TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The product is made of two main compounds, both of them are obtained through microbial fermentation of native and non-GMO strains,” co-founder and CEO Joaquin Fisch tells TechCrunch. In addition to protecting the produce from potentially harmful microbes, it also limits the exchange of gases that accelerate the ripening process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight company Convoy , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy. So YC viewed this as a major disruptive play. At least, not at first. What do you think made Convoy stand out? Is that still a good method?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding. . ” he wrote in an email to TechCrunch.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. More than half of the portfolio companies have women founders or women in the C-suite. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

Through the Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth provides a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, students, nonprofits and philanthropists to share groundbreaking ideas with the investors, incubators and partners who can bring them to market and effectively advance care.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. Microsoft’s Founders Hub platform, through which the Pegasus program is facilitated and orchestrated.

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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. Founders can apply to the program here. . trillion-dollar industry.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. Pre-seed capital is required to set the base for the business operations to start and ensure that the founders’ business is a viable one. However, for some startups, it’s a essential inflow of capital just to set base for something big that can disrupt the industry.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Just confusing minority founders even more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I could attend without disrupting my customer work by moving between the main stage and breakout presentations knowing I could catch anything I missed later.” Fast Money Breakout Sessions: Learn about the different accelerators, incubators and grant programs available to help you fund and grow your startup.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. The founders are banking that it will be different with Koa. Kidanu worked with MEST Africa, a pan-African incubator and accelerator, as well as a business lead.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In March, two Nigerian startups, Treepz ( formerly Plentywaka ) and TalentQL got into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program alongside eight other companies. Y Combinator remains the most strategic global accelerator for African startups and has invested in about 60 of them in the last six years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Incooling, which is pitching in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt , designed a custom-built server with a proprietary cooling system that it claims allows for superior thermal management, enabling the server to achieve high-efficiency standards.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Their steadfast dedication to circular principles is evident in their disruptive approach to the industry, where they actively reduce waste and ingeniously repurpose materials to infuse new life into their products. Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp At the heart of the CirculUP!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. 23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators?

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 22, 2021

ProFuse raises $1.25M for meat growth acceleration tech. OurCrowd is investing in Binah.ai, an Israeli startup that is disrupting the remote, real-time health data monitoring market with software that extracts vital signs in one minute using a medical selfie taken with a standard smartphone, tablet or laptop camera. Introductions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest participants are the second batch to land a $500,00 check as part of the accelerator’s recently refreshed standard deal. With this in mind, this year’s batch provides a glimpse on what a cohort of YC-approved founders are prioritizing amid a downturn, pandemic, high inflation and ongoing war. – Haje Kamps.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Chat to local founders and there’s a litany of administrative, tax-based and fundraising pain-points they’ll quickly point to as frustrations. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system. This would really drive innovation,” co-founder Sacha Michaud tells us.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“Our pace is insane,” said Sebastian Rymarz, Heyday’s co-founder and CEO, in an interview. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. “We were born 16 months ago and are already crossing $200 million in revenues.” ” (That’s an annual run rate figure.)

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Consider coworking if there’s interest in flexible options outside the home, or a need for greater collaboration,” Amanda Lewan, founder and CEO of coworking space Bamboo Detroit, said. I am a believer that coworking spaces will actually be more valuable with hybrid work models,” Wolnerman said. SpaceLab Detroit.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. Founder Nicola Henseler told us that at Impact Hub Ruhr the connections they made were vital, and resulted in the collections being “sold out” only a day after launch. Evrnu founder Stacey Flynn. Fashion For Good.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. Spellbound AR.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. Why is that?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs. Making our ecosystem more easily navigable and ultimately founder-friendly. Ellen Bateman. Jeannette Balleza Collins.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

When you have this legal certainty and a tax treatment that is reasonable, you want to have more VC funds than others coming to Spain and accelerate the investments that we need in Spain in order to close the gap with other European countries. And we are also allowing this deduction for the founders of the company.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. Why is that?

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

The round is led by strategic investor GoDaddy with participation from OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC, and serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt. MagniLearn has concluded deals with public and private school networks in Israel, Korea and Japan.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Funds from this $5M SAFE at a 20% discount with a $20M cap will be used to set up operational centers in Mexico and Spain, accelerate production capabilities, and scale up sales and marketing. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Learn Mo re. Register Now. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

CPO Liran Raizer is the former VP engineering of Galileo Mobility and co-founder of tactical dronemaker Bluebird Aero Systems. We’re moving warehouse workers into office jobs,” says Elliot Katz, Phantom Auto co-founder and chief business officer. OurCrowd is an investor in F2 Capital where Explorium was incubated.

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