AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

Register Standard Chartered Bank has joined forces with Singapore Management University’s Lien Centre to establish a Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator. The Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator , funded by a $300,000 contribution from the bank, aims to empower female entrepreneurs dedicated to creating a positive social impact.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Accelerators have had quite a good run the past 5+ years. Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. The accelerator, announced two months ago , is explicitly focused on backing underrepresented founders in tech. The accelerator, announced two months ago , is explicitly focused on backing underrepresented founders in tech.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This financing accelerates progression of our expanding pipeline and unlocks new applications of our unique and proprietary discovery engine, positioning the company well for our next stage of growth.” Concurrent with this financing, Paulina Hill, PhD, Partner at Sanofi Ventures, will join Avilar’s board of directors.

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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. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Business accelerator.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. With Bundle incubated within the ecosystem of the largest crypto exchange platform, Bademosi had lofty ambitions for the company.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

During the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ startups presented their innovative ideas and business models to a diverse audience, including government development and investment agencies, startup support entities, venture capitalists, and accelerators. It played a crucial role in elevating our collaborative efforts to a higher level.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. Beyond Converge, surprisingly, there aren’t many incubator programs focused exclusively on AI startups. The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May and was backed by Microsoft and other partners.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. Fractal also incubates and invests in AI projects, he explained.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. Previously, the startup has been through the prestigious Station F incubation program in Paris and the Norrsken Impact Accelerator program.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

Libra has been incubated by Facebook. We think that those features will help accelerate adoption within the entire crypto ecosystem — including our many existing investments in the space — and also help Libra succeed in its goals. A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra , was announced today.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With all of these in mind, Meng shared his excitement for their partnership with Binance as he also expressed optimism that the JV will go a long way in accelerating inclusive economic growth in Cambodia. And with the support of the Royal Government of Cambodia, he wanted to see how technology will help them leapfrog into a developed economy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Incubated by Snoop Dogg’s ( yes, that Snoop Dogg ) Casa Verde Capital, a venture firm focused exclusively on the cannabis industry, Kompliant initially set out to tackle the pain points surrounding payments in the marijuana trade. Kompliant has a curious history. ” Image Credits: Kompliant.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Non-financial companies, on the other hand, have tended to fund or partner with third-party accelerators, venture capital firms and incubators without bringing those capabilities in-house.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s not a corporate accelerator or incubator either, although it is building startups and working with corporations. An investment committee that includes UP.Labs, Porsche and UP.Partners, narrows them down to the final pair that the team will start incubating.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Jamil Wyne. Contributor. So, how did Singapore’s startup ecosystem come to be?

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

One of the questions I heard most often from commenters was: “if Techstars is an example of a failed accelerator, what does a good one look like?” This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. This has not been our experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Luup has now amassed a total of $68 million in equity, debt and asset financing to date, at what sources said valued the firm at more than $100 million. Let’s lean on the accelerator : Ron reminds you that you don’t have to do it all by yourself: Incubators and accelerators help build lifelong relationships.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 8, 2023

Register Antler , a business incubator and startup accelerator based in Singapore, has successfully raised $285 million for its emerging growth fund, Antler Elevate. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Here are a bunch of things I don''t do: I won''t do office hours anymore at incubators and accelerators. There are roughly 400 venture deals being done in NYC each year these days, and maybe about 30% or so of those are seed financings. Therefore, I''ve had to do a lot of saying no to requests for my time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Drone Fund led the latest financing along with SOSV’s HAX, Incubate Fund, SBI investment and DBJ Capital. Aso, who is CEO of the outfit, co-founded it with robotics and autonomous vehicle veterans from Bosch, Amazon, Honda and more, and now the Japanese outfit is preparing to enter the U.S. with a fresh injection of about $10.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

We’ll go after all of the emerging markets, but it’s our goal and vision to accelerate adoption there.”. This is the best timing for us to identify the long-term believers in the crypto space and is the best timing to make investments and incubate more projects,” Zhang said. We are very Southern Hemisphere-focused.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

Investors Usually self-financed or from friends, family, and other non-institutional investors. Institutional investors like accelerators, angel capitalists, venture capitalists may invest during seed round. Incubators. Startup incubators are non-profit organisations sponsored by public or private institutions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today’s financing puts Pave’s valuation at $400 million, up from $75 million one year ago. Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals. More recently, a “Black Silicon Valley” is beginning to take shape in Salvador da Bahia.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

. “Our investors recognize the significant opportunity in front of us due to companies’ accelerated spending on SaaS subscriptions, costly renewals and lack of visibility across the enterprise,” Christopher said. “It’s the right time to capitalize on these circumstances, given the economic challenges heading into 2023.”

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 14, 2023

My name is Jonathan Levy, I am the co-founder of AccountsPro which provides accounting services, Finance Director support and Financial Outsourcing solutions to Startups, SMEs, charities and not for profit organisations. We were also picked up by a couple of accelerators and incubators that shared our services with their startups and alumni.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Since closing its seed financing round in March, the company released its first product and was selected as one of six companies to join the 2022 Disney Accelerator, Disney’s startup incubator. Image Credits: Inworld AI. Inworld’s certainly been busy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. In three years, Founders Factory Africa has managed to enlist the services and finances of three influential partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Note that this doesn’t necessarily reflect lower activity in the ecosystem — it simply means that more early deals are being done by angels and via involvement with incubators and accelerators, which are not comprehensively covered in the data.

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