TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. 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. techcrunch.com.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. “Launch is the next big thing we’re looking forward to,” said Christopher Robson, co-founder and CEO of Wyvern.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

They also build sales collateral, such as demo videos, pitch decks and one-pagers, to more effectively reach and build long-term relationships with these prospects. To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

began demoing an accelerator chipset that combines “traditional compute IP” from Arm with a custom machine learning accelerator and dedicated vision accelerator, linked via a proprietary interconnect, To lay the groundwork for future growth, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr saw a limited demo and said he “could see where it will be of value in the area of world creation at modest budgets. seed round was led by Founders Fund, Cyan Banister, the Realize Tech Fund, Capital Factory, MaC Venture Capital, and Robert Schwab. First impressions do matter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In an interview with TechCrunch, SplashLearn co-founder and chief executive Arpit Jain said one of the biggest hurdles the education system faces today is that kids do not wish to learn, so you have to broach the subject in a way they find engaging. In a demo, Jain showed an adventure game that was riddled with hurdles.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part. .”

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

The round builds upon previous or continuing investments from the founders and executives of several industry-leading tech companies including FreightWaves founder Craig Fuller, Project44 founder Jett McCandless, Convoy founder Dan Lewis, and Stord founder Sean Henry, among others.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021. Additionally, the top 30 startups selected will be eligible to receive an additional US$11,136 per team to settle down in Korea based on their “Demo Day” and settlement evaluation results.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And I love working with founders. YC went from cohorts of 12 or 18 to roughly 400 founders last winter, before downsizing a bit. There is extraordinary opportunity for entrepreneurship and for founders to find success across the United States and across the world, in every demographic. It’s weird. So I’m moving on.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA won legislation to expand the number of eligible investors in an early-stage fund from 99 to 250 and legislation to ensure that traditional demo days are not recognized as crowdfunding events. Back to top Meet the Team Clay Rankin North Coast Ventures Founder and ACA member Pat Gouhin CEO, Angel Capital Association Chris McCannell D.C.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Our platform brings organizations to a state of knowledge flow, empowering a decision advantage grounded in confidential, trusted, and verifiable information,” says Igor Jablokov, Pryon Founder and CEO. As part of the Series B round, Carolyne LaSala from Good Growth Capital and Elizabeth Stein from USIT joined Pryon’s Board of Directors.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. The dialog was great. I remember.

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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. Apothecary.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. However, there are many other ways you can work and earn money within the industry — as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence or as an entrepreneur in residence.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the “graduation” of startups’ journey.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. April 4, 2023 Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’ YC Demo Day’s Winter 2023 batch features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building “ChatGPT for X.”

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

Michael is co-founder and CEO of Second Measure. I actually worked in video games and the same is true to my co-founder, Lillian. Kevin Hale [54:03] – Yeah so– Michael Babineau [54:04] – Like keep people on board versus jumping ship or trying to find some other solution. She and I met at Electronic Arts.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Hey, founders between gigs: What now? Unfortunately, most founders are not in that position: 9 out of 10 startups fail. Even if you achieve a high valuation, you might end up like FanDuel ’s founders: their investors got the benefit of a $465m exit; the founders got zero. . One research paper found, . “[F]ormer

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. Marc’s Lore: Startup Schemes, Utopian Dreams.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Connetic Ventures and Branded Hospitality Ventures and Sangeet Kumar, founder and CEO of Addverb Technologies also joined this round. Embark conducted a public demo to show how its autonomous trucks would interact with emergency vehicles and law enforcement in Texas. . Ottonomy.IO , the autonomous robotics delivery startup, raised $3.3

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. But if you’re a concentrated investor who takes board seats then you know the hard bit starts the day after. Co-founder discontent. What would this founder do if he got an offer to be acquihired quickly by Facebook?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. But it seemed to work.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Electrical engineers have been designing custom circuit boards on computers for years, but this approach simply moved the paper and pencil method to digital. Jitx , a startup from three Berkeley alumni, recognized that the digital approach to board design hadn’t changed much and they saw an opening. Image Credits: Jitx.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes when you’re in the zone as a founder, a case of the twisties can utterly derail progress. As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have.

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Dream It

JANUARY 8, 2020

In our most recent episode of DreamitLive , Managing Partner Steve Barsh spoke with Ron Gula , President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures. Ron has the investor perspective as the President of Gula Tech Adventures, but also can empathize with the founder as former founder of his own company, Tenable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2023

Now, just a few months later, OpenAI has upgraded from GPT-3 to GPT-4, a far more powerful AI model ( see demo ). Contributed by Robert Glazer , a former EO Boston member who is the founder and chairman of the board of Acceleration Partners , a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Early-stage founders, a shipload of opportunity is about to set sail and you don’t want to miss the boat. Schedule and host livestream product demos, tutorials or Q&A sessions. Exposure, practice and invaluable feedback from the pitch-savvy TC crew — jump on board that opportunity. But don’t stop there.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

When meeting with early stage entrepreneurs for the first time, after reviewing a demo or hearing their pitch, I often ask them to articulate what they’re most focused on building. I don’t fault entrepreneurs for relegating startup legal work to the bottom of their daily triage list; founders are spread incredibly thin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Founders from these three startups took a chance, gave it their all and ended up winning the championship — and $100,000 — in their respective years: Canix (2020), Render (2019) and Forethought (2018). We’re thrilled to have her on board. Still need a nudge? Keep reading. Want a few more details about how Startup Battlefield works?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hardware companies always had a hard time raising Series B rounds, but in spite of the downturn, Calibrate Ventures co-founder and managing partner Jason Schoettler says he’s still “bullish” about the sector. 3 guiding FinOps principles that will help you explain cloud costs to the board. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

More than 10,000 people will attend to learn about the latest tech and investment trends from iconic leaders, founders and VCs. Time to get on board: It costs less than $100 to attend TechCrunch Disrupt until this Monday. TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 — our flagship global event — takes over the internet on September 21-23.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. With massive annual technology budgets and scaled distribution, the largest FIs are the ideal end-buyers.

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