American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

With this capital injection, Nexthop AI plans to accelerate the development of its cutting-edge networking solutionstailored specifically for hyperscale AI infrastructure. Hyperscalers need the ecosystem to innovate with them to accelerate their infrastructure deployments, said Anshul Sadana, CEO of Nexthop AI.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Steve Gomberg I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Gomberg and he is a seasoned executive whose career spans general management, finance, and corporate development across a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. Thank you so much for joining us!

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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. There’s going to be some individual pitching opportunities between a select group of founders in that program and our investor community who is going to be there. James Burnes: Absolutely.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From managing finances to overseeing operations, marketing, and customer service, it can quickly feel like there are never enough hours in the day. Accounting and Bookkeeping Managing finances is crucial for every small business, but it can also be time-consuming and prone to human error. to work together in real-time.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The four-plus year-old company named industry veteran Rebecca Krauthamer as CEO and closed a Series A round to accelerate its cutting-edge, quantum-resistant cybersecurity solutions. QuSecure, Inc., a leader in the rapidly evolving post-quantum cryptography (PQC) field announced two major steps positioning it for the future.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

We kicked off the morning in Baltimore with an engaged room, strong coffee, and a simple premise: climate innovation is urgent, accelerating, and will pay dividends. Morgan Executive Director of Climate Tech There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to financing climate innovation. The climate challenge is massive.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The financing round includes backing from top-tier investors like Greylock Partners , SignalFire, Maverick, SV Angel, Yahoo! We saw an opportunity to build autonomous agents that can tackle these workflows for providers in minutes and more reliably.” co-founder Jerry Yang, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Identifies opportunities: When you integrate AI tools into your existing workflows, it can use your data to flag blind spots and possibilities for your business. Offering training and development opportunities not only helps your team adapt but also ensures you get the most value out of your AI automation investments.

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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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s an incredibly valuable event for both EO Accelerators and EO members with startups that want to attract investments in addition to EO members who are looking for the right investment opportunity. The attendees must be EO members, EO Accelerator participants, or their vetted guest, such as a spouse or business partner.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. What is Andela, the Africa tech talent accelerator? also took part.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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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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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article. Accelerators.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners , an affiliation marketing company. These shifts are also likely to change how people work and shop far into the future and accelerate the pace of changes already underway. Opportunity in the Stay-Home Economy. We are entering a new reality: the stay-home economy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Not only is Xend Finance trying to protect credit unions from fluctuation, but it is also changing how they operate. Image Credits: Xend Finance. Image Credits: Xend Finance.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

With passion, hustle, and these thrifty startup strategies, you can transform your vision into a viable product without relying on loans or financing. This lean approach conserves resources and accelerates your understanding of the market’s actual demands. Remember, constraints can inspire innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

I''m just trying to invest in the best opportunities. Some companies have a natural terminal exit value of $250mm and we should all be able to make darn good money off of that--and that means financing them responsibly, with reasonable expectations. I talk proudly about all my founders, but not necessarily because they''re female.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

-Atul National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Herrmann The conversation: Choose your own adventure with National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Hermann The takeaways: Today’s climate problems are also incredible investment opportunities. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. GetVantage says this includes several debt lines with non-banking financial companies to help scale its financing platform. Vasa said companies typically repay financing in about six to nine months.

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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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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To support and accelerate this momentum, the National Entrepreneur Center (NEC) and Orange County Government have partnered with SourceLink, tapping into our consulting services, software solutions and national network to strengthen and build upon the rich tradition of collaboration the NEC and Orlando entrepreneurial ecosystem have forged.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

We think about the crypto sector as the intersection of Finance 2.0 (“Money Crypto”) and Web 3.0 (“Tech Crypto”), and what we have seen is that the “Money Crypto” use cases have been the earlier to materialize, especially “slow money” use cases (those that don’t require high throughput): For consumer use cases (including both Finance 2.0

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 In another challenge, EnCharge is going up against well-financed competition in the already saturated AI accelerator hardware market. Verma says that the company is pre-revenue.)

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. The second iteration has been more around like decentralized finance and non-custodial trading of financing activities,” said Bademosi.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2018

Louis, I helped found UMSL Accelerate , an entrepreneurship certificate program that’s organized and taught by practicing entrepreneurs, and grounded in the principle of experiential learning. I’ve made monthly peer-mentoring sessions of 10 to 12 other entrepreneurs an integral part of my ongoing education.

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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. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

CarmaCare is currently direct-to-consumer, but Ahern said there are opportunities to pursue in B2B2C, and the company is in talks with companies and other partners. It is also looking to raise a small debt facility to begin financing customers and other new products.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Business models are evolving, and the future of finance has never been more promising. There are fantastic rewards to be had for those who know how to exploit the new opportunities for business funding that arise in times like these. Funding from incubators or accelerators. The world is changing. Angel investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 16, 2023

Register Visa, digital payments corporation, has unveiled its partnership with seven promising startups in the Asia Pacific region through the Visa Accelerator Program. Singapore-based Doxa Holdings offers a collaborative trade platform that streamlines procure-to-pay and financing workflows across various industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. We literally are a land in which people left their stable East Coast homes in search of opportunity and a chance to start fresh.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Next, entire accelerator programs were created on behalf of corporate partners, promising them access to cohorts of world-class founders eager to listen to their needs and use their APIs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

However , the whole process proved difficult and the fund wasn’t able to because he was stuck in Nigeria and could not visit London, New York and Washington DC, “where institutional and development finance capital sits.” Investzilla is focused on unlocking that opportunity for them.”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Register Taiwanese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Term Structure , specializing in non-custodial fixed-income protocols for peer-to-peer borrowing and lending, has successfully raised initial funding of USD 4.25 Such products are currently absent in decentralized finance (DeFi). million in a series of seed fundraising rounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had raised a $12 million financing round.

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