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. Every day, Im surrounded by a passionate team that shares a common vision of disrupting an industry.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

The funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners included Kleiner Perkins, WestBridge Capital, Battery Ventures, and Emergent Ventures. With this capital injection, Nexthop AI plans to accelerate the development of its cutting-edge networking solutionstailored specifically for hyperscale AI infrastructure.

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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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StartupNation

JULY 17, 2025

Venture Capital (VC) If rapid scaling is one of your financial goals, venture capital might be the right choice. Grants and Crowdfunding “Non-dilutive” funding sources, like grants or crowdfunding, help you raise capital without giving away ownership. EquityNet RAISE CAPITAL Use flat-fee crowdfunding with no commissions.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Two Bear Capital, with notable participation from Accenture Ventures, led the funding round. Enterprises are then able to upgrade to quantum-safe encryption without disrupting their operations. Krauthamers appointment signals QuSecures commitment to be a leader in quantum-safe cybersecurity.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Today, Steve Gomberg is the managing partner at Mondegreen Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on cleantech and medical technologies. I do read extensively about how it may disrupt and improve various sectors and businesses. . · Leveraged his cross-sector experience to identify and seize new market opportunities.

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StartupNation

JULY 21, 2025

Since 2020, small business owners have faced a parade of economic pressures, from pandemic disruptions and inflation to rising wages and tightening credit. For instance, 100% bonus depreciation allows businesses to immediately write off large capital purchases, like machinery or equipment (instead of reducing the value gradually).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

Funding to Bring Innovation to Patients Surgicure Technologies recently secured $1.785 million in seed funding, with major backing from Launchpad Venture Group and contributions from investors such as Gurtin Ventures, BakerBridge Capital, TiE Angels, and others.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2025

Backed by a global network of venture capital firms and industry experts, the awards underscored CatalyX Ventures ongoing commitment to identifying and accelerating high-impact talent. This includes: Tailored Mentorship: One-on-one guidance from global experts in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and sector-specific innovation.

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Revolution

MARCH 10, 2025

Years of offshoring, bottlenecks, and climate-driven disruptions have made it clear: we need to rethink where and how we source materials. Now, as we double down on our investment, we know that this model isnt just a clever ideaits a necessary reimagining of American supplychains. Wood is a perfect example.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

What’s important is building relationships across the capital stack early, and understanding that what your business needs at pre-seed is vastly different from what it might need at Series C. Morgan Executive Director of Climate Tech There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to financing climate innovation. The job of a good banking partner?

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StartupNation

JULY 16, 2025

Private debt is often viewed as the nimble entrepreneur’s shortcut to capital. Many entrepreneurs are turning to these lenders who promise quick access to capital, fewer bureaucratic hurdles, and customized loan terms. In truth, private debt can be lifeline for businesses struggling for capital. If, and only if, used wisely.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. Many great businesses in their growth periods find themselves stretched for cash.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Improve Invoicing and Payment Collection Delayed payments from customers can disrupt your cash flow, making it harder to cover operational costs. If a company is paying out more quickly than what is coming in from customers, they will have negative cash flow —adversely impacting the company’s working capital.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Contingency Planning : Prepare for the most likely scenarios that would cause disruption and focus on robust backup systems. Instead of trying to beat offshore suppliers at their low-cost structures, capitalize on your demographic industry knowledge, culture, and specific skill sets that come at a premium.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Superconducting Compute Platform Unlocks Ultra-Efficient, High-Performance Infrastructure for Next-Gen Workloads A bold new entrant in the compute infrastructure landscape, Snowcap Compute has officially launched with $23 million in seed funding led by Playground Global, alongside participation from Cambium Capital and Vsquared Ventures.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The companys sensors are also engineered to remain undetectable, ensuring that bad actors can neither disrupt nor disable monitoring operations. The companys passive radar and electronic warfare sensing technology detects and tracks aircraft, dark drones, and ambient RF signals, differentiating regular activity from threats.

investing

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.

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500

OCTOBER 25, 2019

How has corporate venture capital changed? In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. The post The Future of Corporate Venture Capital appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). Venture Capital. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Today is last day to cast your vote for Audience Choice roundtables and breakouts at Disrupt 2023. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. Voting ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2013

Despite everything it theoretically knows about me, Facebook ad units disrupt my feed. Venture Capital & Technology' It provides me the least amount of critical and impactful value--and it feels like, compared to a year ago, it provides less and less value because of its efforts to monetize. Is it just the next Yahoo!--a

networking

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. If well capitalized (like we are at MakeSpace – remind investors of that).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based billion) out of approximately $238.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here.

disruption

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeshua’s Fundraising Strategies for Founders: Consider whether venture capital funding is essential; not all businesses need it.

venture capital

Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

real estate

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

Instead, it began with 15 years of hands-on learning in capital markets, working closely with entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

There is an array of capital sources that entrepreneurs can approach to finance the growth of their companies, including crowdfunding, government grants, and pitch competitions, which typically would not require giving up any ownership (equity) of their business. Where can startups find money to launch their businesses?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has affected nearly every industry globally.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. So, another aspect of success beyond the immediate is, are we able to then take this, bring it into other areas, and transform the system to speed it up?

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