TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This has allowed s everal edtech startups to develop digital platforms that have, in some way, seen thousands of Africans receive better learning and work opportunities. We’re not only looking at VCs but development finance institutions and telcos. The way we’re looking at our pool of co-investors is stacked.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Linux Foundation has created the OpenWallet Foundation to develop interoperable digital wallets and evolve them from just a place to keep your currency into basically a physical wallet replacement. Startups and VC. Meta Platforms is looking at India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem as it bolsters its bet on the metaverse.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways. That's what led me to open up an office in Brooklyn--where half of the people in the New York City startup community call home.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In less than 24 hours, thousands of new startup founders from around the world will tune in to day one of TC Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising. Want to build a better startup? Buy your ticket , join your community and learn the best startup practices from those who earned their expertise by doing.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As a second-generation Korean American woman and the daughter of immigrant parents, I’ve experienced and witnessed the discrimination and prejudice faced by many diverse women and minorities who come from underserved communities. That summer sparked a revelation that would ignite my passion for entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Held this past spring in Las Vegas, the speed dating-style event connects companies with promising developers. Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Nashville, Tennessee.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags in San Francisco to keep everyone’s house dry, rising interest rates, skittish investors and looming economic uncertainty are poised to bring valuations down even further in 2023.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

It is also certainly correct that raising capital is extremely important to early-stage startup companies as they finance their product development and the growth they plan and hope for. The comparison of a startup ecosystem to the biological version is, of course, not a new one.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Zach Perret, the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, about how Plaid built a community in the early days to acquire customers, how they tracked “free radicals,” and how to orient your first customers around speed. So Plaid had a bit of a rocky early start.

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

HPA recently created a resource guide that aggregated information on finance assistance and business operations. Meanwhile, we continued to monitor news and developed this secondary resource guide that focuses on HR and talent topics, decisions and best practices. . Built In Chicago: Online community hub for Chicago startups and tech.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

When I started angel investing, I knew my objective was two-fold: I wanted to support the startup ecosystem in MN and I wanted to (eventually) have a good financial return on my investments. I’m active in the MN tech and start-up community as a mentor, advisor, and angel investor. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” A lot of new things.

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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. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. CrunchBase (free). PWC MoneyTree (free).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part 2: There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community (open source development). That’s especially true in the massive mobile game market in China, but the country’s strict regulatory requirements have given pause to international game developers looking to enter.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Ideally, we wanted to pull in data from outside databases , including data about limited partners and more broadly the startup ecosystem (e.g., One of the resource I’ve found helpful in reviewing this space is IT Central Station , a product review site and buyer community.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. Yesterday, I spoke at Columbia Business School.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

To get a better idea of the state of the tech ecosystem and the investor outlook for this city, we surveyed founders, leaders and executives involved in nurturing Bristol’s startup ecosystem. The survey revealed that the city has a robust renewable, zero-carbon and fintech startup landscape. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s startups industry began emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. The country was experiencing a six-year upward funding trend.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I also recently joined another WhatsApp chat #miamitechlife that includes a local community of founders, investors, executives and local leaders to meet, collaborate and network while engaging in fun activities around Miami. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now? David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2019

Yes, I’m tying this back to the startup ecosystem. But as private markets expand, as startups take longer to bake, as product-market fit is harder to hit, as fundraising cycles can get longer, etc., the NBA’s concept of load management may apply to the early-stage ecosystem, too.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator brings in the most successful startup founders to share their experiences building startups. They bring in experts in legal, finance, marketing, business development, design, engineering, advertising, growth hacking, and other areas. You learn everything you need to know about how to build a company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

This allows employers to see what needs their work base has and potentially develop new benefits. A lot of families in Indonesia often have one member working in a factory with fixed salaries, and they have micro-industries at home, for example making wafers or stickers to sell in their communities or online,” said Agrawal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At the same time, Kunkolienkar was running a Lambda School for India, but realizing that “the financing and collections infrastructure in India isn’t evolved enough to run ISAs at scale.” Stoa has partnerships that allow it to offer EMI-based financing options, in which students can pay on a monthly basis.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

ICON prints 100-home community with 3D technology. IBM taps NeuReality to develop AI inference platforms. Startup of the Week: Bionaut: Micro-robot delivers drugs inside the brain. The capsules developed by Bionaut Labs are custom-engineered therapeutic micro-robots that deliver drugs to specific locations in the body.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 3, 2022

The app allows you to effortlessly: Receive real-time information on exciting new investment opportunities Check the performance of your current portfolio Get the latest news on OurCrowd portfolio companies and the startup ecosystem Review and download key documents and reports Log in securely using our biometric recognition feature.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

However , the whole process proved difficult and the fund wasn’t able to because he was stuck in Nigeria and could not visit London, New York and Washington DC, “where institutional and development finance capital sits.” “There’s a massive early-stage funding gap for African startups.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 22, 2023

As an important source of financing for startups and small businesses, it's critical for current and emerging angel investors to understand the shifts occurring in the industry. Major angel groups like New York Angels and Golden Seeds wield considerable power in startup ecosystems.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Sufresca has developed a cost-effective, edible, natural, biodegradable coating for fruits and vegetables that is ultra-thin, transparent, tasteless, odorless and virtually undetectable to consumers. That’s all about to change with the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle revolution – and it’s making its way into the startup ecosystem.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Investing industry bible PitchBook has crowned OurCrowd as “the most active venture capital investor in Israel this year as record amounts of capital flood into the country’s startup ecosystem.” CytoReason uses AI to build digital models of the human immune system and diseases to speed up drug development. Read More. .

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 7, 2022

Startup of the Week: PulmOne: Complete lun Workspot: Secure work from anywhere. Workspot has developed the first multi-cloud desktop-as-a-service (DaaS), which migrates the end-user computer desktop to the cloud with top security, performance, availability and cost. IPOs and a startup ecosystem now numbering 9,000 different companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Do you expect to see a surge in more founders coming from geographies outside major cities in the years to come, with startup hubs losing people due to the pandemic and lingering concerns, plus the attraction of remote work?

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In our second edition of the Public Policy Quarterly newsletter, we discuss some of the most important updates on ACA’s main policy interests, including QSBS, investor accreditation, Section 1202, the accredited investor definition, thresholds and workforce development reforms.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Clients typically use it to create and strengthen local community initiatives: bake sales, barbeques, political organizing, etc. .

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