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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

David Cohen image via Kathleen Lavine, Denver Business Journal. Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). TechStars has several excellent mentors on staff, led by founder and CEO David Cohen.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

And as far as the local startup scene goes, the U.K.’s With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Toyah Warnock , co-founder, Lane 44.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? But the investor climate has changed, and now your business must, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

We believe very much in the consumerism of healthcare, and what that means is you have to build healthcare around the consumer,” says founder and chairwoman Gina Bartasi. Does your startup have enough runway? ” Does your startup have enough runway? Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Startups developing so-called deep tech often find it challenging to raise capital for various reasons. At TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, two experienced investors spoke on the subject and advised startups facing a challenging fundraising path. When building a deep tech startup, find the right investor, they said.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Auckland-based startup Niesh, which has developed a student discount platform, is on a rapid growth trajectory and has had to decide if it should grow locally, or prioritise opportunities overseas. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Luisa Rubio Arribas is the head of Wayra X , Telefónica’s digital innovation hub offering funding, connections and expertise to mass-market-ready B2C startups. The bigger slice of the funding pie comes as founders have to navigate a more uncertain capital landscape. Corporate investment arms have gotten stronger.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Business education is, let’s face it, finding it hard to keep up with a $3 trillion global tech startup economy that’s booming right now. Ideally, business education should be more on-demand, targeted, practical and byte-size. Members can also make 1:1 connections with each other. You get to engage with them one on one.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. million seed round led by Founders Fund, an early investor in SpaceX, backed by Luminous Ventures, 7percent Ventures and Entrepreneur First. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Early-stage startup founders and investors need to keep their fingers on the sector’s very rapid pulse and the best place to do that is, you guessed it, TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 on June 9. Buy your Startup Exhibitor Package before the deadline hits and save 35 percent. Talk about a rapt audience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

After revealing its first fund just last year, a $100 million pool of investment capital dedicated to early stage startups focusing on sustainable food development, clean energy, health innovation and new space technologies, Prime Movers Lab is back with a second fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

“What if we created a research lab and business incubator that took these people with learning differences and put [them] together? This isn’t for everyone; some people don’t want to put in the kind of effort that is required for a startup, but if you think that you can do that, go for it! Rebecca Carroll.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

After managing and exiting two startups over a 20-year career, Karl is now M13’s managing partner. Previously as DigitalOcean's COO, Karl built the business from first product to over 500 employees and $250M ARR over six years and prepared it for its IPO. It is more important than ever for founders to remain calm and be strategic.

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UBI Global

JUNE 5, 2019

Founder and CEO James Mawson and his team created an exciting event full of impactful collaborations, new technology, and insights on uncovering startups. How Innovation Will Survive and Thrive Last week’s GCV Symposium was a fantastic event that brought the venture capital ecosystem together. Innovation […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Yin Wu, a three-time YC alum, is founder of Pulley , which offers cap table management tools that help companies better understand and optimize their equity. Running a startup can be a complicated, difficult process fraught with pitfalls and ample opportunities to make mistakes. In the U.S.,

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Why did you launch (or land) your startup in Orlando? Why did you launch your startup in your city?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Juan Carlos Hernández is the executive director at parallel18 , a top-level, performance-driven international startup program with a social mission, part of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. Startup markets around the world are heating up, and more investors are competing against each other for the best deals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev , a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance automatically. For many founders, Y Combinator is a coveted milestone on the entrepreneurial road. Y Combinator isn’t bluffing when it says it wants founders to make “something people want.”. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A few weeks ago, I found a Twitter thread by Sam DeBrule, co-founder and head of marketing of Heyday, who explained how he and his co-founder reduced customer churn by improving their onboarding process. 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

In exchange for an unannounced percentage of ownership, “a16z START” will offer early-stage founders up to $1 million in venture capital. The remote-first program will accept founders on a rolling basis and wants to connect folks with partners for advice, potential customers or investors, and of course, other entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Valuation isn’t the best way to measure a startup’s success or real-life value, of course, and YC has always admitted that. Yet, as the accelerator points out, “it’s the most commonly available metric to compare companies in the startup world.”. Y Combinator’s new batch features its largest group of Indian startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

As an early-stage startup, it’s downright nonsensical, and it shouldn’t be part of your pitch deck at all. To a lot of founders, an exit — or a “liquidation event,” as the legal buffs tend to refer to it — is the big pot of gold at the end of a very long and arduous journey.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. On September 30, 2020, the long-term employees acquired the business, ensuring a bright future for many years to come. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Q&A with Meg Salyer. of Accel Financial Staffing. President and CEO, Broadway Realty.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some essays that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. Founders increasingly retained control of their company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Fathom , a startup that is building an AI notetaker for Zoom, today announced that it has raised a $4.7 Other investors include the likes of early Zoom investors Maven Ventures, Bill Tai and Matt Ocko, early-stage funds Character.vc, Active Capital, Global Founders Capital, Rackhouse.vc Fathom founder and CEO Richard White.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Nashville-based startup provides its users with access to a host of alternatives through its partnerships with over 70 investment platforms, including AngelList, Grayscale and Masterworks, the company says. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors. Alto last raised $17 million for its Series A in April 2021. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

As someone who’s dedicated her career to helping small-scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, I’ve heard many skeptics say a business accelerator program is just a cover for startups looking to increase capital. Founders of fast-growth companies often find that a peer group doubles as a strategy session and therapy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In March, two Nigerian startups, Treepz ( formerly Plentywaka ) and TalentQL got into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program alongside eight other companies. The program , held virtually , provided these startups with funding ($100,000 convertible note and $20,000 stipend), mentorship and access to its network.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Telemedicine, the standout offering, witnessed massive adoption during the pandemic, and in the last five years, no other service has been launched more by healthtech startups. These startups digitize the supply chain and distribution to providers. However, a particular segment has achieved scale faster within the past year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Has Y Combinator truly changed the early-stage startup investing game, perhaps in its own favor?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

There’s not much that thrills us more than a startup competition — and we mean deep down in our bones thrilled. We’re serious when we describe this particular startup competition as extraordinary. We’re serious when we describe this particular startup competition as extraordinary. Female Founder Award: The Live Green Co.

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