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.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

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. Investors should be more open to observer seats and founders should have more say in which investors sit on their boards.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month after eliminating more than 100 roles. The startup informed its employees about the decision on Monday morning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool , an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in their careers as architects. ” United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis. .

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

May 22, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board made several key program and policy approvals during its May meeting, including its first awards of residential projects under the Aspire Program, additional funding for the Authority’s child care programming, and record-breaking investments in venture capital. (May

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent board meeting, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) proudly unveiled its latest investments in six exceptional tech enterprises situated in central and northern Pennsylvania, totaling $725,000. The funding provided by Ben Franklin is a catalyst for rapid growth and innovation.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Hear her takes on fundable companies in the space and what sustainable protein innovators she thinks will come out ahead. The conference was the Southeast startup community’s biggest to date, with a total of 550 company applications. Check out event highlights and the winning startups. Read highlights from the annual meeting.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. Startups do not have to scrap the lean business model in favor of a more risk-averse alternative. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

9 Key Financial Metrics for Startups: What to Track and Why To shed light on the crucial financial metrics startups should track, we’ve gathered insights from nine top startup leaders, including CEOs and Founders. For instance, at Highland Laboratories Inc.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

German battery recycling startup Cylib leapt at the opportunity, raising a total of €11.6 Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries “The goal of this fundraising was to accelerate the industrialization of our sustainable recycling process, which has been developed over years of research.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. Risk and reward.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Like any major startup redirect, there were several “a-ha!” Engaged our board and investors candidly. Pivoting from hardware to SaaS was the right move for our electric motor design startup, but the process wasn’t precisely linear. That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model. Studied global markets and tech trends.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

milk industry is a $15 billion category with 90% penetration, according to John Talbot, the CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board. However, the industry is not known for sustainability or breakthrough creations. Seeing a need for innovation, the California Milk Advisory Board turned to those who do it best: startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. The legends of Silicon Valley?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. “It means we’ll be able to help a thousand people over the next few years, and it makes us financially self-sustaining. .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? There was no money train.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group. ZEBOX looks for startups in four area.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. The 7 deadly sins of startups. For all these reasons, more and more SaaS startups are choosing to adopt the bottom-up go-to-market model. More posts by this contributor. David Cahn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Singapore is quickly turning into a hub for food-tech startups , partly because of government initiatives supporting the development of meat alternatives. This is the first time the startup has taken external investment, and the funding exceeded its original target of $7 million.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 6, 2024

Out of a pool of 20 applicants, the following teams have been selected for the 2024 Spring program: Digital Evaluation Board, founded by Oren Gall (Centre County): OZG Systems’ Digital Evaluation Board (DEB) revolutionizes digital circuit design education by providing a portable, self-contained learning tool.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Early indications show funding to digital health startups in Q4 2022 fell so much , they’re close to levels last seen in 2019. Here’s a framework that digital health startups can consider: Bring clinicians into senior leadership. Robert Krayn is the co-founder and CEO of Talkiatry. I speak from experience.

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Paul G. Silva

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A central tenet of the Lean Startup is “pivot, persevere, or perish.” For those unfamiliar with it, Launch413 was a Post Accelerator that helped startup CEOs scale for sustained success by providing coaches with deep domain expertise. We committed to work with the startups for years.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How do you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup? To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Matthew Ramirez , Founder, Paraphrase Tool.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

MotoRefi has raised another $45 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs just five months after investors poured $10 million into the fintech startup to help turbocharge its auto refinancing business. The startup has ramped up hiring to help support that growth. Bennett believes the company is now in self-sustaining position.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

In my distant past as a startup founder, long before I became a writer at TechCrunch, exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt turned out to be a huge moment for my first startup. Startups and VC. Don’t miss her Startups Weekly, the succinct recap of what’s what in the land of startups this past week. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 Most tech observers share Cuvelier’s thoughts on VC activity in Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

So while in college, she came up with the idea behind her startup, Beek. Creators are responsible for upwards of 70% of user acquisition, too, since many of them draw in subscribers and then benefit from a revenue share agreement with Beek — saving the startup money on marketing costs. So we need to make Beek addictive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s not clear how many people were impacted but as of last summer when it raised a $60 million Series B , the startup had about 170 employees, according to Austin Inno. Two examples here: Former NEA general partner Liza Landsman joined fintech startup Stash , which calls itself the “anti-Robinhood,” as its new CEO.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

And this is when operational leaders are hired and the work starts to find the right long-term sustainable operating model. So this work to find the right pairing is critical and is a lot of the work that board members do with the founders and their leadership team in startups. Most are not.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

Since November 2021, the company is on track to on-boarding 100 hectares of intensive and super-intensive shrimp farms, with an existing demand backlog of more than 600 hectares in our pipeline,” says Guntur. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots We do other things, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Stenon , an agtech company that has a real-time soil-sensing solution, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round from Founders Fund, David Friedberg’s The Production Board and existing investors including Cherry Ventures and Atlantic Labs. Its main competitors are AgroCares, 360 Soilscan and ChrysaLabs (raised CA$1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

For many entrepreneurs, the startup they are trying to get off the ground might be only the second entry on their resume. Last week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed experts who had some strategic advice for finding the right time to bring a product manager on board. 4 ways startups will drive GPT-3 adoption in 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The company, which works with smallholder farmers and co-operatives across the country to source fresh produce, will use the new funding to grow its sustainable and socially responsible agri-business network, leveraging technology to supply supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, and caterers with local products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

based food startup Eat Just, says it is the only cultivated meat producer in the world with the ability to sell to consumers. Finding way to produce cultivated meat without animal serums is one of the key challenges alternative protein startups are trying to solve. The brand, which is the cultivated meat division of U.S.-based

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