School of Engineering and consists of two components – a pre-summer lecture series and a summer accelerator. Somewhat relatedly, Y Combinator just wrapped up its latest Demo Day. Were you incubating companies together?

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500

MAY 15, 2020

When news broke of COVID-19 entering in the US, we were one of the first major accelerators to turn the Demo Day experience completely virtual, and since then, we have focused on collecting data from investors and founders to help the community at-large through reports like our COVID-19 Investor Survey and Female Founders Survey.

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