American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. and Canada.

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 6, 2025

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential.

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

Running a newly acquired small startup can be highly unpredictable. You see, the biggest mistake startup owners make is tying their personal financial futures to the success of their business ventures. Income diversification can be a marvelous way to mitigate some of the financial challenges of starting or buying a new startup.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

million pre-A funding round, the FinTech startup aims to expand its regional footprint while laying the groundwork for future global growth. Notably, the round saw participation from Jason Gardner, founder and former CEO of Marqeta, who made this investment his first in the MEA region. With its just closed $5.2

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Next NJ Program and AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will increase AI investment and catalyze groundbreaking research TRENTON, N.J. New Jerseys continued investment in the sectors of the future will pay dividends for generations to come, setting the Garden State on a path of economic strength and prosperity.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 2, 2025

The startup, f ounded in 2022, is led by the seasoned team of Alex Yakubovich and Stan Garber who quickly gained investor backing to make Levelpath the leader in enterprise procurement. Battery Ventures General Partner Neeraj Agrawal , a notable SaaS investor and creator of the “T2D3” growth model, has joined Levelpath’s board of directors.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 29, 2025

She has also been successful as part of the Board Member and leadership team driving the investments from Lux Capital, Initialized, Bain Capital, the investment arm of Bain & Company and others. My motivation to launch my startup came from identifying a gap in the market where I believed I could make a real difference.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Pick a business that doesn’t suck up cash Skip expensive solutions that look like a financial Everest and require investment with a capital “I” (and five or more zeros). They offer the highest return on investment (ROI). Note: Fines can definitely cost you more than your startup budget of $100. In fact, AI boosts ROI by $3.7

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 27, 2025

The investment firm’s funding of the Tennessee-based startup builds on its portfolio of solutions that defend the nation’s cyberspace. Gula Tech Adventures has led a $2 million seed round for Starseer, a cyber security startup that is developing tools to secure and govern enterprise AI systems.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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Revolution

MARCH 10, 2025

When we first invested in Cambium, we were drawn to the clarity of the teams vision: create a transparent and traceable logistics operating system that takes local, fallen trees (that would otherwise end up in landfills) and turns them into high-quality, lower carbon building materials. billion board feet of usablewood.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 12, 2025

Fund, a private investment firm, has emerged as a major driver of capital formation and economic momentum across the Buckeye State, announcing the close of its Ohio Institutional Impact Investment Fund (“Impact Fund”) at $106 million. We’re doing what we said we’ll do—invest across the state, build a great team, and deliver results.

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a critical decision for any startup. Their insights offer practical guidance to help your startup make smarter, more informed decisions that support long-term growth. Missteps during the selection process can lead to wasted resources and missed opportunities.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Skye Amundsen , Owner, hope&plum This Month’s Free Skills Training: From Determining Prices to Government Contracting Turning Layoff into Startup Opportunity I lost my company in 72 hours, and it made me a better entrepreneur. I applied everything I knew about law and regulation to help clients make smart, informed investment choices.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Quentin Herr , Chief Technology Officer, previously with imec, and one of the foremost researchers in practical superconducting computing They are joined by a powerful advisory board including Brian Kelleher, former SVP of GPU Engineering at NVIDIA, and Phil Carmack, former VP of Silicon Engineering at Google.

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StartupNation

MAY 26, 2025

I experienced this in my time with board games when I was on the Cranium board while at TPG. The com­pany would roll out low- cost prototypes of new products to customers, retailers, and distributors with the aim of getting some market feedback before ramping up production and investing in inventory.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. Return p.a.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. Return p.a.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

A small startup still managing a few dozen invoices manually, for example, needs different features and scalability than a rapidly growing enterprise processing hundreds (or thousands) of invoices across multiple departments. Now, an important note before we dive into the specific tools: expect a real investment for a comprehensive solution.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. Return p.a.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Across the world, various economic development organizations, government agencies, and non-profits are putting in admirable and well-intentioned efforts to develop startup ecosystems. Take the example of goTenna , a thriving communications hardware startup located in Downtown Brooklyn that employees almost 50 people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. At the same time, many investors are being more cautious with making new investments, preferring to focus on their existing portfolio before investing in new companies. A startup is not a lone adventure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. So Why Did We Invest? Otherwise known as a tech startup. Yes, we’ve only launched on iOS for now. Building for Android.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 25, 2020

This is a topic of great importance and one that we in the tech/startup sector have not done a good job with. The board diversity problem is a symptom of a much broader problem around lack of diversity in founders that get funded and lack of diversity in VC firms. Most startup boards are made up of a few founders and a few VCs.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

” Unlike public markets, private market investments are held for many years, often a decade or more. There is no divorce court for startups. I also think startup boards need to evolve. There should be many more independent directors and many fewer investor directors on startup boards.

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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. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. The two hit it off and began to have monthly calls after Stone’s angel investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

You need to: study the rules, make sure that you don’t violate the “affiliate rule” (more later), consult with your Company Counsel, consult with your board and investors and then make your own determination. When the $350 billion is fully invested will more be made available? You should discuss with your board second.

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