TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

Turning an idea into a sellable product takes grit, but limited budgets often require entrepreneurs to develop creative solutions that rely more on resourcefulness than cash. This approach allows you to collect valuable customer feedback without investing excessive resources in full-scale development.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. DataBean : This startup develops a cooling system for data centers. and Asia. .

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in four dynamic companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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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. For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. .

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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. One, the edtech space is highly regulated, more than the casual tech observer might think.

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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. But critics contend that AWS Impact Accelerator doesn’t go far enough in supporting historically marginalized entrepreneurs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register Tenity, a fintech accelerator formerly known as F10, has launched the XRP Ledger (XRPL) in the Asia Pacific region. The 12-week XRPL Accelerator program is set to begin in August 2023 and will be based in Singapore. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Register Startup accelerator Archipelago Labs (A-Labs) has launched a $10 million Web3 fund to invest and accelerate the growth of the most promising startups and talents in the Philippines ’ Web3 ecosystem. Backed by reputable partners from the Philippine Digital Asset Exchange (PDAX), Oak Drive Ventures Inc.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. And then I started selling.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Accelerators also had a pretty good run through 2021: Recall that Y Combinator cohort sizes reached new records and the group boosted the amount of capital that it invested in batch companies. Corporate interest in startup investing has cooled this year , posting declines in deal value for four quarters and deal volume for two.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million from strategic investors ServiceNow and Cisco Investments, and existing investors including Battery Ventures and CRV. We are thrilled that both ServiceNow and Cisco Investments have chosen to invest in Nobl9.” We are excited to invest in Nobl9’s latest round and watch as they transform the space.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. The company is based in the Netherlands.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. The Fund just announced their investment commitment of $13.5 as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2022

The new funding for the meat alternative startup will support rapid retail expansion, continued product development and product capabilities Meet Meati ?—?the Their whole-cut menu currently includes steak and crispy and classic chicken cutlets, with more products in development. The funds will: ? Giga Ranch?—?capable

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Register Villgro Philippines has partnered with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada to spur responsible AI development in South and Southeast Asia. This 10-month regional accelerator program is designed to promote and nurture innovations in Responsible AI in South and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Caroline Hogan Contributor Share on Twitter Caroline Hogan is senior director of vendor marketing at Gartner Digital Markets , where she helps software providers accelerate growth. But businesses are changing where, how and why they invest in technology.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Robert Glazer is a member of EO Boston and the CEO of Acceleration Partners , a leading independent affiliate management agency with 160 employees. Glazer has established himself as a leader who invests in his team and in the culture of his organization. . Acceleration Partners has grown 20 times larger in the eight years since.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A groundbreaking advancement in electric vehicle (EV) charging technology is set to transform the industry as Greenville-based startup, Advanced Power & Energy, secures a significant investment of $500,000 from the Mercer County Innovation Fund, in collaboration with Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern Pennsylvania.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2020

Instead, his manager told him that these kinds of crises accelerate change and that he should embrace them. Since then, I’ve been asking myself, what changes will this crisis accelerate? Obviously, telecommuting/videoconferencing adoption will have accelerated. These types of crises accelerate change.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r 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.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

What Role Do Partnerships Play in New Business Development? To provide insights into the role of partnerships in new business development, we asked 13 CEOs and Founders for their expert advice. At my marketing agency, AS Marketing, we regularly work with partners to collaborate on events like webinars.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Berlin-based early-stage fund APX today announced that its two investors, European publisher Axel Springer and sports car maker Porsche , have increased their investment in the fund to a total of €55 million. So far, the group has invested in more than 70 companies and plans to increase this number to close to 200 by 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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Revolution

JULY 22, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce our seed investment in Anduin , a software company improving invoicing, accelerating collections, and modernizing payments for owners and executives in professional services, such as accounting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change. Apple announces new projects related to its $100 million pledge for racial equity and justice.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

LinearB , a startup that helps engineering leaders optimize the workflow of their development teams, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Tribe Capital. The company says it managed to grow its user base from 1,500 development teams in 2021 to over 5,000 today. Image Credits: LinearB.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. It’s now landed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, which includes an undisclosed equity investment in the startup. We see Builder.ai

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“So that architectural shift is absolutely happening, and is only accelerating. And that’s in the background of why we also raised this next round to really accelerate that, to fuel the developer revolution and advance [this] modern way [of developing websites], and to also tackle the next set of challenges.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat? The framework was originally created to help public market investors determine whether or not an investment opportunity afforded a defensible moat that would contribute to a superior return-profile. When exploring an investment in a tech hub?—?i.e.,

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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. The accelerator will take in 10 technology scaleups annually over the next four years for the Chapter54 program, which will last up to eight months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The startup is attempting to position itself as being uniquely prepared to work with this market, and today it announced a $15 million seed investment on a post-money valuation of $100 million. He said he’s struggling to find women for his business development organization, but that’s something that he is actively working on.

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