TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Exhibiting your early-stage startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-20 is one of the fastest ways to discover new opportunities and accelerate your growth potential. Along with demo space, a $725 Early-Stage Startup Demo Package includes: Four event passes to help your team maximize time and opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

In a well-researched report, Tage Kene-Okafor examines how factors such as YC going remote, increased investor interest, and relationships with previous Nigerian YC graduates helped this bustling ecosystem direct more companies into the accelerator than many other tech markets this year. Image Credits: TechCrunch/Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. . There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

A big area where this exists prominently is in finance, he argues, leaving consumers in a spot where they need a financial platform that helps them when they have a fever (overspend) instead of when they’re feeling ambitious (after their New Year’s resolution). Activation edtech.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

What are the options, benefits, and risks of alternative financing for a startup? Alternative financing is any kind of financing that does not involve a traditional bank. They may seek alternative funding as a supplement to traditional financing. What is Alternative Funding? They are turned down for a traditional loan.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2016

The salesperson figures if he/she sends the same terrible email to everyone, at least 3% of the market will want a demo. The post How To Use Relevancy To Accelerate The Sales Funnel appeared first on THE BLOG. It’s volume versus relevancy. In 2015 the average person received 122 emails a day and this figure is expected to grow.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Balynce: A New Approach to Financial Wellness Ryan Dudley’s Balynce is set to change the way Americans manage their finances. “The talent and innovation we witnessed at Demo Day were truly inspiring.

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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. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 3) Accelerators. Right here. million in cash and prizes.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Another avenue that is increasingly a good idea is to consider applying to one of the new breed of accelerators. While yCombinator and TechStars are the two best known, there dozens of others, local, national and international, many specializing in specific areas (including fashion, food, finance, gaming, etc.)

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The financial institution recently organized the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ a startup demo day held at the KB Innovation Hub Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul. The session facilitated valuable exchanges between government officials, investment organizers, venture capital funds, accelerators, and digital platform managers from KB Financial.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. Sales teams can also use it to book demos, increase inbound conversion rates, eliminate manual lead routing and streamline critical processes around meetings.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

It has to be presented as the path to career acceleration. To accomplish this, consider creating a recurring demo-day specifically for sharing surprising user insights rather than merely celebrating the launch of new, but perhaps unvalidated, products and features.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. While the Demo Day for this year’s winter batch was held in a day, it’s two days for this summer batch. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. Besides, the top 30 teams got $11,136 through a Settlement program.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. So we’ve also eliminated these high-end production demo days, the big events. I’m keen for you to let us know a bit more about what that looks like. James Burnes: Absolutely.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

That conversation hasn’t disappeared, but it has certainly gotten quieter, with many investors now telling me that there’s a super surge of financing on the way. If you missed last week’s newsletter, read it here: “Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration.” What’s the human side of the layoff story? Well, kind of.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

The SaaS-friendly fintech platform emerged from stealth this week with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding with a Stripe partnership. Last week, I wrote a newsletter on how accelerators need a refresh on what they consider a ‘value-add service.’ The disconnect between Y Combinator Demo Day and due diligence.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity. Shell’s Gamechanger Accelerator selects three companies for its energy transition accelerator. The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making). Hear how Poshmark went from Series A to the public markets with Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators. According to Clayton Bryan, partner and head of 500 Global’s accelerator fund, demo days are still key for founders and investors, even if they’re now held virtually. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If so, startup valuations could decline en masse, along with the more exotic areas of startup-related finance. Chatting with Hippo’s CEO Assaf Wand this week, he posited that SPACs were a market-response to the public-private valuation gap, an accelerant-cum-bridge to help startups get public while demand was hot for their equity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Brick & Mortar Ventures , headed by Darren Bechtel of the Bechtel family, is teaming up with BuiltWorlds , which describes itself as a network of buildings and infrastructure professionals, to launch an early-stage accelerator program called Formwork Labs. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

” I normally have my nice demo setup that I do, I’ll do like chocolate lava cake and a steak [in the June Oven]. So I got there about 15 minutes early to do that, and [Jim] was already sitting in the front steps of the office, ready to open the door for me — he’s like, ‘I don’t need a demo, I own this.'”

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

When things like fundraising, hiring, finances, etc. The commitment and finance pieces were important to me to be aligned on from the get-go. This was really helpful to accelerate a lot of the early-day information sharing that is so important. Curtis: The first startup I did, we didn't have this list of questions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Like Djamo, both startups are YC-backed and are the other Francophone startups to have made it into the accelerator. Oolu Is Bringing Solar Energy To West Africa’s Off-Grid Population. But with this Winter 2021 batch, Djamo becomes the first fintech startup from the region.

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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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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Mainly the demo day deck, the email deck and the meeting deck. Demo Day pitch. The conditions for a demo day pitch are pretty peculiar: You have the founder presenting, so the slides don’t need to be self-explanatory. Using a demo-day (non-self-explanatory) deck to send via email. Product slide. Go-to-market.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Private Equity. Thomson One.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Perhaps founder and CEO Andrew Hoag inadvertently forecasted the layoffs when he told Kyle, “Teampay’s software-led approach has proven resilient — as we saw in late 2020 to 2021, when the economy rebounds, Teampay benefits disproportionately through accelerated growth.” We’ve raised around $1.4 I don’t think the market is there right now.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year. Last month, Y Combinator said that it had intentionally reduced its summer cohort by 40%.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work. Google for Startups Accelerator. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Techstars Impact Accelerator.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day. “ We quickly saw that the accelerator model didn’t work, so we started investing individually. The plan was to run LeadPath like Y Combinator but it didn’t take off as planned.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. Yesterday, I spoke at Columbia Business School.

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