American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. billion in capital.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Over the last few years he’s been a diligent company-builder, brand steward, and community leader. Oftentimes the people behind the Instagram accounts were literally the founders.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Syed Balkhi , Founder, WPBeginner Showcase Real-World Impact and Metrics When pitching to investors, especially in the early stages, it’s easy to focus solely on financials — but in today’s landscape, especially in beauty and wellness, impact is a currency of its own. Tips for other founders: 1. That’s the goal.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

Held at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the 2025 Good Soil Forum continues to serve as a transformative platform that offers not just ideas, but real tools, capital, and community for entrepreneursespecially those from historically underserved backgrounds. Jakes Group and Founder of the Good Soil Movement.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2025

million Series A funding of Gridware led by Sequoia Capital. With Gridscope units placed on power poles, utilities can now identify and address hazards within minutes instead of hours or days, before they result in lengthy outages or life-threatening disasters, said Tim Barat, Co-Founder and CEO of Gridware. The post Gridwares $26.4M

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2025

nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Investors can sign up for a two hour slot here to get six intro meetings to founders.) The founder barely knows who you are and you dont have a board seat. No one likes obligatory meetings, least of all the founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The new funding round, led by Sequoia Capital, includes both primary and secondary investments, with additional participation from Spark Capital, Marathon, and existing backers such as Coatue, CRV, and Andreessen Horowitz. billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Many startups are founded with great ideas but fail because the founder lacks the adaptability, problem-solving ability, or grit to push through setbacks. This mindset is not just for business owners; it’s valuable for startup founders, intrapreneurs (employees who innovate within companies), freelancers, and even students.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This interview is with Swayam Doshi , Founder at Suspire. Swayam Doshi, Founder, Suspire Swayam, welcome to Startup Blog Post! I’m Swayam Doshi, the founder of Suspire. Many of our readers are aspiring founders. Remember, your target audience is not just a demographic; they’re a community of like-minded individuals.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Consumer has the largest share of global GDP, and yet consumer startups have been underfunded by venture capital in recent years, said Sasha Kaletsky, Managing Partner at Creator Ventures. We believe this presents a massive opportunityand were building our firm to be the go-to partner for founders innovating in this space.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Less common bank loans, such as those offered by credit unions or Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), may also fall into this category. Faster access to capital. Entrepreneurs can build a community and get feedback. Based on early results, founders can make changes. Capital can come from various sources.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

On the business side, they face hard decisions about establishing the right marketing strategy for their products and services, gaining timely access to capital to grow their business and dealing with the day-to-day operations. Entrepreneurs are presented with both business and personal challenges as they travel their entrepreneurial journey.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2025

This new infusion of capital will enable Collide to scale its platform, grow its engineering team, and double down on its mission to modernize how energy professionals access and utilize industry knowledge. The worlds greatest challenge today is an energy crisis, said Collin McLelland, Co-Founder and CEO of Collide.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

I entered venture capital with some beliefs – many of which still hold true (such as ‘your LPs are your business partners, not your customers’). The dominance (in scale) of the multibillion dollar AUM holders, who are often underwriting to lower outcomes and needing to put more capital to work.

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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). Instead, consider budget-friendly businesses you can start with only $100 or no money at all: Freelancing (copyrighting, graphic design , SEO, etc.) A contract does.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Two Bear Capital, with notable participation from Accenture Ventures, led the funding round. Krauthamer also serves on the World Economic Forums Global Future Council for Quantum, recognizing her as a leading voice in the quantum technology community.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 1, 2025

The platform, known as the Innovation Network Capital New Jersey (INC-NJ), will bring together the states innovation ecosystem, allowing emerging companies and funders to engage with one another and share various business and investment opportunities. Investors can use INC-NJ to discover new companies that fit their investment criteria.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 20, 2025

Washingtons Premier Connector of Tech and Policy Leaders Welcomes the Next Generation of Innovators that includes Delta Force, an annual cohort designed to support 6-10 of DCs most promising startup founders. Additionally, STATION DC is launching Delta Force, an annual cohort designed to support 6-10 of DCs most promising startup founders.

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StartupNation

MAY 30, 2025

Lucky for you and your business, the course and event offerings are many, varied and aimed at helping you build your skillset and your community. But, first, you should know that before you can even apply for the $10K grants, you have to complete any two of the free courses or events the program offers. And, guess what? Joining is free.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In almost every single investment I’ve ever made, I can think of a singular moment in my relationship with a founder that, no matter what came before or what might come after, defined our relationship. Not only that, but the venture community is extremely small when it comes to investor reputations.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Morgan to bring together founders, investors, and local leaders for a conversation about the business of climate tech, and what it will take to scale solutions that make both environmental and economic sense. Help founders think two steps ahead. And if you can, bring a co-founder along for the ride to lean on.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 11, 2025

This round includes both new backers like Khosla Ventures, Bicycle Capital, Geodesic Capital, and Archerman Capital, alongside continued support from existing top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. With $150 million in fresh capital, a $7.2

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later, you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

Led by True Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Goodwater Capital and Marketplace Capital, the investment underscores the need for flexible, accessible, and high-quality child care solutions. Rapid Growth and Future Expansion With its new capital, Bumo plans to: Expand into additional U.S.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

” That was the question put to me last week by a senior leader at a large university endowment during Screendoor’s yearly Convening [part annual meeting for our LPs, part community event, part strategy session]. More companies should go public earlier but that’s a different post).

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Hidden Levels mission: to keep people safe, infrastructure secure, and communities peaceful by modernizing how we monitor low-altitude airspace. Meet Hidden Level the leading developer of technology for sensing, identifying, tracking, and analyzing radio frequency (RF) spectrum signals to help customers detect potential threats.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. All rights reserved.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. All rights reserved.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. All rights reserved.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. All rights reserved.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. All rights reserved.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

While every CEO and founder wants to create the next impactful IPO oriented company, IPOs are rare, even in the best of times. HW: Debt financing for startups can sometimes seem like ‘cheap money’ but its definitely more complicated than most founders realize. No one wants to be in the latter two categories!

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

Leapfunder events 6 Jun Round Table Session (Online Event for Investors & Startups) 03:00 PM, 9 Jun Pitch Deck Clinic (Online Workshop for Startup Founders) 03:00 PM, No time spent networking with startups outside of your interests, and no time wasted handling the paperwork. All rights reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. Get Physical!

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How this theater director built accessible creative spaces to connect communities in Peru By Jewelle Saunders “Art can transform society,” says Déborah Grández Seminario. Creating change for your community Déborah is the manager, producer and director of various cultural products on disability and inclusion. government.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One is “tentpole company,” or a category-defining startup that helps put their hometown on the map, both for investors and future generations of founders. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit? Let’s get into it. Plastomics: St.

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