TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Pangia: Empowering Community Management Kemi Levi, Hannah Clark, and Nassir Mohamud introduced Pangia , a comprehensive community management platform designed to foster highly engaged, data-driven communities.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Friction in Sales : The traditional sales process involved cold calls and lengthy demos, which were less appealing to modern customers who valued a frictionless experience. We need to educate the market about these inefficiencies and how our integrated approach can overcome them.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Some have become well known in the entrepreneurial community as benchmark operations for others to emulate, including TechStars and Y-Combinator. There are many stories of funding deals made on demo day amid the excitement of seeing new, polished startups with great ideas and the beginnings of an infrastructure.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator is slowly growing its stake in education companies, as the sector balloons with newfound demand from remote learners. With this context, I will use the current edtech cohort within the batch to sketch out one version of the future of education in the eyes of this specific demographic of early-stage founders.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. 4) Student-focused founder communities. Right here. school of engineering).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It signals a shift from startups playing in the supplemental education space and searching to win a spot in the largest chunk of a students day: the classroom. The startup has over 6,000 institutions, from high schools to higher education institutions, on the waitlist to join. Will edtech empower or erase the need for higher education?

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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. Entrepreneurs can build a community and get feedback. Pros Both startup incubators and accelerators can provide many valuable educational resources and funding to startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

We realized we needed to do an education solution, because for education our technology is definitely good enough,” he continued. SLAIT School uses an updated version of the gesture recognition tech that powered the translator demo app to provide instant feedback on words and phrases. Capitalism… is hard.”

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She has been a thought-leader in tech for the past 8 years, her newsletter has 25k subscribers, she was named one of Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 , and she has spoken at numerous panels including at TechCrunch Disrupt, L’Attitude, NFT NYC, and a16z’s Google’s demo day at LA Tech Week 2023. I am proud to say that Alphaa.io

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

If you’re eager to introduce your early-stage startup to the top leaders, investors, experts and policy makers across the mobility tech community, don’t just attend TC Sessions: Mobility — exhibit there. Virtual booth space: Display your pitch deck, host a video display and demo your products. That was the most exciting part.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day. Instead, startups could apply and join the community of startups backed by The Family. In exchange for a stake, they could get advice from The Family’s team and network with other people in the community.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ll also be speaking with top VCs and the CEOs of Boston Dynamics, Sarcos, Locus Robotics, Fetch and more, along with demos from researchers and bleeding-edge startups like Agility. Education FIRST . In 1989, he decided to give back with the launch of FIRST, an organization that promotes STEM education. Founders — apply here.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 28, 2020

At our 31st Demo Day, 198 companies presented virtually over two days. Education – 4%. Post-COVID world, including online communities and creators, edtech, remote tools, and delivery solutions for retail and restaurants. You can see a list of the companies that presented on-the-record in the YC Directory. Apply here.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And soon after Demo Day, we’re hosting an end-of-batch celebration with the entire YC community. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at our 35th Demo Day. For the first time since the Winter 2020 batch, the Summer 2022 batch was in person.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. Hezarkhani’s early energy brought him to Carnegie Mellon, where he studied electrical and computer engineering, and Google, where he spent time on developer programs and Google for Education.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But the last few years have been tumultuous and transformative in both education and business. Embracing entrepreneurship “We’ve seen an extraordinary rise of entrepreneurship focused programs,” said Cait Brumme, CEO of nonprofit startup community MassChallenge. Register for the free virtual event here.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. Private Equity.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Skoll Foundation. “The

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

We support change-makers who come from different backgrounds and are carrying-out various missions all while hosting a diverse network of experts who take on the role of mentors, educators, and investors. These activities centered around facilitating a connection between people and communities whose paths don’t usually cross.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

AM: We went to a builders community we’d built the year before, and to [Stanford’s] engineering school [where I teach], and to the CS department at a number of universities and said, ‘Hey, if you’re interested in being a future founder, and you’re a great builder, then we are interested in talking to you.’

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some grants target underrepresented communities, others are open to all small businesses and others are tied to early technology research. Its mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through free mentoring and education workshops for small business owners. Small Business Administration.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Education - Examples include General Assembly runs a substantial education program and YCombinator operates Startup School and First Growth’s Venture Network. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. The amendments retain the same “menu” of exemptions but make incremental improvements.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

What Gravity Forms lacks in pre-built templates, it makes up for with a vast library of official , certified , and community add-ons that extend the functionality in countless ways. You can even preview the demos before deciding which one to use.) Plus, there's an AI form builder to help you create forms quickly and easily.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

This includes companies that would meet most institutional definitions for impact investing (women, minority, and veteran owned/run businesses, including LMI (“Low to Moderate Income”) and CRA (“Community Reinvestment Act”) qualified companies. I argue that these 3 reasons are much less applicable for RBI investors than for conventional VCs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

. “Scale vs. Customization” — Beachhead go-to-market slide. “The Wilco Effect” — Product benefits slide. “Product Experience” — Product screenshot (and demo, possibly?). The company highlights the shortcomings of theoretical education and explains what the impacts are across the business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Joey Noble is community manager at Demand Curve. Demand Curve: How Ahrefs’ homepage educates prospects to purchase. Kennan would frequent direct-to-consumer communities on Twitter to find upset users of his competitor, ReCharge. Joey Noble. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

and European talent and doubling down on its open source community for both Weaviate and vector search in general. We need to educate the market not only about Weaviate but also vector search databases, or AI-first databases for that matter. SeMI raised a $1.2 SeMI intends to deploy the new funding into hiring U.S.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our team works with local animal services organizations and municipalities to build a custom identification tag program tailored to meet the needs of the community. While QR codes are now mainstream as a result of the pandemic and NFC is also commonly used, we struggled with educating consumers on usage when we first launched.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. ACA continues to foster good lines of communication with the SEC and good relationships at the SBA. House and Senate staff turned to ACA to understand the impact of changing the definition on the angel community.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I worked with outsourced research firm Wonder * to identify all of the institutions we could who support tech impact startups with cash and community, and in many cases without dilution. Notley Ventures.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

You believe in your community, you believe in your friends, and you believe in someone that everyone believes in, right? But when you’re buying from someone in your community who you know very well, that trust deficit goes away. The community helps each other out. .” So who do you believe in? People start doing this.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The tech community is creating more and more of these change agents everyday. This Sunday, student hackers will be demoing their creations at the hackNY Student Hackathon DemoFest. They have the capability to move markets and build new companies based on positive principals. This is the change we should be in the world.

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Gust

JUNE 4, 2014

For example, the most recent investment I’ve led, Social Bicycles, I saw when they demoed at NY Tech Meetup last summer. Demo Days from the NYC-based accelerators. University-affiliated demo events from NYU, Columbia, Pace and others. The New York Angels Education Meetup.

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