TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Orbiit , a startup that automates the interactions within an online community, has raised a $2.7 Existing investors Founders Fund, which led Orbiit’s $1 million pre-seed round, Acceleprise and other angels also participated. The idea is that the communities therefore learn and network better, engage more and share more knowledge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2021

“We believe that a thriving community is a company’s most valuable asset,” Community-led writes in its Declaration. “Community scales your business, resources and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels can’t.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. SDAC is about community building as much as portfolio expansion. SDAC Founder Mysty Rusk says, “We activate angel investors and fund companies with potential to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ve been hearing the concept of “community” lately in different aspects of startups and venture capital. From Lolita Taub taking a community-first focus in venture capitalism to Archive tapping into community for marketing buying power. The latest funding gives Muni a total funding of about $27 million.

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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. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2021

Being a part of the business community plays a critical role in the success of small business owners. If you look at the thriving small business owners, you will find that most of them are outstanding community players. To be a part of a community offers you much-needed guidance to survive in a difficult time like now.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The funding fuels Afterparty’s latest product development and mission to enable scalable interactivity between creators and fans. Afterparty, whose platform already includes live streaming and 1:1 chats, IRL community events, and collectibles, will soon deliver AI voice, photo, and video messaging.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 28, 2023

First in-person finals conclude Delaware’s annual funding contest for technology and tech-enabled startups led by members of underfunded groups WILMINGTON, Del. Steering committee members include representatives from Big Idea Ventures, First Founders Inc.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. At first, Sijake and his co-founders Thandwefika Radebe and Tapfuma Masunzambwa launched Qwili as a different idea. It takes a commission on every sale made on its application.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Web browser Opera is enabling emoji-only web addresses, the company announced on Monday. Opera says the new collaboration brings a new level of creativity to the internet. The new feature is possible through a partnership with Yat , a startup that sells URLs with emojis in them and owns the Y.at

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. To find out how Black founders are planning to manage their time, money, and expectations for the upcoming months, TechCrunch+ surveyed three founders.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 5, 2023

The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory , a companion to the YC Startup Directory. On the YC Founder Directory, you can use filters to discover founders who attended your university, worked at the same company, and are building (or built) a company in your region.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 22, 2023

Kevin Eghbali Left Aira Eghbali Right I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin and Aria Egbali, the founders of Kade Pay. Kevin is a 2x founder and a senior software developer with over two decades of experience in the retail industry, primarily working on POS, payment, and staff management solutions. This was very insightful.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Oula provides comprehensive maternal care through a midwifery-first, team-based model — including preconception planning, early pregnancy, prenatal, postpartum, and gynecological care — with a unique consumer-centric, tech-enabled approach that caters to modern preferences and builds efficiencies for care delivery.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

That’s what Docquity co-founder Indranil Roychowdhury learned when his father was hospitalized with a life-threatening condition in India. It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board. A call between doctors can save lives. million CME credits.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

million that it could use to build a decentralized hiring community for web3 talent. Talents earn Outdefine’s crypto token for referring some friends, finding work, and contributing to the community. Their ability to work remotely enabled these talents to work flexibly and provide specialized skills to a variety of companies.

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Impact Hub

JULY 14, 2021

For the second year in a row, Impact Hub joined forces with GoDaddy for another edition of New Roots, a business startup and mentoring program for entrepreneurs from underserved communities. The post Empowering Entrepreneurs From Underserved Communities with GoDaddy appeared first on Impact Hub.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the autonomous vehicle industry captured the imagination of the startup community and the public. AI is making hardware much smarter, which is enabling companies to generate the kind of high-margin recurring revenues typically associated with software businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Do not miss meeting and connecting with these impressive early-stage founders, nominated by our partner founder organizations, Black Female Founders , Latinx Startup Alliance , Startout and the Female Founders Alliance. We connect consumers and businesses to enable high-quality, ethical and transparent data exchange.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. James Sutcliffe. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. s Black and multi-ethnic communities, meanwhile, now comprise 14% of the U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

I tracked down and emailed the founder who sent the transfer to figure out what they were up to. “In the past two and a half weeks I’ve reached out to over a hundred VCs, angels, celebrities, athletes and influencers through Venmo,” says Chip Herndon, CEO and co-founder at Chatterbox , in an interview with TechCrunch. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on. Chief community officer is the new CMO.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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HPA

MARCH 12, 2024

Their successful careers underscore their dedication to championing visionary founders and groundbreaking concepts, ranging from innovative startups in logistics like ShipBob to AI pioneers like Zengines, disruptors in the beverage industry like Provi, and innovators in health and wellness like NOCD and Simple Mills.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi founder and CEO Paul Kim falls in the latter camp. “Some believe that everything has to be decentralized and Web3-native from the get-go. A solution to the communications issues plaguing Web3 Notifi is focused on the communication issues prevalent in the Web3 sector.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Contributed to EO by Abeer Qumsieh, a seven-year EO Jordan member who is the founder of Better Business , the leading organization for management consulting and human capital development in Jordan, and Khibraty , an intelligent digital matchmaking marketplace for expertise seekers and providers.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 26, 2021

Pheadra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Promise , had witnessed technology’s impact on the work communities in which she’d been a part — and not always for good. Ellis-Lamkins decided to be a force for good within the tech world, narrowing her lens on helping underserved communities through govtech. in seed funding.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 23, 2021

From England to Bangladesh via Switzerland, we spoke to some of our fearless founders who opened an Impact Hub in 2020. Meet Kamran, Shazeeb, and Carlotta, the founders of Impact Hub Bradford, Dhaka and Ticino respectively; Q. Are there any examples of entrepreneurial action in response to the pandemic you witnessed in your community?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Andela co-founder Christina Sass, and former Andela executives Jessica Chervin, Justin Ziegler, as well as Johnny Falla, who currently serves as chief development and growth officer at Wowzi, took part in the round too. “We Wowzi co-founders (l-r) Mike Otieno, Hassan Bashir and Brian Mogeni. This was preceded by a $1.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

David Cancel, a five-time entrepreneur and author of the book "Conversational Marketing," is CEO and founder of Drift. Video and messaging enable remote work. For example, these are the questions that my co-founder and I used to evaluate the earliest concept of our current company, Drift: Is the problem big enough? David Cancel.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Erich Joachimsthaler , founder and CEO of VIVALDI envisions a new business model—one that creates shared value for all. Fourth, interaction field companies enable sharing of value creation. This enables entrepreneurs to build their startups while contributing to solve major challenges problems. I like Flatiron Health.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The Community Source licenses may be the future of open source software. 1 During Office Hours on Friday, [Steven Goldfeder, founder & CEO of Arbitrum , explained these benefits of the Community Source license. With closed-source software, the code isn’t shared outside the company that wrote it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. We want to enable startups to conquer international markets. “Every startup has to start with an idea.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

12 Strategies for Boosting Team Productivity in Startups To help startups boost their team productivity, we’ve gathered twelve insightful strategies from top founders, CEOs, and managers. This will help them to be more refreshed and productive when they are at work. By growing skills, you boost morale.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Ashley Nader, the visionary founder behind Fini , a revolutionary platform empowering health and wellness creators. I saw an opportunity to bridge this gap with Fini, providing a platform tailored for health and wellness professionals to thrive that’s centered around community.

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