American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

MIAMI—Palm Tree Crew, an entertainment, hospitality, and investment holding company, recently closed a new round of funding at a $150M valuation. Palm Tree Crew, through its investment arm, also recently raised a $32M venture fund that focuses on providing capital to early-stage disruptive brands across the consumer and technology space.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Our goals are to activate accredited investors and fund innovative, early-stage companies developing potentially disruptive products and services. USD’s Free Enterprise Institute, Brink SBDC, and SDAC collaborate seamlessly to ‘get to yes!’ Over five years, the Calif ornia -based SDAC has invested $4.6M

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Register Capria Ventures , a venture capital firm specializing in investments in the Global South , has announced the first close of its $100 million fund, which will focus on investing in 20 to 25 tech startups in key entrepreneurial hotspots across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

The acquisition will support businesses throughout the region in enhancing their innovation capabilities and successfully launching and expanding new ventures. Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Joining us as a Partner, Fazeela formerly served as Managing Director of Consumer and Americas at Temasek International, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore. healthcare investments, starting the European practice, leading the U.S. The people and the firm’s approach to investing. a global throughline.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Even sophisticated investors like Warren Buffett ask questions about the value of active investing. . Alternative investment funds earn on average two-thirds of their compensation from management fees, not carry or performance fees. The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We’ve reviewed over 100 of the approximately 350 available seed investment opportunities in market since the launch of our first fund in 2021, without a concrete focus on the seed stage. It became wildly apparent the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Suddenly, entrepreneurs found staff working from home and focused on virtual, rather than in-person, collaboration. Yes, it may be financially better for the company, but if it proves too disruptive or simply isn’t the right fit for the company, it can end up costing money in the long term. However, the pandemic changed all of that.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Co-founders Mike Dannenfeldt and Mike Milburn both bring experience with customer success and innovation on the Salesforce platform. “Pimly has an exceptional team that is disrupting a fast growing and dynamic market,” said Erik Severinghaus , the HPA deal lead. “ Congrats to Co-Founders Mike M. and Mike D. for this milestone!

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

First, they need to know the investment alternatives available for their business and then determine how to meet the expectations of those investors. This article delves into the critical steps necessary to show investors that your startup is not just another great idea, but a venture worth investing in.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. Innovation wasn’t a priority for those who were fat and happy at the top of the pile. It’s not collaboration.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. We advocate for policies that support these conditions and encourage cross-sector collaborations to address the complex social and environmental challenges we all face.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The new generation of workers has high expectations for the type of tech-driven collaboration they desire from their workplace. Providing technologically advanced options for work and collaboration to the employees is not enough. Today’s workforce is every business’ most valuable asset.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “I founded Sima.ai ” Sima.ai As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Two years ago, InstaDeep formed a multi-year strategic collaboration with BioNTech to launch a joint AI innovation lab. So we see it as a significant milestone and also sort of a vote of confidence in our capabilities and products that they are investing having worked very closely with us on difficult problems for years.”.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

AT&T small business is providing innovative and business-changing solutions. For us, it's about collaboration and connections and what we can do to support them there.". Should I invest to get ahead during this time? We've been hearing it a lot — this time in history presents a lot of opportunity for disruption.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces? I’m always looking for new ways to innovate. With the success of Airbnb and Uber, I saw an opportunity to use my investments as a tool to make a return while moving society forward.”. How did you get your foot in the door for investing in companies like Lyft?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. Pony has several partnerships or collaborations with automakers and suppliers, including Bosch, Hyundai and Toyota.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The round was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation from strategic investor MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), a venture capital firm for collaborations between startups and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A to build out its B2B transactions platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

NPI simplifies access to USAID resources and makes it easier for partners to bring forward their ideas and innovation. In simple terms, NPI helps USAID collaborate with local nonprofits on humanitarian work by identifying new partners and sources of funding, streamlining access to resources, promoting local leadership and providing training.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. Feeding the City Start Up has now worked with 23 early-stage social enterprises, providing business mentoring, practical workshops, direct funding, and access to investment. trillion USD by 2030.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

One of the most harrowing details of the whole affair is the fact that Anchor was widely marketed as a safe savings account, rather than a risk-on investment. While Terra’s crash disrupted crypto markets, it didn’t affect the wider mainstream financial sector, but that won’t stop regulators from seeing this as a huge red flag.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. Finishing is the ripest for disruption.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The involvement of DoorDash — which went public in December 2020, has a market cap currently of just under $57 billion, and is making its first foray into Europe with this investment — was a badly-kept secret in this fundraise, with reports of the investment emerging several months ago. ” .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. Last year, the competition attracted startups from 87 countries, and one third of the XTC 2020 finalists raised more than $167M combined in venture investment since being selected.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Verafin would appear to be following suit: in the press release announcing the acquisition , Nasdaq committed to keeping the company’s headquarters in Newfoundland, investing in the local university and contributing to the development of the local ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

That’s why I founded MarketingCube.co , a boutique strategic growth consultancy for innovative startups and scaleups. One lesson — which was especially true at Amex — is to always be prepared for shifting markets that may disrupt your business. Amex has shown how a brand and business can reinvent itself many times over.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The plan will be to continue investing in those markets, as well as expanding internationally. It takes a different approach to doing this, not using low-code but smart contracts, which could be one reason why the VC doesn’t see the investments as conflict of interest. FintechOS is active today in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We also liked their flexible model — we were able to use our CTO to lead a team of six devs from the Appetiser team, with occasional UX/UI, product management and project management as needed, it was properly collaborative, not a blackbox agency arrangement. Danny walks through a recap of his panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

To be sure, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted and profoundly altered many aspects of work life, including in-person diversity training and workforce development. This innovative technology offers a deep level of immersion that creates a long-lasting emotional impact for employees. Supplier diversity.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). Imagine what the diversity of ownership and in the workforce would look like if people with the means to invest would care as much about social and human return on investment as they do about potential profit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. The closure came just three years after it launched with the goal to build software for startups to navigate fundraising, hiring, acquisition deals and collaboration with their legal team. Total Raised: $10.2

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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