TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. Alchemist’s Ravi Belani also shared plans to announce some news during today’s Demo Day, including that: They’ve raised $2 million from German chemistry company BASF.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. Others, meanwhile, were older and entering menopause, and were in search of community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

-based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. June Motherhood.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. Pro tip for creating a sense of community during self-isolation: Virtual Happy Hours ?????

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Here are all of the open source related companies presenting at Demo Day in the Winter 2022 cohort. Promises include: Tuva wants to become the open standard for healthcare data transformation and build the data network for multisite benchmarking and research. Tuva Health. Founded: 2021. Location: Salt Lake City, Utah. Cryptography!

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 31, 2023

10 Marketing Tactics That Yielded Great Results for Startups In search of unique marketing tactics that have proven successful for startups, we asked ten leaders from the industry to share their experiences. Well, our startup took a leap of faith and gave it a shot, and boy, did it work like a charm!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 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). Let’s take a look at the different ways you can work with the investment community. Expert networks.

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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. Bring your team and increase your networking opportunities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator , the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies. Ian Bergman, previously global managing director for Microsoft’s “Microsoft for Startups” program before joining Alchemist in early 2021, will now head up AlchemistX.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. Step 1: Identify and target the right communities The first place you should start with is your network. If you have a limited network, no problem!

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 5, 2023

The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. Looking at this powerful network, we see people from all different backgrounds – each with a unique journey to entrepreneurship. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory , a companion to the YC Startup Directory.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Startup Battlefield — the matriarch of all pitch competitions — is the stuff of tech legend. Heck, it even played a role in the HBO show, “Silicon Valley,” and its influence touches early-stage startups around the globe. Under no circumstance will you find a bigger, better platform for launching your startup to the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

On the 25th of January, Techstars Seattle announced its 12th class featuring 10 startups from different parts of the world. The accelerator, which has accepted only a handful of African startups, included one from Zimbabwe in this class. As peculiar to most African startups, funding has been hard to come by for the team.

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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. ClimateTech & Energy Prize @ MIT is a competition for student-led climatech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Building Startups for Basecamp. They want you to attend demo days. I’ll go as long as it’s not on a demo day. It’s exhausting. Perhaps unsustainable.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Startups and VC. ” New crypto startups forged ahead during Alliance DAO’s demo day on Wednesday amid the FTX implosion. The most recent cohort, known as All9, for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community, presented their ideas on Wednesday during a demo day , exclusively covered by Jacquelyn.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

This event draws an incredible mix of Silicon Valley’s startup community, including over 40 VC firms so far — a who’s who of founders, investors, tech makers and movers and shakers. A quick reminder that if you have an early-stage startup, it’s not too late to buy a Summer Party demo table. Ticket price: $75.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Next week is Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, in which startups present to the public for the first time after spending three months going through the accelerator. It’s different than demo days prior because it’s smaller. Demo days definitely amplify a brand, but not the one you’d think.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Do you have what it takes to be a Startup Battlefield champion? If you fit the description, apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Top early-stage startups from around the world — from any country and industry — will compete for a shot at $100,000 in equity-free prize money.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Buy a Startup Exhibitor Package and virtually plant your early-stage mobility startup in front of a global audience that’s focused exclusively on one of the most complex, rapidly evolving industries. Pro tip: This package is for pre-Series A, early-stage startups only. But wait (insert infomercial voice here), there’s more!

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Robot demos. Who doesn’t love robot demos? You’ll see live demos from UC Berkeley, Agility Robotics and others. World-class networking . An online event makes the world your networking oyster. We’ve added a speed networking session to the agenda, too. Add the scheduled networking break to your app.

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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. Full list of U.S.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Their process is a great example for anyone looking for a co-founder, including best practices for laying the groundwork of a successful startup and important questions to ask early on. They all had reasons to not do a startup. I was so determined to do a startup again though that I decided I would just do it alone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For many startups and SMBs, successfully setting up account-based marketing strategies can feel like a pipe dream. Startups still struggling to find product-market fit wouldn’t dream of being able to identify and map out their ideal customer profile (ICP) clearly enough. One way to do this is by creating a (sense of) community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. It is based in Seattle, WA. ?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. Titus says that the goal is not for everyone to come out with a company, but instead to leave with more people in your network and ideas on how to approach starting your business. So, they started their own program. A team photo.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Violators will be prosecuted. No, just kidding.I RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

During the pandemic, we’ve charted the massive growth across all sectors of robotics, and while VC money is slowing for nearly every startup category, robotics investments continue at a pace not seen before 2020. As funding has dried up for many startups, robotics have weathered the storm quite well. Funding the Future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our investors have helped us unlock great network opportunities for Rowy,” says Janakiraman. So far, it has demos for OpenAI GPT-3, Google Cloud Vision, a Stable Diffusion to Twitter Bot, and many more, that anyone can explore, clone, and get started. 10 investors discuss the no-code and low-code landscape in Q1 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

We’re currently on the lookout for top-tier growth marketers that you can recommend to other startups. Van den Ingh spoke with us about his “modern” approach to marketing, setting realistic goals, how startups had to shift during the pandemic and more. The process we’ve designed works for B2B startups, scaleups and SMBs.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As part of the global Impact Hub Network, it actively engages in promoting circular economy principles, evident in its successful conclusion of the Circular Economy Acceleration Program. For entrepreneurs and startups, embracing circular economy principles presents a transformative opportunity.

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