American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Construct Capital , co-founded by Dayna Grayson previously at NEA and Rachel Holt, a past Uber executive. DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

SqUID is the only fully-automated warehouse robot technology that transforms existing facilities into autonomous warehouses of the future without any need to construct dedicated new buildings. OurCrowd is an investor in F2 Capital where Explorium was incubated. The round brings Explorium’s total funding to more than $127M.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Financing the future startup nation. Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Kelly Chen, DCVC: Robotics startups have an additional layer to their banking relationship, typically tying equipment financing and other debt structures to banking. Drone Fund led the raise, which also features HAX (SOSV), Incubate Fund, SBI Investment and DBJ Capital. The young Japanese startup is using a fresh $10.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Shortly after, Terry and Ellis were accepted into Elemental Excelerator’s startup incubator and have landed contracts with major EV charging network providers like EV Connect and SparkCharge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. At the time, she was a rising executive in Uber — a post she left in 2020 when she co-founded Construct Capital. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

This week Rachel Holt from Construct Capital and Kevin Bennett from Caribou spoke with Kirsten Korosec, TechCrunch’s transportation editor. Kevin Bennett started his auto financing company in 2016. At the time, she was a rising executive in Uber — a post she left in 2020 when she co-founded Construct Capital.

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