500

MARCH 26, 2020

When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. 500 immediately stood out to me, not only for their reputation as one of the top accelerators in Silicon Valley, but also because they seemed to be one of the few VCs at the time that recognized that true entrepreneurship was blind.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Still, the massive accelerator has two days’ worth of upstart tech companies to show off. The idea is that you might not have time to sit through over 100 pitches – so let us filter a bit and highlight some of the best companies from the first day of Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 Demo Day. Let’s have some fun!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it.

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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.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

NOT spending time on the accelerator building the product. The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. The most valuable resource the accelerator provides is the network, so use all my time to navigate that network. Here are some truths about what accelerators can be for startups: A small filter.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. 4/ Are Demo Days The Right Model? to solve this issue.

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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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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture Capital. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). Private Equity. Pratt’s Guide .

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. In fact, you'd probably be better off both deciding on a tat on demo day. I'm saying this because I went to my first YCombinator Demo Day last Tuesday.

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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. Let’s start with a juicy topic: pro rata.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors.

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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. A lot of top firms show up, including from NEA, Lux Capital and Sequoia Capital. For example, Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures and Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures helped advise Pear’s newest batch of companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 1. For YC Summer 2021 Demo Day, the accelerator’s fourth virtual gathering, Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm, Devin Coldewey, Lucas Matney and Greg Kumparak selected 14 favorites from the first day of one of the world’s top pitch competitions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

Tech innovation is a cycle, especially in the main character-driven world of early-stage venture capital and copycat nature of startups. Y Combinator this week announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. The latest proof?

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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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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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500

JUNE 9, 2020

From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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MAY 14, 2012

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. Techstars and other accelerators have also become major network hubs in the NYC ecosystem, bringing investors together from all across the country.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

But after spending hours watching YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day pitches this week, we also couldn’t help but try to connect the dots: Are Scandinavian startups making waves at Y Combinator? If you add up the fact that rival accelerators 500 Startups and Techstars have given up on their Stockholm programs, a pattern starts to emerge.

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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 Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We talked about the venture capital angle, since early-stage investors in the app reactively distanced from their investments. Robinhood filed privately to go public !

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

This was Y Combinator week in a sense, with the well-known accelerator showing off hundreds of startups over a two-day period. For our Deals of the Week, we had: Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers , Acorns buys GoHenry and Alex has notes on how the Q1 venture capital market is shaping up.

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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

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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AUGUST 19, 2013

There''s been a lot of innovation in the startup fundraising world in the last couple of years--Angellist, Second Market, accelerators, etc. Hunter Walk''s post on demo days really does a good job of summarizing how I feel about this: ".I’m Venture Capital & Technology' Still, I think he''s right about this point.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

To help them along, one construction tech-focused venture capital firm is eager to fund a new generation of startups in the space. For starters, Formwork Labs will select five pre-seed companies to participate as a cohort in its immersive, 10-week startup accelerator program. trillion-dollar industry.

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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! “But it doesn’t negate the fact that women are coming to the table from an investor standpoint.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The Exchange loves a demo day, so we keep an eye on accelerators as best we can. As we wait for the first presentations to begin, this is a good time to take a quick look at the early-stage venture market that companies from accelerators of all stripes will operate in this year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Y Combinator, perhaps the best-known startup accelerator, has also evolved. It now offers more capital to chosen companies than ever and is in the process of working out how its program will operate in a post-COVID world. ” This is not a new trend.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene in Africa, collecting more than $1.8 Yesterday, the accelerator graduated its first startup batch featuring its newly revamped terms.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Satellite servicing company Starfish Space has closed $7 million in funding to accelerate the development of a space tug vehicle that can extend the life of spacecraft and get rid of orbital debris. This latest round was co-led by NFX and MaC Venture Capital, with participation from PSL Ventures, Boost VC, Liquid2 Ventures and Hypothesis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

It will be all hands on deck today and tomorrow as we listen to startups pitch at the YC Demo Day, so look out for a deluge of stories over the next two days. YC’s Demo Day showed off 32 startups from India (the accelerator has funded almost 200 Indian startups to date), with heavy focus on fintech. You can sign up here.).

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Its startup ecosystem is active and well designed, attracting the attention of investors, accelerators, and incubators worldwide.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The investment accelerates the commercialization and adoption of Pryon’s AI-enhanced knowledge management platform for private and public sectors. This funding allows Pryon to accelerate its growth, augment its team, expand into international markets, and scale strategic partnerships.

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